Medea

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. And yet what am I coming to? Can I consent
  2. to let those foes of mine escape from punishment, and incur their mockery? I must face this deed. Out upon my craven heart! to think that I should even have let the soft[*](Reading πρόεσθαι for which Badham proposes πρόσεσθαι, indulge my mind in gentle thoughts.) words escape my soul. Into the house, children! and whoso feels he must not be present at my sacrifice,
  3. must see to it himself; I will not spoil my
    handiwork. Ah! ah! do not, my heart, O do not do this deed! Let the children go, unhappy one, spare the babes! For if they live, they will cheer thee in our exile there.[*](At Athens.) Nay, by the fiends of hell’s abyss,