The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments of Euripides, 第 3 巻1809 |
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abode Ægisthus Alcmena altar AMPHITRYON Anauros antient Apollo Apollodorus Argive Argos arms Barnes bear behold beneath blest bore borne Brother call'd CHORUS CLYTEMNESTRA Consort corse CREUSA Dame Daughter death deeds didst dost doth dreadful dwell e'en e'er ELECTRA endur'd Erectheus erst Euripides Eurystheus evil expos'd eyes falchion fate Father fortunes friends Goddess Gods Greece hand hast thou hath Heaven HELEN HERCULES hither honours Husband illustrious immortal impious Jove Jove's King land lest Lord LYCUS mankind mansions MEGARA MENELAUS MESSENGER mighty mortals Mother murder Musgrave ne'er noble nought nuptial nurtur'd o'er oracle ORESTES palace Pausanias Phereclus Phoebus prosperous PYTHIAN race realm SEMICHORUS Sire slain slay Sons soul speak spring stranger tears temple TEUCER thee THEOCLYMENUS Theonoe THESEUS thou art thou hast thro toils tomb Troy utter'd virgin virtuous wealth whence Wife wilt woes woman words wretched XUTHUS
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75 ページ - Tho' he be lost, and never can return. HELEN'. O my illustrious Husband, I am bound To pav due honours to the man whom first I wedded, of our antient nuptial joys A memory still retaining, for so well I lov'd my Lord that I could even die With him. But what advantage would result To the deceas'd, should I lay down my life? Yet let me go myself, and to his shade Perform each solemn rite. But may the Gods, On you, and on the stranger who assists me In this my pious task, with liberal hand Confer the...
289 ページ - And fall by mutual wounds around the dead. To drag him back to Troy the foe contends: Nor with his death the rage of Hector ends: A prey to dogs he dooms the corse to lie, And marks the place to fix his head on high. Rise, and prevent (if yet you think of fame) Thy friend's disgrace, thy own eternal shame!" "Who sends thee, goddess, from the ethereal skies?
413 ページ - Accept : for midst the heavenly band Jove's aweful sceptre fills thy hand, And thou with Pluto dost partake His empire o'er the Stygian lake ; To man's benighted soul reveal Thy beams, and teach us, ere we feel, From what curst source our woes distill, Where grows the bitter root of ill, What Power Divine we must invoke To ease us from the galling yoke. For whensoe'er benignant Jove inclines To snatch a man from ruin, various means . ^ Such purpose to effect, the God bestows.
18 ページ - Shall I select a husband, but to vary My present ills, to dwell beneath the roof Of a barbarian, at luxurious boards With wealth abounding, seated ? for the dame Whom wedlock couples with the man she hates Death is the best expedient. But with glory How shall I die ? the fatal noose appears To be so base, that e'en in slaves 'tis held Unseemly thus to perish ; in the poniard There's somewhat great and generous. But to me Delays are useless : welcome instant death : Into such depth of misery am I...
209 ページ - Amphitryon. Depart : for to that place the Fates ordain You now are on the road ; perhaps the sequel Will be another's province : but expect, Since you have done amiss, to suffer vengeance. He, O ye veterans, at a lucky hour Enters the palace, for on...
409 ページ - To them belong, nor the renown obtain'd By valour, if they dare not to attempt Some perilous emprise : for toils beget Heroic fame. But Greece conspires to brand With foul reproach, that caution which attends To nought, but lengthening out an abject life. Of those who enter on the nuptial state, Not all with prosperous fortunes meet, nor all With adverse : most untoward is the doom
85 ページ - ... will not I let loose Your garment; for you hasten to commit A deed most mischievous. THEOCLYMENUS. Would'st thou, a slave, Govern thy Lord? CHORUS. Here reason's on my side. ^•" THEOCLYMENUS. That shall not I allow, if thou refuse To quit thy hold. THEOCLYMENUS. To slay that worst of Sisters. CHORUS. That most pious. THEOCLYMENUS. Her who betray'd me. CHORUS. Glorious was the fraud That caus'd so just a deed. THEOCLYMENUS. When she bestow'd My Consort on another. CHORUS. On the man Who had...
5 ページ - Greece, and Phrygia's miserable sons, That he might lighten from th' unrighteous swarms Of its inhabitants the groaning Earth, And on the bravest of the Grecian Chiefs Confer renown. While in the Phrygian war, As the reward of their victorious arms, I to the host of Greece have been display'd, Tho' absent, save in likeness and in name.