Euripides, The Trojan Women, ed. Gilbert Murray, 511

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Χορός

ἀμφί μοι Ἴλιον, ὦ

Μοῦσα, καινῶν ὕμνων

ἄεισον ἐν δακρύοις ᾠδὰν ἐπικήδειον·

νῦν γὰρ μέλος ἐς Τροίαν ἰαχήσω,
515

τετραβάμονος ὡς ὑπʼ ἀπήνας

Ἀργείων ὀλόμαν τάλαινα δοριάλωτος,

ὅτʼ ἔλιπον ἵππον οὐράνια

βρέμοντα χρυσεοφάλαρον ἔνο-
520

πλον ἐν πύλαις Ἀχαιοί·

ἀνὰ δʼ ἐβόασεν λεὼς

Τρῳάδος ἀπὸ πέτρας σταθείς·

Ἴτʼ, ὦ πεπαυμένοι πόνων,

τόδʼ ἱερὸν ἀνάγετε ξόανον
525

Ἰλιάδι Διογενεῖ κόρᾳ.

τίς οὐκ ἔβα νεανίδων,

τίς οὐ γεραιὸς ἐκ δόμων;

κεχαρμένοι δʼ ἀοιδαῖς

δόλιον ἔσχον ἄταν.
530

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.)) — 511 focus

Chorus

Sing me, Muse, a tale of Troy , a funeral dirge in strains unheard as yet, with tears;

for now I will uplift for Troy a piteous chant, telling how I met my doom and fell a wretched captive to the Argives by reason of a four-footed beast that moved on wheels, when Achaea ’s sons left at our.gates that horse,
515

loud rumbling to the sky, with its trappings of gold and its freight of warriors; and our people cried out as they stood upon the rocky citadel, Up now, you whose toil is over,
520

and drag this sacred image to the shrine of the Zeus-born maiden, goddess of our Ilium ! Forth from his house came every youth and every grey-head too; and with songs of joy
525

they took the fatal snare within.
530

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.) — 511 focus

Hebe von Ilion mir,

Muse, neuer Hymnen
510

Trauervollen Gesang

Strophe.

Der Chor.

Bei stromenden Thränen an!

Denn jekt will ich um Troja laut

Im Lied klagen,

Wie dort das Gespann der Achåer,
515

Das vierfüßige, mir

Unseligen schuf Verderben,

Da sie das himmelan strebende Roß,¹

Das waffenschwangre mit goldnem Zaum,

Am Skåerthore ließen.
520

Und auf dem Fels Troja's stand

Droben das Volk, und rief herab:

„Kommt, ihr, von euren Müh'n erlöst,

Führt dieses heilig hehre Bild

zu der ilischen Tochter des Zeus herauf!"
525

Und welcher Jungling eilte nicht,²

Verließ das Haus nicht? Welcher Greis?

Voll Sangeslust empfing man

Ein trugvolles Unheil.

Gegenstrophe.

Euripides The Trojan Women 511

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Hebe von Ilion mir,

Muse, neuer Hymnen
510

Trauervollen Gesang

Strophe.

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Hebe von Ilion mir,

Muse, neuer Hymnen
510

Trauervollen Gesang

Strophe.