Euripides, Stasimon Chorus from Orestes

Text of chorus: You wild goddesses who dart across the skies seeking vengeance for murder, we beg you to free Agamemnon s son from his raging We grieve for this boy. Happiness is brief among mortals. Sorrow and anguish sweep down on it like a swift gust of wind on a sail boat, and it sinks under the tossing seas.