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Quotation from The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
“I have no friend like thee For truth and love, O boy that played with me, And hunted on Greek hills”
The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Iphigenia in Tauris, contest of the friends, trans. Gilbert Murray (1910)
Orestes insists that Pylades take the letter and live, and bids him farewell as the companion of his boyhood.
Citation: "I have no friend like thee For truth and love, O boy that played with me, And hunted on Greek hills" — Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Iphigenia in Tauris, contest of the friends, trans. Gilbert Murray (1910). (id euripides-trojan-women-and-other-plays-q6)
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
