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    Euripides, Andromache (ed. David Kovacs)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. David Kovacs) | English (ed. David Kovacs)
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    Andromachê
    Asiatidos gês schêma, Thêbaia polis,
    hothen poth' hednôn sun poluchrusôi chlidêi
    Priamou turannon hestian aphikomên
    damar dotheisa paidopoios Hektori,
    5
    zêlôtos en ge tôi prin Andromachê chronôi,
    nun d', ei tis allê, dustuchestatê gunê:
    [emou pephuken ê genêsetai pote]:
    hêtis posin men Hektor' ex Achilleôs
    thanont' eseidon, paida th' hon tiktô posei
    10
    rhiphthenta purgôn Astuanakt' ap' orthiôn,
    epei to Troias heilon Hellênes pedon:
    autê de doulê tôn eleutherôtatôn+
    oikôn+ nomistheis' Hellad' eisaphikomên
    tôi nêsiôtêi Neoptolemôi doros geras
    15
    dotheisa leias Trôïkês exaireton.
    Phthias de têsde kai poleôs Pharsalias
    sunchorta naiô pedi', hin' hê thalassia
    Pêlei xunôikei chôris anthrôpôn Thetis
    pheugous' homilon: Thessalos de nin leôs
    20
    Thetideion audai theas charin numpheumatôn.
    enth' oikon esche tonde pais Achilleôs,
    Pêlea d' anassein gês eai Pharsalias,
    zôntos gerontos skêptron ou thelôn labein.
    kagô domois toisd' arsen' entiktô koron,
    25
    platheis' Achilleôs paidi, despotêi d' emôi.

    kai prin men en kakoisi keimenên homôs
    elpis m' aei prosêge sôthentos teknou
    alkên tin' heurein kapikourêsin domon:
    epei de tên Lakainan Hermionên gamei
    30
    toumon parôsas despotês doulon lechos,
    kakois pros autês schetliois elaunomai.
    legei gar hôs nin pharmakois kekrummenois
    tithêm' apaida kai posei misoumenên,
    autê de naiein oikon ant' autês thelô
    35
    tond', ekbalousa lektra takeinês biai:
    hagô to prôton ouch hekous' edexamên,
    nun d' ekleloipa: Zeus tad' eideiê megas,
    hôs ouch hekousa tôid' ekoinôthên lechei.
    all' ou sphe peithô, bouletai de me ktanein,
    40
    patêr te thugatri Meneleôs sundrai tade.
    kai nun kat' oikous est', apo Spartês molôn
    ep' auto touto: deimatoumenê d' egô
    domôn paroikon Thetidos eis anaktoron
    thassô tod' elthous', ên me kôlusêi thanein.
    45
    Pêleus te gar nin ekgonoi te Pêleôs
    sebousin, hermêneuma Nêrêidos gamôn.

    hos d' esti pais moi monos, hupekpempô lathrai
    allous es oikous, mê thanêi phoboumenê.
    ho gar phuteusas auton out' emoi para
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    prosôphelêsai, paidi t' ouden est', apôn
    Delphôn kat' aian, entha Loxiai dikên
    didôsi manias, hêi pot' eis Puthô molôn
    êitêse Phoibon patros hou kteinei dikên,
    ei pôs ta prosthe sphalmat' exaitoumenos
    55
    theon paraschoit' eis to loipon eumenê.

    There are a total of 10 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [1-116: Prologue]: tôn eleutherôtatônoikôn nomistheis

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    75 [Bemerkungen über die Quantität in der Dichtersprache.]
    54 [E. Elisio inversa oder Aphäresis.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [1-134]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [141-496]
    * [971-1278]
    * [1-93]
    * [1-93]

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    platea [Platēa]

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    Euripides. Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. forthcoming.
    OCLC: 32167765
    ISBN: 0674995333

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