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.
- What sayest thou? and did ye then in spite of that admit me to your cheer?
- Yes, for his regard would not let him send thee from his door.
- Unhappy husband, what a wife hast thou lost!
- We are all undone, not she alone.
- 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