carried, but weapons chastely plain. Next, prince Hippomedon came marching to the Ogygian port with...
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paying honour to the dead. LEADER OF THE CHORUS Thy sister, Creon, hath gone forth and her daughte...
OEDIPUS Ah me, the sorrows I endure! I may well say that. Tell me, child, what fate o'ertook those...
There then! touch the dead, thy children. OEDIPUS Woe for you! dear fallen sons, sad offspring of ...
410 BC THE TROJAN WOMEN by Euripides Characters in the Play Poseidon Athena Hecuba Chorus of ...
there to meet and be the slave of Menelaus, whose hand laid Troyland waste! Yon holy land by Peneus...
remains, I will not taunt her with. Little knows he, the luckless wight, the sufferings that await ...
HECUBA Alas! my child, for thy unhallowed sacrifice! and yet again, ah me! for this thy shameful d...
stole my wife, traitor to my hospitality. But he, by heaven's will, hath paid the penalty, ruined, ...
PENTHEUS [I scorn him and his vines!] DIONYSUS A fine taunt indeed thou hurlest here at Dionysus!...
Describe my costume further. DIONYSUS Thou wilt wear a robe reaching to thy feet; and on thy head ...
Enter SECOND MESSENGER. SECOND MESSENGER O house, so prosperous once through Hellas long ago, home...
raise it against the house to nail up on the gables this lion's head, my booty from the chase. Ent...
Go, daughter, to the house of Aristaeus,[*] [* Another large lacuna follows.] AGAVE Father, I mou...
410 BC THE PHOENISSAE by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY JOCASTA...