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[1061-1079] The Suppliants 947<br />

EVADNE<br />

A victory o'er all women on whom the sun looks down.<br />

IPHIS<br />

In Athena's handiwork or in prudent counsel?<br />

EVADNE<br />

In bravery; for I will lay me down and die with my lord.<br />

IPHIS<br />

What dost thou say? What is this silly riddle thou propoundest?<br />

EVADNE<br />

To yonder pyre where lies dead Capaneus, I will leap down.<br />

IPHIS<br />

My daughter, speak not thus before the multitude!<br />

EVADNE<br />

The very thing I wish, that every Argive should learn it.<br />

IPHIS<br />

Nay, I will ne'er consent to let thee do this deed.<br />

EVADNE<br />

'Tis all one; thou shalt never catch me in thy grasp. Lo! I cast me<br />

down, no joy to thee, but to myself and to my husband blazing on the<br />

pyre with me.<br />

(She leaps into the pyre.)<br />

CHORUS {chanting)<br />

O lady, thou hast done a fearful deed!<br />

IPHIS<br />

Ah me! I am undone, ye dames of Argos!<br />

CHORUS {chanting)<br />

Alack, alack! a cruel blow is this to thee, but thou must yet witness, poor wretch<br />

IPHIS<br />

A more unhappy wretch than me ye could not find.<br />

CHORUS (chanting)<br />

Woe for thee, unhappy man! Thou, old sir, hast been made partaker<br />

in the fortune of Oedipus, thou and my poor city too.

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