Euripides, Medea, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 635

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Mich schmucke bescheidener Sinn, der Götter schönste Gabe, ſtets!
625

Mige zu feindlichem Groll, unersättlichem Zwiste doch niemals

Mein Gemüth die machtige Kypris entflammen

Andrer Frauen wegen; und friedliche Liebe pflegend, schlichte

Sie mit weisem Sinn der Ehen Zwiespalt!

Strophe 2.

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

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1841; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)

Μήδεια Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 627-662 focus

Χορός

ἔρωτες ὑπὲρ μὲν ἄγαν

ἐλθόντες οὐκ εὐδοξίαν

οὐδ’ ἀρετὰν παρέδωκαν

ἀνδράσιν· εἰ δ’ ἅλις ἔλθοι
630

Κύπρις, οὐκ ἄλλα θεὸς εὔχαρις οὕτως.

μήποτ’, ὦ δέσποιν’, ἐπ’ ἐμοὶ χρυσέων τόξων ἐφείης

ἱμέρῳ χρίσασ’ ἄφυκτον οἰστόν.

635

Χορός

στέργοι δέ με σωφροσύνα,
635

δώρημα κάλλιστον θεῶν·

μηδέ ποτ’ ἀμφιλόγους ὀργὰς

ἀκόρεστά τε νείκη

θυμὸν ἐκπλήξασ’ ἑτέροις ἐπὶ λέκτροις

προσβάλοι δεινὰ Κύπρις, ἀπτολέμους δ’ εὐνὰς σεβίζουσ’
640

ὀξύφρων κρίνοι λέχη γυναικῶν.

643

Χορός

ὦ πατρίς, ὦ δώματα, μὴ

δῆτ’ ἄπολις γενοίμαν

τὸν ἀμηχανίας ἔχουσα
645

δυσπέρατον αἰῶν’,

οἰκτροτάτων ἀχέων.

θανάτῳ θανάτῳ πάρος δαμείην

ἁμέραν τάνδ’ ἐξανύσασα· μό-

χθων δ’ οὐκ ἄλλος ὕπερθεν ἢ
650

γᾶς πατρίας στέρεσθαι.

652

Χορός

εἴδομεν, οὐκ ἐξ ἑτέρων

μῦθον ἔχω φράσασθαι·

σὲ γὰρ οὐ πόλις, οὐ φίλων τις
655

ᾤκτισεν παθοῦσαν

δεινότατον παθέων.

ἀχάριστος ὄλοιθ’, ὅτῳ πάρεστιν

μὴ φίλους τιμᾶν καθαρᾶν ἀνοί-
660

ξαντα κλῇδα φρενῶν· ἐμοὶ

μὲν φίλος οὔποτ’ ἔσται.

Translations (2)

Medea Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 627-660 focus

Chorus

When in excess and past all limits Love doth come, he brings not glory or repute

to man; but if the Cyprian queen in moderate might approach, no goddess is so full of charm as she. Never, O never, lady mine, discharge at me from thy golden bow a shaft invincible, in passion’s venom dipped.
630

635

Chorus

On me may chastity, heaven’s fairest gift, look¹ with a favouring eye;
635

never may Cypris, goddess dread, fasten on me a temper to dispute, or restless jealousy, smiting my soul with mad desire for unlawful love, but may she hallow peaceful married life and shrewdly decide whom each of us shall wed.
640

643

Chorus

O my country, O my own dear home! God grant I may never be an outcast from my city,

leading that cruel helpless life, whose every day is misery. Ere that may I this life complete and yield to death, ay, death;
645

for there is no misery that doth surpass the loss of fatherland.
650

652

Chorus

I have seen with mine eyes, nor from the lips of others have I the lesson learnt;

no city, not one friend doth pity thee in this thine awful woe. May he perish and find no favour,
655

whoso hath not in him honour for his friends, freely unlocking his heart to them. Never shall he be friend of mine.
660

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

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Euripides Medea 635

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Mich schmucke bescheidener Sinn, der Götter schönste Gabe, ſtets!
625

Mige zu feindlichem Groll, unersättlichem Zwiste doch niemals

Mein Gemüth die machtige Kypris entflammen

Andrer Frauen wegen; und friedliche Liebe pflegend, schlichte

Sie mit weisem Sinn der Ehen Zwiespalt!

Strophe 2.

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Chorus

O my country, O my own dear home! God grant I may never be an outcast from my city,

leading that cruel helpless life, whose every day is misery. Ere that may I this life complete and yield to death, ay, death;
645

for there is no misery that doth surpass the loss of fatherland.
650

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Mich schmucke bescheidener Sinn, der Götter schönste Gabe, ſtets! 625 Mige zu feindlichem Groll, unersättlichem Zwiste doch niemals Mein Gemüth die machtige Kypris entflammen Andrer Frauen wegen; und friedliche Liebe pflegend, schlichte Sie mit weisem Sinn der Ehen Zwiespalt! Strophe 2.

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Chorus O my country, O my own dear home! God grant I may never be an outcast from my city, leading that cruel helpless life, whose every day is misery. Ere that may I this life complete and yield to death, ay, death; 645 for there is no misery that doth surpass the loss of fatherland. 650

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Mich schmucke bescheidener Sinn, der Götter schönste Gabe, ſtets!
625

Mige zu feindlichem Groll, unersättlichem Zwiste doch niemals

Mein Gemüth die machtige Kypris entflammen

Andrer Frauen wegen; und friedliche Liebe pflegend, schlichte

Sie mit weisem Sinn der Ehen Zwiespalt!

Strophe 2.

Chorus

O my country, O my own dear home! God grant I may never be an outcast from my city,

leading that cruel helpless life, whose every day is misery. Ere that may I this life complete and yield to death, ay, death;
645

for there is no misery that doth surpass the loss of fatherland.
650