Euripides, Electra, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 859

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

← Previous Next →

Auf, hebe zum Reigen die Füße,

Theure, den luftigen Tanz,

Wie Reh'n des Waldes, hupfend in reizendem Schwung!

Denn schönere Kranze des Siegs,¹
850

Als dort am Strom Alpheios im heiligen Kampf,

Errang dein Bruder. So stimme den schönen

Siegsgesang sofort an zu meinem Tanz!

Elektra.

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)) — 859-879 focus

Χορός

θὲς ἐς χορόν, ὦ φίλα, ἴχνος,

ὡς νεβρὸς οὐράνιον
860

πήδημα κουφίζουσα σὺν ἀγλαΐᾳ.

νικᾷ στεφαναφορίαν

κρείσσω τοῖς παρʼ Ἀλφειοῦ ῥεέθροισι τελέσσας

κασίγνητος σέθεν· ἀλλʼ ἐπάειδε

καλλίνικον ᾠδὰν ἐμῷ χορῷ.
865

866

Ἠλέκτρα

ὦ φέγγος, ὦ τέθριππον ἡλίου σέλας,

ὦ γαῖα καὶ νὺξ ἣν ἐδερκόμην πάρος,

νῦν ὄμμα τοὐμὸν ἀμπτυχαί τʼ ἐλεύθεροι,

ἐπεὶ πατρὸς πέπτωκεν Αἴγισθος φονεύς.

φέρʼ, οἷα δὴ χω καὶ δόμοι κεύθουσί μου
870

κόμης ἀγάλματʼ ἐξενέγκωμαι, φίλαι,

στέψω τʼ ἀδελφοῦ κρᾶτα τοῦ νικηφόρου.

873

Χορός

σὺ μέν νυν ἀγάλματʼ ἄειρε

κρατί· τὸ δʼ ἁμέτερον

χωρήσεται Μούσαισι χόρευμα φίλον.
875

νῦν οἱ πάρος ἁμέτεροι

γαίας τυραννεύσουσι φίλοι βασιλῆες,

δικαίως τοὺς ἀδίκους καθελόντες.

ἀλλʼ ἴτω ξύναυλος βοὰ χαρᾷ.

Translations (2)

Electra Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 859-875 focus

Chorus

Set your step to the dance, my dear,

like a fawn leaping high up to heaven with joy. Your brother is victorious and has accomplished the wearing of a crown . . . beside the streams of Alpheus. Come sing
860

a glorious victory ode, to my dance.
865

866

Electra

O light, O blaze of the sun, drawn by its team! O earth and night, all that I saw before; now I am free to open my eyes, for Aegisthus, my father’s murderer, has fallen.

Come, let me bring out whatever adornment for hair that I have and my house contains, friends, and I shall wreath the head of my conquering brother.
870

873

Chorus

It is for you to bring adornment now for his head;

our dance, dear to the Muses, will go on. Now, those who were once our dear kings will rule our land justly, having destroyed the unjust. So let the shout, harmonious with joy, go up.
875

Electra (OCR draft) Experimental (Electra. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

No corresponding passage available

Notes on the current edition

Electra

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] L. νικᾷ σεφαναφορίαν κρείσσω παρ' ᾿Αλφειῦ ῥεέθροις τελετᾶς.

Euripides Electra 859

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Auf, hebe zum Reigen die Füße,

Theure, den luftigen Tanz,

Wie Reh'n des Waldes, hupfend in reizendem Schwung!

Denn schönere Kranze des Siegs,¹
850

Als dort am Strom Alpheios im heiligen Kampf,

Errang dein Bruder. So stimme den schönen

Siegsgesang sofort an zu meinem Tanz!

Elektra.

Current edition Experimental

Chorus

Set your step to the dance, my dear,

like a fawn leaping high up to heaven with joy. Your brother is victorious and has accomplished the wearing of a crown . . . beside the streams of Alpheus. Come sing
860

a glorious victory ode, to my dance.
865

Chorus

It is for you to bring adornment now for his head;

our dance, dear to the Muses, will go on. Now, those who were once our dear kings will rule our land justly, having destroyed the unjust. So let the shout, harmonious with joy, go up.
875

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Auf, hebe zum Reigen die Füße, Theure, den luftigen Tanz, Wie Reh'n des Waldes, hupfend in reizendem Schwung! Denn schönere Kranze des Siegs, 1 850 Als dort am Strom Alpheios im heiligen Kampf, Errang dein Bruder. So stimme den schönen Siegsgesang sofort an zu meinem Tanz!

Elektra.

Current edition Experimental

Chorus Set your step to the dance, my dear, like a fawn leaping high up to heaven with joy. Your brother is victorious and has accomplished the wearing of a crown . . . beside the streams of Alpheus. Come sing 860 a glorious victory ode, to my dance. 865

Chorus It is for you to bring adornment now for his head; our dance, dear to the Muses, will go on. Now, those who were once our dear kings will rule our land justly, having destroyed the unjust. So let the shout, harmonious with joy, go up. 875

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

Auf, hebe zum Reigen die Füße,

Theure, den luftigen Tanz,

Wie Reh'n des Waldes, hupfend in reizendem Schwung!

Denn schönere Kranze des Siegs,¹
850

Als dort am Strom Alpheios im heiligen Kampf,

Errang dein Bruder. So stimme den schönen

Siegsgesang sofort an zu meinem Tanz!

Chorus

Set your step to the dance, my dear,

like a fawn leaping high up to heaven with joy. Your brother is victorious and has accomplished the wearing of a crown . . . beside the streams of Alpheus. Come sing
860

a glorious victory ode, to my dance.
865

Chorus

It is for you to bring adornment now for his head;

our dance, dear to the Muses, will go on. Now, those who were once our dear kings will rule our land justly, having destroyed the unjust. So let the shout, harmonious with joy, go up.
875