Aretemias | I'm sure I see it all now as it was

by Antipater of Sidon (flourished 1st century BCE)

Translation by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935)

ἤπου σὲ χθονίας, Ἀρετημιάς, ἐξ ἀκάτοιο

Language: Greek (Ελληνικά)

ἤπου σὲ χθονίας, Ἀρετημιάς, ἐξ ἀκάτοιο 
Κωκυτοῦ θεμέναν ἴχνος ἐπ᾽ ἀιόνι, 
οἰχόμενον βρέφος ἄρτι νέῳ φορέουσαν ἀγοστῷ 
ᾤκτειραν θαλεραὶ Δωρίδες εἰν ἀίδᾳ, 
πευθόμεναι τέο κῆρα σὺ δὲ ῥαίνουσα παρειὰς 
δάκρυσιν, ἄγγειλας κεῖν᾽ ἀνιαρὸν ἔπος: 
διπλόον ὠδίνασα, φίλαι, τέκος, ἄλλο μὲν ἀνδρὶ 
εὔφρονι καλλιπόμαν, ἄλλο δ᾽ ἄγω φθιμένοις.

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Confirmed with The Greek Anthology. with an English Translation by. W. R. Paton, London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1917, page 252.

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by Antipater of Sidon (flourished 1st century BCE), first published 1902 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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ENG English (Edwin Arlington Robinson) , "Aretemias", appears in Captain Craig, in Variations of Greek Themes, no. 7, first published 1902

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Aretemias

Language: English after the Greek (Ελληνικά)

I'm sure I see it all now as it was,
When first you set your foot upon the shore
Where dim Cocytus flows for evermore,
And how it came to pass
That all those Dorian women who are there
In Hades, and still fair,
Came up to you, so young, and wept and smiled
When they beheld you and your little child.
And then, I'm sure, with tears upon your face
To be in that sad place,
You told of the two children you had borne,
And then of Euphron, whom you leave to mourn.
"One stays with him," you said,
"And this one I bring with me to the dead."

Text Authorship:

by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935), "Aretemias", appears in Captain Craig, in Variations of Greek Themes, no. 7, first published 1902 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) by Antipater of Sidon (flourished 1st century BCE), first published 1902
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This text was added to the website: 2008-06-17
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Word count: 111