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. 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.