Euripides' ALCESTIS Complete

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

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Heracles: Among his dead
I lay, and sprang and gripped him as he fled.

Admetus: (in an awed whisper, looking towards Alcestis).
Why standeth she so still? No sound, no word!

Heracles: She hath dwelt with Death. Her voice may not be heard
Ere to the Lords of Them Below she pay
Due cleansing, and awake on the third day.
(To the Attendants) So; guide her home.

[They lead Alcestis to the doorway.]

And thou, King, for the rest
Of time, be true; be righteous to thy guest,
As he would have thee be. But now farewell!
My task yet lies before me, and the spell
That binds me to my master; forth I fare.

Admetus: Stay with us this one day! Stay but to share
The feast upon our hearth!

Heracles: The feasting day
Shall surely come; now I must needs away.

[Heracles departs.]

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