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Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 113 (search)
Adrastus
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Victorious prince of the Athenian realm, Theseus, I have come a suppliant to you and to your city.
Theseus
What do you hunt? What need is yours?
Adrastus
Do you know how I led an expedition to its ruin?
Theseus
Yes, you did not pass through Hellas in silence.
Adrastus
There I lost the pick of Argos' sons.
Theseus
These are the results of that unhappy war.
Adrastus
I went and demanded their bodies from Thebes.
Theseus
Did you rely on heralds, Hermes' servants, in order to bury them?
Adrastus
1 did; and even then their slayers did not let me.
Theseus
Why, what did they say to your just request?
Adrastus
Say! Success makes them forget how to bear their fortune.
Theseus
Have you come to me then for counsel? or why?
Adrastus
With the wish that you, Theseus, should recover the sons of the Argives.
Theseus
Where is your Argos now? Were its boasts all in vain?
Adrastus
We failed and are ruined. We have come to you.
Theseus
Is this your own private resolve, o
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 1196 (search)
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 162 (search)
Adrastus
True; and many a general owes defeat to that. O king of Athens, bravest of the sons of Hellas, I am ashamed to throw myself upon the ground and clasp your knees, I a grey-haired king, blessed in days gone by; yet I must yield to my misfortunes. Please save the dead; have pity on my sorrows and on these, the mothers of the slain, whom gray old age finds bereft of their sons; yet they endured to journey here and tread a foreign soil with aged tottering steps, bearing no embassy to Demeter's mysteries; only seeking burial for their dead, which lot should have been theirs, burial by the hands of sons still in their prime. And it is wise in the rich to see the poor man's poverty, and in the poor man to turn ambitious eyes toward the rich, that so he may himself indulge a longing for possessions; and they, whom fortune does not frown on, should dread misery. . . . likewise, the one who makes songs should take a pleasure in their making; for if it is not so with him, he would n
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 253 (search)
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 286 (search)
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 465 (search)
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 494 (search)
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 549 (search)
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 634 (search)