Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 558

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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
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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
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secretly; while in men, an inborn sense of order, shown in countless ways,² adds to a city’s greatness.
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Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.

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Current edition Perseus

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)) — 558 focus

Χορός

—διάφοροι δὲ φύσεις βροτῶν,

διάφοροι δὲ τρόποι· τὸ δʼ ὀρ-

θῶς ἐσθλὸν σαφὲς αἰεί·
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τροφαί θʼ αἱ παιδευόμεναι

μέγα φέρουσʼ ἐς τὰν ἀρετάν·

τό τε γὰρ αἰδεῖσθαι σοφία,

τάν τʼ ἐξαλλάσσουσαν ἔχει

χάριν ὑπὸ γνώμας ἐσορᾶν
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τὸ δέον, ἔνθα δόξα φέρει

κλέος ἀγήρατον βιοτᾷ.

μέγα τι θηρεύειν ἀρετάν,

γυναιξὶ μὲν κατὰ Κύπριν

κρυπτάν, ἐν ἀνδράσι δʼ αὖ
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κόσμος ἐνὼν ὁ μυριοπλη-

θὴς μείζω πόλιν αὔξει.

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.) — 558 focus

Ungleich sind die Bestrebungen,

Sind die Geister der Menschen; doch

Wahrhaft Edles bewährt sich

Allzeit selbst; auch bildende Zucht

Lenkt mit Macht zur Tugend hinan.
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Denn Scheu tragen ist weise sein,

Und die sinnig erkannte Pflicht

Trågt vergeltenden Dank zum Lohn;

Denn der Ruhm, nachfolgend, verleiht

Ihr den niemals alternden Preis.
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Nach der Tugend jagen ist groß,

Die still in Liebe das Weib übt;

Doch hoher mannlicher Sinn,

Strahlend in tausendfältiger That,

Mehrt die Größe des Volkes.
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Schlußgesang.

Notes on the current edition

Iphigenia in Aulis

1. ἐξαλλάσσουσαν χάριν. Liddell and Scott render as above. Paley follows Hermann in rendering a compensating pleasure. The whole of this chorus is so full, however, of corruption, and possibly interpolation, that it is not unlikely that this phrase was not of Euripides’ coining.

2. Reading κόσμος ἐνὼν ὁ μυριπληθὴς with Markland, but here again it is hopeless to recover the true reading.

Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 558

Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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