Euripides, Andromache, ed. Gilbert Murray, 103

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Ἀνδρομάχη

Ἰλίῳ αἰπεινᾷ Πάρις οὐ γάμον ἀλλά τιν’ ἄταν

ἠγάγετ’ εὐναίαν εἰς θαλάμους Ἑλέναν.

ἇς ἕνεκ’, ὦ Τροία, δορὶ καὶ πυρὶ δηιάλωτον
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εἷλέ σ’ ὁ χιλιόναυς Ἑλλάδος ὠκὺς Ἄρης

καὶ τὸν ἐμὸν μελέας πόσιν Ἕκτορα, τὸν περὶ τείχη

εἵλκυσε διφρεύων παῖς ἁλίας Θέτιδος·

αὐτὰ δ’ ἐκ θαλάμων ἀγόμαν ἐπὶ θῖνα θαλάσσας,

δουλοσύναν στυγερὰν ἀμφιβαλοῦσα κάρᾳ.
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πολλὰ δὲ δάκρυά μοι κατέβα χροός, ἁνίκ’ ἔλειπον

ἄστυ τε καὶ θαλάμους καὶ πόσιν ἐν κονίαις.

ὤμοι ἐγὼ μελέα, τί μ’ ἐχρῆν ἔτι φέγγος ὁρᾶσθαι

Ἑρμιόνας δούλαν; ἇς ὕπο τειρομένα

πρὸς τόδ’ ἄγαλμα θεᾶς ἱκέτις περὶ χεῖρε βαλοῦσα
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τάκομαι ὡς πετρίνα πιδακόεσσα λιβάς.

Andromache. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1902.

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Ἀνδρομάχη (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.)

Translations (3)

Andromache Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.) — 103 focus

Andromache

’Twas no bride Paris took with him to the towers of Ilium, but a curse to his bed when he brought Helen to her bower.

For her sake, O Troy, did eager warriors, sailing from Hellas in a thousand ships, capture and make thee a prey to fire and sword; and the son of sea-born Thetis mounted on his chariot dragged my husband Hector round the walls, ah woe is me! while I was hurried from my chamber to the beach,
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with slavery’s hateful pall upon me. And many a tear I shed as I left my city, my bridal bower, and my husband in the dust. Woe, woe is me! why should I prolong my life, to serve Hermione? Her cruelty it is that drives me hither
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to the image of the goddess to throw my suppliant arms about it, melting to tears as doth a spring that gushes from the rock.
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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.)

No corresponding passage available

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1845; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (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.) — 103 focus

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.

Euripides Andromache 103

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