Euripides, Andromache, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 1009

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O Phobos, der du Ilions herrliche Burg einst aufgethurmt,¹

Du Meeresbeherrscher, mit blauen Rossen fahrend

Durch die salzige Flut!
970

Was gabt ihr das Kunstwerk eurer schaffenden Hånde voll

Schmach

Ares, dem Lenker der Schlachten, dahin, ließt ohne Hülse

Die Burg Troja's ihm zum Raube?

Erste Gegenstrophe.

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

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1845; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 2, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1845. 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)

Ἀνδρομάχη Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1009-1046 focus

Χορός

ὦ Φοῖβε πυργώσας τὸν ἐν Ἰλίῳ εὐτειχῆ πάγον

καὶ πόντιε κυανέαις ἵπποις διφρεύ-
1010

ων ἅλιον πέλαγος,

τίνος οὕνεκ’ ἄτιμον ὀργᾶς

ἃν χέρα τεκτοσύνας Ἐ-
1015

νυαλίῳ δοριμήστορι προσθέν-

τες τάλαιναν τάλαι-

ναν μεθεῖτε Τροίαν;

1019

Χορός

πλείστους δ’ ἐπ’ ἀκταῖσιν Σιμοεντίσιν εὐίππους

ὄχους

ἐζεύξατε καὶ φονίους ἀνδρῶν ἁμίλ-
1020

λας ἔθετ’ ἀστεφάνους·

ἀπὸ δὲ φθίμενοι βεβᾶσιν

Ἰλιάδαι βασιλῆες,

οὐδ’ ἔτι πῦρ ἐπιβώμιον ἐν Τροί-

ᾳ θεοῖσιν λέλαμ-
1025

πεν καπνῷ θυώδει.

1027

Χορός

βέβακε δ’ Ἀτρείδας ἀλόχου παλάμαις,

αὐτά τ’ ἐναλλάξασα φόνον θανάτῳ

πρὸς τέκνων ἀπηύρα
1030

θεοῦ. θεοῦ νιν κέλευμ’ ἐπεστράφη

μαντόσυνον, ὅτε νιν Ἀργόθεν πορευθεὶς

Ἀγαμεμνόνιος κέλωρ, ἀδύτων ἐπιβὰς

κτεάνων, ματρὸς φονεὺς
1035

ὦ δαῖμον, ὦ Φοῖβε, πῶς πείθομαι;

1037

Χορός

πολλαὶ δ’ ἀν’ Ἑλλάνων ἀγόρους στοναχὰς

μέλποντο δυστάνων τεκέων, ἄλοχοι δ’

ἐξέλειπον οἴκους
1040

πρὸς ἄλλον εὐνάτορ’. οὐχὶ σοὶ μόνᾳ

δύσφρονες ἐπέπεσον, οὐ φίλοισι, λῦπαι·

νόσον Ἑλλὰς ἔτλα, νόσον· διέβα δὲ Φρυγῶν

καὶ πρὸς εὐκάρπους γύας
1045

σκηπτὸς σταλάσσων τὸν Ἅιδα φόνον.

Translations (2)

Andromache Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.) — 1009-1045 focus

Chorus

O Phoebus! who didst fence the hill of Ilium with a fair coronal of towers,

and thou, ocean-god! coursing o’er the main with thy dark steeds, wherefore did ye hand over in dishonour
1010

your own handiwork to the war-god, master of the spear, abandoning Troy to wretchedness?
1015

1019

Chorus

Many a well-horsed car ye yoked on the banks of Simois,

and many a bloody tournament did ye ordain with never a prize to win; and Ilium’s princes are dead and gone; no longer in Troy
1020

is seen the blaze of fire on altars of the gods with the smoke of incense.
1025

1027

Chorus

The son of Atreus is no more, slain by the hand of his wife, and she herself hath paid the debt of blood by death,

and from her children’s hands received her doom. The god’s own bidding from his oracle was levelled against her, in the day that Agamemnon’s son set forth from Argos and visited his shrine;
1030

so he slew¹ her, aye, spilt his own mother’s blood. O Phoebus, O thou power divine, how can I believe the story?
1035

1037

Chorus

Anon wherever Hellenes gather, was heard the voice of lamentation, mothers weeping o’er their children’s fate,

as they left their homes to mate with strangers. Ah! thou art not the only one, nor thy dear ones either, on whom the cloud of grief hath fallen. Hellas had to bear the visitation, and thence the scourge crossed to Phrygia’s
1040

fruitful fields, raining the bloody drops the; death-god loves.²
1045

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

No corresponding passage available

Notes on the current edition

Andromache

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Phöbos und Poseidon hatten dem Laomedon die Mauern Troja's erbaut.

Euripides Andromache 1009

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Chorus

O Phoebus! who didst fence the hill of Ilium with a fair coronal of towers,

and thou, ocean-god! coursing o’er the main with thy dark steeds, wherefore did ye hand over in dishonour
1010

your own handiwork to the war-god, master of the spear, abandoning Troy to wretchedness?
1015

Chorus

Many a well-horsed car ye yoked on the banks of Simois,

and many a bloody tournament did ye ordain with never a prize to win; and Ilium’s princes are dead and gone; no longer in Troy
1020

is seen the blaze of fire on altars of the gods with the smoke of incense.
1025

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Chorus O Phoebus! who didst fence the hill of Ilium with a fair coronal of towers, and thou, ocean-god! coursing o’er the main with thy dark steeds, wherefore did ye hand over in dishonour 1010 your own handiwork to the war-god, master of the spear, abandoning Troy to wretchedness? 1015

Chorus Many a well-horsed car ye yoked on the banks of Simois, and many a bloody tournament did ye ordain with never a prize to win; and Ilium’s princes are dead and gone; no longer in Troy 1020 is seen the blaze of fire on altars of the gods with the smoke of incense. 1025

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Stable identifiers

Chorus

O Phoebus! who didst fence the hill of Ilium with a fair coronal of towers,

and thou, ocean-god! coursing o’er the main with thy dark steeds, wherefore did ye hand over in dishonour
1010

your own handiwork to the war-god, master of the spear, abandoning Troy to wretchedness?
1015

Chorus

Many a well-horsed car ye yoked on the banks of Simois,

and many a bloody tournament did ye ordain with never a prize to win; and Ilium’s princes are dead and gone; no longer in Troy
1020

is seen the blaze of fire on altars of the gods with the smoke of incense.
1025