OEDIPUS Ah me, the sorrows I endure! I may well say that. Tell me, child, what fate o'ertook those...
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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...
PENTHEUS [I scorn him and his vines!] DIONYSUS A fine taunt indeed thou hurlest here at Dionysus!...
Loxias had given Adrastus an oracle. JOCASTA What was it? what meanest thou? I cannot guess. POLY...
Describe my costume further. DIONYSUS Thou wilt wear a robe reaching to thy feet; and on thy head ...
POLYNEICES O altars of my fathers' gods!- ETEOCLES Which thou art here to raze. POLYNEICES Hear...
(MEDEA enters the house.) CHORUS (chanting) O earth, O sun whose beam illumines all, look, look up...
430 BC MEDEA by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY NURSE OF MEDEA ...
410 BC THE BACCHANTES by Euripides Characters in the Play Dionysus Cadmus Pentheus Agave Tei...