Heracleidae

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.

  1. Bury my body after death in its destined grave in front of the shrine of the virgin goddess[*](Pallas.) at Pallene. And I will be thy friend and guardian of thy city for ever, where I lie buried in a foreign soil, but a bitter foe to these children’s descendants,
  2. whensoe’er[*](Referring to invasions by the Peloponnesians, descendants of the Heracleidae.) with gathered host they come against this land, traitors to your kindness now; such are the strangers ye have championed. Why then came I hither, if I knew all
    this, instead of regarding the god’s oracle? Because I thought, that Hera was mightier far than any oracle,