Euripides' HERACLEIDAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Alcmena: Why, then, he is still in time to pay his penalty.

Messenger: There is no one who will slay him now.

Alcmena: I will; and yet I count myself someone.

Messenger: Well, thou wilt incur great blame, if thou do this deed.

Alcmena: I love this city well; that cannot be gainsaid. But since
this man hath fallen into my power, no mortal hand shall wrest him
from me. Wherefore let who will, call me the woman bold, with thoughts
too high for her sex; yet shall this deed be brought to pass by me.

Leader of the Chorus: Lady, full well I understand thou hast a dire
quarrel with this man, and 'tis pardonable.

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