Deianira: Chaste wives go before.
Hyllus: Who dooms himself to death confesses sin.
Deianira: No sinner seeks to shirk his punishment.
Hyllus: The life of many a man has been restored900
Whose guilt in judgment not in action lay.
Who blames the lot by fate assigned to him?
Deianira: He blames it to whom fate has been unkind.
Hyllus: But Hercules himself killed Megara,
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Transfixed his sons. Still, though a parricide,