Euripides, Hippolytus, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 1370

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Hippolytus

Ah me! ah me! O the thrill of anguish shooting through me! Set me down, poor wretch I am; come Death to set me free! Kill me, end my sufferings.¹
1370

O for a sword two-edged to hack my flesh, and close this mortal life! Ill-fated curse of my father! the crimes of bloody kinsmen.² ancestors of old,
1375

now pass their boundaries and tarry not, and upon me are they come all guiltless as I am; ah! why? Alas, alas!
1380

what can I say? How from my life get rid of this relentless agony? O that the stern Death-god, night’s black visitant, would give my sufferings rest!
1385

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

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Current edition Perseus

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

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Ἱππόλυτος Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1370 focus

Ἱππόλυτος

αἰαῖ αἰαῖ·
1370

καὶ νῦν ὀδύνα μ’ ὀδύνα βαίνει —

μέθετέ με, τάλανες —

καί μοι θάνατος Παιὰν ἔλθοι.

προσαπόλλυτ’ ἀπόλλυτε τὸν δυσδαί-

μονά μ’· ἀμφιτόμου λόγχας ἔραμαι,
1375

διαμοιρᾶσαι

διά τ’ εὐνᾶσαι τὸν ἐμὸν βίοτον.

ὦ πατρὸς ἐμοῦ δύστηνος ἀρά·

μιαιφόνων τε συγγόνων παλαιῶν

προγεννητόρων ἐξορίζεται
1380

κακόν, οὐδὲ μέλλει,

ἔμολέ τ’ ἐπ’ ἐμὲ τί ποτε τὸν οὐ-

δὲν ὄντ’ ἐπαίτιον κακῶν;

ἰώ μοί μοι·

— τί φῶ; πῶς ἀπαλλάξω βιοτὰν ἐμὰν τάνδ’ ἀναλ-
1385

γήτου πάθους; εἴθε με κοι-

μάσειε τὸν δυσδαίμον’ Ἅι-

δου μέλαινα νύκτερός τ’ ἀνάγκα.

Translations (2)

Hippolytus (OCR draft) Experimental (Hippolytus. 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.) — 1370 focus

Ach, ach!

d

Und nun faßt wieder der Schmerz mich, der Schmerz.

last mich Elenden,.
1350

Und komme mir, Tod, mein rettender Arzt!

Ja, tödtet mich Unglückseligen auch!

Ich verlange nach zwiefachschneidendem Speer,

Zu durchbohren die Brust,

Und das Leben in Schlaf zu versenken im Tod.
1355

trauriger Fluch, den der Vater gethan,

Und blutbefleckter Ahnen Fluch!

Der uralten Stammvåter Schuld

Bögert nicht mehr, über die Schranken bricht sie,

Und stürmt auf mich, warum auf mich, der keines Frevels schuldig ward?
1360

Weh, was sag' ich? Wie

Soll ich doch mein Leben erldsen

J٠٠

Von diesem grausam bittern Schmerz?

Daß mich in Ruh' einwiegte, mich Unseligen,

Die nachtlich schwarze Macht des Schattenherrschers!
1365

Artemis.

Notes on the current edition

Hippolytus

1. Nauck’s comment on these closing lines of H.’s speech is, restitui vix poterunt. Any translation of them can only be tentative.

2. Such as Tantalus and Pelops, Atreus and Thyestes.

Euripides Hippolytus 1370

Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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