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    Euripides, Heracleidae (ed. David Kovacs)

    Choros

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. David Kovacs) | English (ed. David Kovacs)
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    Iolaos
    ouk esti+ toude+ paisi+ kallion+ geras,
    ê patros+ esthlou+ kagathou+ pephukenai+:
    [gamein t' ap' esthlôn: hos de nikêtheis pothôi
    300
    kakois ekoinônêsen, ouk epainesô,
    teknois oneidos hounech' hêdonês lipein:]
    to dustuches gar hêugenei' amunetai
    tês dusgeneias mallon: hêmeis gar kakôn
    es touschaton pesontes hêuromen philous
    305
    kai xungeneis tousd', hoi tosêsd' oikoumenês
    Hellênidos gês tônde proustêsan monoi.
    dot', ô tekn', autois cheira dexian, dote,
    humeis te paisi, kai pelas proselthete.

    ô paides, es men peiran êlthomen philôn:
    310
    ên d' oun poth' humin nostos es patran phanêi
    kai dômat' oikêsête kai timas patros
    < pa/lin la/bhte, th=sde koira/nous xqono\s>
    sôtêras aiei kai philous nomizete,
    kai mêpot' es gên echthron airesthai doru
    memnêsthe moi tênd', alla philtatên polin
    315
    pasôn nomizet'. axioi d' humin sebein
    hoi gên tosênde kai Pelasgikon leôn
    hêmôn enêllaxanto polemious echein,
    ptôchous alêtas eisorôntes all' homôs
    [ouk exedôkan oud' apêlasan chthonos].
    320
    egô de kai zôn
    320a
    pasin prophainôn> kai thanôn, hotan thanô,
    321
    pollôi s' epainôi Thêseôs hestôs pelas
    hupsêlon arô kai legôn tad' euphranô,
    hôs eu t' edexô kai teknoisin êrkesas
    tois Hêrakleiois, eugenês d' an' Hellada
    325
    sôizeis patrôian doxan, ex esthlôn de phus
    ouden kakiôn tunchaneis gegôs patros,
    paurôn met' allôn: hena gar en pollois isôs
    heurois an hostis esti mê cheirôn patros.
    Choros
    aei poth' hêde gaia tois amêchanois
    330
    sun tôi dikaiôi bouletai prosôphelein.
    toigar ponous dê murious huper philôn
    ênenke, kai nun tond' agôn' horô pelas.

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    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    418 [Fortsetzung.]

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    Euripides. Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. forthcoming.
    OCLC: 32167765
    ISBN: 0674995333

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