Euripides, Andromache, ed. Gilbert Murray, 766

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Χορός

μὴ γενοίμαν ἢ πατέρων ἀγαθῶν

εἴην πολυκτήτων τε δόμων μέτοχος.

εἴ τι γὰρ πάσχοι τις ἀμήχανον, ἀλκᾶς
770

οὐ σπάνις εὐγενέταις,

κηρυσσομένοισι δ’ ἀπ’ ἐσθλῶν δωμάτων

τιμὰ καὶ κλέος· οὔτοι λείψανα τῶν ἀγαθῶν

ἀνδρῶν ἀφαιρεῖται χρόνος· ἁ δ’ ἀρετὰ
775

καὶ θανοῦσι λάμπει.

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.) — 766 focus

Chorus

Oh! to have never been born, or sprung from noble sires, the heir to mansions richly stored;

for if aught untoward e’er befall, there is no lack of champions for sons of noble parents, and there is honour and glory for them when they are proclaimed scions of illustrious lines; time detracts not from the legacy these good
770

men leave, but the light of their goodness still burns on when they are dead.
775

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.) — 766 focus

Nicht leben möcht' ich, oder aus edlem Geschlecht

Entsprossen sein, aus reichem begütertem Haus!

Wenn ein boses Schicksal den Edlen getroffen,¹
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Ist ihm die Hülfe nicht fern;

Und welche der Ruf als erlauchte Namen preiſt,

Ehr' ist ihnen und Ruhm: nie tilgt die gewaltige Zeit

Des wackern Mannes Spuren; im Tode sogar

Leuchtet seine Tugend.
750
Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Andromache 766

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