Chorus
To Ilium, its purpose fulfilling,
[700]
Wrath brought a marriage rightly named a mourning,1exacting in later time requital for the dishonor done to hospitality and to Zeus, the partaker of the hearth,
[705]
upon those who with loud voice celebrated the song in honor of the bride, even the bridegroom's kin to whom it fell that day to raise the marriage-hymn.
[710]
But Priam's city has learned, in her old age, an altered strain, and now, I trust, wails a loud song, full of lamentation, calling Paris “evil-wed”; for she has born the burden of a life in which everything was destroyed, a life full of lamentation because of
[715]
the wretched slaughter of her sons
