Euripides, The Trojan Women, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 1081

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Theuerster, du, mein Gemahl,

Schweifst ungebadet, grablos,¹
1070

Umher am Strand des Kokytos; mich entführt das Schiff

Ueber das Meer auf Schwingen des Ruders

Zur roßprangenden Flur, wo die steinernen

Kyklopenmauern himmelan sich heben.²

Der Kinder Schaar am Thore weint
1075

Und stöhnt in bittrer Seelenangst,³

Und ruft und ruft: Mutter, weh mir!

Allein führt mich Argos' Heer,

Allein, fern' hinweg aus deinem Blick,

Führt mich im blaulichen Meerschiffe zur heiligen Flur
1080

Salamis' oder zur Burg, ragend am Doppelgestad'⁴

Ephyre's, wo sich das Thor

Erschließt von Pelops' Reiche.⁵

Zweite Gegenstrophe.

The Trojan Women. Euripides. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1852; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)

Τρῳάδες Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962)) — 1060-1117 focus

Χορός

οὕτω δὴ τὸν ἐν Ἰλίῳ
1060

ναὸν καὶ θυόεντα βω-

μὸν προύδωκας Ἀχαιοῖς,

ὦ Ζεῦ, καὶ πελάνων φλόγα

σμύρνης αἰθερίας τε κα-

πνὸν καὶ Πέργαμον ἱερὰν
1065

Ἰδαῖά τʼ Ἰδαῖα κισσοφόρα νάπη

χιόνι κατάρυτα ποταμίᾳ

τέρμονα πρωτόβολόν θʼ ἁλίῳ,

τὰν καταλαμπομέναν ζαθέαν θεράπναν.
1070

1071

Χορός

φροῦδαί σοι θυσίαι χορῶν τʼ

εὔφημοι κέλαδοι κατʼ ὄρ-

φναν τε παννυχίδες θεῶν,

χρυσέων τε ξοάνων τύποι

Φρυγῶν τε ζάθεοι σελᾶ-
1075

ναι συνδώδεκα πλήθει.

μέλει μέλει μοι τάδʼ εἰ φρονεῖς, ἄναξ,

οὐράνιον ἕδρανον ἐπιβεβὼς

αἰθέρα τε πτόλεως ὀλομένας,

ἃν πυρὸς αἰθομένα κατέλυσεν ὁρμά.
1080

1081

Χορός

ὦ φίλος ὦ πόσι μοι,

σὺ μὲν φθίμενος ἀλαίνεις

ἄθαπτος ἄνυδρος, ἐμὲ δὲ πόντιον σκάφος
1085

ἀίσσον πτεροῖσι πορεύσει

ἱππόβοτον Ἄργος, ἵνα τείχεα

λάινα Κυκλώπιʼ οὐράνια νέμονται.

τέκνων δὲ πλῆθος ἐν πύλαις

δάκρυσι κατᾴορα στένει·
1090

βοᾷ βοᾷ·

Μᾶτερ, ὤμοι, μόναν δή μʼ Ἀχαιοὶ κομί-

ζουσι σέθεν ἀπʼ ὀμμάτων

κυανέαν ἐπὶ ναῦν

εἰναλίαισι πλάταις
1095

ἢ Σαλαμῖνʼ ἱερὰν

ἢ δίπορον κορυφὰν

Ἴσθμιον, ἔνθα πύλας

Πέλοπος ἔχουσιν ἕδραι.

1100

Χορός

εἴθʼ ἀκάτου Μενέλα
1100

μέσον πέλαγος ἰούσας,

δίπαλτον ἱερὸν ἀνὰ μέσον πλατᾶν πέσοι

Αἰγαίου κεραυνοφαὲς πῦρ,

Ἰλιόθεν ὅτε με πολύδακρυν
1105

Ἑλλάδι λάτρευμα γᾶθεν ἐξορίζει,

χρύσεα δʼ ἔνοπτρα, παρθένων

χάριτας, ἔχουσα τυγχάνει

Διὸς κόρα·

μηδὲ γαῖάν ποτʼ ἔλθοι Λάκαιναν πατρῷ-
1110

όν τε θάλαμον ἑστίας,

μηδὲ πόλιν Πιτάνας

χαλκόπυλόν τε θεάν,

δύσγαμον αἶσχος ἑλὼν

Ἑλλάδι τᾷ μεγάλᾳ
1115

καὶ Σιμοεντιάσιν

μέλεα πάθεα ῥοῇσιν.

Translations (2)

The Trojan Women Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1060-1115 focus

Chorus

So then you have delivered into Achaea ’s hand, O Zeus, your shrine in Ilium and your fragrant altar, the offerings of burnt sacrifice with smoke of myrrh to heaven uprising,
1060

and holy Pergamos , and glens of Ida tangled with the ivy’s growth, where rills of melting snow pour down their flood, a holy sun-lit land that bounds the world
1065

and takes the god’s first rays!
1070

1071

Chorus

Gone are your sacrifices! gone the dancer’s cheerful shout! gone the vigils of the gods as night closed in! your images of carven gold are now no more;

and Phrygia ’s holy festivals, twelve times a year, at each full moon, are ended now. It is this, it is this that fills me with anxious thought whether you, lord, seated on the sky, your heavenly throne, care at all that my city is destroyed,
1075

a prey to the furious fiery blast.
1080

1081

Chorus

Ah! my loved husband, you are a wandering spectre;

unwashed, unburied lies your corpse, while over the sea the ship sped by wings will carry me to Argos , land of steeds, where stand Cyclopian walls of stone reaching to heaven. There in the gate the children gather,
1085

and weep their piteous lamentation; they cry, they cry: Mother, alas! torn from your sight, the Achaeans bear me away from you to their dark ship
1090

to row me over the deep to sacred Salamis or to the hill on the Isthmus, that overlooks two seas, the seat that holds the gates of Pelops.
1095

1100

Chorus

Oh may the sacred blazing thunderbolt of the Aegean , hurled in might, smite the ship of Menelaus full in the middle, on its way in mid-sea,
1100

since he is carrying me away in bitter sorrow from the shores of Ilium to be a slave in Hellas , while the daughter of Zeus still keeps her golden mirrors, delight of maidens’ hearts.
1105

Never may he reach his home in Laconia or his father’s hearth and home, nor come to the town of Pitane ¹ or the temple of the goddess ² with the gates of bronze, having taken as his captive the one whose marriage brought disgrace on Hellas through its length and breadth and woful anguish
1110

on the streams of Simois!
1115

The Trojan Dames (OCR draft) Experimental (The Trojan Dames. 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

The Trojan Women

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] ἄνυδρος, δ. ἱ. ἐ λελεμένος, ungebadet, ungewaschen. Man wusch die Todten, bevor sie bestattet wurden.

2. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] S. zu Iphigeneia in Aulis V. 149.

3. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] δάκρυσι κατάορα ςένει. κατήορος, κατάορος, wie das römische suspensus, in der Bedeutung von dem durch Furcht unsicher gemachten Zustande der Seele, deren Gleichgewicht gestört ist.

4. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Ephyre's Doppelgestade. Korinthos, das an zwei Meeren liegt (daher bimaris Corinthus bei Horaz), hieß in alten Zeiten Ephyre.

5. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Das Reich des Pelops, der Peloponnes, wohin der Weg über die Landenge führt, auf welcher Korinthos liegt.

Euripides The Trojan Women 1081

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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