Euripides' HIPPOLYTUS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Theseus: Ho! servants, drag him hence! You heard my proclamation long
ago condemning him to exile.

Hippolytus: Whoso of them doth lay a hand on me shall rue it; thyself
expel me, if thy spirit move thee, from the land.

Theseus: I will, unless my word thou straight obey; no pity for thy
exile steals into my heart. (Theseus goes in. The central doors of
the palace are closed.)

Hippolytus: The sentence then, it seems, is passed. Ah, misery! How
well I know the truth herein, but know no way to tell it! O daughter
of Latona, dearest to me of all deities, partner, comrade in the chase,
far from glorious Athens must I fly. Farewell, city and land of Erechtheus;
farewell, Troezen, most joyous home wherein to pass the spring of
life; 'tis my last sight of thee, farewell! Come, my comrades in this
land, young like me, greet me kindly and escort me forth, for never
will ye behold a purer soul, for all my father's doubts. (Hippolytus
departs. Many follow him.)

Chorus: (singing, strophe 1)

In very deed the thoughts I have about the gods, whenso they come
into my mind, do much to soothe its grief, but though I cherish secret
hopes of some great guiding will, yet am I at fault when survey the
fate and doings of the sons of men; change succeeds to change, and
man's life veers and shifts in endless restlessness.

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