Euripides, Heracles, ed. Gilbert Murray, 798

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Χορός

ὦ λέκτρων δύο συγγενεῖς

εὐναί, θνατογενοῦς τε καὶ

Διός, ὃς ἦλθεν ἐς εὐνὰν
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Νύμφας τᾶς Περσηίδος· ὡς

πιστόν μοι τὸ παλαιὸν ἤ-

δη λέχος, ὦ Ζεῦ, σὸν ἐπʼ οὐκ ἐλπίδι φάνθη,

λαμπρὰν δʼ ἔδειξʼ ὁ χρόνος
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τὰν Ἡρακλέος ἀλκάν·

γᾶς ὃς ἐξέβα θαλάμων

Πλούτωνος δῶμα λιπὼν

νέρτερον.

κρείσσων μοι τύραννος ἔφυς

ἢ δυσγένειʼ ἀνάκτων,
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ἃ νῦν ἐσορᾶν ἔφανε

ξιφηφόρων ἐς ἀγώνων

ἅμιλλαν, εἰ τὸ δίκαιον

θεοῖς ἔτʼ ἀρέσκει.

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.)) — 798 focus

Chorus

All hail the marriage! in which two bridegrooms shared; the one, a mortal;

the other, Zeus, who came to wed the bride sprung from Perseus; for that marriage of yours, O Zeus, in days gone by has been proved to me a true story beyond all expectation;
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and time has shown the brightness of Heracles’ strength; for he emerged from caverns beneath the earth after leaving Pluto’s halls below. To me you are a worthier lord
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than that base-born king, who now lets it be plainly seen in this struggle between armed warriors, whether justice still finds favor in heaven.
810

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.) — 798 focus

Ihr verbrüderten Ståtten, wo
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Ruht' ein Sterblich geborener

Und Zeus, der in das Lager

Der perseïschen Nymphe kam!¹

Denn dein alter Verein mit ihr,²

(Was ich, o Zeus, nimmer gedacht)
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Nun ward er mir glaublich,

Und glänzend zeigte die Zeit

Den Heldenmuth des Herakles,

Der aus der Erde Kammern hervor,

Aus Plutons nächtlichem Haus heimgekehrt!
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Du bist uns ein edlerer Fürst,

Als dieser feige König.

So ward jezt deutlich erkannt³

Im Kampfe blizender Schwerter,⁴

Ob noch es gefalle den Göttern,
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Das Recht zu behüten.

Iris und Lyssa erscheinen über dem Hause.

Ha, ha!

Euripides Heracles 798

ed. Gilbert Murray

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