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    Aeschylus, Agamemnon (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.)

    Choros

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.) | English (ed. Robert Browning)
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    Kasandra
    mantis m' Apollôn tôid' epestêsen telei.
    Choros
    môn kai theos per himerôi peplêgmenos;
    Kasandra
    protou men aidôs ên emoi legein tade.
    Choros
    1205
    habrunetai gar pas tis eu prassôn pleon.
    Kasandra
    all' ên palaistês kart' emoi pneôn charin.
    Choros
    ê kai teknôn eis ergon êltheton nomôi;
    Kasandra
    xunainesasa Loxian epseusamên.
    Choros
    êdê technaisin entheois hêirêmenê;
    Kasandra
    1210
    êdê politais pant' ethespizon pathê.
    Choros
    pôs dêt' anatos êstha Loxiou kotôi;
    Kasandra
    epeithon ouden' ouden, hôs tad' êmplakon.
    Choros
    hêmin ge men dê pista thespizein dokeis.
    Kasandra
    iou iou, ô ô kaka.
    1215
    hup' au me deinos orthomanteias ponos
    strobei tarassôn phroimiois .
    horate tousde tous domois ephêmenous
    neous, oneirôn prosphereis morphômasin;
    paides thanontes hôsperei pros tôn philôn,
    1220
    cheiras kreôn plêthontes oikeias boras+,
    sun enterois te splanchn', epoiktiston gemos,
    prepous' echontes, hôn patêr egeusato.
    ek tônde poinas phêmi bouleuein tina
    leont' analkin en lechei strôphômenon
    1225
    oikouron, oimoi, tôi molonti despotêi
    emôi: pherein gar chrê to doulion zugon:
    neôn t' aparchos Iliou t' anastatês
    ouk oiden hoia glôssa misêtês kunos
    leixasa kakteinasa phaidron ous, dikên
    1230
    Atês lathraiou, teuxetai kakêi tuchêi.
    toiade tolma: thêlus arsenos+ phoneus
    estin. ti nin kalousa dusphiles dakos
    tuchoim' an; amphisbainan, ê Skullan tina
    oikousan en petraisi, nautilôn blabên,
    1235
    thuousan Haidou mêter' aspondon t' Arê
    philois pneousan; hôs d' epôloluxato
    hê pantotolmos, hôsper en machês tropêi,
    dokei de chairein nostimôi sôtêriai.
    kai tônd' homoion ei ti mê peithô: ti gar;
    1240
    to mellon hêxei. kai su m' en tachei parôn
    agan g' alêthomantin oiktiras ereis.

    There are a total of 14 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.]
    147 [II. Adjektive zweier Endungen.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    486 [Nähere Bestimmung des Gebrauches des bezüglichen und des absoluten Partizips (des Participii coniuncti und der Genetivi absoluti).]
    508 [Per).]
    500 [Konfirmatives dê.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    * [1223-1420]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [251-471]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [219-675]
    * [1218-1471]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    3, 24 [Book 3 (g)]
    3, 310 [Book 3 (g)]

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    8, 11, 216 [Negative imperfect.]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2.Agamemnon. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
    OCLC: 13109528
    ISBN: 0674991613

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