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 good, but not evil ends; and surely not for murderous violence.
Menelaus
  1. Never shalt thou wrest her from my grasp.
Peleus
  1. With this good staff I’ll stain thy head with blood!
Menelaus
  1. Just touch me and see! Approach one step!
Peleus
  1. What! shalt thou rank with men? chief of cowards, son of cowards! What right hast thou to any place ’mongst men? Thou who didst let a Phrygian rob thee of thy wife, leaving thy home without bolt or guard,[*](Reading ἄφρουρα, Lenting.) as if forsooth the cursed woman thou hadst there was a model of virtue.