EURIPIDES
Admetus
That is an abject spirit, not a man's.
Pheres
You shall
not mock an old man while you carry out your dead.
Admetus
You will die in evil memory, when you do die, 7.25
Pheres
I do not care what they say of me when I am dead.
Admetus
How old age loses all the sense of shame.
Pheres
She was
not shameless, you found; she was only innocent.
Admetus
Get out of here now and let me bury my dead.
Pheres
I'll go. You murdered her, and you can bury her. 730
But you will have her brothers still to face. You'll pay,
for Acastus is no longer counted as a man
unless he sees you punished for his sister's blood.
Admetus
Go and be damned, you and that woman who lives with
you.
Grow old as you deserve, childless, although your son 735
still lives. You shall not come again under the same roof
with me. And if I had to proclaim by heralds that I
disowned my father's house, I should have so proclaimed.