Eksodos
Medea
No, but thy foul treatment of me, and thy new marriage.
Jason
Didst think that marriage cause enough to murder them?
Medea
Dost think a woman counts this a trifling injury?
Jason
So she be self-restrained; but in thy eyes all is evil.
Medea
Thy sons are dead and gone. That will stab thy heart.
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Jason
They live, methinks,Reading οἵμαι with Tyrrwhitt. to bring a curse upon thy head.
Medea
The gods know, whoso of them began this troublous coil.
Jason
Indeed, they know that hateful heart of thine.
Medea
Thou art as hateful. I am aweary of thy bitter tongue.
Jason
And I likewise of thine. But parting is easy.
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Medea
Say how; what am I to do? for I am fain as thou to go.
Jason
Give up to me those dead, to bury and lament
Medea
No, never! I will bury them myself, bearing them to Hera’s sacred field, who watches o’er the Cape,
that none of their foes may insult them by pulling down their tombs; and in this land of Sisyphus I will ordain hereafter a solemn feast and mystic rites to atone for this impious murder. Myself will now to the land of Erechtheus,
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to dwell with Aegeus, Pandion’s son. But thou, as well thou mayest, shalt die a caitiff’s death, thy headLegend told how Jason was slain by a beam falling on him as he lay asleep under the shadow of his ship Argo. crushed ’neath a shattered relic of Argo, when thou hast seen the bitter ending of my marriage.
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