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Andromache (765-825)

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for what avails a fine figure if a man is a coward? Exeunt Peleus, Andromache, and Molossus.
766
Chorus
Oh! to have never been born, or sprung from noble sires, the heir to mansions richly stored;
for if aught untoward eer befall, there is no lack of champions for sons of noble parents, and there is honour and glory for them when they are proclaimed scions of illustrious lines; time detracts not from the legacy these good
men leave, but the light of their goodness still burns on when they are dead.
777
Chorus
Better is it not to win a discreditable victory,
than to make justice miscarry by an invidious exercise of power; for such a victory, though men think it sweet for the moment, grows barren in time and comes very near being a family reproach.
This is the life I commend, this the life. I set before me as my ideal, to exercise no authority beyond what is right either in the marriage-chamber or in the state.
789
Chorus
O aged son of Aeacus!
now am I sure that thou wert with the Lapithae, wielding thy famous spear, when they fought the Centaurs;
and on Argos deck didst pass the cheerless strait beyond the sea-beat Symplegades
on her voyage of note; and when in days long gone the son of Zeus spread slaughter round Troys famous town,
thou too didst share his triumphant return to Europe.
802
Nurse
Alas! good friends, what a succession of troubles is to-day provided us! My mistress Hermione within the house,
deserted by her father and in remorse for her monstrous deed in plotting the death of Andromache and her child, is bent on dying; for she is afraid her husband will in requital for this expel her with dishonour from his house
or put her to death, because she tried to slay the innocent. And the servants that watch her can scarce restrain her efforts to hang herself, scarce catch the sword and wrest it from her hand. So bitter is her anguish,
and she hath recognized the villainy of her former deeds. As for me, friends, I am weary of keeping my mistress from the fatal noose; do ye go in and try to save her life; for if strangers come, they prove more persuasive than the friends of every day.
Chorus
Ah yes! I hear an outcry in the house amongst the servants, confirming the news thou hast brought. Poor sufferer! she seems about to show a lively grief for her grave crimes; for she has escaped her servants hands and is rushing from the house, eager to end her life.
825
Hermione
rushing wildly on to the stage. Woe, woe is me! I will tear my hair and scratch cruel furrows in my cheeks.

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