Euripides' ALCESTIS Complete

Translated by Gilbert Murray. - Cf. An Introduction to Euripides' Alcestis by Murray

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Leader: Too much of wrath before, too much hath run
After. Old man, cease to revile thy son.

Admetus: Speak on. I have spoken.... If my truth of tongue
Gives pain to thee, why didst thou do me wrong?

Pheres: Wrong? To have died for thee were far more wrong.

Admetus: How can an old life weigh against a young?

Pheres: Man hath but one, not two lives, to his use.

Admetus: Oh, live on; live, and grow more old than Zeus!

Pheres: Because none wrongs thee, thou must curse thy sire?

Admetus: I blest him. Is not life his one desire?

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