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    Aeschylus, Suppliant Women (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.)

    Basileus

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)
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    Kêrux
    930
    all' hôs an eidôs ennepô saphesteron,--
    kai gar prepei kêruk' apangellein torôs
    hekasta,--pôs phô, pros tinos t' aphairetheis
    hêkein gunaikôn autanepsion stolon;
    outoi dikazei tauta marturôn hupo
    935
    Arês: to neikos d' ouk en argurou labêi
    elusen: alla polla gignetai paros
    pesêmat' andrôn kapolaktismoi biou.
    <*basileu/s>
    ti soi legein chrê tounom'; en chronôi mathôn
    eisêi su t' autos choi xunemporoi sethen.
    940
    tautas d' hekousas men kat' eunoian phrenôn
    agois an, eiper eusebês pithoi logos.
    toia de dêmopraktos ek poleôs mia
    psêphos kekrantai, mêpot' ekdounai biai
    stolon gunaikôn: tônd' ephêlôtai torôs
    945
    gomphos diampax, hôs menein ararotôs.
    taut' ou pinaxin estin engegrammena
    oud' en ptuchais biblôn katesphragismena,
    saphê d' akoueis ex eleutherostomou
    glôssês. komizou d' hôs tachist' ex ommatôn.
    <*khru=c>
    950
    eoigmen êdê polemon areisthai neon.
    eiê de nikê kai kratê tois arsesin+.
    <*basileu/s>
    all' arsenas toi têsde gês oikêtoras
    heurêset' ou pinontas ek krithôn methu.
    humeis de pasai sun philais opaosi
    955
    thrasos labousai steichet'+ euerkê+ polin,
    purgôn batheiai mêchanêi keklêimenên.
    kai dômat' esti polla men ta dêmia,
    dedômatômai d' oud' egô smikrai cheri.
    enth' humin estin eutukous naiein domous+
    960
    pollôn met' allôn: ei de tis meizôn+ charis+,
    parestin+ oikein+ kai monorruthmous+ domous.
    toutôn+ ta lôista+ kai ta thumêdestata
    paresti, lôtisasthe+. prostatês d' egô
    astoi te pantes, hônper hêde krainetai
    965
    psêphos. ti tônde kuriôterous meneis;

    There are a total of 4 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [549-667: Conclusion of first episode]

    Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    1, 119, 3 [BOOK I]

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    Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1.Suppliant Women. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
    OCLC: 13109528
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