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Reply 1
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Kings and Queens only do what they want and forget about everyone else!
Oh, how much better it is to live a balanced life: to be an equal among equals.
Me? My wish is to have a quiet, a soft, old age –rather than one full of greatness and wealth. The
wisest words are these: Let moderation hold the pride of place.
Moderation is the most useful thing to man and if man holds something else dearer to moderation, he
will most certainly lose out in the end. Add to that the wrath of the gods, which will fall most heavily
upon such a man’s house and which will destroy him.
Oh, how much better it is to live a balanced life: to be an equal among equals.
Me? My wish is to have a quiet, a soft, old age –rather than one full of greatness and wealth. The
wisest words are these: Let moderation hold the pride of place.
Moderation is the most useful thing to man and if man holds something else dearer to moderation, he
will most certainly lose out in the end. Add to that the wrath of the gods, which will fall most heavily
upon such a man’s house and which will destroy him.
Reply 2
16
Eyes alone are inadequate judges of people. A judgement made without knowing a person well could
result in hating that person, for no reason at all, except for the way he looks.
Sure, a foreigner must accept all the customs of his new city but I cannot praise the man who’s localborn but who, due to ignorance and immaturity, hurts bitterly his fellow citizens
result in hating that person, for no reason at all, except for the way he looks.
Sure, a foreigner must accept all the customs of his new city but I cannot praise the man who’s localborn but who, due to ignorance and immaturity, hurts bitterly his fellow citizens
Reply 3
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Corinthian women, you know that I have to suffer an insufferable thing, a thing that has worn my soul
away. I’m no longer alive!
I refuse all of life’s charms and I seek death. Yes, death, Corinthians, because my husband, who was
my whole world, had become the most evil of all men.
Of all the living things, of all those things that have a soul and a sense, we, yes we, the women, are the
most pathetic!
Imagine!
We need to spend a fortune to buy us a man who… what will he do? He will become the master of our
bodies! And, it’s obvious, that this dangerous thing we do, becomes even more dangerous when we
don’t find the right husband. Is he a good husband? Or is he a bad one? By the time you find that out
it’s already too late.
And then, for a woman to leave her husband is neither proper nor possible. To live in a place where
new laws and customs apply one needs to be a prophet, since even your own folk don’t tell you how
you should behave towards your husband.
And if all these things work out well and our husband lives with us without thinking the marriage yoke
to be too heavy, well that would indeed be a great life. If not, though, only Death opens his arms for us.
Only Death awaits us.
Whereas the husband, however, if he finds the house to be too great a burden for him, he leaves the
place, he finds a friend or someone of similar age and immediately his heart shrugs off that weight.
We, on the other hand, we, women, can only let our eyes fall upon one person and one person only, our
husband.
Then people also say that while we live quietly and without any danger at home, the men go off to
war. Wrong! One birth alone is worse than three times in the battlefield behind a shield.
In any case, Corinthians, things between you and me, are different. You are here, in your own country
and in your own home, enjoying your life and your friends, whereas I am here alone and without a
country. My husband deceives me and treats me like a prize he has just ripped out of some barbarous
country; I have no mother, no brother, no relative at all to whom I can turn for support at this dreadful
hour of mine.
away. I’m no longer alive!
I refuse all of life’s charms and I seek death. Yes, death, Corinthians, because my husband, who was
my whole world, had become the most evil of all men.
Of all the living things, of all those things that have a soul and a sense, we, yes we, the women, are the
most pathetic!
Imagine!
We need to spend a fortune to buy us a man who… what will he do? He will become the master of our
bodies! And, it’s obvious, that this dangerous thing we do, becomes even more dangerous when we
don’t find the right husband. Is he a good husband? Or is he a bad one? By the time you find that out
it’s already too late.
And then, for a woman to leave her husband is neither proper nor possible. To live in a place where
new laws and customs apply one needs to be a prophet, since even your own folk don’t tell you how
you should behave towards your husband.
And if all these things work out well and our husband lives with us without thinking the marriage yoke
to be too heavy, well that would indeed be a great life. If not, though, only Death opens his arms for us.
Only Death awaits us.
Whereas the husband, however, if he finds the house to be too great a burden for him, he leaves the
place, he finds a friend or someone of similar age and immediately his heart shrugs off that weight.
We, on the other hand, we, women, can only let our eyes fall upon one person and one person only, our
husband.
Then people also say that while we live quietly and without any danger at home, the men go off to
war. Wrong! One birth alone is worse than three times in the battlefield behind a shield.
In any case, Corinthians, things between you and me, are different. You are here, in your own country
and in your own home, enjoying your life and your friends, whereas I am here alone and without a
country. My husband deceives me and treats me like a prize he has just ripped out of some barbarous
country; I have no mother, no brother, no relative at all to whom I can turn for support at this dreadful
hour of mine.
Reply 4
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If you were to teach the uneducated something new and beautiful, not only will they not appreciate it
but they’ll call you “good for nothing.” And if those who think themselves to be wise, consider you
even wiser than them, then you’ll hurt them most awfully. And that’s where my own suffering stems
from: They call me “wise” yet, in reality I am not very “wise” at all. Some people scorn me, others
simply hate me and you are now afraid that I might do you some enormous harm!
but they’ll call you “good for nothing.” And if those who think themselves to be wise, consider you
even wiser than them, then you’ll hurt them most awfully. And that’s where my own suffering stems
from: They call me “wise” yet, in reality I am not very “wise” at all. Some people scorn me, others
simply hate me and you are now afraid that I might do you some enormous harm!
Reply 5
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Because, you see, Jason, the truth falls like this: because of you, I have become a most hated woman!
Reply 6
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Don’t just stand there pretending that you are an honourable man and a great orator because just one word from my lips will topple you completely.
Reply 7
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Jason: Oh, sure, yes! I can see it now! You would be really understanding then, wouldn’t you, about my marriage! Look at you! You can’t shed this dreadful anger of yours even now!
Medea: No, that’s not what bothered you Jason! That’s not it at all! What, in fact bothered you was that you would be entering your old age still married to a foreigner.
Medea: No, that’s not what bothered you Jason! That’s not it at all! What, in fact bothered you was that you would be entering your old age still married to a foreigner.
Reply 8
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There’s certainly no greater pain than losing one’s homeland.
Reply 9
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Medea:
Heavens! Are you still without children?
Aigeas:
Unfortunately, yes, Medea. Some god must despise us.
Medea:
But how is that possible? Are you not married?
Do you lack the experience of the wedding bed, Aigeas?
Heavens! Are you still without children?
Aigeas:
Unfortunately, yes, Medea. Some god must despise us.
Medea:
But how is that possible? Are you not married?
Do you lack the experience of the wedding bed, Aigeas?
Reply 10
16
And now, my friends, I shall tell you all my plans but you’ll hear no words of joy.
Firstly, I shall send my servant to Jason to tell him to come here.
Then, I shall mock him, lie to him, tell him with sweet words that I think that all his plans are good and
that his betrayal and his marriage to the Princess are both, wise and a good thing for all of us! I’ll also
beg him to let my boys stay here, not because I want them left here as objects of ridicule but so that I
can then use my cunning to murder the King’s daughter!
Then, I’ll send them to her and they will be bearing gifts: a delicately woven dress and a golden
crown. The boys will hand these gifts to her and ask her to let them stay here. These gifts will be
steeped in such a deadly poison that she will die a most horrible death. She and whoever touches her.
But let me stop talking about that.
Ah! How I shudder with fear for the monstrous deed that I must do!
Immediately after the murder of the Princess I will have to murder my own children. No one can save
them, now, no one!
Kill them and I kill Jason’s house!
Firstly, I shall send my servant to Jason to tell him to come here.
Then, I shall mock him, lie to him, tell him with sweet words that I think that all his plans are good and
that his betrayal and his marriage to the Princess are both, wise and a good thing for all of us! I’ll also
beg him to let my boys stay here, not because I want them left here as objects of ridicule but so that I
can then use my cunning to murder the King’s daughter!
Then, I’ll send them to her and they will be bearing gifts: a delicately woven dress and a golden
crown. The boys will hand these gifts to her and ask her to let them stay here. These gifts will be
steeped in such a deadly poison that she will die a most horrible death. She and whoever touches her.
But let me stop talking about that.
Ah! How I shudder with fear for the monstrous deed that I must do!
Immediately after the murder of the Princess I will have to murder my own children. No one can save
them, now, no one!
Kill them and I kill Jason’s house!
Reply 11
16
Let no one think that I am some weak and sickly woman, or one of those quiet spirits! Quite the opposite! I am most friendly to my friends and most fearsome to my enemies. It’s only people like me who live a life of glory.
Reply 12
16
Jason:
My darling sons!
Medea:
They were darlings to their mother, not to you!
My darling sons!
Medea:
They were darlings to their mother, not to you!
Reply 13
16
Jason:
Ah!
Let me at least kiss their beloved lips.
Medea:
Now you want them!
Now you want to kiss them. Back then you were simply sending them away.
Ah!
Let me at least kiss their beloved lips.
Medea:
Now you want them!
Now you want to kiss them. Back then you were simply sending them away.
Reply 14
16
He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
Reply 15
16
He'd dreamed he was goingthrough a grove of timber trees where a gentle drizzle was falling, and for an instant he washappy in his dream, but when he awoke he felt completely spattered with bird ****.
Reply 16
16
She only took the time necessary to say the name. She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many, many easily confused names from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
Reply 17
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There had never been a death more foretold.
Reply 18
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It was as if we killed him all over again after he was dead,
Reply 19
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it was an order from the mayor, and orders from the barbarian, stupid as they might have been, had to be obeyed.
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