Euripides, Andromache, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 1166

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Dort naht der Gebieter dem Hause sich schon;

Sie trugen ihn heim aus dem delphischen Land.

Unglucklicher Mann, unglucklich, o Greis,

Auch du! Des Achilleus Språßling empfängst
1120

Im Hause du nicht so wie du gewunscht,

Und im Leide versankst¹

Du selbst in das gleiche Geschick, Herr.

Peleus.

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.) — 1166-1225 focus

Χορός

καὶ μὴν ὅδ’ ἄναξ ἤδη φοράδην

Δελφίδος ἐκ γῆς δῶμα πελάζει.

τλήμων ὁ παθών, τλήμων δέ, γέρον,

καὶ σύ· δέχῃ γὰρ τὸν Ἀχίλλειον

σκύμνον ἐς οἴκους οὐχ ὡς σὺ θέλεις·
1170

αὐτός τε κακοῖς πήμασι κύρσας

εἰς ἓν μοίρας συνέκυρσας.

1173

Πηλεύς

ὤμοι ἐγώ, κακὸν οἷον ὁρῶ τόδε

καὶ δέχομαι χερὶ δώμασί τ’ ἀμοῖς.

ἰώ μοί μοι, αἰαῖ,
1175

ὦ πόλι Θεσσαλία, διολώλαμεν,

οἰχόμεθ’· οὐκέτι μοι γένος, οὐκέτι μοι τέκνα

λείπεται οἴκοις·

ὦ σχέτλιος παθέων ἐγώ· εἰς τίνα

δὴ φίλον αὐγὰς βάλλων τέρψομαι;
1180

ὦ φίλιον στόμα καὶ γένυ καὶ χέρες,

εἴθε σ’ ὑπ’ Ἰλίῳ ἤναρε δαίμων

Σιμοεντίδα παρ’ ἀκτάν.

1184

Χορός

οὗτός τ’ ἂν ὡς ἐκ τῶνδ’ ἐτιμᾶτ’ ἄν, γέρον,

θανών, τὸ σὸν δ’ ἦν ὧδ’ ἂν εὐτυχέστερον.
1185

1186

Πηλεύς

ὦ γάμος, ὦ γάμος, ὃς τάδε δώματα

καὶ πόλιν ἀμὰν ὤλεσας· αἰαῖ,

ἒ ἔ· ὦ παῖ,

μήποτε σῶν λεχέων τὸ δυσώνυμον

ὤφελ’ ἐμὸν γένος εἰς τέκνα καὶ δόμον
1190

ἀμφιβαλέσθαι

Ἑρμιόνας Ἀίδαν ἐπὶ σοί, τέκνον,

ἀλλὰ κεραυνῷ πρόσθεν ὀλέσθαι·

μηδ’ ἐπὶ τοξοσύνᾳ φονίῳ πατρὸς

αἷμα τὸ διογενές ποτε Φοίβου
1195

βροτὸς εἰς θεὸν ἀνάψαι.

1197

Χορός

ὀττοτοτοτοῖ, θανόντα δεσπόταν γόοις

νόμῳ τῷ

νερτέρων κατάρξω.

Πηλεύς

ὀττοτοτοτοῖ, διάδοχα δ’ ὦ τάλας ἐγὼ
1200

γέρων καὶ

δυστυχὴς δακρύω.

Χορός

θεοῦ γὰρ αἶσα, θεὸς ἔκρανε συμφοράν.

Πηλεύς

ὦ φίλος,

δόμον ἔλιπες ἔρημον,
1205

ὤμοι μοι, ταλαίπωρον ἐμὲ

γέροντ’ ἄπαιδα νοσφίσας.

Χορός

θανεῖν θανεῖν σε, πρέσβυ, χρῆν πάρος τέκνων.

Πηλεύς

οὐ σπαράξομαι κόμαν,

οὐκ ἐμῷ ’πιθήσομαι
1210

κάρᾳ κτύπημα χειρὸς ὀλοόν; ὦ πόλις,

διπλῶν τέκνων

μ’ ἐστέρησ’ ὁ Φοῖβος.

1214

Χορός

ὦ κακὰ παθὼν ἰδών τε δυστυχὴς γέρον,

τίν’ αἰῶν’

εἰς τὸ λοιπὸν ἕξεις;
1215

Πηλεύς

ἄτεκνος ἔρημος, οὐκ ἔχων πέρας κακῶν

διαντλή-

σω πόνους ἐς Ἅιδαν.

Χορός

μάτην δέ σ’ ἐν γάμοισιν ὤλβισαν θεοί.

Πηλεύς

ἀμπτάμενα

φροῦδα πάντα, κεῖται

κόμπων μεταρσίων πρόσω.
1220

Χορός

μόνος μόνοισιν ἐν δόμοις ἀναστρέφῃ.

Πηλεύς

οὐκέτ’ εἶ, πόλις, πόλις,

σκῆπτρά τ’ ἐρρέτω τάδε ἐπὶ γαῖαν,

σύ τ’, ὦ κατ’ ἄντρα νύχια Νηρέως κόρη,

πανώλεθρόν

μ’ ὄψεαι πίτνοντα πρὸς γᾶν.
1225

Translations (2)

Andromache Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.) — 1166-1225 focus

Chorus

Lo! E’en now our prince is being carried on a bier from Delphi’s land unto his home. Woe for him and his sad fate, and woe for thee, old sire! for this is not the welcome thou wouldst give Achilles’ son,

the lion’s whelp; thyself too by this sad mischance¹ dost share his evil lot.
1170

1173

Peleus

Ah! woe is me! here is a sad sight for me to see and take unto my halls!

Ah me! ah me! I am undone, thou city of Thessaly! My line now ends; I have no children left me in my home. Oh! the sorrows I seem born to endure! What
1175

friend can I look to for relief? Ah, dear lips, and cheeks, and hands! Would thy destiny had slain thee ’neath Ilium’s walls beside the banks of Simois!
1180

1184

Chorus

Had he so died, my aged lord, he had won him honour thereby,

and thine had been the happier lot.
1185

1186

Peleus

O marriage, marriage, woe to thee! thou bane of my home, thou destroyer² of my city! Ah my child, my boy! would³ that the honour of wedding thee,

fraught with evil as it was to my children and house, had not thrown oer thee, my son, Hermiones deadly net! O that the thunderbolt had slain her sooner! and that thou, rash mortal, hadst never charged
1190

the great god Phoebus with aiming that murderous shaft that spilt thy hero-fathers blood!⁴
1195

1197

Chorus

Woe! woe! alas! With due observance of funeral rites will I begin the mourning for my dead master.

Peleus

Alack and well-a-day! I take up the tearful dirge, ah me! old and wretched as I am.
1200

Chorus

’Tis Heaven’s decree; God willed this heavy stroke.

Peleus

O darling child,

thou hast left me all alone in my halls,⁵ old and childless by thy loss.
1205

Chorus

Thou shouldst have died, old sire, before thy children.

Peleus

Shall I not tear my hair,

and smite upon my head with grievous blows? O city! of both my children⁶ hath Phoebus robbed me.
1210

1214

Chorus

What evils thou hast suffered, what sorrows thou hast seen, thou poor old man!

what shall be thy life hereafter?
1215

Peleus

Childless, desolate, with no limit to my grief, I must drain the cup of woe, until I die.

Chorus

’Twas all in vain the gods wished thee joy on thy wedding day.⁷

Peleus

All my hopes have flown away,

fallen short of my high boasts.
1220

Chorus

A lonely dweller in a lonely home art thou.

Peleus

I have no city any longer;⁸ there! on the ground my sceptre do I cast; and thou, daughter of Nereus, neath thy dim grotto,

shalt see me grovelling in the dust,⁹ a ruined king.
1225

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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Andromache

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Ε. αὐτός τε κακοῖς˙ εἰς ἓν μοίρας συνέκυρσας.

Euripides Andromache 1166

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Dort naht der Gebieter dem Hause sich schon;

Sie trugen ihn heim aus dem delphischen Land.

Unglucklicher Mann, unglucklich, o Greis,

Auch du! Des Achilleus Språßling empfängst
1120

Im Hause du nicht so wie du gewunscht,

Und im Leide versankst¹

Du selbst in das gleiche Geschick, Herr.

Peleus.

Current edition Experimental

Χορός

οὗτός τ’ ἂν ὡς ἐκ τῶνδ’ ἐτιμᾶτ’ ἄν, γέρον,

θανών, τὸ σὸν δ’ ἦν ὧδ’ ἂν εὐτυχέστερον.
1185

Χορός

ὀττοτοτοτοῖ, θανόντα δεσπόταν γόοις

νόμῳ τῷ

νερτέρων κατάρξω.

Πηλεύς

ὀττοτοτοτοῖ, διάδοχα δ’ ὦ τάλας ἐγὼ
1200

γέρων καὶ

δυστυχὴς δακρύω.

Χορός

θεοῦ γὰρ αἶσα, θεὸς ἔκρανε συμφοράν.

Πηλεύς

ὦ φίλος,

δόμον ἔλιπες ἔρημον,
1205

ὤμοι μοι, ταλαίπωρον ἐμὲ

γέροντ’ ἄπαιδα νοσφίσας.

Χορός

θανεῖν θανεῖν σε, πρέσβυ, χρῆν πάρος τέκνων.

Πηλεύς

οὐ σπαράξομαι κόμαν,

οὐκ ἐμῷ ’πιθήσομαι
1210

κάρᾳ κτύπημα χειρὸς ὀλοόν; ὦ πόλις,

διπλῶν τέκνων

μ’ ἐστέρησ’ ὁ Φοῖβος.

Χορός

ὦ κακὰ παθὼν ἰδών τε δυστυχὴς γέρον,

τίν’ αἰῶν’

εἰς τὸ λοιπὸν ἕξεις;
1215

Πηλεύς

ἄτεκνος ἔρημος, οὐκ ἔχων πέρας κακῶν

διαντλή-

σω πόνους ἐς Ἅιδαν.

Χορός

μάτην δέ σ’ ἐν γάμοισιν ὤλβισαν θεοί.

Πηλεύς

ἀμπτάμενα

φροῦδα πάντα, κεῖται

κόμπων μεταρσίων πρόσω.
1220

Χορός

μόνος μόνοισιν ἐν δόμοις ἀναστρέφῃ.

Πηλεύς

οὐκέτ’ εἶ, πόλις, πόλις,

σκῆπτρά τ’ ἐρρέτω τάδε ἐπὶ γαῖαν,

σύ τ’, ὦ κατ’ ἄντρα νύχια Νηρέως κόρη,

πανώλεθρόν

μ’ ὄψεαι πίτνοντα πρὸς γᾶν.
1225

Chorus

Had he so died, my aged lord, he had won him honour thereby,

and thine had been the happier lot.
1185

Chorus

Woe! woe! alas! With due observance of funeral rites will I begin the mourning for my dead master.

Peleus

Alack and well-a-day! I take up the tearful dirge, ah me! old and wretched as I am.
1200

Chorus

’Tis Heaven’s decree; God willed this heavy stroke.

Peleus

O darling child,

thou hast left me all alone in my halls,⁵ old and childless by thy loss.
1205

Chorus

Thou shouldst have died, old sire, before thy children.

Peleus

Shall I not tear my hair,

and smite upon my head with grievous blows? O city! of both my children⁶ hath Phoebus robbed me.
1210

Chorus

What evils thou hast suffered, what sorrows thou hast seen, thou poor old man!

what shall be thy life hereafter?
1215

Peleus

Childless, desolate, with no limit to my grief, I must drain the cup of woe, until I die.

Chorus

’Twas all in vain the gods wished thee joy on thy wedding day.⁷

Peleus

All my hopes have flown away,

fallen short of my high boasts.
1220

Chorus

A lonely dweller in a lonely home art thou.

Peleus

I have no city any longer;⁸ there! on the ground my sceptre do I cast; and thou, daughter of Nereus, neath thy dim grotto,

shalt see me grovelling in the dust,⁹ a ruined king.
1225

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Dort naht der Gebieter dem Hause sich schon; Sie trugen ihn heim aus dem delphischen Land. Unglucklicher Mann, unglucklich, o Greis, Auch du! Des Achilleus Språßling empfängst 1120 Im Hause du nicht so wie du gewunscht, Und im Leide versankst 1 Du selbst in das gleiche Geschick, Herr.

Peleus.

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Χορός οὗτός τ’ ἂν ὡς ἐκ τῶνδ’ ἐτιμᾶτ’ ἄν, γέρον, θανών, τὸ σὸν δ’ ἦν ὧδ’ ἂν εὐτυχέστερον. 1185

Χορός ὀττοτοτοτοῖ, θανόντα δεσπόταν γόοις νόμῳ τῷ νερτέρων κατάρξω.

Πηλεύς ὀττοτοτοτοῖ, διάδοχα δ’ ὦ τάλας ἐγὼ 1200 γέρων καὶ δυστυχὴς δακρύω.

Χορός θεοῦ γὰρ αἶσα, θεὸς ἔκρανε συμφοράν.

Πηλεύς ὦ φίλος, δόμον ἔλιπες ἔρημον, 1205 ὤμοι μοι, ταλαίπωρον ἐμὲ γέροντ’ ἄπαιδα νοσφίσας.

Χορός θανεῖν θανεῖν σε, πρέσβυ, χρῆν πάρος τέκνων.

Πηλεύς οὐ σπαράξομαι κόμαν, οὐκ ἐμῷ ’πιθήσομαι 1210 κάρᾳ κτύπημα χειρὸς ὀλοόν; ὦ πόλις, διπλῶν τέκνων μ’ ἐστέρησ’ ὁ Φοῖβος.

Χορός ὦ κακὰ παθὼν ἰδών τε δυστυχὴς γέρον, τίν’ αἰῶν’ εἰς τὸ λοιπὸν ἕξεις; 1215

Πηλεύς ἄτεκνος ἔρημος, οὐκ ἔχων πέρας κακῶν διαντλή- σω πόνους ἐς Ἅιδαν.

Χορός μάτην δέ σ’ ἐν γάμοισιν ὤλβισαν θεοί.

Πηλεύς ἀμπτάμενα φροῦδα πάντα, κεῖται κόμπων μεταρσίων πρόσω. 1220

Χορός μόνος μόνοισιν ἐν δόμοις ἀναστρέφῃ.

Πηλεύς οὐκέτ’ εἶ, πόλις, πόλις, σκῆπτρά τ’ ἐρρέτω τάδε ἐπὶ γαῖαν, σύ τ’, ὦ κατ’ ἄντρα νύχια Νηρέως κόρη, πανώλεθρόν μ’ ὄψεαι πίτνοντα πρὸς γᾶν. 1225

Chorus Had he so died, my aged lord, he had won him honour thereby, and thine had been the happier lot. 1185

Chorus Woe! woe! alas! With due observance of funeral rites will I begin the mourning for my dead master.

Peleus Alack and well-a-day! I take up the tearful dirge, ah me! old and wretched as I am. 1200

Chorus ’Tis Heaven’s decree; God willed this heavy stroke.

Peleus O darling child, thou hast left me all alone in my halls, 5 old and childless by thy loss. 1205

Chorus Thou shouldst have died, old sire, before thy children.

Peleus Shall I not tear my hair, and smite upon my head with grievous blows? O city! of both my children 6 hath Phoebus robbed me. 1210

Chorus What evils thou hast suffered, what sorrows thou hast seen, thou poor old man! what shall be thy life hereafter? 1215

Peleus Childless, desolate, with no limit to my grief, I must drain the cup of woe, until I die.

Chorus ’Twas all in vain the gods wished thee joy on thy wedding day. 7

Peleus All my hopes have flown away, fallen short of my high boasts. 1220

Chorus A lonely dweller in a lonely home art thou.

Peleus I have no city any longer; 8 there! on the ground my sceptre do I cast; and thou, daughter of Nereus, neath thy dim grotto, shalt see me grovelling in the dust, 9 a ruined king. 1225

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

Dort naht der Gebieter dem Hause sich schon;

Sie trugen ihn heim aus dem delphischen Land.

Unglucklicher Mann, unglucklich, o Greis,

Auch du! Des Achilleus Språßling empfängst
1120

Im Hause du nicht so wie du gewunscht,

Und im Leide versankst¹

Du selbst in das gleiche Geschick, Herr.

Χορός

οὗτός τ’ ἂν ὡς ἐκ τῶνδ’ ἐτιμᾶτ’ ἄν, γέρον,

θανών, τὸ σὸν δ’ ἦν ὧδ’ ἂν εὐτυχέστερον.
1185

Χορός

ὀττοτοτοτοῖ, θανόντα δεσπόταν γόοις

νόμῳ τῷ

νερτέρων κατάρξω.

Πηλεύς

ὀττοτοτοτοῖ, διάδοχα δ’ ὦ τάλας ἐγὼ
1200

γέρων καὶ

δυστυχὴς δακρύω.

Χορός

θεοῦ γὰρ αἶσα, θεὸς ἔκρανε συμφοράν.

Πηλεύς

ὦ φίλος,

δόμον ἔλιπες ἔρημον,
1205

ὤμοι μοι, ταλαίπωρον ἐμὲ

γέροντ’ ἄπαιδα νοσφίσας.

Χορός

θανεῖν θανεῖν σε, πρέσβυ, χρῆν πάρος τέκνων.

Πηλεύς

οὐ σπαράξομαι κόμαν,

οὐκ ἐμῷ ’πιθήσομαι
1210

κάρᾳ κτύπημα χειρὸς ὀλοόν; ὦ πόλις,

διπλῶν τέκνων

μ’ ἐστέρησ’ ὁ Φοῖβος.

Χορός

ὦ κακὰ παθὼν ἰδών τε δυστυχὴς γέρον,

τίν’ αἰῶν’

εἰς τὸ λοιπὸν ἕξεις;
1215

Πηλεύς

ἄτεκνος ἔρημος, οὐκ ἔχων πέρας κακῶν

διαντλή-

σω πόνους ἐς Ἅιδαν.

Χορός

μάτην δέ σ’ ἐν γάμοισιν ὤλβισαν θεοί.

Πηλεύς

ἀμπτάμενα

φροῦδα πάντα, κεῖται

κόμπων μεταρσίων πρόσω.
1220

Χορός

μόνος μόνοισιν ἐν δόμοις ἀναστρέφῃ.

Πηλεύς

οὐκέτ’ εἶ, πόλις, πόλις,

σκῆπτρά τ’ ἐρρέτω τάδε ἐπὶ γαῖαν,

σύ τ’, ὦ κατ’ ἄντρα νύχια Νηρέως κόρη,

πανώλεθρόν

μ’ ὄψεαι πίτνοντα πρὸς γᾶν.
1225

Chorus

Had he so died, my aged lord, he had won him honour thereby,

and thine had been the happier lot.
1185

Chorus

Woe! woe! alas! With due observance of funeral rites will I begin the mourning for my dead master.

Peleus

Alack and well-a-day! I take up the tearful dirge, ah me! old and wretched as I am.
1200

Chorus

’Tis Heaven’s decree; God willed this heavy stroke.

Peleus

O darling child,

thou hast left me all alone in my halls,⁵ old and childless by thy loss.
1205

Chorus

Thou shouldst have died, old sire, before thy children.

Peleus

Shall I not tear my hair,

and smite upon my head with grievous blows? O city! of both my children⁶ hath Phoebus robbed me.
1210

Chorus

What evils thou hast suffered, what sorrows thou hast seen, thou poor old man!

what shall be thy life hereafter?
1215

Peleus

Childless, desolate, with no limit to my grief, I must drain the cup of woe, until I die.

Chorus

’Twas all in vain the gods wished thee joy on thy wedding day.⁷

Peleus

All my hopes have flown away,

fallen short of my high boasts.
1220

Chorus

A lonely dweller in a lonely home art thou.

Peleus

I have no city any longer;⁸ there! on the ground my sceptre do I cast; and thou, daughter of Nereus, neath thy dim grotto,

shalt see me grovelling in the dust,⁹ a ruined king.
1225