Euripides' HIPPOLYTUS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Hippolytus: O mother earth! O sun's unclouded orb! What words, unfit
for any lips, have reached my ears!

Nurse: Peace, my son, lest some one hear thy outcry.

Hippolytus: I cannot hear such awful words and hold my peace.

Nurse: I do implore thee by thy fair right hand.

Hippolytus: Let go my hand, touch not my robe.

Nurse: O by thy knees I pray, destroy me not utterly.

Hippolytus: Why say this, if, as thou pretendest, thy lips are free from blame?

Nurse: My son, this is no story to be noised abroad.

Hippolytus: A virtuous tale grows fairer told to many.

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