Euripides, The Trojan Women, ed. Gilbert Murray, 512-567

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Χορός

ἀμφί μοι Ἴλιον, ὦ

Μοῦσα, καινῶν ὕμνων

ἄεισον ἐν δακρύοις ᾠδὰν ἐπικήδειον·

νῦν γὰρ μέλος ἐς Τροίαν ἰαχήσω,
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τετραβάμονος ὡς ὑπʼ ἀπήνας

Ἀργείων ὀλόμαν τάλαινα δοριάλωτος,

ὅτʼ ἔλιπον ἵππον οὐράνια

βρέμοντα χρυσεοφάλαρον ἔνο-
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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.
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531

Χορός

πᾶσα δὲ γέννα Φρυγῶν

πρὸς πύλας ὡρμάθη,

πεύκᾳ ἐν οὐρεΐᾳ ξεστὸν λόχον Ἀργείων

καὶ Δαρδανίας ἄταν θέᾳ δώσων,
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χάριν ἄζυγος ἀμβροτοπώλου·

κλωστοῦ δʼ ἀμφιβόλοις λίνοιο ναὸς ὡσεὶ

σκάφος κελαινόν, εἰς ἕδρανα

λάινα δάπεδά τε φόνια πατρί-
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δι Παλλάδος θέσαν θεᾶς.

ἐπὶ δὲ πόνῳ καὶ χαρᾷ

νύχιον ἐπεὶ κνέφας παρῆν,

Λίβυς τε λωτὸς ἐκτύπει

Φρύγιά τε μέλεα, παρθένοι δʼ
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ἀέριον ἀνὰ κρότον ποδῶν

βοὰν ἔμελπον εὔφρονʼ, ἐν

δόμοις δὲ παμφαὲς σέλας

πυρὸς μέλαιναν αἴγλαν

ἄκος ἔδωκεν ὕπνῳ.
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551

Χορός

ἐγὼ δὲ τὰν ὀρεστέραν

τότʼ ἀμφὶ μέλαθρα παρθένον

Διὸς κόραν ἐμελπόμαν

χοροῖσι· φοινία δʼ ἀνὰ
555

πτόλιν βοὰ κατεῖχε Περ-

γάμων ἕδρας· βρέφη δὲ φίλι-

α περὶ πέπλους ἔβαλλε μα-

τρὶ χεῖρας ἐπτοημένας·

λόχου δʼ ἐξέβαινʼ Ἄρης,
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κόρας ἔργα Παλλάδος.

σφαγαὶ δʼ ἀμφιβώμιοι

Φρυγῶν, ἔν τε δεμνίοις

καράτομος ἐρημία

νεανίδων στέφανον ἔφερεν
565

Ἑλλάδι κουροτρόφον,

Φρυγῶν πατρίδι πένθη.

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.)) — 512-565 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,
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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,
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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
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they took the fatal snare within.
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Chorus

Then hastened all the race of Phrygia to the gates, to make the goddess a present of an Argive band ambushed in the polished mountain-pine,

Dardania’s ruin, a welcome gift to be to her, the virgin queen of deathless steeds; and with nooses of cord they dragged it, as it had been a ship’s dark hull, to the stone-built
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temple of the goddess Pallas, and set it on that floor so soon to drink our country’s blood. But, as they labored and made merry, came on the pitchy night; loud the Libyan flute was sounding,
540

and Phrygian songs awoke, while maidens beat the ground with airy foot, uplifting their glad song; and in the halls a blaze of torchlight shed its flickering shadows
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on sleeping eyes.
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Chorus

In that hour around the house I was singing as I danced to that maiden of the hills, the child of Zeus;

when there rang along the town a cry of death which filled the homes of Troy , and babies in terror clung about their mothers’ skirts,
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as forth from their ambush came the warrior-band, the handiwork of maiden Pallas. Soon the altars ran with Phrygian blood, and desolation reigned over every bed where young men lay beheaded,
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a glorious crown for Hellas won, for her, the nurse of youth, but for our Phrygian fatherland a bitter grief.
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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.) — 531 focus

Phrygia's Söhne gesammt
530

Stürmen hin zum Thore,

Wollen der Danaer Trug,

Das Fichtengebild vom Berg,

Dardania's Unheil, ihr

Zum Dank weihen,¹
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Der unsterblichen züchtigen Jungfrau.

Rings mit Schlingen von Lein

Umwunden ward's, wie des Schiffes

Bräunliches Boot, und zum marmornen Siz,

Zum Tempel Athene's, unserer Stadt
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Verderben, zog man es aufwärts.

Doch unter'm Werk, unter der Lust,

Brach die dustere Nacht herein.

Hell klang die Flöte Libya's

Bei Phrygerweisen; im Tanze schwang
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In die Lüfte sich der Mädchen Fuß

Zum Schalle froher Lieder: in

Den Häusern sprüht der Fackeln Strahl

Des Feuers dunklen Glanz aus,

Bescheint müde Schläfer.
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Schlußgesang.

Ich aber feiert' in meinem Haus

Damals die Bergbewohnerin,

Die Tochter Zeus', Artemis,

Mit Reigentanz, die Jungfrau:

Da tonte Mordgeschrei²
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Die Stadt herauf zu Pergamos'

Felssiz, und traute Kinder schmiegten sich erschreckt

Mit scheuen Hånden an's Gewand der Mutter an.

Der Feind stieg aus dem Hinterhalt,

(Dein Werk, hohe Pallas!)
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Und Mord an Phrygeraltaren, Mord

In Ruheståtten, wo die Junglinge zerstreut,³

Von den Ihren verlassen, der Tod ereilt,

Wand den Siegeskranz, o Hellas,

Männerernährende, dir,
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Schus Gram Ilions Volke!

(zu Hekabe)

Euripides The Trojan Women 512-567

ed. Gilbert Murray

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