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		<title>Euripides -- Alcestis [Ἄλκηστις ], l.  463ff (438 BC) [tr. Kovacs (1994)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHORUS: May the earth lie light upon you, lady! [ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: κούφα σοι χθὼν ἐπάνωθε πέσοι, γύναι.] 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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">CHORUS: May the earth lie light upon you, lady!</p>
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<p class="hangingindent">[ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: <span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">κούφα σοι<br />
χθὼν ἐπάνωθε πέσοι, γύναι.]</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<br><b>Euripides</b> (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist<br><i>Alcestis</i> [Ἄλκηστις ], l.  463ff (438 BC) [tr. Kovacs (1994)] 
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Cf. <a href="https://wist.info/martial/48119/">Martial</a> (AD 90).<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0087%3Acard%3D455#:~:text=%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%86%CE%B1%20%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%B9%0A%CF%87%CE%B8%E1%BD%BC%CE%BD%20%E1%BC%90%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%B8%CE%B5%20%CF%80%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%B9%2C%20%CE%B3%CF%8D%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B9.">Source (Greek)</a>). Other translations: <br><br>

<blockquote>Light lie the earth upon that gentle breast.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bacch%C3%A6_Ion_Alcestis_Medea_Hippolytu/L8tCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22light%20lie%20the%22">Potter</a> (1781); Antistrophe 1]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>On thee may the turf lightly lie.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hw2j3q&seq=34&q1=%22turf+lightly%22">Wodhull</a> (1782); Ode, II. 1.]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light may the earth from above fall upon thee, lady!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t39020x46&seq=28&q1=%22light+may%22">Buckley</a> (1858)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Oh, may light<br>
Earth weigh upon thee, O worthy Wife!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b290562&seq=66&q1=%22earth+weigh%22">HBL</a> (1884); Ode 4, Strophe]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>May the earth, lady, lightly fall on thee.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t5n879241&seq=34&q1=%22may+the+earth%22">Cudworth</a> (1888)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light lie the earth above thee, lady!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Plays_of_Euripides_(Coleridge)/Alcestis#:~:text=Light%20lie%20the%20earth%20above%20thee%2C%20lady!">Coleridge</a> (1891)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light lie on thee, Lady, the sward!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedies_of_Euripides_(Way)/Alcestis#:~:text=Light%20lie%20on%20thee%2C%20Lady%2C%20the%20sward!">Way</a> (1894); Strophe 2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light upon thee fall the clay!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t3pw25f2d&seq=20&q1=%22light+upon+thee%22">Beloit College</a> (1908); Second Stasimon, Strophe B]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light be the carven stone<br>
Above thee lying!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Alcestis_of_Euripides_(Murray_1920)/Text#:~:text=Light%20be%20the,Above%20thee%20lying!">Murray</a> (1915)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light rest the earth above you,<br>
O woman.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/alcestis.html#:~:text=Light%20rest%20the%20earth%20above%20you%2C%0AO%20woman.">Aldington</a> (1930); Strophe 2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/alcestisofeuripi0000unse_g1f5/page/34/mode/2up?q=%22lightly+rest%22">Fitts/Fitzgerald</a> (1936); Ode 2, Strophe 2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Then lightly fall the earth to fill your grave.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/alcestisotherpla0000euri_b7n1/page/n135/mode/2up?q=%22fill+your+grave%22">Vellacott</a> (1953)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Lightly, I pray, may the earth lie upon you, lady! <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/medeaotherplays0000euri_d3q9/page/20/mode/2up?q=%22may+the+earth%22">Davie</a> (1996)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Lightly<br>
may the earth weigh on you, woman.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/womenonedgefourp00euri/page/120/mode/2up?q=%22may+the+earth%22">Rabinowitz</a> (1999)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>May the soil fall lightly upon your body, my queen!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://bacchicstage.wordpress.com/euripides/alcestis/#:~:text=May%20the%20soil%20fall%20lightly%20upon%20your%20body%2C%20my%20queen!">Theodoridis</a> (2008)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Light may the earth<br> 
fall upon you, my queen. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://diotima-doctafemina.org/translations/greek/euripides-alcestis/#:~:text=Light%20may%20the%20earth%C2%A0%0Afall%20upon%20you%2C%20my%20queen.">Luschnig / Luschnig</a> (2019); Stasimon 2, Strophe 2]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Shakespeare, William -- Cymbeline, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 331ff (3.2.331-336) (1611)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[GUIDERIUS: Fear no more the heat o&#8217; the sun, Nor the furious winter&#8217;s rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta&#8217;en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">GUIDERIUS: Fear no more the heat o&#8217; the sun,<br />
Nor the furious winter&#8217;s rages;<br />
Thou thy worldly task hast done,<br />
Home art gone, and ta&#8217;en thy wages:<br />
Golden lads and girls all must,<br />
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.</p>
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<br><b>William Shakespeare</b> (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet<br><i>Cymbeline</i>, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 331ff (3.2.331-336) (1611) 
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