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    Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray)

    Mousa

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | English (ed. Gilbert Murray)
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    Mousa
    915
    ê polla men zôn, polla d' eis Haidou molôn,
    Philammonos pai, tês emês hêpsô phrenos:
    hubris gar, hê s' esphêle, kai Mousôn eris
    tekein m' ethêke tonde dustênon gonon.
    perôsa gar dê potamious dia rhoas
    920
    lektrois eplathên Strumonos phutalmiois,
    hot' êlthomen gês chrusobôlon es lepas
    Pangaion organoisin exêskêmenai
    Mousai megistên eis erin melôidias
    keinôi sophistêi Thrêiki, kaktuphlôsamen
    925
    Thamurin, hos hêmôn poll' edennasen technên.

    kapei se tiktô, sungonous aidoumenê
    kai partheneian, hêk' es euudrou patros
    dinas: trephein de s' ou broteion es chera
    Strumôn didôsin, alla pêgaiais korais.
    930
    enth' ektrapheis kallista Parthenôn hupo,
    Thrêikês anassôn prôtos êsth' andrôn, teknon.
    kai s' amphi gên men patrian philaimatous
    alkas korussont' ouk edeimainon thanein:
    Troias d' apêudôn astu mê kelsai pote,
    935
    eiduia ton son potmon: alla s' Hektoros
    presbeumath' hai te muriai gerousiai
    epeisan elthein kapikourêsai philois.

    kai toud', Athana, pantos aitia morou,
    -- ouden d' Odusseus oud' ho Tudeôs tokos
    940
    edrase drasas -- mê dokei lelêthenai.
    kaitoi polin sên sungonoi presbeuomen
    Mousai malista kapichrômetha chthoni,
    mustêriôn te tôn aporrêtôn phanas
    edeixen Orpheus, autanepsios nekrou
    945
    toud' hon katakteineis su: Mousaion te, son
    semnon politên kapi pleiston andr' hena
    elthonta, Phoibos sungonoi t' êskêsamen.
    kai tônde misthon paid' echous' en ankalais
    thrênô: sophistên d' allon ouk epaxomai.
    Choros
    950
    matên ar' hêmas Thrêikios trochêlatês
    edennas', Hektor, tôide bouleusai phonon.

    There are a total of 2 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [631-780]

    Cross references from Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary:
    9, 107

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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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