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. Ah! had they listened,
    Ilium’s daughters ne’er had felt the yoke of slavery, and[*](σύ τ᾽ ἂν. So Pflugk for οὔτε σὺ.) thou, lady, hadst been established in the royal palace[*](i.e. as queen in Troy after Priam’s death.); and Hellas had been freed of all the anguish
  2. she suffered during[*](Hermann’s emendation ὅτ᾽ for οὓς.) those ten long years her sons went wandering, spear in hand, around the walls of Troy; brides had never been left desolate, nor hoary fathers childless.