All 5 Uses of
perpetrator
in
Medea by Euripides - (translated by: T.A. Buckley)
- But how, having darted thine eyes upon thy children, wilt thou endure the perpetration of the murder without tears?†
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- Alas! alas! do not thou then, my soul, do not thou at least perpetrate this.†
- [At all events they must die, and since they must, I who brought them into the world will perpetrate the deed.†
- O thou, that hast impiously perpetrated a deed of terror, Medea, fly, fly, leaving neither the ocean chariot,[35] nor the car whirling o'er the plain.†
- But I came to preserve my children's life, lest [Creon's] relations by birth do any injury,[42] avenging the impious murder perpetrated by their mother.†
Definition:
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(perpetrator) someone who has does something wrong -- usually something illegal