All 5 Uses of
vengeance
in
Medea by Euripides - (translated by: E.P. Coleridge)
- LEADER OF THE CHORUS This will I do; for thou wilt be taking a just vengeance on thy husband, Medea.†
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- MEDEA O Zeus, and Justice, child of Zeus, and Sun-god's light, now will triumph o'er my foes, kind friends; on victory's road have I set forth; good hope have I of wreaking vengeance on those I hate.†
- For she must hide beneath the earth or soar on wings towards heaven's vault, if she would avoid the vengeance of the royal house.†
- As for her, those whom she hath wronged will do the like by her; but I am come to save the children's life, lest the victim's kin visit their wrath on me, in vengeance for the murder foul, wrought by my children's mother.†
- JASON Haste, ye slaves, loose the bolts, undo the fastenings, that I may see the sight of twofold woe, my murdered sons and her, whose blood in vengeance I will shed.†
Definition:
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(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)