Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN Complete

Translated, with Explanatory Notes, by Gilbert Murray.

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Talthybius

Back! Thou art drunken with thy miseries,
Poor woman! -- Hold her fast, men, till it please
Odysseus that she come. She was his lot
Chosen from all and portioned. Lose her not!

[He goes to watch over the burning of the City. The dusk deepens.

Chorus
Divers Women.

Woe, woe, woe!
Thou of the Ages [47], O wherefore fleest thou,
Lord of the Phrygian, Father that made us?
'Tis we, thy children; shall no man aid us?
'Tis we, thy children! Seest thou, seest thou?

Others.

He seeth, only his heart is pitiless;
And the land dies: yea, she,
She of the Mighty Cities perisheth citiless!
Troy shall no more be!

[47] Thou of the Ages.] -- The Phrygian All-Father, identified with Zeus, son of Kronos.

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