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