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Hippolytus (1084-1166)

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Ho! servants, drag him hence! You heard
my proclamation long ago condemning him to exile.
Hippolytus
Whoso of them doth lay a hand on me shall rue it; thyself expel me, if thy spirit move thee, from the land.
Theseus
I will, unless my word thou straight obey; no pity for thy exile steals into my heart. [Exit Theseus.
Hippolytus
The sentence then, it seems, is passed. Ah, misery I How well I know the truth herein, but know no way to tell it! O daughter of Latona, dearest to me of all deities, partner, comrade in the chase, far from glorious Athens must I fly. Farewell, city
and land of Erechtheus; farewell, Troezen, most joyous home wherein to pass the spring of life; tis my last sight of thee, farewell!
Come, my comrades in this land, young like me, greet me kindly and escort me forth,
for never will ye behold a purer soul, for all my fathers doubts. [Exit Hippolytus.
1102
Chorus
In very deed the thoughts I have about the gods, whenso they come into my mind, do much to soothe its grief, but though I cherish secret hopes of some great guiding will, yet am I at fault when I survey the fate and doings of the sons of men;
change succeeds to change, and mans life veers and shifts in endless restlessness.
1111
Chorus
Fortune grant me this, I pray, at heavens hand,—a happy lot in life and a soul from sorrow free;
opinions let me hold not too precise nor yet too hollow; but, lightly changing my habits to each morrow as it comes, may I thus attain a life of bliss!
1120
Chorus
For now no more is my mind free from doubts, unlooked-for sights greet my vision; for lo! I see the morning star of Athens, eye of Hellas, driven by his fathers fury
to another land. Mourn, ye sands of my native shores, ye oak-groves on the hills, where with his fleet hounds he would hunt the quarry
to the death,
attending on Dictynna, awful queen.
1131
Chorus
No more will he mount his car drawn by Venetian steeds, filling the course round Limna with the prancing[*] of his trained horses. Nevermore in his fathers house shall he wake the Muse
that never slept beneath his lute-strings; no hand will crown the spots where rests the maiden Latona mid the boskage deep; nor evermore shall our virgins vie to win thy love, now thou art banished;
1142
Chorus
while I with tears at thy unhappy fate shall endure a lot all undeserved. Ah! hapless mother,
in vain didst thou bring forth, it seems. I am angered with the gods; out upon them! O ye linked Graces, why are ye sending from his native land this poor youth, a guiltless sufferer,
far from his home?
1151
Chorus
But lo! I see a servant of Hippolytus hasting with troubled looks towards the palace.
Messenger
Ladies, [*]where may I find Theseus, king of the country? pray, tell me if
ye know; is he within the palace here?
Chorus
Lo! himself approaches from the palace.
Messenger
Theseus, I am the bearer of troublous tidings to thee and all citizens who dwell in Athens or the bounds of Troezen.
Theseus
How now? hath some strange calamity overtaken these two neighbouring cities?
Messenger
In one brief word, Hippolytus is dead. Tis true one slender thread still links him to the light of life.
Theseus
Who slew him? Did some husband come to blows with him,
one whose wife, like mine, had suffered brutal violence?
Messenger
He perished through those steeds that drew his chariot, and through the curses thou didst utter, praying to thy sire, the ocean-king, to slay thy son.

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