Euripides, Cyclops, ed. Gilbert Murray, 63

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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.

Cyclops. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1902.

Funding provided by Tufts University.

Current edition Perseus

Κύκλωψ (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.)

Translations (2)

The Cyclops Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.) — 63 focus

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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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1845; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (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.) — 63 focus

Hier ruft kein Bromios, ruft kein Tanz,

Noch Bacchen, bewehrt mit dem Thyrsos,
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Noch hallen schmetternde Pauken

An schaumender Quellen Erguß;

Kein frischlabender Wein winkt hier,

Noch Nysa mit schwärmenden Nymphen.

Schlußgesang.

Ein bacchisches, bacchisches Festlied,
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Dir stimm' ich es an, Aphrodita :

Einst jagt' ich im Fluge dir nach,

Weißfüßigen Bacchen gesellt.

Lieblicher, lieblicher, wo schwarmest du, Bacchos, allein,

Blondlockiges Haupthaar schuttelnd?
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Ich, Herr, dein treuer Gesell,

Frohne dem wilden Kyklopen,

Dem Eindugigen,

Flatter' in årmliche Geißfelle verhüllt,

Sein Diener, umher,
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Von deiner Liebe getrennt.

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