Euripides, Helen, ed. Gilbert Murray, 362

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Ἑλένη

ἰὼ Τροία τάλαινα,

διʼ ἔργʼ ἄνεργʼ ὄλλυσαι

μέλεά τʼ ἔτλας· τὰ δʼ ἐμὰ δῶρα

Κύπριδος ἔτεκε πολὺ μὲν αἷμα,

πολὺ δὲ δάκρυον· ἄχεά τʼ ἄχεσι,
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δάκρυα δάκρυσιν ἔλαβε, πάθεα

ματέρες τε παῖδας ὄλεσαν,

ἀπὸ δὲ παρθένοι κόμας

ἔθεντο σύγγονοι νεκρῶν Σκαμάνδριον

ἀμφὶ Φρύγιον οἶδμα.

βοὰν βοὰν δʼ Ἑλλὰς
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κελάδησε κἀνοτότυξεν,

ἐπὶ δὲ κρατὶ χέρας ἔθηκεν,

ὄνυχι δʼ ἁπαλόχροα γένυν

δεῦσε φονίαισι πλαγαῖς.

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.)) — 362 focus

Helen

Oh, unhappy Troy ! Through deeds not done by yourself, you are ruined, and have suffered pitiably; for the gift that Kypris gave me has caused much blood

and many tears; it has added grief to grief and tear to tear, sorrows. . . . Mothers have lost their children and virgin sisters of the slain have cut off their hair by the swollen tide of Phrygian Skamandros.
365

And Hellas has cried aloud, aloud, and broken forth in wailing, beating her head, and drenching her soft-skinned cheek with the bloody strokes of her nails.
370

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.) — 362 focus

Unselige Stadt der Troër,

umblüht!

Durch Frevelthat sinkst du, Schweres littest du!

Kypris schuf durch meine Gaben vieles Blut und viele
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Thränen,

Daß du Gram zu Grame, Leid zu Leid empfingst!

Mütter weinten um der Söhne Tod,

Und die Jungfraun, Schwestern edler Todten, schoren sich

Am phrygischen Strome Skamandros.

das Haar

Geschrei, Geschrei erhob Hellas, und klagte
330

In lautem Jammer;

An ihr Haupt die Hånde legend, fårbte sie mit blutigen

Schlägen zarte Wangen roth.

Euripides Helen 362

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