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Andromache (442-526)

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Not I, but I will give him to my daughter to slay if she will.
Andromache
Ah me! why not begin my mourning then for thee, my child?
Menelaus
Of a truth tis no very sure hope that he has left.
Andromache
O citizens of Sparta, the bane of all the race of men, schemers of guile, and masters in lying, devisers of evil plots, with crooked minds and tortuous methods and neer one honest thought, tis wrong that ye should thrive in Hellas.
What crime is wanting in your list? How rife is murder with you! How covetous ye are! One word upon your lips, another in your heart, this is what men always find with you. Perdition catch ye! Still death is not so grievous, as[*] thou thinkest, to me. No! for my life ended
in the day that hapless Troy was destroyed with my lord, that glorious warrior, whose spear oft made a coward like thee quit the field and seek thy ship. But now against a woman hast thou
displayed the terrors of thy panoply, my would-be murderer. Strike then! for this
my tongue shall never flatter thee or that daughter of thine. For though thou wert of great account in Sparta, why so was I in Troy. And if I am now in sorry plight, presume not thou on this; thou too mayst be so yet.
464
Chorus
Never, oh! never will I commend rival wives or sons[*] of different mothers, a cause of strife, of bitterness, and grief every house. I would have a husband content with one wife whose rights
he shareth with no other.
471
Chorus
Not even in states is dual monarchy better to bear than undivided rule;
it only doubles burdens and causes faction amongst the citizens. Often too will the Muse sow strife twixt rivals[*] in the art of minstrelsy.
479
Chorus
Again, when strong winds are drifting mariners,
the divided counsel of the wise is not conducive to steering, and their collective wisdom has less weight than the inferior intelligence of the single man who has sole authority;[*] for this is the essence of power alike in house and state, wheneer men care to find the proper moment.
486
Chorus
This Spartan, the daughter of the great chief Menelaus, proves this; for she hath kindled hot fury against a rival, and is bent on slaying the hapless Trojan maid
and her child to further her bitter quarrel. Tis a murder gods and laws and kindness all forbid. Ah! lady, retribution for this deed will visit thee yet.
494
Chorus
But lo!
before the house I see those two united souls, condemned to die. Alas! for thee, poor lady, and for thee, unhappy child, who art dying on account of thy mothers marriage, though thou hast no share therein
and canst not be blamed by the royal house.
501
Andromache
Behold me journeying on the downward path, my hands so tightly bound with cords that they bleed.
Molossus
O mother, mother mine! I too share thy
downward path, nestling neath thy wing.
Andromache
A cruel sacrifice! ye rulers of Phthia!
Molossus
Come, father! succour those thou lovest.
Andromache
Rest[*] there, my babe, my darling! on thy mothers bosom, een in death and in the grave.
Molossus
Ah, woe is me! what will become of me and thee too, mother mine?
515
Menelaus
Away, to the world below! from hostile towers ye came, the pair of you; two different causes necessitate your deaths; my sentence takes away thy life, and my daughter Hermiones requires his; for it would be the
height of folly to leave our foemens sons, when we might kill them and remove the danger from our house.
523
Andromache
O husband mine! I would I had thy strong arm and spear
to aid me, son of Priam.
Molossus
Ah, woe is me! what spell can I now find to turn deaths stroke aside?

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