Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

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Choros
kluous' ephrixa tasde sumphoras, philai,

1045

anaktos, hoiais^* hoios ôn elaunetai.
Hêraklês
ô polla⁺ dê^* kai therma^*+ kou logôi^**+ kaka^**
kai chersi^* kai nôtoisi^* mochthêsas^* egô⁺:
koupô^*+ toiouton⁺ out'⁺ akoitis⁺ hê Dios^*+
prouthêken outh' ho stugnos Eurustheus^* emoi,

1050

hoion^* tod' hê dolôpis^* Oineôs korê
kathêpsen ômois tois emois Erinuôn^*
huphanton^* amphiblêstron^*, hôi diollumai.
pleuraisi gar prosmachthen^* ek men eschatas
bebrôke sarkas⁺, pleumonos t' artêrias^*

1055

rhophei^* xunoikoun^*, ek de chlôron^* haima mou
pepôken êdê, kai diephtharmai demas
to pan, aphrastôi^* têide cheirôtheis^* pedêi.
kou tauta lonchê pedias^*, outh' ho gêgenês
stratos Gigantôn^* oute thêreios bia^*,

1060

outh' Hellas^* out' aglôssos^* outh' hosên^* egô
gaian^* kathairôn hikomên, edrase pô:
gunê de, thêlus^*+ phusa^* kouk⁺ andros^*+ phusin⁺,
monê me dê katheile^*+ phasganou dicha^*.
ô pai, genou^* moi pais etêtumos^* gegôs^*,

1065

kai mê to mêtros onoma presbeusêis^* pleon.
dos moi cheroin sain autos ex oikou labôn
es cheira tên tekousan, hôs eidô^* sapha
ei toumon^* algeis mallon⁺ ê keinês horôn
lôbêton eidos en dikêi kakoumenon^*.

1070

ith', ô teknon, tolmêson^*: oiktiron te me
polloisin⁺ oiktron⁺, hostis hôste parthenos^*
bebrucha klaiôn, kai tod' oud' an heis pote
tond' andra^* phaiê prosth' idein dedrakota,
all' astenaktos^* aien^* heipomên^* kakois^*.

1075

nun d' ek toioutou^* thêlus hêurêmai talas.

Further comments from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
line 1045: hoias
line 1046: therma
line 1047: sternoisi
line 1048: prouthêken
line 1058: kou outh
line 1058: outh
line 1058: oud
line 1062: ousa
line 1062: anêr
line 1067: idô
line 1070: ith
line 1074: hespomên

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
* [668-719: First stasimon]
* [549-667: Conclusion of first episode]
* [1-116: Prologue]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [100-161]
* [376-581]
* [806-943]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
* [201-595]
* [201-595]
* [1223-1420]
* [201-595]
* [974-1184]
* [719-865]
* [201-595]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
* [516-1057]
* [516-1057]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
* [219-675]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
* [821-862]
* [821-862]
* [663-820]
* [821-862]
* [141-496]
* [141-496]
* [971-1278]

Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
3, 1, 11 [Nominative in exclamations.]
8, 12, 229 [Intensive perfect.]

Cross references from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
* [Commentary]

This text is based on the following book(s):
Sophocles. The Trachiniae of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1892.
OCLC: 39793726