Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Old Servant: Antigone, choice blossom in a father's house, although
thy mother allowed thee at thy earnest treaty to leave thy maiden
chamber for the topmost story of the house, thence to behold the Argive
host, yet a stay moment that I may first reconnoitre the path, whether
there be any of the citizens visible on the road, lest reproach, little
as it matters to a slave like me, fasten on thee, my royal mistress;
and when I am quite sure will tell thee everything that I saw and
heard from the Argives, when carried the terms of the truce to and
fro between this city and Polyneices. (After a slight pause) No,
there is no citizen approaching the palace; so mount the ancient cedar
steps, and view the plains that skirt Ismenus and the fount of Dirce
to see the mighty host of foemen. (Antigone appears beside him. She
chants her replies to him.)

Antigone: Stretch out thy hand to me from the stairs, the hand of
age to youth, helping me to mount.

Old Servant: There! clasp it, my young mistress; thou art come at
a lucky moment; for Pelasgia's host is just upon the move, and their
several contingents are separating.

Antigone: O Hecate, dread child of Latona! the plain is one blaze
of bronze.

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