_Semi-Chor. A._ Yes; of the same womb born, and doomèd both,
*Not as friends part, they fell,
In strife to madness pushed
In this their quarrel's end.
_Semi-Chor. B._ The quarrel now is hushed,
And in the ensanguined earth their lives are blent; 930
Full near in blood are they.
Stern umpire of their strifes
Has been the stranger from beyond the sea,[129]
Fresh from the furnace, keen and sharpened steel.
Stern, too, is Ares found,
Distributing their goods,
Making their father's curses all too true.