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. No easy task to bit their jaws.
Heracles
  1. Easy enough, unless their nostrils vomit fire.
Chorus
  1. With ravening jaws they rend the limbs of men.
Heracles
  1. Thou speakest of the food of mountain beasts, not of horses.
Chorus
  1. Their mangers blood-bedabbled thou shalt see.