Euripides, Alcestis, ed. Gilbert Murray, 984

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Χορός

καὶ σ’ ἐν ἀφύκτοισι χερῶν εἷλε θεὰ δεσμοῖς.

τόλμα δʼ· οὐ γὰρ ἀνάξεις ποτ’ ἔνερθεν
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κλαίων τοὺς φθιμένους ἄνω.

καὶ θεῶν σκότιοι φθίνουσι

παῖδες ἐν θανάτῳ.
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φίλα μὲν ὅτ’ ἦν μεθ’ ἡμῶν,

φίλα δὲ καὶ θανοῦσ’ ἔσται,

γενναιοτάταν δὲ πασᾶν ἐζεύξω κλισίαις ἄκοιτιν.

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

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

Translations (3)

Alcestis Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 984 focus

Chorus

This is the goddess that hath gripped thee too in chains thou canst not ’scape;

yet steel thy heart, for all thy weeping ne’er will bring to light again the dead from the realms below. Even sons of gods perish in darkness¹
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in the hour of death. We loved her while she was with us, we love her still though dead; noblest of her sex was she, the wife thou tookest to thy bed.
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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.) — 984 focus

König, in unlösbare Band' hat sie verstrickt auch dich.

Duld' aus; nimmer ja ruft Klage die Todten

Drunten wieder an's Licht empor.

Auch Sohne der Götter sterben, schwinden dunkel in Nacht.

Werth, da sie mit uns noch lebte,
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Werth ist sie auch im Tode.

Die edelste aller Frauen

Hattest du dir erwählt zur Gattinn.

Gegenstrophe 2.

Euripides Alcestis 984

ed. Gilbert Murray

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