Literary Record Details

Author: EURIPIDES Trag.

Opus: Andromacha
Reference: Eur.Andr.384-6

Period: Classical

Genre: poetry
Subgenre: tragedy
Object:
Gender: f
Context: fate

Greek Text: οἴμοι, πικρὰν κλήρωσιν αἵρεσίν τέ μοι | βίου καθίστης: καὶ λαχοῦσά γ᾽ ἀθλία | καὶ μὴ λαχοῦσα δυστυχὴς καθίσταμαι.

English Text: Ah! It is a bitter lottery, a bitter choice between lives, you set before me: if I win my life I am in misery, and if I lose it I am luckless.

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Kleros 383, Eur.Andr.384-6
https://kleros.org.il/literary-evidence?event=view&record_id=383