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. Wherefore had the son of Oedipus left Thebes?
Adrastus
  1. By reason of his father’s curse, not to spill his brother’s blood.
Theseus
  1. Wise no doubt that voluntary exile.
Adrastus
  1. But those who stayed at home were for injuring the absent.
Theseus
  1. What! did brother rob brother of his inheritance?
Adrastus
  1. To avenge this I set out; hence my ruin.
Theseus
  1. Didst consult seers, and gaze into the flame of burnt-offerings?
Adrastus
  1. Ah me! thou pressest on the very point, wherein I most did fail.
Theseus
  1. It seems thy going was not favoured by heaven.
Adrastus
  1. Worse; I went in spite even of Amphiaraus.
Theseus
  1. And so heaven lightly turned[*](Reiske conjectures ἀπεστράφης, and omits σ’.) its face from thee.
Adrastus
  1. I was carried away by the clamour of younger men.