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.
- Can[*](There is some doubt whether the next four lines are genuine. Nauck brackets them.) it be mine host hath strangely wronged me?
- Thou earnest at no proper time for our house to welcome thee, for sorrow is come upon us; lo! thou seest our shorn heads and robes of sable hue.
- Who is it that is dead?
- Is it a child or his aged sire that hat hath passed away?
- Nay, sir guest, ’tis Admetus’ wife that is no more.