Monday, May 20, 2019
Delightful
Euripides, Children of Heracles 892-895 (tr. Mark Griffith):
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To me, dances are a delight,See James Diggle, "Notes on the Heraclidae of Euripides," Classical Quarterly 22.2 (November, 1972) 241-245 (at 243-244).
and the clear-toned beauty of pipes at a feast;
a delight too is beautiful Aphrodite.
ἐμοὶ χορὸς μὲν ἡδὺ καὶ
λίγεια λωτοῦ χάρις ἀμφὶ δαῖτα·
ἡδεῖα δ᾿ εὔχαρις Ἀφροδί-
τα.
892 ἡδὺ καὶ Bothe: ἡδὺς εἰ L
893 ἀμφὶ δαῖτα Willink: ἐνὶ δαΐ L
894 ἡδεῖα Madvig: εἴη L
