Euripides, Cyclops, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 41

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Wohin, du dort, trefflicher Våter Geschlecht,¹

Von trefflichen Müttern erzeugt,

Laufst du mir fort durch Klippen, wohin?

Dort blåst ein windiger Luftzug,

Dort sproßt kein grunendes Kraut;
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Auch kein wirbelnd Wasser des Quells

Fließt in Trogen dir, nahe der Grotte,

Wo Lämmerblocken dich rust.

Cyclops. Euripides. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1845; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 2, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1845. Harvard OCR compared with an independent BSB copy. Native Donner verse citations, Murray reference cards, explicitly located notes and page facsimiles. Unresolved OCR, verse divisions, unlocated notes and printed errata are documented in the source review.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)

Κύκλωψ Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 41-81 focus

Χορός

παῖ γενναίων μὲν πατέρων

γενναίων τ’ ἐκ τοκάδων,

πᾷ δή μοι νίσῃ σκοπέλους;

οὐ τᾷδ’ ὑπήνεμος αὔρα

καὶ ποιηρὰ βοτάνα;
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δινᾶέν θ’ ὕδωρ ποταμῶν

ἐν πίστραις κεῖται πέλας ἄν-

τρων; οὔ σοι βλαχαὶ τεκέων;

Χορός

—ψύττ’· οὐ τᾷδ’ οὔ; οὐ τᾷδε νεμῇ

κλιτὺν δροσεράν;
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ὠή, ῥίψω πέτρον τάχα σου

—ὕπαγ’ ὦ ὕπαγ’ ὦ κεράστα—

μηλοβότα στασιωρὸν

Κύκλωπος ἀγροβάτα.

Χορός

σπαργῶντας μαστοὺς χάλασον·
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δέξαι θηλαῖσι σπορὰς

ἃς λείπεις ἀρνῶν θαλάμοις.

ποθοῦσί σ’ ἁμερόκοιτοι

βλαχαὶ σμικρῶν τεκέων.

εἰς αὐλὰν πότ’ ἀμφιβαλεῖς
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ποιηροὺς λείπουσα νομοὺς

Αἰτναίων εἴσω σκοπέλων;

Χορός

—νύττ’· οὐ τᾷδ’ οὔ; οὐ τᾷδε νεμῇ

κλιτὺν δροσεράν;

ὠή, ῥίψω πέτρον τάχα σου

—ὕπαγ’ ὦ ὕπαγ’ ὦ κεράστα—

μηλοβότα στασιωρὸν

Κύκλωπος ἀγροβάτα.

Χορός

οὐ τάδε Βρόμιος, οὐ τάδε χοροὶ

Βάκχαι τε θυρσοφόροι,

οὐ τυμπάνων ἀλαλαγμοὶ
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κρήναις παρ’ ὑδροχύτοις,

οὐκ οἴνου χλωραὶ σταγόνες·

οὐδ’ ἐν Νύσᾳ μετὰ Νυμφᾶν

ἴακχον ἴακχον ᾠδὰν

μέλπω πρὸς τὰν Ἀφροδίταν,
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ἃν θηρεύων πετόμαν

Βάκχαις σὺν λευκόποσιν

ὦ φίλος·

ὦ φίλε Βακχεῖε, ποῖ οἰοπολεῖς;

ποῖ ξανθὰν χαίταν σείεις;
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ἐγὼ δ’ ὁ σὸς πρόπολος

θητεύω Κύκλωπι

τῷ μονοδέρκτᾳ δοῦλος ἀλαίνων

σὺν τᾷδε τράγου χλαίνᾳ μελέᾳ
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σᾶς χωρὶς φιλίας.

Translations (1)

The Cyclops Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.) — 41-80 focus

Chorus

Offspring of well-bred sires and dams, pray whither wilt thou be gone from me to the rocks? Hast thou not here a gentle breeze,

and grass to browse, and water from the eddying stream set near the cave in troughs? and are not thy young ones bleating for thee?
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Chorus

Pst! pst! wilt thou not browse here,

here on the dewy slope? Ho? ho! ere long will I cast a stone at thee. Away, away! O horned one, to the fold-keeper of the Cyclops, the country-ranging shepherd.
50

Chorus

Loosen thy bursting udder; welcome to thy teats the kids, whom thou leavest in the lambkins’ pens. Those little bleating kids, asleep the livelong day, miss thee;
55

wilt then leave at last the rich grass pastures on the peaks of Aetna and enter the fold?
60

Chorus

Chorus

Here we have no Bromian god; no dances here, or Bacchantes thyrsus-bearing;

no roll of drums, or drops of sparkling wine by gurgling founts; nor is it now with Nymphs in Nysa I sing a song of Bacchus, Bacchus!
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to the queen of love, in quest of whom I once sped on with Bacchantes, white of foot.
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Dear friend, dear Bacchic god, whither art roaming alone,

waving thy auburn locks, while I, thy minister, do service to the one-eyed Cyclops, a slave and wanderer I,
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clad in this wretched goat-skin dress, severed from thy love?
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Notes on the current edition

Cyclops

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Der vom Chor Angeredete ist ein Schafbock.

Euripides Cyclops 41

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Χορός

—ψύττ’· οὐ τᾷδ’ οὔ; οὐ τᾷδε νεμῇ

κλιτὺν δροσεράν;
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ὠή, ῥίψω πέτρον τάχα σου

—ὕπαγ’ ὦ ὕπαγ’ ὦ κεράστα—

μηλοβότα στασιωρὸν

Κύκλωπος ἀγροβάτα.

Χορός

—νύττ’· οὐ τᾷδ’ οὔ; οὐ τᾷδε νεμῇ

κλιτὺν δροσεράν;

ὠή, ῥίψω πέτρον τάχα σου

—ὕπαγ’ ὦ ὕπαγ’ ὦ κεράστα—

μηλοβότα στασιωρὸν

Κύκλωπος ἀγροβάτα.

Chorus

Offspring of well-bred sires and dams, pray whither wilt thou be gone from me to the rocks? Hast thou not here a gentle breeze,

and grass to browse, and water from the eddying stream set near the cave in troughs? and are not thy young ones bleating for thee?
45

Chorus

Pst! pst! wilt thou not browse here,

here on the dewy slope? Ho? ho! ere long will I cast a stone at thee. Away, away! O horned one, to the fold-keeper of the Cyclops, the country-ranging shepherd.
50

Chorus

Loosen thy bursting udder; welcome to thy teats the kids, whom thou leavest in the lambkins’ pens. Those little bleating kids, asleep the livelong day, miss thee;
55

wilt then leave at last the rich grass pastures on the peaks of Aetna and enter the fold?
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Chorus

Notes on the current edition

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Χορός —ψύττ’· οὐ τᾷδ’ οὔ; οὐ τᾷδε νεμῇ κλιτὺν δροσεράν; 50 ὠή, ῥίψω πέτρον τάχα σου —ὕπαγ’ ὦ ὕπαγ’ ὦ κεράστα— μηλοβότα στασιωρὸν Κύκλωπος ἀγροβάτα.

Χορός —νύττ’· οὐ τᾷδ’ οὔ; οὐ τᾷδε νεμῇ κλιτὺν δροσεράν; ὠή, ῥίψω πέτρον τάχα σου —ὕπαγ’ ὦ ὕπαγ’ ὦ κεράστα— μηλοβότα στασιωρὸν Κύκλωπος ἀγροβάτα.

Chorus Offspring of well-bred sires and dams, pray whither wilt thou be gone from me to the rocks? Hast thou not here a gentle breeze, and grass to browse, and water from the eddying stream set near the cave in troughs? and are not thy young ones bleating for thee? 45

Chorus Pst! pst! wilt thou not browse here, here on the dewy slope? Ho? ho! ere long will I cast a stone at thee. Away, away! O horned one, to the fold-keeper of the Cyclops, the country-ranging shepherd. 50

Chorus Loosen thy bursting udder; welcome to thy teats the kids, whom thou leavest in the lambkins’ pens. Those little bleating kids, asleep the livelong day, miss thee; 55 wilt then leave at last the rich grass pastures on the peaks of Aetna and enter the fold? 60

Chorus

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

Χορός

—ψύττ’· οὐ τᾷδ’ οὔ; οὐ τᾷδε νεμῇ

κλιτὺν δροσεράν;
50

ὠή, ῥίψω πέτρον τάχα σου

—ὕπαγ’ ὦ ὕπαγ’ ὦ κεράστα—

μηλοβότα στασιωρὸν

Κύκλωπος ἀγροβάτα.

Χορός

—νύττ’· οὐ τᾷδ’ οὔ; οὐ τᾷδε νεμῇ

κλιτὺν δροσεράν;

ὠή, ῥίψω πέτρον τάχα σου

—ὕπαγ’ ὦ ὕπαγ’ ὦ κεράστα—

μηλοβότα στασιωρὸν

Κύκλωπος ἀγροβάτα.

Chorus

Offspring of well-bred sires and dams, pray whither wilt thou be gone from me to the rocks? Hast thou not here a gentle breeze,

and grass to browse, and water from the eddying stream set near the cave in troughs? and are not thy young ones bleating for thee?
45

Chorus

Pst! pst! wilt thou not browse here,

here on the dewy slope? Ho? ho! ere long will I cast a stone at thee. Away, away! O horned one, to the fold-keeper of the Cyclops, the country-ranging shepherd.
50

Chorus

Loosen thy bursting udder; welcome to thy teats the kids, whom thou leavest in the lambkins’ pens. Those little bleating kids, asleep the livelong day, miss thee;
55

wilt then leave at last the rich grass pastures on the peaks of Aetna and enter the fold?
60