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. Well, and if I had driven him from my house and city when he came to be my guest, wouldst thou have praised me more?
  2. No indeed! for my calamity would have been no whit less, while I should have been more churlish. And this would have been another woe to add to mine, that
    my house should be called no friend to guests. Yea, and I find him myself the best of hosts
  3. whene’er to Argos’ thirsty land I come.
Chorus
  1. Why then didst thou conceal thy present misfortune, if, as thy own lips declare, it was a friend that came?
Admetus
  1. He would never have entered my house, had he known aught of my distress.