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. Soon as they reached the wooded glen, in gushing mountain
  2. springs they bathed[*](νίψαν. So Hermann. αἰγλᾶντα, Musgrave. ἐν ῥοαῖς, Aldus.) their dazzling skin, then sought the son of Priam, comparing their rival charms in more than rancorous phrase.[*](Reading ὑπερβολαῖς λόγων δθσφρόνων. Hermann places a stop after Πριαμίδαν, and then reads ὑπερβολαῖς λόγων δ’ εὐφρόνων.) But Cypris won the day by her deceitful promises,