Euripides' SUPPLIANTS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Adrastus: Where wilt thou set the tomb apart for him?

Theseus: Here near this temple have I builded him a sepulchre.

Adrastus: Thy thralls forthwith must undertake this toil.

Theseus: Myself will look to those others; let the biers advance.

Adrastus: Approach your sons, unhappy mothers.

Theseus: This thy proposal, Adrastus, is anything but good.

Adrastus: Must not the mothers touch their sons?

Theseus: It would kill them to see how they are altered.

Adrastus: 'Tis bitter, truly, to see the dead even at the moment of
death.

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