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Euripides, Helen, 894-899

ὦ παρθέν', ἱκέτις ἀμφὶ σὸν πίτνω γόνυ

HELEN: Maiden, at thy knees I fall a suppliant, and seat myself in this sad posture on behalf of myself and him, whom I am in danger of seeing slain, after I have so hardly found him. Oh! tell not thy brother that my husband is returned to these loving arms; save us, I beseech thee; never for thy brother's sake sacrifice thy character for uprightness, by evil and unjust means bidding for his favour. For the deity hates violence, and biddeth all men get lawful gains without plundering others. Wealth unjustly gotten, though it bring some power, is to be eschewed. The breath of heaven and the earth are man's common heritage, wherein to store his home, without taking the goods of others, or wresting them away by force. Me did Hermes at a critical time, to my sorrow, intrust to thy father's safe keeping for this my lord, who now is here and wishes to reclaim me. But how can he recover me if he be slain? How could thy sire restore the living to the dead? Oh! consider ere that the will of heaven and thy father's too; would the deity or would thy dead sire restore their neighbour's goods, or would they forbear? restore them, I feel sure. It is not, therefore, right that thou shouldst more esteem thy wanton brother than thy righteous father. Yet if thou, prophetess as thou art and believer in divine providence, shalt pervert the just intention of thy father and gratify thy unrighteous brother, 'tis shameful thou shouldst have full knowledge of the heavenly will, both what is and what is not, and yet be ignorant of justice. Oh! save my wretched life from the troubles which beset it, granting this as an accession to our good fortune; for every living soul loathes Helen, seeing that there is gone a rumour throughout Hellas that I was false unto my lord, and took up my abode in Phrygia's sumptuous halls.

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1. Euripides, Andromache, 891, 900, 911, 914, 920-950, 1032 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1032. μαντόσυνον, ὅτε νιν ̓Αργόθεν πορευθεὶς

2. Euripides, Bacchae, 1116-1124, 608, 1115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1115. καὶ προσπίτνει νιν· ὃ δὲ μίτραν κόμης ἄπο

1115. and fell upon him. He threw the headband from his head so that the wretched Agave might recognize and not kill him. Touching her cheek, he said: It is I, mother, your son, Pentheus, whom you bore in the house of Echion.

3. Euripides, Hecuba, 841 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

841. ὦ δέσποτ', ὦ μέγιστον ̔́Ελλησιν φάος

4. Euripides, Helen, 10-11, 118, 12, 1240, 1243, 13, 132, 138, 14-16, 160-161, 164-169, 17, 170-173, 18-19, 198, 2, 20-25, 250, 26, 262-263, 27, 275-276, 28-29, 3, 30, 309, 31-32, 327, 33-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-54, 543, 55-59, 6, 60-67, 7, 73, 8, 875, 880-883, 895-899, 9, 900-943, 947-948, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1. Νείλου μὲν αἵδε καλλιπάρθενοι ῥοαί

1. These are the lovely pure streams of the Nile , which waters the plain and lands of Egypt , fed by white melting snow instead of rain from heaven. Proteus was king of this land when he was alive

5. Euripides, Ion, 1313-1319, 1333-1334, 1312 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1312. Oh! ’tis passing strange how badly the deity hath enacted laws for mortal men, contrary to all sound judgment; for instance, they should ne’er have suffered impious men to sit at their altars

6. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 1007-1008, 1214, 1260, 900-974, 1006 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 369 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Euripides, Medea, 482, 324 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Euripides, Orestes, 382-469, 479-481, 491-541, 544, 671-716, 1637 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Sophocles, Electra, 1355, 1354 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 238-254, 276, 237 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

12. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 301-304, 47-48, 300 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

13. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 501 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
andromache	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
antigone	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 139
apollo	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
artemis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
bacchae	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
comparisons, with heroes and gods	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 139
delphi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
helen	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826; Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 139
iphigenia at aulis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
medea	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 139
oedipus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 139
rehm, r. xxv	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
ritual	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
supplication'	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
supplication	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 139
ϲώιζειν, ϲωτήρ	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 139