Euripides, Bacchae, ed. Gilbert Murray, 105

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Χορός

ὦ Σεμέλας τροφοὶ Θῆ-
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βαι, στεφανοῦσθε κισσῷ·

βρύετε βρύετε χλοήρει

μίλακι καλλικάρπῳ

καὶ καταβακχιοῦσθε δρυὸς

ἢ ἐλάτας κλάδοισι,
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στικτῶν τʼ ἐνδυτὰ νεβρίδων

στέφετε λευκοτρίχων πλοκάμων

μαλλοῖς· ἀμφὶ δὲ νάρθηκας ὑβριστὰς

ὁσιοῦσθʼ· αὐτίκα γᾶ πᾶσα χορεύσει—

Βρόμιος ὅστις ἄγῃ θιάσουσ—
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εἰς ὄρος εἰς ὄρος, ἔνθα μένει

θηλυγενὴς ὄχλος

ἀφʼ ἱστῶν παρὰ κερκίδων τʼ

οἰστρηθεὶς Διονύσῳ.

Bacchae. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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

Translations (3)

The Bacchae Perseus (Euripides. The Tragedies of Euripides. Vol. I. Buckley, Theodore Alois, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 105 focus

Chorus

O Thebes , nurse of Semele, crown yourself with ivy, flourish, flourish with the verdant yew bearing sweet fruit, and crown yourself in honor of Bacchus with branches of oak
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or pine. Adorn your garments of spotted fawn-skin with fleeces of white sheep, and sport in holy games with insolent thyrsoi ¹. At once all the earth will dance—
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whoever leads the sacred band is Bromius—to the mountain, to the mountain, where the crowd of women waits, goaded away from their weaving by Dionysus.
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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.) — 105 focus

Semele's Mutter, Thebå, grin' in des Epheus Kranze,

Grune, grûn' in dem frischen, blühenden Bohnenlaube,

Stürm' in des Bacchos Jubel in den Zweigen der Tann' und Eiche!

Hüllt der fleckigen Hindin Fell um weißwolliges zartes

Gewand,

Den muthwilligen Stab heiligem Brauch heiligend; bald hebt sich das Land wirbelnd im Tanze,¹
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Wann Bromios die Reigen führt auf das Gebirg,²

Auf das Gebirge, wohin schwärmender Frauen Schaar

Von Webstuhl und Gewebe floh, wahnsinntrunken von Bacchos!

Zweite Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Bacchae 105

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