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    Euripides, The Trojan Women (ed. Gilbert Murray)

    Helenê

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. E. P. Coleridge)
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    Helenê
    945
    eihen.
    ou se, all' emautên toupi tôid' erêsomai:
    ti dê phronousa g' ek domôn ham' hespomên
    xenôi, prodousa patrida kai domous emous;
    tên theon kolaze kai Dios kreissôn genou,
    hos tôn men allôn daimonôn echei kratos,
    950
    keinês de doulos esti: sungnômê d' emoi.
    enthen d' echois an eis em' euprepê logon:
    epei thanôn gês êlth' Alexandros muchous,
    chrên m', hênik' ouk ên theoponêta mou lechê,
    lipousan oikous naus ep' Argeiôn molein.
    955
    espeudon auto touto: martures de moi
    purgôn pulôroi kapo teicheôn skopoi,
    hoi pollakis m' ephêuron ex epalxeôn
    plektaisin es gên sôma kleptousan tode.
    [biai d' ho kainos m' houtos harpasas posis
    960
    Dêiphobos alochon eichen akontôn Phrugôn.]
    pôs oun et' an thnêiskoim' an endikôs, posi,
    . . . . . . .
    pros sou dikaiôs, hên ho men biai gamei,
    ta d' oikothen kein' anti nikêtêriôn
    pikrôs edouleus'; ei de tôn theôn kratein
    965
    boulêi, to chrêizein amathes esti sou tode.
    Choros
    basilei', amunon sois teknoisi kai patrai
    peithô diaphtheirousa têsd', epei legei
    kalôs kakourgos ousa: deinon oun tode.
    Hekabê
    tais theaisi prôta summachos genêsomai
    970
    kai tênde deixô mê legousan endika.
    egô gar Hêran parthenon te Pallada
    ouk es tosouton amathias elthein dokô,
    hôsth' hê men Argos barbarois apêmpola,
    Pallas d' Athênas Phruxi douleuein pote,
    975
    ei paidiaisi kai chlidêi morphês peri
    êlthon pros Idên. tou gar hounek' an thea
    Hêra tosouton esch' erôta kallonês;
    poteron ameinon' hôs labêi Dios posin;
    ê gamon Athêna theôn tinos thêrômenê --
    980
    hê partheneian patros exêitêsato,
    pheugousa lektra; mê amatheis poiei theas
    982
    to son kakon kosmousa, mê ou peisêis sophous.
    Kuprin d' elexas -- tauta gar gelôs polus --
    elthein emôi xun paidi Meneleô domous.
    985
    ouk an menous' an hêsuchos s' en ouranôi
    autais Amuklais êgagen pros Ilion;

    There are a total of 10 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Aristotle, Rhetoric (ed. W. D. Ross):
    3, 17, 15

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

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [1081-1217]
    * [730-826]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    4, 276 [Book 4 (d)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    688 [Participle in Indirect Discourse.]
    596 [hôste with the Infinitive.]
    264 [Independent Subjunctive with mê Implying Fear (Homeric).]
    * [On the Origin of the Construction of ou mê with the Subjunctive and the Future Indicative.]
    * [On the Origin of the Construction of ou mê with the Subjunctive and the Future Indicative.]

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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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