The Trachiniae

Book Id: WPLBN0000624652
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Trachiniae
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: DEIANEIRA There is a saying among men, put forth of old, that thou canst not rightly judge whether a mortal?s lot is good or evil, ere he die. But I, even before I have passed to the world of death, know well that my life is sorrowful and bitter; I, who in the house of my father Oeneus, while yet I dwelt at Pleuron, had such fear of bridals as never vexed any maiden of Aetolia. For my wooer was a river?god, Achelous, who in three shapes was ever asking me from my sire,? coming now as a bull in bodily form, now as serpent with sheeny coils, now with trunk of man and front of ox, while from a shaggy beard the streams of fountain?water flowed abroad. With the fear of such a suitor before mine eyes, I was always praying in my wretchedness that I might die, or ever I should come near to such a bed.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Trachiniae, 1 -- Sophocles, 1