Chorus
To Deianeira.
Why do you leave without a word? Do you not know that your silence pleads your accuser's case?
Hyllus
[815]
Let her leave. May a fair wind speed her far from my sight! Why should she falsely keep the dignity of the name “Mother,” when she is all unlike a mother in her deeds? No, let her go—farewell to her. May such delight as
[820]
she gives my father become her own!Exit Deianeira into the house, followed at a distance by Hyllus.
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Sophocles. The Trachiniae of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1892.
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