_Dan._ So may He feel, and look on us benignly! _Chor._ Whom of the Gods shall I besides invoke? _Dan._ I see this trident here, a God's great symbol.[225] _Chor._ Well hath He brought us, well may He receive! _Dan._ Here too is Hermes,[226] as the Hellenes know him. _Chor._ To us, as free, let Him good herald prove. _Dan._ Yea, and the common shrine of all these Gods Adore ye, and in holy precincts sit, Like swarms of doves in fear of kites your kinsmen, 220 Foes of our blood, polluters of our race. How can bird prey on bird and yet be pure? And how can he be pure who seeks in marriage Unwilling bride from father too unwilling? Nay, not in Hades' self, shall he, vain fool, Though dead, 'scape sentence, doing deeds like this; For there, as men relate, a second Zeus[227] Judges men's evil deeds, and to the dead Assigns their last great penalties. Look up, And take your station here, that this your cause May win its way to a victorious end. _Enter the_ KING _on his chariot, followed by_ Attendants _King._ Whence comes this crowd, this non-Hellenic band, 230 In robes and raiment of barbaric fashion So gorgeously attired, whom now we speak to? This woman's dress is not of Argive mode, Nor from the climes of Hellas. How ye dared, Without a herald even or protector, Yea, and devoid of guides too, to come hither Thus boldly, is to me most wonderful. And yet these boughs, as is the suppliant's wont, Are set by you before the Gods of conflicts: By this alone will Hellas guess aright. Much more indeed we might have else conjectured, 240 Were there no voice to tell me on the spot. _Chor._ Not false this speech of thine about our garb; But shall I greet thee as a citizen, Or bearing Hermes' rod, or city ruling?[228]