Euripides' ORESTES Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Orestes: Where is he who fled from the palace to escape my sword?

Phrygian: (falling at the feet Of Orestes) Before thee I prostrate
myself, O prince, and do obeisance in my foreign way.

Orestes: 'Tis not Ilium that is now the scene, but the land of Argos.

Phrygian: No matter where, the wise love life more than death.

Orestes: I suppose that shouting of thine was not for Menelaus to
come to the rescue?

Phrygian: Oh no! it was to help thee I called out, for thou art more
deserving.

Orestes: Was it a just fate that overtook the daughter of Tyndareus?

Phrygian: Most just, though she had had throats to die with.

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