Trachiniae, Sophocles, creator; Sophocles with an English translation Vol 2; Storr, Francis, 1839-1919, editor, translator; London, New York: William Heinemann Ltd., The Macmillan Company, 1913.
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τὸ πᾶν, ἀφράστῳ τῇδε χειρωθεὶς πέδῃ.
κοὐ ταῦτα λόγχη πεδιάς, οὔθʼ ὁ γηγενὴς
στρατὸς Γιγάντων οὔτε θήρειος βία,
1060
οὔθʼ Ἑλλὰς οὔτʼ ἄγλωσσος οὔθʼ ὅσην ἐγὼ
γαῖαν καθαίρων ἱκόμην, ἔδρασέ πω·
γυνὴ δέ, θῆλυς φῦσα κοὐκ ἀνδρὸς φύσιν,
μόνη με δὴ καθεῖλε φασγάνου δίχα.
ὦ παῖ, γενοῦ μοι παῖς ἐτήτυμος γεγώς,
1065
καὶ μὴ τὸ μητρὸς ὄνομα πρεσβεύσῃς πλέον.
δός μοι χεροῖν σαῖν αὐτὸς ἐξ οἴκου λαβὼν
ἐς χεῖρα τὴν τεκοῦσαν, ὡς εἰδῶ σάφα
εἰ τοὐμὸν ἀλγεῖς μᾶλλον ἢ κείνης ὁρῶν
λωβητὸν εἶδος ἐν δίκῃ κακούμενον.
1070
ἴθʼ, ὦ τέκνον, τόλμησον· οἴκτιρόν τέ με
πολλοῖσιν οἰκτρόν, ὅστις ὥστε παρθένος
βέβρυχα κλαίων, καὶ τόδʼ οὐδʼ ἂν εἷς ποτε
τόνδʼ ἄνδρα φαίη πρόσθʼ ἰδεῖν δεδρακότα,
ἀλλʼ ἀστένακτος αἰὲν εἱπόμην κακοῖς.
1075
νῦν δʼ ἐκ τοιούτου θῆλυς ηὕρημαι τάλας.
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Ἡρακλῆς
καὶ νῦν προσελθὼν στῆθι πλησίον πατρός,
σκέψαι θʼ ὁποίας ταῦτα συμφορᾶς ὕπο
πέπονθα· δείξω γὰρ τάδʼ ἐκ καλυμμάτων.
ἰδού, θεᾶσθε πάντες ἄθλιον δέμας,
1080
ὁρᾶτε τὸν δύστηνον, ὡς οἰκτρῶς ἔχω.
αἰαῖ, ἆ τάλας,
ἔθαλψεν ἄτης σπασμὸς ἀρτίως ὅδʼ αὖ,
διῇξε πλευρῶν, οὐδʼ ἀγύμναστόν μʼ ἐᾶν
ἔοικεν ἡ τάλαινα διάβορος νόσος.
1085
ὦναξ Ἀίδη, δέξαι μʼ,
ὦ Διὸς ἀκτίς, παῖσον,
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