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EURIPIDES.

To show themselves forth-coming from these halls, 705
By your self-tendered covenant to die.


Amphitryon.

King, thou dost trample on my misery:
Thou heapest insult on the heart bereaved.
So strong and so impatient fits not thee.
But, since of force thou doomest me to die, 710
Of force must I content me and do thy will.


Lykus.

And Megara, and Alkmena's son's brood—where?


Amphitryon.

I think that she—if one without may guess—


Lykus.

What now?—for this thy thinking hast thou ground?


Amphitryon.

Sits suppliant at the holy altar-steps,— 715


Lykus.

With bootless prayer to heaven to save her life!


Amphitryon.

And vainly calleth on a husband dead.


Lykus.

Not here is he; nor shall he ever come.


Amphitryon.

Never,—except by a God raised from the dead.