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    Euripides, Hecuba (ed. E. P. Coleridge)

    Hecuba

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. E. P. Coleridge)
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    Polymestor rushes out. Blood is streaming from his eyes.
    Polymestor

    Woe is me! where can I go, where halt, or turn? shall I crawl like a wild four-footed beast on their track, as my reward? Which path shall I take first, [1060]  this or that, eager as I am to clutch those Trojan murderesses that have destroyed me? You wretched, cursed daughters [1065]  of Phrygia! to what corner have you fled cowering before me? O sun-god, would you could heal, could heal my bleeding eyes, ridding me of my blindness!

    Ha! [1070]  hush! I catch the stealthy footsteps of the women here. Where can I dart on them and gorge on their flesh and bones, making for myself a wild beasts' meal, inflicting mutilation [1075]  in requital of their outrage on me? Ah, woe is me! where am I rushing, leaving my children unguarded for maenads of hell to mangle, to be murdered and ruthlessly cast forth upon the hills, a feast of blood for dogs? [1080]  Where shall I stay or turn my steps, like a ship that lies anchored at sea, gathering close my linen robe and rushing to that chamber of death, to guard my children?


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    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    394 [b. Gebrauch des Konjunktivs.]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    287 [Interrogative Subjunctive.]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Hecuba, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
    OCLC: 42737896


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