Euripides, Helen, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1107

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Χορός

σὲ τὰν ἐναύλοις ὑπὸ δενδροκόμοις

μουσεῖα καὶ θάκους ἐνί-

ζουσαν ἀναβοάσω,

σὲ τὰν ἀοιδοτάταν ὄρνιθα μελῳδὸν
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ἀηδόνα δακρυόεσσαν,

ἔλθʼ ὦ διὰ ξουθᾶν

γενύων ἐλελιζομένα

θρήνων ἐμοὶ ξυνεργός,

Ἑλένας μελέας πόνους

τὸν Ἰλιάδων τʼ ἀει-
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δούσᾳ δακρυόεντα πότμον

Ἀχαιῶν ὑπὸ λόγχαις·

ὅτʼ ἔδραμε ῥόθια πεδία βαρβάρῳ πλάτᾳ

ὅτʼ ἔμολεν ἔμολε, μέλεα Πριαμίδαις ἄγων

Λακεδαίμονος ἄπο λέχεα

σέθεν, ὦ Ἑλένα, Πάρις αἰνόγαμος
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πομπαῖσιν Ἀφροδίτας.

Helen. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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Ἑλένη (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978))

Translations (3)

Helen Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1107 focus

Chorus

Let me call on you, beneath leafy haunts, sitting in your place of song, you, the most sweetly singing bird,

tearful nightingale, oh, come, trilling through your tawny throat, to aid me in my lament, as I sing the piteous woes of Helen and
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the tearful fate of Trojan women under the Achaeans’ spears; when he sped over the surging plains with foreign oar, when he came, came bringing to Priam’s race from Lacedaemon
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you, Helen, his unhappy bride— Paris , fatally wedded, under the guidance of Aphrodite.
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Helen (OCR draft) Experimental (Helen. 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.) — 1107 focus

Dich, unter dichtbelaubter Umschattung des Baums,

In liedervoller Grotte bang klagend, will ich rufen,¹

Gesangeskundiger, dich, melodischer Vogel,
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Komm, Nachtigall, schwimmend in Thränen!

Komm, wirbl' aus falber Kehle die seufzenden Lieder hervor,

In meine Trauer stimmend,

Und besinge mir Helena's,

Der ilischen Frauen Leid,
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Schweres Jammergeschick, das einst

Argos' Lanzen bereitet,

Die das Feld erfüllt, erfüllt, als im fremden Schiff²

Er durch Unglücksmeer dem Stamm Ilions die Braut

Zufuhrte von Sparta, die
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Er geraubt, Alexandros, der Unheilssohn,

Durch Kypris' Huld geleitet.

Erste Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Helen 1107

ed. Gilbert Murray

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