Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

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Dêianeira
êmos^*, philai, kat' oikon ho xenos^* throei^*
tais^* aichmalôtois paisin^* hôs ep' exodôi^**,
têmos^* thuraios^*+ êlthon hôs humas lathrai,
ta men^* phrasousa chersin^* hatechnêsamên,

535

ta d' hoia paschô sunkatoiktioumenê^*.
korên^* gar, oimai d' ouket', all' ezeugmenên^*,
pareisdedegmai^** phorton hôste⁺ nautilos,
lôbêton^** empolêma^* tês emês phrenos^*.
kai nun du' ousai^* mimnomen⁺⁺ mias⁺ hupo⁺

540

chlainês^*+ hupankalisma^*+. toiad' Hêraklês,
ho pistos hêmin^* kagathos kaloumenos^*,
oikouri' antepempse tou makrou chronou^*.
egô⁺⁺ de thumousthai⁺ men ouk epistamai^*+
nosounti⁺ keinôi⁺ polla têide têi nosôi^*:

545

to d' au xunoikein^* têid' homou tis an gunê
dunaito, koinônousa tôn autôn gamôn;
horô gar hêbên tên men herpousan prosô,
tên de phthinousan: hôn^** apharpazein^* philei
ophthalmos^* anthos, tôn d' hupektrepei poda^*+.

550

taut' oun^* phoboumai mê posis men Hêraklês
emos kalêtai^**, tês neôteras d' anêr^*.
all' ou gar^*, hôsper eipon, orgainein kalon
gunaika⁺ noun echousan⁺: hêi d' echô^**, philai,
lutêrion^* lôphêma^*, têid' humin phrasô.

555

ên^* moi^* palaion^* dôron^* archaiou^* pote^*
thêros^**, lebêti^* chalkeôi kekrummenon,
ho pais et' ousa tou dasusternou^* para
Nessou^* phthinontos ek phonôn^* aneilomên,
hos ton bathurroun^* potamon^* Euênon^* brotous^*

560

misthou⁺ 'poreue chersin, oute pompimois
kôpais eressôn oute laiphesin neôs.
hos kame, ton patrôion^* hênika stolon^*
xun Hêraklei to prôton eunis^* hespomên^*,
pherôn ep' ômois^*, hênik' ê mesôi porôi^*,

565

psauei mataiais⁺ chersin: ek d' êus' egô^*,
chô Zênos euthus pais epistrepsas^* cheroin
hêken komêtên^* ion: es de pleumonas^*
sternôn dierroizêsen. ekthnêiskôn^* d' ho thêr
tosouton^* eipe: pai gerontos Oineôs,

570

tosond' onêsei tôn emôn^*, ean^* pithêi,
porthmôn^*, hothounech' hustatên s' epemps' egô:
ean gar amphithrepton^* haima tôn emôn
sphagôn^* enenkêi chersin^**, hêi melancholous^**
ebapsen^* ious thremma^** Lernaias hudras^**,

575

estai phrenos soi touto kêlêtêrion
tês Hêrakleias, hôste mêtin'⁺ eisidôn⁺
sterxei^*+ gunaika keinos⁺ anti⁺ sou^* pleon⁺.
tout' ennoêsas', ô philai, domois^* gar ên
keinou thanontos enkeklêimenon^* kalôs,

580

chitôna^* tond' ebapsa^*, prosbalous' hosa
zôn keinos eipe: kai pepeirantai^* tade.
kakas⁺ de tolmas^*+ mêt'^**++ epistaimên^*+ egô
mêt' ekmathoimi^*+, tas te tolmôsas⁺ stugô^*+:
philtrois d' ean pôs^* tênd' huperbalômetha^*

585

tên paida^* kai thelktroisi^* tois eph' Hêraklei,
memêchanêtai tourgon^*, ei ti mê^* dokô
prassein mataion^*: ei de mê^*, pepausomai.

Further comments from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
line 534: ta d
line 537: phor-
line 537: ton
line 541: pistos
line 542: oikouria
line 547 (general note)
line 550: kaleitai
line 552: lupêma
line 552: echei
line 557: phonôn
line 557: Nessos
line 559: poreue
line 559: thou
line 564: ê
line 566: n
line 566: l
line 566: l
line 566: l
line 566: n
line 572: ious
line 572: melancholos ios
line 578: ennoêsas
line 580: prosbalous

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
1134
1051
124

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
* [720-1043: Second episode]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [988-1114]
* [1-99]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
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Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
* [1098-1383]
* [251-471]
* [1098-1383]
* [516-1057]
* [1-120]
* [251-471]
* [516-1057]
* [1-120]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
* [219-675]
* [219-675]
* [676-729]
* [1218-1471]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
* [141-496]
* [531-632]
* [971-1278]
* [141-496]
* [971-1278]
* [663-820]
* [863-946]
* [971-1278]
* [531-632]
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* [663-820]
* [971-1278]
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* [821-862]
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* [531-632]

Cross references from Perseus Vase Catalog:
London B 163 [London B 163]

Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
5, 423 [Book 5 (E)]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
791 [Articular Infinitive as Subject or Object.]
367 [Clauses with mê after Verbs of Fearing, etc.]
606 [hôste with the Finite Moods.]
478 [Peculiar Forms of Conditional Sentences: Substitution and Ellipsis in Protasis.—Protasis without a Verb.]

Cross references from F. A. Paley, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes:
39, 26 [PROS BOIÔTON PERI TOU ONOMATOS: Mantitheus v. Boeotus de nomine.]

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