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 sinks upon a seat scarce soon enough to save herself from falling to the ground. An aged dame, one of her company, thinking belike it was a fit from Pan[*](Any sudden seizure was ascribed to Pan’s agency.) or some god sent, raised a cry of prayer, till from her mouth she saw the foam-flakes issue, her eyeballs
  2. rolling in their sockets, and all the blood her
    face desert; then did she raise a loud scream far different fiom her former cry. Forthwith one handmaid rushed to her father’s house, another to her new bridegroom to tell his bride’s sad fate,
  3. and the whole house echoed with their running to and fro.