Greek Text in English Transliteration

English Translation

met’emoi met’emoi-si te-knon te-knois el-pis ha-de pot’ el-thoi hoi-an hai po-ly-chry-soi

‘tis a-ra m’eu-plo-ka-mou ko-mas rhy-ma da-kry-o-en ta-ny-sas gas pa-tri-as o-lo-me-nas a-po-lo-ti-ei?

I pray neither I nor children of my stock may ever have those prospects that the Lydian women rich in gold and the Phrygians’ wives will think on as they ply their looms: “Which man will pull my fine hair to tears and ravish me amid the ruin of my fatherland?”