Euripides, Helen, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1478

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Χορός

διʼ ἀέρος εἴθε ποτανοὶ

γενοίμεσθʼ ᾇ Λιβύας

οἰωνοὶ στοχάδες
1480

ὄμβρον λιποῦσαι χειμέριον

νίσονται πρεσβυτάτᾳ

σύριγγι πειθόμεναι

ποιμένος, ὃς ἄβροχα πεδία καρποφόρα τε γᾶς
1485

ἐπιπετόμενος ἰαχεῖ.

ὦ πταναὶ δολιχαύχενες,

σύννομοι νεφέων δρόμου,

βᾶτε Πλειάδας ὑπὸ μέσας

ὠρίωνά τʼ ἐννύχιον·
1490

καρύξατʼ ἀγγελίαν,

Εὐρώταν ἐφεζόμεναι,

Μενέλεως ὅτι Δαρδάνου

πόλιν ἑλὼν δόμον ἥξει.

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.)) — 1478 focus

Chorus

Oh, that we had wings to cleave the air, where the birds of Libya go in their ranks,

leaving the winter rain, obedient to the piping of their veteran leader, who raises his exultant cry
1480

as he wings his way over unmoistened and crop-bearing plains of the earth. O you winged long-necked comrades of the racing clouds, go on beneath the Pleiades in their central station
1485

and Orion of the night; deliver the message, as you settle on Eurotas’ banks, that Menelaos has sacked the city of Dardanos , and will come home.
1490

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.) — 1478 focus

O schwebten wir hoch in den Luften, beschwingt, wie der schwärmende Zug,

Libyscher Vögel Geschlecht,

Die, dem regnichten Herbst entflohn, weithin ziehn, und des

åltesten

Lockpfeife folgen, des Führers, der zu den fruchtbaren Aun,

Quellenlosem Gefild' herab schwebt in fröhlichem Jubel.
1400

O langhalsige Vogel, ihr, eilender Wolken Laufe gesellt,

Mitten zu den Plejaden fliegt, schwebt um Orions nachtliche

Bahn;

Am Strom Eurotas den Flug hemmend, meldet die Kunde dort:

Menelaos, der Dardanos' Burg stürzte, kehrt in die Heimat.

Zweite Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Helen 1478

ed. Gilbert Murray

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