_the Music, Poetry, and Gesture-dance changing from a March to a highly
Lyrical rhythm; the evolutions of the Dance taking Right and Left hand
directions, but without the Chorus quitting their position round the
Altar_.[1]
_Strophe: during which the evolutions take a Right Hand direction._
_The Chorus_ resume: though shut out from War their old age has still
suasive power of song, and they can tell of the famous omen seen by the
two kings and the whole army as they waited to embark: two eagles on the
left devouring a pregnant hare:
Sing a strain of woe
But may the good prevail! {120}
_Antistrophe: the same rhythm line for line as the Strophe, but the
evolutions taking Left Hand direction._
and the Prophet Calchas interpreted; they shall lay Troy low, only beware
lest the Victors suffer from the wrath of some God, Artemis who hates the
eagle:
Sing a strain of woe,
But may the good prevail! {137}
_Epode: a different rhythm, and the evolutions without any special
direction._
May some Healer, Calchas added, avert her wrath, lest she send delays
upon the impatient host and irritate them to some dread deed, some
sacrifice of children to haunt the house for ever! So he prophesied in
piercing strains.
Sing a strain of woe,
But may the good prevail {154}