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. Doth any of you hear a groan, or sound of hands that smite together, or the voice of lamentation, telling all is over and done? Yet is there no servant
  2. stationed about the gate, no, not one. O come, thou saving god, to smooth the swelling waves of woe![*](μετακύμιος. Liddell and Scott between two waves of misery, i.e. causing a short lull.)
Second Semichorus
  1. Surely, were she dead, they would not be so still.
First Semichorus
  1. Maybe her corpse is not yet from the house borne forth.
Second Semichorus
  1. Whence that inference? I am not so sanguine. What gives thee confidence?