Euripides' SUPPLIANTS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Theseus: What! didst give Argive maids to foreign lords?

Adrastus: Yea, to Tydeus, and to Polyneices, who was Theban-born

Theseus: What induced thee to select this alliance?

Adrastus: Dark riddles of Phoebus stole away my judgment.

Theseus: What said Apollo to determine the maidens' marriage?

Adrastus: That I should give my daughters twain to a wild boar and
a lion.

Theseus: How dost thou explain the message of the god?

Adrastus: One night came to my door two exiles.

Theseus: The name of each declare: thou art speaking of both together.

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