Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 1234

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Groß ist der Sohn Leto's, er,

Den in des delischen Eilandes gesegneten Gründen,¹

Den citherkundigen, goldlockigen Gott mit der Artemis, die²
1190

Treffender Pfeile sich freut,

Die Mutter einst trug von dem Felsen des Meers,

Entflohn der gefeierten Ståtte,

Wo sie gebar am wogenden Strom,
1195

Trug zu Parnassos' Gipfel empor,

Den Dionysos' Jubel umschallt;

Wo der fleckige Drache mit blutroth glüh'ndem Blick,³

Von des schattigen Lorbeers dichtem Laub umkränzt,

Jenes Ungethum,
1200

Das Orakel bewacht, Ge's furchtbarer Sohn.

Ihn hast du, noch ein Kind, ein Kind,

In den Armen der süßen Mutter hupfend,

Gemordet, Phobos, und

Zogst hin zu dem göttlichen Herd;
1205

Dort auf untrüglichem Thron,

Dem goldnen Dreifuß, waltest du,

Sendest heilige

Gottesspruch' ans Licht

Aus dem göttlichen Grund, der kastalischen Flut
1210

Nah wohnend, dort, wo der Erde Mittel.⁴

Gegenstrophe.

Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1845; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 2, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1845. 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)

Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962)) — 1234-1282 focus

Χορός

εὔπαις ὁ Λατοῦς γόνος,

τόν ποτε Δηλιὰς ἐν καρποφόροις γυάλοις
1235

ἔτικτε, χρυσοκόμαν

ἐν κιθάρᾳ σοφόν, ἅ τʼ ἐπὶ τόξων

εὐστοχίᾳ γάνυται· φέρε δʼ αὐτά

νιν ἀπὸ δειράδος εἰναλίας,
1240

λοχεῖα κλεινὰ λιποῦσα μά-

τηρ, τὰν ἀστάκτων ὑδάτων

βακχεύουσαν Διονύ-

σῳ Παρνάσιον κορυφάν·

ὅθι ποικιλόνωτος οἰ-

νωπὸς δράκων,
1245

σκιερᾷ κατάχαλκος εὐ-

φύλλῳ δάφνᾳ,

γᾶς πελώριον τέρας, ἄμφεπε μαντεῖ-

ον Χθόνιον.

ἔτι μιν ἔτι βρέφος, ἔτι φίλας

ἐπὶ ματέρος ἀγκάλαισι θρῴσκων
1250

ἔκανες, ὦ Φοῖβε, μαντείων δʼ ἐπέβας ζαθέων,

τρίποδί τʼ ἐν χρυσέῳ θάσσεις, ἐν ἀψευδεῖ θρόνῳ

μαντείας βροτοῖς θεσφάτων νέμων
1255

ἀδύτων ὕπο, Κασταλίας ῥεέθρων γείτων, μέσον

γᾶς ἔχων μέλαθρον.

1259

Χορός

Θέμιν δʼ ἐπεὶ γᾶς ἰὼν

παῖδʼ ἀπενάσσατο Πυθῶνος ἀπὸ ζαθέων
1260

χρηστηρίων, νύχια

Χθὼν ἐτεκνώσατο φάσματʼ ὀ νείρων,

οἳ πολέσιν μερόπων τά τε πρῶτα, τά τʼ

ἔπειθʼ, ὅσσα τʼ ἔμελλε τυχεῖν,
1265

ὕπνου κατὰ δνοφερὰς γᾶς εὐ-

νὰς ἔφραζον· Γαῖα δὲ τὰν

μαντεῖον ἀφείλετο τι-

μὰν Φοῖβον, φθόνῳ θυγατρός.

ταχύπους δʼ ἐς Ὄλυμπον ὁρ-
1270

μαθεὶς ἄναξ

χέρα παιδνὸν ἕλιξεν ἐκ

Διὸς θρόνων

Πυθίων δόμων χθονίαν ἀφελεῖν μῆ-

νιν θεᾶς. νυχίους τʼ ἐνοπὰς.

γέλασε δʼ, ὅτι τέκος ἄφαρ ἔβα

πολύχρυσα θέλων λατρεύματα σχεῖν·
1275

ἐπὶ δʼ ἔσεισεν κόμαν, παῦσαι νυχίους ἐνοπάς,

ἀπὸ δʼ ἀλαθοσύναν νυκτωπὸν ἐξεῖλεν βροτῶν,

καὶ τιμὰς πάλιν θῆκε Λοξίᾳ,
1280

πολυάνορι δʼ ἐν ξενόεντι θρόνῳ θάρση βροτοῖς

θεσφάτων ἀοιδαῖς.

Translations (2)

Iphigenia Among the Tauri Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1234-1280 focus

Chorus

Lovely is the son of Leto,

whom she, the Delian, once bore in the fruitful valleys, golden-haired, skilled at the lyre; and also the one who glories in her well-aimed arrows.
1235

For the mother, leaving the famous birth-place, brought him from the ridges of the sea to the heights of Parnassus , with its gushing waters, which celebrate the revels for Dionysus. Here the dark-faced serpent
1240

with brightly colored back, his scales of bronze in the leaf-shaded laurel, huge monster of the earth, guarded Earth’s prophetic shrine. You killed him, o Phoebus, while still a baby,
1245

still leaping in the arms of your dear mother, and you entered the holy shrine, and sit on the golden tripod, on your truthful throne
1250

distributing prophecies from the gods to mortals, up from the sanctuary, neighbor of Castalia’s streams, as you dwell in the middle of the earth.
1255

1259

Chorus

But when he came and sent Themis,

the child of Earth, away from the holy oracle of Pytho , Earth gave birth to dream visions of the night; and they told to the cities of men the present,
1260

and what will happen in the future, through dark beds of sleep on the ground; and so Earth took the office of prophecy away from Phoebus, in envy, because of her daughter. The lord made his swift way to Olympus
1265

and wound his baby hands around the throne of Zeus, to take the wrath of the earth goddess from the Pythian home. Zeus smiled, that the child so quickly came
1270

to ask for worship that pays in gold. He shook his locks of hair, to put an end to the night voices, and took away from mortals the truth that appears in darkness,
1275

and gave the privilege back again to Loxias, and to mortals confidence in the songs of prophecy at the throne visited by many men.
1280

Iphigenia in Tauris (OCR draft) Experimental (Iphigenia in Tauris. 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

Iphigenia in Tauris

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Ε. ὃν ποτε Δηλιάσιν καρποφόροις γυάλοισιν.

2. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] L. Φοϊβόν τε χρυσοκόμαν.

3. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Der fleckige Drache, Python, dessen Tödtung durch die pythischen Spiele gefeiert ward.

4. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Delphi galt für den Mittelpunkt der Erde.

Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1234

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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