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. Away would I soar to Adrians wave-beat shore and to the waters of Eridanus; where a father’s hapless daughters[*](The daughters of Helios and Clymene are represented as weeping for Phaethon their brother on the banks of Eridanus (Po). Ovid Metam. v. 340 sqq. says the sun turned their tears into amber, and they themselves became poplars on the river-bank.) in their grief for Phaethon
  2. distil into the glooming flood the amber brilliance of their tears.