Euripides, Volume 3Harper, 1844 |
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Achilles Ægisthus afflictions Agamemnon ANTISTROPHE Argive Argos arms Atreus avenge barbaric bark bear behold beneath bless'd blood CHORUS Clytemnestra dead death deeds didst thou dost thou doth dreadful ELEC ELECTRA EURIP Eurotas ev'n eyes fate fortune friends gainst goddess gods grace Grecian Greece grief hallow'd hand hast thou hath hear Hecuba Helena honour ills IPHIGENIA Jove king land lord mayst Menelaus mother mournful murderer naught nuptials o'er Orestes Peleus Pelops Phrygian Phthia POLYMESTOR Priam Pylades reverence rites royal ruin seize SEMICHORUS shalt shrine sister slain slave slay slew sons soul Spartan speak spear strangers STROPHE Strophius sword tears thee THEOC THEOCLYMENUS Theonoe thine thou art thou hast thy brother thy father thy husband toils tomb Troy Tyndarus unhappy vengeance victim virgin voice waves wife wilt thou woes wouldst wretched youth
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Page 228 - Thee yet an infant in thy nurse's arms I left, a babe I left thee in the house. Thou art more happy, O my soul, than speech Knows to express. What shall I say ? 'Tis all Surpassing wonder and the power of words. Ores. May we together from this hour be bless
Page 213 - Whatever Grecian to this savage shore Is driven: the previous rites are mine; the deed Of blood, too horrid to be told, devolves On others in the temple: but the rest, In reverence to the goddess, I forbear. But the strange visions which the night now past Brought with it, to the air, if that may soothe My troubled thought, I will relate. I...
Page 173 - Twere folly to attempt it. When roused to rage the madd'ning populace storms, Their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth Unquenchable; but give its violence way, It spends itself, and as its force abates Learns to obey, and yields it to your will: Their passions varying thus, now rough with rage, Now melting with soft pity, Wisdom marks The change, and turns it to a rich account. Thus Tyndarus I will move, and th' Argive state, To use their supreme power with gentleness.
Page 221 - twixt the clashing rocks Of our wild sea, are landed on the beach, A grateful offering at Diana's shrine, And victims to the goddess. Haste, prepare The sacred lavers, and the previous rites.
Page 227 - She whom thou seest : but interrupt me not. To Argos, O my brother, ere I die, Bear me from this barbaric land, and far Remove me from this altar's bloody rites, At which to slay the stranger is my charge.
Page 245 - ... thought, That from their chains unloosed, the stranger youths Might kill her, and escape by flight: yet fear Of seeing what we ought not, kept us still In silence; but at length we all resolved To go, though not permitted, where they were. There we behold the Grecian bark with oars Well...
Page 161 - Then, save with soothing words, assist me not. Had these eyes seen my father, had I asked him In duty if I ought to slay my mother, I think he would have prayed me not to plunge My murdering sword in her that gave me birth ; Since he could not revisit heaven's sweet light, And I must suffer all these miseries. But now unveil thy face and dry thy tears, My sister, though afflictions press us sore : And when thou seest me in these fitful moods, Soothe...
Page 215 - And take the polish'd image from the shrine, Attempting all things: and the vacant space Between the triglyphs (mark it well) enough Is open to admit us; by that way Attempt we to descend: in toils the brave Are daring; of no worth the abject soul.
Page 233 - I would not be the murderer of my mother, And of thee too; sufficient is her blood. No; I will share thy fortune, live with thee, Or with thee die: to Argos I will lead thee, If here I perish not; or dying, here Remain with thee.
Page 219 - Notes which to the dead belong, Dismal notes attuned to woe By Pluto in the realms below: No sprightly air shall we employ To cheer the soul, and wake the sense of joy. IPHIG. Th...