The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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... behold the divine spirit of my Helenus , or Cassandra , that they may interpret my dreams ! For I beheld a dappled hind torn by the blood - stained fang of the wolf , forcibly dragged from my bosom , a miserable sight . And dread- ful ...
... behold the divine spirit of my Helenus , or Cassandra , that they may interpret my dreams ! For I beheld a dappled hind torn by the blood - stained fang of the wolf , forcibly dragged from my bosom , a miserable sight . And dread- ful ...
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... behold the virgin falling before the tomb dyed in blood , gushing forth in a dark stream from her neck adorned with gold ' . But HEC . Alas ! wretched me ! what shall I exclaim ? what shriek shall I utter ? what lamentation ? miserable ...
... behold the virgin falling before the tomb dyed in blood , gushing forth in a dark stream from her neck adorned with gold ' . But HEC . Alas ! wretched me ! what shall I exclaim ? what shriek shall I utter ? what lamentation ? miserable ...
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... behold me torn from thy arms in sadness , and sent down beneath the darkness of the earth a victim to Pluto , where I shall lie bound in misery with the dead . But it is for thee indeed , my afflicted mother , that I lament in these ...
... behold me torn from thy arms in sadness , and sent down beneath the darkness of the earth a victim to Pluto , where I shall lie bound in misery with the dead . But it is for thee indeed , my afflicted mother , that I lament in these ...
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... behold the light of the sun . HEC . Art thou not then convicted of baseness by thine own counsels , who hast received benefits from me such as thou acknowledgest thyself , and doest us no good in return , but evil , as far as in you ...
... behold the light of the sun . HEC . Art thou not then convicted of baseness by thine own counsels , who hast received benefits from me such as thou acknowledgest thyself , and doest us no good in return , but evil , as far as in you ...
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... behold the rays of the sun and his bright orb . Receive my last address , O mother ! O thou that producedst me , I am going to the dark depths below . HEC . And shall I , O daughter , be a slave in the light of day ? POLYX . Without the ...
... behold the rays of the sun and his bright orb . Receive my last address , O mother ! O thou that producedst me , I am going to the dark depths below . HEC . And shall I , O daughter , be a slave in the light of day ? POLYX . Without the ...
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Adrastus Agamemnon Antigone Apollo Argives Argos arms army art thou behold blood calamity child CHOR CHORUS Clytemnestra corse Creon daughter dead dear death deed destroyed dost thou dreadful earth Edipus ELEC Electra enemy ETEO Eteocles evil eyes fate father fear fortune friends give Gods Grecian Greeks hand hast thou hath hear Hecuba Helen hither honour husband ills Ismenus Jason Jocasta Jove kill lament land marriage MEDEA Menelaus miserable misfortunes mortals mother murder Orestes palace Pelasgian perish Phoceans PHRY Phrygian POLY Polymestor Polynices POLYX Polyxena preserve Priam Pylades shew sister slain slay slew sons speak spear suffer sword tears Theban Thebes thee thine things thou art thou hast thou sayest thou shalt thou wilt thy brother thy children thyself tomb Troy Tyndarus ULYSS unhappy virgin wife wilt thou woes woman women words wretched καὶ
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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,