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. Thou canst not realise every lawless wish.
Apollo
  1. Mark me, thou shalt have a check for all thy excessive fierceness;
  2. such a hero shall there come to Pheres’ halls, by Eurystheus sent to fetch a team of steeds from the wintry world of Thrace; he, a guest awhile in these halls of Admetus, will wrest this woman from thee by sheer force.
  3. So wilt thou get no thanks from me but yet wilt do this all the same, and earn my hatred too.[*](Dindorf rejects these two lines.)
Death
  1. Thou wilt not gain thy purpose any the more for all thy many words; that woman shall to Hades’ halls go down, I tell thee.