Set up, congratulating in the gods’ seats,Soothing the incense-eating flame right fragrant.And now, what’s more, indeed, why need’st thou tell me?I of the king himself shall learn the whole word:And, — as may best be, — I my revered husbandShall hasten, as he comes back, to receive: for —What’s to a wife sweeter to see than this light(Her husband, by the god saved, back from warfare)So as to open gates? This tell my husband —To come at soonest to his loving city.A faithful wife at home may he find, coming!Such an one as he left — the dog o’ the household —Trusty to him, adverse to the ill-minded,And, in all else, the same: no signet-impressHaving done harm to, in that time’s duration.I know nor pleasure, nor blameworthy converseWith any other man more than — bronze-dippings! HERALD.Such boast as this — brimful of the veracious —Is, for a high-born dame, not bad to send forth!CHOROS.Ay, she spoke thus to thee — that hast a knowledge