Sophocles' TRACHINIAE Complete

Translated by R. Jebb.

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Heracles: He will render no reverence, it seems, to my dying prayer.-
Nay, be sure that the curse of the gods will attend thee for disobedience
to my voice.

Hyllus: Ah, thou wilt soon show, methinks, how distempered thou art!

Heracles: Yea, for thou art breaking the slumber of my plague.

Hyllus: Hapless that I am! What perplexities surround me!

Heracles: Yea, since thou deignest not to hear thy sire.

Hyllus: But must I learn, then, to be impious, my father?

Heracles: 'Tis not impiety, if thou shalt gladden my heart.

Hyllus: Dost thou command me, then, to do this deed, as a clear duty?

Heracles: I command thee,- the gods bear me witness!

Hyllus: Then will I do it, and refuse not,- calling upon the gods
to witness thy deed. I can never be condemned for loyalty to thee,
my father.

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