PR. Nay, with her freedom will her wanderings Begin. Come hither, child--nay, let her come: 1060 What words remain to speak will not offend her. And shall in memory quicken, when she looks To learn where she should go;--for go she must, Stung by the venomous fly, whose angry flight She still will hear about her, till she come To lay her sevenfold-carried burden down Upon the Æthiop shore where he shall reign. IN. But say--say first, what form-- PR. In snow-white hide Of those that feel the goad and wear the yoke. 1069 IN. Round-hoofed, or such as tread with cloven foot? PR. Wide-horned, large-eyed, broad-fronted, and the feet Cloven which carry her to her far goal. IN. Will that of all these evils be the term? PR. Ay, but the journey first which she must learn. Hear now, my child; the day when thou art free, Leaving the lion-gate, descend and strike The Trêtan road to Nemea, skirting wide The unhunted forest o'er the watered plain To walled Cleônæ, whence the traversed stream To Corinth guides: there enter not, but pass 1080 To narrow Isthmus, where Poseidon won A country from Apollo, and through the town Of Crommyon, till along the robber's road Pacing, thy left eye meet the westering sun O'er Geraneia, and thou reach the hill Of Megara, where Car thy brother's babe In time shall rule; next past Eleusis climb Stony Panactum and the pine-clad slopes Of Phyle; shun the left-hand way, and keep The rocks; the second day thy feet shall tread 1090 The plains of Græa, whence the roadway serves Aulis and Mycalessus to the point Of vext Euripus: fear not then the stream, Nor scenting think to taste, but plunging in Breast its salt current to the further shore. For on this island mayst thou lose awhile Thy maddening pest, and rest and pasture find, And from the heafs of bold Macistus see The country left and sought: but when thou feel Thy torment urge, move down, recross the flood, 1100 And west by Harma's fencèd gap arrive At seven-gated Thebes: thy friendly goddess Ongan Athenè has her seat without. CHOR. Now if she may not stay thy toilsome destined steps, I pray that she may slay for thee the maddening fly.