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Andromache (1155-1222)

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once so fair, was marred with savage wounds. At last they cast the lifeless clay, lying near the altar, forth from the fragrant fane. And we gathered up his remains forthwith and are bringing them to thee,
old prince, to mourn and weep and honour with a deep-dug tomb.
This is how that prince who vouchsafeth oracles to others, that judge of what is right for all the world, hath revenged himself on Achilles’ son, remembering his ancient quarrel as a wicked man would.
How then can he be wise? Exit Messenger. The body of Neoptolemus is carried in on a bier.
1166
Chorus
Lo! E’en now our prince is being carried on a bier from Delphi’s land unto his home. Woe for him and his sad fate, and woe for thee, old sire! for this is not the welcome thou wouldst give Achilles’ son,
the lion’s whelp; thyself too by this sad mischance[*] dost share his evil lot.
1173
Peleus
Ah! woe is me! here is a sad sight for me to see and take unto my halls!
Ah me! ah me! I am undone, thou city of Thessaly! My line now ends; I have no children left me in my home. Oh! the sorrows I seem born to endure! What
friend can I look to for relief? Ah, dear lips, and cheeks, and hands! Would thy destiny had slain thee ’neath Ilium’s walls beside the banks of Simois!
1184
Chorus
Had he so died, my aged lord, he had won him honour thereby,
and thine had been the happier lot.
1186
Peleus
O marriage, marriage, woe to thee! thou bane of my home, thou destroyer[*] of my city! Ah my child, my boy! would[*] that the honour of wedding thee,
fraught with
evil as it was to my children and house, had not thrown oer thee, my son, Hermiones deadly net! O that the thunderbolt had slain her sooner! and that thou, rash mortal, hadst never charged
the great god Phoebus with aiming that murderous shaft that spilt thy hero-fathers blood![*]
1197
Chorus
Woe! woe! alas! With due observance of funeral rites will I begin the mourning for my dead master.
Peleus
Alack and well-a-day! I take up the tearful dirge, ah me! old and wretched as I am.
Chorus
’Tis Heaven’s decree; God willed this heavy stroke.
Peleus
O darling child,
thou hast left me all alone in my halls,[*] old and childless by thy loss.
Chorus
Thou shouldst have died, old sire, before thy children.
Peleus
Shall I not tear my hair,
and smite upon my head with grievous blows? O city! of both my children[*] hath Phoebus robbed me.
1214
Chorus
What evils thou hast suffered, what sorrows thou hast seen, thou poor old man!
what shall be thy life hereafter?
Peleus
Childless, desolate, with no limit to my grief, I must drain the cup of woe, until I die.
Chorus
’Twas all in vain the gods wished thee joy on thy wedding day.[*]
Peleus
All my hopes have flown away,
fallen short of my high boasts.
Chorus
A lonely dweller in a lonely home art thou.
Peleus
I have no city any longer;[*] there! on the ground
my sceptre do I cast; and thou, daughter of Nereus, neath thy dim grotto,

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