Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Polyneices: Nay, question me, leave naught unsaid; for thy will, mother,
is my pleasure too.

Jocasta: Well then, first I ask thee what I long to have answered.
What means exile from one's country? is it a great evil?

Polyneices: The greatest; harder to bear than tell.

Jocasta: What is it like? what is it galls the exile?

Polyneices: One thing most of all; he cannot speak his mind.

Jocasta: This is a slave's lot thou describest, to refrain from uttering
what one thinks.

Polyneices: The follies of his rulers must be bear.

Jocasta: That too is bitter, to join in the folly of fools.

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