Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Antigone: Ah! how proud and terrible his mien! like to an earth-born
giant he moves, with stars engraved upon his targe, resembling not
a child of earth.

Old Servant: Dost see yon chieftain crossing Dirce's stream?

Antigone: His harness is quite different. Who is that?

Old Servant: Tydeus, the son of Oeneus; true Aetolian spirit fires
his breast.

Antigone: Is this he, old man, who wedded a sister of the wife of
Polyneices? What a foreign look his armour has! a half-barbarian he!

Old Servant: Yes, my child; all Aetolians carry shields, and are most
unerring marksmen with their darts.

Antigone: How art thou so sure of these descriptions, old man?

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