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. Knowest thou not the doom she must undergo?
Heracles
  1. I know she did submit to die in thy stead.
Admetus
  1. How then is she still alive, if so she promised?
Heracles
  1. Ah! weep not thy wife before the day, put that off till then.
Admetus
  1. The doomed is dead; the dead no more exists.