Euripides' SUPPLIANTS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Theseus: Mother mine, why weepest thou, drawing o'er thine eyes thy
veil? Is it because thou didst hear their piteous lamentations? To
my own heart it goes. Raise thy silvered head, weep not where thou
sittest at the holy altar of Demeter.

Aethra: Ah woe!

Theseus: 'Tis not for thee their sorrows to lament.

Aethra: Ye hapless dames!

Theseus: Thou art not of their company.

Aethra: May I a scheme declare, my son, that shall add to thy glory
and the state's?

Theseus: Yea, for oft even from women's lips issue wise counsels.

Aethra: Yet the word, that lurks within my heart, makes me hesitate.

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