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CHORUS: May the earth lie light upon you, lady!

[ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: κούφα σοι
χθὼν ἐπάνωθε πέσοι, γύναι.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist

Alcestis [Ἄλκηστις ], l. 463ff (438 BC) [tr. Kovacs (1994)]
    (Source)

Cf. Martial (AD 90).

(Source (Greek)). Other translations:

Light lie the earth upon that gentle breast.
[tr. Potter (1781); Antistrophe 1]

On thee may the turf lightly lie.
[tr. Wodhull (1782); Ode, II. 1.]

Light may the earth from above fall upon thee, lady!
[tr. Buckley (1858)]

Oh, may light
Earth weigh upon thee, O worthy Wife!
[tr. HBL (1884); Ode 4, Strophe]

May the earth, lady, lightly fall on thee.
[tr. Cudworth (1888)]

Light lie the earth above thee, lady!
[tr. Coleridge (1891)]

Light lie on thee, Lady, the sward!
[tr. Way (1894); Strophe 2]

Light upon thee fall the clay!
[tr. Beloit College (1908); Second Stasimon, Strophe B]

Light be the carven stone
Above thee lying!
[tr. Murray (1915)]

Light rest the earth above you,
O woman.
[tr. Aldington (1930); Strophe 2]

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
[tr. Fitts/Fitzgerald (1936); Ode 2, Strophe 2]

Then lightly fall the earth to fill your grave.
[tr. Vellacott (1953)]

Lightly, I pray, may the earth lie upon you, lady!
[tr. Davie (1996)]

Lightly
may the earth weigh on you, woman.
[tr. Rabinowitz (1999)]

May the soil fall lightly upon your body, my queen!
[tr. Theodoridis (2008)]

Light may the earth
fall upon you, my queen.
[tr. Luschnig / Luschnig (2019); Stasimon 2, Strophe 2]