All 16 Uses
exile
in
Medea, by Euripides
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- MEDEA I accept mine exile.†
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- For one day only leave me in thy land At peace, to find some counsel, ere the strain Of exile fall, some comfort for these twain, Mine innocents; since others take no thought, It seems, to save the babes that they begot.†
- It lay So plain for him to kill my whole essay By exile swift: and, lo, he sets me free This one long day: wherein mine haters three Shall lie here dead, the father and the bride And husband mine, not hers!†
- But for these Dark threats cast out against the majesties Of Corinth, count as veriest gain thy path Of exile.†
- Many a lesser ill Hangs on the heels of exile......Aye, and though Thou hate me, dream not that my heart can know Or fashion aught of angry will to thee.†
- Oh, therefore hast thou laid My crown upon me, blest of many a maid In Hellas, now I have won what all did crave, Thee, the world— wondered lover and the brave; Who this day looks and sees me banished, thrown Away with these two babes, all, all, alone ...Oh, merry mocking when the lamps are red: " Where go the bridegroom's babes to beg their bread In exile, and the woman who gave all To save him?†
- When first I stood in Corinth, clogged with ill From many a desperate mischance, what bliss Could I that day have dreamed of, like to this, To wed with a king's daughter, I exiled And beggared?†
exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
- Aye, mock me; thou hast where to lay thine head, But I go naked to mine exile.†
- If thou wilt take from all that I possess Aid for these babes and thine own helplessness Of exile, speak thy bidding.†
- Yet will I make one prayer, That my two children be no more exiled But stay......Oh, not that I would leave a child Here upon angry shores till those have laughed Who hate me: 'tis that I will slay by craft The king's daughter.†
exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
- Then, leaving Jason childless, and the day As night above him, I will go my road To exile, flying, flying from the blood Of these my best-beloved, and having wrought All horror, so but one thing reach me not, The laugh of them that hate us.†
- Know I not we are but exiles, and must go Beggared and friendless else?†
- Seeing it is the king's behest To cast me out from Corinth ...aye, and best, Far best, for me I know it not to stay Longer to trouble thee and those who sway The realm, being held to all their house a foe......Behold, I spread my sails, and meekly go To exile.†
- My children, go Forth into those rich halls, and, bowing low, Beseech your father's bride, whom I obey, Ye be not, of her mercy, cast away Exiled: and give the caskets above all Mark this!†
exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
- And I go my way To other lands, an exile, ere you bring Your fruits home, ere I see you prospering Or know your brides, or deck the bridal bed, All flowers, and lift your torches overhead.†
- And accept these robes they bear As gifts: and beg thy father to unmake His doom of exile on them for my sake.†
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)