Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
Αἴας
ἰὼ
395σκότος, ἐμὸν φάος,
ἔρεβος ὦ φαεννότατον, ὡς ἐμοί,
ἕλεσθ᾽ ἕλεσθέ μ᾽ οἰκήτορα,
ἕλεσθέ μ᾽: οὔτε γὰρ θεῶν γένος οὔθ᾽ ἁμερίων
400ἔτ᾽ ἄξιος βλέπειν τιν᾽ εἰς ὄνασιν ἀνθρώπων.
ἀλλά μ᾽ ἁ Διὸς
ἀλκίμα θεὸς
ὀλέθρι᾽ αἰκίζει.
ποῖ τις οὖν φύγῃ;
ποῖ μολὼν μενῶ;
405εἰ τὰ μὲν φθίνει, φίλοι, τοιοῖσδ᾽
ὁμοῦ πέλας, μώραις δ᾽ ἄγραις προσκείμεθα,
πᾶς δὲ στρατὸς δίπαλτος ἄν με
χειρὶ φονεύοι.
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.