For divorce is discreditable for women and it is not possible to refuse wedlock. Īnd the outcome of our life's striving hangs on this, whether we take a bad or a good husband.
First at an exorbitant price we must buy a husband and master of our bodies. Of all creatures that have breath and sensation, we women are the most unfortunate. For the man in whom all I had was bound up, as I well know-my husband-has proved the basest of men. I am undone, I have resigned all joy in life, and I want to die. In my case, however, this sudden blow that has struck me has destroyed my life. Now a foreigner must be quite compliant with the city, nor do I have any words of praise for the citizen who is stubborn and causes his fellow-citizens pain by his lack of breeding. Since before they get sure knowledge of a man's true character they hate him on sight, although he has done them no harm. For I know that though many mortals are haughty both in private and in public, others get a reputation for indifference to their neighbors from their retiring manner of life. Women of Corinth, I have come out of the house Enter Medea with the Nurse from the house.
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