Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 590

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Chorus of Argive men

Oh! great is the bliss the great enjoy. Behold Iphigenia, the king’s child, my lady, and Clytemnestra, the daughter of Tyndareus; how proud their lineage!
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how high their pinnacle of fortune! These mighty ones, whom wealth attends, are very gods in the eyes of less favored folk.
595

Chorus

Let us stand here, maidens of Chalcis , and lift the queen from her chariot

to the ground without stumbling, supporting her gently in our arms, with kind intent, that the renowned daughter of Agamemnon, just arrived, may feel no fear; strangers ourselves, let us avoid anything that may disturb
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or frighten the strangers from Argos .¹
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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)) — 590 focus

Χορὸς ἀνδρῶν Ἀργείων

ἰὼ ἰώ· μεγάλαι μεγάλων
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εὐδαιμονίαι· τὴν τοῦ βασιλέως

ἴδετʼ Ἰφιγένειαν, ἄνασσαν ἐμήν,

τὴν Τυνδάρεω τε Κλυταιμήστραν·

ὡς ἐκ μεγάλων ἐβλαστήκασʼ

ἐπί τʼ εὐμήκεις ἥκουσι τύχας.
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θεοί γʼ οἱ κρείσσους οἵ τʼ ὀλβοφόροι

τοῖς οὐκ εὐδαίμοσι θνητῶν.

Χορός

στῶμεν, Χαλκίδος ἔκγονα θρέμματα,

τὴν βασίλειαν δεξώμεθʼ ὄχων

ἄπο μὴ σφαλερῶς ἐπὶ γαῖαν,
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ἀγανῶς δὲ χεροῖν μαλακῇ ῥώμῃ,

μὴ ταρβήσῃ νεωστί μοι μολὸν

κλεινὸν τέκνον Ἀγαμέμνονος,

μηδὲ θόρυβον μηδʼ ἔκπληξιν

ταῖς Ἀργείαις
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ξεῖναι ξείναις παρέχωμεν.

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.) — 590 focus

Groß ist der Gewaltigen glückliches Loos.

Seht Iphigeneia,

Die gebietende Tochter des Königs,¹
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Und Klytamnestra, Tyndareos' Kind!

Wie herrlich von Herrlichen stammen die Zwei,

Und wandeln im Glanz weitstrahlenden Glucks!

Die Gewaltigen, traun, sind Götter, verleihn²

Unglucklichen Sterblichen Wohlstand.
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Zweiter Halbchor.

Ihr Töchter von Chalkis, tretet heran

Zu der Königin, hebt sie vom Wagen herab,

Daß nicht an der Erd' ausgleite der Fuß;

Sanft reichet die Hand mit freundlichem Sinn,

Daß Bangen die kaum Anlangende nicht
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Aufreg', Agamemnons herrliches Kind;

Denn Kummer und Unruh dürfen wir nicht

Den argeiischen Fraun,

Wir Fremden den Fremden, bereiten.

Klytamnestra mit Iphigenia und Orestes. Agamemnon.

Klytamnestra.

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Iphigenia in Aulis

1. The whole passage from l. 574-606 is regarded by Paley and Dindorf as an interpolation; while most editors concur in regarding 11. 599-606 as undoubtedly spurious.

Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 590

Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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