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. for Peleus and his descendants hold it in honour as a symbol of his marriage with the Nereid. My only son am I secretly conveying to a neighbour’s house in fear for his life. For his sire stands not by my side
  2. to lend his aid and cannot avail his child at all, being absent in the land of Delphi, where he is offering recompense to Loxias for the madness he committed, when on a day he went to Pytho and demanded of Phoebus satisfaction[*](Reading oὖ᾽ κτίνειν, Hermann’s correction for οὖ τίνει or κτείνει.) for his father’s death,[*](Neoptolemus demanded satisfaction for his father’s death because Apollo directed the fatal arrow of Paris which killed Achilles.) if haply his prayer might avert those past sins