The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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... honour to their hero , tore Polyxena from her mother , and offered her up in sacrifice . Polymestor moreover , the king of the Thracians , murdered Polydore , a son of Priam's . Now Polymestor had received him from the hands of Priam ...
... honour to their hero , tore Polyxena from her mother , and offered her up in sacrifice . Polymestor moreover , the king of the Thracians , murdered Polydore , a son of Priam's . Now Polymestor had received him from the hands of Priam ...
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... honour one of the wretched Trojan captives . From my daughter then , from my daughter avert this fate , ye gods , I implore you . CHOR . Hecuba , with haste to thee I flew , leaving the tents of our lords , where I was allotted and ...
... honour one of the wretched Trojan captives . From my daughter then , from my daughter avert this fate , ye gods , I implore you . CHOR . Hecuba , with haste to thee I flew , leaving the tents of our lords , where I was allotted and ...
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... honour from oratory be- fore the populace ; be ye not known to me , who care not to injure your friends , provided you say what is gratifying to the people . But plotting what dark design have they determined upon a decree of death ...
... honour from oratory be- fore the populace ; be ye not known to me , who care not to injure your friends , provided you say what is gratifying to the people . But plotting what dark design have they determined upon a decree of death ...
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... honour than his inferiors . But Achilles , O lady , is worthy of honour from us , a man who died most gloriously in behalf of the Grecian country . Were not then this disgraceful , if when living we treat him as a friend , but after he ...
... honour than his inferiors . But Achilles , O lady , is worthy of honour from us , a man who died most gloriously in behalf of the Grecian country . Were not then this disgraceful , if when living we treat him as a friend , but after he ...
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... honoured among his citizens . These are nothing . In vain the counsels of the mind , and the tongue's boast . He is most blest , who from day to day has never met with misfortunes . CHORUS . Against me was it fated that calamity ...
... honoured among his citizens . These are nothing . In vain the counsels of the mind , and the tongue's boast . He is most blest , who from day to day has never met with misfortunes . CHORUS . Against me was it fated that calamity ...
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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,