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    Euripides, Bacchae (ed. Gilbert Murray)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. T. A. Buckley)
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    Choros
    775
    tarbô men eipein tous logous eleutherous
    pros ton turannon, all' homôs eirêsetai:
    Dionusos hêssôn oudenos theôn ephu.
    Pentheus
    êdê tod' engus hôste pur huphaptetai
    hubrisma bakchôn, psogos es Hellênas megas.
    780
    all' ouk oknein dei: steich' ep' Êlektras iôn
    pulas: keleue pantas aspidêphorous
    hippôn t' apantan tachupodôn epembatas
    peltas th' hosoi pallousi kai toxôn cheri
    psallousi neuras, hôs epistrateusomen
    785
    bakchaisin: ou gar all' huperballei tade,
    ei pros gunaikôn peisomesth' ha paschomen.
    Dionusos
    peithêi men ouden, tôn emôn logôn kluôn,
    Pentheu: kakôs de pros sethen paschôn+ homôs
    ou phêmi chrênai s' hopl' epairesthai theôi,
    790
    all' hêsuchazein: Bromios ouk anexetai
    kinounta bakchas euiôn orôn apo.
    Pentheus
    ou mê phrenôseis m', alla desmios phugôn
    sôisêi tod'; ê soi palin anastrepsô dikên;
    Dionusos
    thuoim' an autôi mallon ê thumoumenos
    795
    pros kentra laktizoimi thnêtos ôn theôi.
    Pentheus
    thusô, phonon ge thêlun, hôsper axiai,
    polun taraxas en Kithairônos ptuchais.
    Dionusos
    pheuxesthe pantes: kai tod' aischron, aspidas
    thursoisi bakchôn ektrepein chalkêlatous
    Pentheus
    800
    aporôi+ ge tôide+ sumpeplegmetha+ xenôi+,
    hos oute++ paschôn oute drôn+ sigêsetai+.
    Dionusos
    ô tan, et' estin eu katastêsai tade.
    Pentheus
    ti drônta; douleuonta douleiais emais;
    Dionusos
    egô gunaikas deur' hoplôn axô dicha.
    Pentheus
    805
    oimoi: tod' êdê dolion es me mêchanai.
    Dionusos
    poion ti, sôisai s' ei thelô technais emais;
    Pentheus
    xunethesthe koinêi tad', hina bakcheuêt' aei.
    Dionusos
    kai mên xunethemên--touto g' esti--tôi theôi.
    Pentheus
    ekpherete moi deur' hopla, su de pausai legôn.

    There are a total of 6 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    1145

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    387 [f) Futur.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    541 [Bemerkungen über den Gebrauch des ê und des Genetivs bei dem Komparative.]

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    * [Euripides. (Naples Museum.)]

    Cross references from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
    * [Pythian Odes]

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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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