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.

  1. Farewell, my aged father!
Amphitryon
  1. Farewell to you, my son!
Heracles
  1. Bury my children as I said.
Amphitryon
  1. But who will bury me, my son?
Heracles
  1. I will.
Amphitryon
  1. When wil you come?
Heracles
  1. After you have buried my children.
Amphitryon
  1. How?
Heracles
  1. I will fetch you from Thebes to Athens. But carry my children within, a grievous burden to the earth. And I, after ruining my house by deeds of shame, will follow as a little boat in the wake of Theseus, a total wreck.
  2. Whoever prefers wealth or might to the possession of good friends, thinks wrongly.
Chorus
  1. With grief and many a bitter tear we go our way, robbed of all we prized most dearly.