Euripides, Andromache, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1027

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Χορός

βέβακε δ’ Ἀτρείδας ἀλόχου παλάμαις,

αὐτά τ’ ἐναλλάξασα φόνον θανάτῳ

πρὸς τέκνων ἀπηύρα
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θεοῦ. θεοῦ νιν κέλευμ’ ἐπεστράφη

μαντόσυνον, ὅτε νιν Ἀργόθεν πορευθεὶς

Ἀγαμεμνόνιος κέλωρ, ἀδύτων ἐπιβὰς

κτεάνων, ματρὸς φονεὺς
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ὦ δαῖμον, ὦ Φοῖβε, πῶς πείθομαι;

Andromache. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1902.

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

Translations (3)

Andromache Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.) — 1027 focus

Chorus

The son of Atreus is no more, slain by the hand of his wife, and she herself hath paid the debt of blood by death,

and from her children’s hands received her doom. The god’s own bidding from his oracle was levelled against her, in the day that Agamemnon’s son set forth from Argos and visited his shrine;
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so he slew¹ her, aye, spilt his own mother’s blood. O Phoebus, O thou power divine, how can I believe the story?
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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.) — 1027 focus

Der Sohn des Atreus fiel von der Hand des Gemahls;
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Und selber büßte sie mit dem Tode den Mord

Durch die Hand der Kinder.

Ein Gott, ein Gott, sein orakelkundend Wort¹

Suchte sie heim und Er,

Welcher kam von Argos,
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Agamemnons Erzeugter, der

Nach des Gottes Geheiß, ach! die Mutter mordete.²

O Herrscher, Gott Phobos, wie glaub' ich das?

Zweite Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Andromache 1027

ed. Gilbert Murray

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