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    Aeschylus, Agamemnon (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.) | English (ed. Robert Browning)
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    Phulax
    theous men aitô tônd' apallagên ponôn
    phrouras eteias+ mêkos+, hên koimômenos
    stegais Atreidôn ankathen, kunos dikên,
    astrôn katoida nukterôn homêgurin,
    5
    kai tous pherontas cheima kai theros brotois
    lamprous dunastas, emprepontas aitheri
    [asteras, hotan phthinôsin, antolas te tôn].

    kai nun phulassô lampados to sumbolon,
    augên puros pherousan ek Troias phatin
    10
    halôsimon te baxin: hôde gar kratei
    gunaikos androboulon elpizon kear.
    eut' an de nuktiplankton endroson t' echô
    eunên oneirois ouk episkopoumenên
    emên: phobos gar anth' hupnou parastatei,
    15
    to mê bebaiôs blephara sumbalein hupnôi:
    hotan d' aeidein ê minuresthai dokô+,
    hupnou tod' antimolpon entemnôn akos,
    klaiô tot' oikou toude sumphoran stenôn
    ouch hôs ta prosth' arista diaponoumenou.
    20
    nun d' eutuchês genoit' apallagê ponôn
    euangelou phanentos orphnaiou puros.

    ô chaire lamptêr nuktos, hêmerêsion
    phaos piphauskôn kai chorôn katastasin
    pollôn en Argei, têsde sumphoras charin.
    25
    iou iou.

    Agamemnonos gunaiki sêmainô torôs
    eunês epanteilasan hôs tachos domois
    ololugmon euphêmounta têide lampadi
    eporthiazein, eiper Iliou polis
    30
    healôken, hôs ho phruktos angellôn prepei+:
    autos+ t' egôge phroimion choreusomai.
    ta despotôn gar eu pesonta thêsomai
    tris hex balousês têsde moi phruktôrias.

    genoito d' oun molontos euphilê chera
    35
    anaktos oikôn têide bastasai cheri.
    ta d' alla sigô: bous epi glôssêi+ megas
    bebêken: oikos+ d' autos, ei phthongên+ laboi+,
    saphestat'+ an lexeien+: hôs hekôn egô
    mathousin audô kou mathousi lêthomai.

    There are a total of 27 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    2329 [Fourth Form of Conditions: LESS VIVID FUTURE CONDITIONS]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    834

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [1-116: Prologue]: halôsimos baxis

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    50 [A. Kontraktion der Vokale.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    402 [Vertauschung der attributiven Formen.]
    357 [Vokativ.]
    410 [b) Akkusativ bei intransitiven und passiven Verben und Adjektiven).]
    395 [c. Gebrauch des Optativs (ohne an).]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    479 [Bemerkungen über besondere Eigentümlichkeiten im Gebrauche des artikulierten Infinitivs.]
    531 [Kopulatives de.]
    507 [Konfirmatives oun [Lesb., böot., dor. u. neuion. ôn]).]
    576 [IV. Ei mit dem Optative der subjektiven Annahme.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [376-581]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [516-1057]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [1-134]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [205-224]

    Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    7, 159 [BOOK VII]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    4, 526 [Book 4 (d)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    811 [Infinitive with to mê, or to mê ou.]
    455 [2. Optative in Protasis and Apodosis.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
    Isocrates, 14, 58 [Plataikos]

    Cross references from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
    * [Pythian Odes]

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    Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2.Agamemnon. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
    OCLC: 13109528
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