Euripides, Helen, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1122

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Χορός

πολλοὶ δʼ Ἀχαιῶν δορὶ καὶ πετρίναις

ῥιπαῖσιν ἐκπνεύσαντες Ἅι-

δαν μέλεον ἔχουσιν,

ταλαινᾶν ἀλόχων κείραντες ἔθειραν·
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ἄνυμφα δὲ μέλαθρα κεῖται·

πολλοὺς δὲ πυρσεύσας

φλογερὸν σέλας ἀμφιρύταν

Εὔβοιαν εἷλʼ Ἀχαιῶν

μονόκωπος ἀνήρ, πέτραις

Καφηρίσιν ἐμβαλὼν

Αἰγαίαις τʼ ἐνάλοις δόλιον
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ἀκταῖς ἀστέρα λάμψας.

ἀλίμενα δʼ ὄρεα Μάλεα χειμάτων πνοᾷ,

ὅτʼ ἔσυτο πατρίδος ἀποπρό, βαρβάρου στολᾶς

γέρας, οὐ γέρας ἀλλʼ ἔριν,

Δαναῶν Μενέλας ἐπὶ ναυσὶν ἄγων,
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εἴδωλον ἱερὸν Ἥρας.

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.)) — 1122 focus

Chorus

Many of the Achaeans have breathed out their last amid the spears and hurling stones and have gone to unhappy Hades; their wives have cut off their hair in sorrow,

and their homes are left without a bride; an Achaean man, who had only a single ship, lit a blazing beacon on sea-girt Euboia , and destroyed many of them, casting them onto the rocks of Kaphareus
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and the sea-shores of the Aegean , by the treacherous flame he kindled. The mountains of Malea provided no harbor, in the gusts of the storm, when Menelaos sped far away from his country, bearing on his ships a prize of the barbarian expedition, no prize but strife
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with the Danaans, Hera’s holy phantom.
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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.) — 1122 focus

Und viel Achder starben, von Lanzen durchbohrt,

Von Steineswurf getroffen, unsel'gen Jammertodes,

Und ihre Gattinnen schoren trauernd die Haare;
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Um den Bräutigam klagten die Braute.¹

Viel' auch entseelt', auf einsamem Schiff am umfluteten²

Eubda's helle Fackeln

Anzundend, ein Mann, der sie

Zu Kaphareus Felsen trieb,
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Strand

Und an Aegå's stürmischen Höhn

Trüglich Feuer entflammte,

Auf den Unglücksbergen dort, als der Heereszug,

Durch des Windes Hauch verstürmt fern vom Vaterland,

Kein Wundergebild, nein, Zwist
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Für Achda, die Wolk', auf den Schiffen gefuhrt,

Der Hera heilig Luftbild.

Zweite Strophe.

Euripides Helen 1122

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