friends. O handmaids, lift my arms, my shapely arms. The tire on my head is too heavy for me to wea...
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CHORUS (chanting) O, too clearly didst thou hear our queen uplift her voice to tell her startling ...
Woe, woe is me! thou art betrayed, dear mistress! What counsel shall I give thee? thy secret is out...
laying out the corpse. (THESEUS and his retinue have entered, unnoticed.) THESEUS Women, can ye t...
exceed in beauty all her sex? Did aspire to fill the husband's place after thee and succeed to thy ...
the horses gnashed the forged bits between their teeth and bore him wildly on, regardless of their ...
Woe is me, my son! what art thou doing to me thy hapless sire! HIPPOLYTUS I am a broken man; yes, ...
410 BC ION by Euripides translated by Robert Potter CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY MERCURY ION CREUSA...
The temple of the god: I would not kill you: 'Twere pity, for to mortal man you bear The message o...
410 BC HELEN by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY HELEN, wife Of M...
Dost speak of Leda? She is dead; aye, dead and gone. HELEN Was it Helen's shame that caused her de...
goddesses three and to that son of Priam, who in days gone by would wake the music of his pipe arou...
Ho there! thou that with fearful effort seekest to reach the basement of the tomb and the pillars o...
To wrest the promise of Cypris- MENELAUS How now? Say on. HELEN From Paris, to whom that goddess...
HELEN No; his sister; Theonoe men call her. MENELAUS Her name hath a prophetic sound; tell me wha...