Euripides, The Suppliant Maidens, ed. Gilbert Murray, 990

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Εὐάδνη

τί φέγγος, τίνʼ αἴγλαν
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ἐδίφρευε τόθʼ ἅλιος

σελάνα τε κατʼ αἰθέρα,

λαμπάδʼ ἵνʼ ὠκυθόαι νύμφαι,

ἱππεύουσι διʼ ὀρφναίας,

ἁνίκα γάμων γάμων
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τῶν ἐμῶν πόλις Ἄργους

ἀοιδάς, εὐδαιμονίας,

ἐπύργωσε καὶ γαμέτα

χαλκεοτευχοῦς, αἰαῖ, Καπανέως.

πρός σʼ ἔβαν δρομὰς ἐξ ἐμῶν
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οἴκων ἐκβακχευσαμένα,

πυρᾶς φῶς τάφον τε

βατεύσουσα τὸν αὐτόν,

ἐς Ἅιδαν καταλύσουσʼ ἔμμοχθον

βίοτον αἰῶνός τε πόνους·
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ἥδιστος γάρ τοι θάνατος

συνθνῄσκειν θνῄσκουσι φίλοις,

εἰ δαίμων τάδε κραίνοι.

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.) — 990 focus

Evadne

What light, what radiancy did the sun-god’s car dart forth, and the moon athwart the firmament, while round her in the gloom swift stars¹ careered,
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in the day that the city of Argos raised the stately chant of joy at my wedding, in honour of my marriage with mail-clad Capaneus?
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Now from my home in frantic haste with frenzied mind I rush to join thee, seeking to share with thee the fire’s bright flame and the self-same tomb, to rid me of my weary
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life in Hades’ halls, and of the pains of existence; yea, for ’tis the sweetest end to share the death of those we love, if only fate will sanction it.
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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.) — 990 focus

Welches Licht, welchen Glanz

Führte der Sonnengott herauf

Und Selen', in des Aethers Höhn
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Strahlend, wo Nymphen in fluchtigem Tanz

Ziehn durch nachtliches Dunkel,

Als mein brautliches Glück die Stadt

Argos in stolzen Liedern erhob,

Und des Gemahls, der leuchtet' in Erz,
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Kapaneus' Ruhm zu den Sternen trug?

Zu dir eilt' ich aus meinem Haus¹

Sturmend heran in bacchischer Wuth,

Suche derselben Scheiter Glut,

Suche dasselbe Grab mir,
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Mein mühseliges Leben, des Daseins Qual

Drunten zu bergen in Hades' Haus.

Denn der süßeste Tod ist doch,

Sterben dahin mit dem sterbenden Freund,

Wenn ein Gott es also verhångt.
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Euripides The Suppliant Maidens 990

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