Euripides Hecuba 130

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σπουδαὶ δὲ λόγων κατατεινομένων
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ἦσαν ἴσαι πως, πρὶν ὁ ποικιλόφρων
κόπις ἡδυλόγος δημοχαριστὴς
Λαερτιάδης πείθει στρατιὰν
μὴ τὸν ἄριστον Δαναῶν πάντων
δούλων σφαγίων εἵνεκʼ ἀπωθεῖν,
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μηδέ τινʼ εἰπεῖν παρὰ Φερσεφόνῃ
στάντα φθιμένων
ὡς ἀχάριστοι Δαναοὶ Δαναοῖς
τοῖς οἰχομένοις ὑπὲρ Ἑλλήνων
Τροίας πεδίων ἀπέβησαν.
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ἥξει δʼ Ὀδυσεὺς ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη,
πῶλον ἀφέλξων σῶν ἀπὸ μαστῶν
ἔκ τε γεραιᾶς χερὸς ὁρμήσων.
ἀλλʼ ἴθι ναούς, ἴθι πρὸς βωμούς,
ἵζʼ Ἀγαμέμνονος ἱκέτις γονάτων,
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κήρυσσε θεοὺς τούς τʼ οὐρανίδας
τούς θʼ ὑπὸ γαῖαν.
ἢ γάρ σε λιταὶ διακωλύσουσʼ
ὀρφανὸν εἶναι παιδὸς μελέας,
ἢ δεῖ σʼ ἐπιδεῖν τύμβου προπετῆ
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φοινισσομένην αἵματι παρθένον
ἐκ χρυσοφόρου
δειρῆς νασμῷ μελαναυγεῖ.

Hecuba. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1902.

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Ἑκάβη (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902. (Reprinted 1906-1974))

Translations (3)
Hecuba Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 130 focus
Now the zeal of the rival disputants was almost equal, until that shifty, smooth-mouthed liar, the son of Laertes , whose tongue is always at the service of the mob, persuaded the army not to put aside the best of all the Danaids
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for want of a servant-maid’s sacrifice, nor have it said by any of the dead that stand beside Persephone that the Danaids have left the plains of Troy without gratitude
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for their companions who died for Hellas . Odysseus will be here in an instant, to drag the tender maiden from your breast and tear her from your aged arms. Go to the temples, go to the altars,
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at Agamemnon’s knees sit as a suppliant! Invoke the gods, both those in heaven and those beneath the earth. For either your prayers will avail to spare you the loss of your unhappy child,
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or you must see your daughter fall before the tomb, her crimson blood spurting in deep dark jets from her neck encircled with gold.
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Hecuba (OCR draft) Experimental (Hecuba. 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.) — 130 focus
Und der Streitenden Muth war dort und hier
Gleich heftig entbrannt, bis Lartios' Sohn, 1
Der verschlagene Schalk und Schmeichler des Volks
Mit dem süßen Geschwaz, anmahnte das Speer,
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Nicht also den Besten des Danaërstamms
zu verschmah'n um einer Gefangenen Blut,
Daß nicht ein Gestorbener klag' in dem Haus
Persephone's dort,
Daß Danaër, Danaërn undankbar,
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Die Hellas Volk sich geopfert im Tod,
Aus Troja's Fluren enteilten.
Gleich wird er erscheinen, Laërtes' Sohn,
Und reist von dem Busen die Jungfrau dir,
Und stürmt sie hinweg aus dem zitternden Arm.
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Zu den Tempeln hinan, zu dem Opferaltar
Geh', flehend umschling' Agamemnon's Knie,
Und rufe die Macht' in des Hades Nacht,
Und die Himmlischen an!
Dein Beten ja wehrt vielleicht den Verlust
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Des bejammerungswürdigen Kindes dir ab;
Sonst mußt du die Jungfrau sehn, wie dahin
Aus's Grab sie sinkt, umflossen von Blut,
Das dunkel entquillt
Aus goldumfunkeltem Halse.
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