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    Euripides, Bacchae (ed. Gilbert Murray)

    Kadmos

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. T. A. Buckley)
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    Pentheus
    215
    ekdêmos ôn men têsd' etunchanon chthonos,
    kluô de neochma tênd' ana ptolin kaka+,
    gunaikas hêmin dômat' ekleloipenai
    plastaisi bakcheiaisin, en de daskiois
    oresi thoazein, ton neôsti daimona
    220
    Dionuson, hostis esti, timôsas chorois:
    plêreis de thiasois en mesoisin hestanai
    kratêras, allên d' allos' eis erêmian
    ptôssousan eunais arsenôn hupêretein,
    prophasin men hôs dê mainadas thuoskoous,
    225
    tên d' Aphroditên prosth' agein tou Bakchiou+.

    hosas men oun eilêpha, desmious cheras
    sôizousi pandêmoisi prospoloi stegais:
    hosai d' apeisin, ex orous thêrasomai,
    [Inô t' Agauên th', hê m' etikt' Echioni,
    230
    Aktaionos te mêter', Autonoên legô.]
    kai sphas sidêrais harmosas en arkusin
    pausô kakourgou têsde bakcheias tacha.

    legousi d' hôs tis eiselêluthe xenos,
    goês epôidos Ludias apo chthonos,
    235
    xanthoisi bostruchoisin euosmôn komên,
    oinôpas ossois charitas Aphroditês echôn,
    hos hêmeras te keuphronas sungignetai
    teletas proteinôn euious neanisin.
    ei d' auton eisô têsde lêpsomai stegês,
    240
    pausô ktupounta thurson anaseionta te
    komas, trachêlon sômatos chôris temôn.

    ekeinos einai phêsi Dionuson theon,
    ekeinos en mêrôi pot' erraphthai Dios,
    hos ekpuroutai lampasin kerauniais
    245
    sun mêtri, Dious hoti gamous epseusato.
    taut' ouchi deinês anchonês est' axia,
    hubreis hubrizein, hostis estin ho xenos;

    atar tod' allo thauma, ton teraskopon
    en poikilaisi nebrisi Teiresian horô
    250
    patera te mêtros tês emês--polun gelôn--
    narthêki bakcheuont': anainomai, pater,
    to gêras+ humôn+ eisorôn+ noun ouk echon.
    ouk apotinaxeis kisson; ouk eleutheran
    thursou methêseis cheir', emês mêtros pater;
    255

    su taut' epeisas, Teiresia: tond' au theleis
    ton daimon' anthrôpoisin espherôn neon
    skopein pterôtous kampurôn misthous pherein.
    ei mê se gêras polion exerrueto,
    kathês' an en bakchaisi desmios mesais,
    260
    teletas ponêras eisagôn: gunaixi gar
    hopou botruos en daiti gignetai ganos,
    ouch hugies ouden eti legô tôn orgiôn.
    Choros
    tês dussebeias. ô xen', ouk aidêi theous
    Kadmon te ton speiranta gêgenê stachun,
    265
    Echionos d' ôn pais kataischuneis genos;

    There are a total of 5 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    605

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

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, ed. Gilbert Murray, vol. 3. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913.
    OCLC: 36956970


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