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A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: Great treasure halls hath Zeus in heaven,
   From whence to man strange dooms be given,
      Past hope or fear.
   And the end men looked for cometh not,
   And a path is there where no man thought:
      So hath it fallen here.
   
[ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: πολλῶν ταμίας Ζεὺς ἐν Ὀλύμπῳ,
   πολλὰ δ᾽ ἀέλπτως κραίνουσι θεοί:
   καὶ τὰ δοκηθέντ᾽ οὐκ ἐτελέσθη,
   τῶν δ᾽ ἀδοκήτων πόρον ηὗρε θεός.
   τοιόνδ᾽ ἀπέβη τόδε πρᾶγμα.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1415ff (431 BC) [tr. Murray (1906)]

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A quotation from Euripides

JASON: The curse of children’s blood be on you!
   Avenging Justice, blast your being!
MEDEA: What god will hear your imprecation,
   Oath-breaker, guest-deceiver, liar?
 
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: ἀλλά σ᾽ Ἐρινὺς ὀλέσειε τέκνων
   φονία τε Δίκη.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: τίς δὲ κλύει σοῦ θεὸς ἢ δαίμων,
   τοῦ ψευδόρκου καὶ ξειναπάτου;]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1389ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

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A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: I say that mortals who have no experience
   Of and have never had children
   Have a better chance for happiness
   Than those who bear them.
 
ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: καί φημι βροτῶν οἵτινές εἰσιν
   πάμπαν ἄπειροι μηδ᾿ ἐφύτευσαν
   παῖδας προφέρειν εἰς εὐτυχίαν
   τῶν γειναμένων.

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1090ff (431 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2020)]

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A quotation from Euripides

ÆGEUS: All happiness to you Medea! Between old friends
   There is no better greeting.
 
[ΑἸΓΕΎΣ: Μήδεια, χαῖρε: τοῦδε γὰρ προοίμιον
   κάλλιον οὐδεὶς οἶδε προσφωνεῖν φίλους.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 663ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

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A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: I hope the man who does not honour his friends, the man who does not open an honest heart to them, I hope that man dies a horrible, a miserable death. Such a man will certainly never be a friend of mine!
 
[ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: ἀχάριστος ὄλοιθ᾽ ὅτῳ πάρεστιν
   μὴ φίλους τιμᾶν καθαρᾶν ἀνοί-
   ξαντα κλῇδα φρενῶν: ἐμοὶ
   μὲν φίλος οὔποτ᾽ ἔσται.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 659ff, Antistrophe 2 (431 BC) [tr. Theodoridis (2004)]

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A quotation from Euripides

MEDEA: I shall never accept the favors of friends of yours,
   Nor take a thing from you, so you need not offer it.
   There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
 
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: οὔτ᾽ ἂν ξένοισι τοῖσι σοῖς χρησαίμεθ᾽ ἂν
   οὔτ᾽ ἄν τι δεξαίμεσθα, μηδ᾽ ἡμῖν δίδου:
   κακοῦ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς δῶρ᾽ ὄνησιν οὐκ ἔχει.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 616ff (431 BC) [tr. Warner (1944)]

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A quotation from Euripides

MENELAUS:        But so it has to be.
   For the saying is not mine, but it was wisely said,
   that nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
 
[ΜΕΝΕΛΈΩΣ:        ἀλλ᾽ ἀναγκαίως ἔχει.
   λόγος γάρ ἐστιν οὐκ ἐμός, σοφὸν δ᾽ ἔπος,
   δεινῆς ἀνάγκης οὐδὲν ἰσχύειν πλέον.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 512ff (412 BC) [tr. Lattimore (1956)]

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A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: Around my javelin let the spider weave
   Her subtle threads; while I, grown old in peace …
 
[ΧΟΡΟΣ: κείσθω δόρυ μοι μίτον ἀμφιπλέκειν ἀράχναις·
   μετὰ δ’ ἡσυχίας πολιῷ γήρᾳ συνοικῶν]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Erectheus [Ἐρεχθεύς], frag. 369 (TGF) (422 BC) [tr. Wodhull (1809)]

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