Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Eteocles: Mother, the season for parley is past; the time we still
delay is idle waste; thy good wishes are of no avail, for we shall
never be reconciled except upon the terms already named, namely, that
I should keep the sceptre and be king of this land: wherefore cease
these tedious warnings and let me be. (Turning to Polyneices) And
as for thee, outside the walls, or die!

Polyneices: Who will slay me? who is so invulnerable as to plunge
his sword in my body without reaping the self-same fate?

Eteocles: Thou art near him, aye, very near; dost see my arm?

Polyneices: I see it; but wealth is cowardly, a craven too fond of
life.

Eteocles: Was it then to meet a dastard thou camest with all that
host to war?

Polyneices: In a general caution is better than foolhardiness.

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