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. And now farewell! ’tis not for me to gaze upon the dead, or pollute my sight with death-scenes, and e’en now I see thee nigh that evil moment.[*](Cobet rejects this line.) [Exit Artemis.
Hippolytus
  1. Farewell, blest virgin queen! leave me now! How easily[*](Surely this line is a gloss! The sentiment is singularly out of place in the mouth of an ardent votary, whom the goddess has just comforted.) thou resignest our long friendship! I am reconciled with my father at thy desire, yea, for ever before I would obey thy bidding.