Euripides' MEDEA Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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(antistrophe 2)

I have seen with mine eyes, nor from the lips of others have I the
lesson learnt; no city, not one friend doth pity thee in this thine
awful woe. May he perish and find no favour, whoso hath not in him
honour for his friends, freely unlocking his heart to them. Never
shall he be friend of mine. (Medea has been seated in despair on
her door-step during the choral song. Aegeus and his attendants enter.)

Aegeus: All hail, Medea! no man knoweth fairer prelude to the greeting
of friends than this.

Medea: All hail to thee likewise, Aegeus, son of wise Pandion. Whence
comest thou to this land?

Aegeus: From Phoebus' ancient oracle.

Medea: What took thee on thy travels to the prophetic centre of the earth?

Aegeus: The wish to ask how I might raise up seed unto myself.

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