Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Old Servant: Ah! this is no ordinary home-coming of Polyneices; with
many a knight and clash of countless arms he comes.

Antigone: Are the gates fast barred, and the brazen bolts shot home
into Amphion's walls of stone?

Old Servant: Never fear! all is safe within the town. But mark him
who cometh first, if thou wouldst learn his name.

Antigone: Who is that with the white crest, who marches in the van,
lightly bearing on his arm a buckler all of bronze?

Old Servant: A chieftain, lady-

Antigone: Who is he? whose son? his name? tell me, old man.

Old Servant: Mycenae claims him for her son; in Lerna's glens he dwells,
the prince Hippomedon.

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