Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 543

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Selig, wer in besonnener

Scheu mit Mäßigung deine Lust

Kostet, göttliche Kypris!

Ruhig fließt sein Leben dahin,

Nimmer getrübt von stürmender Wuth.
540

Der goldlockige Liebesgott

Hålt zwei Bogen der Huld gespannt;

Einer bringt ein seliges Loos,

Der zertrümmert des Lebens Glück.

Diesen, reizende Kypria,
545

Halte fern von unserm Gemach!

Mir sei bescheidener Liebreiz

Gegönnt und heilige Lust,

Auch Aphrodita's keuscher Genuß;

Doch unmäßigen hass ich.
550
Gegenstrophe.

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

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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)) — 543-589 focus

Χορός

—μάκαρες οἳ μετρίας θεοῦ

μετά τε σωφροσύνας μετέ-

σχον λέκτρων Ἀφροδίτας,
545

γαλανείᾳ χρησάμενοι

μανιάδων οἴστρων, ὅθι δὴ

δίδυμʼ Ἔρως ὁ χρυσοκόμας

τόξʼ ἐντείνεται χαρίτων,

τὸ μὲν ἐπʼ εὐαίωνι πότμῳ,
550

τὸ δʼ ἐπὶ συγχύσει βιοτᾶς.

ἀπενέπω νιν ἁμετέρων,

Κύπρι καλλίστα, θαλάμων.

εἴη δέ μοι μετρία μὲν

χάρις, πόθοι δʼ ὅσιοι,
555

καὶ μετέχοιμι τᾶς Ἀφροδί-

τας, πολλὰν δʼ ἀποθείμαν.

558

Χορός

—διάφοροι δὲ φύσεις βροτῶν,

διάφοροι δὲ τρόποι· τὸ δʼ ὀρ-

θῶς ἐσθλὸν σαφὲς αἰεί·
560

τροφαί θʼ αἱ παιδευόμεναι

μέγα φέρουσʼ ἐς τὰν ἀρετάν·

τό τε γὰρ αἰδεῖσθαι σοφία,

τάν τʼ ἐξαλλάσσουσαν ἔχει

χάριν ὑπὸ γνώμας ἐσορᾶν
565

τὸ δέον, ἔνθα δόξα φέρει

κλέος ἀγήρατον βιοτᾷ.

μέγα τι θηρεύειν ἀρετάν,

γυναιξὶ μὲν κατὰ Κύπριν

κρυπτάν, ἐν ἀνδράσι δʼ αὖ
570

κόσμος ἐνὼν ὁ μυριοπλη-

θὴς μείζω πόλιν αὔξει.

573

Χορός

—ἔμολες, ὦ Πάρις, ᾗτε σύ γε

βουκόλος ἀργενναῖς ἐτράφης

Ἰδαίαις παρὰ μόσχοις,
575

βάρβαρα συρίζων, Φρυγίων

αὐλῶν Ὀλύμπου καλάμοις

μιμήματα πνείων.

εὔθηλοι δὲ τρέφοντο βόες,

ὅτε σε κρίσις ἔμηνε θεᾶν,
580

ἅ σʼ Ἑλλάδα πέμπει·

ἐλεφαντοδέτων πάροι-

θεν δόμων δὲ στὰς Ἑλένας

ἐν ἀντωποῖς βλεφάροισιν

ἔρωτά τʼ ἔδωκας, ἔρωτι δʼ
585

αὐτὸς ἐπτοάθης.

ὅθεν ἔρις ἔριν

Ἑλλάδα σὺν δορὶ ναυσί τʼ ἄγει

ἐς Τροίας πέργαμα

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.)) — 543-585 focus

Chorus

Happy are they who find the goddess come in moderate might, sharing with self-restraint

in Aphrodite’s gift of marriage and enjoying calm and rest from frenzied passions, where the Love-god, golden-haired, stretches his charmed bow with twin arrows,
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and one is aimed at happiness, the other at life’s confusion. O lady Cypris, queen of beauty! far from my bridal bower I ban the last. Be mine delight in moderation
550

and pure desires, and may I have a share in love, but shun excess!
555

558

Chorus

Men’s natures vary, and their habits differ,

but virtue is always manifest. Likewise the training that come of education conduces greatly to virtue; for not only is modesty wisdom, but it has also the rare grace¹
560

of seeing by its better judgment what is right; whereby a glory, ever young, is shed over life by reputation. A great thing it is to hunt virtue, for women when they love
565

secretly; while in men, an inborn sense of order, shown in countless ways,² adds to a city’s greatness.
570

573

Chorus

You came, O Paris , to the place where you were reared to herd the cows

among the white heifers of Ida, piping in foreign strain and breathing on your reeds an echo of the Phrygian airs Olympus played. Full-uddered cows were browsing at the spot
575

where³ that verdict between goddesses was awaiting you—the cause of your going to Hellas to stand before the ivory palace, kindling love in Helen’s
580

entranced eyes and feeling its flutter in your own breast; from which the fiend of strife brought Hellas with her spear and ships to the towers of Troy .
585

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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Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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