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798 Euripides [1401-1419]<br />

HlPPOLYTUS<br />

Ah me! now know I the goddess who destroyed me.<br />

ARTEMIS<br />

She was jealous of her slighted honour, vexed at thy chaste life. 1<br />

HlPPOLYTUS<br />

Ah! then I see her single hand hath struck down three of us.<br />

ARTEMIS<br />

Thy sire and thee, and last thy father's wife.<br />

HlPPOLYTUS<br />

My sire's ill-luck as well as mine I mourn.<br />

ARTEMIS<br />

He was deceived by a goddess's design.<br />

HlPPOLYTUS<br />

Woe is thee, my father, in this sad mischance!<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

My son, I am a ruined man; life has no joys for me.<br />

HlPPOLYTUS<br />

For this mistake I mourn thee rather than myself.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

O that I had died for thee, my son!<br />

HlPPOLYTUS<br />

Ah! those fatal gifts thy sire Poseidon gave.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

Would God these lips had never uttered that prayer!<br />

HlPPOLYTUS<br />

Why not? thou wouldst in any case have slain me in thy fury then.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

Yes; Heaven had perverted my power to think.<br />

HlPPOLYTUS<br />

O that the race of men could bring a curse upon the gods!<br />

ARTEMIS<br />

Enough! for though thou pass to gloom beneath the earth, the wrath<br />

of Cypris shall not, at her will, fall on thee unrequited, because thou hadst

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