The Suppliant Maidens

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.

  1. In bravery; for I will lay me down and die with my lord.
Iphis
  1. What dost thou say? What is this silly riddle thou propoundest?
Evadne
  1. To yonder pyre where lies dead Capaneus, I will leap down.
Iphis
  1. My daughter, speak not thus before the multitude!
Evadne
  1. The very thing I wish, that every Argive should learn it.
Iphis
  1. Nay, I will ne’er consent to let thee do this deed.
Evadne
  1. (as she is throwing herself). ’Tis all one; thou shalt never catch me in thy grasp.
  2. Lo! I cast me down, no joy to thee, but to myself and to my husband blazing on the pyre with me.
Chorus
  1. O lady, what a fearful deed!
Iphis
  1. Ah me! I am undone, ye dames of Argos!
Chorus
  1. Alack, alack! a cruel blow is this to thee,
  2. but thou must yet witness, poor wretch, the full horror of this deed.