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ASPIRATIONS AFTER FREEDOM,
[chap.
female's ever singing; and assured me that it was quite
impossible for a Greek woman to disgrace herself by
doing anything so disreputable.
Having done justice to the tender feelings of the
Cretan peasant, as expressed in his love-songs, I must
add, that he not unfrequently gives utterance, in
the Madhinadha, to hopes of emancipation from his
present political thraldom. Aspirations after freedom,
like the following, were doubtless of general occurrence
during the long, and, in this island, vain struggle for
independence.
God, and the Virgin, and the Lord,
Possess the power to give,
That we, henceforth, from Moslem rule
Emancipated live35.
Thou Most High God whom I adore,
Who, with thy Angels bright,
Aloft amid the Heavens dost dwell,
Assist the Christian fight30:
k 6 Ki!jOio? vd Ziocrr]
TTO tu3v ToVpKCOV Ttt j^epM
vd /j.a<; eXevdepiocrrj.
This modern Cretan madhinadha bears some little resemblance, at all events
in the union of the Virgin with the Deity, to an ancient scolion preserved in
Athenaeus, xv. p. 694. c.
IlaXXas T' piToyevei avacrcr' 'ASi]vd,
opdov Ti'ivoe iroXiv te teal TroXrras,
a.Tep dXyiusv Kai aTaacwv
Kai QavaTwv dwpoov, arv te Kai TraTt'ip.
CI "Y\J/i<TTe Qee /xov
awov eiaai gtovs ovpavow;,
(U£ oXov<t t%j] dyyeXovi
/3or]du T^rj XpicrTiaeoJs,
ASPIRATIONS AFTER FREEDOM,
[chap.
female's ever singing; and assured me that it was quite
impossible for a Greek woman to disgrace herself by
doing anything so disreputable.
Having done justice to the tender feelings of the
Cretan peasant, as expressed in his love-songs, I must
add, that he not unfrequently gives utterance, in
the Madhinadha, to hopes of emancipation from his
present political thraldom. Aspirations after freedom,
like the following, were doubtless of general occurrence
during the long, and, in this island, vain struggle for
independence.
God, and the Virgin, and the Lord,
Possess the power to give,
That we, henceforth, from Moslem rule
Emancipated live35.
Thou Most High God whom I adore,
Who, with thy Angels bright,
Aloft amid the Heavens dost dwell,
Assist the Christian fight30:
k 6 Ki!jOio? vd Ziocrr]
TTO tu3v ToVpKCOV Ttt j^epM
vd /j.a<; eXevdepiocrrj.
This modern Cretan madhinadha bears some little resemblance, at all events
in the union of the Virgin with the Deity, to an ancient scolion preserved in
Athenaeus, xv. p. 694. c.
IlaXXas T' piToyevei avacrcr' 'ASi]vd,
opdov Ti'ivoe iroXiv te teal TroXrras,
a.Tep dXyiusv Kai aTaacwv
Kai QavaTwv dwpoov, arv te Kai TraTt'ip.
CI "Y\J/i<TTe Qee /xov
awov eiaai gtovs ovpavow;,
(U£ oXov<t t%j] dyyeXovi
/3or]du T^rj XpicrTiaeoJs,