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Chorus
Then, it was then that Zeus changed the radiant paths of the stars, and the light of the sun, and the [730] bright face of dawn; and the sun drove across the western back of the sky with hot flame from heaven's fires, while the rain-clouds went northward and Ammon's [735] lands grew parched and faint, not knowing moisture, robbed of heaven's fairest showers of rain.
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 2. Electra, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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