This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
Χορός
ὁ δαίμων ὁ Διὸς παῖς
χαίρει μὲν θαλίαισιν,
φιλεῖ δ᾽ ὀλβοδότειραν Εἰ-
420ρήναν, κουροτρόφον θεάν.
ἴσαν δ᾽ ἔς τε τὸν ὄλβιον
τόν τε χείρονα δῶκ᾽ ἔχειν
οἴνου τέρψιν ἄλυπον:
μισεῖ δ᾽ ᾧ μὴ ταῦτα μέλει,
425κατὰ φάος νύκτας τε φίλας
εὐαίωνα διαζῆν,
σοφὰν δ᾽ ἀπέχειν πραπίδα φρένα τε
περισσῶν παρὰ φωτῶν:
430τὸ πλῆθος ὅ τι
τὸ φαυλότερον ἐνόμισε χρῆ-
ταί τε, τόδ᾽ ἂν δεχοίμαν.
Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, vol. 3. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
