Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound (ed. 1965)