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. How could Admetus let his noble wife go unattended to the grave?
Second Semichorus
  1. Before the gates I see no lustral water from the spring, as custom doth ordain should be
  2. at the gates of the dead, no shorn lock lies on the threshold, which, as thou knowest, falls in mourning for the dead, no choir of maidens smites its youthful[*](Dindorf restores νεαλὴς for νεολαία, a doubtful word, apparently not used as an adjective. Cf. Liddell and Scott.) palms together.
First Semichorus
  1. And yet this is the appointed day.
Second Semichorus
  1. What meanest thou by this?