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.
- No; not if they are wrong and ill-advised.
- What? Isn’t it right for that other to be given to the dogs?
- No, for the vengeance you are exacting is not a lawful one.
- Yes, if he was his country’s enemy, when not born an enemy.
- Well, he rendered up his destiny to fate.
- Let him now pay the penalty in his burial too.
- What crime did he commit, in coming to claim his portion of the land?
- Be very sure of this, he shall have no burial.
- I will bury him, although the state forbids.
- Do so, and you will be making your own grave by his.
- A noble end, for two so near and dear to lie side by side!
- Seize and take her inside.
- Oh, no! For I will not let go of this corpse.
- These are the god’s decrees, my girl, not what seems good to you.
- And this has been decreed, not to insult the dead.
- Be sure that no one will sprinkle over the corpse the moistened dust.
- O Creon, by my mother Jocasta, I implore you!