Euripides The Suppliant Maidens 726

ed. Gilbert Murray

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τοιόνδε τὸν στρατηγὸν αἱρεῖσθαι χρεών,
ὃς ἔν τε τοῖς δεινοῖσίν ἐστιν ἄλκιμος
μισεῖ θʼ ὑβριστὴν λαόν, ὃς πράσσων καλῶς
ἐς ἄκρα βῆναι κλιμάκων ἐνήλατα
ζητῶν ἀπώλεσʼ ὄλβον ᾧ χρῆσθαι παρῆν.
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The Suppliant Maidens. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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Ἱκέτιδες (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962))

Translations (3)
The Suppliants Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 726 focus
Such the general men should choose, one who shows his bravery in danger, yet hates the pride of those that in their hour of fortune lose the bliss they might have enjoyed,
through seeking to scale the ladder’s topmost step.
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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.) — 726 focus
So muß der Feldherr, den man wählt, geartet sein:
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In Graun und Schrecken zeigt er hohen Muth und haßt
Den Uebermuth des Volkes, das, im Glicke stolz,
Zur höchsten Staffel aufzuklimmen strebt und so
Den Segen einbußt, welcher ihm beschieden war.