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Heracleidae (680-725)

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Refs {'start': {'reference': '680', 'human_reference': 'Line 680'}, 'end': {'reference': '725', 'human_reference': 'Line 725'}}
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I also will go with thee; for I like thee am minded, so it seems, to be there and help my friends.
Servant (of Hyllus)
It least of all becomes thee thus to utter words of folly.
Iolaus
Far less to shrink from sharing with my friends the stubborn fight.
Servant (of Hyllus)
Mere looks can wound no one, if the arm do naught.
Iolaus
Why, cannot I smite even through their shields?
Servant (of Hyllus)
Smite perhaps, more likely be smitten thyself.
Iolaus
No foe will dare to meet me face to face.
Servant (of Hyllus)
Friend, the strength, that erst was thine, is thine no more,
Iolaus
Well, at any rate, I will fight with as many as ever I did.
Servant (of Hyllus)
Small the weight thou canst throw into the balance for thy friends.
Iolaus
Detain me not, when I have girded myself for action.
Servant (of Hyllus)
The power to act is thine no more, the will maybe is there.
Iolaus
Stay here I will not, say what else[*] thou wilt
Servant (of Hyllus)
How shalt thou show thyself before the troops unarmed?
Iolaus
There be captured arms within this shrine; these will I use, and, if I live, restore; and, if I am slain, the god will not demand them of me back. Go thou within, and from its peg take down a suit of armour and forthwith bring it to me.
To linger thus at home is infamous, while some go fight, and others out of cowardice remain behind. [Exit Servant.
702
Chorus
Not yet hath time laid low thy spirit, tis young as ever; but thy bodys strength is gone. Why toil to no purpose?
Twill do thee hurt and benefit our city little. At thy age thou shouldst confess thy error and let impossibilities alone. Thou canst in no way get thy vigour back again.
709
Alcmena
What means this mad resolve
to leave me with my children undefended here?
Iolaus
Men must fight; and thou must look to them.
Alcmena
And what if thou art slain? what safety shall I find?
Iolaus
Thy sons surviving children will care for thee.
Alcmena
Suppose they meet with some reverse? which Heaven forefend!
Iolaus
These strangers will not give thee up, fear not.
Alcmena
They are my last and only hope, I have no other.
Iolaus
Zeus too, I feel sure, cares for thy sufferings.
Alcmena
Ah! of Zeus will I never speak ill, but himself doth know, whether he is just to me.
Servant (of Hyllus)
Lo! here thou seest a full coat of mail; make haste to case thyself therein; for the strife is nigh, and bitterly doth Ares loathe loiterers; but if thou fear the weight of the armour, go for the present without it, and in the ranks
do on this gear; meantime will I carry it.

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