THE MOEDEA
But you will not give up your folly, continually
Speaking ill of him, and so you are going to be banished.
All the same, and in spite .of your conduct, Fll not desert
My friends, but have come to make some provision for
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So that you and the children may not be penniless
Or in need of anything in exile. Certainly
Exile brings many troubles with it. And even
If you hate me, I cannot think badly of you.
Medea
0 c^ovffidJtausyery,way—that is what I call you, 46 5
With bitterest reproach for youf lack of^manliness^
You have come, you, my worst enemy, have come to me!
It is not an example of overconfidence
Or of boldness thus to look your friends in the face, 470
Friends you have injured—no, it is the worst of all
Human diseases, shamelessness. But you did well
To colnenSr I can speak ill of you and lighten
Mjjjheari, and yo.iTwill suffer while you are listening.
And first I will begin from what happened first. .475
1 saved your life, and every Greek knows I saved it,
Who was a shipmate of yours .aboard the Argo,
When you were sent to control the bulls that breathed
fire
And yoke them, and when you would sow that deadly
field.
Also that snake, who -encircled with his marry folds 480
The Golden Fleece and guarded it and never slept, .
I killed, and so gavej£ou_the .safety qfjie'light.
And I mys&ULbefrayed my father and my home,
And came with you to Pelias' land of lolcus.
And then, showing more willingness to help than wisdom, 48 5
I killed him, Pelias, with a most dreadful death
At his own daughters' hands, and took away your fear.
This is how I behaved to you, youjwretched man,
And you forsook me, took another bride to bed,
Though you had children; for, if that had not been, 490