Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, ed. Gilbert Murray, 178

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Χορός

ἀντιψάλμους ᾠδὰς ὕμνων τʼ

Ἀσιητᾶν σοι βάρβαρον ἀχὰν
180

δεσποίνᾳ γʼ ἐξαυδάσω,

τὰν ἐν θρήνοισιν μοῦσαν

νέκυσι μελομέναν, τὰν ἐν μολπαῖς

Ἅιδας ὑμνεῖ δίχα παιάνων.
185

οἴμοι, τῶν Ἀτρειδᾶν οἴκων·

ἔρρει φῶς σκήπτρων, οἴμοι,

πατρῴων οἴκων.

ἦν ἐκ τῶν εὐόλβων Ἄργει

βασιλέων ἀρχά,
190

μόχθος δʼ ἐκ μόχθων ᾄσσει·

δινευούσαις ἵπποισι ῥιφαὶ

Πέλοπος πταναῖς· ἀλλάξας δʼ ἐξ

ἕδρας ἱερὸν ἱερὸν ὄμμʼ αὐγᾶς

ἅλιος. ἄλλαις δʼ ἄλλα προσέβα
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χρυσέας ἀρνὸς μελάθροις ὀδύνα,

φόνος ἐπὶ φόνῳ, ἄχεα ἄχεσιν

ἔνθεν τῶν πρόσθεν δμαθέντων

Τανταλιδᾶν ἐκβαίνει ποινά γʼ
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εἰς οἴκους, σπεύδει δʼ ἀσπούδαστʼ

ἐπὶ σοὶ δαίμων.

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.)) — 178 focus

Chorus

I will sing for you, my mistress, responsive songs and

a barbarian cry of Asian hymns; this song, dear to the dead,
180

Hades sings in laments, in chants—not songs of triumph.
185

Alas for the house of the Atreidae; the light of their scepter, alas, of the ancestral house, is lost. Once they ruled

as prosperous kings in Argos , but troubles dart out from troubles: Pelops, on his horses swiftly whirling, made his cast; the sun changed from its seat the holy beam of its rays.
190

One pain comes after another, to the house of the golden lamb. . . . from that earlier time when the Tantalids were killed,
195

punishment came to the house, and fate presses what you do not want upon you.
200

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.) — 178 focus

Ein Lied, antwortend dem Liede, Gesang

In barbarischem Ton, asiatischem Klang,

O Gebieterin, heb' ich dir an,¹

Die Gesänge der Trauer in Liedern,

Wie Hades ohne des Paans Laut
175

Anstimmt, den Entschlafnen geweiht.²

Weh' über den Stamm der Atreiden! Das Licht³

Einheimischer Zepter erloschen,

Und dahin dein Vatergeschlecht!

Bei welchem der glucklichen Herrscher
180

In Argos' Lande begann's?

Drangsal stürmt' her auf Drangsal,

Da mit kreisendem Flügelgespanne,

Sein heiliges Aug' abwendend, der Gott

Die durchmessenen Bahnen zuruckfloh.⁴
185

Und zum anderen Leid kam anderes Leid⁵

Um das goldene Lamm in der Herrscher Palast,

Mord auf Mord und Mühn auf Mühen.

Drum schreitet ihr Haus durch råchend der Geist

Der erschlagenen Tantalossöhne,
190

Und es stürzt in unheilbringendem Sturz

Sich ein Damon auf dich.

Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 178

ed. Gilbert Murray

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