Euripides' ALCESTIS Complete

Translated by Gilbert Murray. - Cf. An Introduction to Euripides' Alcestis by Murray

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Alcestis (giving the children into his arms one after the other).
On that oath take my daughter: and my son.

Admetus: Dear hand that gives, I accept both gift and vow.

Alcestis: Thou, in my place, must be their mother now.

Admetus: Else were they motherless--I needs must try.

Alcestis: My babes, I ought to live, and lo, I die.

Admetus: And how can I, forlorn of thee, live on?

Alcestis: Time healeth; and the dead are dead and gone.

Admetus: Oh, take me with thee to the dark below,
Me also!

Alcestis: 'Tis enough that one should go.

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