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Chorus
What is their quest? Are they anxious, tell me, to obtain an audience of the state?
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What is their quest? Are they anxious, tell me, to obtain an audience of the state?
95
Iolaus
That so they may escape surrender, nor be tom with violence from thy altars, and brought to Argos.
That so they may escape surrender, nor be tom with violence from thy altars, and brought to Argos.
Copreus
Nay, this will nowise satisfy thy masters,
who o’er thee have a right, and so have tracked thee hither.
100
Nay, this will nowise satisfy thy masters,
who o’er thee have a right, and so have tracked thee hither.
100
Chorus
Stranger, ’tis but right we should reverence the gods’ suppliants, suffering none with violent hand to make them
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leave the altars, for that will dread Justice ne’er permit.
Stranger, ’tis but right we should reverence the gods’ suppliants, suffering none with violent hand to make them
1
leave the altars, for that will dread Justice ne’er permit.
Copreus
Do thou then drive these subjects of Eurystheus forth, and this hand of mine shall abstain from violence.
105
Do thou then drive these subjects of Eurystheus forth, and this hand of mine shall abstain from violence.
105
Chorus
’Twere impious for the state to neglect the suppliant stranger’s prayer.
’Twere impious for the state to neglect the suppliant stranger’s prayer.
Copreus
Yet ’tis well to keep clear of troubles,
by adopting that counsel, which is the wiser.
110
Yet ’tis well to keep clear of troubles,
by adopting that counsel, which is the wiser.
110
Heracleidae. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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