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.
- Who would hear you after you have marched against your fatherland?
- And temples of the gods who ride on white horses—
- And who hate you.
- I am being driven from my country—
- Yes, for you came to destroy it.
- Unjustly, O gods!
- Call on the gods at Mycenae, not here.
- You have become unholy—
- But I have not, like you, become my country’s enemy.
- By driving me out without my portion.
- I will kill you in addition.
- O father, do you you hear what I am suffering?
- Yes, and he hears what you are doing.
- And you, mother?
- It is not lawful for you to mention your mother.
- O my city!
- Go to Argos, and invoke the waters of Lerna.