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The Suppliant Maidens. Euripides. E. P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.

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Current edition Perseus

The Suppliants (English) (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.)

Editions (1)
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962)) — 1012 focus
Translations (2)
The Supplicants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Supplicants. 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, 1852; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 3, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1852. 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.) — 1012 focus
Ich seh' es, das Ziel hier,
Das ich erreicht nun! Ja, das Glück
1000
Leitete hierher meinen Schritt.
Strebend nach Ruhme, will ich von hier,
Will von dem Felsen herab mich
Stürzen, spring' in die Flamme hinein,
Und in lodernden Gluten
1005
Meinem geliebten Gatten vereint,
Brust an Brust, umarmend, umarmt,
Wall' ich hinab in Persephone's Haus,
Durch mein Weilen im Lichte nicht
Dich verrathend im Erdenschooß.
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Lebe wohl, Licht und Liebe!
Leuchteten meinen Kindern in Argos nur
Fröhliche Hochzeitsackeln dereinst,
Daß sie begluckt' ein treuer Gemahl, 1
Den mit truglos lauterer Glut
1015
Edlen Herzens die Gattin umfångt!

Notes on the current edition

The Suppliant Maidens

1. The following verses are corrupt almost beyond hope of emendation, nor is it quite clear what the poet intended. By reading φανεῖεν, as Paley suggests, with τέκνοισιν ἐμοῖς and supplying the hiatus by εἴη δ’, it is possible to extract an intelligible sense, somewhat different, however, from that proposed by Hermann or Hartung, and only offered here for want of a better.