Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

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Hullos
hapas d' anêuphêmêsen oimôgêi^* leôs,
tou men nosountos, tou de diapepragmenou:

785

koudeis etolma tandros antion molein.
espato gar pedonde kai metarsios,
boôn, iuzôn^*: amphi d' ektupoun petrai,
Lokrôn^* t' oreioi prônes^* Euboias t' akrai^*.
epei d' apeipe^*, polla men talas chthoni

790

rhiptôn^* heauton, polla d' oimôgêi boôn,
to duspareunon^* lektron^*+ endatoumenos^*+
sou tês talainês, kai ton Oineôs gamon^*
hoion kataktêsaito lumantên biou,
tot' ek prosedrou^* lignuos^* diastrophon^*

795

ophthalmon aras eide m' en pollôi stratôi
dakrurroounta, kai me prosblepsas kalei:
ô pai, proselthe, mê phugêis toumon kakon,
mêd' ei se chrê thanonti sunthanein^* emoi:
all' aron^* exô^*, kai malista⁺ men me thes^*

800

entauth'⁺ hopou^*+ me mê tis opsetai^*+ brotôn⁺:
ei d' oikton⁺ ischeis^*+, alla^* m' ek ge têsde gês
porthmeuson hôs tachista, mêd' autou^* thanô^*++.
tosaut' episkêpsantos^*, en mesôi skaphei
thentes^* sphe pros gên tênd' ekelsamen^* molis

805

bruchômenon spasmoisi: kai nin autika
ê zônt'^* esopsesth' ê tethnêkot' artiôs.
toiauta, mêter, patri bouleusas' emôi⁺
kai drôs' elêphthês, hôn se poinimos^* Dikê^*
tisait' Erinus t'. ei themis^** d', epeuchomai^*:

810

themis d', epei moi tên themin^* su proubales,
pantôn ariston andra tôn epi chthoni
kteinas', hopoion allon ouk opsei pote.

Further comments from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
line 788: t
line 788: akra
line 799: methes
line 799: methes
line 801: ei d' oiktos ischei s
line 803: tosaut
line 804: sphe
line 807: bouleusas
line 807: drôs
line 807: proubales
line 807: moi
line 807: erin

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
796
1411
1373: drôs'

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
* [1096-1210: Third episode]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [162-331]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
* [134-200]
* [719-865]
* [646-692]
* [1223-1420]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
* [516-1057]
* [1098-1383]
* [516-1057]
* [1-120]
* [251-471]
* [121-250]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
* [865-1080]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
* [971-1278]
* [863-946]
* [971-1278]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
565 [Final Relative Clauses Expressing Purpose.]
257 [First Person of Subjunctive as Imperative.]

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