Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 1313

ed. Gilbert Murray

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ὁ δὲ τεκών με τὰν τάλαιναν,
ὦ μᾶτερ ὦ μᾶτερ,
οἴχεται προδοὺς ἔρημον.
ὦ δυστάλαινʼ ἐγώ, πικρὰν
1315
πικρὰν ἰδοῦσα δυσελέναν,
φονεύομαι διόλλυμαι
σφαγαῖσιν ἀνοσίοισιν ἀνοσίου πατρός.
μή μοι ναῶν χαλκεμβολάδων
πρύμνας ἅδʼ Αὐλὶς δέξασθαι
1320
τούσδʼ εἰς ὅρμους ἐς Τροίαν
ὤφελεν ἐλάταν πομπαίαν,
μηδʼ ἀνταίαν Εὐρίπῳ
πνεῦσαι πομπὰν Ζεύς, μειλίσσων
αὔραν ἄλλοις ἄλλαν θνατῶν
1325
λαίφεσι χαίρειν,
τοῖσι δὲ λύπαν, τοῖσι δʼ ἀνάγκαν,
τοῖς δʼ ἐξορμᾶν, τοῖς δὲ στέλλειν,
τοῖσι δὲ μέλλειν.
ἦ πολύμοχθον ἄρʼ ἦν γένος, ἦ πολύμοχθον
1330
ἁμερίων, τὸ χρεὼν δέ τι δύσποτμον
ἀνδράσιν ἀνευρεῖν.
ἰὼ ἰώ,
μεγάλα πάθεα, μεγάλα δʼ ἄχεα
Δαναΐδαις τιθεῖσα Τυνδαρὶς κόρα.
1335

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.)) — 1313 focus
O mother, mother! he that begot me to this life of sorrow has gone and left me all alone.
Ah! woe is me! a bitter, bitter sight for me was Helen, evil Helen! to me now doomed to bleed and die, slaughtered by an impious father!
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I wish this Aulis had never received
in its havens here the stems of their bronze-beaked ships, the fleet which was speeding them to Troy ; and would that Zeus had never breathed on the Euripus a wind to stop the expedition, 1 tempering, as he does,
1320
a different breeze to different men, so that some have joy in setting sail, and sorrow some, and others hard constraint, to make some start and others prepare and others delay!
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Full of trouble then, it seems, is the race of mortals, full of trouble indeed; and it is Fate’s decree that man should find distress.
1330
Woe! woe to you, you child of Tyndareus,
for the suffering and anguish sore, which you are causing the Danaids!
1335
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.) — 1313 focus
O Mutter, er entflieht, verlåßt, verråth mich.
Ich Arme, daß ich sie geschn, die falsche, falsche Helena!
Nun mordet, nun vernichtet mich
Des frevelhaften Vaters frevelhafter Stahl.
Ach, håtte doch nimmer die Schiffe
1300
Mit den ehernen Schnabeln, die Fichten,
Nach Troja zu segeln bestimmt,
In der Bucht hier Aulis empfangen!
O sandte doch nie
Zeus widrigen Wind am Euripos,
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Zeus, der Anderen mildere Hauche
Wehn låßt, daß sie der Segel sich freuen,
Andern die Bångniß, Andern Bedrängniß,
Gluckliche Abfahrt Diesen und Eile,
Jenen die Weile!
1310
Ach, vielduldend ja schon, vielduldend ja
Sind die Söhne des Tages! Wozu noch neues Leid
Für die Menschen erfinden? 1