But when, his sanity regained, he grew miserable in his wretchedmarriage, then carried away by his grief and with maddened heart he accomplished a double evil. With the hand that killed his father he struck out his eyes, which were dearer to him than his children.

ChorusNext he launched brutal, wrathful words against the sons he had bred—ah! curses from a bitter tongue—that wielding iron in their hands they would one day divide his property.So now I tremble in fear that the swift-running Erinys will bring this to fulfillment.