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. What induced thee to select this alliance?
Adrastus
  1. Dark riddles of Phoebus stole away my judgment.
Theseus
  1. What said Apollo to determine the maidens’ marriage?
Adrastus
  1. That I should give my daughters twain to a wild boar and a lion.
Theseus
  1. How dost thou explain the message of the god?
Adrastus
  1. One night came to my door two exiles.
Theseus
  1. The name of each declare; thou art speaking of both together.
Adrastus
  1. They fought together, Tydeus with Polynices.
Theseus
  1. Didst thou give thy daughters to them as to wild beasts?
Adrastus
  1. Yea, for, as they fought, I likened them to those monsters twain.
Theseus
  1. Why had they left the borders of their native land and come to thee?
Adrastus
  1. Tydeus was exiled for the murder of a kinsman.