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. Why, how can the same person be alive, yet dead?
Maid
  1. She is sinking even now, and at her last gasp.
Chorus
  1. My poor master! how sad thy lot to lose so good a wife!
Maid
  1. He did not know his loss, until the blow fell on him.
Chorus
  1. Is there then no more a hope of saving her?