ὦ Ζεῦ, πατήρ τε καὶ σοφὸς κλῄζῃ θεός

by Euripides (c484BCE - 406BCE)

ὦ Ζεῦ, πατήρ τε καὶ σοφὸς κλῄζῃ θεός

Language: Greek (Ελληνικά)

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ὦ Ζεῦ, πατήρ τε καὶ σοφὸς κλῄζῃ θεός,
βλέψον πρὸς ἡμᾶς καὶ μετάστησον κακῶν.
ἕλκουσι δ᾽ ἡμῖν πρὸς λέπας τὰς συμφορὰς
σπουδῇ σύναψαι: κἂν ἄκρᾳ θίγῃς χερί,
ἥξομεν ἵν᾽ ἐλθεῖν βουλόμεσθα τῆς τύχης.
ἅλις δὲ μόχθων οὓς ἐμοχθοῦμεν πάρος.
κέκλησθέ μοι, θεοί, πολλά χρήσθ᾽ ἐμοῦ κλύειν
καὶ λύπρ᾽: ὀφείλω δ᾽ οὐκ ἀεὶ πράσσειν κακῶς,
ὀρθῷ δὲ βῆναι ποδί: μίαν δέ μοι χάριν
δόντες τὸ λοιπὸν εὐτυχῆ με θήσετε.

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by Euripides (c484BCE - 406BCE), no title, appears in Ἑλένη (Helen), lines 1441-1450, words of Μενελέως (Menelaos) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Friedrich August von Arnim (1859 - 1931) , no title, appears in Zwölf Tragödien des Euripides, in Helena ; composed by Mathilde von Kralik.
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