Euripides, The Trojan Women, ed. Gilbert Murray, 308

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Κασάνδρα

Ἄνεχε· πάρεχε.

φῶς φέρʼ, ὤ· σέβω· φλέγω — ἰδού, ἰδού —

λαμπάσι τόδʼ ἱερόν.

ὦ Ὑμέναιʼ ἄναξ·
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μακάριος ὁ γαμέτας·

μακαρία δʼ ἐγὼ βασιλικοῖς λέκτροις

κατʼ Ἄργος ἁ γαμουμένα.

Ὑμήν, ὦ Ὑμέναιʼ ἄναξ.

ἐπεὶ σύ, μᾶτερ, ἐπὶ δάκρυσι καὶ
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γόοισι τὸν θανόντα πατέρα πατρίδα τε

φίλαν καταστένουσʼ ἔχεις,

ἐγὼ δʼ ἐπὶ γάμοις ἐμοῖς

ἀναφλέγω πυρὸς φῶς
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ἐς αὐγάν, ἐς αἴγλαν,

διδοῦσʼ, ὦ Ὑμέναιε, σοί,

διδοῦσʼ, ὦ Ἑκάτα, φάος,

παρθένων ἐπὶ λέκτροις

ᾇ νόμος ἔχει.

πάλλε πόδα.
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αἰθέριον ἄναγε χορόν· εὐἅν, εὐοἵ·

ὡς ἐπὶ πατρὸς ἐμοῦ

μακαριωτάταις

τύχαις· ὁ χορὸς ὅσιος.

ἄγε σύ, Φοῖβε, νῦν· κατὰ σὸν ἐν δάφναις

ἀνάκτορον θυηπολῶ,
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Ὑμήν, ὦ Ὑμέναιʼ, Ὑμήν.

χόρευε, μᾶτερ, ἀναγέλασον·

ἕλισσε τᾷδʼ ἐκεῖσε μετʼ ἐμέθεν ποδῶν

φέρουσα φιλτάταν βάσιν.

βοάσαθʼ Ὑμέναιον, ὤ,
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μακαρίαις ἀοιδαῖς

ἰαχαῖς τε νύμφαν.

ἴτʼ, ὦ καλλίπεπλοι Φρυγῶν

κόραι, μέλπετʼ ἐμῶν γάμων

τὸν πεπρωμένον εὐνᾷ
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πόσιν ἐμέθεν.

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

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Current edition Perseus

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.)) — 308 focus

Cassandra

Bring the light, uplift and show its flame! I am doing the god’s service, see! see! making his shrine to glow with tapers bright.

O Hymen, lord of marriage! blessed is the bridegroom; blessed am I also, soon to wed a princely lord in Argos . Hail Hymen, lord of marriage!
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Since you, my mother, are busied with tears and lamentations in your mourning for my father’s death and for our country dear, I at my own nuptials
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am making this torch to blaze and show its light, giving to you, O Hymen, giving, O Hecate, a light, at the maiden’s wedding, as the custom is.
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Nimbly lift the foot; lead the dance on high, with cries of joy, as if to greet my father’s happy fate. The dance is sacred. Come, Phoebus, now, for it is in your temple
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among your bay-trees that I minister. Hail Hymen, god of marriage! Hymen, hail! Dance, mother, and laugh! link your steps with me, and circle in the delightful measure, now here, now there.
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Salute the bride on her wedding-day with hymns and cries of joy. Come, you maids of Phrygia in fair raiment, sing my marriage
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with the husband fate ordains that I should wed.
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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.) — 308 focus

Halt, gib Fackeln her; festlich erleuchten will¹

Ich dies Heiligthum!

Hymen, Gott Hymendos, sieh, o sieh

Den glücklichen Gemahl und mich Gluckliche,

Die nun nach Argos freien soll!
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Hymen, Gott Hymendos!

Weil du mit Thränen und mit Weheruf,

O Mutter, um den hingeschiednen Vater klagst,

Und klagst um's theure Vaterland :

Zund' ich zum Hochzeitseste mir²
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Der Flamme Licht an, daß es hell schimmre, weithin leuchte,

Hymen, Gott Hymendos, dir.

Gib die Fackel, o Hekate,³

Wie's bei der Tochter Vermählung

Die Sitte will!
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Schwing' in åtherischem Tanze den Fuß, (Evan, Ενό!)⁴

Als an dem glucklichsten Tag

Meines Vaters; hebe den Tanz,

(Er ist heilig,) heb' ihn an, Phobos, zu⁵

Deiner Priesterin Ehre⁶
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In deinem lorbeervollen Haus!

Hymen, Gott Hymendos!

Auf, tanze, Mutter, hebe deinen Fuß;⁷

Hierhin und dorthin wende, schwinge, mir gesellt,

Der Füße lieben holden Schritt!
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Lobpreiset ihn, den Hymendos, oh!

Mit seligen Gesängen,

Mit Festruf die Jungfrau!⁸

Kommt, ihr phrygischen Madchen in

Schönem Gewand, besingt mein Fest,
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Singt, den uns das Geschick gab,

Den Bräutigam!

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