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    Euripides, Suppliants (ed. Gilbert Murray)

    Choros

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. E. P. Coleridge)
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    Kêrux
    465
    legoim' an êdê. tôn men êgônismenôn
    soi men dokeitô taut', emoi de tantia.
    egô d' apaudô pas te Kadmeios leôs
    Adraston es gên tênde mê parienai+:
    ei d' estin en gêi, prin theou dunai selas,
    470
    lusanta semna stemmatôn mustêria
    têsd' exelaunein, mêd' anaireisthai nekrous
    biai, prosêkont' ouden Argeiôn polei.
    kan men pithêi moi, kumatôn ater polin
    sên naustolêseis: ei de mê, polus+ kludôn+
    475
    hêmin+ te kai soi summachois t' estai+ doros+.
    skepsai de, kai mê tois emois thumoumenos
    logoisin, hôs dê polin eleutheran echôn,
    sphrigônt' ameipsêi muthon ek brachionôn:
    elpis gar est' apiston, hê pollas poleis
    480
    sunêps', agousa thumon eis huperbolas.
    hotan gar elthêi polemos es psêphon leô,
    oudeis eth' hautou thanaton eklogizetai,
    to dustuches de tout' es allon ektrepei:
    ei d' ên par' omma thanatos en psêphou phorai,
    485
    ouk an poth' Hellas dorimanês apôlluto.
    kaitoi duoin ge pantes anthrôpoi logoin
    ton kreisson' ismen, kai ta chrêsta kai kaka,
    hosôi te polemou kreisson eirênê brotois:
    hê prôta men Mousaisi prosphilestatê,
    490
    Poinaisi d' echthra, terpetai d' eupaidiai,
    chairei de ploutôi. taut' aphentes hoi kakoi
    polemous anairoumestha kai ton hêssona
    douloumeth', andres andra kai polis polin.

    There are a total of 4 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    377 [Bemerkungen über die Deponentia.]

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

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, ed. Gilbert Murray, vol. 2. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913.
    OCLC: 36956970


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