Alcestis

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. Our lords have ere this done all they could; on every altar streams the blood of abundant sacrifice;
  2. yet our sorrows find no cure.
Chorus
  1. Lo! from the house cometh a handmaid weeping; what shall I be told hath chanced? Grief may well be pardoned, if aught happeneth to one’s master; yet I fain would learn whether our lady
  2. still is living or haply is no more.
Maid
  1. Alive, yet dead thou may’st call her.