Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides

Author:Euripides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Drama, Ancient & Classical, General, Literary Collections
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-02-23T05:12:59+00:00

[322–380]

Your country, greatest when in greatest danger, turns

Upon the sneerers her grim glare of hardihood;

While laggard states pursue their dark manoeuvres, cold

With caution, and blink weakly at their enemies.

Will you not go, son, and bring help, first to the dead,

And then to these sad women in their desperate need?

You’ll march with Justice at your side; I have no fear

For you. And though I see Thebes now proud in success,

My trust is, at the next throw she will find the dice

Fall otherwise. The gods stretch greatness in the dust.

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