Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, ed. Gilbert Murray, 773

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Χορός

Πέργαμον δὲ Φρυγῶν πόλιν

λαΐνους περὶ πύργους

κυκλώσας Ἄρει φονίῳ,
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λαιμοτόμου κεφαλᾶς

σπάσας Πάριν Ἀτρεΐδας,

πέρσας κατάκρας πόλιν,

θήσει κόρας πολυκλαύτους

δάμαρτά τε Πριάμου.
780

ἁ δὲ Διὸς Ἑλένα κόρα

πολύκλαυτος ἑδεῖται

πόσιν προλιποῦσα.

μήτʼ ἐμοὶ

μήτʼ ἐμοῖσι τέκνων τέκνοις

ἐλπὶς ἅδε ποτʼ ἔλθοι,
785

οἵαν αἱ πολύχρυσοι

Λυδαὶ καὶ Φρυγῶν ἄλοχοι

στήσουσι παρʼ ἱστοῖς

μυθεῦσαι τάδʼ ἐς ἀλλήλας·

Τίς ἄρα μʼ εὐπλοκάμου κόμας
790

ῥῦμα δακρυόεν τανύσας

πατρίδος ὀλλυμένας ἀπολωτιεῖ;

διὰ σέ, τὰν κύκνου δολιχαύχενος γόνον,

εἰ δὴ φάτις ἔτυμος ὡς

ἔτυχεν, Λήδα ὄρνιθι πταμένῳ
795

Διὸς ὅτʼ ἠλλάχθη δέμας, εἴτʼ

ἐν δέλτοις Πιερίσιν

μῦθοι τάδʼ ἐς ἀνθρώπους

ἤνεγκαν παρὰ καιρὸν ἄλλως.
800

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.)) — 773 focus

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 city¹ from roof to base, shall be a cause of many tears to maids and
775

Priam’s wife. And Helen, the daughter of Zeus, shall² 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 have³ 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
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that Leda bore⁴ 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 (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.) — 773 focus

Pergamos, die phrygische Burg,

Rings um steinerne Thürme,

Schließt er ein mit blutigem Speer;
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Häupter, vom Nacken gelöst,

Entrafft er, wieder stürzt er¹

Die Feste Troja's in Staub,

Weckt viele Thränen den Jungfraun

Und Priamos' edlem Gemahl.
770

Helena, Tochter des Zeus,

Wird trauernd in Zahren sich baden,

Daß sie dem Gatten entflohn. O mögen mir

Und den Kindern der Kinder nie

Solche Ahnungen kommen,
775

Wie goldschimmernde Lyderfraun

Und der Phryger Gattinnen bald

Aufschrecken am Webstuhl,

Wenn dort eine zur andern spricht:

780,Wer wird uns am lockigen Haar,
780

Uns in Thrånen schwimmend dahin²

Schleppen und trennen vom sinkenden Vaterland?

Deine Schuld ist's, Tochter des Schwans mit hohem Hals,

Wenn die Sage wahr erzählt,

Daß der geflügelte Vogel
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Liebend Leda beruckt,

Da sich Zeus umwandelt' in ihn,

Und eitle Dichtungen nicht

Auf piërischen Tafeln uns³

Sterbliche tauschten zur bösen Stunde."
790

Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 773

ed. Gilbert Murray

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