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What Philomela would say to her Sister Procne
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τίνας ἂν εἴποι λόγους πρὸς Πρόκνην τὴν ἀδελφὴν Φιλομήλη
— Paton edition
σός με πόσις κακοεργὸς ἐνὶ σπήλυγγι βαθείῃ
μουνώσας βαρύποτμον, ἐμὴν ἀπέκερσε κορείην
στυγνὰ δέ μοι πόρεν ἕδνα πολυτλήτοιο γάμοιο:
γλῶσσαν ἐμὴν ἐθέρισσε, καὶ ἔσβεσεν ἑλλάδα φωνήν.
Thy wicked husband shut me up, ill-fated that I
— Paton edition
am, alone in a deep cave, and took my maidenhead.
An abominable present he made me on this my
calamitous marriage, cutting off my tongue and
quenching Greek speech in me.
Thy wicked husband shut me up, ill-fated that I
— Paton edition
am, alone in a deep cave, and took my maidenhead.
An abominable present he made me on this my
calamitous marriage, cutting off my tongue and
quenching Greek speech in me.
τίνας ἂν εἴποι λόγους πρὸς Πρόκνην τὴν ἀδελφὴν Φιλομήλη
— Paton edition
σός με πόσις κακοεργὸς ἐνὶ σπήλυγγι βαθείῃ
μουνώσας βαρύποτμον, ἐμὴν ἀπέκερσε κορείην
στυγνὰ δέ μοι πόρεν ἕδνα πολυτλήτοιο γάμοιο:
γλῶσσαν ἐμὴν ἐθέρισσε, καὶ ἔσβεσεν ἑλλάδα φωνήν.
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