Euripides, The Trojan Women, ed. Gilbert Murray, 424

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Κασάνδρα

ἦ δεινὸς ὁ λάτρις. τί ποτʼ ἔχουσι τοὔνομα

κήρυκες, ἓν ἀπέχθημα πάγκοινον βροτοῖς,
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οἱ περὶ τυράννους καὶ πόλεις ὑπηρέται;

σὺ τὴν ἐμὴν φῂς μητέρʼ εἰς Ὀδυσσέως

ἥξειν μέλαθρα; ποῦ δʼ Ἀπόλλωνος λόγοι,

οἵ φασιν αὐτὴν εἰς ἔμʼ ἡρμηνευμένοι

αὐτοῦ θανεῖσθαι; τἄλλα δʼ οὐκ ὀνειδιῶ.
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δύστηνος, οὐκ οἶδʼ οἷά νιν μένει παθεῖν·

ὡς χρυσὸς αὐτῷ τἀμὰ καὶ Φρυγῶν κακὰ

δόξει ποτʼ εἶναι. δέκα γὰρ ἐκπλήσας ἔτη

πρὸς τοῖσιν ἐνθάδʼ, ἵξεται μόνος πάτραν

οὗ δὴ στενὸν δίαυλον ᾤκισται πέτρας
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δεινὴ Χάρυβδις, ὠμοβρώς τʼ ὀρειβάτης

Κύκλωψ, Λιγυστίς θʼ ἡ συῶν μορφώτρια

Κίρκη, θαλάσσης θʼ ἁλμυρᾶς ναυάγια,

λωτοῦ τʼ ἔρωτες, Ἡλίου θʼ ἁγναὶ βόες,

αἳ σάρκα φωνήεσσαν ἥσουσίν ποτε,
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πικρὰν Ὀδυσσεῖ γῆρυν. ὡς δὲ συντέμω,

ζῶν εἶσʼ ἐς Ἅιδου κἀκφυγὼν λίμνης ὕδωρ

κάκʼ ἐν δόμοισι μυρίʼ εὑρήσει μολών.

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.)) — 424 focus

Cassandra

A clever fellow, this servant! Why is it heralds hold

the name they do? All men unite in hating with one common hate the attendants of kings or governments. You say my mother shall come to the halls of Odysseus? Where then are Apollo’s words, so clear to me in their interpretation, which declare
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that she shall die here? What else remains, I will not taunt her with. Unhappy Odysseus, he does not know the sufferings that await him; or how these ills I and my Phrygians endure shall one day seem to him precious as gold. For beyond the ten long years spent at Troy he shall drag out other ten and then come to his country all alone . . .
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where dreadful Charybdis lurks in a narrow channel between the rocks; past Cyclops the savage shepherd, and Ligurian Circe who turns men to swine; shipwrecked often upon the salt sea-wave; longing to eat the lotus, and the sacred cattle of the sun,
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whose flesh shall utter in the days to come a human voice, bitter to Odysseus. In brief, he shall descend alive to Hades, and, though he shall escape the waters’ flood, yet shall he find a thousand troubles in his country when he arrives.
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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.) — 424 focus

Ha, welch gewalt'ger Sclave! Wozu nennt man doch

Herolde sie, die Scheusal', aller Welt verhaßt,

Die Frohner, Städten und Gewaltherrn unterthan?

Wie? Meine Mutter, sagst du, soll nach Ithaka,
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In's Haus Odyssens? Doch wo bleibt dann Phobos' Wort,

Das mir sein Spruch verkundet, daß die Mutter hier,

Hier sterben soll? Das Andre wiederhol' ich nicht.

Der Arme weiß nicht, welches Unheil ihn bedroht:

Ihm wird dereinst noch mein Geschick und Troja's Noth
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Als Gold erscheinen; denn er kommt allein nach Haus,

Bestand er zehen Jahre noch zu diesen hier,

Da, wo des Felsen engen Pfad das Ungethum¹

Bewohnt, Charybdis, und der rohverschlingende -

Kyklop, wo Kirke, Zauberin der Ever, haust,
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Wo grauser Schiffbruch seiner harrt im salz'gen Meer,

Des Lotos Reiz, die heiligen Sonnenrinder auch,

Aus deren Fleische Brüllen einst erschallen wird,

Ein Schreck Laertes' Sohne. Sag' ich's kurzgefaßt:

Zum Hades geht er lebend, und der Meeresflut
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Entronnen, trifft er tausendfaches Leid daheim.

Euripides The Trojan Women 424

ed. Gilbert Murray

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