The Plays of Euripides: Andromache. Electra. The Bacchantes. Hecuba. Heracles mad. The Phoenician maidens. Orestes. Iphigenia among the Tauri. Iphigenia at Aulis. The CyclopsG. Bell, 1907 |
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... slain by Achilles , and the babe Astyanax , whom I bore my lord , hurled from the towering battlements , when the Hellenes sacked our Trojan home ; and I myself am come to Hellas as a slave , though I was esteemed a daughter of a race ...
... slain by Achilles , and the babe Astyanax , whom I bore my lord , hurled from the towering battlements , when the Hellenes sacked our Trojan home ; and I myself am come to Hellas as a slave , though I was esteemed a daughter of a race ...
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... slain them ? If so , thou wouldst have set a stigma of insatiate lust on all our sex . A shameful charge ! And yet herein we suffer more than men , though we make a good stand against it . Ah ! my dear lord Hector , for thy sake would I ...
... slain them ? If so , thou wouldst have set a stigma of insatiate lust on all our sex . A shameful charge ! And yet herein we suffer more than men , though we make a good stand against it . Ah ! my dear lord Hector , for thy sake would I ...
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... slain instead of thee . Wherefore weigh it well : wilt die thyself , or see him slain for the sin whereof thou art guilty against me and my daughter ? AND . O fame , fame ! full many a man ere now of no account hast thou to high estate ...
... slain instead of thee . Wherefore weigh it well : wilt die thyself , or see him slain for the sin whereof thou art guilty against me and my daughter ? AND . O fame , fame ! full many a man ere now of no account hast thou to high estate ...
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Euripides. 1 Suppose I am slain by thy daughter , and she work her will on me , yet can she never escape the pollution of murder , and public opinion will make thee too an accomplice in this deed of blood , for thy share in the business ...
Euripides. 1 Suppose I am slain by thy daughter , and she work her will on me , yet can she never escape the pollution of murder , and public opinion will make thee too an accomplice in this deed of blood , for thy share in the business ...
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... slain by me ? What house have I fired ? I was forced to be my master's concubine ; and spite of that wilt thou slay me , not him who is to blame , passing by the cause and hurrying to the inevitable result ? Ah me ! my sorrows ! Woe for ...
... slain by me ? What house have I fired ? I was forced to be my master's concubine ; and spite of that wilt thou slay me , not him who is to blame , passing by the cause and hurrying to the inevitable result ? Ah me ! my sorrows ! Woe for ...
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