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.
- Assuredly; thou didst not pass through Hellas, all in silence.
- There I lost the pick of Argos’ sons.
- These are the results of that unhappy war.
- I went and craved their bodies from Thebes.
- Didst thou rely on heralds, Hermes’ servants, in order to bury them?
- I did; and even then their slayers said me nay.
- Why, what say they to thy just request?
- Say! Success makes them forget how to bear their fortune.
- Art come to me then for counsel? or wherefore?
- With the wish that thou, O Theseus, shouldst recover the sons of the Argives.
- Where is your Argos now? were its vauntings all in vain?
- Defeat and ruin are our lot. To thee for aid we come.
- this thy own private resolve, or the wish of all the city?
- The sons of Danaus, one and all, implore thee to bury the dead.
- Why didst lead thy seven armies against Thebes?
- To confer that favour on the husbands of my daughters twain.
- To which of the Argives didst thou give thy daughters in marriage?
- I made no match for them with kinsmen of my family.
- What! didst give Argive maids to foreign lords?
- Yea, to Tydeus, and to Polynices, who was Theban-born.