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.

  1. For what other family must I still revere, rather than the one from a divine marriage, from Tantalus.
Chorus Leader
  1. And see, a king draws near, lord Menelaus; from his magnificence it is plain to see
  2. that he belongs to the blood of the Tantalids.
  3. All hail! you that set out with a thousand ships to Asia’s land; good fortune is your friend,
  4. for you have accomplished, with divine aid, all that you prayed for.
Menelaus
  1. O my home, some joy I feel to see you again on my return from Troy, but I also grieve at the sight; for never have I seen another house more closely encircled by dire affliction.
  2. For I learned Agamemnon’s fate and the death he died at his wife’s hands, as I was trying to put in at Malea; when the sailors’ prophet, the truthful god Glaucus, Nereus’ seer, brought the news to me from the waves;
  3. he stationed himself in full view and told me this: Menelaus, your brother lies dead, plunged in a fatal bath, the last his wife will ever give him. My sailors and I wept greatly at his words. When I arrived at Nauplia,