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. Soon has the god changed his good fortune; soon will his children breathe their last, slain by a father’s hand.
Amphitryon
  1. Ah me! alas!
Chorus
  1. O Zeus, unjust Vengeance, mad, relentless, will soon give your childless son
  2. up to misery.
Amphitryon
  1. Alas, O house!
Chorus
  1. The dance begins without the cymbals’ crash, with no glad waving of the wine-god’s staff—
Amphitryon
  1. Woe to these halls!
Chorus
  1. Toward bloodshed,
  2. and not to pour libations of Dionysus’ grape.
Amphitryon
  1. O children, make haste to fly!
Chorus
  1. That is the chant of death, of death, to the music of pipes.