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

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)
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    Puthias
    prôton men euchêi têide presbeuô theôn
    tên prôtomantin Gaian    +: ek de tês Themin+,
    hê dê to mêtros+ deutera+ tod'+ hezeto+
    manteion+, hôs logos tis: en de tôi tritôi
    5
    lachei, thelousês, oude pros bian tinos,
    Titanis allê pais Chthonos kathezeto,
    Phoibê: didôsi d' hê genethlion dosin
    Phoibôi: to Phoibês d' onom' echei parônumon.
    lipôn de limnên Dêlian te choirada,
    10
    kelsas ep' aktas nauporous tas Pallados,
    es tênde gaian êlthe Parnêsou th' hedras.
    pempousi d' auton kai sebizousin mega
    keleuthopoioi paides Hêphaistou, chthona
    anêmeron tithentes hêmerômenên.
    15
    molonta d' auton karta timalphei leôs,
    Delphos te chôras têsde prumnêtês anax.
    technês de nin Zeus entheon ktisas phrena
    hizei tetarton toisde mantin en thronois:
    Dios+ prophêtês+ d' esti+ Loxias+ patros++.
    20

    toutous en euchais phroimiazomai theous.
    Pallas pronaia d' en logois presbeuetai:
    sebô+ de numphas+, entha+ Kôrukis+ petra+
    koilê+, philornis+, daimonôn+ anastrophê+:
    Bromios echei ton chôron, oud' amnêmonô,
    25
    ex houte Bakchais estratêgêsen theos,
    lagô dikên Penthei katarrapsas moron:
    Pleistou te pêgas kai Poseidônos kratos
    kalousa kai teleion hupsiston Dia,
    epeita mantis es thronous kathizanô.
    30
    kai nun tuchein me tôn prin eisodôn makrôi
    arista doien: kei par' Hellênôn tines,
    itôn palôi lachontes, hôs nomizetai.
    manteuomai gar hôs an hêgêtai theos.

    There are a total of 17 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from L. D. Caskey, J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
    66 [66. 10.221 FRAGMENTARY PSYKTER from Orvieto PLATE XXXI, below]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    154

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [1115-1154]
    * [162-331]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [863-946]

    Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    1, 92, 1 [BOOK I]

    Cross references from Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns:
    * [HYMN TO APOLLO]
    * [HYMN TO APOLLO]
    * [HYMN TO APOLLO]
    * [HYMN TO APOLLO]

    Cross references from Perseus Sculpture Catalog:
    Delphi, Temple of Apollo, East Pediment [Delphi, Temple of Apollo, East Pediment]

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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.Eumenides. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
    OCLC: 13109528
    ISBN: 0674991613

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