Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1089

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Χορός

ὄρνις, ἃ παρὰ πετρίνας

πόντου δειράδας, ἀλκυών,
1090

ἔλεγον οἶτον ἀείδεις,

εὐξύνετον ξυνετοῖς βοάν,

ὅτι πόσιν κελαδεῖς ἀεὶ μολπαῖς,

ἐγώ σοι παραβάλλομαι

θρήνους, ἄπτερος ὅρνις,
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ποθοῦσʼ Ἑλλάνων ἀγόρους,

ποθοῦσʼ Ἄρτεμιν λοχίαν,

ἃ παρὰ Κύνθιον ὄχθον οἰ-

κεῖ φοίνικά θʼ ἁβροκόμαν

δάφναν τʼ εὐερνέα καὶ
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γλαυκᾶς θαλλὸν ἱερὸν ἐλαί-

ας, Λατοῦς ὠδῖνα φίλαν,

λίμναν θʼ εἱλίσσουσαν ὕδωρ

κύκλιον, ἔνθα κύκνος μελῳ-

δὸς Μούσας θεραπεύει.
1105

Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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

Translations (3)

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.)) — 1089 focus

Chorus

Halcyon bird, you that sing your fate as a lament

beside the rocky ridges of the sea, a cry easily understood by the wise, that you are always chanting for your husband; I, wingless bird that I am, compare
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my laments with yours, in my longing for the festivals of Hellas , and for Artemis of childbirth, who dwells beside the Cynthian mountain and the palm with delicate leaves
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and the well-grown laurel and the holy shoot of gray-green olive, Leto’s dear child, and the lake that rolls about its ripples, where the melodious swan
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serves the Muses.
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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.)

No corresponding passage available

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1845; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (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.) — 1089 focus

Vogel, der du bei felsigen

Meeranhdhen, o Halkyon,¹

Klagst in traurigem Liede,

Wohlverständlich Verständigen, da
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Du den Gemahl im Gesange stets ausrufst!

Dir vergleichbar im Leid bin ich

Ungeflügelter Vogel;

Mich verlangt es nach Hellas, zur

Artemis, der Kreisenden Schuz,
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Die bei dem kynthischen Hügel wohnt, an

Palmbäumen mit zartem Laub,

Schonblühendem Lorbeer und

Heiligem, dunklem Sprosse des Delbaums,

Wo Leto die Beiden gebar,
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Långs dem See, der wirbelnd die Flut²

Hinrollt, wo der gesangesreiche

Schwan feiert die Musen.

Erste Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1089

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