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Often appears with: theseus rage · natural law and higher law · justice as a virtue · hippolytus innocence · divine punishment · crime and punishment
Usually: argument (1) · injustice endured (1) · indignation (1)
Theseus declares Hippolytus convicted by the dead and treats him as a black villain, insisting on punishment, while Hippolytus protests that he is innocent and is dazed by Theseus’s accusations.
Stand I tainted here, Though utterly innocent? [*Murmurs from the crowd*.] Yea, dazed am I; 'Tis thy words daze me, falling all awry, Away from reason, by fell fancies vexed! THESEUS O heart of man, what height wilt venture next? What end comes to thy daring and thy crime? For if with each man's life 'twill higher climb, And every age break out in blood and lies Beyond its fathers, must not God devise So…