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.
- We are as closely beleaguered as a city by its foes.
- Ask me now of my state; for I too am ruined.
- By whom? This would be a further trouble to add to mine.
- Strophius, my father, in a fit of anger, has banished me from his house.
- Bringing against you a private charge, or one in which the citizens share?
- He says it is an unholy crime to have helped you slay your mother.
- Alas! It seems my troubles will cause you grief as well.
- I am not like Menelaus in character; this must be endured.