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    Euripides, The Trojan Women (ed. Gilbert Murray)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. E. P. Coleridge)
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    Choros
    basileia, bakcheuousan ou lêpsêi korên,
    mê kouphon airêi bêm' es Argeiôn straton+;
    Hekabê
    Hêphaiste, daidoucheis men en gamois brotôn,
    atar lugran ge tênd' anaithusseis phloga
    345
    exô te megalôn elpidôn.
    oimoi, teknon,
    hôs ouch hup' aichmês oud' hup' Argeiou doros
    gamous gameisthai tousd' edoxazon pote.
    parados emoi phôs: ou gar ortha purphoreis
    mainas thoazous', oude s' hai tuchai, teknon,
    350
    † esôphronêkas' †, all' et' en tautôi meneis.
    espherete peukas, dakrua t' antallaxate
    tois têsde melesi, Trôiades, gamêliois.
    Kasandra
    mêter, pukaze krat' emon nikêphoron,
    kai chaire tois emoisi basilikois gamois:
    355
    kai pempe, kan mê tama soi prothuma g' êi,
    ôthei biaiôs: ei gar esti Loxias,
    Helenês gamei me duscheresteron gamon
    ho tôn Achaiôn kleinos Agamemnôn anax.
    ktenô gar auton, kantiporthêsô domous
    360
    poinas adelphôn kai patros labous' emou . . .
    all' att' easô: pelekun ouch humnêsomen,
    hos es trachêlon ton emon eisi chhaterôn:
    mêtroktonous t' agônas, hous houmoi gamoi
    thêsousin, oikôn t' Atreôs anastasin.
    365
    polin de deixô tênde makariôteran
    ê tous Achaious, entheos men, all' homôs
    tosonde g' exô stêsomai bakcheumatôn:
    hoi dia mian gunaika kai mian Kuprin,
    thêrôntes Helenên, murious apôlesan.
    370
    ho de stratêgos ho sophos echthistôn huper
    ta philtat' ôles', hêdonas tas oikothen
    teknôn adelphôi dous gunaikos houneka,
    kai tauth' hekousês kou biai lelêismenês.
    epei d' ep' aktas êluthon Skamandrious,
    375
    ethnêiskon, ou gês hori' aposteroumenoi
    oud' hupsipurgon patrid': hous d' Arês heloi,
    ou paidas eidon, ou damartos en cheroin
    peplois sunestalêsan, en xenêi de gêi
    keintai. ta d' oikoi toisd' homoi' egigneto:
    380
    chêrai t' ethnêiskon, hoi d' apaides en domois
    allois tekn' ekthrepsantes: oude pros taphois
    esth' hostis autôn haima gêi dôrêsetai.
    ê toud' epainou to strateum' epaxion. --
    sigan ameinon taischra, mêde mousa moi
    385
    genoit' aoidos hêtis humnêsei kaka.

    There are a total of 3 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    * [201-595]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    10, 195 [Book 10 (k)]

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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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