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. sweet-sounding words, but fraught with ruthless overthrow to Phrygia’s hapless town and Ilium’s towers.
Chorus
  1. Would God his mother had smitten him a cruel death-blow[*](μόρον, Hermann’s correction for Πάριν.) on the head before he made his home on Ida’s