EURIPIDES
shall be dumb in his father's house.
The haunts of the Goddess Maid
in the deep rich meadow shall want their crowns.
You are banished: there's an end	1140
of the rivalry of maids for your love.
epode
But my sorrow shall not die,
still my eyes shall be wet with tears
for your heartless doom.
Sad mother, you bore him in vain:	1145
I am angry against the Gods.
Sister Graces, why did you let him go
guiltless, out of his native land,
out of his father's house?	1150
But here I see Hippolytus' servant,
in haste making for the house, his face sorrowful.
scene VI
(Enter a Messenger.)
Messenger
Where shall I go to find King Theseus, women?
If you know, tell me. Is he within doors?	1155
Chorus
Here he is coming out.
Messenger
King Theseus,
I bring you news worthy of much thought
for you and all the citizens who live
in Athens' walls and boundaries of Troezen.
Theseus
What is it? Has some still newer disaster	1160
seized my two neighboring cities?
Messenger
Hippolytus is dead: I may almost say dead:
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