Andromache

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.

  1. O darling child,
  2. thou hast left me all alone in my halls,[*](Nauck reads δόμον ἔλιπες ἔρημον.) old and childless by thy loss.
Chorus
  1. Thou shouldst have died, old sire, before thy children.
Peleus
  1. Shall I not tear my hair,
  2. and smite upon my head with grievous blows? O city! of both my children[*](Achilles his son, and Neoptolemus his grandson.) hath Phoebus robbed me.