Euripides, The Trojan Women, ed. Gilbert Murray, 782

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Ταλθύβιος

ἄγε παῖ, φίλιον πρόσπτυγμα μεθεὶς

μητρὸς μογερᾶς, βαῖνε πατρῴων

πύργων ἐπʼ ἄκρας στεφάνας, ὅθι σοι

πνεῦμα μεθεῖναι ψῆφος ἐκράνθη.
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λαμβάνετʼ αὐτόν. τὰ δὲ τοιάδε χρὴ

κηρυκεύειν, ὅστις ἄνοικτος

καὶ ἀναιδείᾳ τῆς ἡμετέρας

γνώμης μᾶλλον φίλος ἐστίν.

Ἑκάβη

ὦ τέκνον, ὦ παῖ παιδὸς μογεροῦ,
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συλώμεθα σὴν ψυχὴν ἀδίκως

μήτηρ κἀγώ. τί πάθω; τί σʼ ἐγώ,

δύσμορε, δράσω; τάδε σοι δίδομεν

πλήγματα κρατὸς στέρνων τε κόπους·

τῶνδε γὰρ ἄρχομεν. οἲ ʼγὼ πόλεως,
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οἴμοι δὲ σέθεν· τί γὰρ οὐκ ἔχομεν;

τίνος ἐνδέομεν μὴ οὐ πανσυδίᾳ

χωρεῖν ὀλέθρου διὰ παντός;

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.)) — 782 focus

Talthybius

Come, child, leave fond embracing of your woeful mother, and mount the high coronal of your ancestral towers,

there to draw your parting breath, as is ordained. Take him away. His should the duty be to do such herald’s work, whose heart knows no pity and who loves ruthlessness more than my soul does. Exeunt Andromache and Talthybius with Astyanax.
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Hecuba

O child, son of my hapless boy, an unjust fate robs me and your mother of your life. How is it with me? What can I do for you, luckless one? For you I strike upon my head and beat my breast, my only gift;
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for that is in my power. Woe for my city! woe for you! What sorrow do we not have? What is wanting now to our utter and immediate ruin?
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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.) — 782 focus

Auf, Sohn, laß ab von dem holden Gespräch

Mit der trauernden Mutter, und steige mit uns

Zu der heimischen Burg Thurmzinnen empor,
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Wo der Danaer Schluß dir zu sterben verhångt!

(zu den Dienern)

Da nehmt ihn! - Solchen Beschluß darf nur

Ankünden ein Mann, der, mitleidlos

Und ohne Gefühl, nicht unseres Sinns,¹

Schamloser Vermessenheit huldigt!
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(geht ab mit Astyanar.)

Hekabe.

Ach Kind, ach Sohn des verlorenen Sohns,

Dein werden wir ruchlos beide beraubt,

Deine Mutter und ich! Was soll ich dir thun,

Ungluckliches Kind? Dies will ich dir weihn,

Will schlagen das Haupt und zerschlagen die Brust:
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Dies kann ich allein. Weh, weh um die Stadt,

Und weh mir um dich! Was fehlte mir noch,

Was wäre zurück, daß in vollestem Maß

Auf mich sturmt' alles Verderben?

Erste Strophe.

Euripides The Trojan Women 782

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