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.
- I thank you for your consideration, unless indeed you have good news to tell.
- They mean to slay your son; there is my hateful message to you.
- Oh me! this is worse tidings than my forced marriage.
- So spoke Odysseus to the assembled Hellenes, and his word prevails.
- Oh, once again alas! there is no measure in the woes I bear.
- He said they should not rear so brave a father’s son.
- May such counsels prevail about children of his!
- He must be thrown from Troy’s battlements. Let it be so, and you will show more wisdom; do not cling to him, but bear your sorrows with heroic heart, nor in your weakness think that you are strong. For nowhere do you have any help; consider this you must;