Euripides, Bacchae, ed. Gilbert Murray, 135

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Χορός

ἡδὺς ἐν ὄρεσιν, ὅταν ἐκ θιάσων δρομαί-
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ων πέσῃ πεδόσε, νε-

βρίδος ἔχων ἱερὸν ἐνδυτόν, ἀγρεύων

αἷμα τραγοκτόνον, ὠμοφάγον χάριν, ἱέμε-

νος ἐς ὄρεα Φρύγια, Λύδιʼ, ὁ δʼ ἔξαρχος Βρόμιος,
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εὐοἷ.

ῥεῖ δὲ γάλακτι πέδον, ῥεῖ δʼ οἴνῳ, ῥεῖ δὲ μελισσᾶν

νέκταρι.

Συρίας δʼ ὡς λιβάνου κα-

πνὸν ὁ Βακχεὺς ἀνέχων
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πυρσώδη φλόγα πεύκας

ἐκ νάρθηκος ἀίσσει

δρόμῳ καὶ χοροῖσιν

πλανάτας ἐρεθίζων

ἰαχαῖς τʼ ἀναπάλλων,

τρυφερόν τε πλόκαμον εἰς αἰθέρα ῥίπτων.
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ἅμα δʼ εὐάσμασι τοιάδʼ ἐπιβρέμει·

Ὦ ἴτε βάκχαι,

ὦ ἴτε βάκχαι,

Τμώλου χρυσορόου χλιδᾷ

μέλπετε τὸν Διόνυσον
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βαρυβρόμων ὑπὸ τυμπάνων,

εὔια τὸν εὔιον ἀγαλλόμεναι θεὸν

ἐν Φρυγίαισι βοαῖς ἐνοπαῖσί τε,

λωτὸς ὅταν εὐκέλαδος
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ἱερὸς ἱερὰ παίγματα βρέμῃ, σύνοχα

φοιτάσιν εἰς ὄρος εἰς ὄρος· ἡδομέ-
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να δʼ ἄρα, πῶλος ὅπως ἅμα ματέρι

φορβάδι, κῶλον ἄγει ταχύπουν σκιρτήμασι βάκχα.

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.)) — 135 focus

Chorus

He is sweet in the mountains ¹, whenever after the running dance he falls on the ground, wearing the sacred garment of fawn skin, hunting the blood of the slain goat, a raw-eaten delight, rushing to the
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Phrygian, the Lydian mountains, and the leader of the dance is Bromius, evoe! ² The plain flows with milk, it flows with wine, it flows with the nectar of bees.
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The Bacchic one, raising the flaming torch of pine on his thyrsos, like the smoke of Syrian incense, darts about, arousing the wanderers with his racing and dancing, agitating them with his shouts,
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casting his rich locks into the air. And among the Maenad cries his voice rings deep: ³ Go, Bacchae, go, Bacchae, with the luxury of Tmolus that flows with gold,
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sing of Dionysus, beneath the heavy beat of drums, celebrating in delight the god of delight with Phrygian shouts and cries,
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when the sweet-sounding sacred pipe sounds a sacred playful tune suited
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to the wanderers, to the mountain, to the mountain! And the Bacchante, rejoicing like a foal with its grazing mother, rouses her swift foot in a gamboling dance.
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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.) — 135 focus

Wann er vom flüchtigen Tanz fröhlich herab die Berge

In's Feld sich schwingt, von der heiligen Hülle des Hirsches umwunden, im Flug

Fliehende Böcke verfolgt, sein blutiges Mahl,

Strebend in phrygische Höhen und lydische,
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Den Chor anführend, der Wonnegott!¹

Wo das Gefilde von Milch und von Wein stromt, und von der Bienen

Nektar strömt, und syrischen Weihrauch duftet;²

Wo Dionysos, der

Im Hohlstabe des Kienes hochaufflammende Fackel schwingt,
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Zum Wettlauf, zu Tänzen die Schweifenden erregt,

Und mit Jauchzen emporrust,

Und das glänzende Haar in die Lüfte verstreut.

Zugleich drohnt er laut in den Wonneruf:

Auf, Bacchantinnen, eilt zu des goldentstromenden Tmolos³
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Feiert den Gott Dionysos

Pracht!

Bei dumpfhallender Pauken Klang,

Erhebt den beseligenden, begeisternden Gott

Fröhlich in Lauten und Weisen der Phrygier,

Wann süßer Flåtenhauch heilig zum heiligen
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Jubel ertont, führend den Chor, der in's Gebirge wallt;

Jauchzend sofort, wie das Füllen, gesellt zu der weidenden

Mutter,

Hebt den geflügelten Fuß und tanzt die Bacchantin.

Teiresias; spåter Kadmos.

Euripides Bacchae 135

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