Helen

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. Do not be a prophetess of sorrow, dear friend, anticipating lamentation.
Helen
  1. What has my poor husband suffered? Does he see the light and the sun’s chariot and the paths of the stars? Or does he have a lasting fate
  2. among the dead beneath the earth?
Chorus
  1. Take a brighter view of the future, whatever will happen.
Helen
  1. For I call on you, I swear to you, Eurotas green with watery reeds,