Euripides' ALCESTIS Complete

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

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Third Elder: 'Tis rare in the world! God send
Such bride in my house to be;
She should live life to the end,
Not fail through me.

[As the song ceases there enters a stranger, walking strongly, but travel-stained, dusty, and tired. His lion-skin and club show him to be Heracles.]

Heracles: Ho, countrymen! To Pherae am I come
By now? And is Admetus in his home?

Leader: Our King is in his house, Lord Heracles.--
But say, what need brings thee in days like these
To Thessaly and Pherae's walled ring?

Heracles: A quest I follow for the Argive King.

Leader: What prize doth call thee, and to what far place?

Heracles: The horses of one Diomede, in Thrace.

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