Euripides, Hecuba, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 629

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Mein Haupt mußt Ungemach,

Mein Haupt must', ach! Verderben treffen,

Als auf Höhen des Ida Paris

Zuerst Fichtenstämme gefällt,

In die wogende See hinauszusteuern
625

Zu der Helena Raub, der Holdseligsten, die mit goldenem Licht

Helios' Aug' anstrahlt.

Gegenstrophe.

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

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1841; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 1, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1841. 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)

Ἑκάβη Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902. (Reprinted 1906-1974)) — 629-656 focus

Χορός

ἐμοὶ χρῆν συμφοράν,

ἐμοὶ χρῆν πημονὰν γενέσθαι,
630

Ἰδαίαν ὅτε πρῶτον ὕλαν

Ἀλέξανδρος εἰλατίναν

ἐτάμεθʼ, ἅλιον ἐπʼ οἶδμα ναυστολήσων

Ἑλένας ἐπὶ λέκτρα, τὰν
635

καλλίσταν ὁ χρυσοφαὴς

Ἅλιος αὐγάζει.

638

Χορός

πόνοι γὰρ καὶ πόνων

ἀνάγκαι κρείσσονες κυκλοῦνται
640

κοινὸν δʼ ἐξ ἰδίας ἀνοίας

κακὸν τᾷ Σιμουντίδι γᾷ

ὀλέθριον ἔμολε συμφορά τʼ ἀπʼ ἄλλων.

ἐκρίθη δʼ ἔρις, ἃν ἐν Ἴ-

δᾳ κρίνει τρισσὰς μακάρων
645

παῖδας ἀνὴρ βούτας,

648

Χορός

ἐπὶ δορὶ καὶ φόνῳ καὶ ἐμῶν μελάθρων λώβᾳ·

στένει δὲ καί τις ἀμφὶ τὸν εὔροον Εὐρώταν
650

Λάκαινα πολυδάκρυτος ἐν δόμοις κόρα,

πολιάν τʼ ἐπὶ κρᾶτα μάτηρ

τέκνων θανόντων

τίθεται χέρα δρύπτεται παρειάν,
655

δίαιμον ὄνυχα τιθεμένα σπαραγμοῖς.

Translations (2)

Hecuba Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 629-655 focus

Chorus

Woe and tribulation

were made my lot in life, when Alexander first cut his beams of pine in Ida’s woods, to sail across the heaving sea
630

in quest of Helen’s bed, loveliest woman on whom the sun-god turns his golden eye.
635

638

Chorus

For here begins trouble’s cycle,

and, worse than that, relentless fate; and from one man’s folly came a universal curse, bringing death to the land of Simois, with trouble from an alien shore. The strife the shepherd decided
640

on Ida, between three daughters of the blessed gods,
645

648

Chorus

brought as its result war and bloodshed and the ruin of my home;

and many a Spartan maiden too is weeping bitter tears in her halls on the banks of fair Eurotas, and many a mother whose sons are slain,
650

is smiting her gray head and tearing her cheeks, making her nails bloody in the furrowed gash.
655

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

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Euripides Hecuba 629

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Mein Haupt mußt Ungemach,

Mein Haupt must', ach! Verderben treffen,

Als auf Höhen des Ida Paris

Zuerst Fichtenstämme gefällt,

In die wogende See hinauszusteuern
625

Zu der Helena Raub, der Holdseligsten, die mit goldenem Licht

Helios' Aug' anstrahlt.

Gegenstrophe.

Current edition Experimental

Chorus

Woe and tribulation

were made my lot in life, when Alexander first cut his beams of pine in Ida’s woods, to sail across the heaving sea
630

in quest of Helen’s bed, loveliest woman on whom the sun-god turns his golden eye.
635

Chorus

For here begins trouble’s cycle,

and, worse than that, relentless fate; and from one man’s folly came a universal curse, bringing death to the land of Simois, with trouble from an alien shore. The strife the shepherd decided
640

on Ida, between three daughters of the blessed gods,
645

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Mein Haupt mußt Ungemach, Mein Haupt must', ach! Verderben treffen, Als auf Höhen des Ida Paris Zuerst Fichtenstämme gefällt, In die wogende See hinauszusteuern 625 Zu der Helena Raub, der Holdseligsten, die mit goldenem Licht Helios' Aug' anstrahlt. Gegenstrophe.

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Chorus Woe and tribulation were made my lot in life, when Alexander first cut his beams of pine in Ida’s woods, to sail across the heaving sea 630 in quest of Helen’s bed, loveliest woman on whom the sun-god turns his golden eye. 635

Chorus For here begins trouble’s cycle, and, worse than that, relentless fate; and from one man’s folly came a universal curse, bringing death to the land of Simois, with trouble from an alien shore. The strife the shepherd decided 640 on Ida, between three daughters of the blessed gods, 645

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Mein Haupt mußt Ungemach,

Mein Haupt must', ach! Verderben treffen,

Als auf Höhen des Ida Paris

Zuerst Fichtenstämme gefällt,

In die wogende See hinauszusteuern
625

Zu der Helena Raub, der Holdseligsten, die mit goldenem Licht

Helios' Aug' anstrahlt.

Gegenstrophe.

Chorus

Woe and tribulation

were made my lot in life, when Alexander first cut his beams of pine in Ida’s woods, to sail across the heaving sea
630

in quest of Helen’s bed, loveliest woman on whom the sun-god turns his golden eye.
635

Chorus

For here begins trouble’s cycle,

and, worse than that, relentless fate; and from one man’s folly came a universal curse, bringing death to the land of Simois, with trouble from an alien shore. The strife the shepherd decided
640

on Ida, between three daughters of the blessed gods,
645