Euripides Helen 375

ed. Gilbert Murray

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ὦ μάκαρ Ἀρκαδίᾳ ποτὲ παρθένε Καλλιστοῖ, Διὸς
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ἃ λεχέων ἐπέβας τετραβάμοσι γυίοις,
ὡς πολὺ ματρὸς ἐμᾶς ἔλαχες πλέον,
ἁ μορφᾷ θηρῶν λαχνογυίων —
ὄμματι λάβρῷ σχῆμα λεαίνης —
ἐξαλλάξασʼ ἄχθεα λύπης·
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ἅν τέ ποτʼ Ἄρτεμις ἐξεχορεύσατο
χρυσοκέρατʼ ἔλαφον Μέροπος Τιτανίδα κούραν
καλλοσύνας ἕνεκεν· τὸ δʼ ἐμὸν δέμας
ὤλεσεν ὤλεσε πέργαμα Δαρδανίας
ὀλομένους τʼ Ἀχαιούς.
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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.)) — 375 focus
O maiden Kallisto, blessed once in Arcadia , who climbed into the bed of Zeus on four paws, how much happier was your lot than my mother’s, you who in the form of a shaggy-limbed beast—the bearing of a lioness with your fierce eye—changed your burden of sorrow;
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and also the one whom Artemis once drove from her chorus, as a deer with horns of gold, the Titan girl, daughter of Merops, because of her loveliness; but the beauty of my body has destroyed the Dardanian towers, it has destroyed them and
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the lost Achaeans.
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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.) — 375 focus
O glückselige Tochter Arkadia's, die du Kronions
Lager vordem viersüßig bestiegst, o Kallisto,
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Wie weit glucklicher warst du, denn Leda,
Daß in den zottigen Gliedern des Waldthiers
Du mit dem grimmigen Blicke der Löwin
Des Unglücks Bewußtsein verlorſt! 1
Glucklicher warest auch du, die Artemis 2
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Als goldhörnige Hindin der Schönheit wegen verstoßen,
Merops' Kind vom Titanengeschlecht; mein Name vertilgte
Pergamos, Dardanos' Burg,
Und die verlorenen Sohn' Achaa's!
(Sie entfernt sich mit dem Chore.)
Menelaos tritt auf in dem Aufzuge eines Schiffbrüchigen.