stands there ready, and barley-meal to scatter with the hand on the cleansing flame, and heifers to...
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Woe! woe to thee, thou child of Tyndareus, for the suffering and anguish sore, which thou art causi...
CLYTAEMNESTRA What, is not the act of dying held to imply burial? IPHIGENIA The altar of the godd...
410 BC IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS by Euripides translated by Robert Potter CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY IPHI...
Both that and this, anxious for one response. ION For the earth's fruits consult you, or for child...
Propitious thus, the answer of the god Would I receive: meanwhile, these laurel boughs Bear round ...
XUTHUS At that we marvel both. ION Who is my mother? XUTHUS That I cannot say. ION Did not th...
Shoved from the way: it is not to be borne, When every insolent and worthless wretch Makes you giv...
Is this child yet to come, or did the god Declare one now in being? LEADER One advanced To manho...
TUTOR Dead! and the ungrateful Phoebus gives no aid? CREUSA None: in the house of Pluto a young g...
For never shall my queen this torment know; Ne'er while she draws this vital breath, Brook in her ...
Shall we, who plann'd the deathful deed, Be caught within the toils we spread, While justice claim...
These tokens. To do pleasure to the god, I nurtured thee, my son; now to thy hand Restore what was...
Led me in secret to his bed. ION Speak on; Thy words import some glorious fortune to me. CREUSA ...
420 BC HIPPOLYTUS by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY APHRODITE ...