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Why does my iron heart not break?..
Why, you cruel gods, keep an old woman still alive, unless to see fresh funerals?
Hecubs, Polyxena and Polydorus

To fell a boy - what glory do you gain?
Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs

Astylos, the seer whose warnings failed to keep his friends from war.
Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs

And she, dying again, made no complaint (for what complaint has she save she was loved?)
Eurydice

Would I were not a girl / ullem nullla forem / would I did not exist

She thinks they both have won a victory, though what both won will end in tragedy.
Tereus, Procne and Philomela

Find someone else to fear your miracles!
Perseus' Fight

You lost her then, then when her death was sure, unless her death indeed is what you want and mean my grief to ease your cruel heart.
Perseus' fight in the palace of Cepheus

When Perseus saw her, had a wafting breeze not stirred her hair, her eyes not overflowed with trembling tears, he had imagined her a marble statue.
Perseus and Andromeda

No god has the right to undo what any god has done.
Tiresias