The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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... sword and the tomb of Achilles . HEC . Alas ! I faint ; and my limbs fail me . - O daughter , touch thy mother , stretch forth thy hand- give it me - leave me not childless . - I am lost , my friends . Would that I might see the Spartan ...
... sword and the tomb of Achilles . HEC . Alas ! I faint ; and my limbs fail me . - O daughter , touch thy mother , stretch forth thy hand- give it me - leave me not childless . - I am lost , my friends . Would that I might see the Spartan ...
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... sword ! but I indeed am a slave in a foreign country , having left Asia the slave of Europe , having changed my bridal chamber for the grave . TALTHYBIUS , HECUBA , CHORUS . TAL . Tell me , ye Trojan dames , where can I find Hecuba ...
... sword ! but I indeed am a slave in a foreign country , having left Asia the slave of Europe , having changed my bridal chamber for the grave . TALTHYBIUS , HECUBA , CHORUS . TAL . Tell me , ye Trojan dames , where can I find Hecuba ...
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... sword fraught with gold , he drew it from its scabbard , and made signs to the chosen youths of the Greeks to hold the virgin . Which when she perceived , she uttered this speech : " O Argives , ye that annihilated my city , I die ...
... sword fraught with gold , he drew it from its scabbard , and made signs to the chosen youths of the Greeks to hold the virgin . Which when she perceived , she uttered this speech : " O Argives , ye that annihilated my city , I die ...
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... sword the passage of her breath ; and fountains of blood burst forth . But she , e'en in death , shewed much care to fall decently , and to veil from the eyes of men what ought to be concealed . But after that she breathed forth her ...
... sword the passage of her breath ; and fountains of blood burst forth . But she , e'en in death , shewed much care to fall decently , and to veil from the eyes of men what ought to be concealed . But after that she breathed forth her ...
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... sword the limbs of this poor boy , nor didst feel pity ! CHOR . O hapless woman , how has the deity made thee by far the most wretched of mortals , whoever he be that presses heavy on thee . But , my 26 685-710 HECUBA .
... sword the limbs of this poor boy , nor didst feel pity ! CHOR . O hapless woman , how has the deity made thee by far the most wretched of mortals , whoever he be that presses heavy on thee . But , my 26 685-710 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,