Euripides, Bacchae, ed. Gilbert Murray, 537

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Χορός

οἵαν οἵαν ὀργὰν

ἀναφαίνει χθόνιον

γένος ἐκφύς τε δράκοντός

ποτε Πενθεύς, ὃν Ἐχίων
540

ἐφύτευσε χθόνιος,

ἀγριωπὸν τέρας, οὐ φῶ-

τα βρότειον, φόνιον δʼ ὥσ-

τε γίγαντʼ ἀντίπαλον θεοῖς·

ὃς ἔμʼ ἐν βρόχοισι τὰν τοῦ
545

Βρομίου τάχα ξυνάψει,

τὸν ἐμὸν δʼ ἐντὸς ἔχει δώ-

ματος ἤδη θιασώταν

σκοτίαις κρυπτὸν ἐν εἱρκταῖς.

ἐσορᾷς τάδʼ, ὦ Διὸς παῖ
550

Διόνυσε, σοὺς προφήτας

ἐν ἁμίλλαισιν ἀνάγκας;

μόλε, χρυσῶπα τινάσσων,

ἄνα, θύρσον κατʼ Ὄλυμπον,

φονίου δʼ ἀνδρὸς ὕβριν κατάσχες.
555

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.)) — 537 focus

Chorus

What rage, what rage does the earth-born race show, and Pentheus,

once descended from a serpent—Pentheus, whom earth-born Echion bore, a fierce monster, not a mortal man, but like a bloody giant, hostile to the gods.
540

He will soon bind me, the hand-maid of Bromius, in chains, and he already holds my fellow-reveler within the house, hidden in a dark prison.
545

Do you see this, O Dionysus, son of Zeus, your priests in the dangers of restraint? Come, lord, down from Olympus , brandishing your golden thyrsos,
550

and restrain the insolence of the blood-thirsty man.
555

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.) — 537 focus

Er bewährt sein Erdengeschlecht, Pentheus bewährt seine

Ihn der Erdspråkling Echion

Gezeugt. Ein Ungethum

Mit der Wuth funkelndem Blick,

Kein sterbliches Wesen,
470

Geburt, daß

Ein Gigant, triefend von Blut, kämpft er mit Göttern.

Und in Bande will er uns, Bromios' Dienerinnen, schlagen;

Schon im Palaste bewahrt er, schloß in der Nacht Kerker

Den Genossen unserer Festreihn.

Siehst du's, o Sohn des Zeus,
475

Dionysos, deine Priester

ihn ein,

In dem Kampf außersten Unheils?

O herab komm vom Olymp, strahlender Gott, schwinge den

Thyrsos,

Und mit Macht hemme die Wuth des Mörders!

Schlußgesang.

Euripides Bacchae 537

ed. Gilbert Murray

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