Euripides Andromache 1186

Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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Andromache. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.

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Current edition Perseus

Andromache (English) (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.)

Editions (1)
Ἀνδρομάχη Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1186 focus
Translations (2)
Andromache (OCR draft) Experimental (Andromache. 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, 1845; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 2, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1845. 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.) — 1186 focus
Ehbund, Ehbund, der du das Haus hier,
Der du die Stadt mir vernichtetest! Ach, ach!
Håtte doch nicht das Geschlecht der Hermione,
Dieses dem Haus und den Kindern verderbliche,
Deiner Gemahlin Geschlecht,
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Tod und Verderben, o Sohn, dir bereitet;
Hått' es der Blizstrahl eher getddtet!
Håttest du nimmer das Blut des erschlagenen
Göttlichen Vaters von Phobos gefodert,
Du, der Sterbliche, vom Gotte!
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Notes on the current edition

Andromache

1. ὤλεσας ὤλεσας ἀμὰν (Hermann).
2. Paley has a long note on this passage, the sum of which seems to be that it is corrupt and unintelligible. Various emendation, all unsatisfactory, have been proposed. I have followed Hermann’s correction, the sense of which is thus given by Paley, would that your union with the captive Andromache had not involved you in the death intended for her;reading ὤφελ᾽ ἐμοὶ γέρας κ.τ.λ.
3. Phoebus was said to have aimed the arrow of Paris, that slew Achilles.