there to meet and be the slave of Menelaus, whose hand laid Troyland waste! Yon holy land by Peneus...
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O the eternity of woe thy minute's tale proclaims! TEIRESIAS Yes to thee, but to thy country great...
remains, I will not taunt her with. Little knows he, the luckless wight, the sufferings that await ...
carried, but weapons chastely plain. Next, prince Hippomedon came marching to the Ogygian port with...
HECUBA Alas! my child, for thy unhallowed sacrifice! and yet again, ah me! for this thy shameful d...
paying honour to the dead. LEADER OF THE CHORUS Thy sister, Creon, hath gone forth and her daughte...
stole my wife, traitor to my hospitality. But he, by heaven's will, hath paid the penalty, ruined, ...
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 ...
Enter SECOND MESSENGER. SECOND MESSENGER O house, so prosperous once through Hellas long ago, home...
No plan so good as to keep well guarded. ETEOCLES What if our cavalry make a sortie against the ho...
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...
Amymone, dear to Poseidon, when he has thrown the toils of slavery round them? Never, never, Artemi...