impious, unholy, unsanctified, from that moment he changed his intention and began to conceive that deed of uttermost audacity. For wretched delusion, counsellor of ill, primal source of woe, makes mortals bold. So then he hardened his heart to sacrifice his daughterso that he might further a war waged to avenge a woman, and as an offering for the voyage of a fleet!
Chorus
For her supplications, her cries of Father,
and her virgin life,