Thursday, September 02, 2021

 

Use Your Indoor Voice

Euripides, Orestes 145-148 (tr. David Kovacs):
ELECTRA
Ah, ah! Please speak no louder than the breath        145
of a panpipe's slender reed, my friends!
CHORUS
See how gentle is the voice
I bring indoors!

ΗΛΕΚΤΡΑ
ἆ ἆ σύριγγος ὅπως πνοὰ        145
λεπτοῦ δόνακος, ὦ φίλα, φώνει μοι.
ΧΟΡΟΣ
ἴδ᾿ ἀτρεμαῖον ὡς ὑπόροφον φέρω
βοάν.

147 ὑπνοφόρον
Musgrave
Cf. id. 170-172:
ELECTRA
Will you not leave us, leave our house,        170
ply your steps backwards
and stop this clattering?

ΗΛΕΚΤΡΑ
οὐκ ἀφ᾿ ἡμῶν, οὐκ ἀπ᾿ οἴκων        170
πάλιν ἀνὰ πόδα σὸν εἱλίξεις
μεθεμένα κτύπου;



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