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Chorus
The Hellenes’ gathered army will come in arms aboard their ships to Simois with its silver eddies,
to
Ilium
, the plain of
Troy
beloved by Phoebus; where Cassandra, I am told, wildly tosses her golden tresses, wreathed with crown of green laurel,
755
whenever the god’s resistless prophecies inspire her.
760
The Hellenes’ gathered army will come in arms aboard their ships to Simois with its silver eddies,
to
Ilium
, the plain of
Troy
beloved by Phoebus; where Cassandra, I am told, wildly tosses her golden tresses, wreathed with crown of green laurel,
755
whenever the god’s resistless prophecies inspire her.
760
Chorus
And on the towers of
Troy
and round her walls shall Trojans stand, when sea-borne troops
with brazen shields row in on shapely ships to the channels of the Simois, eager to take Helen, the sister of that heavenly pair whom Zeus begot, from Priam, and bear her back to
Hellas
by toil
765
of Achaean shields and spears.
770
And on the towers of
Troy
and round her walls shall Trojans stand, when sea-borne troops
with brazen shields row in on shapely ships to the channels of the Simois, eager to take Helen, the sister of that heavenly pair whom Zeus begot, from Priam, and bear her back to
Hellas
by toil
765
of Achaean shields and spears.
770
Chorus
The son of Atreus, encircling
Pergamus
, the Phrygians’ town, with murderous war
around her stone-built towers, dragging
Paris
’s head backward to cut his throat and sacking the city
1
from roof to base, shall be a cause of many tears to maids and
775
Priam’s wife. And Helen, the daughter of Zeus, shall
2
weep in bitter grief because she left her lord.
780
Never may there appear to me or to my children’s children
the prospect which the wealthy Lydian ladies and
Phrygia
’s brides will have
3
as at their looms they converse:
785
Tell me, who will pluck me away from my ruined country, tightening his grasp on lovely tresses till the tears flow? it is all through you, the offspring of the long-necked swan; if indeed it is a true report
790
that Leda bore
4
you to a winged bird, when Zeus transformed himself there, or whether, in the tablets of the poets, fables have carried these tales to men’s ears
795
idly, out of season.
800
The son of Atreus, encircling
Pergamus
, the Phrygians’ town, with murderous war
around her stone-built towers, dragging
Paris
’s head backward to cut his throat and sacking the city
1
from roof to base, shall be a cause of many tears to maids and
775
Priam’s wife. And Helen, the daughter of Zeus, shall
2
weep in bitter grief because she left her lord.
780
Never may there appear to me or to my children’s children
the prospect which the wealthy Lydian ladies and
Phrygia
’s brides will have
3
as at their looms they converse:
785
Tell me, who will pluck me away from my ruined country, tightening his grasp on lovely tresses till the tears flow? it is all through you, the offspring of the long-necked swan; if indeed it is a true report
790
that Leda bore
4
you to a winged bird, when Zeus transformed himself there, or whether, in the tablets of the poets, fables have carried these tales to men’s ears
795
idly, out of season.
800
Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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