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. Not to see me and my sister killed by the citizens.
Pylades
  1. By the gods! What did he say to that? I would like know this.
Orestes
  1. He was cautious, the usual policy of ignoble friends.
Pylades
  1. What excuse did he advance? When I have learned that, I know everything.
Orestes
  1. There was a new arrival, the father who begot those noble daughters.
Pylades
  1. You mean Tyndareus; he was angry with you, perhaps, for his daughter’s sake?
Orestes
  1. You understand. And Menelaus preferred the family relationship with him to that with my father.
Pylades
  1. He did not have the courage to share your troubles, when he was here?