Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
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Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

— Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
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