Chorus
On the contrary. If there is any reason for confidence in these actions, we think that your plan is not wrong.
Deianeira
[590]
My reason for confidence is this: there is the appearance of success in the plan. But the proof I have not yet essayed.
Chorus
Your knowledge must come after you act. For you can have no test which is not fanciful except by making the attempt.
Deianeira
Well, we shall know shortly, for there I see the man
[595]
already at the doors. He will soon depart. Only I ask that I may be well sheltered by you! When you accomplish even shameful deeds under the cover of darkness, you will never fall into disgrace.
Enter Lichas.
Lichas
What are your instructions? Tell me, daughter of Oeneus, for already I am tardy because of my long stay.
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Sophocles. The Trachiniae of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1892.
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