Heracles
Euripides
Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.
- No. for is silence sufficient to learn what I wish?
- O Zeus, do you behold these deeds proceeding from the throne of Hera?
- What! have I suffered something from her enmity?
- A truce to the goddess! attend to your own troubles.
- I am undone; you will tell me some mischance.
- See here the corpses of your children.
- O horror! what sight is here? ah me!
- My son, against your children you have waged unnatural war.
- War! what do you mean? who killed these?
- You and your bow and some god, whoever is to blame.
- What are you saying? what have I done? Speak, father, you messenger of evil!
- You were insane; it is a sad explanation you are asking.
- Was it I that slew my wife also?
- Your own unaided arm has done all this.
- Alas! a cloud of mourning wraps me round.
- For this reason I lament your fate.
- Did I dash my house to pieces in my frenzy?
- I know nothing but this, that you are utterly undone.
- Where did the madness seize me? where did it destroy me?
- When you were purifying yourself with fire at the altar.