II.

Who com’st amidst an independent state, In nought inferior to the strength Of Argos, and with brutal hate Dar’st, though a foreigner, to seize The exiles, who our deities Implore, and in these realms at length From their distress obtain a shield: Thou e’en to sceptred monarchs will not yield, Yet no just plea thy subtle tongue hath found. How can such conduct warp the man whose judgment’s sound?