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    Euripides, Alcestis (ed. David Kovacs)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. David Kovacs) | English (ed. David Kovacs)
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    Apollôn
    Ô dômat' Admêtei', en hois etlên egô
    thêssan trapezan ainesai theos per ôn.
    Zeus gar kataktas paida ton emon aitios
    Asklêpion, sternoisin embalôn phloga:
    5
    hou dê cholôtheis tektonas Diou puros
    kteinô Kuklôpas: kai me thêteuein+ patêr
    thnêtôi par' andri tônd' apoin'+ ênankasen+.
    elthôn de gaian tênd' ebouphorboun xenôi,
    kai tond' esôizon oikon es tod' hêmeras.
    10
    hosiou gar andros hosios ôn etunchanon
    paidos Pherêtos, hon thanein errusamên,
    Moiras dolôsas: êinesan de moi theai
    Admêton Haidên ton parautik' ekphugein,
    allon diallaxanta tois katô nekron.
    15
    pantas d' elenxas kai diexelthôn philous,
    [patera geraian th' hê sph' etikte mêtera,]
    ouch hêure plên gunaikos hostis êthelen
    thanôn pro keinou mêket' eisoran phaos:
    hê nun kat' oikous en cheroin bastazetai
    20
    psuchorragousa: têide gar sph' en hêmerai
    thanein peprôtai kai metastênai biou.
    egô de, mê miasma m' en domois kichêi,
    leipô melathrôn tônde philtatên stegên.
    êdê de tonde Thanaton eisorô pelas,
    25
    hierea thanontôn, hos nin eis Haidou domous
    mellei kataxein: summetrôs d' aphiketo,
    phrourôn tod' êmar hôi thanein autên chreôn.

    There are a total of 13 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    2744 [I. With the Infinitive depending on Verbs of Negative Meaning]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    373

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    467 [b) Die Demonstrativpronomen hode, houtos, ekeinos.)]
    405 [a) Substantive statt Adjektive in attributiver Beziehung.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    473 [b) Infinitiv ohne Artikel als Ergänzung von Satzgliedern und Sätzen.]
    486 [Nähere Bestimmung des Gebrauches des bezüglichen und des absoluten Partizips (des Participii coniuncti und der Genetivi absoluti).]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [251-471]
    * [516-1057]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [1081-1217]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    6, 184 [Book 6 (z)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    807 [Simple Infinitive and Infinitive with tou, after Verbs of Hindrance, etc.]

    Cross references from James Adam, The Republic of Plato:
    3, 408B

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Euripides. Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. forthcoming.
    OCLC: 34837302
    ISBN: 0674995600

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