These tokens. To do pleasure to the god, I nurtured thee, my son; now to thy hand Restore what was...
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XUTHUS At that we marvel both. ION Who is my mother? XUTHUS That I cannot say. ION Did not th...
Led me in secret to his bed. ION Speak on; Thy words import some glorious fortune to me. CREUSA ...
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 ...
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 ...
420 BC HIPPOLYTUS by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY APHRODITE ...
Woe is me, my son! what art thou doing to me thy hapless sire! HIPPOLYTUS I am a broken man; yes, ...
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 ...