A monologue from your play by simply Euripides
BE AWARE: This monologue is published from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. 2. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J. M. Damage Sons, 1922.
HIPPOLYTUS: With a fair semblance to trick the world
Wherefore, O Jove, beneath the solar beams
That evil, woman, didst thou cause to dwell?
Pertaining to if it was thy does the human race
Ought to multiply, this ought not by such means
To become effected: better in thy fane
Every single votary, in presenting brass or metallic
Or substantial ingots of resplendent precious metal
Proportioned to his giving, might by thee
Have a race of sons, and under roofing
Which genuine freedom appointments, unannoyed
By women, live. But to get this most detrimental
Of evils, now not any sooner are our entry doors
Thrown available than the wealth of our residence
We utterly exhaust. How great a pest
Is usually woman this one circumstance shows
The very daddy who begot and nurtured
A plenteous dower progressing, sends her forth
Regarding such loathed incumbrance he might rid
His mansions: nevertheless the hapless youngsters, who will take
This malevolent inmate to his foundation, exults
Although he caparisons a useless image
In gorgeous usually in the and tissued vests
Wasting his compound. With some rspectable race
He who by wedlock an association forms
Is usually bound simply by hard necessity to keep
The loathsome consort, if perchance he gain
One who is usually virtuous sprung from useless sires
He by the good compensates to get the ills
Attending this kind of a union. Happier this individual
Unvexed simply by these embarrassments, whose new bride
Inactive through simplicity, and mild
To his property is like a statue set.
All female wisdom doth my soul abhor.
Under no circumstances may the aspiring déesse, who grips
At learning more than with her sex goes
Enter the house: for in the subtle breasts
Are more deeply stratagems simply by Venus sewn:
But she whose reason is too weakened to shape
A plan, from amorous frailties lives secure.
Not any female stalwart ever will need to attend
The married déesse, she alternatively ought to live
Among wild beasts, who have are by nature mute
Poste she should certainly speak to virtually any, or obtain
Their answers. But the evil now formulate
Mischief in secret rooms, while overseas
Their confidants promote it: therefore, vile wretch
In personal privacy you came, with me to form
A great impious treaty for surrendering up
My royal fathers unpolluted foundation.
Soon via such disasters in the limpid spring
My ears can i make natural: how could I rush
Into the crime by itself, when, having heard
The particular name produced mention of, I believe
As though My spouse and i some defilement thence had caught?
Base woman, know tis my personal religion will save
Your forfeit life, for by a solemn oath
In the event that to the gods I had not really unawares
Engaged myself, We neer might have refrained
Via stating these transactions to my sire
But now, whilst Theseus within a foreign land
Continues, hence will I depart, and keep
The strictest silence. But My spouse and i soon shall see
The moment with my own injured father I go back
How you and your perfidious princess or queen will dare
To meet his eyes, then simply fully shall I know
Your impudence, of which I now make
This 1st essay. Perdition seize both of you:
For with unsatiated abhorrence, still
Gainst woman can i speak, although some thing
To my own repeating constantly the same charge:
For they will be ever consistently wicked:
Allow any one then prove women sex
Possest of chastity, or suffer me
Since heretofore, against them to inveigh.
