Eksodos
Medea
Say how; what am I to do? for I am fain as thou to go.
Jason
Give up to me those dead, to bury and lament
Medea
No, never! I will bury them myself, bearing them to Hera’s sacred field, who watches o’er the Cape,
that none of their foes may insult them by pulling down their tombs; and in this land of Sisyphus I will ordain hereafter a solemn feast and mystic rites to atone for this impious murder. Myself will now to the land of Erechtheus,
1380
to dwell with Aegeus, Pandion’s son. But thou, as well thou mayest, shalt die a caitiff’s death, thy headLegend told how Jason was slain by a beam falling on him as he lay asleep under the shadow of his ship Argo. crushed ’neath a shattered relic of Argo, when thou hast seen the bitter ending of my marriage.
1385
