EURIPIDES
Medea
He has taken a wife to his house, supplanting me.
Aegeus
Surely he would not dare to do a thing like that. 695
Medea
Be sure he has. Once dear, I now am slighted by him.
Aegeus
Did he fall in love? Or is he tired of your love?
Medea
He was greatly in love, this traitor to his friends.
Aegeus
Then let him go, if, as you say, he is so bad.
Medea
A passionate love—for an alliance with the king. 700
Aegeus
And who gave him his wife? Tell me the rest of it.
Medea
It was Creon, he who rules this land of Corinth.
Aegeus
Indeed, Medea, your grief was understandable.
Medea
I am ruined. And there is more to come: I am banished.
Aegeus
Banished? By whom? Here you tell me of a new wrong, 705
Medea
Creon drives me an exile from the land of Corinth.