All 18 Uses of
perish
in
Medea by Euripides - (translated by: T.A. Buckley)
- But Medea, on the point of being banished from Corinth by Creon, having asked to remain one day, and having obtained her wish, sends to Glauce, by the hands of her sons, presents, as an acknowledgment for the favor, a robe and a golden chaplet, which she puts on and perishes; Creon also having embraced his daughter is destroyed.†
- We perish then, if to the old we shall add a new ill, before the former be exhausted.†
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- Yet may he not perish, for he is my master, yet he is found to be treacherous toward his friends.†
- (within) Wretch that I am, and miserable on account of my misfortunes, alas me! would I might perish!†
- O ye accursed children of a hated mother, may ye perish with your father, and may the whole house fall.†
- Thankless may he perish who desires not to assist his friends, having unlocked the pure treasures of his mind; never shall he be friend to me.†
- Let him perish then, since, as you say, he is a bad man.†
- I perish, and in addition to this am I banished from this land.†
- [22] And if she take the ornaments and place them round her person, she shall perish miserably, and every one who shall touch the damsel; with such charms will I anoint the presents.†
- For neither shall he ever hereafter behold the children he had by me alive, nor shall he raise a child by his new wedded wife, since it is fated that the wretch should wretchedly perish by my spells.†
- But now this pleasing thought hath indeed perished; for deprived of you I shall pass a life of misery, and bitter to myself.†
- And now the chaplet is on her head, and the bride is perishing in the robes; of this I am well assured.†
- I also have something to say to these words of thine at least; but be not hasty, my friend; but tell me how they perished, for twice as much delight wilt thou give me if they died miserably.†
- The care of thy children perishes in vain, and in vain hast thou produced a dear race, O thou who didst leave the most inhospitable entrance of the Cyanean rocks, the Symplegades.†
- I know not, dearest brother, for we perish.†
- …down with death by thine own hand the fair crop of children which thou producedst thyself? one indeed I hear of, one woman of those of old, who laid violent hands on her children, Ino, maddened by the Gods when the wife of Jove sent her in banishment from her home; and she miserable woman falls into the sea through the impious murder of her children, directing her foot over the sea-shore, and dying with her two sons, there she perished! what then I pray can be more dreadful than this?†
- Mayest thou perish! but I am now wise, not being so then when I brought thee from thy house and from a foreign land to a Grecian habitation, a great pest, traitress to thy father and the land that nurtured thee.†
- My sons, how did ye perish by your father's fault!†
Definition:
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(perish) to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to existeditor's notes: You may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen.