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    Aeschylus, Libation Bearers (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)
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    Orestês
    <*(ermh= xqo/nie, patrw=|' e)popteu/wn kra/th,
    sôtêr genou moi+ xummachos t' aitoumenôi:
    hêkô gar es gên tênde kai katerchomai.
    tumbou d' ep' ochthôi tôide kêrussô patri
    5
    kluein, akousai . . .

    *
    . . . plokamon Inachôi threptêrion.
    ton deuteron de tonde penthêtêrion

    *
    ou gar parôn ôimôxa son, pater, moron
    oud' exeteina cheir' ep' ekphorai nekrou.>

    *
    10
    ti chrêma leussô+; tis poth' hêd' homêguris
    steichei gunaikôn pharesin melanchimois
    prepousa; poiai xumphorai proseikasô;
    potera domoisi pêma proskurei neon;
    ê patri tômôi tasd' epeikasas tuchô
    15
    choas pherousas nerterois meiligmata;
    ouden pot' allo: kai gar Êlektran dokô
    steichein adelphên tên emên penthei lugrôi
    prepousan. ô Zeu, dos me teisasthai moron
    patros, genou de summachos thelôn emoi.
    20

    Puladê, stathômen ekpodôn, hôs an saphôs
    mathô gunaikôn hêtis hêde prostropê.

    There are a total of 12 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    2014 [F. Infinitive in Commands, Wishes, and Exclamations]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [1249-1555: Fourth episode]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [1-99]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    * [719-865]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [1098-1383]
    * [1-120]
    * [251-471]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    10, 518 [Book 10 (k)]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    4, 478 [Book 4 (D)]
    23, 141 [Book 23 (Ps)]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2.Libation Bearers. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
    OCLC: 13109528
    ISBN: 0674991613

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