Euripides, Hippolytus, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 669

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Bitter, unselig ist
660

Der Frau'n Lebensloos!

(ab.)

welch Mittel, welche Kunst hab' ich noch,

Nachdem dieser Knoten mir unldsbar blieb?

Phädra.

Mich fand meine Straf! O Erdkreis, o Licht!

Wie entrinn' ich nun diesem Loos?
665

Wie verberg' ich, Frau'n, diese Schmach?

Der Götter wer wird retten? Welcher Sterbliche

Erscheint helfend oder mitwirkend uns

Bei der verruchten That? Das Leid, welches mir

Herdrang zum Leben, nimmer ring' ich mich heraus.
670

Dich aller Frauen unseligste!

Chor.

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.) — 732-774 focus

Χορός

Ἠλιβάτοις ὑπὸ κευθμῶσι γενοίμαν,

ἵνα με πτεροῦσσαν ὄρνιν ἀγέλῃσι

ποταναῖς θεὸς ἐνθείη·

ἀρθείην δ’ ἐπὶ πόντιον
735

κῦμα τᾶς Ἀδριηνᾶς

ἀκτᾶς Ἠριδανοῦ θ’ ὕδωρ·

ἔνθα πορφύρεον σταλάσ-

σουσιν ἐς οἶδμα πατρὸς τάλαι-

ναι κόραι Φαέθοντος οἴ-

κτῳ δακρύων
740

τὰς ἠλεκτροφαεῖς αὐγάς.

742

Χορός

Ἑσπερίδων δ’ ἐπὶ μηλόσπορον ἀκτὰν

ἀνύσαιμι τᾶν ἀοιδῶν, ἵν’ ὁ ποντο-

μέδων πορφυρέας λίμνας

ναύταις οὐκέθ’ ὁδὸν νέμει,
745

σεμνὸν τέρμονα κυρῶν

οὐρανοῦ, τὸν Ἄτλας ἔχει·

κρῆναί τ’ ἀμβρόσιαι χέον-

ται Ζηνὸς μελάθρων παρὰ κοί-

ταις, ἵν’ ἁ βιόδωρος αὔ-
750

ξει ζαθέα

χθὼν εὐδαιμονίαν θεοῖς.

752

Χορός

ὦ λευκόπτερε Κρησία

πορθμίς, ἃ διὰ πόντιον

κῦμ’ ἁλίκτυπον ἅλμας

ἐπόρευσας ἐμὰν ἄνασσαν ὀλβίων ἀπ’ οἴκων,
755

κακονυμφοτάταν ὄνασιν. ἦ γὰρ ἀπ’ ἀμφοτέρων

ἁ Κρησίας ἐκ γᾶς δύσορ-

νις ἔπτατο κλεινὰς Ἀθή-

νας· Μουνίχου δ’ ἀκταῖσιν ἐκ-

δήσαντο πλεκτὰς πεισμάτων
760

ἀρχάς, ἐπ’ ἀ-

πείρου τε γᾶς ἔβασαν.

764

Χορός

ἀνθ’ ὧν, οὐχ ὁσίων ἐρώ-

των δεινᾷ φρένας Ἀφροδί-
765

τας νόσῳ κατεκλάσθη·

χαλεπᾷ δ’ ὑπέραντλος οὖσα συμφορᾷ τεράμνων

ἀπὸ νυμφιδίων κρεμαστὸν ἅψεται ἀμφὶ βρόχον

λευκᾷ καθαρμόζουσα δεί-

ρᾳ, δαίμονα στυγνὸν καται-
770

δεσθεῖσα, τὰν δ’ εὔδοξον ἀνθ-

αιρουμένα φήμαν, ἀπαλ-

λάσσουσά τ’ ἀλ-

γεινὸν φρενῶν ἔρωτα.

Translations (2)

Hippolytus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 732-770 focus

Chorus

O to be nestling ’neath some pathless cavern, there by god’s creating hand to grow into a bird amid the winged tribes!

Away would I soar to Adrians wave-beat shore and to the waters of Eridanus; where a father’s hapless daughters¹ in their grief for Phaethon
735

distil into the glooming flood the amber brilliance of their tears.
740

742

Chorus

And to the apple-bearing strand of those minstrels in the west I then would come, where ocean’s lord

no more to sailors grants a passage o’er the deep dark main, finding there the heaven’s holy bound, upheld by Atlas, where water from ambrosial founts wells up beside the couch of Zeus inside his halls,
745

and holy earth, the bounteous mother, causes joy to spring in heavenly breasts.
750

752

Chorus

O white-winged bark, that o’er the booming ocean-wave didst bring

my royal mistress from her happy home, to crown her queen ’mongst sorrow’s brides! Surely evil omens from either port, at least from Crete, were with that ship, what time to glorious Athens it sped its way,
755

and the crew made fast its twisted cable-ends upon the beach of Munychus, and on the land stept out.
760

764

Chorus

Whence comes it that her heart

is crushed, cruelly afflicted by Aphrodite with unholy love; so she by bitter grief o’erwhelmed will tie a noose within her bridal bower to fit it to her fair white neck,
765

too modest for this hateful lot in life, prizing o’er all her name and fame, and striving thus to rid her soul of passion’s sting.
770

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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Euripides Hippolytus 669

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Bitter, unselig ist
660

Der Frau'n Lebensloos!

(ab.)

welch Mittel, welche Kunst hab' ich noch,

Nachdem dieser Knoten mir unldsbar blieb?

Chor.

Current edition Experimental

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Bitter, unselig ist 660 Der Frau'n Lebensloos! (ab.) welch Mittel, welche Kunst hab' ich noch, Nachdem dieser Knoten mir unldsbar blieb?

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Bitter, unselig ist
660

Der Frau'n Lebensloos!

(ab.)

welch Mittel, welche Kunst hab' ich noch,

Nachdem dieser Knoten mir unldsbar blieb?