Euripides' HERACLEIDAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Messenger: Thou mayst not slay him.

Alcmena: Then have we taken him captive in vain. But say, what law
forbids his death?

Messenger: It is not the wiff of the rulers of this land.

Alcmena: Why, what is this? Do they not approve of slaying enemies?

Messenger: Not such as they have taken alive in battle.

Alcmena: Did Hyllus uphold this decision?

Messenger: He, I suppose, ought to have disobeyed the law of the land.

Alcmena: The prisoner's life ought not to have been spared a moment.

Messenger: It was then that he was wronged, by not being slain at
first.

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