Euripides' HERACLEIDAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Iolaus: Sirs, no island life I lead, but from Mycenae to thy land
I come.

Chorus: (chanting) What do they call thee, aged sir, those folk in
Mycenae?

Iolaus: Maybe ye have heard of Iolaus, the comrade of Heracles, for
he was not unknown to fame.

Chorus: (chanting) Yea, I have heard of him in bygone days; but tell
me, whose are the tender boys thou bearest in thine arms?

Iolaus: These, sirs, are the sons of Heracles, come as suppliants
to you and your city.

Chorus: (chanting) What is their quest? Are they anxious, tell me,
to obtain an audience of the state?

Iolaus: That so they may escape surrender, nor be torn with violence
from thy altars, and brought to Argos.

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