Euripides, Hecuba, ed. Gilbert Murray, 197

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Πολυξένη

ὦ δεινὰ παθοῦσʼ, ὦ παντλάμων,

ὦ δυστάνου μᾶτερ βιοτᾶς

οἵαν οἵαν αὖ σοι λώβαν

ἐχθίσταν ἀρρήταν τʼ
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ὦρσέν τις δαίμων;

οὐκέτι σοι παῖς ἅδʼ οὐκέτι δὴ

γήρᾳ δειλαίῳ δειλαία

συνδουλεύσω.

σκύμνον γάρ μʼ ὥστʼ οὐριθρέπταν
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μόσχον δειλαία δειλαίαν

ἐσόψῃ,

χειρὸς ἀναρπαστὰν

σᾶς ἄπο λαιμότομόν τʼ Ἀίδᾳ

γᾶς ὑποπεμπομέναν σκότον, ἔνθα νεκρῶν μέτα
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τάλαινα κείσομαι.

καὶ σοῦ μέν, μᾶτερ, δυστάνου

κλαίω πανδύρτοις θρήνοις,

τὸν ἐμὸν δὲ βίον λώβαν λύμαν τʼ

οὐ μετακλαίομαι, ἀλλὰ θανεῖν μοι

ξυντυχία κρείσσων ἐκύρησεν.
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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.)) — 197 focus

Polyxena

Alas, for your cruel sufferings, my persecuted mother! woe for your life of grief! What grievous outrage

has some fiend sent on you, hateful, horrible? No more shall I your daughter share your bondage, hapless youth on hapless age attending.
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For you, alas! will see me, your hapless child, torn from your arms like a calf of the hills, and sent beneath the darkness of the earth with severed throat for Hades, where with the dead
205

shall I be laid, ah me! For your unhappiness I weep with plaintive wail, mother; but for my own life, its ruin and its outrage, never a tear I shed; no, death has become to me
210

a happier lot than life.
215

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.) — 197 focus

Ungluckliche, die so Schweres erfuhr,

Der endlos Leid ihr Leben verzehrt,
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Welch unaussprechliche, bittere Schmach

Hat wieder ein Dämon dir,

Mutter, gesendet?

Dein Kind ist nicht mehr: nicht mehr soll

Ich, o Greisinn, dir in der Knechtschaft, ach!
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Mitdulderinn sein.

Wie das Reh, wie das bergdurchweidende Rind,

So wirst du, Unglückselige, mich

Unselige dir aus den Armen geraubt

Seh'n, und vom Stahle durchbohrt, in die Nacht
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Niedergesandt, in die Wohnung des Aides, wo ich, ach!

Bei den Todten ruhen soll.

Dein Unglück, Mutter, bewein' ich allein mit klagenden Tonen der Trauer;

Um mich, mein Leid, mein schmåhliches Loos

Jammer' ich nicht: von allen Geschicken
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Ist das erwünschteste, beste der Tod mir.

Euripides Hecuba 197

ed. Gilbert Murray

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