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.
- O aged son of Aeacus!
- now am I sure that thou wert with the Lapithae, wielding thy famous spear, when they fought the Centaurs; and on Argo’s deck didst pass the cheerless strait beyond the sea-beat Symplegades
- on her voyage of note; and when in days long gone the son of Zeus spread slaughter round Troy’s famous town,
- thou too didst share his triumphant return to Europe.
- Alas! good friends, what a succession of troubles is to-day provided us! My mistress Hermione within the house,