Euripides' ANDROMACHE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Andromache: O husband mine! I would I had thy strong arm and spear
to aid me, son of Priam.

Molossus: Ah, woe is me! what spell can I now find to turn death's
stroke aside?

Andromache: Embrace thy master's knees, my child, and pray to him.

Molossus: Spare, O spare my life, kind master!

Andromache: Mine eyes are wet with tears, which trickle down my cheeks,
as doth a sunless spring from a smooth rock. Ah me!

Molossus: What remedy, alas! can I provide me 'gainst my ills?

Menelaus: Why fall at my knees in supplication? hard as the rock and
deaf as the wave am I. My own friends have I helped, but for thee
have no tie of affection; for verily it cost me a great part of my
life to capture Troy and thy mother; so thou shalt reap the fruit
thereof and into Hades' halls descend.

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