§1084οὐχ ἕλξετ’ αὐτόν, δμῶες;
Theseus: Will you not drag him away, servants?
οὐκ ἀκούετε §1085πάλαι ξενοῦσθαι τόνδε προυννέποντά με;
Do you not hear me long ago proclaiming that this man is to be exiled?
Anyone of them who touches him to protect him will weep for it; and as for you, if you have the heart, thrust yourself from the land.
I shall do this, if you will not obey my words; for no pity comes upon me for your exile.
§1090ἄραρεν, ὡς ἔοικεν· ὦ τάλας ἐγώ·
Hippolytus: It is decided, as it seems; o wretched me!
§1091ὡς οἶδα μὲν ταῦτ’, οἶδα δ’ οὐχ ὅπως φράσω.
How I know these things, yet I know not how to speak them.
O dearest to me of divinities, daughter of Leto, companion of my seat and my hunt, we shall indeed flee glorious Athens.
§1094κλεινὰς Ἀθήνας. ἀλλὰ χαιρέτω πόλις §1095καὶ γαῖ’ Ἐρεχθέως· ὦ πέδον Τροζήνιον, §1096ὡς ἐγκαθηβᾶν πόλλ’ ἔχεις εὐδαίμονα,
But farewell, city and land of Erechtheus; o Troezenian ground, how many happy things you have for young men to grow up in, farewell!
§1097χαῖρ’· ὕστατον γάρ σ’ εἰσορῶν προσφθέγγομαι.
For looking upon you for the last time I address you.
§1098ἴτ’ ὦ νέοι μοι τῆσδε γῆς ὁμήλικες, §1099προσείπαθ’ ἡμᾶς καὶ προπέμψατε χθονός· §1100ὡς οὔποτ’ ἄλλον ἄνδρα σωφρονέστερον §1101ὄψεσθε, κεἰ μὴ ταῦτ’ ἐμῷ δοκεῖ πατρί.
Come, o young men, my companions of this land, speak to us and escort us from the land; for never will you see another man more temperate, even if this does not seem so to my father.
§1102ἦ μέγα μοι τὰ θεῶν μελεδήμαθ’, ὅταν φρένας ἔλθῃ, §1103λύπας παραιρεῖ· ξύνεσιν δέ τιν’ ἐλπίδι κεύθων §1104λείπομαι ἔν τε τύχαις θνατῶν καὶ ἐν ἔργμασι λεύσσων· §1105ἄλλα γὰρ ἄλλοθεν ἀμείβεται, μετὰ δ’ ἵσταται ἀνδράσιν §1106αἰὼν §1107πολυπλάνητος αἰεί.
Chorus: Indeed, the cares of the gods, when they come to my mind, greatly take away grief; but though I hide a certain understanding in hope, I am at a loss when I look upon the fortunes of mortals and their deeds; for different things change from different sides, and the life of men shifts always wandering.
§1111εἴθε μοι εὐξαμένᾳ θεόθεν τάδε μοῖρα παράσχοι, §1112τύχαν μετ’ ὄλβου καὶ ἀκήρατον ἄλγεσι θυμόν· §1115δόξα δὲ μήτ’ ἀτρεκὴς μήτ’ αὖ παράσημος ἐνείη· §1116ῥᾴδια δ’ ἤθεα τὸν αὔριον μεταβαλλομένα χρόνον αἰεὶ §1118βίον συνευτυχοίην.
Would that fate, in answer to my prayer, might grant these things from the gods: a fortune with prosperity and a heart unblemished by griefs; and let my reputation be neither too exact nor on the other hand counterfeit; but easily changing my ways to the tomorrow, may I always share a happy life.
§1120οὐκέτι γὰρ καθαρὰν φρέν’ ἔχω τὰ παρ’ ἐλπίδα λεύσ- §1120aσων, §1121ἐπεὶ τὸν Ἑλλανίας §1122φανερώτατον ἀστέρ’ Ἀθήνας §1123εἴδομεν εἴδομεν ἐκ πατρὸς ὀργᾶς §1125ἄλλαν ἐπ’ αἶαν ἱέμενον.
For I no longer have a clear mind, seeing things contrary to expectation, since we have seen the brightest star of Hellas, of Athens, sent away, we have seen him, because of his father's anger, going to another land.
§1126ὦ ψάμαθοι πολιήτιδος ἀκτᾶς, §1128ὦ δρυμὸς ὄρειος, ὅθι κυνῶν §1129ὠκυπόδων μέτα θῆρας ἔναιρεν §1130Δίκτυνναν ἀμφὶ σεμνάν.
O sands of the city's shore, o mountain oak-wood, where with swift-footed dogs he used to slay wild beasts beside holy Dictynna.
§1131οὐκέτι συζυγίαν πώλων Ἐνετᾶν ἐπιβάσῃ §1132τὸν ἀμφὶ Λίμνας τρόχον §1133κατέχων ποδὶ γυμνάδος ἵππου.
No longer will you mount the chariot of Enetian fillies, keeping the course around Limna with the feet of your trained horses.
§1134μοῦσα δ’ ἄυπνος ὑπ’ ἄντυγι χορδᾶν §1135λήξει πατρῷον ἀνὰ δόμον· §1136ἀστέφανοι δὲ κόρας ἀνάπαυλαι §1137Λατοῦς βαθεῖαν ἀνὰ χλόαν· §1138νυμφιδία δ’ ἀπόλωλε φυγᾷ σᾷ §1139λέκτρων ἅμιλλα κούραις.
And the sleepless muse beneath the frame of the strings will cease throughout your father's house; and the crownless resting places of Leto's daughter in the deep greenery will be neglected; and by your exile has perished the girls' bridal rivalry for your bed.
§1142— ἐγὼ δὲ σᾷ δυστυχίᾳ §1143δάκρυσι διοίσω πότμον §1144ἄποτμον· ὦ τάλαινα μᾶ- §1145τερ, ἔτεκες ἀνόνατα·
—And I, for your misfortune, in tears will bear a fate that is no fate; o wretched mother, you gave birth in vain!
φεῦ· §1146μανίω θεοῖσιν· §1147ἰὼ ἰώ· §1148συζύγιαι Χάριτες, τί τὸν τάλαν’ ἐκ πατρίας γᾶς §1149οὐδὲν ἄτας αἴτιον §1150πέμπετε τῶνδ’ ἀπ’ οἴκων;
Alas, I am angry with the gods; oh, oh, yoked Graces, why do you send the wretched youth from his father's land, he who is in no way guilty of this disaster, away from these homes?
—And indeed I see this attendant of Hippolytus rushing in haste with a gloomy face toward the house.
Messenger: Whither should I go, o women, to find Theseus, the ruler of this land?
εἴπερ ἴστε μοι §1155σημήνατ’· ἆρα τῶνδε δωμάτων ἔσω;
If you know, indeed signal to me; is he within these halls?
§1156ὅδ’ αὐτὸς ἔξω δωμάτων πορεύεται.
Chorus: Here he is himself, coming forth from the halls.
§1157Θησεῦ, μερίμνης ἄξιον φέρω λόγον §1158σοὶ καὶ πολίταις οἵ τ’ Ἀθηναίων πόλιν §1159ναίουσι καὶ γῆς τέρμονας Τροζηνίας.
Messenger: Theseus, I bring a report worthy of grave concern to you and to the citizens who inhabit the city of Athens and the borders of the Troezenian land.
§1160τί δ’ ἔστι;
Theseus: What is it?
μῶν τις συμφορὰ νεωτέρα §1161δισσὰς κατείληφ’ ἀστυγείτονας πόλεις;
Has some new misfortune overtaken the two neighboring cities?
Messenger: Hippolytus is no more, so to speak; yet he beholds the light by a very slight turn of the scale.
§1164πρὸς τοῦ;
Theseus: By whose hand?
δι’ ἔχθρας μῶν τις ἦν ἀφιγμένος, §1165ὅτου κατῄσχυν’ ἄλοχον ὡς πατρὸς βίᾳ;
Was someone met in enmity, whose wife he dishonored by force, just as he did his father's?
§1166οἰκεῖος αὐτὸν ὤλεσ’ ἁρμάτων ὄχος §1167ἀραί τε τοῦ σοῦ στόματος, ἃς σὺ σῷ πατρὶ §1168πόντου κρέοντι παιδὸς ἠράσω πέρι.
Messenger: His own chariot team destroyed him and the curses of your mouth, which you prayed to your father, the ruler of the sea, concerning your son.
Theseus: O gods and Poseidon, how truly then you were my father, having heard my prayers!
§1171πῶς καὶ διώλετ’;
How did he perish?
εἰπέ· τῷ τρόπῳ Δίκης §1172ἔπαισεν αὐτὸν ῥόπτρον αἰσχύναντ’ ἐμέ;
Tell me; in what way did the whip of Justice strike him who dishonored me?
§1173ἡμεῖς μὲν ἀκτῆς κυμοδέγμονος πέλας §1174ψήκτραισιν ἵππων ἐκτενίζομεν τρίχας §1175κλαίοντες· ἦλθε γάρ τις ἄγγελος λέγων §1176ὡς οὐκέτ’ ἐν γῇ τῇδ’ ἀναστρέψοι πόδα §1177Ἱππόλυτος, ἐκ σοῦ τλήμονας φυγὰς ἔχων.
Messenger: We, near the wave-receiving shore, were combing with scrapers the horses' hair as we wept; for a messenger had come saying that Hippolytus would no longer set foot in this land, having from you a wretched exile.
§1178ὃ δ’ ἦλθε ταὐτὸν δακρύων ἔχων μέλος §1179ἡμῖν ἐπ’ ἀκτάς· μυρία δ’ ὀπισθόπους §1180φίλων ἅμ’ ἔστειχ’ ἡλίκων θ’ ὁμήγυρις.
And he came, having the same tune of tears as we did, to the shore; and a countless throng of friends and companions followed together behind.
And at length, after some time, freed from his groans, he said: 'Why do I wildly distress myself?
πειστέον πατρὸς λόγοις.
My father's words must be obeyed.
§1183ἐντύναθ’ ἵππους ἅρμασι ζυγηφόρους, §1184δμῶες· πόλις γὰρ οὐκέτ’ ἔστιν ἥδε μοι. §1185τοὐνθένδε μέντοι πᾶς ἀνὴρ ἠπείγετο, §1186καὶ θᾶσσον ἢ λέγοι τις ἐξηρτυμένας §1187πώλους παρ’ αὐτὸν δεσπότην ἐστήσαμεν.
Yoke the horses to the chariot, servants; for this city is no longer mine.' From then on, indeed, every man exerted himself, and sooner than one could speak, we stood the equipped fillies beside our master himself.