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Quotation from Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays by Euripides

“he was no longer himself; his eyes were rolling; he was quite distraught; his eyeballs were bloodshot”

Euripides (spoken by Messenger)

Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Heracles, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891)

Portrait of Euripides

A messenger describes the onset of Heracles's madness at the altar, as he stops in the middle of a sacrifice.

Citation: "he was no longer himself; his eyes were rolling; he was quite distraught; his eyeballs were bloodshot" — Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Heracles, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891). (id euripides-iphigenia-in-aulis-and-other-plays-q4)

Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.

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