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    Aeschylus, Libation Bearers (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.)

    Orestês

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)
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    Puladês
    900
    pou dê ta loipa Loxiou manteumata
    ta puthochrêsta, pista d' euorkômata;
    hapantas echthrous tôn theôn hêgou pleon.
    Orestês
    krinô se nikan, kai paraineis moi kalôs.
    hepou, pros auton tonde se sphaxai thelô.
    905
    kai zônta gar nin kreisson' hêgêsô patros:
    toutôi thanousa xunkatheud', epei phileis
    ton andra touton, hon d' echrên philein stugeis.
    Klutaimnêstra
    egô s' ethrepsa, sun de gêranai thelô.
    Orestês
    patroktonousa gar xunoikêseis emoi;
    Klutaimnêstra
    910
    hê Moira toutôn, ô teknon, paraitia.
    Orestês
    kai tonde toinun Moir' eporsunen moron.
    Klutaimnêstra
    ouden sebizêi genethlious aras, teknon;
    Orestês
    tekousa gar m' erripsas es to dustuches.
    Klutaimnêstra
    outoi s' aperrips' eis domous doruxenous.
    Orestês
    915
    aikôs eprathên ôn eleutherou patros.
    Klutaimnêstra
    pou dêth' ho timos, hontin' antedexamên;
    Orestês
    aischunomai soi tout' oneidisai saphôs.
    Klutaimnêstra
    mê all' eiph' homoiôs kai patros tou sou matas.
    Orestês
    mê 'lenche ton ponount' esô kathêmenê.
    Klutaimnêstra
    920
    algos gunaixin andros eirgesthai, teknon.
    Orestês
    trephei de g' andros mochthos hêmenas esô.
    Klutaimnêstra
    ktenein eoikas, ô teknon, tên mêtera.
    Orestês
    su toi seautên, ouk egô, katakteneis.
    Klutaimnêstra
    hora, phulaxai mêtros enkotous kunas.
    Orestês
    925
    tas tou patros de pôs phugô, pareis tade;
    Klutaimnêstra
    eoika thrênein zôsa pros tumbon matên.
    Orestês
    patros gar aisa tonde sourizei moron.
    Klutaimnêstra
    oi 'gô tekousa tond' ophin ethrepsamên.
    Orestês
    ê karta mantis houx oneiratôn phobos.
    930
    ekanes hon ou chrên, kai to mê chreôn pathe.
    Choros
    stenô men oun kai tônde sumphoran diplên.
    epei de pollôn haimatôn epêkrise
    tlêmôn Orestês, touth' homôs hairoumetha,
    ophthalmon oikôn mê panôlethron pesein.

    There are a total of 5 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    987: ophthalmos oikôn

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    * [201-595]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [1384-1397]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    17, 197 [Book 17 (R)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    419 [Apodosis without an.&#ch2014;Edei, chrên, etc. with the Infinitive.]

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

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