Euripides, Bacchae, ed. Gilbert Murray, 519

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Χορός

Ἀχελῴου θύγατερ,

πότνιʼ εὐπάρθενε Δίρκα,
520

σὺ γὰρ ἐν σαῖς ποτε παγαῖς

τὸ Διὸς βρέφος ἔλαβες,

ὅτε μηρῷ πυρὸς ἐξ ἀ-

θανάτου Ζεὺς ὁ τεκὼν ἥρ-

πασέ νιν, τάδʼ ἀναβοάσας·
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Ἴθι, Διθύραμβʼ, ἐμὰν ἄρ-

σενα τάνδε βᾶθι νηδύν·

ἀναφαίνω σε τόδʼ, ὦ Βάκ-

χιε, Θήβαις ὀνομάζειν.

σὺ δέ μʼ, ὦ μάκαιρα Δίρκα,
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στεφανηφόρους ἀπωθῇ

θιάσους ἔχουσαν ἐν σοί.

τί μʼ ἀναίνῃ; τί με φεύγεις;

ἔτι ναὶ τὰν βοτρυώδη

Διονύσου χάριν οἴνας,
535

ἔτι σοι τοῦ Βρομίου μελήσει.

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.)) — 519 focus

Chorus

Daughter of Acheloüs,

venerable Dirce, happy virgin, you once received the child of Zeus in your streams, when Zeus his father snatched him up from the immortal fire and saved him in his thigh,
520

crying out: Go, Dithyrambus, enter this my male womb. I will make you illustrious, Bacchus, in Thebes , so that they will call you by this name.
525

But you, blessed Dirce, reject me with my garland-bearing company about you. Why do you refuse me, why do you flee me? I swear by the cluster-bearing
530

delight of Dionysus’ vine that you will have a care for Bromius.
535

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.) — 519 focus

Acheloos' erhabenes Kind, Dirka, du holdlächelnde Jungfrau!

Denn du nahmst einst in dein Flutbett

Den Sohn Kronions auf,

Da der Gott ihn aus der Glut,
455

Der unsterblichen, raffend,

In die Huft' ihn mit der Goldspange sich einschloß:

,,Dithyrambos,

rief er

auf, gehe hinein in diesen

Mannleib!

So dich, o Bacchios, nennend, stell' ich dem Volk Thebe's

Und du, glückselige Dirka,
460

dich dar."

Du verstoßest mich von dir

Mit den kranzgeschmückten Festreihn?

Was verabscheust du, was fliehst du mich?

O gewiß! einst, bei des Weingottes beseligenden Pokalen!

Einst wird Bromios dir noch werth sein!
465
Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Bacchae 519

ed. Gilbert Murray

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