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 clear,
    where, as legend tells, the Muses nine, Pieria’s holy maids, were brought to birth by Harmonia with the golden hair;
Chorus
  1. and poets sing how Cypris drawing water from the streams of fair-flowing Cephissus breathes[*](Reading χώρας with Reiske. The passage is corrupt, and possibly some word is lost.) o’er the land a gentle breeze
  2. of balmy winds, and ever as she crowns her tresses with a garland of sweet rose-buds sends forth the Loves to sit by wisdom’s side,