ἁπλοῦς ὁ μῦθος τῆς ἀληθείας ἔφυ,
κοὐ ποικίλων δεῖ τἄνδιχ’ ἑρμηνευμάτων·
ἔχει γὰρ αὐτὰ καιρόν· ὁ δ’ ἄδικος λόγος
νοσῶν ἐν αὑτῷ φαρμάκων δεῖται σοφῶν.
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Polynice répondant à Étéocle.
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“Voilà qui est d'un serf, de taire sa pensée.”
δούλου τόδ’ εἶπας, μὴ λέγειν ἅ τις φρονεῖ.
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Jocaste réagissant aux propos de Polynice qui lui décrit sa condition d'exilé.
Les Phéniciennes
Euripide: Citations en anglais
Euripidés
Bellerophon
Bellerophon, Fragment 298; quoted in Plutarch's Morals : Ethical Essays (1888) edited and translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto, p. 293
“The credit we get for wisdom is measured by our success.”
Euripidés
Hippolytus
Source: Hippolytus (428 BC), l. 701, translated by Edward P. Coleridge
“Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.”
Bacchæ l. 882
Variant translation: Slowly but surely withal moveth the might of the gods.
“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.”
Supposedly in The Suppliants.
Also attributed to Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Disputed
“I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.”
Euripidés
Medea
Source: Medea (431 BC), Line 1078
Sisyphus as translated by R. G. Bury, and revised by J. Garrett
“A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.”
Euripidés
Alcestis
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 309
“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
A herb most bruised is woman.”
Euripidés
Medea
Source: Medea (431 BC), Lines 230–231 in Gilbert Murray's translation ( p. 15 https://archive.org/stream/medeatranslatedi00euriuoft#page/15/mode/1up)
“Thou didst bring me forth for all the Greeks in common, not for thyself alone.”
Euripidés
Iphigenia in Aulis
Iphigenia in Aulis, 1386
Euripidés
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Hecuba
Hecuba, lines 1178-1182 ( tr. Jay Kardan and Laura-Gray Street (2010) http://didaskalia.net/issues/8/32/)
Variant ( tr. E. P. Coleridge (1938) http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg007.perseus-eng1:1145-1186):
[I]f any of the men of former times have spoken ill of women, if any does so now, or shall do so hereafter, I will say all this in one short sentence; for neither land or sea produces such a race, as whoever has had to do with them knows.
Euripidés
livre
Hecuba
Hecuba (424 BC), lines 1177-1182. [Euripides, William Arrowsmith (translated by), Grene, David, Lattimore, Richmond, Euripides III: Four Tragedies, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA, 0226307824, paperback]
Variant ( tr. Jay Kardan and Laura-Gray Street (2010) http://didaskalia.net/issues/8/32/):
Let me tell you, if anyone in the past has spoken
ill of women, or speaks so now or will speak so
in the future, I’ll sum it up for him: Neither sea
nor land has ever produced a more monstrous
creature than woman.
