Euripides Bacchae 902

T. A. Buckley (Translator)

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Bacchae. Euripides. T. A. Buckley (Translator). London. 1850.

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Current edition Perseus

The Bacchae (English) (Euripides. The Tragedies of Euripides. Vol. I. Buckley, Theodore Alois, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Editions (1)
Βάκχαι Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 902 focus
Translations (2)
The Bacchae (OCR draft) Experimental (The Bacchae. 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.) — 902 focus
Heil ihm, welcher, des Meeres Wogen
Glucklich entflohn, im Hafen einlief!
Heil auch ihm, der über Drangsal
Sich erhob! An Glück und Herrschaft
Gehn die Einen anders vor den Andern.
805
Aber tausend Hoffnungen
Laben tausend Andre noch;
Und im Segen enden diese
Für die Sterblichen, jene verschwinden.
Doch wem jeglichen Tag das Glück lacht, ihn preisen wir selig.
810
Dionysos. Pentheus. Der Chor.

Notes on the current edition

Bacchae

1. The archaic sound of the English happy is he..., with its implicit echo of the beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount, is appropriate here, for the chorus is describing beatitudes of a kind (though not strictly religious beatitudes) as appear at 73ff.