Thursday, September 02, 2021
Use Your Indoor Voice
Euripides, Orestes 145-148 (tr. David Kovacs):
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ELECTRACf. id. 170-172:
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
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;
