Medea
Euripides
Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.
- that none of their foes may insult them by pulling down their tombs; and in this land of Sisyphus I will ordain hereafter a solemn feast and mystic rites to atone for this impious murder. Myself will now to the land of Erechtheus,
- to dwell with Aegeus, Pandion’s son. But thou, as well thou mayest, shalt die a caitiff’s death, thy head[*](Legend told how Jason was slain by a beam falling on him as he lay asleep under the shadow of his ship Argo.) crushed ’neath a shattered relic of Argo, when thou hast seen the bitter ending of my marriage.
- The curse of our sons’ avenging spirit and of Justice,