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. What sayest thou? and did ye then in spite of that admit me to your cheer?
Attendant
  1. Yes, for his regard would not let him send thee from his door.
Heracles
  1. Unhappy husband, what a wife hast thou lost!
Attendant
  1. We are all undone, not she alone.
Heracles
  1. I knew it when I saw his streaming eye, shorn head and downcast look, yet did he persuade me, saying it was a stranger he was bearing to burial. So I did constrain myself and passed his gates