Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Polyneices: Yet to gain our ends we must submit against our nature.

Jocasta: Hope, they say, is the exile's food.

Polyneices: Aye, hope that looks so fair; but she is ever in the future.

Jocasta: But doth not time expose her futility?

Polyneices: She hath a certain winsome charm in misfortune.

Jocasta: Whence hadst thou means to live, ere thy marriage found it
for thee?

Polyneices: One while I had enough for the day, and then maybe I had
it not.

Jocasta: Did not thy father's friends and whilom guests assist thee?

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