Euripides, The Trojan Women, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 1232

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Hecuba

Your wounds in part I will bind up with bandages, a wretched healer in name alone, without reality; but for the rest your father must look to that among the dead.

The Trojan Women. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.

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Current edition Perseus

The Trojan Women (English) (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Editions (1)

Τρῳάδες Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962)) — 1232 focus

Ἑκάβη

τελαμῶσιν ἕλκη τὰ μὲν ἐγώ σʼ ἰάσομαι,

τλήμων ἰατρός, ὄνομʼ ἔχουσα, τἄργα δʼ οὔ·

τὰ δʼ ἐν νεκροῖσι φροντιεῖ πατὴρ σέθεν.

Translations (2)

The Trojan Dames (OCR draft) Experimental (The Trojan Dames. 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.) — 1232 focus

Euripides The Trojan Women 1232

Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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Hecuba

Your wounds in part I will bind up with bandages, a wretched healer in name alone, without reality; but for the rest your father must look to that among the dead.

Current edition Perseus

Ἑκάβη

τελαμῶσιν ἕλκη τὰ μὲν ἐγώ σʼ ἰάσομαι,

τλήμων ἰατρός, ὄνομʼ ἔχουσα, τἄργα δʼ οὔ·

τὰ δʼ ἐν νεκροῖσι φροντιεῖ πατὴρ σέθεν.

Ich hülle Tücher heilend um die Wunden dir,

Dein Arzt, ich Arme, freilich nur dem Namen nach;¹
1215

Die andern heilt der Vater dir im Todtenreich.

Der Chor.

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Hecuba Your wounds in part I will bind up with bandages, a wretched healer in name alone, without reality; but for the rest your father must look to that among the dead.

Current edition Perseus

Ἑκάβη τελαμῶσιν ἕλκη τὰ μὲν ἐγώ σʼ ἰάσομαι, τλήμων ἰατρός, ὄνομʼ ἔχουσα, τἄργα δʼ οὔ· τὰ δʼ ἐν νεκροῖσι φροντιεῖ πατὴρ σέθεν.

Ich hülle Tücher heilend um die Wunden dir, Dein Arzt, ich Arme, freilich nur dem Namen nach; 1 1215 Die andern heilt der Vater dir im Todtenreich.

Der Chor.

Stable identifiers

Hecuba

Your wounds in part I will bind up with bandages, a wretched healer in name alone, without reality; but for the rest your father must look to that among the dead.

Ἑκάβη

τελαμῶσιν ἕλκη τὰ μὲν ἐγώ σʼ ἰάσομαι,

τλήμων ἰατρός, ὄνομʼ ἔχουσα, τἄργα δʼ οὔ·

τὰ δʼ ἐν νεκροῖσι φροντιεῖ πατὴρ σέθεν.

Ich hülle Tücher heilend um die Wunden dir,

Dein Arzt, ich Arme, freilich nur dem Namen nach;¹
1215

Die andern heilt der Vater dir im Todtenreich.