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. left me like a stranded bark, all alone, without an oar. My lord will surely slay me; no home is mine henceforth beneath my husband’s roof. What god is there to whose statue I can as a suppliant haste?
  2. or shall I throw myself in slavish wise at slavish knees? Would I could speed[*](Reading ἀερθείην with Seidler.) away from Phthia’s land on bird’s dark pinion, or like that pine-built ship,[*](Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.)
  3. the first that ever sailed betwixt the rocks Cyanean!
Nurse
  1. My child, I can as little praise thy previous sinful excesses, committed against the Trojan captive, as thy present exaggerated terror. Thy husband will never listen to
  2. a barbarian’s weak pleading and reject his marriage with thee for this. For thou wast no captive from Troy whom he wedded, but the daughter of a gallant sire, with a rich dower, from a city too of no mean prosperity. Nor will thy father forsake thee, as thou dreadest,