Euripides, Electra, ed. Gilbert Murray, 859-879

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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.

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.)) — 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

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.) — 859 focus

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.

O Licht, o strahlend Viergespann des Helios,

O Erd', o Dunkel, das zuvor mein Aug' umfing!
855

Nun schlag' ich frei zum Aether dieses Aug' empor,

Nachdem Aegisthos, meines Vaters Mörder, fiel.

Auf, Liebe, was ich habe, was mein Haus bewahrt,

Sein Lockenhaar zu schmucken, hol' ich jezt heraus,

Und kränze meines Bruders siegbekröntes Haupt!
860
(sie geht in das Haus.)

Der Chor.

So schmucke denn du des Geliebten

Stirne mit Kranzen, und ich

Führ' auf den Reigen, welcher die Musen erfreut!

Bald herrscht er wieder im Land,

Der theure Stamm, der früher in Argos gebot,
865

Und mit Recht ihn erschlug, den Verhöhner des Rechtes.

Brause denn, Gesang, hell im Jubelschall!

Elektra kommt aus dem Hause zurück. Orestes und Pylades

mit den Dienern, welche die Leiche des Vegisthos tragen.

Euripides Electra 859-879

ed. Gilbert Murray

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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

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.

Der Chor.

Elektra.

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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

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.

Der Chor.

Elektra.

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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

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!