Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Euripides, Hecuba 426-427

Tr. E. P. Coleridge:

Polyxena
Farewell, my mother! farewell, Cassandra!
Hecuba
“Fare well!” others do, but not your mother, no!

Πολυξένη
χαῖρ᾽, ὦ τεκοῦσα, χαῖρε Κασάνδρα τ᾽ ἐμοί,

Ἑκάβη
χαίρουσιν ἄλλοι, μητρὶ δ᾽ οὐκ ἔστιν τόδε.