Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 164

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Chorus

To the sandy beach

of sea-coast Aulis I have come after a voyage through the tides of narrow Euripus, leaving Chalcis , my city which feeds the waters
165

of far-famed Arethusa near the sea, so that I might behold the army of the Achaeans and the ships rowed by those godlike heroes; for our husbands tell us
170

that fair-haired Menelaus and high-born Agamemnon are leading them to Troy on a thousand ships in quest of Helen, whom Paris the herdsman
175

carried off from the banks of reedy Eurotas, his gift from Aphrodite, when that queen of Cyprus entered beauty’s contest with Hera and Pallas at the gushing fountain.¹
180

Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.

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

Editions (1)

Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 164 focus

Χορός

—ἔμολον ἀμφὶ παρακτίαν

ψάμαθον Αὐλίδος ἐναλίας,
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Εὐρίπου διὰ χευμάτων

κέλσασα στενοπόρθμων,

Χαλκίδα πόλιν ἐμὰν προλιποῦσʼ,

ἀγχιάλων ὑδάτων τροφὸν

τᾶς κλεινᾶς Ἀρεθούσας,
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Ἀχαιῶν στρατιὰν ὡς ἐσιδοίμαν

Ἀχαιῶν τε πλάτας ναυσιπόρους ἡ-

μιθέων, οὓς ἐπὶ Τροίαν

ἐλάταις χιλιόναυσιν

τὸν ξανθὸν Μενέλαόν θʼ
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ἁμέτεροι πόσεις

ἐνέπουσʼ Ἀγαμέμνονά τʼ εὐπατρίδαν

στέλλειν ἐπὶ τὰν Ἑλέναν, ἀπʼ

Εὐρώτα δονακοτρόφου

Πάρις ὁ βουκόλος ἃν ἔλαβε
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δῶρον τᾶς Ἀφροδίτας,

ὅτʼ ἐπὶ κρηναίαισι δρόσοις

Ἥρᾳ Παλλάδι τʼ ἔριν ἔριν

μορφᾶς ἁ Κύπρις ἔσχεν.

Translations (2)

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.)

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.) — 164 focus

Eben kam ich an Aulis'

Sandigen, meerumwogten Strand;

Ueber Euripos' schaumenden Sund

Sezt' ich, Chalkis verlassend,

Meine Stadt mit der schmalen Furth,
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Welche die Flut Arethusa's, die¹

Nachbarin des Meeres, hegt.

Denn mich drångt' es, die Heerschaaren Achaa's,

Die schnellrudernden Meerschiffe der Halbgötter zu schaun,

Welche zum Land Troja's in dichtwimmelndem Zuge-
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(So verkunden es unsre

Gatten) der blonde Held

Menelaos und Fürst Agamemnon hinaus

Führt, Helena wiederzufordern, die

Vom schilfreichen Eurotasſtrand²
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Paris, der Hirt auf Ida, geraubt,

Dem sie schenkt' Aphrodite,

Als an des Quelles thauendem Born

Kypris rang, um der Schöne Preis

Rang mit Pallas und Hera.
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Erste Gegenstrophe.

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Iphigenia in Aulis

1. Dindorf, with whom Paley agrees, regards 11. 171-84 as the work of a later hand, and gives good reasons for his opinion.

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