Euripides, The Trojan Women, ed. Gilbert Murray, 820

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Χορός

μάταν ἄρʼ, ὦ χρυσέαις ἐν οἰνοχόαις ἁβρὰ βαίνων,
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Λαομεδόντιε παῖ,

Ζηνὸς ἔχεις κυλίκων πλήρωμα, καλλίσταν λατρείαν·

ἁ δέ σε γειναμένα πυρὶ δαίεται·
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ἠιόνες δʼ ἅλιαι

ἴακχον οἰωνὸς οἷ-

ον τεκέων ὕπερ βοᾷ,
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ᾇ μὲν εὐνάτορας, ᾇ δὲ παῖδας,

ᾇ δὲ ματέρας γεραιάς.

τὰ δὲ σὰ δροσόεντα λουτρὰ

γυμνασίων τε δρόμοι

βεβᾶσι, σὺ δὲ πρόσωπα νεα-
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ρὰ χάρισι παρὰ Διὸς θρόνοις

καλλιγάλανα τρέφεις· Πριάμοιο δὲ γαῖαν

Ἑλλὰς ὤλεσʼ αἰχμά.

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.)) — 820 focus

Chorus

In vain, it seems, you Phrygian boy ¹ pacing with dainty step among your golden chalices, do you fill high the cup of Zeus, a lovely service;
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the land of your birth is being consumed by fire. The shore re-echoes to our cries; and, as a bird bewails its young,
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so we bewail our husbands or our children, or our old mothers. The dew-fed springs where you bathed, the course where you trained,
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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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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.) — 820 focus

So füllst du denn, der du sanft
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Bei goldenen Bechern umhergehst,

Troischer Könige Sohn, füllst die Pokale des Zeus¹

(O schönster Dienst!) umsonst mit Nektar.

Die dich geboren, die Stadt, lodert in Flammen auf,

Und die Gestade des Meeres umher²
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Jammern laut, wie der Vogel um der Kinder Tod,

Dort um Ehegatten, hier

Um verlorne Söhne, dort um greise Mütter.

Hin sind dir die thauigen Båder,

Hin auf den Bahnen der Lauf:
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Doch du weidest in Wonnen dein

Jugendlich Angesicht an Zeus' hohem Thron,

Reizend und still, und des Priamos Fluren erlagen

Argos' tapfrer Lanze!

Zweite Gegenstrophe.

Euripides The Trojan Women 820

ed. Gilbert Murray

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