Sophocles' TRACHINIAE Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Page 54

Hyllus: Alas, my father, what hast thou spoken? How hast thou dealt
with me!

Heracles: I have spoken that which thou must perform; if thou wilt
not, then get thee some other sire, and be called my son no more!

Hyllus: Woe, woe is me! What a deed dost thou require of me, my father,-that
I should become thy murderer, guilty of thy blood!

Heracles: Not so, in truth, but healer of my sufferings, sole physician
of my pain!

Hyllus: And how, by enkindling thy body, shall I heal it?

Heracles: Nay, if that thought dismay thee, at least perform the rest.

Hyllus: The service of carrying thee shall not be refused.

Heracles: And the heaping of the pyre, as I have bidden?

Hyllus: Yea, save that I will not touch it with mine own hand. All
else will I do, and thou shalt have no hindrance on my part.

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