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. gasping out her life; for to-day is she doomed to die and pass from life to death. But I, for fear pollution overtake me in the house, am leaving the shelter of this roof I love so well, for already I see Death hard by,
  2. the priest of souls departed, who is on his way to lead her to the halls of Hades; true to time he comes, watching this day that calls her to her doom.
Death
  1. Ha! What dost thou at this house? why is it thou art ranging here,
  2. Phoebus? Once again thou wrongest me, circumscribing and limiting the honours of the nether
    world. Wert thou not content to hinder the death of Admetus, by thy knavish cunning baulking Destiny? but now again
  3. hast thou armed thee with thy bow and art keeping guard o’er her, this daughter of Pelias, who undertook, of her free will, to die for her lord and set him free.