Euripides, Electra, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 713

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Und die Hallen der Götter, die

Goldenen, schlossen sich auf, und in Argos

Loderte hoch auf den Herden die Glut.

Auch die Flåte, des Musenchors
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Dienerin, klang in melodischem Hall.

Holdseliger tonte das Lied,

Tonte von dem goldnen Lamm, feiernd als Herrn den Thyestes:¹

Denn in heimlicher Liebe

Bethort' er des Atreus Weib,
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Und entrückte das Wunder in seinen Palast,

Kehrte sodann zurück in die Versammlung, rufend:

Daß er im Hause

Das Lamm bewahre mit dem goldnen Vließe.

Zweite Strophe.

Electra. Euripides. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1852; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)

Ἠλέκτρα Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962)) — 699-746 focus

Χορός

ἀταλᾶς ὑπὸ ματρὸς ἄρνʼ

Ἀργείων

ὀρέων ποτὲ κληδὼν ἐν
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πολιαῖσι μένει φήμαις

εὐαρμόστοις ἐν καλάμοις

Πᾶνα μοῦσαν ἡδύθροον

πνέοντʼ, ἀγρῶν ταμίαν,

χρυσέαν καλλιπλόκαμον
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πορεῦσαι. πετρίνοις δʼ ἐπι-

στὰς κᾶρυξ ἰάχει βάθροις·

Ἀγορὰν ἀγοράν, Μυκη-

ναῖοι, στείχετε μακαρίων

ὀψόμενοι τυράννων
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φάσματα δείματα χοροὶ δʼ Ἀτρει-

δᾶν ἐγέραιρον οἴκους·

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Χορός

θυμέλαι δʼ ἐπίτναντο χρυ-

σήλατοι,

σελαγεῖτο δʼ ἀνʼ ἄστυ πῦρ
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ἐπιβώμιον Ἀργείων·

λωτὸς δὲ φθόγγον κελάδει

κάλλιστον, Μουσᾶν θεράπων·

μολπαὶ δʼ ηὔξοντʼ ἐραταί,

χρυσέας ἀρνὸς ἐπίλογοι,

Θυέστου· κρυφίαις γὰρ εὐ-
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ναῖς πείσας ἄλοχον φίλαν

Ἀτρέως, τέρας ἐκκομί-

ζει πρὸς δώματα· νεόμενος δʼ

εἰς ἀγόρους ἀυτεῖ

τὰν κερόεσσαν ἔχειν χρυσεόμαλ-

λον κατὰ δῶμα ποίμναν.
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Χορός

τότε δὴ τότε φαεν-

νὰς ἄστρων μετέβασʼ ὁδοὺς

Ζεὺς καὶ φέγγος ἀελίου

λευκόν τε πρόσωπον ἀ-
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οῦς, τὰ δʼ ἕσπερα νῶτʼ ἐλαύ-

νει θερμᾷ φλογὶ θεοπύρῳ,

νεφέλαι δʼ ἔνυδροι πρὸς ἄρ-

κτον, ξηραί τʼ Ἀμμωνίδες ἕ-

δραι φθίνουσʼ ἀπειρόδροσοι,
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καλλίστων ὄμβρων Διόθεν στερεῖσαι.

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Χορός

λέγεται, τὰν δὲ πί-

στιν σμικρὰν παρʼ ἔμοιγʼ ἔχει,

στρέψαι θερμὰν ἀέλιον

χρυσωπὸν ἕδραν ἀλλά-
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ξαντα δυστυχίᾳ βροτεί-

ῳ θνατᾶς ἕνεκεν δίκας.

φοβεροὶ δὲ βροτοῖσι μῦ-

θοι κέρδος πρὸς θεῶν θεραπεί-

αν. ὧν οὐ μνασθεῖσα πόσιν
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κτείνεις, κλεινῶν συγγενέτειρʼ ἀδελφῶν.

Translations (2)

Electra Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 699-745 focus

Chorus

The story remains in old legends

that Pan, the keeper of wild beasts, breathing sweet-voiced music on his well-joined pipes, once brought from its tender mother on Argive hills
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a lamb with beautiful golden fleece. A herald stood on the stone platform and cried aloud, To assembly, Mycenaeans, go to assembly
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to see the omens given to our blessed rulers. . . . and they honored the house of Atreus.
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713

Chorus

The altars of beaten gold were set out; and through the town the

altar fires of the Argives blazed; the flute, handmaid of the Muse’s song, sounded its note sweetly, and lovely songs of the golden lamb swelled forth, saying that Thyestes had the luck; for he
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persuaded Atreus’ own wife to secret love, and carried off to his house the portent; coming before the assembly he declared that he had in his
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house the horned sheep with fleece of gold.
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Chorus

Then, it was then that Zeus changed the radiant paths of the stars, and the light of the sun, and the

bright face of dawn; and the sun drove across the western back of the sky with hot flame from heaven’s fires, while the rain-clouds went northward and Ammon’s
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lands grew parched and faint, not knowing moisture, robbed of heaven’s fairest showers of rain.
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Chorus

It is said, but I have small belief in it, that the sun turned round his glowing

throne of gold, changing it to the misfortune of mankind, for the punishment of mortals. But tales that frighten men are profitable for service to the gods; of whom you had no thought, when you
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killed your husband, you who are the relative of famous brothers.
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Electra (OCR draft) Experimental (Electra. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

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Notes on the current edition

Electra

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] L. ὡς ἐπίλογοι Θυές8, carmina Thyesten dominum nominantia, celebrantia, ἐπιλέγεσαι Θυέςην.

Euripides Electra 713

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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