Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1036

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Χορός

τίνʼ ἄρʼ Ὑμέναιος διὰ λωτοῦ Λίβυος

μετά τε φιλοχόρου κιθάρας

συρίγγων θʼ ὑπὸ καλαμοεσ-

σᾶν ἔστασεν ἰαχάν,

ὅτʼ ἀνὰ Πήλιον αἱ καλλιπλόκαμοι
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δαιτὶ θεῶν ἔνι Πιερίδες

χρυσεοσάνδαλον ἴχνος

ἐν γᾷ κρούουσαι

Πηλέως ἐς γάμον ἦλθον,

μελῳδοῖς Θέτιν ἀχήμασι τόν τʼ Αἰακίδαν,
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Κενταύρων ἐν ὄρεσι κλέουσαι

Πηλιάδα καθʼ ὕλαν.

ὁ δὲ Δαρδανίδας, Διὸς

λέκτρων τρύφημα φίλον,
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χρυσέοισιν ἄφυσσε λοιβὰν

ἐν κρατήρων γυάλοις,

ὁ Φρύγιος Γανυμήδης.

παρὰ δὲ λευκοφαῆ ψάμαθον

εἱλισσόμεναι κύκλια
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πεντήκοντα κόραι γάμους

Νηρέως ἐχόρευσαν.

Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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Current edition Perseus

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

Translations (3)

Iphigenia at Aulis Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1036 focus

Chorus

What wedding-hymn was that which raised its strains to the sound of Libyan flutes, to the music of the dancer’s lyre, and the note of the pipe of reeds?

It was on the day Pieria ’s lovely-haired choir came over the slopes of Pelion to the wedding of Peleus, beating the ground with print of golden sandals at the banquet of the gods,
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and hymning in dulcet strains the praise of Thetis and the son of Aeacus, over the Centaurs’ hill, down woods of Pelion .
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There was the Dardanian boy,

dainty morsel of Zeus’ bed, drawing off the wine he mixed in the depths of golden bowls, Ganymede the Phrygian; while, along the gleaming sand,
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the fifty daughters of Nereus graced the marriage with their dancing, circling in a mazy ring.
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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.) — 1036 focus

Welchen Gesang, Hymen, vereint libyscher Flot',

Und von der tanzliebenden 'Laut'

Und von Rohrschalmeien umtont,

Erhobest du jubelnd,

Da zu dem Göttergelag' auf Pelions Hihn
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Die schonlockigen Musen, mit

Goldenen Sohlen im Tanze

Sich schwingend, erschienen,

Zum Brautfeste des Peleus,

In tonreichem Gesang Thetis und ihn, Acakos' Sohn,¹
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Auf kentaurischem Gebirge feiernd

Und durch Pelions Haine.

Und Dardanos' Enkel, den

Sich Beus zum Geliebten erkor,

Goß himmlischen Trank des Nektar
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In den goldenen Bauch des Pokals,

Der Phryger Ganymedes.

Neben in schimmerndem Sande, sich rasch

Umdrehend im Kreis, feierten

Alle die fünfzig Tochter des Nereus
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Hochzeitliche Reigen.

Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 1036

ed. Gilbert Murray

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