Euripides, Alcestis, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 77

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First Semichorus

What¹ means this silence in front of the palace? why is the house of Admetus stricken dumb?

Second Semichorus

Not one friend near

to say if we must mourn our queen as dead, or if she liveth yet and sees the sun, Alcestis, daughter of Pelias, by me and all esteemed the best of wives
80

to her husband.
85

Alcestis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.

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Current edition Perseus

Alcestis (English) (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.)

Editions (1)

Ἄλκηστις Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 77 focus

Χορός

—τί ποθ’ ἡσυχία πρόσθεν μελάθρων;

—τί σεσίγηται δόμος Ἀδμήτου;

—ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ φίλων πέλας οὐδείς,

ὅστις ἂν εἴποι πότερον φθιμένην
80

βασίλεαν πενθεῖν χρή μʼ, ἢ ζῶσ’ ἔτι

φῶς τόδε λεύσσει Πελίου παῖς

Ἄλκηστις, ἐμοὶ πᾶσί τ’ ἀρίστη

δόξασα γυνὴ

πόσιν εἰς αὑτῆς γεγενῆσθαι.
85

Translations (2)

Alcestis (OCR draft) Experimental (Alcestis. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

No corresponding passage available

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1841; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 1, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1841. 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.) — 77 focus

Was ist es so still doch vor dem Palast?

Was ruht in Schweigen Admetos' Haus?

Zweiter Halb chor.

Kein einziger Freund weilt in der Nähe,

Zu verkündigen, ob der Gebieterinn Tod

zu betrauern geziem', ob lebend annoch
80

Im Licht hier athme des Pelias Kind,

Alkestis, die sich an ihrem Gemahl

Als das edelste Weib

Vor mir und Allen bewährt hat.

Strophe 1.

Erster Halbchor.

Notes on the current edition

Alcestis

1. In the arrangement of the following dialogue between the divided chorus I have mainly been guided by Paley, though I believe the last three lines assigned to him a Semichorus are said as the two bands are re-uniting preparatory to chanting their ode.

Euripides Alcestis 77

Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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First Semichorus

What¹ means this silence in front of the palace? why is the house of Admetus stricken dumb?

Second Semichorus

Not one friend near

to say if we must mourn our queen as dead, or if she liveth yet and sees the sun, Alcestis, daughter of Pelias, by me and all esteemed the best of wives
80

to her husband.
85

Current edition Perseus

Was ist es so still doch vor dem Palast?

Was ruht in Schweigen Admetos' Haus?

Zweiter Halb chor.

Kein einziger Freund weilt in der Nähe,

Zu verkündigen, ob der Gebieterinn Tod

zu betrauern geziem', ob lebend annoch
80

Im Licht hier athme des Pelias Kind,

Alkestis, die sich an ihrem Gemahl

Als das edelste Weib

Vor mir und Allen bewährt hat.

Strophe 1.

Erster Halbchor.

Notes on the current edition

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First Semichorus What 1 means this silence in front of the palace? why is the house of Admetus stricken dumb?

Second Semichorus Not one friend near to say if we must mourn our queen as dead, or if she liveth yet and sees the sun, Alcestis, daughter of Pelias, by me and all esteemed the best of wives 80 to her husband. 85

Current edition Perseus

Was ist es so still doch vor dem Palast? Was ruht in Schweigen Admetos' Haus?

Zweiter Halb chor. Kein einziger Freund weilt in der Nähe, Zu verkündigen, ob der Gebieterinn Tod zu betrauern geziem', ob lebend annoch 80 Im Licht hier athme des Pelias Kind, Alkestis, die sich an ihrem Gemahl Als das edelste Weib Vor mir und Allen bewährt hat. Strophe 1.

Erster Halbchor.

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

First Semichorus

What¹ means this silence in front of the palace? why is the house of Admetus stricken dumb?

Second Semichorus

Not one friend near

to say if we must mourn our queen as dead, or if she liveth yet and sees the sun, Alcestis, daughter of Pelias, by me and all esteemed the best of wives
80

to her husband.
85

Was ist es so still doch vor dem Palast?

Was ruht in Schweigen Admetos' Haus?

Zweiter Halb chor.

Kein einziger Freund weilt in der Nähe,

Zu verkündigen, ob der Gebieterinn Tod

zu betrauern geziem', ob lebend annoch
80

Im Licht hier athme des Pelias Kind,

Alkestis, die sich an ihrem Gemahl

Als das edelste Weib

Vor mir und Allen bewährt hat.

Strophe 1.