Euripides, Orestes, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1366

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Χορός

ἀλλὰ κτυπεῖ γὰρ κλῇθρα βασιλείων δόμων,

σιγήσατʼ· ἔξω γάρ τις ἐκβαίνει Φρυγῶν,

οὗ πευσόμεσθα τἀν δόμοις ὅπως ἔχει.

Φρύξ

Ἀργέϊον ξίφος ἐκ θανάτου πέφευγα

βαρβάροις ἐν εὐμάρι-
1370

σιν, κεδρωτὰ παστάδων ὑπὲρ τέραμνα

Δωρικάς τε τριγλύφους,

φροῦδα φροῦδα, γᾶ γᾶ,

βαρβάροισι δρασμοῖς.

αἰαῖ·
1375

πᾷ φύγω, ξέναι, πολιὸν αἰθέρʼ ἀμ-

πτάμενος ἢ πόντον, Ὠκεανὸς ὃν

ταυρόκρανος ἀγκάλαις

ἑλίσσων κυκλοῖ χθόνα;

Χορός

τί δʼ ἔστιν, Ἑλένης πρόσπολʼ. Ἰδαῖον κάρα;
1380

Φρύξ

Ἴλιον Ἴλιον, ὤμοι μοι,

Φρύγιον ἄστυ καὶ καλλίβωλον Ἴ-

δας ὄρος ἱερόν, ὥς σʼ ὀλόμενον στένω

ἁρμάτειον ἁρμάτειον μέλος

βαρβάρῳ βοᾷ διʼ ὀρνιθόγονον
1385

ὄμμα κυκνοπτέρου καλλοσύνας, Λήδας

σκύμνου, δυσελένας

δυσελένας,

ξεστῶν περγάμων Ἀπολλωνίων

ἐρινύν· ὀττοτοῖ·

ἰαλέμων ἰαλέμων
1390

Δαρδανία τλᾶμον Γανυμήδεος

ἱπποσύνᾳ, Διὸς εὐνέτα.

Orestes. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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Ὀρέστης (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978))

Translations (3)

Orestes Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1366 focus

Chorus Leader

But the bolts of the palace-doors rattle; be silent; for one of the Phrygians is coming out, from whom we will inquire of the state of matters within.

Phrygian

(expressing the most abject terror.) I have escaped from death by Argive sword,

in my Asian slippers, by clambering over the cedar-beams that roof the porch and the Doric triglyphs, away, away! O Earth, Earth! in barbaric flight!
1370

Alas! You foreign women, where can I escape, flying through the clear sky or over the sea, which bull-headed Ocean rolls about as he circles the world in his embrace?
1375

Chorus Leader

What is it, Helen’s slave, creature from Ida?
1380

Phrygian

Ilium , Ilium , oh me! city of Phrygia , and Ida’s holy hill with fruitful soil, how I mourn for your destruction a shrill song

with barbarian cry; destroyed through her beauty, born from a bird, swan-feathered, Leda’s cub, hellish Helen! to be a curse to Apollo’s tower of polished stone. Ah! Alas!
1385

woe to Dardania, its wailing, wailing, for the horsemanship of Ganymede, bedfellow of Zeus.
1390

Orestes (OCR draft) Experimental (Orestes. 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, 1841; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 1, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1841. 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.) — 1366 focus

Doch horch! Die Riegel drohnen laut am Königshaus;

Drum stille: denn der Phryger einer stürzt heraus,

Von dem wir horen wollen, wie's im Hause steht.
1350

Der Phryger.

Urgos Schwertern entrann ich, entrann dem Tode;

Leichtes Flugs eilt' ich in Phrygerschuh'n,

Hindurch die Hallen mit den Cederzinnen,

Mit der Dorersäulen Schmuck,

Flüchtig fort, (o Erde!)
1355

Fort in blindem Laufe.

Wohin soll ich fliehn, wohin, Frauen? Weh!

Flieg' ich zum Aether auf, oder zu dem Meere, das

Rings der Gott Okeanos,

Wie Arm', um die Erde schlingt?
1360

Chor.

Was ist es, Mann vom Ida, Diener Helena's?

Der Phryger.

Ilion, Ilion, weh mir, weh!

Phrygerstadt mit fettem Boden, du!

Heiliger Idaberg, wie, Unseliger!

Wie beklagt in Trauerweisen,
1365

Mit Barbarenton mein Lied

Dich, dem Helena's Auge Verderben schuf,

Der Unholdinn, die der Schwan Leda's Schooß

Entlockt! Ilions gottlichen Mauern ward

Sie zur Erinnys, ach!
1370

D Jammerloos, o Jammerloos!

Arme Dardania, wo Ganymedes die

Rosse getummelt, der Liebling Zeus'!

Euripides Orestes 1366

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Χορός

ἀλλὰ κτυπεῖ γὰρ κλῇθρα βασιλείων δόμων,

σιγήσατʼ· ἔξω γάρ τις ἐκβαίνει Φρυγῶν,

οὗ πευσόμεσθα τἀν δόμοις ὅπως ἔχει.

Χορός

τί δʼ ἔστιν, Ἑλένης πρόσπολʼ. Ἰδαῖον κάρα;
1380

Current edition Perseus

Chorus Leader

But the bolts of the palace-doors rattle; be silent; for one of the Phrygians is coming out, from whom we will inquire of the state of matters within.

Chorus Leader

What is it, Helen’s slave, creature from Ida?
1380

Doch horch! Die Riegel drohnen laut am Königshaus;

Drum stille: denn der Phryger einer stürzt heraus,

Von dem wir horen wollen, wie's im Hause steht.
1350

Chor.

Was ist es, Mann vom Ida, Diener Helena's?

Chor.

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Χορός ἀλλὰ κτυπεῖ γὰρ κλῇθρα βασιλείων δόμων, σιγήσατʼ· ἔξω γάρ τις ἐκβαίνει Φρυγῶν, οὗ πευσόμεσθα τἀν δόμοις ὅπως ἔχει.

Χορός τί δʼ ἔστιν, Ἑλένης πρόσπολʼ. Ἰδαῖον κάρα; 1380

Current edition Perseus

Chorus Leader But the bolts of the palace-doors rattle; be silent; for one of the Phrygians is coming out, from whom we will inquire of the state of matters within.

Chorus Leader What is it, Helen’s slave, creature from Ida? 1380

Doch horch! Die Riegel drohnen laut am Königshaus; Drum stille: denn der Phryger einer stürzt heraus, Von dem wir horen wollen, wie's im Hause steht. 1350

Chor. Was ist es, Mann vom Ida, Diener Helena's?

Chor.

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Χορός

ἀλλὰ κτυπεῖ γὰρ κλῇθρα βασιλείων δόμων,

σιγήσατʼ· ἔξω γάρ τις ἐκβαίνει Φρυγῶν,

οὗ πευσόμεσθα τἀν δόμοις ὅπως ἔχει.

Χορός

τί δʼ ἔστιν, Ἑλένης πρόσπολʼ. Ἰδαῖον κάρα;
1380

Chorus Leader

But the bolts of the palace-doors rattle; be silent; for one of the Phrygians is coming out, from whom we will inquire of the state of matters within.

Chorus Leader

What is it, Helen’s slave, creature from Ida?
1380

Doch horch! Die Riegel drohnen laut am Königshaus;

Drum stille: denn der Phryger einer stürzt heraus,

Von dem wir horen wollen, wie's im Hause steht.
1350

Chor.

Was ist es, Mann vom Ida, Diener Helena's?