The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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... things at variance with equity , nor should the fortunate imagine their fortune will last for ever . For I too have ... thing it would be to slay women whom ye have once spared , and that too dragging them from the altar . But shew mercy ...
... things at variance with equity , nor should the fortunate imagine their fortune will last for ever . For I too have ... thing it would be to slay women whom ye have once spared , and that too dragging them from the altar . But shew mercy ...
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... things I tell thee of the death of thy daughter , but I behold thee at once the most happy , at once the most unhappy of all women in thine offspring . CHOR . Dreadful calamities have risen fierce against the house of Priam ; such the ...
... things I tell thee of the death of thy daughter , but I behold thee at once the most happy , at once the most unhappy of all women in thine offspring . CHOR . Dreadful calamities have risen fierce against the house of Priam ; such the ...
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... things to the Greeks , that no one be suffered to touch my daughter , but bid them keep off the multitude . In so vast an army the rabble are riotous , and the sailors ' uncontrolled insolence is fiercer than fire , for , among them ...
... things to the Greeks , that no one be suffered to touch my daughter , but bid them keep off the multitude . In so vast an army the rabble are riotous , and the sailors ' uncontrolled insolence is fiercer than fire , for , among them ...
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... thing for men to speak words of good import CHOR . And see , she is coming out of the house , and appears in the right ... things that I am well acquainted with ; but why hast thou come , and why bring this corse of my Po- lyxena , whose ...
... thing for men to speak words of good import CHOR . And see , she is coming out of the house , and appears in the right ... things that I am well acquainted with ; but why hast thou come , and why bring this corse of my Po- lyxena , whose ...
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... thing has been well and duly performed , if aught of well there be in this . Ah ! what corse is this I see before the tent ? some Trojan's too ? for that it is no Grecian's , the robes that vest his limbs inform me . HEC . ( aside ) ...
... thing has been well and duly performed , if aught of well there be in this . Ah ! what corse is this I see before the tent ? some Trojan's too ? for that it is no Grecian's , the robes that vest his limbs inform me . HEC . ( aside ) ...
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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,