Euripides Bacchae 997

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)) — 997 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.) — 997 focus
Der, voll arger Lust, in gesezlosem Grimm,
Auszog wider deine Weihn, Bacchios,
895
Und sie, die dich gebar,
Im Geist wuthentbrannt, in wahntrunkner Gier,
Um den unbezwungnen Gott zu zwingen!
Wo stillweiser Sinn der Sterblichen ohne Wank
Sich zu dem Göttlichen
900
Gewandt, fließt das Leben hin sonder Harm.
Jagen nach Weisheit, ist höchste der Wonnen mir;
Aber von Allem, traun, fördert am meisten dies
Das Glück deines Lebens, wenn du Tag und Nacht
Dich dem Heil'gen weihst,
905
Und die Götter ehrst, verbannend,
Was sich emport wider das Recht.
Erschein', o Recht, erscheine, schwertbewehrtes Recht!
Ermord' ihn, durchstoß' ihm die Kehle, dem
Gottlos, gesezlos, rechtlos frevelnden,
910
Echions erdentsproßnem Sohn!
Schlußgesang.

Notes on the current edition

Bacchae

1. The text and meaning of these and the following lines are highly uncertain. The above translation is based on the paraphrase that Murray includes in his apparatus
qui iniuste etc. (v. 997), ei sententiarum castigatrix in rebus divinis indeprecabilis Mors est
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