Hippolytus - V:1360

ARTEMIS

Your deeds have been dreadful;

but it is also possible we will forgive you.

Cypris has willed all these vile actions

spitefully. Gods have the following custom:

No god dares interfere with the actions

taken by others among the immortals.

All stand aside when a plot's undertaken.

You maybe sure, Had I not feared dread Zeus,

never would I have endured such shame: the

death of him dearest to me among mortals.

Agony, forced to look on and do nothing!

So you were ignorant. That may excuse you.

It was impossible for you to test her,

and you believed. How troublesome death is!

So you have suffered ... but I grieve also.

Death of the innocent brings no pleasure

to the immortals; we only delight in

wrecking the wicked, their houses, their children.