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title: "Medea's Lament to Her Children"
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: Macer Pompeius the Tragedian
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period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine
domain: Drama
format: Verse
license: CC0-1.0
---

# Medea's Lament to Her Children

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Macer Pompeius the Tragedian

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## Text

### book 1.1

[spk_μηδεια]〈ΜΗΔΕΙΑ·〉 δεῦτ’ ὦ τέκν’, ὦ στερχθένθ’ ὅσον

### book 1.2

πλεῖστον θέμις, ὦ πολλὰ τέρψαντ’ οὐδὲ λυπήσαντά τι μητέρα, τί προσλάζεσθε κἀξαρτᾶσθέ μου; βούλεσθ’ ἀθύρειν; παίζετ’ ὦ νέαι

### book 1.3

φρένες·[ln_5]ὡς ἔστιν ἡμῖν

### book 1.4

τοῦτ’ ἔαρ

### book 1.5

παντὸς βίου, ἥβῃ δὲ λῦπαι

### book 1.6

φροντίδες θ’ ἡβῶς’ ὁμοῦ

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