Orestes
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.
- The house then has good reason to shout.
- What else would make someone entreat more earnestly? But come and throw yourself before your mother in her prosperity, join your friends’ supplication that Menelaus may not see us die.
- O you that were nursed in my mother’s arms, have pity on us and relieve our pain. Come here to the struggle, and I myself will be your guide; for you alone have power over our safety.
- See, I am hastening to the house;
- as far it as rests with me, regard yourselves as safe. Exit Hermione .
- Now, friends in the house with swords, seize the prey!
- Oh no! Who are these I see?
- (within.)Silence! You are here for our safety, not yours.