Chorus
I heard a bitter cry of lamentation!
loudly, bitterly she calls on the traitor of her marriage bed, her perfidious spouse; by grievous wrongs oppressed she invokes Themis, bride of Zeus, witness of oaths, who brought her
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unto Hellas, the land that fronts the strand of Asia, o’er the sea by night through ocean’s boundless gate.
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Medea. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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