Euripides, Electra, ed. Gilbert Murray, 190

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Χορός

μεγάλα θεός· ἀλλʼ ἴθι,
190

καὶ παρʼ ἐμοῦ χρῆσαι πολύ-

πηνα φάρεα δῦναι,

χρύσεά τε — χαρίσαι — προσθήματʼ ἀγλαΐας.

δοκεῖς τοῖσι σοῖς δακρύοις

μὴ τιμῶσα θεούς, κρατή-

σειν ἐχθρῶν; οὔτοι στοναχαῖς,
195

ἀλλʼ εὐχαῖσι θεοὺς σεβί-

ζουσʼ ἕξεις εὐαμερίαν, ὦ παῖ.

Ἠλέκτρα

οὐδεὶς θεῶν ἐνοπᾶς κλύει

τᾶς δυσδαίμονος, οὐ παλαι-

ῶν πατρὸς σφαγιασμῶν.
200

οἴμοι τοῦ καταφθιμένου

τοῦ τε ζῶντος ἀλάτα,

ὅς που γᾶν ἄλλαν κατέχει,

μέλεος ἀλαί-

νων ποτὶ θῆσσαν ἑστίαν,
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τοῦ κλεινοῦ πατρὸς ἐκφύς.

αὐτὰ δʼ ἐν χερνῆσι δόμοις

ναίω ψυχὰν τακομένα

δωμάτων πατρίων φυγάς,

οὐρείας ἀνʼ ἐρίπνας.
210

μάτηρ δʼ ἐν λέκτροις φονίοις

ἄλλῳ σύγγαμος οἰκεῖ.

Electra. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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Ἠλέκτρα (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962))

Translations (3)

Electra Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 190 focus

Chorus

Mighty is the goddess; come then, and borrow from me thick-woven clothes to wear, and gold—as a favor to me—accessories to adornment. Do you think to rule over your enemies by tears, if you do not revere the gods?
190

Honoring the gods not by lamentation but by prayers, you will have good fortune, child.
195

Electra

No god attends to the voice of the ill-fated one,

or to the slaying of my father long ago. Alas for the dead, and for the living vagabond, who dwells in another land somewhere,
200

miserably wandering to a slave’s hearth, yet born of that renowned father. I myself live in a poor man’s house, wasting my life away, an exile from my father’s house,
205

on the mountain crags. But my mother, with a new husband, makes her home in a bed stained by blood.
210

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

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.) — 190 focus

Ja, groß ist Hera!

Auf, und empfange von mir vielfarbiger Feiergewande

Goldnes Gewebe, das

Sich schon zu der Schönheit fügt!

Du wåhnst, ohne daß du die Götter ehrst,¹
190

Ueber die Feinde mit deinen Thränen

Zu siegen? Mit Klagen ja nicht

Wirst du dir heitere Tage schaffen,

Nein, nur mit Gebet zu den Göttern, o Kind.

Elektra.

Kein Gott hört auf der Armen Ruf,
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Kein Gott achtet der Opfer, die

Einst der Vater geopfert.

Weh mir um den Erschlagenen,

Weh um den lebenden Flüchtling,

Der in fremdem Lande vielleicht
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Elend umherirrt und am Sclavenherde darbt,

Sohn des herrlichen Vaters!

Ich selbst wohn' im dürftigen Haus,

Und an der Seele zehrt mir der Gram;

Fern vom Vaterherde verbannt,
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Weil' ich am einsamen Felsengebirg;

Aber die Mutter, dem Fremdling vermählt,

Ruht im Lager des Mörders.

Euripides Electra 190

ed. Gilbert Murray

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