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(within). Great Themis, and husband
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of Themis, behold what I am suffering now, though I did bind that accursed one, my husband, by strong oaths to me? O, to see him and his bride some day brought to utter destruction, they and their house with them,
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for that they presume to wrong me thus unprovoked. O my father, my country, that I have left to my shame, after slaying my own brother.
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(within). Great Themis, and husband
1
of Themis, behold what I am suffering now, though I did bind that accursed one, my husband, by strong oaths to me? O, to see him and his bride some day brought to utter destruction, they and their house with them,
160
for that they presume to wrong me thus unprovoked. O my father, my country, that I have left to my shame, after slaying my own brother.
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Nurse
Do ye hear her words, how loudly she adjures Themis, oft invoked, and Zeus, whom
men regard as keeper of their oaths? On no mere trifle surely will our mistress spend her rage.
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Do ye hear her words, how loudly she adjures Themis, oft invoked, and Zeus, whom
men regard as keeper of their oaths? On no mere trifle surely will our mistress spend her rage.
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Medea. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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