Stasimon 6
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What for? Do you think to find a drug in this to soothe your soul?
Heracles
I long to do so, and would embrace my father.
Amphitryon
Here am I, my son; your wish is no less dear to me.
Theseus
Have you so short a memory for your troubles?
1410
Heracles
All that I endured before was easier to bear than this.
Theseus
If anyone sees you play the woman, they will scoff.
Heracles
Have I by living grown so abject in your sight? It was not so once, I think.
Theseus
Yes, too much so; in your sickness you are not the glorious Heracles.
Heracles
What about you? What kind of hero were you when in trouble in the world below?
1415
Theseus
I was worse than anyone as far as courage went.
Heracles
How then can you say of me, that I am abased by my troubles?
Heracles
Farewell, my aged father!
Amphitryon
Farewell to you, my son!
Heracles
Bury my children as I said.
Amphitryon
But who will bury me, my son?
Amphitryon
When wil you come?
1420
Heracles
After you have buried my children.
1420
Heracles
I will fetch you from Thebes to Athens. But carry my children within, a grievous burden to the earth. And I, after ruining my house by deeds of shame, will follow as a little boat in the wake of Theseus, a total wreck.
Whoever prefers wealth or might to the possession of good friends, thinks wrongly.
1425
Chorus
With grief and many a bitter tear we go our way, robbed of all we prized most dearly.
