---
title: "Medea's Lament to Her Children"
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: Macer Pompeius the Tragedian
eul_wid: nkw-aa
eul_aid: nkw
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/macer-pompeius-medeas-lament-nkw-aa"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine
domain: Drama
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Medea's Lament to Her Children

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Macer Pompeius the Tragedian

**eul_wid:** `nkw-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/macer-pompeius-medeas-lament-nkw-aa)

## 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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