Euripides, The Trojan Women, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 292

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Chorus Leader

Your fate, royal mistress, now you know; but for me, what Helene or Achaean is master of my destiny?

Talthybius

Go, servants, and bring Cassandra forth to me here

at once, that I may place her in our captain’s hands, and then conduct to the rest of the chiefs the captives each has had assigned. Ha! what is the blaze of torches there within? What are they doing? Are they firing the chambers,
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because they must leave this land and be carried away to Argos ? Are they setting themselves aflame in their longing for death? Truly the free bear their troubles in cases like this with a stiff neck. Open up! lest their deed, which suits them well
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but finds small favor with the Achaeans, bring blame on me.
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Hecuba

It is not that they are setting anything ablaze, but my child Cassandra , frenzied maid, comes rushing wildly here.

The Trojan Women. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.

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

Editions (1)

Τρῳάδες Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962)) — 292 focus

Χορός

τὸ μὲν σὸν οἶσθα, πότνια, τὰς δʼ ἐμὰς τύχας

τίς ἆρʼ Ἀχαιῶν ἢ τίς Ἑλλήνων ἔχει;

Ταλθύβιος

ἴτʼ, ἐκκομίζειν δεῦρο Κασάνδραν χρεὼν

ὅσον τάχιστα, δμῶες, ὡς στρατηλάτῃ
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ἐς χεῖρα δούς νιν, εἶτα τὰς εἰληγμένας

καὶ τοῖσιν ἄλλοις αἰχμαλωτίδων ἄγω.

ἔα· τί πεύκης ἔνδον αἴθεται σέλας;

πιμπρᾶσιν — ἢ τί δρῶσι — Τρῳάδες μυχούς,

ὡς ἐξάγεσθαι τῆσδε μέλλουσαι χθονὸς
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πρὸς Ἄργος, αὑτῶν τʼ ἐκπυροῦσι σώματα

θανεῖν θέλουσαι; κάρτα τοι τοὐλεύθερον

ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις δυσλόφως φέρει κακά.

ἄνοιγʼ ἄνοιγε, μὴ τὸ ταῖσδε πρόσφορον

ἐχθρὸν δʼ Ἀχαιοῖς εἰς ἔμʼ αἰτίαν βάλῃ.
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Ἑκάβη

οὐκ ἔστιν, οὐ πιμπρᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ παῖς ἐμὴ

μαινὰς θοάζει δεῦρο Κασάνδρα δρόμῳ.

Translations (2)

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.)

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.) — 292 focus

Dein Schicksal, Herrin, weißt du; doch an welchen Mann
290

Aus Hellas oder Achia bannt mich mein Geschick?¹

Talthybios.

Auf! Schleunig führet aus dem Zelt Kassandra mir

Hierher, o Diener, daß ich sie dem Könige

Gleich überantwort' und sodann den Andern auch

Die Frauen bringe, die das Loos für sie bestimmt.²
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Ha, seht! Was flammt dort innen Fackellicht empor?

Die Fraun verbrennen (oder was beginnen sie?)

Die Zelte, weil ihr Schicksal sie von Ilion

Wegführt nach Argos? Wollen wohl sich selbst den Tod

In der Flamme geben? Traun, ein freiheitstolzes Herz,
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Wie diese, fugt sich straubend nur in solches Leid.

Flugs öffne weit die Pforten, daß, was ihnen frommt,

Dem Heere schadet, nicht als meine Schuld erscheint!

Hekabe.

Sie sengen nicht, du irrtest; nur die Rasende,

Kassandra, meine Tochter, kommt dahergeſturmt.
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Kassandra mit Fackeln in den Händen. Hekabe. Talthybios. Der Chor.

Euripides The Trojan Women 292

Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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Chorus Leader

Your fate, royal mistress, now you know; but for me, what Helene or Achaean is master of my destiny?

Hecuba

It is not that they are setting anything ablaze, but my child Cassandra , frenzied maid, comes rushing wildly here.

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Χορός

τὸ μὲν σὸν οἶσθα, πότνια, τὰς δʼ ἐμὰς τύχας

τίς ἆρʼ Ἀχαιῶν ἢ τίς Ἑλλήνων ἔχει;

Ἑκάβη

οὐκ ἔστιν, οὐ πιμπρᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ παῖς ἐμὴ

μαινὰς θοάζει δεῦρο Κασάνδρα δρόμῳ.

Dein Schicksal, Herrin, weißt du; doch an welchen Mann
290

Aus Hellas oder Achia bannt mich mein Geschick?¹

Hekabe.

Sie sengen nicht, du irrtest; nur die Rasende,

Kassandra, meine Tochter, kommt dahergeſturmt.
305
Kassandra mit Fackeln in den Händen. Hekabe. Talthybios. Der Chor.

Kassandra.

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Chorus Leader Your fate, royal mistress, now you know; but for me, what Helene or Achaean is master of my destiny?

Hecuba It is not that they are setting anything ablaze, but my child Cassandra , frenzied maid, comes rushing wildly here.

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Χορός τὸ μὲν σὸν οἶσθα, πότνια, τὰς δʼ ἐμὰς τύχας τίς ἆρʼ Ἀχαιῶν ἢ τίς Ἑλλήνων ἔχει;

Ἑκάβη οὐκ ἔστιν, οὐ πιμπρᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ παῖς ἐμὴ μαινὰς θοάζει δεῦρο Κασάνδρα δρόμῳ.

Dein Schicksal, Herrin, weißt du; doch an welchen Mann 290 Aus Hellas oder Achia bannt mich mein Geschick? 1

Hekabe. Sie sengen nicht, du irrtest; nur die Rasende, Kassandra, meine Tochter, kommt dahergeſturmt. 305 Kassandra mit Fackeln in den Händen. Hekabe. Talthybios. Der Chor.

Kassandra.

Stable identifiers

Chorus Leader

Your fate, royal mistress, now you know; but for me, what Helene or Achaean is master of my destiny?

Hecuba

It is not that they are setting anything ablaze, but my child Cassandra , frenzied maid, comes rushing wildly here.

Χορός

τὸ μὲν σὸν οἶσθα, πότνια, τὰς δʼ ἐμὰς τύχας

τίς ἆρʼ Ἀχαιῶν ἢ τίς Ἑλλήνων ἔχει;

Ἑκάβη

οὐκ ἔστιν, οὐ πιμπρᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ παῖς ἐμὴ

μαινὰς θοάζει δεῦρο Κασάνδρα δρόμῳ.

Dein Schicksal, Herrin, weißt du; doch an welchen Mann
290

Aus Hellas oder Achia bannt mich mein Geschick?¹

Hekabe.

Sie sengen nicht, du irrtest; nur die Rasende,

Kassandra, meine Tochter, kommt dahergeſturmt.
305
Kassandra mit Fackeln in den Händen. Hekabe. Talthybios. Der Chor.