Euripides The Phoenician Women 1296

Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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The Phoenician Women. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.

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Current edition Perseus

The Phoenician Maidens (English) (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Editions (1)
Φοίνισσαι Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 1296 focus
Translations (2)
The Phoenician Virgins (OCR draft) Experimental (The Phoenician Virgins. 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, 1841; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 1, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1841. 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.) — 1296 focus
Ein Raubthierpaar, wildlechzend nach Mord,
Wird feindlich alsbald
Sich mit Speeren durchbohrend, hinstürzen in seinem Blut.
Unglückselige, daß ihr Herz zum Zweikampf sie trieb!
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Ein fremdtonend Lied
Der Wehklage stimm' ich,
Wie es den Todten ziemt, trauernd in Thränen an.
Ihr Todesschicksal naht, es naht;
Noch dieser Tag entscheidet:
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Gråßliches Morden droht von den Erinnyen.