HIPP. Pray to have legitimate sons like me.
THES. Do not, I prithee, leave me, my son, but be strong.
HIPP. My time of strength is past; for I perish, my father: but cover my face as quickly as possible with robes.
THES. O famous realms of Athens and of Pallas, of what a man will ye have been bereaved! Oh unhappy I! What abundant reason, Venus, shall I have to remember thy ills!
CHOR. This common grief to all the citizens hath come unexpectedly. There will be a fast falling of many tears; for the mournful stories of great men rather obtain.
NOTES ON HIPPOLYTUS
[1] The construction in the original furnishes a remarkable example of the "nominativus pendens."
[2] Or, that posterity might know it. TR. Dindorf would omit these words. B.