Euripides, The Phoenician Women, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1043

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Χορός

χρόνῳ δʼ ἔβα

Πυθίαις ἀποστολαῖσιν

Οἰδίπους ὁ τλάμων

Θηβαίαν τάνδε γᾶν
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τότʼ ἀσμένοις, πάλιν δʼ ἄχη·

ματρὶ γὰρ γάμους

δυσγάμους τάλας

καλλίνικος ὢν

αἰνιγμάτων συνάπτει,

μιαίνει δὲ πτόλιν·
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διʼ αἱμάτων δʼ ἀμείβει

μυσαρὸν εἰς ἀγῶνα

καταβαλὼν ἀραῖσι

τέκεα μέλεος. ἀγάμεθʼ ἀγάμεθʼ,

ὃς ἐπὶ θάνατον οἴχεται
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γᾶς ὑπὲρ πατρῴας,

Κρέοντι μὲν λιπὼν γόους,

τὰ δʼ ἑπτάπυργα κλῇθρα γᾶς

καλλίνικα θήσων.

γενοίμεθʼ ὧδε ματέρες
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γενοίμεθʼ εὔτεκνοι, φίλα

Παλλάς, ἃ δράκοντος αἷμα

λιθόβολον κατειργάσω,

Καδμείαν μέριμναν

ὁρμήσασʼ ἐπʼ ἔργον,

ὅθεν ἐπέσυτο τάνδε γαῖαν
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ἁρπαγαῖσι δαιμόνων τις ἄτα.

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

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Φοίνισσαι (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978))

Translations (3)

The Phoenician Maidens Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1043 focus

Chorus

At last came Oedipus, the man of sorrow, sent from Delphi

to this land of Thebes , a joy to us then, but afterwards a cause of grief; for, when he guessed the riddle triumphantly, he formed with his mother an unhallowed union, woe to him!
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polluting the city; and striking down his sons by his curses, he handed them over to loathsome strife, through blood, the wretched man.
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We admire him, we admire him,

who has gone to his death in his country’s cause, leaving tears to Creon, but bringing a crown of victory to our seven fenced towers.
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May we be mothers in this way, may we have such fair children, dear PalIas, you who with well-aimed stone spilled the serpent’s blood, rousing Cadmus to brood upon the task,
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from which a demon’s curse swooped upon this land and ravaged it.
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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.) — 1043 focus

Doch endlich kam, ausgesandt vom Hause Pytho's,

Dedipus, der Arme,

In's Land der Theber hier,

Damals erwünscht, zum Leide bald:
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Denn die Mutter, ach,

Freit' er, o der Schmach!

Als er über Sphinx

Den Räthselsieg errungen,

Und schåndete diese Stadt;
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Er treibt von Mord zu Morde,

Stürzt in grausen Wettkampf

Durch den Fluch die Kinder,

Armer! Bewunderung zoll' ich, Bewunderung,

Jenem, der zum Tode geht
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Für das Land der Våter:

Dem Kreon läßt er Gram zurück,

. Doch schonen Sieg erringt er auch

Thebe's sieben Thoren.

daß ich also Mutter einst,
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Beglückt mit solchen Kindern sei,

Holde Pallas, die den Drachen mit dem Marmorstein' erlegt,

Kadmos' Heldensinn zum

Blutigen Werke treibend,

Daß sich herein auf dieses Land
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Sphinx zum Raub durch Götterfügung stürzte!

Euripides The Phoenician Women 1043

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