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. Do you see the one crossing Dirce’s stream?
Antigone
  1. His armor is quite different. Who is that?
Old servant
  1. Tydeus, the son of Oeneus, Aetolian battle-spirit in his breast.
Antigone
  1. Is this the one, old man, who married a sister of Polyneices’ wife? What a foreign look his armor has, half-barbarian!
Old servant
  1. Yes, my child; all Aetolians carry shields,
  2. and are most unerring marksmen with their darts.