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. Wilt rob me of this second corpse likewise?
Apollo
  1. Come! I did not take the other from thee by violence.
Death
  1. Then how is it he lives above the earth and not beneath?
Apollo
  1. He gave his wife instead, her whom now thou art come to fetch.
Death
  1. Yea, and I will bear her hence to the nether world.