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| Medea by Euripides, speaker:Jason |
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Definition
| 1. O bed-mate of mine, is this how you welcome your husband home? Is this how you greet the face of the man for whom you have waited for so long? |
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| The Braggart Soldier by Plautus, speaker: Pyrgopolynices |
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| Look lively-shine a shimmer on that shield of mine surpassing sunbeams-when there are no clouds, of course. |
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| Medea by Euripides, speaker:Jason |
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Definition
| The human race should produce children from some other source and a female sex should not exist. Then mankind would be free from every evil. |
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| Electra by Euripides, speaker:Electra |
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Definition
| But my father's blood still rots black in the house and the man who killed him mounts his victim's chariot to ride abroad. |
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| Lysistrata by Aristophanes, speaker: Lampito |
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Definition
| But how shall we persuade our Spartan husbands to keep the peace without duplicitous guile? And who could hope to persuade the Athenian rabble to keep its mind fixed on negotiations? |
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| The Haunted House by Plautus, speaker: Tranio |
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Definition
| Quiet, will you? I'll dream up some remedy. Look-will it suffice you if I see your now-arriving father doesn't set foot in this house and even rushes far from it? |
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| Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, speaker: Chorus-daughters of Oceanus |
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Definition
| Well, don't benefit mortals beyond the proper measure while neglecting yourself when you are in distress. I am confident that you will yet be released from these bonds and be no less powerful than Zeus. |
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| Phaedra by Seneca, speaker:Theseus |
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| Hercules stroked the ponderous necks of beast with his hand as he bound it with adamantine chains. |
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| The Braggart Soldier by Plautus, speaker: Palaestrio |
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Definition
| When he comes out, be hesitant-don't come to close. Act as if you're too ashamed to place your beauty near his own. |
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| The Persians by Aeschylus, speaker: Ghost of Darius |
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Definition
| Ah, how swiftly the oracles have come true! Zeus has launched the fulfillment of the prophecies against my son. |
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| Birds by Aristophanes, speaker Peisetairos |
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Definition
| Enough, to hell with you! Don't call anymore. You must be crazy, inviting all these vultures when we've got so little meat for sacrifice. |
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| Lysistrata by Plautus, speaker: Lysistrata |
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Definition
| For quite some time we've seen your faults, yet suffered them in silence. We tolerated everything decided by our husbands. You wouldn't let us grumble, yet your actions didn't please us. |
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| Medea by Euripides, speaker: Medea |
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Definition
| If you have need of me, speak if you wish, but you shall never lay a hand on me. Such is the chariot of the Sun, father of my father, has given me to defend me against my enemies' hands. |
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| Helen by Euripides, speaker: Helen |
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Definition
| O miserable Troy, it is because of deeds never done that you met destruction and endured much sorrow. Cypris' gift of m gave birth to much blood. |
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| Electra by Euripides, speaker:Clymenestra |
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Definition
| My child, your instinct has always been to love your father. This is the way of things. |
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| Medea by Euripides, speaker: Chorus of Corinthian women |
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Definition
| I wish that she could come to see us and listen to the tone of our words as we offer them. Perhaps she might then free her heart from its mood of dangerous passion. |
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| Helen by Euripides, speaker: Menelaos |
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Definition
| Young lady, you know what you have to do. You must be content with the husband who is here before your eyes and bid farewell to the one who is no more. |
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| Lysistrata by Plautus, speaker: Lysistrata |
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Definition
| The female sex! Sheer lustfulness, that's us! No wonder they write such tragedies about us! Our lives are simply full of sex and intrigue. |
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| Phaedra by Seneca, speaker: Phaedra |
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Definition
| Ah, I recognize the evil inherited from my wretched mother. Adultery in the woods is a brand of love my family knows too well. |
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| The Suppliants by Aeschylus,speaker:Chorus- Daughters of Danaus |
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Definition
| May Lord Zeus deprive us of a hateful marriage to men who are foes-he who gave lo a good release from her sufferings, restraining her with his healing hand, making force kindly-and may he give victory to women. |
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| The Haunted House by Plautus, speaker: Tranio |
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Definition
| Oh, was that you who called? Dear gods above, I though it was the dead man speaking, perhaps to ask me why you dared to touch the door. |
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| Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, speaker: Prometheus |
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Definition
| Here, what is this? Have you come to be a spectator of my sufferings? |
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| Phaedra by Seneca, speaker: Hyppolytus |
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Definition
| No life is more free, more pure, more faithful to the righteous ways of our ancestors than one devoted to the woods far removed from city walls. |
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| Birds by Aristophanes, Chorus of birds |
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Definition
| Treacherous always, in all respects, is human nature. Still, let's hear your case. Perhaps you'll draw attention to an asset, or some great power of mine, neglected by me through lack of insight. |
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| Medea by Euripides, speaker: Jason |
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Definition
| A hateful marriage it proved and it has destroyed me. You are no woman but a lioness, more savage by nature than Etruscan Scylla. |
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| Electra by Euripides, speaker: Orestes |
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Definition
| Did you see how the wretched woman tugged her breast from her robes and showed it as I killed her-oh, woe, woe-as she set the limbs which gave me birth on the ground? Faintness drained me. |
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| The Braggart Soldier by Plautus, speaker: Pyrgopolynices |
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Definition
| Till today I always though he was the very worst of slaves. Now I see he was devoted to me. When I think it over, I was foolish giving him away. |
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| Trojan Women by Seneca, speaker: Chorus of Trojan women |
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