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5. Euripides half answers this question. By stating in lines 16`469-1414 JASON O Zeus, do you hear how I'm being driven off, what I must endure from this child killer, this she lion, this abomination? But I'll use the strength I have for grieving and praying to the gods to bear witness [1410] how you have killed my children and refuse to let me hold their bodies or bury them. 1680 How I wish I'd never been a father and had to see you kill my children.
That Jason blames it all on Medea, enough to pray and grieve to the Gods about this heartless beast refusing

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