WIST QuotationsMEDEA: What makes me cry with pain
Is the next thing I have to do. I will kill my sons.
No one shall take my children from me.
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ᾤμωξα δ᾿ οἷον ἔργον ἔστ᾿ ἐργαστέον
τοὐντεῦθεν ἡμῖν· τέκνα γὰρ κατακτενῶ
τἄμ᾿· οὔτις ἔστιν ὅστις ἐξαιρήσεται·]
Is the next thing I have to do. I will kill my sons.
No one shall take my children from me.
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ᾤμωξα δ᾿ οἷον ἔργον ἔστ᾿ ἐργαστέον
τοὐντεῦθεν ἡμῖν· τέκνα γὰρ κατακτενῶ
τἄμ᾿· οὔτις ἔστιν ὅστις ἐξαιρήσεται·]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 791ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]
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Euripides - Medea [Μήδεια], l. 791ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)] | WIST Quotations
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