Third Stasimon
Παλλάδα τὴν φιλόχορον ἐμοὶ
δεῦρο καλεῖν νόμος ἐς χορόν,
παρθένον ἄζυγα κούρην,
1140 πόλιν ἡμετέραν ἔχει
καὶ κράτος φανερὸν μόνη
κλῃδοῦχός τε καλεῖται.
Χορός
φάνηθʼ τυράννους
στυγοῦσʼ ὥσπερ εἰκός.
1145 δῆμός τοί σε καλεῖ γυναικῶν·
ἔχουσα δέ μοι μόλοις
εἰρήνην φιλέορτον.
ἥκετʼ εὔφρονες ἵλαοι,
πότνιαι, ἄλσος ἐς ὑμέτερον,
1150 οὗ δὴ ἀνδράσιν οὐ θέμις εἰσορᾶν
ὄργια σεμνὰ θεοῖν, ἵνα λαμπάσι
φαίνετον ἄμβροτον ὄψιν.
μόλετον ἔλθετον, ἀντόμεθʼ
Θεσμοφόρω πολυποτνία,
1155 εἰ καὶ πρότερόν ποτʼ ἐπηκόω
ἤλθετον, ἔλθετε νῦν, ἀφίκεσθʼ ἱκετεύομεν
ἐνθάδε χἠμῖν.
1149–1158

I am Echo, the nymph who repeats all she hears. 'Tis I, who last year lent my help to Euripides in this very place. But, my child, give yourself up to the sad laments that belong to your pitiful condition.

MNESILOCHUS: And you will repeat them?

EURIPIDES: I will not fail you. Begin.

MNESILOCHUS: "Oh! thou divine Night! how slowly thy chariot threads its way through the starry vault, across the sacred realms of the Air and mighty Olympus."

The Athenian Society, "The Eleven Comedies" (1912)
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Hall & Geldart, OCT, 1907 · 1907
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Frederick William Hall (1865–1948) was a classical scholar and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Together with William Martin Geldart, he produced the Oxford Classical Text of several authors. Hall was a careful editor known for his thorough collation of manuscripts and his conservative approach to textual criticism.

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