We made it, we shipmates of your voyage.

Semichorus 1What news, then?

Semichorus 2All the westward flank of the ships has been scoured for tracks.

Semichorus 1And did you find anything?

Semichorus 2Only an abundance of toil. There was nothing more to see.

Semichorus 1Neither, as a matter of fact, has the man been seen along the path that faces the shafts of the morning sun.

ChorusWho, then, can guide me? What toilingfisherman, busy about his sleepless hunt, what nymph of the Olympian heights or of the streams that flow toward