Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1058

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Χορός

ἀνὰ δʼ ἐλάταισι στεφανώδει τε χλόᾳ

θίασος ἔμολεν ἱπποβάτας

Κενταύρων ἐπὶ δαῖτα τὰν
1060

θεῶν κρατῆρά τε Βάκχου.

μέγα δʼ ἀνέκλαγον· Ὦ Νηρηὶ κόρα,

παῖδα σὲ Θεσσαλίᾳ μέγα φῶς

μάντις ὁ φοιβάδα μοῦσαν

εἰδὼς γεννάσειν
1065

Χείρων ἐξονόμαζεν,

ὃς ἥξει χθόνα λογχήρεσι σὺν Μυρμιδόνων

ἀσπισταῖς Πριάμοιο κλεινὰν

γαῖαν ἐκπυρώσων,
1070

περὶ σώματι χρυσέων

ὅπλων Ἡφαιστοπόνων

κεκορυθμένος ἔνδυτʼ, ἐκ θεᾶς

ματρὸς δωρήματʼ ἔχων

Θέτιδος, ἅ νιν ἔτικτεν.
1075

μακάριον τότε δαίμονες

τᾶς εὐπάτριδος γάμον

Νηρῄδων ἔθεσαν πρώτας

Πηλέως θʼ ὑμεναίους.

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.)) — 1058 focus

Chorus

The revel-rout of Centaurs came too, mounted on horses, to the feast of the gods and the mixing-bowl of Bacchus,

leaning on fir-trees, with¹ wreaths of green foliage round their heads; and Chiron cried loudly: Daughter of Nereus, you shall bear a son, a dazzling light to Thessaly ; and the prophet,
1060

skilled in arts inspired by Phoebus, gave his name; for he shall come with an army of Myrmidon spearmen to the famous land of Priam,
1065

to set it in a blaze, his body cased in a suit of golden mail forged by Hephaestus, a gift from his goddess-mother, from Thetis who bore him.
1070

Then the gods shed a blessing on the marriage of the high-born bride, who was first of Nereus’ daughters, and on the wedding of Peleus.
1075

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.) — 1058 focus

Fichten im Arm, grünende Laubkronen im Haar,

Kamest du, gaultummelnder Schwarm,

Ihr Kentauren, zum Göttermahl

Und Bacchos' Pokalen.
1050

Und die thessalischen Jungfraun sangen im Chor:¹

„Nereus' Tochter, ein hohes Licht

Kundigte, der die Geschlechter

Von den Musen erforscht hat,

Cheiron dir an und Apollon,
1055

Das zum herrlichen Land Troas die speerschwingende Schaar

Führt, schildtragende Myrmidonen,

Troja mit Glut zu verhceren,

Um den Leib mit der goldnen Wehr,

Dem Werk des Hephåstos, geschmückt,
1060

Das der göttliche Held sich anlegt,

Ein Geschenk der Erhabenen, die

Den Glucklichen geboren!"

Also begingen die Götter das Fest

Der Ersten aus Nereus' Stamm,
1065

Thetis, der edeln Tochter, Vermählung

Mit des Aeakos Sohne.

Schlußgesang.

Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 1058

ed. Gilbert Murray

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