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. Why,[*](Porson reads τίς δῆτ᾽ ἂν εἴτοι.) pray, should one call these old men wise, or those who once had a reputation in Hellas for being so? when thou, the great Peleus, son of a famous father, connected
    with me by marriage,[*](Nauck regards this as an interpolation, not improbably.) employest language disgraceful to thyself and abusive of me because of a barbarian woman,
  2. though thou shouldst have banished her far[*](Reading τῆλ᾽ (Reiske).) beyond the streams of Nile or Phasis, and ever encouraged me; seeing that she comes from Asia’s continent where fell so many of the sons of Hellas, victims to the spear; and likewise because she shared in the spilling of thy son’s blood;