The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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Page 120
... . POLYNICES . ETEOCLES . CREON . MEN CEUS . TIRESIAS . MESSENGERS . CEDIPUS . The Scene is in the Court before the royal palace at Thebes , THE ARGUMENT . ETEOCLES having gotten possession of the throne PERSONS REPRESENTED. ...
... . POLYNICES . ETEOCLES . CREON . MEN CEUS . TIRESIAS . MESSENGERS . CEDIPUS . The Scene is in the Court before the royal palace at Thebes , THE ARGUMENT . ETEOCLES having gotten possession of the throne PERSONS REPRESENTED. ...
Page 121
... Creon would give himself up to be sacrificed to Mars . Creon refused to give his son to the city , but the youth was willing , and , his father pointing out to him the means of flight and giving him money , he put himself to death ...
... Creon would give himself up to be sacrificed to Mars . Creon refused to give his son to the city , but the youth was willing , and , his father pointing out to him the means of flight and giving him money , he put himself to death ...
Page 123
... Creon is my brother , born of the same mother ; me they call Jocasta , ( for this named my father gave me , ) and Laius takes me for his wife ; but after that he was childless , for a long time sharing my bed in the palace , he went and ...
... Creon is my brother , born of the same mother ; me they call Jocasta , ( for this named my father gave me , ) and Laius takes me for his wife ; but after that he was childless , for a long time sharing my bed in the palace , he went and ...
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... Creon my brother proclaims that he will give my bed as a reward to him who would solve the enigma of the crafty monster . But by some chance or other Edipus my son happens to dis- cover the riddle of the sphinx , and he receives as a ...
... Creon my brother proclaims that he will give my bed as a reward to him who would solve the enigma of the crafty monster . But by some chance or other Edipus my son happens to dis- cover the riddle of the sphinx , and he receives as a ...
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... CREON , ETEOCLES , CHORUS . CRE . Surely have I visited many places , desiring to see you , O king Eteocles , and I have gone round to the gates and the guards of the Thebans , seeking you . ETEO . And indeed I have wished to see you , ...
... CREON , ETEOCLES , CHORUS . CRE . Surely have I visited many places , desiring to see you , O king Eteocles , and I have gone round to the gates and the guards of the Thebans , seeking you . ETEO . And indeed I have wished to see you , ...
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Page 141 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright Honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned Honour by the locks; So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities.
Page 142 - Why, my child, dost thou so desirously court ambition, the most baneful of the deities ? do not thou ; the Goddess is unjust. But she hath entered into many families and happy states and hath come forth again, to the destruction of those who have to do with her. Of whom thou art madly enamoured. This is more noble, my son, to honour equality, which ever links friends with friends, and states with states, and allies with allies : for equality is sanctioned by law among men.
Page 80 - What is this ? how art thou ? in what state, O most dear to me of my companions and kindred ? for all these things art thou to me. OREs. We are gone — briefly to shew thee my calamities. PYL. Thou wilt have ruined me too ; for the things of friends are common. OREs. Menelaus has behaved most basely towards me and my sister. PYL. It is to be expected that the husband of a bad wife be bad.
Page 198 - CHORUs. CHOR. I heard the voice, I heard the cry of the unhappy Colchian ; is not she yet appeased ? but, O aged matron, tell me ; for within the apartment with double doors, I heard her cry; nor am I delighted, O woman, with the griefs of the family, since it is friendly to me. NUR. The family is not ; these things are gone already : 1 In Elms. Dind. rd yilp eWiaBai, "for the being accustomed,