Euripides, The Trojan Women, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 809

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Mit Hellas' erlesenster Blüthe
810

Zog er daher, ob den Rossen erzurnt :

An des Simois breithinstromender Flut

Band er das Schiff, das die Meere durchwallt, mit den

Tauen des Spiegels,

Nahm aus der Barke die treffende Wehr, die Troja's

Könige sendet den Tod, und die thurmenden Mauern Apollons
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Mit rothem Gluthauche des Feuers verheerend, begrub er Troja's Land in Leid,

Und in dem doppelten Sturm warf zweimal die Dardanosstadt

Sein blutiger Speer in den Staub hin.

Zweite Strophe.

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)) — 799-858 focus

Χορός

μελισσοτρόφου Σαλαμῖνος ὦ βασιλεῦ Τελαμών,

νάσου περικύμονος οἰκήσας ἕδραν
800

τᾶς ἐπικεκλιμένας ὄχθοις ἱεροῖς, ἵνʼ ἐλαίας

πρῶτον ἔδειξε κλάδον γλαυκᾶς Ἀθάνα,

οὐράνιον στέφανον λιπαραῖσί τε κόσμον Ἀθήναις,

ἔβας ἔβας τῷ τοξοφόρῳ συναρι-

στεύων ἅμʼ Ἀλκμήνας γόνῳ
805

Ἴλιον Ἴλιον ἐκπέρσων πόλιν

ἁμετέραν τὸ πάροιθεν ὅτʼ ἔβας ἀφʼ Ἑλλάδος·

809

Χορός

ὅθʼ Ἑλλάδος ἄγαγε πρῶτον ἄνθος ἀτυζόμενος

πώλων, Σιμόεντι δʼ ἐπʼ εὐρείτᾳ πλάταν
810

ἔσχασε ποντοπόρον καὶ ναύδετʼ ἀνήψατο πρυμνᾶν

καὶ χερὸς εὐστοχίαν ἐξεῖλε ναῶν,

Λαομέδοντι φόνον· κανόνων δὲ τυκίσματα Φοίβου

πυρὸς φοίνικι πνοᾷ καθελὼν
815

Τροίας ἐπόρθησε χθόνα.

δὶς δὲ δυοῖν πιτύλοιν τείχη περὶ

Δαρδανίας φοινία κατέλυσεν αἰχμά.

820

Χορός

μάταν ἄρʼ, ὦ χρυσέαις ἐν οἰνοχόαις ἁβρὰ βαίνων,
820

Λαομεδόντιε παῖ,

Ζηνὸς ἔχεις κυλίκων πλήρωμα, καλλίσταν λατρείαν·

ἁ δέ σε γειναμένα πυρὶ δαίεται·
825

ἠιόνες δʼ ἅλιαι

ἴακχον οἰωνὸς οἷ-

ον τεκέων ὕπερ βοᾷ,
830

ᾇ μὲν εὐνάτορας, ᾇ δὲ παῖδας,

ᾇ δὲ ματέρας γεραιάς.

τὰ δὲ σὰ δροσόεντα λουτρὰ

γυμνασίων τε δρόμοι

βεβᾶσι, σὺ δὲ πρόσωπα νεα-
835

ρὰ χάρισι παρὰ Διὸς θρόνοις

καλλιγάλανα τρέφεις· Πριάμοιο δὲ γαῖαν

Ἑλλὰς ὤλεσʼ αἰχμά.

840

Χορός

Ἔρως Ἔρως, ὃς τὰ Δαρδάνεια μέλαθρά ποτʼ ἦλθες
840

οὐρανίδαισι μέλων,

ὡς τότε μὲν μεγάλως Τροίαν ἐπύργωσας, θεοῖσι

κῆδος ἀναψάμενος. τὸ μὲν οὖν Διὸς
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οὐκέτʼ ὄνειδος ἐρῶ·

τὸ τᾶς δὲ λευκοπτέρου

φίλιον Ἁμέρας βροτοῖς

φέγγος ὀλοὸν εἶδε γαῖαν,
850

εἶδε περγάμων ὄλεθρον,

τεκνοποιὸν ἔχουσα τᾶσδε

γᾶς πόσιν ἐν θαλάμοις,

ὃν ἀστέρων τέθριππος ἔλα-
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βε χρύσεος ὄχος ἀναρπάσας,

ἐλπίδα γᾷ πατρίᾳ μεγάλαν· τὰ θεῶν δὲ

φίλτρα φροῦδα Τροίᾳ.

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.)) — 799-855 focus

Chorus

O Telamon, King of Salamis , the feeding-ground of bees,

who have your home in a seagirt isle that lies near the holy hills where first Athena made the grey olive branch to appear, a crown for heavenly heads and a glory to happy Athens , you came, you came in knightly brotherhood
800

with that great archer, Alcmena’s son, to sack our city Ilium , in days gone by, on your advent from Hellas ;
805

809

Chorus

When he led the chosen flower of Hellas , vexed

for the steeds, ¹ and at the fair stream of Simois he stayed his sea-borne ship and fastened cables to the stern, and forth from the ship he took the bow his hand could deftly shoot, to be the doom of Laomedon; and with the ruddy breath of fire
810

he wasted the masonry squared by Phoebus’ line and chisel, and sacked the land of Troy ; so twice in two attacks has the blood-stained spear destroyed Dardania’s walls.
815

820

Chorus

In vain, it seems, you Phrygian boy ² pacing with dainty step among your golden chalices, do you fill high the cup of Zeus, a lovely service;
820

the land of your birth is being consumed by fire. The shore re-echoes to our cries; and, as a bird bewails its young,
825

so we bewail our husbands or our children, or our old mothers. The dew-fed springs where you bathed, the course where you trained,
830

are now no more; but you beside the throne of Zeus are sitting with a calm, sweet smile upon your fair young face, while the spear of Hellas has destroyed the land of Priam.
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840

Chorus

Ah! Love, Love, who once sought these Dardanian halls, deep-seated in the hearts of heavenly gods, how high you made Troy to tower in those days,
840

allying her with deities! But I will cease to urge reproaches against Zeus; for white-winged dawn, whose light is dear to man,
845

turned a baleful eye upon our land and watched the ruin of our citadel, though she had within her bridal bower a husband to give her children, ³ from this land,
850

whom once a chariot of gold spangled stars caught up and carried there, great source of hope to his native country ; but all the love the gods once had for Troy is passed away.
855

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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Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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