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

    Phrygian

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. E. P. Coleridge)
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    Chorus Leader

    Where were you Phrygians in the house to help her?

    Phrygian

    With a loud cry from the house we battered down with bars the doors and doorposts where we had been, [1475]  and ran to her assistance from every direction, one with stones, another with javelins, a third with a drawn sword; but Pylades came to meet us, undaunted, like [1480]  Hector of Troy or Ajax triple-plumed, as I saw him, saw him, in Priam's gateway; and we met at sword's point. But then it was very clear how the Phrygians were, [1485]  how much less we were in battle strength to the Hellene might. There was one man gone in flight, another slain, another wounded, yet another pleading to stave off death; but we escaped under cover of the darkness; while some were falling, some were about to fall, and others were lying dead. [1490]  And just as her unhappy mother sank to the ground to die, the luckless Hermione came in. Those two, like Bacchantes when they drop the thyrsus for a mountain cub, rushed and seized her; then turned again to the daughter of Zeus to slay her; but she had vanished from the room, [1495]  passing right through the house, o Zeus and Earth and light and night! whether by magic spells or wizards' arts or heavenly theft. What happened afterwards I do not know; for I stole out of the palace, a runaway. [1500]  So Menelaus endured his painful, painful suffering to recover his wife Helen from Troy to no purpose.

    Orestes comes out of the palace.
    Chorus Leader

    And look, here is a strange sight succeeding others; for I see Orestes sword in hand before the palace, [1505]  advancing with excited steps.


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

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    *: pou dêt' amunein hoi kata stegas Phruges;

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    * [974-1184]

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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. 2. Orestes, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
    OCLC: 32280428


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