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Euripides, Electra, 850-851
τλήμων ̓Ορέστης: ἀλλὰ μή με καίνετε but do not kill me, old servants of my father! They, when they heard his words, held back their spears, and he was recognized by an old man, who had been long in the household. Immediately they crowned your brother with a wreath, and shouted with joy.
πατρὸς παλαιοὶ δμῶες. οἳ δ', ἐπεὶ λόγων but do not kill me, old servants of my father! They, when they heard his words, held back their spears, and he was recognized by an old man, who had been long in the household. Immediately they crowned your brother with a wreath, and shouted with joy.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 241-242, 240 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 240. ἔβαλλʼ ἕκαστον θυτήρ- 240. She smote the sacrificers all and each
2. Euripides, Electra, 851, 877, 899, 1292 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1292. ὦ παῖδε Διός, θέμις ἐς φθογγὰς 1292. Sons of Zeus, is it right for us to draw near to speak with you? Dioskouroi
3. Euripides, Fragments, 616 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Euripides, Hecuba, 850-904, 1292 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Euripides, Hippolytus, 864-865, 925-926, 985, 616 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 616. Great Zeus, why didst thou, to man’s sorrow, put woman, evil counterfeit, to dwell where shines the sun? If thou wert minded that the human race should multiply, it was not from women they should have drawn their stock
6. Vergil, Aeneis, 3.62-3.63, 3.67-3.68 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 3.62. was kin of thine. This blood is not of trees. 3.63. Haste from this murderous shore, this land of greed. 3.67. to all these deadly javelins, keen and strong.” 3.68. Then stood I, burdened with dark doubt and fear
7. Tacitus, Annals, 1.2.2, 1.9.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
audience, theatrical	Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 53
augustus	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
corruption, in politics'	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
euripides, hecuba	Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 53
euripides, hippolytus	Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 53
euripides	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
hecuba	Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 53
hippolytus	Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 53
polydorus	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
speech, power of	Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 53
statues, and speech	Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 53
tacitus	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
vergil, aeneid	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
vergil, and corrupt murder trials	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107