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. A stranger, yet in another sense related to my house.
Heracles
  1. How then came she by her death in house of thine?
Admetus
  1. Her father dead, she lived here as an orphan.
Heracles
  1. Ah! would I had found thee free from grief, Admetus!
Admetus
  1. With what intent dost thou devise this speech?