Euripides, Helen, ed. Gilbert Murray, 229

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Ἑλένη

φεῦ φεῦ, τίς ἢ Φρυγῶν

ἢ τίς Ἑλλανίας ἀπὸ χθονὸς
230

ἔτεμε τὰν δακρυόεσσαν

Ἰλίῳ πεύκαν;

ἔνθεν ὀλόμενον σκάφος

συναρμόσας ὁ Πριαμίδας

ἔπλευσε βαρβάρῳ πλάτᾳ

τὰν ἐμὰν ἐφʼ ἑστίαν,
235

ἐπὶ τὸ δυστυχέστατον

κάλλος, ὡς ἕλοι, γάμων

ἀμῶν· ἅ τε δόλιος

ἁ πολυκτόνος Κύπρις

Δαναΐδαις ἄγουσα θάνατον Πριαμίδαις,

ὦ τάλαινα συμφορᾶς.
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ἁ δὲ χρυσέοις θρόνοις

Διὸς ὑπαγκάλισμα σεμνὸν

Ἥρα τὸν ὠκύπουν

ἔπεμψε Μαιάδος γόνον·

ὅς με χλοερὰ δρεπομέναν

ἔσω πέπλων ῥόδεα πέταλα,
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Χαλκίοικον ὡς Ἀθάναν μόλοιμʼ,

ἀναρπάσας διʼ αἰθέρος

τάνδε γαῖαν εἰς ἄνολβον

ἔριν ἔριν τάλαιναν ἔθετο

Πριαμίδαισιν Ἑλλάδος.

τὸ δʼ ἐμὸν ὄνομα

παρὰ Σιμουντίοις ῥοαῖσι
250

μαψίδιον ἔχει φάτιν.

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))

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Helen Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 229 focus

Helen

Ah! Who was it, either from Phrygia

or from Hellas, who cut the pine that brought tears to Ilion ? From this wood the son of Priam built his deadly ship, and sailed by barbarian oars
230

to my home, to that most ill-fated beauty, to win me as his wife; and with him sailed deceitful and murderous Kypris, bearing death for the Danaans.
235

Oh, unhappy in my misfortune! But Hera, the holy beloved of Zeus on her golden throne, sent the swift-footed son of Maia . I was gathering fresh rose leaves in the folds of my robe,
240

so that I might go to the goddess of the Bronze House; he carried me off through the air to this luckless land, and made me an object of miserable strife, of strife between Hellas and the sons of Priam. And my name
245

beside the streams of Simois bears a false rumor.
250

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.) — 229 focus

Welcher Mann aus Hellas, welcher Phryger war's,

Der die Fichte fållte, die so thranenreich
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Für Troja ward, woraus der Priamide

Sich das unheilvolle Schiff zimmert' und auf fremdem Kiel

Segelt' hin zu meinem Herd,

Zu der ungluckseligen Schönheit,

Daß ich sein würde? Weh!
210

Kypris, ja, die Schlaue, that's, die Mörderin,

Brachte Tod den Danaërn, Tod den Priamiden.

Wehe mir um mein Geschick! Here, Zeus' erhabene

Gattin, auf dem goldnen Throne sizend,

Sie sandte Maja's Sohn, den schnellfußigen, der mich,
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Als ich frische Rosenblätter las in meinem Schooße,

Zu Pallas' ehernem Hause sie zu tragen,

Durch heller Lüste Raum in dies segenlose Land entraffte,

Daß er argen Zwist erregte Priamos' und Hellas' Volk.

Und an Simois Gewässern hat
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Mein Name nichtig eiteln Ruhm erlangt.

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ed. Gilbert Murray

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