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Neoptolemus
None of these things surprise me at all
they come from heaven, and, if I may judge,
the first of his troubles was sent on him
long since by Chryse with savage intention;
195and now, though he suffers with none to help him,
surely some god is watching his course
to hold him back from aiming at Troy
his god-given arrows, until the time
shall come when, the oracles say, she is destined
200to fall and be vanquished by them.
The women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.
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