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Monologues

A monologue from the play by Euripides

NOTICE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. ii. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: M. M. Dent Sons, 1922.

OLD MAN: My personal honoured mistress (for along I grieve)

We are betrayed by your perfidious lord

Wronged by premeditated fraud, and cast

Out from Erectheus house: My spouse and i speak not this

Through hatred on your husband, but because

I enjoy you more than him, who also wedding you

When to the town he a stranger came up

Your palace too and whole inheritance

With you obtaining, on various other dame

Seems to have begotten sons by stealth:

Just how twas simply by stealth Sick prove, if he perceived

That you just were barren, he was not really content

To talk about the self-same fate, but on a slave

Whom he embraced in secrecy, begot

And to a few Delphic matron gave this kind of son

That in a international realm he may be nurtured:

He, for the temple of Apollo delivered

Is here educated up in top secret. But the maest?

Soon when he knew the stripling experienced attained

The years of manhood, hath upon you prevailed

Hither to come, because you had no kid.

The the almighty indeed hath spoken truth, not so

Xuthus, who by his infancy hath reared

The youngster, and falsified these reports, that, in the event detected

His crimes may be imputed to the god:

Although coming hither, and by period of time

Hoping to screen the fraudulence, he at this point resolves

He can transfer the sceptre to the stripling

Pertaining to whom by length this individual forges the newest name

Of Ion, to denote that this individual went forth

And fulfilled him. Ah, how do I ever hate

Those wicked males who storyline unrighteous deeds

And then embellish them with delusive art!

Rather would We possess a virtuous friend

Of mean skills, than another wise

And profligate. Of disastrous sot

Yours is the worst, who have to your house declare

Its future god, whose mom is not known

A youth selected coming from th grossier crowd

The base-born concern of a few female slave.

For this got only recently been a single unwell

Had this individual persuaded you, since you will be childless

To adopt, and in your place filed the child

Of some illustrious dame: but if for you

This plan had been disgustful, from the kindred

Of? olus his sire should he have desired

Another consort. Hence could it be incumbent

On you to implement some great vengeance

Worthy of woman: with the elevated sword

Or perhaps by some stratagem or deadly poison

Your husband and his children to give

Ere you by choices murdered: you can expect to lose

Your life if you wait, for once two enemies

Meet in a single house several mischief need to befall

Or perhaps this or that. My spouse and i therefore is going to with you

Partake the danger, and with you conspire

To slay that stripling, entering the abode

Where for the sumptuous banquet he is making

Th accustomed preparing. While I perspective

The sun, and een in death, I will repay

The bounty of people lords who nurtured myself.

For there exists one thing just which confers

Disgrace on slavesthe name, in all beside

No virtuous slave to freeborn soul yields.

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