Euripides, Hippolytus, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 545

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Jene Dechalierinn,
545

Die unkundig der Ehe

Gelebt, ohne Bräutigam, ohne Gatten,

Gab Kypris, daß sie, Bacchantinn der Höll',¹

Ihn endlos mit Tod umstricke,

Zu sterben in Qualm und Dampf,
550

Und zu blutiger Hochzeit,

Weg vom Vaterhause dem Sohn' Alkmena's.

Unglückseliger Ehbund!

Gegenstrophe 2.

Hippolytus. 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)

Ἱππόλυτος Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 525-563 focus

Χορός

Ἔρως Ἔρως, ὃ κατ’ ὀμμάτων
525

στάζεις πόθον, εἰσάγων γλυκεῖαν

ψυχᾷ χάριν οὓς ἐπιστρατεύσῃ,

μή μοί ποτε σὺν κακῷ φανείης

μηδ’ ἄρρυθμος ἔλθοις.

οὔτε γὰρ πυρὸς οὔτ’ ἄστρων ὑπέρτερον βέλος,
530

οἷον τὸ τᾶς Ἀφροδίτας

ἵησιν ἐκ χερῶν

Ἔρως, ὁ Διὸς παῖς.

535

Χορός

ἄλλως ἄλλως παρά τ’ Ἀλφεῷ
535

Φοίβου τ’ ἐπὶ Πυθίοις τεράμνοις

βούταν φόνον Ἑλλὰς αἶ’ ἀέξει·

Ἔρωτα δέ, τὸν τύραννον ἀνδρῶν,

τὸν τᾶς Ἀφροδίτας

φιλτάτων θαλάμων κλῃδοῦχον, οὐ σεβίζομεν,
540

πέρθοντα καὶ διὰ πάσας

ἰόντα συμφορᾶς

θνατοῖς, ὅταν ἔλθῃ.

545

Χορός

τὰν μὲν Οἰχαλίᾳ
545

πῶλον ἄζυγα λέκτρων, ἄναν-

δρον τὸ πρὶν καὶ ἄνυμφον, οἴ-

κων ζεύξασ’ ἀπ’ Εὐρυτίων

δρομάδα Ναΐδ’ ὅπως τε Βάκ-

χαν σὺν αἵματι, σὺν καπνῷ
550

φονίοις θ’ ὑμεναίοις

Ἀλκμήνας τόκῳ Κύπρις ἐξέδωκεν·

ὦ τλάμων ὑμεναίων.

555

Χορός

ὦ Θήβας ἱερὸν
555

τεῖχος, ὦ στόμα Δίρκας, συνεί-

ποιτ’ ἂν ἁ Κύπρις οἷον ἕρ-

πει. βροντᾷ γὰρ ἀμφιπύρῳ

τοκάδα τὰν διγόνοιο Βάκ-

χου νυμφευσαμένα πότμῳ
560

φονίῳ κατηύνασεν.

δεινὰ γὰρ παντᾷ ποτιπνεῖ, μέλισσα δ’

οἵα τις πεπόταται.

Translations (2)

Hippolytus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 525-560 focus

Chorus

O Love, Love, that from the eyes diffusest soft desire, bringing on the souls of those, whom thou dost camp against, sweet grace, O never in evil mood appear to me, nor out of time and tune approach!
525

Nor fire nor meteor hurls a mightier bolt than Aphrodite’s shaft shot by the hands of Love, the child of Zeus.
530

535

Chorus

Idly, idly by the streams of Alpheus and in the Pythian shrines of Phoebus, Hellas heaps the slaughtered steers; while Love we worship not, Love, the king of men, who holds the key to Aphrodite’s
535

sweetest bower,—worship not him who, when he comes, lays waste and marks his path to mortal hearts by wide-spread woe.
540

545

Chorus

There was that maiden¹ in Oechalia, a girl unwed, that knew no wooer yet nor married joys; her did the queen of Love² snatch from her home across the sea
545

and gave unto Alcmena’s son, mid blood and smoke and murderous marriage-hymns, to be to him a frantic fiend of hell; woe! woe for his wooing!
550

555

Chorus

Ah! holy walls of Thebes, ah! fount of Dirce, ye could testify what course the love-queen follows. For with the blazing levin-bolt
555

did she cut short the fatal marriage of Semele, mother of Zeus-bom Bacchus. All things she doth inspire, dread goddess, winging her flight hither and thither like a bee.
560

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

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Notes on the current edition

Hippolytus

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Man verbinde: βάκχαν ἄϊδος ἀπειρεσίαν δρομάδα, Baccham Orci infinitam ruentem sc. in perniciem.

Euripides Hippolytus 545

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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