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Sophocles, Women Of Trachis, 584-587
nan I have imbued this robe with it, applying to it all that he instructed while he lived. The work is finished. May deeds of wicked daring always be far from my thoughts and from my knowledge, as I detest the women who attempt them! But if in any way I may prevail against this girl by love-spells
nan and the charms used on Heracles, the means to that end have been devised—unless I seem to be acting rashly. If so, I will stop immediately. Chorus:
nan and the charms used on Heracles, the means to that end have been devised—unless I seem to be acting rashly. If so, I will stop immediately. Chorus:
nan and the charms used on Heracles, the means to that end have been devised—unless I seem to be acting rashly. If so, I will stop immediately. Chorus:
nan LEADER: Nay, if these measures give any ground of confidence, we think that thy design is not amiss. DEIANEIRA: Well, the ground stands thus,- there is a fair promise; but I have not yet essayed the proof. LEADER: Nay, knowledge must come through action; thou canst have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. DEIANEIRA: Well, we shall know presently:- for there I see the man already at the doors; and he will soon be going.- Only may my secret be well kept by you! While thy deeds are hidden, even though they be not seemly, thou wilt never be brought to shame. (LICHAS enters from the house.) LICHAS: What are thy commands? Give me my charge, daughter of Oineus; for already I have tarried over long. DEIANEIRA: Indeed, I have just been seeing to this for thee, Lichas, while thou wast speaking to the stranger maidens in the house;- that thou shouldest take for me this long robe, woven by mine own hand, a gift to mine absent lord. And when thou givest it, charge him that he, and no other, shall be the first to wear it; that it shall not be seen by the light of the sun, nor by the sacred precinct, nor by the fire at the hearth, until he stand forth, conspicuous before all eyes, and show it to the gods on a day when bulls are slain. For thus had I vowed,- that if I should ever see or hear that he had come safely home, I would duly clothe him in this robe, and so present him to the gods, newly radiant at their altar in new garb. As proof, thou shalt carry a token, which he will quickly recognise within the circle of this seal. Now go thy way; and, first, remember the rule that messengers should not be meddlers; next, so bear thee that my thanks may be joined to his doubling the grace which thou shalt win. LICHAS: Nay, if I ply this herald-craft of Hermes with any sureness, I: will never trip in doing thine errand: I will not fail to deliver this casket as it is, and to add thy words in attestation of thy gift. DEIANEIRA: Thou mayest be going now; for thou knowest well how things are with us in the house. LICHAS: I know, and will report, that all hath prospered.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Euripides, Bacchae, 405, 404 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 404. ἵνʼ οἱ θελξίφρονες νέμονται note resp=
2. Sophocles, Antigone, 116-154, 115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
3. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 101, 1012-1013, 1016-1019, 102, 1020, 103, 1032, 1036, 104-106, 1068, 107, 1071-1072, 110-111, 1129-1131, 1133-1139, 114-115, 1169-1170, 1177-1181, 1184-1185, 1223-1296, 139-146, 288-289, 298-304, 307, 312-313, 316-317, 320-321, 324-402, 532-630, 85, 87-88, 91-92, 95, 953, 96, 964-969, 97, 970-972, 976, 98-100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 20-24, 441-444, 497-530, 537-538, 552-553, 555-583, 585-619, 623, 629-630, 685-686, 1140 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1140. And what Trachinian is so potent a charmer? Hyllus:
5. Seneca The Younger, Hercules Oetaeus, 486-538, 567-582, 485 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
6. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 216, 233-238, 286, 418, 509, 697-708, 838-881, 915-979, 212 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
anger	Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 385
antigone (sophocles), and seneca	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
cypris, and deianira	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 541
episodes, of the women of trachis (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 541
eulogy, of cypris	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 541
gods, the	Seaford, Wilkins, Wright, Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill (2017) 235
hercules on oeta (seneca)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
information, from the outside, by seneca	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
john of stobi (stobaeus)	Seaford, Wilkins, Wright, Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill (2017) 235
language, metaphorical	Seaford, Wilkins, Wright, Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill (2017) 235
language, of love	Seaford, Wilkins, Wright, Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill (2017) 235
love, as a sickness	Seaford, Wilkins, Wright, Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill (2017) 235
love, in tragedy	Seaford, Wilkins, Wright, Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill (2017) 235
love, of deianira	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 541
madness	Seaford, Wilkins, Wright, Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill (2017) 235
oedipus the king (sophocles), and seneca	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
pharmakon	Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 385
philter, from deianira	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
punishment.	Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 385
sophocles, trachiniae	Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 385
stasima, of the women of trachis (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 541
structure, of the women of trachis (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 541
tragedy, and law'	Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 385
tragedy, greek	Seaford, Wilkins, Wright, Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill (2017) 235
women of trachis, the (sophocles), and seneca	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
women of trachis, the (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 541