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    Euripides, Hecuba (ed. Gilbert Murray)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. E. P. Coleridge)
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    Hekabê
    585
    ô thugater, ouk oid' eis ho ti blepsô kakôn,
    pollôn parontôn: ên gar hapsômai tinos,
    tod' ouk eai me, parakalei d' ekeithen au
    lupê tis allê diadochos kakôn kakois.
    kai nun to men son hôste mê stenein pathos
    590
    ouk an dunaimên exaleipsasthai phrenos:
    to d' au lian pareiles angeltheisa moi
    gennaios. oukoun deinon, ei gê men kakê
    tuchousa kairou theothen eu stachun pherei,
    chrêstê d' hamartous' hôn chreôn autên tuchein
    595
    kakon didôsi karpon, anthrôpois d' aei
    ho men ponêros ouden allo plên kakos,
    ho d' esthlos esthlos, oude sumphoras hupo
    phusin diephtheir', alla chrêstos est' aei;
    ar' hoi tekontes diapherousin ê trophai;
    600
    echei ge mentoi kai to threphthênai kalôs
    didaxin esthlou: touto d' ên tis eu mathêi,
    oiden to g' aischron, kanoni tou kalou mathôn.
    kai tauta men dê nous etoxeusen matên:

    su d' elthe kai sêmênon Argeiois tade,
    605
    mê thinganein moi mêden', all' eirgein ochlon,
    tês paidos. en toi muriôi strateumati
    akolastos ochlos nautikê t' anarchia
    kreissôn puros, kakos d' ho mê ti drôn kakon.

    su d' au labousa teuchos, archaia latri,
    610
    bapsas' enenke deuro pontias halos,
    hôs paida loutrois tois panustatois emên,
    numphên t' anumphon parthenon t' aparthenon,
    lousô prothômai th' -- hôs men axia, pothen;
    ouk an dunaimên: hôs d' echô -- ti gar pathô; --
    615
    kosmon t' ageiras' aichmalôtidôn para,
    hai moi paredroi tônd' esô skênômatôn
    naiousin, ei tis tous neôsti despotas
    lathous' echei ti klemma tôn hautês domôn.
    ô schêmat' oikôn, ô pot' eutucheis domoi,
    620
    ô pleist' echôn kallista t', euteknôtate
    Priame, geraia th' hêd' egô mêtêr teknôn,
    hôs es to mêden hêkomen, phronêmatos
    tou prin sterentes. eita dêt' onkoumetha,
    ho men tis hêmôn plousiois en dômasin,
    625
    ho d' en politais timios keklêmenos.
    ta d' ouden allôs, phrontidôn bouleumata
    glôssês te kompoi. keinos olbiôtatos,
    hotôi kat' êmar tunchanei mêden kakon.

    There are a total of 11 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    147 [II. Adjektive zweier Endungen.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    462 [Weglassung des Artikels.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    523 [Bemerkungen über einige Eigentümlichkeiten im Gebrauche von kai und te.]
    512 [Ou und mê bei dem unartikulierten Infinitive; mê bei dem artikulierten Infinitive; ou und mê bei abstrakten Substantiven oder substantivierten Adjektiven.]

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

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

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [865-1080]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [141-496]

    Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
    2, 84, 3 [Commentary on Book 2]
    2, 15, 5 [Commentary on Book 2]

    Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
    8, 84, 3

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, ed. Gilbert Murray, vol. 1. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1902.
    OCLC: 36956970


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