Euripides' ALCESTIS Complete

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

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Apollo: Go, take her.--I can never move thine heart.

Thanatos: (mocking).
To slay the doomed?--Nay; I will do my part.

Apollo: No. To keep death for them that linger late.

Thanatos: (still mocking).
'Twould please thee, so?... I owe thee homage great.

Apollo: Ah, then she may yet ... she may yet grow old?

Thanatos: (with a laugh).
No!... I too have my rights, and them I hold.

Apollo: 'Tis but one life thou gainest either-wise.

Thanatos: When young souls die, the richer is my prize.

Apollo: Old, with great riches they will bury her.

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