Medea by Euripides (translated by: G. Theodoridis)

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All the gods and I and the whole generation of men abhor you!†

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Curse your wretched, abominable house!†

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There, where she adorns her hair with the sweet rose-scented garland and, they also say, she sends Eros to keep company with Wisdom, to be his aid for ever and in every virtue.†

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An elderly servant thought it was some ailment or other, delivered to the Princess by Pan or some other god, so she began to scream all sorts of prayers.†

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What I believe, for example is the more eloquent the misfit the greater the punishment he deserves because, thinking that his eloquence and pretty words will get him out of any injustice, he has the audacity to commit even greater evil.†

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I shall think of you as one of my friends and benefactors from now on.†

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Medea: I hope you'll always be happy and that you succeed in your endeavours.†

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Now, they're lying there, two corpses, a father and a daughter, side by side, a most hideous death, a death, worthy of the deepest grief.†

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Sure, a foreigner must accept all the customs of his new city but I cannot praise the man who's local-born who, due to his enormous insolence and immaturity, hurts bitterly his fellow citizens.†

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Alive, even though you've committed this most loathsome deed!†

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That melancholy of hers seems to deepen by the minute!†

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What a naïve idiot I was not to have suspected anything!†

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Medea: Which god or spirit will listen to you, Jason, a perjurer who dishonours the strangers?†

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This is not what I'm begging you for... Creon: You're persistently begging me about something!†

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I'll also beg him to let my children stay here, not because I want them left here as objects of ridicule but so that I can use my cunning to murder the King's daughter!†

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Jason was lured by the royal bed and here my mistress cries all and is wasting away, not a drop of solace from any friends and completely shut off from the world.†

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This trepidation has only just started and it's still a long way from half way.†

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Creon: My heart is not at all tyrannical and I have suffered much because I am a compassionate man.†

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Add to that the wrath of the gods, which will fall most heavily upon such a man's house and destroy him.†