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. that none of their foes may insult them by pulling down their tombs; and in this land of Sisyphus I will ordain hereafter a solemn feast and mystic rites to atone for this impious murder. Myself will now to the land of Erechtheus,
  2. to dwell with Aegeus, Pandion’s son. But thou, as well thou mayest, shalt die a caitiff’s death, thy head[*](Legend told how Jason was slain by a beam falling on him as he lay asleep under the shadow of his ship Argo.) crushed ’neath a shattered relic of Argo, when thou hast seen the bitter ending of my marriage.
Jason
  1. The curse of our sons’ avenging spirit and of Justice,