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. Come, father! succour those thou lovest.
Andromache
  1. Rest[*](κεῖσο δὴ, Nauck.) there, my babe, my darling! on thy mother’s bosom, e’en in death and in the grave.
Molossus
  1. Ah, woe is me! what will become of me and thee too, mother mine?
Menelaus
  1. Away, to the world below! from hostile towers ye came, the pair of you; two different causes necessitate your deaths; my sentence takes away thy life, and my daughter Hermione’s requires his; for it would be the
  2. height of folly to leave our foemen’s sons, when we might kill them and remove the danger from our house.