The Phoenician Women

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. who marches before the army, lightly bearing on his arm a shield all of bronze?
Old servant
  1. A captain, mistress.
Antigone
  1. Who is he? Who is his family? Tell me his name, old man.
Old servant
  1. He claims to be Mycenaean; by Lerna’s streams he dwells, the lord Hippomedon.
Antigone
  1. Ah, ah! How proud, how fearful to see, like an earth-born giant, with stars engraved on his shield, not resembling
  2. mortal race.