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...
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...
gods, first catch up the crashing cymbals, native to that land, and the drum with tight-stretched s...
goddesses three and to that son of Priam, who in days gone by would wake the music of his pipe arou...
the bull and carried him bodily on to the deck. And Menelaus stroked the horse on neck and brow, co...
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...
HERACLES No you look upon your wife indeed. ADMETUS Beware! May it not be some phantom from the U...
CHORUS A lonely dweller in a lonely home art thou. PELEUS I have no city any longer; there! on th...
430 BC ANDROMACHE by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ANDROMACHE ...