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    Euripides, Medea (ed. David Kovacs)

    Choros

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. David Kovacs) | English (ed. David Kovacs)
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    Mêdeia
    Korinthiai gunaikes, exêlthon domôn
    215
    mê moi ti mempsêsth': oida gar pollous brotôn
    semnous gegôtas, tous men ommatôn apo,
    tous d' en thuraiois: hoi d' aph' hêsuchou podos
    duskleian ektêsanto kai rhaithumian.
    dikê gar ouk enest' en ophthalmois brotôn,
    220
    hostis prin andros splanchnon ekmathein saphôs
    stugei dedorkôs, ouden êdikêmenos.
    chrê de xenon men karta proschôrein polei:
    oud' aston êines' hostis authadês gegôs
    pikros politais estin amathias hupo.
    225
    emoi d' aelpton pragma prospeson tode
    psuchên diephthark': oichomai de kai biou
    charin metheisa katthanein chrêizô, philai.
    en hôi gar ên moi panta, gignôskô kalôs,
    kakistos andrôn ekbebêch' houmos posis.
    230

    pantôn d' hos' est' empsucha kai gnômên echei
    gunaikes esmen athliôtaton phuton:
    has prôta men dei chrêmatôn huperbolêi
    posin priasthai, despotên te sômatos
    [labein: kakou gar tout' et' algion kakon].
    235
    kan tôid' agôn megistos, ê kakon labein
    ê chrêston: ou gar eukleeis apallagai
    gunaixin oud' hoion t' anênasthai posin.
    es kaina d' êthê kai nomous aphigmenên
    dei mantin einai, mê mathousan oikothen,
    240
    hopôs arista chrêsetai xuneunetêi.
    kan men tad' hêmin ekponoumenaisin eu
    posis xunoikêi mê biai pherôn zugon,
    zêlôtos aiôn: ei de mê, thanein chreôn.
    anêr d', hotan tois endon achthêtai xunôn,
    245
    exô molôn epause kardian asês
    [ê pros philon tin' ê pros hêlika trapeis]:
    hêmin d' anankê pros mian psuchên blepein.
    legousi d' hêmas hôs akindunon bion
    zômen kat' oikous, hoi de marnantai dori,
    250
    kakôs phronountes: hôs tris an par' aspida
    stênai theloim' an mallon ê tekein hapax.

    There are a total of 6 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    153 [Erste Komparationsform.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    359 [Lehre von der Kongruenz der Form.]
    425 [Der Dativ als Vertreter des Instrumentalis.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    486 [Nähere Bestimmung des Gebrauches des bezüglichen und des absoluten Partizips (des Participii coniuncti und der Genetivi absoluti).]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [806-943]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [865-1080]

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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: 34837302
    ISBN: 0674995600

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