RHESUS.
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Semichorus 1.
What then is the watchword?
Odysseus.
Phœbus.
Semichorus 2.
Right: his spear let each refrain.
Odysseus.
Know'st thou whither went the men?
Semichorus 1.
Sooth, somewhere we beheld them nigh.
Odysseus.
Press, each man, upon their track! 690
Semichorus 2.
Or shall we raise the 'larum cry?
[Odysseus slips away into the darkness.
Semichorus 1.
Nay, 'twere perilous to scare with night-alarms a war-ally.
(They perceive Odysseus' absence.)
Chorus.
(Str.)
He is gone from us!—who was the man
Who shall vaunt of his aweless might?
