This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Table of Contents:
Andromache
sung
O husband, husband, Priam's son, would that I could gain your hand [525] and spear as allies! Boy
sung
Unhappy mother, what song to ward off death shall I find? Andromache
sung
Plead with your master, [530] touching his knees, my child. He kneels before Menelaus.
Boy
sung
Dear friend, dear friend, spare my life! Andromache
sung
I bathe my eyes in tears, I weep like the sunless spring on a smooth cliff. Boy
sung
[535] O alas! How long must I suffer pain?
Euripides. Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. forthcoming.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com