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 sayest thou? the rest who fell—say, where are they?
Messenger
  1. They have found burial in the dells of Cithseron.
Adrastus
  1. On this or that side of the mount? And who did bury them?
Messenger
  1. Theseus buried them ’neath the shadow of Eleutherae’s cliff.
Adrastus
  1. Where didst thou leave the dead he hath not buried?
Messenger
  1. Not far away; earnest haste makes every goal look close.
Adrastus
  1. No doubt in sorrow slaves would gather them from the carnage.
Messenger
  1. Slaves! not one of them was set to do this toil.
Adrastus
  1. ---[*](Hermann detected the loss of a line here. Subsequent editors have followed his hint.)
Messenger
  1. Thou wouldst say so, hadst thou been there to see his loving tendance of the dead.
Adrastus
  1. Did he himself wash the bloody wounds of the hapless youths?
Messenger
  1. Ay, and strewed their biers and wrapped them in their shrouds.