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

    Chorus

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

    [1485]  I do not veil my tender cheek shaded with curls, nor do I feel shame, from maiden modesty, at the dark red beneath my eyes, the blush upon my face, as I hurry on, in bacchic revelry for the dead, [1490]  casting from my hair its mantle and letting my delicate saffron robe fly loose, a tearful escort to the dead. Ah me! Oh, Polyneices! you were rightly named, after all; woe to you, Thebes! [1495]  Your strife--not strife, but murder on murder-- has brought the house of Oedipus to ruin with dire and grim bloodshed. What harmonious or tuneful wailing can I summon, [1500]  for my tears, my tears, oh, my home! oh, my home! as I bear these three kindred bodies, my mother and her sons, a welcome sight to the Fury? She destroyed the house of Oedipus, root and branch, [1505]  when his shrewdness solved the Sphinx's unsolvable song and killed that savage singer. Alas for you, father! What other Hellene or barbarian, [1510]  what mortal from a noble line ever endured the anguish of such visible afflictions? Ah! poor girl, how piteous is your cry! [1515]  What bird, perched on the high-leaved branches of oak or pine, will come to mourn with me, left motherless? With cries of woe, [1520]  I lament before it comes the piteous lonely life, that I shall live for the rest of time, in streaming tears. On which of these [1525]  shall I throw my offerings first, plucking the hair from my head? on the breast of the mother that suckled me, or beside the ghastly death-wounds of my brothers' corpses?


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    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [720-1043: Second episode]: ou prokaluptomena botruchôdeos i habra parêidos

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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. The Phoenissae, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
    OCLC: 32280428


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