Tuesday, October 13, 2015
You're Not the Only One
Euripides, Alcestis 417-418 (tr. David Kovacs):
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For you are not the first or last of mortalsEuripides, Andromache 1041-1042 (tr. David Kovacs):
to lose a noble wife.
οὐ γάρ τι πρῶτος οὐδὲ λοίσθιος βροτῶν
γυναικὸς ἐσθλῆς ἤμπλακες.
Not on you aloneEuripides, Helen 464 (tr. David Kovacs):
or on your kin have cruel griefs fallen.
οὐχὶ σοὶ μόνᾳ
δύσφρονες ἐπέπεσον, οὐ φίλοισι, λῦπαι.
Many people have troubles: you are not the only one.Euripides, Hippolytus 834-835 (tr. David Kovacs):
πολλοὶ κακῶς πράσσουσιν, οὐ σὺ δὴ μόνος.
My lord, it is not upon you alone that these ills have come:Euripides, Medea 1017 (tr. David Kovacs):
you have lost a trusty wife, but so have many others.
οὐ σοὶ τάδ᾿, ὦναξ, ἦλθε δὴ μόνῳ κακά,
πολλῶν μετ᾿ ἄλλων δ᾿ ὤλεσας κεδνὸν λέχος.
You are not the only woman to be separated from her children.
οὔτοι μόνη σὺ σῶν ἀπεζύγης τέκνων.
