Oh! oh! venerable Parcae, what fresh attack is this? 'Tis the crowning act of audacity and shamelessness! What has he done now, friends, what has he done?
MNESILOCHUS: Ah! this insolence passes all bounds, but I shall know how to curb it.
CHORUS: What a shameful deed! the measure of his iniquities is full!
SIXTH WOMAN: Aye, 'tis shameful that he should have robbed me of my child.
'Tis past belief to be so criminal and so impudent!
MNESILOCHUS: Ah! you're not near the end of it yet.
SIXTH WOMAN: Little I care whence you come; you shall not return to boast of having acted so odiously with impunity, for you shall be punished.
MNESILOCHUS: You won't do it, by the gods!
CHORUS: And what immortal would protect you for your crime?
MNESILOCHUS: 'Tis in vain you talk! I shall not let go the child.
Frederick William Hall (1865–1948) was a classical scholar and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Together with William Martin Geldart, he produced the Oxford Classical Text of several authors. Hall was a careful editor known for his thorough collation of manuscripts and his conservative approach to textual criticism.
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