Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1234

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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,
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σκιερᾷ κατάχαλκος εὐ-

φύλλῳ δάφνᾳ,

γᾶς πελώριον τέρας, ἄμφεπε μαντεῖ-

ον Χθόνιον.

ἔτι μιν ἔτι βρέφος, ἔτι φίλας

ἐπὶ ματέρος ἀγκάλαισι θρῴσκων
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ἔκανες, ὦ Φοῖβε, μαντείων δʼ ἐπέβας ζαθέων,

τρίποδί τʼ ἐν χρυσέῳ θάσσεις, ἐν ἀψευδεῖ θρόνῳ

μαντείας βροτοῖς θεσφάτων νέμων
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ἀδύτων ὕπο, Κασταλίας ῥεέθρων γείτων, μέσον

γᾶς ἔχων μέλαθρον.

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.)) — 1234 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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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

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.) — 1234 focus

Groß ist der Sohn Leto's, er,

Den in des delischen Eilandes gesegneten Gründen,¹

Den citherkundigen, goldlockigen Gott mit der Artemis, die²
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Treffender Pfeile sich freut,

Die Mutter einst trug von dem Felsen des Meers,

Entflohn der gefeierten Ståtte,

Wo sie gebar am wogenden Strom,
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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,
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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;
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Dort auf untrüglichem Thron,

Dem goldnen Dreifuß, waltest du,

Sendest heilige

Gottesspruch' ans Licht

Aus dem göttlichen Grund, der kastalischen Flut
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Nah wohnend, dort, wo der Erde Mittel.⁴

Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1234

ed. Gilbert Murray

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