Euripides, Andromache, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 103

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Unheil brachte dir Paris, o Ilios, keine Vermählung,

Als er Helenen heim führt' in der Ehe Gemach.

Darum erschien aus Hellas mit tausend Masten der Wüthrich

Ares, eroberte dich, Troja, mit Feuer und Schwert,¹
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Raubte mir meinen Gemahl, der Verlorenen, welchen am Wagen

Fesselnd, der Meergåttin Sohn um die Mauern geschleift.

Ich ward aus den Gemächern gefuhrt zum Gestade des Meeres,

Beugt' in der Dienstbarkeit traurige Bande das Haupt;

Und viel Zahren entstromten die Wange mir, als ich im Staube
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Meinen Gemahl und die Stadt und die Gemåcher verließ.

Unglückselige, weh! Was mußt' ich noch schauen die Sonne

Ich, Hermione's Magd, die mich verfolgend bedrängt,

Daß ich, flehend geschlungen die Hånd' um der Göttlichen

Bild hier,

Weine, der Quellslut gleich, welche dem Felsen entströmt?
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Der Chor tritt auf. Andromache. Erste Strophe.

Chor.

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

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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.) — 117-146c focus

Χορός

ὦ γύναι, ἃ Θέτιδος δάπεδον καὶ ἀνάκτορα θάσσεις

δαρὸν οὐδὲ λείπεις,

Φθιὰς ὅμως ἔμολον ποτὶ σὰν Ἀσιήτιδα γένναν,

εἴ τί σοι δυναίμαν
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ἄκος τῶν δυσλύτων πόνων τεμεῖν,

οἳ σὲ καὶ Ἑρμιόναν ἔριδι στυγερᾷ συνέκλῃσαν,

τλάμον’ ἀμφὶ λέκτρων

διδύμων ἐπίκοινον ἐοῦσαν

ἀμφὶ παῖδ’ Ἀχιλλέως.
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126

Χορός

γνῶθι τύχαν, λόγισαι τὸ παρὸν κακὸν εἰς ὅπερ ἥκεις.

δεσπόταις ἁμιλλᾷ

Ἰλιὰς οὖσα κόρα Λακεδαίμονος ἐγγενέτῃσιν;

λεῖπε δεξίμηλον

δόμον τᾶς ποντίας θεοῦ. τί σοι
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καιρὸς ἀτυζομένᾳ δέμας αἰκέλιον καταλείβειν

δεσποτῶν ἀνάγκαις;

τὸ κρατοῦν δέ σ’ ἔπεισι. τί μόχθον

οὐδὲν οὖσα μοχθεῖς;

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Χορός

ἀλλ’ ἴθι λεῖπε θεᾶς Νηρηίδος ἀγλαὸν ἕδραν,
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γνῶθι δ’ οὖσ’ ἐπὶ ξένας

δμωὶς ἐπ’ ἀλλοτρίας

πόλεος, ἔνθ’ οὐ φίλων τιν’ εἰσορᾷς

σῶν, ὦ δυστυχεστάτα,

παντάλαινα νύμφα.
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141

Χορός

οἰκτροτάτα γὰρ ἔμοιγ’ ἔμολες, γύναι Ἰλιάς, οἴκους

δεσποτῶν ἐμῶν· φόβῳ δ’

ἡσυχίαν ἄγομεν—

τὸ δὲ σὸν οἴκτῳ φέρουσα τυγχάνω—

μὴ παῖς τᾶς Διὸς κόρας
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σοί μ’ εὖ φρονοῦσαν εἰδῇ.

Translations (2)

Andromache Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.) — 117-145 focus

Chorus

Lady, thus keeping thy weary station without pause upon the floor of Thetis’ shrine, Phthian though I am, to thee a daughter of Asia I come,

to see if I can devise some remedy for these perplexing troubles, which have involved thee and Hermione in fell discord, because to thy sorrow thou
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sharest with her the love of Achilles’ son.
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Chorus

Recognize thy position, weigh the present evil into the which thou art come. Thou art a Trojan captive; thy rival is thy mistress, a true-born daughter of Sparta. Leave then

this home of sacrifice, the shrine of our sea-goddess. How can it avail thee to waste thy comeliness and disfigure it by weeping by reason of a mistress’s harsh usage? Might will prevail against thee; why vainly toil in thy feebleness?
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Chorus

Come, quit the bright sanctuary of the Nereid divine. Recognize that thou art in bondage on a foreign soil, in a strange city, where thou seest none of all thy friends, luckless lady,
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cast on evil days.
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Chorus

Yea, I did pity thee most truly, Trojan dame, when thou earnest to this house; but from fear of my mistress I hold my peace, albeit I sympathize with thee,

lest she, whom Zeus’s daughter bore, discover¹ my good will toward thee.
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Andromache (OCR draft) Experimental (Andromache. 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

Andromache

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] L. ὀξὺς Αρης.

Euripides Andromache 103

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Chor.

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Chorus

Come, quit the bright sanctuary of the Nereid divine. Recognize that thou art in bondage on a foreign soil, in a strange city, where thou seest none of all thy friends, luckless lady,
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cast on evil days.
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Chorus

Yea, I did pity thee most truly, Trojan dame, when thou earnest to this house; but from fear of my mistress I hold my peace, albeit I sympathize with thee,

lest she, whom Zeus’s daughter bore, discover¹ my good will toward thee.
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Chorus Come, quit the bright sanctuary of the Nereid divine. Recognize that thou art in bondage on a foreign soil, in a strange city, where thou seest none of all thy friends, luckless lady, 135 cast on evil days. 140

Chorus Yea, I did pity thee most truly, Trojan dame, when thou earnest to this house; but from fear of my mistress I hold my peace, albeit I sympathize with thee, lest she, whom Zeus’s daughter bore, discover 1 my good will toward thee. 145

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Chorus

Come, quit the bright sanctuary of the Nereid divine. Recognize that thou art in bondage on a foreign soil, in a strange city, where thou seest none of all thy friends, luckless lady,
135

cast on evil days.
140

Chorus

Yea, I did pity thee most truly, Trojan dame, when thou earnest to this house; but from fear of my mistress I hold my peace, albeit I sympathize with thee,

lest she, whom Zeus’s daughter bore, discover¹ my good will toward thee.
145