Euripides IonHippolytusMedeaAlcestis Loeb Classical 012 - Works - Vol 4 Author:Euripides Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HlPPOLYTUS. Right gladly, friend ; else were I poor of wit. Huntsman. Knowest thou one law, that through the world has won ? Hippolytus. What woul... more »dst thou ? And how runs thy law ? Say on. Huntsman. It hates that Pride that speaks not all men fair! Hippolytus. And rightly. Pride breeds hatred everywhere. Huntsman. And good words love, and grace in all men's sight ? Hippolytus. Aye, and much gain withal, for trouble slight. Huntsman. How deem'st thou of the Gods? Are they the same ? Hippolytus. Surely : we are but fashioned on their frame. Huntsman. Why then wilt thou be proud, and worship not . . . Hippolytus. Whom ? If the name be speakable, speak out 1 Huntsman. She stands here at thy gate: the Cyprian Queen ! Hippolytus. I greet her from afar : my life is clean. Huntsman. Clean ? Nay, proud, proud ; a mark for all to scan ! Hippolytus. Each mind hath its own bent, for God or man. Huntsman. God grant thee happiness . . . and wiser thought ! Hippolytus. These Spirits that reign in darkness like me not. Huntsman. What the Gods ask, O Son, that man must pay ! Hippolytus (turning from him to the others). On, huntsmen, to the Castle ! Make your way Straight to the feast room ; 'tis a merry thing After the chase, a board of banqueting. And see the steeds be groomed, and in array The chariot dight. I drive them forth to-day. [He pauses, and makes a slight gesture of reverence to the Statue on the left. Then to the Old Huntsman. That for thy Cyprian, friend, and nought beside! [hippolytus followi the huntsmen, who stream off by the central door into the Castle. The Old Huntsman remains. Huntsman (approaching the Statue and kneeling). 0 Cyprian—for a young man in his pride 1 will...« less