Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, ed. Gilbert Murray, 1080

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Χορός

—σὲ δʼ ἐπὶ κάρα στέψουσι καλλικόμαν
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πλόκαμον Ἀργεῖοι, βαλιὰν

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μόσχον ἀκήρατον, βρότειον

αἱμάσσοντες λαιμόν·

οὐ σύριγγι τραφεῖσαν οὐδʼ
1085

ἐν ῥοιβδήσεσι βουκόλων,

παρὰ δὲ ματέρι νυμφοκόμον

Ἰναχίδαις γάμον.

ποῦ τὸ τᾶς Αἰδοῦς

ἢ τὸ τᾶς Ἀρετᾶς ἔχει
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σθένειν τι πρόσωπον,

ὁπότε τὸ μὲν ἄσεπτον ἔχει

δύνασιν, ἁ δʼ Ἀρετὰ κατόπι-

σθεν θνατοῖς ἀμελεῖται,

Ἀνομία δὲ νόμων κρατεῖ,
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καὶ μὴ κοινὸς ἀγὼν βροτοῖς

μή τις θεῶν φθόνος ἔλθῃ;

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

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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.)) — 1080 focus

Chorus

But the Argives will crown you,¹ wreathing the lovely tresses of your hair, like a pure, dappled² heifer brought from some rocky cave, and staining with blood your human throat;
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though you were never reared among the piping and whistling of herdsmen, but at your mother’s side, to be decked as the bride of a son of Inachus. ³Where now does the face of modesty
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or virtue have any strength?⁴ seeing that godlessness holds sway, and virtue is neglected by men and thrust behind them,
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lawlessness over law prevailing, and mortals no⁵ longer making common cause to keep the jealousy of gods from reaching them.
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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.) — 1080 focus

Doch dir, o Kind, druckt Argos' Heer auf das Haupt

Einen Kranz, in's lockige Haar,

Wie dem Rind, das, unberührt vom Joch, aus felsiger
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Bergkluft

Sich an den Strand verirrt; sie tauchen

In der Jungfrau Nacken den Stahl,

Die nicht bei der Syring' erwuchs,

Noch bei singenden Hirten, nein,

Still aufblüht' in der Mutter Schooß,¹
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Helden zur Braut bestimmt!

Wo vermag die Scham, wo der Tugend Antliz

Irgend hinfort machtvoll zu gebieten,

Wenn das Laster die Uebermacht

Siegend errang, und der Tugend Gesez
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Von den Menschen verhohnt wird,

Unrecht über das Recht gebeut,

Und nicht Alle vereint sich muhn,²

Den Zorn der Götter zu meiden?

Klytamnestra. Agamemnon. Iphigenia. Der Chor.

Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 1080

ed. Gilbert Murray

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