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. fallen short of my high boasts.
Chorus
  1. A lonely dweller in a lonely home art thou.
Peleus
  1. I have no city any longer;[*](οὐκέτ᾽ ἐστί μοι πόλις (Hermann).) there! on the ground
    my sceptre do I cast; and thou, daughter of Nereus, neath thy dim grotto,
  2. shalt see me grovelling in the dust,[*](γᾷ πίτνοντα μ᾽ ὄψει (Hermann).) a ruined king.
Chorus
  1. Look, look! A dim form of divine appearance in seen hovering in mid air. What is that moving? what influence divine am I conscious of? Look, maidens, mark it well; see, yonder is some deity, wafted through the lustrous air and alighting on the plains