Euripides, Heracles, ed. Gilbert Murray, 781

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Χορός

Ἰσμήνʼ ὦ στεφαναφόρει,

ξεσταί θʼ ἑπταπύλου πόλεως

ἀναχορεύσατʼ ἀγυιαί,

Δίρκα θʼ ἁ καλλιρρέεθρος,

σύν τʼ Ἀσωπιάδες κόραι,
785

πατρὸς ὕδωρ βᾶτε λιποῦσαι συναοιδοί,

Νύμφαι, τὸν Ἡρακλέους

καλλίνικον ἀγῶνα.

Πυθίου δενδρῶτι πέτρα
790

Μουσῶν θʼ Ἑλικωνιάδων

δώματʼ, ὤ,

ἥξετʼ εὐγαθεῖ κελάδῳ

ἐμὰν πόλιν, ἐμὰ τείχη,

Σπαρτῶν ἵνα γένος ἔφανε

χαλκασπίδων λόχος, ὃς γᾶν
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τέκνων τέκνοις μεταμείβει,

Θήβαις ἱερὸν φῶς.

Heracles. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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Ἡρακλῆς (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962))

Translations (3)

Heracles Mad Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 781 focus

Chorus

O Ismenus, deck yourself with garlands! Break forth into dancing, you paved streets of our seven-gated city! come Dirce, fount of waters fair;

and joined with her you nymphs of Asopus, come from your father’s waves to add your voices to our hymn, the victor’s prize that Heracles has won.
785

O Pythian rock with forests crowned, and haunts of the Muses on Helicon! you will come to my city and her walls with cries of joy; where the earth-born crop sprang to view,
790

a warrior-host with shields of brass, who are handing on their realm to children’s children, a divine light to Thebes .
795

Hercules (OCR draft) Experimental (Hercules. 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, 1852; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 3, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1852. 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.) — 781 focus

Auf, Ismenos, bekränze dich!

Gassen der siebenthorigen Stadt,

Eilt, ihr schmucken, zum Festreih'n!
760

Auch du, schonslutende Dirka,

Und o Tochter Asopos' ihr,¹

Eilet hervor, steigt aus dem Strome

Des Vaters, und feiert

Im Lied, den Nymphen gesellt,
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Den Siegeskampf des Herakles!

Pytho's waldiger Fels und du,

Helikonischer Musen Siz, preiset hoch,

Preist in fröhlich hallendem Laut²

Der Theber Stadt, die Mauern,
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Wo die Saat der Männer entsproß,³

Die Schaar mit den ehernen Schilden,

Die Söhnen der Söhne das Land gab,

Ein Licht den Kadmeiern!

Zweite Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Heracles 781

ed. Gilbert Murray

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