Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 1058

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Fichten im Arm, grünende Laubkronen im Haar,

Kamest du, gaultummelnder Schwarm,

Ihr Kentauren, zum Göttermahl

Und Bacchos' Pokalen.
1050

Und die thessalischen Jungfraun sangen im Chor:¹

„Nereus' Tochter, ein hohes Licht

Kundigte, der die Geschlechter

Von den Musen erforscht hat,

Cheiron dir an und Apollon,
1055

Das zum herrlichen Land Troas die speerschwingende Schaar

Führt, schildtragende Myrmidonen,

Troja mit Glut zu verhceren,

Um den Leib mit der goldnen Wehr,

Dem Werk des Hephåstos, geschmückt,
1060

Das der göttliche Held sich anlegt,

Ein Geschenk der Erhabenen, die

Den Glucklichen geboren!"

Also begingen die Götter das Fest

Der Ersten aus Nereus' Stamm,
1065

Thetis, der edeln Tochter, Vermählung

Mit des Aeakos Sohne.

Schlußgesang.

Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1845; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)

Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 1036-1097 focus

Χορός

τίνʼ ἄρʼ Ὑμέναιος διὰ λωτοῦ Λίβυος

μετά τε φιλοχόρου κιθάρας

συρίγγων θʼ ὑπὸ καλαμοεσ-

σᾶν ἔστασεν ἰαχάν,

ὅτʼ ἀνὰ Πήλιον αἱ καλλιπλόκαμοι
1040

δαιτὶ θεῶν ἔνι Πιερίδες

χρυσεοσάνδαλον ἴχνος

ἐν γᾷ κρούουσαι

Πηλέως ἐς γάμον ἦλθον,

μελῳδοῖς Θέτιν ἀχήμασι τόν τʼ Αἰακίδαν,
1045

Κενταύρων ἐν ὄρεσι κλέουσαι

Πηλιάδα καθʼ ὕλαν.

ὁ δὲ Δαρδανίδας, Διὸς

λέκτρων τρύφημα φίλον,
1050

χρυσέοισιν ἄφυσσε λοιβὰν

ἐν κρατήρων γυάλοις,

ὁ Φρύγιος Γανυμήδης.

παρὰ δὲ λευκοφαῆ ψάμαθον

εἱλισσόμεναι κύκλια
1055

πεντήκοντα κόραι γάμους

Νηρέως ἐχόρευσαν.

1058

Χορός

ἀνὰ δʼ ἐλάταισι στεφανώδει τε χλόᾳ

θίασος ἔμολεν ἱπποβάτας

Κενταύρων ἐπὶ δαῖτα τὰν
1060

θεῶν κρατῆρά τε Βάκχου.

μέγα δʼ ἀνέκλαγον· Ὦ Νηρηὶ κόρα,

παῖδα σὲ Θεσσαλίᾳ μέγα φῶς

μάντις ὁ φοιβάδα μοῦσαν

εἰδὼς γεννάσειν
1065

Χείρων ἐξονόμαζεν,

ὃς ἥξει χθόνα λογχήρεσι σὺν Μυρμιδόνων

ἀσπισταῖς Πριάμοιο κλεινὰν

γαῖαν ἐκπυρώσων,
1070

περὶ σώματι χρυσέων

ὅπλων Ἡφαιστοπόνων

κεκορυθμένος ἔνδυτʼ, ἐκ θεᾶς

ματρὸς δωρήματʼ ἔχων

Θέτιδος, ἅ νιν ἔτικτεν.
1075

μακάριον τότε δαίμονες

τᾶς εὐπάτριδος γάμον

Νηρῄδων ἔθεσαν πρώτας

Πηλέως θʼ ὑμεναίους.

1080

Χορός

—σὲ δʼ ἐπὶ κάρα στέψουσι καλλικόμαν
1080

πλόκαμον Ἀργεῖοι, βαλιὰν

ὥστε πετραίων ἀπʼ ἄντρων

ἐλθοῦσαν ὀρέων

μόσχον ἀκήρατον, βρότειον

αἱμάσσοντες λαιμόν·

οὐ σύριγγι τραφεῖσαν οὐδʼ
1085

ἐν ῥοιβδήσεσι βουκόλων,

παρὰ δὲ ματέρι νυμφοκόμον

Ἰναχίδαις γάμον.

ποῦ τὸ τᾶς Αἰδοῦς

ἢ τὸ τᾶς Ἀρετᾶς ἔχει
1090

σθένειν τι πρόσωπον,

ὁπότε τὸ μὲν ἄσεπτον ἔχει

δύνασιν, ἁ δʼ Ἀρετὰ κατόπι-

σθεν θνατοῖς ἀμελεῖται,

Ἀνομία δὲ νόμων κρατεῖ,
1095

καὶ μὴ κοινὸς ἀγὼν βροτοῖς

μή τις θεῶν φθόνος ἔλθῃ;

Translations (2)

Iphigenia at Aulis Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1036-1095 focus

Chorus

What wedding-hymn was that which raised its strains to the sound of Libyan flutes, to the music of the dancer’s lyre, and the note of the pipe of reeds?

It was on the day Pieria ’s lovely-haired choir came over the slopes of Pelion to the wedding of Peleus, beating the ground with print of golden sandals at the banquet of the gods,
1040

and hymning in dulcet strains the praise of Thetis and the son of Aeacus, over the Centaurs’ hill, down woods of Pelion .
1045

There was the Dardanian boy,

dainty morsel of Zeus’ bed, drawing off the wine he mixed in the depths of golden bowls, Ganymede the Phrygian; while, along the gleaming sand,
1050

the fifty daughters of Nereus graced the marriage with their dancing, circling in a mazy ring.
1055

1058

Chorus

The revel-rout of Centaurs came too, mounted on horses, to the feast of the gods and the mixing-bowl of Bacchus,

leaning on fir-trees, with¹ wreaths of green foliage round their heads; and Chiron cried loudly: Daughter of Nereus, you shall bear a son, a dazzling light to Thessaly ; and the prophet,
1060

skilled in arts inspired by Phoebus, gave his name; for he shall come with an army of Myrmidon spearmen to the famous land of Priam,
1065

to set it in a blaze, his body cased in a suit of golden mail forged by Hephaestus, a gift from his goddess-mother, from Thetis who bore him.
1070

Then the gods shed a blessing on the marriage of the high-born bride, who was first of Nereus’ daughters, and on the wedding of Peleus.
1075

1080

Chorus

But the Argives will crown you,² wreathing the lovely tresses of your hair, like a pure, dappled³ heifer brought from some rocky cave, and staining with blood your human throat;
1080

though you were never reared among the piping and whistling of herdsmen, but at your mother’s side, to be decked as the bride of a son of Inachus. ⁴Where now does the face of modesty
1085

or virtue have any strength?⁵ seeing that godlessness holds sway, and virtue is neglected by men and thrust behind them,
1090

lawlessness over law prevailing, and mortals no⁶ longer making common cause to keep the jealousy of gods from reaching them.
1095

Iphigenia in Aulis (OCR draft) Experimental (Iphigenia in Aulis. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

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Iphigenia in Aulis

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Die thessalischen Jungfraun, die Musen auf dem Pindus in Thessalien.

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Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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