Euripides' ALCESTIS Complete

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

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Heracles: Not easy? Have they nostrils breathing flame?

Leader: They tear men's flesh; their jaws are swift with blood.

Heracles: Men's flesh! 'Tis mountain wolves', not horses' food!

Leader: Thou wilt see their mangers clogged with blood, like mire.

Heracles: And he who feeds such beasts, who was his sire?

Leader: Ares, the war-lord of the Golden Targe.

Heracles: Enough!--This labour fitteth well my large
Fortune, still upward, still against the wind.
How often with these kings of Ares' kind
Must I do battle? First the dark wolf-man,
Lycaon; then 'twas he men called The Swan;
And now this man of steeds!... Well, none shall see
Alcmena's son turn from his enemy.

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