Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN Complete

Translated, with Explanatory Notes, by Gilbert Murray.

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Another (wildly).

Look, my dead child! My child, my love,
The last look....

Another

Oh, there cometh worse.
A Greek's bed in the dark....

Another

God curse
That night and all the powers thereof!

Another

Or pitchers to and fro to bear
To some Pirene [12] on the hill,
Where the proud water craveth still
Its broken-hearted minister.

Another

God guide me yet to Theseus' land [13],
The gentle land, the famed afar....

[12] Pirene.] -- The celebrated spring on the hill of Corinth. Drawing water was a typical employment of slaves.

[13] ff., Theseus' land, &c.] -- Theseus' land is Attica. The poet, in the midst of his bitterness over the present conduct of his city, clings the more to its old fame for humanity. The "land high-born" where the Peneüs flows round the base of Mount Olympus in northern Thessaly is one of the haunts of Euripides' dreams in many plays. Cf. Bacchae, 410 (p. 97 in my translation). Mount Aetna fronts the "Tyrians' citadel," i.e.., Carthage, built by the Phoenicians. The "sister land" is the district of Sybaris in South Italy, where the river Crathis has, or had, a red-gold colour, which makes golden the hair of men and the fleeces of sheep; and the water never lost its freshness.

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