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Ἄδμητος
ἀνδρῶν Φεραίων εὐμενὴς παρουσία,
νέκυν μὲν ἤδη πάντ᾽ ἔχοντα πρόσπολοι
φέρουσιν ἄρδην πρὸς τάφον τε καὶ πυράν:
ὑμεῖς δὲ τὴν θανοῦσαν, ὡς νομίζεται,
προσείπατ᾽ ἐξιοῦσαν ὑστάτην ὁδόν.
Χορός
καὶ μὴν ὁρῶ σὸν πατέρα γηραιῷ ποδὶ
στείχοντ᾽, ὀπαδούς τ᾽ ἐν χεροῖν δάμαρτι σῇ
κόσμον φέροντας, νερτέρων ἀγάλματα.
Admetus:
Friendly presence of men of Pherae, the attendants are carrying the body, having everything, lifted on high towards the funeral and pyre. Speak to the dead, as is the custom, as she goes out on her last journey.
Chorus:
I see your father walking with aged step, his attendants carrying ornaments for your wife in their hands, adornment for the dead.
ἐξιοῦσαν- ἐκειμι (fem pple)
Φέρης
ἥκω κακοῖσι σοῖσι συγκάμνων, τέκνον:
ἐσθλῆς γάρ, οὐδεὶς ἀντερεῖ, καὶ σώφρονος γυναικὸς ἡμάρτηκας. ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν φέρειν ἀνάγκη καίπερ ὄντα δύσφορα.
δέχου δὲ κόσμον τόνδε, καὶ κατὰ χθονὸς
ἴτω. τὸ ταύτης σῶμα τιμᾶσθαι χρεών,
ἥτις γε τῆς σῆς προύθανε ψυχῆς, τέκνον,
καί μ᾽ οὐκ ἄπαιδ᾽ ἔθηκεν οὐδ᾽ εἴασε σοῦ
στερέντα γήρᾳ πενθίμῳ καταφθίνειν,
πάσαις δ᾽ ἔθηκεν εὐκλεέστερον βίον
γυναιξίν, ἔργον τλᾶσα γενναῖον τόδε.
Pheres:
I have come, sympathising with you misfortune, child. For you have lost the best and wisest wife, no one can deny. But these things are necessary to bear although they are hard to bear. Receive these ornaments and go down into the earth. Her body is needing to be buried, for she died on behalf of your life, child, and did not make me childless nor allow me to waste away from old age in mourning clothes, deprived of you. She made life more glorious for all women, having undergone this noble task.
Φέρης (continued)
ὦ τόνδε μὲν σώσασ᾽, ἀναστήσασα δὲ
ἡμᾶς πίτνοντας, χαῖρε, κἀν Ἅιδου δόμοις
εὖ σοι γένοιτο. φημὶ τοιούτους γάμους
λύειν βροτοῖσιν, ἢ γαμεῖν οὐκ ἄξιον.
Ἄδμητος:
οὔτ᾽ ἦλθες ἐς τόνδ᾽ ἐξ ἐμοῦ κληθεὶς τάφον
οὔτ᾽ ἐν φίλοισι σὴν παρουσίαν λέγω.
κόσμον δὲ τὸν σὸν οὔποθ᾽ ἥδ᾽ ἐνδύσεται:
οὐ γάρ τι τῶν σῶν ἐνδεὴς ταφήσεται.
τότε ξυναλγεῖν χρῆν σ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ὠλλύμην ἐγώ:
σὺ δ᾽ ἐκποδὼν στὰς καὶ παρεὶς ἄλλῳ θανεῖν
νέῳ γέρων ὤν, τόνδ᾽ ἀποιμώξῃ νεκρόν;
οὐκ ἦσθ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀρθῶς τοῦδε σώματος πατήρ,
οὐδ᾽ ἡ τεκεῖν φάσκουσα καὶ κεκλημένη
μήτηρ μ᾽ ἔτικτε, δουλίου δ᾽ ἀφ᾽ αἵματος
μαστῷ γυναικὸς σῆς ὑπεβλήθην λάθρᾳ.
Pheres (continued)
You saved this man and raised me up when I was falling, farewell. May things turn out well for you in the house of Hades. I say that a marriage such as this is a benefit to mortals, if not it is not worthy to marry.
Admetus:
You came to this funeral not from my request and I do not say your presence is in friendship. This woman will never put on your finery, she will not be buried lacking any of your things. It was then that it was necessary for you to share my grief when I was dying. You stood to the side and and allowed another, a young person, to die, you being old, you will mourn this corpse? So then, you were not properly the father of this (my) body, nor she who claims to have birthed me and called herself my mother actually gave birth to me, but of some slave’s blood and put under your wife’s breast.
τοτε- it was then
ξυναλγεῖν- share suffering/misfortune
ταφήσεται- future passive of θαπτω.
ἄρ᾽- inferential particle ‘so then’
Ἄδμητος (continued):
ἔδειξας εἰς ἔλεγχον ἐξελθὼν ὃς εἶ,
καί μ᾽ οὐ νομίζω παῖδα σὸν πεφυκέναι.
ἦ τἄρα πάντων διαπρέπεις ἀψυχίᾳ,
ὃς τηλικόσδ᾽ ὢν κἀπὶ τέρμ᾽ ἥκων βίου
οὐκ ἠθέλησας οὐδ᾽ ἐτόλμησας θανεῖν
τοῦ σοῦ πρὸ παιδός, ἀλλὰ τήνδ᾽ εἰάσατε
γυναῖκ᾽ ὀθνείαν, ἣν ἐγὼ καὶ μητέρα
καὶ πατέρ᾽ ἂν ἐνδίκως ἂν ἡγοίμην μόνην.
καίτοι καλόν γ᾽ ἂν τόνδ᾽ ἀγῶν᾽ ἠγωνίσω,
τοῦ σοῦ πρὸ παιδὸς κατθανών, βραχὺς δέ σοι πάντως ὁ λοιπὸς ἦν βιώσιμος χρόνος.
[κἀγώ τ᾽ ἂν ἔζων χἤδε τὸν λοιπὸν χρόνον,
κοὐκ ἂν μονωθεὶς ἔστενον κακοῖς ἐμοῖς.]
Admetus (continued):
Having come out to the test, you have shown the sort you are, and I don’t believe me to have been born your son. Look, you stand out cowardly from everyone, since you are of such an old age (being) having arrived upon the end of life, you were not willing and not brave enough to die for your son, but you and your wife allowed a foreign woman (to do so), so I would consider her alone my mother and father. And yet you could have competed this fine contest, dying before your son, and in any case, the life to you remaining to be lived was brief. And I and this woman would be living the (my) remaining time and I would not be lamenting my troubles, having been made alone.
ἦ τοι ἄρα- marks strong assertion.
αν + op. - sense of ‘would’/’could’
χἤδε- she (nom)
Ἄδμητος (continued):
καὶ μὴν ὅσ᾽ ἄνδρα χρὴ παθεῖν εὐδαίμονα
πέπονθας: ἥβησας μὲν ἐν τυραννίδι,
παῖς δ᾽ ἦν ἐγώ σοι τῶνδε διάδοχος δόμων,
ὥστ᾽ οὐκ ἄτεκνος κατθανὼν ἄλλοις δόμον
λείψειν ἔμελλες ὀρφανὸν διαρπάσαι.
οὐ μὴν ἐρεῖς γέ μ᾽ ὡς ἀτιμάζοντα σὸν
γῆρας θανεῖν προύδωκας, ὅστις αἰδόφρων
πρὸς σ᾽ ἦ μάλιστα: κἀντὶ τῶνδέ μοι χάριν
τοιάνδε καὶ σὺ χἠ τεκοῦσ᾽ ἠλλαξάτην.
τοιγὰρ φυτεύων παῖδας οὐκέτ᾽ ἂν φθάνοις,
οἳ γηροβοσκήσουσι καὶ θανόντα σε
περιστελοῦσι καὶ προθήσονται νεκρόν.
Admetus (continued):
and truly/indeed, as much as it is necessary for a prosperous man to have, you had. You had the prime of your life ruling, I was your child, successor of this house, so that, having died childless, you were not fated to leave your house to others to be torn apart. And at least you can’t say that you handed me over to die, because I dishonoured your old age, for I was the most respectful towards you. in return of these things, you and the women who bore me gave to me in exchange grace/thanks such as this. Therefore, you would no longer be ahead/should anticipate planting children, who will feed you and, when you have died, will dress and lay out your body.
ὅστις- rel. picking up με (I who…)
Ἄδμητος (continued):
οὐ γάρ σ᾽ ἔγωγε τῇδ᾽ ἐμῇ θάψω χερί:
τέθνηκα γὰρ δὴ τοὐπὶ σ᾽. εἰ δ᾽ ἄλλου τυχὼν
σωτῆρος αὐγὰς εἰσορῶ, κείνου λέγω
καὶ παῖδά μ᾽ εἶναι καὶ φίλον γηροτρόφον.
μάτην ἄρ᾽ οἱ γέροντες εὔχονται θανεῖν,
γῆρας ψέγοντες καὶ μακρὸν χρόνον βίου:
ἢν δ᾽ ἐγγὺς ἔλθῃ θάνατος, οὐδεὶς βούλεται
θνῄσκειν, τὸ γῆρας δ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστ᾽ αὐτοῖς βαρύ.
Admetus (continued):
For I will never bury you with this hand, for in as far as it depends on you I am dead. If, having met with another as a saviour, I see the light of the sun, I say I am their child and dear carer. Falsely, old men prayed to die, finding fault in old age and long time living; if death comes close, none want to die, and old age is no longer a burden to them.
Χορός:
παυσασθ᾽ — ἅλις γὰρ ἡ παροῦσα συμφορά — πατρὸς δὲ μὴ παροξύνῃς φρένας.
Φέρης
ὦ παῖ, τίν᾽ αὐχεῖς, πότερα Λυδὸν ἢ Φρύγα
κακοῖς ἐλαύνειν ἀργυρώνητον σέθεν;
οὐκ οἶσθα Θεσσαλόν με κἀπὸ Θεσσαλοῦ
πατρὸς γεγῶτα γνησίως ἐλεύθερον;
ἄγαν ὑβρίζεις, καὶ νεανίας λόγους
ῥίπτων ἐς ἡμᾶς οὐ βαλὼν οὕτως ἄπει.
Chorus:
Stop, the present misfortune is enough. Don’t provoke the heart of your father.
Pheres:
Oh child, who do you think to plague with abuse, some Lydian or Phrygian of yours you bought with silver? Do you not know I am a Thessalian from a Thessalian father, belonging to the race of freeborn men? You insult too much, throwing arrogant words at me, you will not get away with this.
και…απει- lit. throwing young words, you will not go away in this way.
Φέρης (continued):
ἐγὼ δέ σ᾽ οἴκων δεσπότην ἐγεινάμην
κἄθρεψ᾽, ὀφείλω δ᾽ οὐχ ὑπερθνῄσκειν σέθεν: οὐ γὰρ πατρῷον τόνδ᾽ ἐδεξάμην νόμον, παίδων προθνῄσκειν πατέρας, οὐδ᾽ Ἑλληνικόν. σαυτῷ γὰρ εἴτε δυστυχὴς εἴτ᾽ εὐτυχὴς ἔφυς: ἃ δ᾽ ἡμῶν χρῆν σε τυγχάνειν ἔχεις. πολλῶν μὲν ἄρχεις, πολυπλέθρους δέ σοι γύας λείψω: πατρὸς γὰρ ταὔτ᾽ ἐδεξάμην πάρα. τί δῆτά σ᾽ ἠδίκηκα; τοῦ σ᾽ ἀποστερῶ; μὴ θνῇσχ᾽ ὑπὲρ τοῦδ᾽ ἀνδρός, οὐδ᾽ ἐγὼ πρὸ σοῦ. χαίρεις ὁρῶν φῶς: πατέρα δ᾽ οὐ χαίρειν δοκεῖς;
Pheres (continued):
I brought you to life and raised you as master of the house, I am not obliged to die for you. For I do not accept this as an ancestral custom, fathers dying for their sons, nor as a Greek custom. For you get your own either bad luck or good luck. What was necessary to fall to you, you have. You already rule many people, I will leave you many acres land; I received the same from my father. in what respect then have I wronged you? Of what thing am I depriving you? Don’t die on behalf of this man (me), and I don’t for you. You enjoy seeing the light, do you think your fathers enjoys it too?
τυγχάνειν- takes a gen.
Φέρης (continued):
ἦ μὴν πολύν γε τὸν κάτω λογίζομαι
χρόνον, τὸ δὲ ζῆν σμικρὸν ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως γλυκύ.
σὺ γοῦν ἀναιδῶς διεμάχου τὸ μὴ θανεῖν καὶ ζῇς παρελθὼν τὴν πεπρωμένην τύχην,
ταύτην κατακτάς: εἶτ᾽ ἐμὴν ἀψυχίαν
ψέγεις, γυναικός, ὦ κάκισθ᾽, ἡσσημένος,
ἣ τοῦ καλοῦ σοῦ προύθανεν νεανίου;
σοφῶς δ᾽ ἐφηῦρες ὥστε μὴ θανεῖν ποτε,
εἰ τὴν παροῦσαν κατθανεῖν πείσεις ἀεὶ
γυναῖχ᾽ ὑπὲρ σοῦ: κᾆτ᾽ ὀνειδίζεις φίλοις
τοῖς μὴ θέλουσι δρᾶν τάδ᾽, αὐτὸς ὢν κακός;
σίγα: νόμιζε δ᾽, εἰ σὺ τὴν σαυτοῦ φιλεῖς
ψυχήν, φιλεῖν ἅπαντας: εἰ δ᾽ ἡμᾶς κακῶς
ἐρεῖς, ἀκούσῃ πολλὰ κοὐ ψευδῆ κακά.
Pheres (continued):
Indeed, I reckon the time below is long, but life is short but sweet nonetheless. Now you shamelessly fight not to die, and you are alive, having passed your predestined lot, having killed her. Do you then blame me for cowardice, o bad man, having been made less by a woman, who died for you, you pretty young man? And so you cleverly found out how not to die ever, if you persuade a present woman to always die for you. And then do you find fault with loved ones unwilling to do this, being cowardly yourself? Shut up. Consider, if you love your own life, everybody loves theirs. If you speak badly to me, hear many not false things in return.
κᾆτ- (και ειτα) and then
Χορός:
πλείω λέλεκται νῦν τε καὶ τὸ πρὶν κακά:
παῦσαι δέ, πρέσβυ, παῖδα σὸν κακορροθῶν.
Ἄδμητος:
λέγ᾽, ὡς ἐμοῦ λέγοντος: εἰ δ᾽ ἀλγεῖς κλύων
τἀληθές, οὐ χρῆν σ᾽ εἰς ἔμ᾽ ἐξαμαρτάνειν.
Φέρης:
σοῦ δ᾽ ἂν προθνῄσκων μᾶλλον ἐξημάρτανον.
Ἄδμητος:
ταὐτὸν γὰρ ἡβῶντ᾽ ἄνδρα καὶ πρέσβυν θανεῖν;
Φέρης:
ψυχῇ μιᾷ ζῆν, οὐ δυοῖν, ὀφείλομεν.
Ἄδμητος:
καὶ μὴν Διός γε μείζονα ζῴης χρόνον.
Chorus:
Too many bad things have been said both now and before. Stop speaking ill of your son, old man.
Admetus:
Speak, as I have spoken. If you suffer hearing the truth, you ought not to have wronged me.
Pheres:
Dying for you, I would have done something more wrong.
Admetus:
So is it the same thing for a young man and an old man to die?
Pheres:
We ought to live one life, not two.
Admetus:
Indeed, you may live for a longer time than Zeus.
Φέρης:
ἀρᾷ γονεῦσιν οὐδὲν ἔκδικον παθών;
Ἄδμητος:
μακροῦ βίου γὰρ ᾐσθόμην ἐρῶντά σε.
Φέρης:
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ σὺ νεκρὸν ἀντὶ σοῦ τόνδ᾽ ἐκφέρεις;
Ἄδμητος:
σημεῖα τῆς σῆς γ᾽, ὦ κάκιστ᾽, ἀψυχίας.
Φέρης:
οὔτοι πρὸς ἡμῶν γ᾽ ὤλετ᾽: οὐκ ἐρεῖς τόδε.
Ἄδμητος:
φεῦ: εἴθ᾽ ἀνδρὸς ἔλθοις τοῦδέ γ᾽ ἐς χρείαν ποτέ.
Φέρης:
μνήστευε πολλάς, ὡς θάνωσι πλείονες.
Ἄδμητος:
σοὶ τοῦτ᾽ ὄνειδος: οὐ γὰρ ἤθελες θανεῖν.
Pheres:
Do you curse your father, having suffering no wrong?
Admetus:
Yes, I noticed you loving a long life.
Pheres:
But you are carrying out a corpse instead of yourself.
Admetus:
Evidence of your cowardice, worthless man.
Pheres:
Indeed her death is not from my hand, you won’t say that.
Admetus:
Alas! If only you come to want this man one day.
Pheres:
Go court many others, so as there are more to die.
Admetus:
This blame is on you, for you were unwilling to die.
Φέρης:
φίλον τὸ φέγγος τοῦτο τοῦ θεοῦ, φίλον.
Ἄδμητος:
κακὸν τὸ λῆμα κοὐκ ἐν ἀνδράσιν τὸ σόν.
Φέρης:
οὐκ ἐγγελᾷς γέροντα βαστάζων νεκρόν.
Ἄδμητος:
θανῇ γε μέντοι δυσκλεής, ὅταν θάνῃς.
Φέρης:
κακῶς ἀκούειν οὐ μέλει θανόντι μοι.
Ἄδμητος:
φεῦ φεῦ: τὸ γῆρας ὡς ἀναιδείας πλέων.
Φέρης:
ἥδ᾽ οὐκ ἀναιδής: τήνδ᾽ ἐφηῦρες ἄφρονα.
Ἄδμητος:
ἄπελθε κἀμὲ τόνδ᾽ ἔα θάψαι νεκρόν.
Φέρης:
ἄπειμι: θάψεις δ᾽ αὐτὸς ὢν αὐτῆς φονεύς,
δίκας δὲ δώσεις σοῖσι κηδεσταῖς ἔτι:
ἦ τἄρ᾽ Ἄκαστος οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἐν ἀνδράσιν,
εἰ μή σ᾽ ἀδελφῆς αἷμα τιμωρήσεται.
Ἄδμητος:
ἔρρων νυν αὐτὸς χἠ ξυνοικήσασά σοι, ἄπαιδε παιδὸς ὄντος, ὥσπερ ἄξιοι,
γηράσκετ᾽: οὐ γὰρ τῷδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἐς ταὐτὸν στέγος
νεῖσθ᾽: εἰ δ᾽ ἀπειπεῖν χρῆν με κηρύκων ὕπο
τὴν σὴν πατρῴαν ἑστίαν, ἀπεῖπον ἄν.
ἡμεῖς δέ — τοὐν ποσὶν γὰρ οἰστέον κακόν —
στείχωμεν, ὡς ἂν ἐν πυρᾷ θῶμεν νεκρόν.
Pheres:
Sweet is the light of this god, sweet.
Admetus:
Your will is bad and not among men.
Pheres:
At least, you won’t laugh carrying out the corpse of the old man.
Admetus:
You will die ingloriously, whenever you die.
Pheres:
To hear bad things, will not be a source of care to when when I am dead,
Admetus:
Alas alas! How full of shamelessness old age is.
Pheres:
This woman is not shameless. You found her senseless.
Admetus:
Go away and allow me to honour this corpse with rite.
Pheres:
I will go. You will bury yourself being her killed, you will pay the penalty to your wife’s in-laws yet. Indeed then, Acastus is no longer a man, if he does not avenge the blood of his sister.
Admetus:
Now may you go away, yourself and she who dwells with you, childless while having a child, as you deserve, and grow old. And do not come anymore, into the house of this man. If it was necessary to me to renounce your paternal hearth by herald, I would declare it.
The misfortune before us is to be borne, let us go and place the corpse on the funeral pyre.
ἥδ᾽- (οδε) this woman.
Χορός:
ἰὼ ἰώ. σχετλία τόλμης, ὦ γενναία καὶ μέγ᾽ ἀρίστη, χαῖρε: πρόφρων σε χθόνιός θ᾽ Ἑρμῆς Ἅιδης τε δέχοιτ᾽. εἰ δέ τι κἀκεῖ πλέον ἔστ᾽ ἀγαθοῖς, τούτων μετέχουσ᾽ Ἅιδου νύμφῃ παρεδρεύοις.
Chorus:
Alas alas! unflinching courage, o noble and most brave man, farewell.
May both underworld Hermes and Hades receive you. If there is something more there for the good, may you share these things and sit beside the wife of Hades.
