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    Euripides, The Trojan Women (ed. Gilbert Murray)

    Hekabê

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. E. P. Coleridge)
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    Helenê
    895
    Menelae, phroimion men axion phobou
    tod' estin: en gar chersi prospolôn sethen
    biai pro tônde dômatôn ekpempomai.
    atar schedon men oida soi misoumenê,
    homôs d' eresthai boulomai: gnômai tines
    900
    Hellêsi kai soi tês emês psuchês peri;
    Menelaos
    ouk eis akribes êlthes, all' hapas stratos
    ktanein emoi s' edôken, honper êdikeis.
    Helenê
    exestin oun pros taut' ameipsasthai logôi,
    hôs ou dikaiôs, ên thanô, thanoumetha;
    Menelaos
    905
    ouk es logous elêluth', alla se ktenôn.
    Hekabê
    akouson autês, mê thanêi toud' endeês,
    Menelae, kai dos tous enantious logous
    hêmin kat' autês: tôn gar en Troiai kakôn
    ouden katoistha. suntetheis d' ho pas logos
    910
    ktenei nin houtôs hôste mêdamou phugein.
    Menelaos
    scholês to dôron: ei de bouletai legein,
    exesti. tôn sôn d' hounech' -- hôs mathêi -- logôn
    dôsô tod' autêi: têsde d' ou dôsô charin.
    Helenê
    isôs me, kan eu kan kakôs doxô legein,
    915
    ouk antameipsêi polemian hêgoumenos.
    egô d', ha s' oimai dia logôn iont' emou
    katêgorêsein, antitheis' ameipsomai
    tois soisi tama kai ta s' aitiamata.
    prôton men archas eteken hêde tôn kakôn,
    920
    Parin tekousa: deuteron d' apôlese
    Troian te kam' ho presbus ou ktanôn brephos,
    dalou pikron mimêm', Alexandron pote.
    enthende tapiloip' akouson hôs echei.
    ekrine trisson zeugos hode triôn theôn:
    925
    kai Pallados men ên Alexandrôi dosis
    Phruxi stratêgounth' Hellad' exanistanai,
    Hêra d' hupeschet' Asiad' Eurôpês th' horous
    turannid' hexein, ei sphe krineien Paris:
    Kupris de toumon eidos ekpagloumenê
    930
    dôsein hupeschet', ei theas huperdramoi
    kallei. ton enthen d' hôs echei skepsai logon:
    nikai Kupris theas, kai tosond' houmoi gamoi
    ônêsan Hellad': ou krateisth' ek barbarôn,
    out' es doru stathentes, ou turannidi.
    935
    ha d' eutuchêsen Hellas, ôlomên egô
    eumorphiai pratheisa, kôneidizomai
    ex hôn echrên me stephanon epi karai labein.
    oupô me phêseis auta tan posin legein,
    hopôs aphôrmês' ek domôn tôn sôn lathra.
    940
    êlth' ouchi mikran theon echôn hautou meta
    ho têsd' alastôr, eit' Alexandron theleis
    onomati prosphônein nin eite kai Parin:
    hon, ô kakiste, soisin en domois lipôn
    Spartês apêras nêi Krêsian chthona.

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    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    13, 257 [Book 13 (N)]

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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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