EURIPIDES
You are something stronger than God if that can be.	360
You have ruined her and me and all this house.
(The Nurse goes off. The Chorus forms into
two half-choruses.)
First Half-chorus
Did you hear, did you hear
the queen crying aloud,
telling of a calamity
which no ear should hear?
Second Half-chorus
I would rather die
than think such thoughts as hers.	365
First Half-chorus
I arn sorry for her trouble.
Second Hdf-chorus
Alas for troubles, man-besetting.
First Half-chorus (turning to Phaedra)
You are dead, you yourself
have dragged your ruin to the light.
What can happen now in the long
dragging stretch of the rest of your days?
Some new thing will befall the house.	370
Chorus (united)
We know now, we know now
how your love will end,
poor unhappy Cretan girl!
Phaedra
Hear me, you women of Troezen who live
in this extremity of land, this anteroom to Argos.
Many a time in night's long empty spaces	375
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