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.
- O! woe is me!
- A wife; misfortune takes a different shape for every man she plagues.
- O the weary sorrow! O the grief for dear ones dead and gone! Why didst thou hinder me from plung-ing into the gaping grave, there to lay me down and die with her, my peerless bride?
- Then would Hades for that one have gotten these two faithful souls at once, crossing the nether lake together.
- I had a kinsman once, within whose home died