Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Polyneices: Seek to be prosperous; once let fortune lour, and the
aid supplied by friends is naught.

Jocasta: Did not thy noble breeding exalt thy horn for thee?

Polyneices: Poverty is a curse; breeding would not find me food.

Jocasta: Man's dearest treasure then, it seems, is his country.

Polyneices: No words of thine could tell how dear.

Jocasta: How was it thou didst go to Argos? what was thy scheme?

Polyneices: I know not; the deity summoned me thither in accordance
with my destiny.

Jocasta: He doubtless had some wise design; but how didst thou win
thy wife?

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