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. Nor fire nor meteor hurls a mightier bolt than Aphrodite’s shaft shot by the hands of Love, the child of Zeus.
Chorus
  1. Idly, idly by the streams of Alpheus and in the Pythian shrines of Phoebus, Hellas
    heaps the slaughtered steers; while Love we worship not, Love, the king of men, who holds the key to Aphrodite’s