Hecuba, Orestes, and The Phoenician Women

...the women whom at first you did not kill they have deprived someone killed
but dragging them from the altar, you showed mercy; among the Greeks
The law among you is equal for the free concerning these men
and for slaves, concerning the shedding of blood. one another
Your reputation, even if it is spoken of poorly being harmed might pity
will persuade; for a word coming from those of no reputation of those easily despised those being alone the [speech] from the well-born and from the obscure
and from those of high standing, does not have the same power. shadow original: "skian" - the gloss suggests that even a "shadow" of an argument from a great man carries more weight than a full argument from a commoner.
🞩 There is no human nature so stubborn many
that, hearing your laments and long wailings instead of but
hearing the dirges, would not shed a tear. with tears from the eyes and toward the [various] parts
Chorus Be instructed; do not, in your anger we advocate enemies consider according to the rest
make your mind an enemy to the one who speaks well. of the inferior of someone most piratical
Hecuba Odysseus, I will not speak ill of your person something I begin toward the weaker
but as for Achilles' demands, you must remind the army of them. that is, of what is happening through
For he, having died, is worthy of being honored by us, you will look down upon
by us, who alone as a man stood before this land in defense; if he should ask for him
Is it not then shameful, if while he lived we treated him as a friend from the villainous from them into
For in this many cities fail, never of a man
whenever a man who is noble and eager of the from the power of the wicked
receives nothing more than the worse men. of the evil one

Scholia in the right margin

But it is established only in? and among the
Greeks concerning the man,
both for the free and for the slaves,
or rather the custom?, the same [law applies to]
the killer of a slave, equally as much the?
by whom he shall be killed as [the killer of]
the free man.

...of the birds opposite of standing This second block of scholia appears to be a separate grammatical note or perhaps a fragment of a different commentary often found in the margins of school texts.
the one who... I would not change the [word]
the one who is about to drink; and the "taking back"
in which the one who is about to quiver/throb in which with
it was necessary of the number with in these things into the
he speaks of olives.