Pierce the cold lips of God with human breath,
And mix his immortality with death!
And, once again, in l. 1440, when Artemis leaves Hippolytus with the remark that she is very sorry, but she doesn’t like death-bed scenes, he exclaims bitterly:
χαίρουσα καὶ σὺ στεῖχε, παρθέν’ ὀλβία.
μακρὰν δὲ λείπεις ῥᾳδίως ὁμιλίαν.[357]
I don’t much think that Euripides wrote either of these lines so, but I think it is a pity he didn’t.
EXCURSUS E.
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THE SECOND BOOK OF THEOGNIS.