Euripides, The Trojan Women, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1081

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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.

The Trojan Women. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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

Translations (3)

The Trojan Women Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1081 focus

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

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.) — 1081 focus

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.

Euripides The Trojan Women 1081

ed. Gilbert Murray

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