Euripides The Phoenician Women 1758

ed. Gilbert Murray

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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.)) — 1758 focus
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.) — 1758 focus
Meiner Heimat edle Bürger, seht mich hier, den Dedipus,
1730
Der entwirrt die hohen Räthsel, und der erste war an
Macht,
Der die Macht der
blutbefleckten Sphinx allein sich unterwarf, -
Selbst entehrt und
kläglich muß er nun entfliehn aus seinem Land.
Doch warum bewein' ich
fruchtlos, was bejammr' ich mein
Geschick?
Tragen muß ja, was
1735
der Götter Schluß verhängt, ein
Sterblicher.