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    Euripides, Heracleidae (ed. David Kovacs)

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    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. David Kovacs) | English (ed. David Kovacs)
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    Alkmênê
    975
    philô polin tênd': ouden antilekteon:
    touton d', epeiper cheiras êlthen eis emas,
    ouk esti thnêtôn hostis+ exairêsetai.
    pros+ tauta+ tên thraseian+ hostis an thelêi+
    kai tên phronousan+ meizon+ ê gunaika+ chrê
    980
    lexei+: to d' ergon tout' emoi pepraxetai.
    Choros
    deinon ti kai sungnôston, ô gunai, s' echei
    neikos pros andra tonde, gignôskô kalôs.
    Eurustheus
    gunai, saph' isthi mê me thôpeusonta se
    mêd' allo mêden tês emês psuchês peri
    985
    lexonth' hothen chrê deilian ophlein tina.
    egô de neikos ouch hekôn tod' êramên:
    êidê ge soi men autanepsios gegôs,
    tôi sôi de paidi sungenês Hêrakleei.
    all' eit' echrêizon eite mê -- theos gar ên --
    990
    Hêra me kamnein tênd' ethêke tên noson.
    epei d' ekeinôi dusmeneian êramên
    kagnôn agôna tond' agônioumenos,
    pollôn sophistês pêmatôn egignomên
    kai poll' etikton nukti sunthakôn aei,
    995
    hopôs diôsas kai katakteinas emous
    echthrous to loipon mê sunoikoiên phobôi,
    eidôs men ouk arithmon all' etêtumôs
    andr' onta ton son paida: kai gar echthros ôn
    akousetai † g' esthla† chrêstos ôn anêr.
    1000
    keinou d' apallachthentos ouk echrên m' ara,
    misoumenon pros tônde kai xuneidota
    echthran patrôian, panta kinêsai petron
    kteinonta kakballonta kai technômenon;
    toiauta drônti tam' egignet' asphalê.
    1005
    oukoun su g' analabousa tas emas tuchas
    echthrou leontos dusgenê blastêmata
    êlaunes an kakoisin, alla sôphronôs
    eiasas oikein Argos. outin' an pithois.

    nun oun epeidê m' ou diôlesan tote
    1010
    prothumon onta, toisin Hellênôn nomois
    ouch hagnos eimi tôi ktanonti katthanôn:
    polis t' aphêke sôphronousa, ton theon
    meizon tiousa tês emês echthras polu.
    proseipas, antêkousas: enteuthen †de chrê
    1015
    ton prostropaion ton te gennaion kalein†.
    houtô ge mentoi tam' echeis: thanein men ou
    chrêizô, lipôn d' an ouden achthoimên bion.

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    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    606 [a. Einfacher Satz.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [1081-1217]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Euripides. Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. forthcoming.
    OCLC: 32167765
    ISBN: 0674995333

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