ΣΑΜΨΩΝ. ἐχθρὸς μὲν οὐκ ἦ, τῶν Φιλιστίνων χθονὶ 1250 1260 Me their deliverer sent would not receive, But to their masters gave me up for nought, The unworthier they; whence to this day they serve. I was to do my part from Heaven assigned, And had performed it, if my known offence Had not disabled me, not all your force. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, As a petty enterprise of small enforce. HARAPHA. With thee, a man condemned, a slave enrolled, To fight with thee no man of arms will deign. SAMSON. Cam'st thou for this, vain boaster, to survey me, 1220 But take good heed my hand survey not thee. 1230 HARAPHA. O Baal-zebub! can my ears unused ῥυτῆρ ̓ ἐδέξαντ', ἀντιδόντες οὐδενὸς τοῖς δεσποταῖσιν, αἰτίους μᾶλλόν τις ἂν σὲ ζημιωθένθ' ὥστε καὶ δοῦλον θανεῖν ΣΑΜΨΩΝ. ὡς οὖν θεωρήσων με, καὶ μακρῷ λόγῳ ὁποῖος εἰμι ψηφιῶν, ὑψήγορος ἦλθες; πελάζειν δεῖ σε, καὶ σκεθρῶς σκοπεῖν. ὅρα δὲ μή σε διὰ χερῶν αὐτὸς σκοπῶ. ἩΡΑΦΑΣ. φεῦ τοῦ πατρῴου τῆσδε τῆς χώρας θεοῦ. 1270 1280 K Hear these dishonours, and not render death? SAMSON. No man withholds thee, nothing from thy hand My heels are fettered, but my fist is free. HARAPHA. This insolence other kind of answer fits. SAMSON. Go, baffled coward! lest I run upon thee, Or swing thee in the air, then dash thee down, HARAPHA. By Astaroth, ere long thou shalt lament These braveries, in irons loaden on thee. CHORUS. His giantship is gone somewhat crest-fallen, SAMSON. I dread him not, nor all his giant brood, 1240 πῶς ὧδ ̓ ὀνειδίσαντά μ' οὐκ εἰωθότα οὐκ ἂν δίκαιον ἀντιτισαίμην μέρον ; ΣΑΜΨΩΝ. ἀλλ ̓ οὔ τίς ἐσθ ̓ ὃς δρᾶν σ ̓ ἀπεννέπει τόδε. οὐδ ̓ ἂν ἄγῃς κράτιστά μ' ἐκφοβεῖν ἔχει, πόδας δεθέντα, τὼ δὲ χεῖρ ̓ ἐλεύθερον. ἩΡΑΦΑΣ. ἔργοισι τοιάδ', οὐ λόγοισι, δεκτέον. ΣΑΜΨΩΝ. ἔῤῥ ̓ οὖν ἄπρακτος, ὄγκος ἄψυχος μέγας, κλαίοις ἂν, εἰ κλύουσί μου θεοί, τάδ ̓ οἷς ΧΟΡΟΣ. ἰδεῖν ταπεινὸς, μείοσίν θ ̓ ὁρμαῖς ποδῶν, δεινὸν χολωθείς, ἑπτάπηχυς, οἴχεται. ΣΑΜΨΩΝ. ὁ δ ̓ οὐκ ἔμοιγ', οὐδ ̓ ἡ γιγαντεία σπορὰ 1290 |