Hecuba, Orestes, and The Phoenician Women

Yes beneath the breezes this light of the sun. original: "ναὶ ὑπ' αὐρᾶν" — Electra or Orestes addresses the sun for perhaps the last time before their expected execution.

Just as this bright crown of the sun.

In the side as if in slavery in the this [place].

O god, found through many words god to be judged.

Of wickedness and by the counsels of him but those who indeed not indeed and the [women] having plotted the things against the woman. This likely refers to the "demagogues" or the plotting of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

Therefore you are not disgraced by your own plans.

Into life he does not praise your [life] such as you say to suffer.

In no way does he act, a reproach us well but ill not we are able.

Anonymous the considering rhetoric of those who will please blame concerning you demagogues. The "demagogues" are the leaders of the Argive assembly who are voting on Orestes' fate.

You (all) might mourn but in a day in us of a god greater than me.

The [woman] grieves you not even what might seem [best] but.

A promise, those being harmed by friends, one must not flee.

If we happen [to be] a gift many having overlooked among the many concerning prudence and the...

By your wise [man] thinking; but then what cleverness then the to those who are angry.

They appointed a judgment upon this child, a vote, a contest of murder. original: "ψῆφον ἀγῶνα φόνου" — This refers to the legal trial where the citizens of Argos vote to decide if Orestes and Electra should be stoned to death.

Which beside him upon these things to stretch out us, whether the [thing] judging for them to suffer, perhaps a bold thing.

Upon him bow arrows misery toward the tomb where it was necessary a bull-slayer is fitting. A "bull-slayer" (βουθύτην) refers to a sacrificial priest; here, the imagery links the murder trial to a ritual sacrifice.

Of murderers of murder or in turn to kill those who killed, a spectacle.

"It tends" to lead out into murder, it must be known instead of it will be and the argument tends toward it is necessary something to be learned

Into this climax justly hope he stretches murder.

But not being able but at least toward nothing a beautiful sight.

For him by fortune it was necessary it is fitting in turn a public notice but under the burial Helen now but of the what is necessary the fitting things after.

To trust to hear clearly of us into the thought that [woman] through those things which pitiful into the river stretches is fitting intertwined.

If it is necessary I am about to it is necessary someone to judge often.