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. Ah me! bitter to me is this voyage thou speakest of. Unhappy wife, what woes are ours!
Alcestis
  1. One draws me, draws me hence, seest thou not?
  2. to the courts of death, winged Hades glaring from beneath his dark brows. What wilt thou with me? Unhand me. On what a journey am I setting out, most wretched woman I!
Admetus
  1. Bitter journey to thy friends, yet most of all to me
  2. and to thy babes, the partners in this sorrow.