Medea and Other Plays by Euripides & Rutherford Richard & Davie John

Author:Euripides & Rutherford, Richard & Davie, John [Rutherford, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Greece, Literature, History
Publisher: ePenguin
Published: 2003-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

Then suddenly her father entered the room, unaware, poor man, of what had happened. Flinging himself on her corpse he cried out at once in pain and, folding her in his arms, he kissed her and spoke these words: ‘My girl, my poor girl, which god has brought you to this heartless end? Who has stolen you from me, an old man myself, ready for the grave?

1210 Oh, if only I could share your death, my child!’ When he had ceased his weeping and wailing, he tried to raise his aged frame but he stuck to her fine dress, as ivy clings to laurel branches. His struggles appalled us. Try as he might to lift up a knee, she clung to him and each time he used force to extricate himself, he tore the withered flesh from his own bones. At last the wretched man could strive no more against his awful predicament; he gasped and breathed his last.

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