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.
- From none of these; but on behalf of Troy, whose soil we tread, I have come to seek your mighty aid, to make it one with mine.
- What! have you laid your former hate aside
- to take compassion on the town now that it is burnt to ashes?
- First go back to the former point; will you make common cause with me in the scheme I purpose?
- Yes, surely; but I want to learn your wishes, whether you have come to help Achaeans or Phrygians.
- I wish to give my former foes, the Trojans, joy, and on the Achaean army impose a bitter return.
- Why do you leap thus from mood to mood? Your love and hate both go too far, on whomever centred.
- Do you not know the insult done to me and to the shrine I love?