Euripides, Helen, ed. Gilbert Murray, 179

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Χορός

κυανοειδὲς ἀμφʼ ὕδωρ

ἔτυχον ἕλικά τʼ ἀνὰ χλόαν
180

φοίνικας ἁλίου πέπλους

αὐγαῖσιν ἐν χρυσέαις

ἀμφὶ δόνακος ἔρνεσιν

θάλπουσα· ποτνίας δʼ ἐμᾶς,

ἔνθεν οἰκτρὸν ἀνεβόασεν,

ὅμαδον ἔκλυον, ἄλυρον ἔλεγον,
185

ὅτι ποτʼ ἔλακεν αἰάγμα-

σι στένουσα, Νύμφα τις

οἷα Ναῒς

ὄρεσι φυγάδα νόμον ἱεῖσα

γοερόν, ὑπὸ δὲ πέτρινα γύαλα

κλαγγαῖσι

Πανὸς ἀναβοᾷ γάμους.
190

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.)) — 179 focus

Chorus

Beside the deep-blue water

and on the tangled grass, I happened to be drying purple robes in the sun’s golden blaze near the young reed shoots; from my mistress, from where she cried aloud her misery,
180

I heard a sound, a mournful song not fit for the lyre, because she was then shrieking, lamenting with her wails; just as a Naiad nymph, who sends a song of woe ringing over the hills, cries out, under the rocky hollows, with screams
185

at the rape of Pan.
190

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.) — 179 focus

Bei des Meeres blauer Welle saß ich, auf des Rasens Grün

Die Purpurschleier sonnend rings im goldnen Strahl des
175

Helios,

Und ringsumher am schilsbewachsnen Strand.

Klåglich rief es da, des Jammers Ton vernahm ich, herbe

Klagen,

Den Tonen gleich der Najade, die, verlassen,.

Aufståhnt in bangen Lauten,

Wenn der Liebling in die Berg' entflohen,
180

Und im Schatten tiefer Schluchten über Pan's Untreue seufzt.

Zweite Strophe.

Euripides Helen 179

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