Euripides, The Trojan Women, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1156

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Ἑκάβη

θέσθʼ ἀμφίτορνον ἀσπίδʼ Ἕκτορος πέδῳ,

λυπρὸν θέαμα κοὐ φίλον λεύσσειν ἐμοί.

ὦ μείζονʼ ὄγκον δορὸς ἔχοντες ἢ φρενῶν,

τί τόνδʼ, Ἀχαιοί, παῖδα δείσαντες φόνον

καινὸν διειργάσασθε; μὴ Τροίαν ποτὲ
1160

πεσοῦσαν ὀρθώσειεν; οὐδὲν ἦτʼ ἄρα,

ὅθʼ Ἕκτορος μὲν εὐτυχοῦντος ἐς δόρυ

διωλλύμεσθα μυρίας τʼ ἄλλης χερός,

πόλεως δʼ ἁλούσης καὶ Φρυγῶν ἐφθαρμένων

βρέφος τοσόνδʼ ἐδείσατʼ· οὐκ αἰνῶ φόβον,
1165

ὅστις φοβεῖται μὴ διεξελθὼν λόγῳ.

The Trojan Women. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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

Translations (3)

The Trojan Women Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1156 focus

Hecuba

Place the shield upon the ground, Hector’s shield so deftly rounded, a piteous sight, a bitter grief for me to see. O you Achaeans, more reason have you to boast of your prowess than your wisdom. Why have you in terror of this child

been guilty of a murder never matched before? Did you fear that some day he would rear again the fallen walls of Troy ? It seems then you were nothing after all, when, though Hector’s fortunes in the war were prosperous and he had ten thousand other arms to back him, we still were daily overmatched; and yet, now that our city is taken and every Phrygian slain,
1160

you fear a tender child like this! I do not commend the fear of one who fears but never yet has reasoned out the cause.
1165

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.) — 1156 focus

Legt hin zur Erde meines Sohns gewölbten Schild!

Anblick der Trauer, der mein Auge nicht erfreut!

Ihr, groß und stolz in Waffen, doch an Geiste klein,

Warum, Achder, übtet ihr den grausen Mord
1140

An diesem Knaben? Daß er Ilion dereinst

Vom Fall' erhebe, sorgtet ihr? Nichts wart ihr denn,

Als wir erlagen, da für uns zahllose Macht,

Da noch mein Hektor glücklich rang im Lanzenkampf?

Nun, da die Stadt erobert, unser Volk vertilgt,
1145

War solches Kind euch furchtbar? Nimmer lob' ich es,

Wenn Furcht die Mannerherzen ohne Grund beschleicht.

Euripides The Trojan Women 1156

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