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. Mine eyes are wet with tears, which trickle down my cheeks, as doth a sunless spring from a smooth rock. Ah me!
Molossus
  1. What remedy, alas! can I provide me ’gainst my ills?
Menelaus
  1. Why fall at my knees in supplication? hard as the rock and deaf as the wave am I. My own friends have I helped,
  2. but for thee have I no tie of affection; for verily it cost me a great part of my life to capture Troy and thy mother; so thou shalt reap the fruit thereof and into Hades’ halls descend.
Chorus
  1. Behold! I see Peleus drawing nigh; with aged step he hasteth hither.