{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0527.tlg019.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527.tlg019.local002","title":"Ἐσθήρ","titleGreek":"Ἐσθήρ","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Septuaginta","authorityName":"SEPTUAGINTA","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0527-septuaginta/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0527-septuaginta/","editors":["Henry Barclay Swete D.D."],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"The Old Testament in Greek","edition":null,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press","place":"Cambridge","date":"1896","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig) 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/oldtestamentingr02swetuoft/page/n771/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Septuaginta. Ἐσθήρ. ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.. The Old Testament in Greek, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1896. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527.tlg019.local002","excerpt":"Α ΕΤΟΥΣ δευτέρου βασιλεύοντος Ἀρταξέρξου τοῦ μεγάλου Β βασιλέως τῇ μιᾷ τοῦ Νεισὰ ἐνύπνιον ἴδεν Μαρδοχαῖος ὁ τοῦ Ἰαείρου τοῦ Σεμεείου τοῦ Κεισαίου ἐκ φυλῆς Βενιαμείν, ἄνθρωπος Ἰουδαῖος οἰκῶν ἐν Σούσοις τῇ πόλει, ἄνθρωπος μέγας, θεραπεύων ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ τοῦ βασιλέως· ἦν δὲ ἐκ τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας ἧς ᾐχμαλώτευσεν Ναβουχοδονοσὸρ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος ἐξ Ἰερουσαλὴμ μετὰ Ἰεχονίου τοῦ βασιλέως τῆς Ἰουδαίας. καὶ τοῦτο αὐτοῦ τὸ ἐνύπνιον· καὶ ἰδοὺ φωναὶ καὶ θόρυβος, βρονταὶ καὶ σεισμός, τάραχος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. καὶ ἰδοὺ δύο δράκοντες μέγαλοι ἕτοιμοι προῆλθον ἀμφότεροι παλαίειν· καὶ ἐγένετο ὐτῶν φωνὴ μεγάλη, καὶ τῇ φωνῇ αὐτῶν ἡτοιμάσθη πᾶν ἔθνος εἰς πόλεμον ὥστε πολεμῆσαι δικαίων ἔθνος. καὶ ἰδοὺ ἡμέρα σκότους καὶ γνόφου, θλίψις καὶ στενοχωρία, κάκωσις καὶ τάραχος μέγας ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· καὶ ἐταράχθη δίκαιον πᾶν ἔθνος, φοβούμενοι τὰ ἑαυτῶν κακά, καὶ ἡτοιμάσθησαν ἀπολέσθαι· καὶ ἐβόησαν πρὸς τὸν θεόν. ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς βοῆς…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter prologue","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-prologue"},{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/#tlg0527-tlg019-local002-10"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0527.tlg019.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527/tlg019/local002.json.gz"}}