All 16 Uses
exile
in
Medea, by Euripides (translated by: G. Theodoridis)
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- I heard that king Creon will be sending Medea and these here children into exile.†
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- Let them go into exile just because he has a dispute going with his wife?†
- You are now exiled!†
exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
- Medea: So you'll send me off into exile without the slightest respect to my prayers?†
- Bitter and miserable and I'll make bitter their family and bitterly they will feel my exile from here.†
- They've taken your wedding bed away and then, dishonoured and fate-stricken they send you into exile.†
- Exile!†
- Exile!†
- Exile carries enough hardship as it is.†
- Me, as I am going off into exile alone, with my children!†
- Medea: I'm absolutely devastated and still they are sending me into exile from here!†
- As an exile, receive me in your home, in your land.†
- Medea: Swear that, for as long as you live, you will not exile me from your land, nor surrender me to my enemies, if they ever ask for me.†
- Can I not realise that I have my own children and that I am an exile from my own, native land and am with no friends?†
- I've already said most of what I brought you here to tell you and what little is left is this: Jason, since the king has decided to exile me, quite rightly too, since I'd only be a terrible nuisance because of our animosity, I'll go but ask Creon to let the children stay here and be brought up by you, by your own hands.†
- You will always be without your mother and I will now leave for another country, exiled, before I enjoy you, before I see your joy, before I see your weddings, before I dress your brides, before I fix your wedding beds before I hold your wedding candles!†
exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
Definitions:
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(1)
(exile) to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)