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. they scorn the common folk, though they are naught themselves; whereas those others are ten thousand times more wise than they, if daring combine with judgment. Even so thou and thy brother, now take your seats in all the swollen pride of Trojan fame and Trojan generalship,
  2. exalted by the toilsome efforts of others.[*](Sentence reads Even so thou and thy brother, exalted by the toilsome efforts of others, now take your seats in all the swollen pride of Trojan fame and Trojan generalship. but has been rearranged for line clarity.) But I will teach thee henceforth to consider Idaean Paris a foe less terrible[*](Reading μὴ κρείσσω, as Paley proposed, instead of μείζω or ἥσσω.) than Peleus, unless forthwith thou pack from this roof, thou and thy childless daughter too, whom my own true son
  3. will hale through his halls by the hair of her head; for her barrenness will not let her endure fruitfulness in others, because she has no children herself. Still if she is unlucky in the matter of offspring, is that a reason why we should be left childless?
  4. Begone! ye varlets, let her go! I will soon see if anyone will hinder me from loosing her hands.
  5. To Andromache. Arise;
    these trembling hands of mine will untie the twisted thongs that bind thee. Out on thee, coward! is this how thou hast galled her wrists?