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. Whose son doth he who feeds them boast to be?
Chorus
  1. Ares’ son, king of the golden targe of Thrace.
Heracles
  1. This toil again is but a piece of my ill-luck;
  2. hard it ever is and still is growing steeper, if I with Ares’ own-begotten sons must fight, first with Lycaon, next with Cycnus, while now I am bound on this third contest to engage the horses and their master.
  3. Yet shall no man ever see Alcmena’s son trembling at his foemen’s prowess.