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But all the people lifted up a cry of astounded grief when they saw that the one was frenzied, and the other destroyed;
and no one dared to approach the man. For he convulsed down to the ground and up into the air as he shouted and cried out. All around the cliffs resounded, both the steep headlands of
Locris
and the Euboean capes. But when he was exhausted with repeatedly
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throwing himself on the ground in his anguish and repeatedly shouting with howls of grief, as he dwelled on his ill-mated marriage with miserable you and his alliance with Oeneus, which, he said, he got for himself as the ruin of his life, then from out of the shrouding altar-smoke
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he raised his wildly-rolling eyes and saw me weeping among his many troops. He stared at me and called me: “O my son, come to me. Do not fly from my trouble, not even if you have to share my death. Come, lift me up and away and above all put me
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in a place where no one can see me. But if you have pity, at least carry me in all speed away from this country so that I may not die here.” When he had laid this command on me, we put him onboard ship and brought him just barely to this land,
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while he moaned in his convulsions. And you shall soon see him, either alive or freshly dead.
Such, Mother, are the designs and deeds against my father of which you have been found guilty. May Punishing Justice and the Erinys punish you for them! Yes, if it be right, that is my prayer.
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Right it is, for to my eyes you have rejected the right by killing the best and bravest of men in all the world, whose equal you will never see again.
Deianeira moves towards the house.
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But all the people lifted up a cry of astounded grief when they saw that the one was frenzied, and the other destroyed;
and no one dared to approach the man. For he convulsed down to the ground and up into the air as he shouted and cried out. All around the cliffs resounded, both the steep headlands of
Locris
and the Euboean capes. But when he was exhausted with repeatedly
785
throwing himself on the ground in his anguish and repeatedly shouting with howls of grief, as he dwelled on his ill-mated marriage with miserable you and his alliance with Oeneus, which, he said, he got for himself as the ruin of his life, then from out of the shrouding altar-smoke
790
he raised his wildly-rolling eyes and saw me weeping among his many troops. He stared at me and called me: “O my son, come to me. Do not fly from my trouble, not even if you have to share my death. Come, lift me up and away and above all put me
795
in a place where no one can see me. But if you have pity, at least carry me in all speed away from this country so that I may not die here.” When he had laid this command on me, we put him onboard ship and brought him just barely to this land,
800
while he moaned in his convulsions. And you shall soon see him, either alive or freshly dead.
Such, Mother, are the designs and deeds against my father of which you have been found guilty. May Punishing Justice and the Erinys punish you for them! Yes, if it be right, that is my prayer.
805
Such, Mother, are the designs and deeds against my father of which you have been found guilty. May Punishing Justice and the Erinys punish you for them! Yes, if it be right, that is my prayer.
Right it is, for to my eyes you have rejected the right by killing the best and bravest of men in all the world, whose equal you will never see again.
Deianeira moves towards the house.
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Trachiniae. Sophocles. Richard Jebb (Translator). Cambridge. 1892.
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