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    Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Gilbert Murray)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. Robert Potter)
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    Iphigeneia
    Pelops ho Tantaleios es Pisan molôn
    thoaisin hippois Oinomaou gamei korên,
    ex hês Atreus eblasten: Atreôs de pais
    Menelaos Agamemnôn te: tou d' ephun egô
    5
    tês Tundareias thugatros Iphigeneia pais,
    hên amphi dinais has tham' Euripos puknais
    aurais helissôn kuanean hala strephei,
    esphaxen Helenês hounech', hôs dokei, patêr
    Artemidi kleinais en ptuchaisin Aulidos.
    10
    entautha gar dê chiliôn naôn stolon
    Hellênikon sunêgag' Agamemnôn anax,
    ton kallinikon stephanon Iliou thelôn
    labein Achaiois tous th' hubristhentas gamous
    Helenês metelthein, Meneleôi charin pherôn.
    15
    deinês d' aploias pneumatôn te tunchanôn,
    es empur' êlthe, kai legei Kalchas tade:
    ô têsd' anassôn Hellados stratêgias,
    Agamemnon, ou mê naus aphormisêi chthonos,
    prin an korên sên Iphigeneian Artemis
    20
    labêi sphageisan: ho ti gar eniautos tekoi
    kalliston, êuxô phôsphorôi thusein theai.
    paid' oun en oikois sê Klutaimêstra damar
    tiktei -- to kallisteion eis em' anapherôn --
    hên chrê se thusai. kai m' Odusseôs technais
    25
    mêtros pareilont' epi gamois Achilleôs.
    elthousa d' Aulid' hê talain' huper puras
    metarsia lêphtheis' ekainomên xiphei++:
    all' exeklepsen elaphon antidousa mou
    Artemis Achaiois, dia de lampron aithera
    30
    pempsasa m' es tênd' ôikisen Taurôn chthona,
    hou gês anassei barbaroisi barbaros
    Thoas, hos ôkun poda titheis ison pterois
    es tounom' êlthe tode podôkeias charin.
    naoisi d' en toisd' hierean tithêsi me:
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    hothen nomoisi toisin hêdetai thea
    Artemis, heortês, tounom' hês kalon monon --
    ta d' alla sigô, tên theon phoboumenê --
    [thuô gar ontos tou nomou kai prin polei,
    hos an katelthêi tênde gên Hellên anêr.]
    40
    katarchomai men, sphagia d' alloisin melei
    arrêt' esôthen tônd' anaktorôn theas.

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

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [1115-1154]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    3, 445 [Book 3 (g)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    642 [prin with the Subjunctive and Optative: Subjunctive.]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, ed. Gilbert Murray, vol. 2. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913.
    OCLC: 36956970


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