1. Aeschylus, Persians, 711 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 711. βίοτον εὐαίωνα Πέρσαις ὡς θεὸς διήγαγες | |
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2. Aristophanes, Birds, 722 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 722. ἆρ' οὐ φανερῶς ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν ἐσμὲν μαντεῖος ̓Απόλλων; | |
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3. Euripides, Alcestis, 426-429, 611-612, 614-635, 743-744, 862-863, 866-867, 869-871, 897-902, 911, 916-919, 922, 926-928, 425 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 425. Ho! sirrahs, catch me this woman; hold her fast; for ’tis no welcome story she will have to hear. It was to make thee leave the holy altar of the goddess that I held thy child’s death before thy eyes, and so induced thee to give thyself up to me to die. |
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4. Euripides, Andromache, 1117-1172, 1176, 1187, 1211, 1218, 1226-1242, 1263-1270, 1116 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1116. εἷς ἦν ἁπάντων τῶνδε μηχανορράφος. | |
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5. Euripides, Bacchae, 1217-1226, 1285, 1300-1329, 1216 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1216. ἕπεσθέ μοι φέροντες ἄθλιον βάρος | 1216. Follow me, carrying the miserable burden of Pentheus, follow me, slaves, before the house; exhausted from countless searches, I am bringing his body, for I discovered it in the folds of Kithairon |
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6. Euripides, Electra, 1277-1280, 1276 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1276. σοὶ μὲν τάδ' εἶπον: τόνδε δ' Αἰγίσθου νέκυν | |
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7. Euripides, Hecuba, 1288, 25-50, 610, 675, 678-680, 684-732, 894-897, 1287 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1287. ̔Εκάβη, σὺ δ', ὦ τάλαινα, διπτύχους νεκροὺς | |
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8. Euripides, Helen, 1243, 1260, 1291-1300, 1390-1395, 1400, 1408, 1419, 1528, 1542-1604, 1240 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1240. τί δ'; ἔστ' ἀπόντων τύμβος; ἢ θάψεις σκιάν; | 1240. What? Is there a tomb for the absent? Or will you bury a shadow? Helen |
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9. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 1027-1045, 1159-1162, 1026 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1026. rend= Bury my body after death in its destined grave in front of the shrine of the virgin goddess Pallas. at Pallene. And I will be thy friend and guardian of thy city for ever, where I lie buried in a foreign soil, but a bitter foe to these children’s descendants, whensoe’er Referring to invasions by the Peloponnesians, descendants of the Heracleidae. with gathered host they come against this land, traitors to your kindness now; such are the strangers ye have championed. Why then came I hither, if I knew all this, instead of regarding the god’s oracle? Because I thought, that Hera was mightier far than any oracle, and would not betray me. Waste no drink-offering on my tomb, nor spill the victim’s blood; for I will requite them for my treatment here with a journey they shall rue; and ye shall have double gain from me, for I will help you and harm them by my death. Alcmena 1026. Slay me, I do not ask thee for mercy; yet since this city let me go and shrunk from slaying me, I will reward it with an old oracle of Loxias, which in time will benefit them more than doth appear. |
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10. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 1359-1366, 1358 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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11. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 591-597, 599, 610, 616, 619-620, 623, 590 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 590. Oh! great is the bliss the great enjoy. Behold Iphigenia, the king’s child, my lady, and Clytemnestra, the daughter of Tyndareus; how proud their lineage! |
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12. Euripides, Medea, 1378-1383, 1377 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1377. Give up to me those dead, to bury and lament Medea |
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13. Euripides, Orestes, 1431-1436, 97-99, 114 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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14. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1486-1529, 1485 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1485. I do not veil my tender cheek shaded with curls, nor do I feel shame, from maiden modesty, at the dark red beneath my eyes, the blush upon my face, as I hurry on, in bacchic revelry for the dead |
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15. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 755-759, 778-836, 841-843, 846-931, 934-935, 950-954, 754 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 754. Are ye bringing the bodies, for the which the strife arose? Messenger |
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16. Euripides, Trojan Women, 1134-1146, 1156-1206, 1240-1245, 1248-1250, 735-739, 1133 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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17. Vergil, Eclogues, 1.6-1.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
| 1.6. it careless in the shade, and, at your call 1.7. “Fair Amaryllis” bid the woods resound. TITYRUS 1.8. O Meliboeus, 'twas a god vouchsafed |
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