Woe is me, my son! what art thou doing to me thy hapless sire! HIPPOLYTUS I am a broken man; yes, ...
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friends. O handmaids, lift my arms, my shapely arms. The tire on my head is too heavy for me to wea...
410 BC ION by Euripides translated by Robert Potter CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY MERCURY ION CREUSA...
CHORUS (chanting) O, too clearly didst thou hear our queen uplift her voice to tell her startling ...
The temple of the god: I would not kill you: 'Twere pity, for to mortal man you bear The message o...
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 ...
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...
(THEONOE and her attendants enter the palace.) LEADER No man ever prospered by unjust practices, b...
410 BC HELEN by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY HELEN, wife Of M...
THEOCLYMENUS What kind of death doth he declare that Menelaus died? HELEN The most piteous of all...
Dost speak of Leda? She is dead; aye, dead and gone. HELEN Was it Helen's shame that caused her de...