The Trachiniae Characters in the Play
[ Scene:- At Trachis, before the house of Heracles .
[ Hyllus comes in from the side. ]
[ Iole maintains her silence. ]
[ Exit Messenger , as Lichas Deianeira ]
[ Lichas enters from the house. ]
[ Lichas departs with the casket and Deianeira ]
[ Deianeira comes out of the house in agitation. ]
Deianeira Friends, how I fear that I may have gone too far in all that I have been doing just now!
[ Deianeira moves towards the house. ]
[ Deianeira goes in the house. ]
[ Exit Hyllus , into the house. ]
[ Enter Nurse , from the house. ]
[ Enter Hyllus and an Old Man Heracles ]
[ The attendants raise Heracles on the litter and move slowly off, as Hyllus Chorus ]
No man foresees the future; but the present is fraught with mourning for us, and with shame for the powers above, and verily with anguish beyond compare for him who endures this doom.
Maidens, come ye also, nor linger at the house; ye who have lately seen a dread death, with sorrows manifold and strange: and in all this there is nought but Zeus.