...bed fide, have never, I fuppofe, been furpafled by any writer. Requite this kindnefs j never (ball I ask, An equal retribution, nothing bears A value high as life : yet my requeft Is juft, thou wilt confefs it ; for thy love To thefe our children equals mine, thy foul, If...

...thou die ; and I Might thus have lived, thou mightst have lived till age Crept slowly on, nor wouldst thou heave the sigh Thus of thy wife deprived, nor...alone Thy orphan children: but some god appointed 300 It should be thus : thus be it : thou to me Requite this kindness: never shall I ask An equal retribution...

...thou die ; and I Might thus have lived, thou mightst have lived till age Crept slowly on, nor wonldst thou heave the sigh Thus of thy wife deprived, nor train alone Thy orphan children. Contrast these last words with those of Menoikeus, who is about to sacrifice himself in order to save...

...thou die ; and I Might thus have lived, thou mightst have lived till age Crept slowly on, nor wouldst thou heave the sigh Thus of thy wife deprived, nor train alone Thy orphan children." Contrast these last words with those of Menoikeus, who is about to sacrifice himself in order to save...

...greatest sacrifice, — in one sense, greater than to the Christian, although the saying of Alkestis — " Never shall I ask an equal retribution, Nothing bears a value high as life" — reminds us of the words, " Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for...