Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, ed. Gilbert Murray, 868

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Ἰφιγένεια

ὦ μελέα δεινᾶς τόλμας. δείνʼ ἔτλαν

δείνʼ ἔτλαν, ὤμοι σύγγονε. παρὰ δʼ ὀλίγον
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ἀπέφυγες ὄλεθρον ἀνόσιον ἐξ ἐμᾶν

δαϊχθεὶς χερῶν.

ἁ δʼ ἐπʼ αὐτοῖσι τίς τελευτά;

τίς τύχα μοι συγχωρήσει;

τίνα σοι πόρον εὑρομένα —
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πάλιν ἀπὸ πόλεως, ἀπὸ φόνου πέμψω

πατρίδʼ ἐς Ἀργείαν,

πρὶν ἐπὶ ξίφος αἵματι σῷ πελάσαι;
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τόδε τόδε σόν, ὦ μελέα ψυχά,

χρέος ἀνευρίσκειν.

πότερον κατὰ χέρσον, οὐχὶ ναΐ — ;

ἀλλὰ ποδῶν ῥιπᾷ
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θανάτῳ πελάσεις ἄρα βάρβαρα φῦλα

καὶ διʼ ὁδοὺς ἀνόδους στείχων· διὰ κυανέας μὴν

στενοπόρου πέτρας μακρὰ κέλευθα να-
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ΐοισιν δρασμοῖς.

τάλαινα, τάλαινα.

τίς ἂν οὖν τάδʼ ἂν ἢ θεὸς ἢ βροτὸς ἢ
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τί τῶν ἀδοκήτων,

πόρον ἄπορον ἐξανύσας, δυοῖν

τοῖν μόνοιν Ἀτρείδαιν φαίνοι

κακῶν ἔκλυσιν;

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.)) — 868 focus

Iphigenia

O wretched, in my dreadful daring!

How dreadful were the things I endured, alas, my brother! By only a little you escaped an unholy death, slain by my hands. But how will these things end? What fortune will assist me?
870

What way will I find to send you from this city, from slaughter, to your native Argos ,
875

before the sword draws near to your blood? This is your business, unhappy soul, to find out. On the dry land, not in a ship?
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But if you go on foot, through trackless paths and barbarian tribes, you will draw near to death.
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But through the dark rocks of the narrow passage is a long way for flight by ship.
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I am unhappy, unhappy!

Who, either god or mortal or something unexpected, might accomplish a way that is no way, and reveal a release from troubles for the only two children of the house of Atreus?
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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.) — 868 focus

Grauses erkühnt' ich Elende mich, grauser That, grauser

Weh mir!

That,

Entslohn wårst du kaum ruchlosem Untergang,

Bruder, von meinen Hånden graunvoll erwürgt.

Welches Ende folgt auf dieses?

Welches Schicksal wird mein Loos sein?
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Was sinn' ich dir aus, auf welchem Pfad send' ich dich

Von hier, frei von Tod, in's Land Argos heim,

Eh' hier dein Leben dem Stahle verfällt?

Das, das ist es, o armes Herz,¹

Was du mir ausspåhn mußt,
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Ob du zu Lande, nicht im Schiffe,

Ob du mit eilendem Fuß

Dich gibst in den Tod, wenn du Stämme der Barbaren

Und unwegsame Wege durchziehst; durch kyanische Felsen

Den Engpaß hindurch, dehnt für die Flucht sich, traun,
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Der Meerpfad zu weit.

Ich Arme, ich Arme!

Wer, ob es ein Gott, ob ein Sterblicher sei,

Welch glucklicher Zufall

Entwirrt den verworrenen Pfad,²
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Zeigt uns, die noch allein leben von Atreus' Stamm,

Aus Noth Rettung an?

Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 868

ed. Gilbert Murray

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