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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 7 7 Browse Search
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 1 1 Browse Search
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Euripides, Medea (ed. David Kovacs), line 1049 (search)
put up with that? No, it is mere weakness in me even to admit such tender words into my heart. Children, go into the house. Whoever is not permitted to attend my sacrifice shall feel concern for them: I shall not weaken my hand. [Oh! Do not, my angry heart, do not do these things. Let them go, hard-hearted wretch, spare the children. If they live with me in that other place,The author of these lines apparently means ‘Athens.’ Contrast the expressively ambiguous use of e)kei=to mean Hades in 1073 below. they will gladden you. By Hell's avenging furies, I shall never leave my children for my enemies to outrage.Among the reasons for deleting these lines is that they make no intelligible sense. Medea cannot resolve on murdering her children as the only alternative to leaving them to be outraged by the Corinthians when less than twenty lines earlier she discussed taking them with her. Also they refer explicitly in the children's hearing to their murder, unlike the ambiguous language else