Euripides, Alcestis, ed. Gilbert Murray, 861

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Ἄδμητος

ἰώ, στυγναὶ

πρόσοδοι, στυγναὶ δ’ ὄψεις χήρων

μελάθρων. ἰώ μοί μοι. αἶ αἶ.

ποῖ βῶ; ποῖ στῶ; τί λέγω; τί δὲ μή;

πῶς ἂν ὀλοίμαν;

ἦ βαρυδαίμονα μήτηρ μ’ ἔτεκεν.
865

ζηλῶ φθιμένους, κείνων ἔραμαι,

κεῖν’ ἐπιθυμῶ δώματα ναίειν.

οὔτε γὰρ αὐγὰς χαίρω προσορῶν

οὔτ’ ἐπὶ γαίας πόδα πεζεύων·

τοῖον ὅμηρόν μ’ ἀποσυλήσας
870

Ἅιδῃ Θάνατος παρέδωκεν.

Alcestis. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1902.

Funding provided by Tufts University.

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Ἄλκηστις (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.)

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Alcestis Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 861 focus

Admetus

Ah me! I loathe this entering in, and loathe to see my widowed home. Woe, woe is me! Whither shall I go? Where stand? what say? or what suppress? Would God that I were dead!

Surely in an evil hour my mother gave me birth. The dead I envy, and would fain be as they, and long to dwell within their courts. No joy to me to see the light, no joy to tread the earth;
865

such a hostage death hath reft me of and handed o’er to Hades.
870

Alcestis (OCR draft) Experimental (Alcestis. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

No corresponding passage available

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1841; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 1, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1841. Harvard OCR compared with an independent BSB copy. Native Donner verse citations, Murray reference cards, explicitly located notes and page facsimiles. Unresolved OCR, verse divisions, unlocated notes and printed errata are documented in the source review.) — 861 focus

Ach, trauriger Eingang, trauriger Blick

Des verwaisten Palastes! weh mir, weh!
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Wo gehn, wo stehn? Was sag' ich, was nicht?

stürb' ich dahin!

Unselig gebar mich die Mutter, fürwahr!

Ich beneide die Todten, ich liebe nur sie,

In der Todten Behausung zieht mich's hinab.
850

Denn nicht mehr freut mich der Sonn' Anblick,

Nicht, daß mein Fuß noch die Erde berührt:

Solch theueres Pfand hat Thanatos mir

Zu den Todten entführt, in den Hades.

Strophe 1.

Euripides Alcestis 861

ed. Gilbert Murray

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