430 BC THE TRACHINIAE by Sophocles transalated by R. C. Jebb CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY DEIANEIRA ...
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True; And 'tis against them too. PHILOCTETES Alas! no storms Can drive back fraud and rapine fro...
The bridal chamber of the maid and Death, We sped, about to enter. But a guard Heard from that god...
400 BC PHILOCTETES by Sophocles translated by Thomas Francklin CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ULYSSES, ...
Of giving burial. But where's the King? CHORUS There from the palace he returns in time. [Enter C...
NEOPTOLEMUS What, Ulysses? ULYSSES The glorious names of valiant and of wise. NEOPTOLEMUS Away!...
ISMENE O sister, scorn me not, let me but share Thy work of piety, and with thee die. ANTIGONE C...
Could to myself the means of life afford, In this poor grotto. On my bow I lived: The winged dove,...
And will not slacken in the gale, is like To sail with thwarts reversed, keel uppermost. Relent th...
By thy loved mother, by whate'er remains On earth most dear to thee, oh! hear me now, Thy supplian...
The powers who hold by might the sway. Thou hast withstood authority, A self-willed rebel, thou mu...
CREON True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills. TEIRESIAS Thou art infected with that ill thyself. ...
With obsequies that use and wont ordain, So gracing him among the dead below. But Polyneices, a di...
O woe is me! CHORUS Thou art a bold man, stranger, if thou think'st To execute thy purpose. CREO...
His father's city and his father's gods, And glut his vengeance with his kinsmen's blood, Or drag ...