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Headword:
Ὦ
Ζεῦ
Adler number: omega,35
Translated headword: Oh Zeus
Vetting Status: low
Translation: "[Oh
Zeus,] what are these things? Am I to say they are fortunate? Or terrible but advantageous? It is painful if I save my life by means of these evils;"[1] [note] that [the] woman has been moved by her experience [of the news], but she delights as she looks upon the danger.[2]
Ὦ Ζεῦ, τί ταῦτα; πότερον εὐτυχῆ λέγω; ἢ δεινὰ μέν, κέρδη δέ; λυπηρῶς δ' ἔχει, εἰ τοῖς ἐμαυτῆς τὸν βίον σῴζω κακοῖς: ὡς μὲν γυνὴ κεκίνηται ἐπὶ τῷ πάθει, πρὸς δὲ τὸν κίνδυνον ἀποβλέπουσα ἥδεται.
Notes:
[1]
Sophocles,
Electra 766-8; Clytemnestra's first words after hearing from the Paedagogus the false report of
Orestes' death.
[2] This is part of the scholiast's note; it continues, "and on account of the Chorus, she pretends to suffer". See
Scholia in Sophoclis Tragoedias Septem e Codice MS. Laurentiano, D. Elmsley, ed. (Oxon. 1825).
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Keywords: mythology; poetry; tragedy; women
Translated by: Christopher Star on 27 May 2000@21:00:33.
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