Euripides, Orestes, ed. Gilbert Murray, 316

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Χορός

αἰαῖ,

δρομάδες ὦ πτεροφόροι

ποτνιάδες θεαί,

ἀβάκχευτον αἳ θίασον ἐλάχετʼ ἐν

δάκρυσι καὶ γόοις,
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μελάγχρωτες εὐμενίδες, αἵτε τὸν

ταναὸν αἰθέρʼ ἀμπάλλεσθʼ, αἵματος

τινύμεναι δίκαν, τινύμεναι φόνον,

καθικετεύομαι καθικετεύομαι,

τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονος
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γόνον ἐάσατʼ ἐκλαθέσθαι λύσσας

μανιάδος φοιταλέου. φεῦ μόχθων,

οἵων, ὦ τάλας, ὀρεχθεὶς ἔρρεις,

τρίποδος ἄπο φάτιν, ἃν ὁ Φοῖβος ἔλακε, δε-

ξάμενος ἀνὰ δάπεδον,
330

ἵνα μεσόμφαλοι λέγονται μυχοί.

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.)) — 316 focus

Chorus

Ah! ah! you goddesses swiftly careering on your wings, whose lot it is to hold a revel, not with Bacchic rites,

in tears and groans; you black-skinned avenging spirits, that dart along the spacious air, exacting a penalty for blood, a penalty for murder, I beg you, I beg you!
320

Allow the son of Agamemnon to forget his wild whirling frenzy.
325

Alas for the toils which you, poor wretch, strove after to your ruin, when you heard the voice from the tripod, proclaimed by Phoebus,

at his sanctuary, where the hollows are called the navel of the earth.
330

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.) — 316 focus

Weh, weh, weh!
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Die ihr eilt hochbeschwingt,

Furchtbare Göttinnen,

Denen wir freudenlos Feste begehen, von

Seufzern und Thränen schwer,

Ihr schwarzfarbenen Erinnyen, die ihr euch
310

In die Unendlichkeit schwingt, in des Aethers Höhn,

Um Mord Rache, Rach' übend um Menschenblut,

Zu euch fleh ich, ja, zu euch fleh' ich laut:

Laßt Agamemnons Sohn, lasset vergessen ihn

Des Wahnsinns, der wildtobenden Raserei!
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Weh um das Ungluck, weh,

Wonach, Armer, dich lüstete, daß du Tod

Verntetest, als du von Phobos' Dreifuß

Den Ausspruch empfingst aus dem geweihten Mund,

Am Siz, wo der Erd' heiliger Nabel ist!¹
320
Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Orestes 316

ed. Gilbert Murray

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