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. One thing most of all; he cannot speak his mind.
Jocasta
  1. This is a slave’s lot you speak of, not to say what one thinks.
Polyneices
  1. The follies of the rulers must be borne.
Jocasta
  1. That too is painful, to join in the folly of fools.
Polyneices
  1. Yet to gain our ends we must serve against our nature.
Jocasta
  1. Hope, they say, is the exile’s food.