Euripides, Andromache, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 274

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Große Bedrängnisse wahrlich erhoben sich,

Als Zeus' und Maja's Sohn

Nach den Waldthålern Ida's dort,

Der Götterfrauen Dreigespann mit schonem Joch¹
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Daherlenkend, kam;

Das Gespann, mit dem traurigen Zwist um die Schönheit

Lenkt' hin zu des Hirten

bewehrt,

Gehöfe, hin zu dem einsamwallenden Junglinge,

Zum Herd der öden Schäferwohnung.
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Erste Gegenstrophe.

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.) — 274-308a focus

Χορός

Ἦ μεγάλων ἀχέων ἄρ’ ὑπῆρξεν, ὅτ’ Ἰδαίαν

ἐς νάπαν ἦλθ’ ὁ Μαί-
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ας τε καὶ Διὸς τόκος,

τρίπωλον ἅρμα δαιμόνων

ἄγων τὸ καλλιζυγές,

ἔριδι στυγερᾷ κεκορυθμένον εὐμορφίας

σταθμοὺς ἐπὶ βούτα,
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βοτῆρά τ’ ἀμφὶ μονότροπον νεανίαν

ἔρημόν θ’

ἑστιοῦχον αὐλάν.

284

Χορός

ταὶ δ’ ἐπεὶ ὑλόκομον νάπος ἤλυθον οὐρειᾶν

πιδάκων νίψαν αἰ-
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γλᾶντα σώματα ῥοαῖς,

ἔβαν δὲ Πριαμίδαν ὑπερ-

βολαῖς λόγων δυσφρόνων

παραβαλλόμεναι, δολίοις δ’ ἕλε Κύπρις λόγοις,

τερπνοῖς μὲν ἀκοῦσαι,
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πικρὰν δὲ σύγχυσιν βίου Φρυγῶν πόλει

ταλαίνᾳ

περγάμοις τε Τροίας.

293

Χορός

ἀλλ’ εἴθ’ ὑπὲρ κεφαλὰν ἔβαλεν κακὸν

ἁ τεκοῦσά νιν Πάριν

πρὶν Ἰδαῖ-

ον κατοικίσαι λέπας·
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ὅτε νιν παρὰ θεσπεσίῳ δάφνᾳ

βόασε Κασάνδρα κτανεῖν,

μεγάλαν Πριάμου πόλεως λώβαν.

τίν’ οὐκ ἐπῆλθε, ποῖον οὐκ ἐλίσσετο

δαμογερόν-

των βρέφος φονεύειν;
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Χορός

οὔτ’ ἂν ἐπ’ Ἰλιάσι ζυγὸν ἤλυθε

δούλιον, σύ τ’ ἂν γύναι,

τυράννων

ἔσχες ἂν δόμων ἕδρας·

παρέλυσε δ’ ἂν Ἑλλάδος ἀλγεινοὺς

μόχθους οὓς ἀμφὶ Τροίαν
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δεκέτεις ἀλάληντο νέοι λόγχαις.

λέχη τ’ ἔρημ’ ἂν οὔποτ’ ἐξελείπετο,

καὶ τεκέων

ὀρφανοὶ γέροντες.

Translations (2)

Andromache Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.) — 274-305 focus

Chorus

Ah! what sorrows did the son of Zeus and Maia herald,

in the day he came to Ida’s glen, guiding that fair young trio of goddesses, all girded for the fray in bitter rivalry about their beauty,
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to the shepherd’s fold, where dwelt the youthful herdsman all alone by the hearth of his lonely hut.
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284

Chorus

Soon as they reached the wooded glen, in gushing mountain

springs they bathed¹ their dazzling skin, then sought the son of Priam, comparing their rival charms in more than rancorous phrase.² But Cypris won the day by her deceitful promises,
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sweet-sounding words, but fraught with ruthless overthrow to Phrygia’s hapless town and Ilium’s towers.
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293

Chorus

Would God his mother had smitten him a cruel death-blow³ on the head before he made his home on Ida’s

slopes, in the hour Cassandra, standing by the holy bay-tree, cried out, Slay him, for he will bring most grievous bane on Priam’s town. To every prince she went, to every elder sued
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for the babe’s destruction.
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Chorus

Ah! had they listened, Ilium’s daughters ne’er had felt the yoke of slavery, and⁴ thou, lady, hadst been established in the royal palace⁵; and Hellas had been freed of all the anguish

she suffered during⁶ those ten long years her sons went wandering, spear in hand, around the walls of Troy; brides had never been left desolate, nor hoary fathers childless.
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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.] Die Götter frauen, Here, Pallas und Aphrodite, welche der Götterbote Hermes zu dem Schöfe des Paris führte.

Euripides Andromache 274

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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