Euripides' HIPPOLYTUS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Leader of the Chorus: But lo! I see a servant of Hippolytus hasting
with troubled looks towards the palace. (A Messenger enters.)

Messenger: Ladies, where may I find Theseus, king of the country?
pray, tell me if ye know; is he within the palace here?

Leader: Lo! himself approaches from the palace. (Theseus enters.)

Messenger: Theseus, I am the bearer of troublous tidings to thee and
all citizens who dwell in Athens or the bounds of Troezen.

Theseus: How now? hath some strange calamity o'ertaken these two neighbouring
cities?

Messenger: In one brief word, Hippolytus is dead. 'Tis true one slender
thread still links him to the light of life.

Theseus: Who slew him? Did some husband come to blows with him, one
whose wife, like mine, had suffered brutal violence?

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