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.
- Ha! what is this? Am I mistaken or do I really see before me the queen of this palace, the daughter of Menelaus?
- The same, that only child whom Helen, daughter of Tyndareus, bore my father in his halls; never doubt that.
- O saviour Phoebus, grant us respite from our woe! But what is the matter? art thou afflicted by gods or men?
- Partly by myself, partly by the man who wedded me, and partly by some god. On every side I see ruin.
- Why, what misfortune could happen to a woman as yet childless,