I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night. - Euripides

Euripides, son of Mnesarchus, was born in the island of Salamis, on the day of the celebrated victory (B.C. 480). His mother, Clito, had been sent thither in company with the other Athenian women, when Attica was given up, and the ships became at once the refuge of the male population, and the national defense. Mr. Donaldson [1] well remarks, that the patronymic form of his name, derived from the Euripus, which was the scene of the first successful resistance offered to the Persian navy, shows that the attention of his parents was fully excited by the stirring events of the time.

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

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öldürdüğün yetmiyormuş gibi, onlara dokunmama
ve cenazelerini kaldırmama da izin vermiyorsun.
Ah, keşke hiç doğmasalardı ve hiç görmeseydim
bu şekilde vahşice öldürüldüklerini.