The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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... dead and the gates of darkness , where Pluto has his abode apart from the other Gods , Polydore , the son of Hecuba the daughter of Cisseus a , and Priam my sire , who after that the danger of falling by the spear of Greece threatened ...
... dead and the gates of darkness , where Pluto has his abode apart from the other Gods , Polydore , the son of Hecuba the daughter of Cisseus a , and Priam my sire , who after that the danger of falling by the spear of Greece threatened ...
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... dead standing near Pro- serpine should have it in his power to say that the Gre- cians departed from the plains of Troy thankless to the heroes who died for the state of Greece . And Ulysses will come , and is only not here , to tear ...
... dead standing near Pro- serpine should have it in his power to say that the Gre- cians departed from the plains of Troy thankless to the heroes who died for the state of Greece . And Ulysses will come , and is only not here , to tear ...
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... dead . But it is for thee indeed , my afflicted mother , that I lament in these mournful strains , but for my life , my wrongs , my fate , I mourn not , but death a better lot has befallen me . CHOR . But see Ulysses advances with hasty ...
... dead . But it is for thee indeed , my afflicted mother , that I lament in these mournful strains , but for my life , my wrongs , my fate , I mourn not , but death a better lot has befallen me . CHOR . But see Ulysses advances with hasty ...
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... dead we no longer treat him so . Well ! what then will any one if there again should be an assembling of the army , and a contest with the enemy , whether shall we fight or preserve our lives , seeing that he who falls lies unho- noured ...
... dead we no longer treat him so . Well ! what then will any one if there again should be an assembling of the army , and a contest with the enemy , whether shall we fight or preserve our lives , seeing that he who falls lies unho- noured ...
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... and there will be twice the libation of blood for the earth , and the dead who makes this request . ULYSS . Thy daughter's death suffices ; one must not be heaped on another ; would that we required not 16 363-393 HECUBA .
... and there will be twice the libation of blood for the earth , and the dead who makes this request . ULYSS . Thy daughter's death suffices ; one must not be heaped on another ; would that we required not 16 363-393 HECUBA .
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Adrastus Agamemnon Antigone Apollo Argives Argos arms army art thou behold blood calamity child CHOR CHORUS Clytemnestra corse Creon daughter dead dear death deed destroyed dost thou dreadful earth Edipus ELEC Electra enemy ETEO Eteocles evil eyes fate father fear fortune friends give Gods Grecian Greeks hand hast thou hath hear Hecuba Helen hither honour husband ills Ismenus Jason Jocasta Jove kill lament land marriage MEDEA Menelaus miserable misfortunes mortals mother murder Orestes palace Pelasgian perish Phoceans PHRY Phrygian POLY Polymestor Polynices POLYX Polyxena preserve Priam Pylades shew sister slain slay slew sons speak spear suffer sword tears Theban Thebes thee thine things thou art thou hast thou sayest thou shalt thou wilt thy brother thy children thyself tomb Troy Tyndarus ULYSS unhappy virgin wife wilt thou woes woman women words wretched καὶ
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Page 141 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright Honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned Honour by the locks; So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities.
Page 142 - Why, my child, dost thou so desirously court ambition, the most baneful of the deities ? do not thou ; the Goddess is unjust. But she hath entered into many families and happy states and hath come forth again, to the destruction of those who have to do with her. Of whom thou art madly enamoured. This is more noble, my son, to honour equality, which ever links friends with friends, and states with states, and allies with allies : for equality is sanctioned by law among men.
Page 80 - What is this ? how art thou ? in what state, O most dear to me of my companions and kindred ? for all these things art thou to me. OREs. We are gone — briefly to shew thee my calamities. PYL. Thou wilt have ruined me too ; for the things of friends are common. OREs. Menelaus has behaved most basely towards me and my sister. PYL. It is to be expected that the husband of a bad wife be bad.
Page 198 - CHORUs. CHOR. I heard the voice, I heard the cry of the unhappy Colchian ; is not she yet appeased ? but, O aged matron, tell me ; for within the apartment with double doors, I heard her cry; nor am I delighted, O woman, with the griefs of the family, since it is friendly to me. NUR. The family is not ; these things are gone already : 1 In Elms. Dind. rd yilp eWiaBai, "for the being accustomed,