Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Earth, Moon, and Sun
Euripides, Children of Heracles 748-757 (tr. Mark Griffith):
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Earth and night-long Moon,
and most brilliant beams of the god who lights mankind,
carry the message for me!
Shout it out to heaven,
right up to the ruler's throne
and into the house of gray-eyed Athena:
I am ready, now that we've accepted these suppliants,
I am ready, for the land of my fathers and for our homes too,
to cut through danger with my gray steel.
Γᾶ καὶ παννύχιος σελά-
να καὶ λαμπρόταται θεοῦ
φαεσιμβρότου αὐγαί, 750
ἀγγελίαν μοι ἐνέγκαι,
ἰαχήσατε δ᾽ οὐρανῷ
καὶ παρὰ θρόνον ἀρχέταν
γλαυκᾶς τ᾽ ἐν Ἀθάνας·
μέλλω τᾶς πατριώτιδος 755
γᾶς, μέλλω καὶ ὑπὲρ δόμων
ἱκέτας ὑποδεχθεὶς
κίνδυνον πολιῷ τεμεῖν σιδάρῳ.
