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. He no more repaid me by coming here, than if he had never come.
Pylades
  1. Oh, has he really arrived in this land?
Orestes
  1. He took a long time, but he was very soon detected as evil to his friends.
Pylades
  1. And did he bring his wife, the worst of women, with him on his ship?
Orestes
  1. It was not he who brought her here, but she who brought him.
Pylades
  1. Where is she, the one woman who proved the ruin of so many Achaeans?
Orestes
  1. In my house; if, that is, I ought to call it mine.
Pylades
  1. And what did you say to your father’s brother?