The Trojan Women

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. Never may he reach his home in Laconia or his father’s hearth and home, nor come to the town of Pitane [*](Part of Sparta was so called.) or the temple of the goddess [*](Athena of the Brazen House, a temple on the acropolis.) with the gates of bronze, having taken as his captive the one whose marriage brought disgrace on Hellas through its length and breadth and woful anguish
  2. on the streams of Simois!