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Prologos 1–95 Parodos 96–210 Epeisodion 1 214–355 Stasimon 1 357–445 Epeisodion 2 446–625 Stasimon 2 627–660 Epeisodion 3 663–756 Stasimon 3 759–865 Epeisodion 4 866–975 Stasimon 4 976–1000 Epeisodion 5 1002–1080 Stasimon 5 1081–1290 Eksodos 1293–1385 Stasimon 6 1389–1415

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Stasimon 5

[Choral 2]

Of all the wives of yore I know but one who laid her hand upon her children dear, even Ino,This is Euripides’ version of the legend, not the usual one; which makes Athamas the father go mad and kill one son, while Ino leaps into the sea with the other. whom the gods did madden in the day

Chorus

that the wife of Zeus drove her wandering from her home. But she, poor sufferer, flung herself into the sea because of the foul murder of her children, leaping o’er the wave-beat cliff, and in her death was she united to her children twain. 1285

Can there be any deed of horror left to follow this? Woe for the wooing of women fraught with disaster! What sorrows hast thou caused for men ere now! 1290