Euripides, Helen, ed. Gilbert Murray, 191

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Ἑλένη

ἰὼ ἰώ·

θήραμα βαρβάρου πλάτας,

Ἑλλανίδες κόραι,

ναύτας Ἀχαιῶν

τις ἔμολεν ἔμολε δάκρυα δάκρυσί μοι φέρων.
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Ἰλίου κατασκαφαὶ

πυρὶ μέλουσι δαΐῳ

διʼ ἐμὲ τὰν πολυκτόνον,

διʼ ἐμὸν ὄνομα πολύπονον.

Λήδα δʼ ἐν ἀγχόναις
200

θάνατον ἔλαβεν αἰσχύ-

νας ἐμᾶς ὑπʼ ἀλγέων.

ὁ δʼ ἐμὸς ἐν ἁλὶ πολυπλανὴς

πόσις ὀλόμενος οἴχεται,

κάστορός τε συγγόνου τε
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διδυμογενὲς ἄγαλμα πατρίδος

ἀφανὲς ἀφανὲς ἱππόκροτα λέ-

λοιπε δάπεδα γυμνάσιά τε

δονακόεντος Εὐρώ-
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τα, νεανιᾶν πόνον.

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.)) — 191 focus

Helen

Oh! Oh! Maidens of Hellas , the prey of barbarian sailors! An Achaean sailor

came, he came bringing tears upon tears to me. Ilion has been destroyed and is left to the enemy’s fire through me, the death-giver, through my name, full of suffering.
195

Leda sought death by hanging, in anguish over my disgrace. My husband, after much wandering in the sea, has died and is gone;
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and Castor and his brother, twin glory of their native land, have vanished, vanished, leaving the plains that shook to their galloping horses,
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and the schools of reed-fringed Eurotas, scene of youthful labors.
210

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.) — 191 focus

O Raub des Barbarschiffes, ihr, Jungfraun von Hellas' Flur!

Ein Schiffer kam, kam aus dem Achderland,

Bringt zu Thränen Thränen mir, meldet Troja's Untergang,

Das zerstört von Feindesflamme ward um mich, die Mörderin,
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Ward um mich Unselige.

Auch Leda gab sich selbst

Im Schmerz über meine Schmach mit frevlem Strang den Tod;

Mein Gemahl, umhergestürmt im Meere, fand des Lebens Ziel;

Kastor und der andre Bruder, Doppelzier des Vaterlandes,
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Schwanden, schwanden, flohn die Bahn, bestampft von Rossen, flohn die Kampfbahn

Am schilfreichen Strom Eurotas, ihre Junglingslust.

Zweite Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Helen 191

ed. Gilbert Murray

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