Enter by Eisodos B a procession carrying the body of Neoptolemus.
Chorus Leader
See, here is our lord, his body carried home from the land of Delphi. Luckless is the murdered man, luckless likewise, old sir, are you. For not as you hoped [1170] do you now receive Achilles' son home, and you yourself have come to the same fate as the wicked suffer.