Euripides' ALCESTIS Complete

Translated by Gilbert Murray. - Cf. An Introduction to Euripides' Alcestis by Murray

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Admetus: O ye Gods! What meaneth this?
A marvel beyond dreams! The face ... 'tis she;
Mine, verily mine! Or doth God mock at me
And blast my vision with some mad surmise?

Heracles: Not so. This is thy wife before thine eyes.

Admetus: (who has recoiled in his amazement).
Beware! The dead have phantoms that they send...

Heracles: Nay; no ghost-raiser hast thou made thy friend.

Admetus: My wife ... she whom I buried?

Heracles: I deceive
Thee not; nor wonder thou canst scarce believe.

Admetus: And dare I touch her, greet her, as mine own
Wife living?

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