The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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... eyes ; but pleading her cause before the Greeks , she gained it over her accuser ( Polymestor . ) For it was decided that she did not begin the cruelty , but only avenged herself on him who did begin it . # HECUBA . GHOST OF POLYDORE ...
... eyes ; but pleading her cause before the Greeks , she gained it over her accuser ( Polymestor . ) For it was decided that she did not begin the cruelty , but only avenged herself on him who did begin it . # HECUBA . GHOST OF POLYDORE ...
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... eyes drops of death bedewed thy beard ? ULYSS . I remember well ; for it made no slight im- pression on my heart . HEC . But Helen knew thee , and told me alone . ULYSS . I remember the great danger I encountered . HEC . And thou ...
... eyes drops of death bedewed thy beard ? ULYSS . I remember well ; for it made no slight im- pression on my heart . HEC . But Helen knew thee , and told me alone . ULYSS . I remember the great danger I encountered . HEC . And thou ...
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... eye . HEC . I am dead , before my death , beneath my ills . POLYX . Lead me , Ulysses , having covered my face with a ... eyes these ills seized the happy Troy . CHOR . Gale , gale of the sea , which waftest the swift barks bounding o'er ...
... eye . HEC . I am dead , before my death , beneath my ills . POLYX . Lead me , Ulysses , having covered my face with a ... eyes these ills seized the happy Troy . CHOR . Gale , gale of the sea , which waftest the swift barks bounding o'er ...
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... now whilst relating the mournful circumstance shall I wipe this eye , as did I then at the tomb when she perished . The whole host of the Grecian army was present before the tomb , at the sacrifice of the damsel . But 20 491-519 HECUBA ,
... now whilst relating the mournful circumstance shall I wipe this eye , as did I then at the tomb when she perished . The whole host of the Grecian army was present before the tomb , at the sacrifice of the damsel . But 20 491-519 HECUBA ,
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... eyes of men what ought to be concealed . But after that she breathed forth her spirit under the fatal blow , not one of the Greeks exer- cised the same offices ; but some scattered leaves from their hands on the dead ; some heap the ...
... eyes of men what ought to be concealed . But after that she breathed forth her spirit under the fatal blow , not one of the Greeks exer- cised the same offices ; but some scattered leaves from their hands on the dead ; some heap the ...
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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,