The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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... slays me , wretched man , for the sake of my gold , and having slain me threw me into the surf of the sea , that he might possess the gold himself in his palace . But I am exposed on the shore , at another time on the ocean's surge ...
... slays me , wretched man , for the sake of my gold , and having slain me threw me into the surf of the sea , that he might possess the gold himself in his palace . But I am exposed on the shore , at another time on the ocean's surge ...
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... slay thee at the tomb of the son of Peleus . POLYX . Alas , my mother ! how are you relating un- measurable ills ? Tell me , explain to me all , my mother . HEC . I declare , my child , the ill - omened report , they bring word that a ...
... slay thee at the tomb of the son of Peleus . POLYX . Alas , my mother ! how are you relating un- measurable ills ? Tell me , explain to me all , my mother . HEC . I declare , my child , the ill - omened report , they bring word that a ...
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... slay women whom ye have once spared , and that too dragging them from the altar . But shew mercy . The laws of blood are laid down for the free and the slave alike . But your worth will carry with it persuasion , al- though your ...
... slay women whom ye have once spared , and that too dragging them from the altar . But shew mercy . The laws of blood are laid down for the free and the slave alike . But your worth will carry with it persuasion , al- though your ...
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... slay me with my daughter , and there will be twice the libation of blood for the earth , and the dead who makes this request . ULYSS . Thy daughter's death suffices ; one must not be heaped on another ; would that we required not 16 363 ...
... slay me with my daughter , and there will be twice the libation of blood for the earth , and the dead who makes this request . ULYSS . Thy daughter's death suffices ; one must not be heaped on another ; would that we required not 16 363 ...
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... slay nie upon the tomb ? Thou wouldest bring dear news indeed . Then háste we , let us speed with all our might : lead on , old man . TAL . I am come attending thee , O lady , that thou mayest entomb thy dead daughter . The two sons of ...
... slay nie upon the tomb ? Thou wouldest bring dear news indeed . Then háste we , let us speed with all our might : lead on , old man . TAL . I am come attending thee , O lady , that thou mayest entomb thy dead daughter . The two sons of ...
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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,