Hippolytus

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. O for a sword two-edged to hack my flesh, and close this mortal life! Ill-fated curse of my father! the crimes of bloody kinsmen.[*](Such as Tantalus and Pelops, Atreus and Thyestes.) ancestors of old,
  2. now pass their boundaries and tarry not, and upon me are they come all guiltless as I am; ah! why? Alas, alas!