\input{../include.tex} \usepackage{xgreek} \setmainfont[ItalicFont={Alexander},SmallCapsFont={Junicode},SmallCapsFeatures={RawFeature={+smcp},LetterSpace=1.0}]{Goudy Bookletter 1911} %\geometry{rmargin=0.4in} \geometry{lmargin=0.6in,rmargin=0.2in} \glossarystyle{altlistgroup} \renewcommand{\glscounter}{poemline} % ZOMG best hack evarrrrrrr. This % makes the number next to each % item when it appears in the % glossary refer to the line % number rather than the page % number (exciting!) \newglossary{vocab}{voc}{vlg}{Vocabulary} \makeglossaries \begin{document} \title{\textgreek{\fontspec{GFS Garaldus} \Huge ΙΦΙΓΕΝΕΙΑ Η ΕΝ ΤΑΥΡΟΙΣ} \\ \LARGE \textsc{Iphigeneia in Tauris}} \author{Euripides} \date{} \maketitle \begin{Parallel}{0.5\textwidth}{0.5\textwidth} \emph{Lines \emph{1--57}. Iphigeneia enters and speaks the Prologue. She describes her ancestry and how her father Agamemnon intended to sacrifice her to Artemis at Aulis in order to obtain good weather for the assembled fleet to sail to Troy, but Artemis substituted a deer on the altar and carried her off to be her priestess in the land of the Taurians, where she has to prepare for sacrifice any Greeks who come to the land. She then relates a dream she has just had, from which she infers that her brother Orestes, who was an infant at the time of her supposed sacrifice, is dead.} \bigskip \pchapter{ιφιγενεια}{1}{5}% {% Πέλοψ ὁ \gl{Ταντάλειος}{Ταντάλειος}{son of Tantalus} ἐς Πῖσαν \gl{μολὼν}{βλωσκω μολουμαι ἐμολον}{I come, go} \\ \gl{θοαῖσιν}{θοος --η --ον}{swift} ἵπποις Οἰνομάου γαμεῖ κόρην, \\ ἐξ ἧς Ἀτρεὺς \gl{ἔβλαστεν}{βλαστανω --τησω ἐβλαστον}{be born}· Ἀτρέως δ' ἄπο \\ Μενέλαος Ἀγαμέμνων τε· τοῦ δ' \gl{ἔφυν}{φυω φυσω ἐφυσα}{beget, be born} ἐγώ, \\ τῆς \gl{Τυνδαρείας}{Τυνδαρείος --α --ον}{of Tyndareus} θυγατρὸς Ἰφιγένεια παῖς, \\ ἣν \gl{ἀμφὶ}{ἀμφι}{+ acc. around/on, + dat. on/beside} \gl{δίναις}{δινη ἡ}{eddy} ἃς \gl{θάμ}{θάμα}{often}' Εὔριπος \gl{πυκναῖς}{πυκνος --η --ον}{frequent} \\ \gl{αὔραις}{αὔρα --ας}{breeze} \gl{ἑλίσσων}{ἑλίσσω --ξω}{I whirl round (trans.)} \gl{κυανέαν}{κυανεος --α --ον}{(dark) blue} \gl{ἅλα}{ἁλς ἁλος}{sea} \gl{στρέφει}{στρέφω}{I turn round, ruffle}, \\ \gl{ἔσφαξεν}{σφαζω --ξω ἐσφαξα ἐσφαγην}{I sacrifice, kill, slaughter} Ἑλένης \gl{οὕνεχ}{οὑνεκα}{for the sake of, on account of}', \gl{ὡς δοκεῖ}{ὡς δοκεῖ}{as it seems}, πατὴρ \\ Ἀρτέμιδι \gl{κλειναῖς}{κλεινος --η --ον}{famous} ἐν \gl{πτυχαῖσιν}{πτυχη --ης}{valley} Αὐλίδος. \\! }% {iphigeneia}{\vskip 8ex}% {% Pelops, the son of Tantalus, coming to Pisa by means of swift horses, marries the daughter of Oinomaus, from whom Atreus was born. From Atreus came both Menelaus and Agamemnon. From him came myself, \sps{5}Iphigeneia the child of the daughter of Tyndareus, whom, beside the eddies which often the Euripus whirls around with frequent gusts of wind and ruffles the dark blue sea, my father sacrificed me as it seems for the sake of Helen, to Artemis, in the famous valley-folds of Aulis. }% \pchapter{}{10}{10}{% \vin \gl{ἐνταῦθα}{ἐνταῦθα}{there} γὰρ δὴ \gl{χιλίων}{χιλίοι --αι --α}{thousand} ναῶν \gl{στόλον}{στόλος --ου}{fleet, expedition} \\ Ἑλληνικὸν \gl{συνήγαγ}{συναγω --αξω --ηγαγον}{I collect, assemble}' Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ, \\ τὸν \gl{καλλίνῖκον}{καλλίνῖκος --ον}{with glorious victory} \gl{στέφανον}{στέφανος --ου}{crown} Ἰλίου \gl{θέλων}{θέλω --ηοω}{I wish, want (see \textgreek{ἐθελω})} \\ λαβεῖν Ἀχαιοῖς \gl{τούς θ' ὑβρισθέντας γάμους}{τούς θ' ὑβρισθέντας γάμους}{the insulted marriage} \\ Ἑλένης \gl{μετελθεῖν}{μετερχομαι --ειμι --ηλθον}{avenge}, Μενέλεῳ \gl{χάριν φέρων}{χάριν φέρω}{I bring a favour}. \\ δεινῆς δ' \gl{ἀπλοίας}{ἀπλοία --ας}{weather unfit for sailing} \gl{πνευμάτων}{πνευμάτ --ατος τον}{wind} τε \gl{τυγχάνων}{τυγχάνω ἐτυχον}{I happen on}, \\ ἐς \gl{ἔμπυρ}{ἔμπυρα --ων}{burnt sacrifices}' ἦλθε, καὶ λέγει Κάλχας τάδε· \\ Ὦ τῆσδ' \gl{ἀνάσσων}{ἀνάσσω --ξω}{I am in command of} Ἑλλάδος στρατηγίας, \\ Ἀγάμεμνον, \gl{οὐ μὴ}{οὐ μὴ }{+ aorist subjunctive/future indicative. Expresses a strong negative statement.} ναῦς \gl{ἀφορμίσῃ}{ἀφορμίζομαι --ισομαι --ωρμισαμην}{I unmoor} χθονός, \\ πρὶν ἂν κόρην σὴν Ἰφιγένειαν Ἄρτεμις \\ λάβῃ \gl{σφαγεῖσαν}{σφαγεῖσαν}{f.\ acc.\ s.\ aor.\ pass.\ part.\ of \textgreek{σφαζω} I kill/sacrifice}· ὅ τι γὰρ ἐνιαυτὸς \gl{τέκοι}{τικτω τέξω ἐτεκον}{I beget, produce} \\ κάλλιστον, \gl{ηὔξω}{εὔχομαι εὔξομαι ηὔξαμην}{I pray} φωσφόρ·, θύσειν θεᾷ. \\ παῖδ' οὖν ἐν οἴκοις σὴ Κλυταιμήστρα \gl{δάμαρ}{δάμαρ δάμαρτος ἡ}{wife} \\ τίκτει -- τὸ \gl{καλλιστεῖον}{καλλιστεῖον}{(here) the title of `Fairest'} εἰς ἔμ' ἀναφέρων -- \\ ἣν χρή σε θῦσαι. \\! }% {}{}{% \sps{10}For there the Lord Agamemnon gathered together a Greek expedition of a thousand ships, wishing to take for the Achaeans the glorious victory-crown of Ilium, and to avenge the insulted marriage of Helen, bringing a favour to Menelaus. \sps{15}But meeting with terrible weather, unfit for sailing, and with contrary winds, he cam to burnt sacrifices, and Calchas spoke as follows. ``O Lord of this Greek military expedition, Agamemnon, you will not unmoor your ships from the land before Artemis takes your daughter Iphigeneia slaughtered. \sps{20}For the fairest thing which a year would produce, you prayed that you would bring to the light-bearing goddess. And so in you halls your wife Clytemnestra bears you a child,'' -- ascribing the title `Fairest' to me -- ``which it is necessary for you to sacrifice.'' }% \pchapter{}{24}{25}{% \hspace{1ex} \phantom{ἣν χρή σε θῦσαι.} καί μ' Ὀδυσσέως τέχναις \\ μητρὸς παρείλοντ' ἐπὶ γάμοις Ἀχιλλέως. \\ ἐλθοῦσα δ' Αὐλίδ' ἡ τάλαιν' ὑπὲρ πυρᾶς \\ μεταρσ'ια ληφθεῖσ' ἐκαινόμην ξίφει· \\ ἀλλ' ἐξέκλεψεν ἔλαφον ἀντιδοῦσά μον \\ Ἄρτεμις Ἀχαιοῖς, διὰ δὲ λαμπρὸν αἰθέρα \\ πέμψασά μ' ἐς τήνδ' ᾤκισεν Ταύρων χθόνα, \\ οὗ γῆς ἀνάσσει βαρβάροισι βάρβαρος \\ Θόας, ὃς ὠκὺν πόδα τιθεὶς ἴσον πτεροῖς \\ ἐς τοὔνομ' ἦλθε τόδε ποδωκείας χάριν. \\ ναοῖσι δ' ἐν τοῖσδ' ἱερέαν τίθηδί με. \\! }% {}{}{% And by the trickery of Odysseus, they took me from my \sps{25}mother to marriage to Achilles. Having come to Aulis I, wretched one, was taken and lifted above the pyre and was being killed with a sword but Artemis stole me, substituting a deer for me for the Achaeans, \sps{30}sending me through the shining air and settled me in this land of the Taurians where the barbarian Thoas rules over the barbarians, who having made his swift foot equal to the wings of birds, came to his name for the sake of his swiftfootedness, and made me a priestess in this temple here. }% \pchapter{}{35}{35}{% \vin ἃ καινὰ δ' ἥκει νὺξ φέρουσα φάσματα, \\ λέξω πρὸς αἰθέρ', εἴ τι δὴ τόδ' ἔστ' ἄκος. \\ ἔδοξ' ἐν ὕπνῳ τῆσδ' ἀπαλλαχθεῖσα γῆς \\ οἰκεῖν ἐν Ἄργει, παρθένοισι δ' ἐν μέσαις \\ εὕδειν, χθονὸς δὲ νῶτα σεισθῆναι σάλῳ, \\ φεύγειν δὲ κἄξω στᾶσα θριγκὸν εἰσιδεῖν \\ δόμων πίτνοντᾳ πᾶν δ' ἐπείψιμον στέγος \\ βεβλημένον πρὸς οὖδας ἐξ ἄκρων σταθμῶν. \\ μόνος λελεῖφθαι στῦλος εἷς ἔδοξέ μοι \\ δόμων πατρῴων, ἐκ δ' ἐπικράνων κόμας \\ ξανθὰς καθεῖφθαι, φθέγμα δ' ἀνθρώπου λαβεῖν, \\ κἀγὼ τέχνην τήνδ' ἣν ἔχω ξενοκτόνον \\ τιμῶσ' ὑδραίνειν αὐτὸν ὡς θανούμενον, \\ κλαίουσα. τοὔναρ δ' ὧδε συμβάλλω τόδε· \\ τέθνηκ' Όρέστης, οὗ κατηρξάμην ἐγώ. \\ στῦλοι γὰρ οἴκων παῖδές εἰσιν ἄρσενεσ· \\ θνῄσκουσι δ' οὓς ἂν χέρνιβες βάλωσ' ἑμαί. \\ νῦν οὖν ἀδελφῷ βούλομαι δοῦναι χοὰς \\ παροῦσ' ἀπόντι -- ταῦτα γὰρ δυναίμεθ' ἄν -- \\ σὺν προσπόλοισιν, ἃς ἔδωχ' ἡμῖν ἄναξ \\ Ἑλληνίδας γυναῖκας. ἀλλ' ἐξ αἰτίας \\ οὔπω τίνος πάρεισιν; εἶμ' ἔσω δόμων \\ ἐν οἷσι ναίω τῶνδ' ἀνακτόρων θεᾶς. }% {}{}{% \sps{35}The new dreams which the night came bringing to me, I will tell to the heavens, if this is some remedy. In my sleep I seemed to have departed from this land and to be living in Argos, and sleeping there among my maidservants, and the surface of the land to have been shaken by an earthquake, \sps{40}and I escaped and, standing outside, I saw the cornice of the house falling, and the whole roof in ruins thrown down to the ground from the tops of the columns. One column alone seemed to me to be left of my father's house, and to pour forth golden hair from the capital, \sps{45}and to take the voice of my father, and I, duly observing the stranger-killing skill which I have, sprinkled it with water as being about to die, weeping. Thus I interpret the dream as follows. Orestes has died, who I prepared for sacrifice. \sps{50}For the columns of the house are the male children. Those whom my sprinklings of holy water have struck, have died. And so now I want to give libation to my brother, being present here, he far off -- for we could do this -- along with my maidservants, \sps{55}Greek women, whom my lord has given me. But for some reason they are not yet here? I will go inside the building of this temple of the goddess in which I dwell. }% \hfill \emph{[Exeunt} \par \medskip \emph{Enter Orestes and his friend Pylades. They see the grim relics of human sacrifice on the altar.} \par \emph{Lines \emph{58--93}. Orestes describes how he has been driven in madness from land to land by the Furies because he killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge her murder of his father and how Apollo bade him fetch an image of Artemis from this Tauric land. Pylades advises waiting until night, when they may be able to steal the image from the temple. } \bigskip \pagebreak \pchapter{ορεστης}{58}{60}{% ὦ Φοῖβε, ποῖ μ' αὖ τήνδ' ἐς ἄρκυν ἤγαγες \\ χρήσας, ἐπειδὴ πατρὸς αἷμ' ἐτεισάμην, \\ μητέρα κατακτάς; διαδοχαῖς δ' Έρινύων \\ ἠλαυνόμεσθα φθγάδες ἔξεδροι χθονὸς \\ δρόμους τε πολλοὺς ἐξέπλησα καμπίμους. \\ ἐλθὼν δέ σ' ἠρώτησα πῶς τροχηλάτου \\ μανίας ἂν ἔλθοιμ' ἐς τέλος πόνων τ' ἐμῶν, \\ οὓς ἐξεμόχθουν περιπολῶν καθ' Ἑλλάδα. \\ σὺ δ' εἶπας ἐλθεῖν Ταυρικῆς μ' ὅρους χθονός, \\ ἔνθ' Ἄρτεμις σὴ σθ'γγονος βωμοὺς ἔχοι, \\ λαβεῖν τ' ἄγαλμα θεᾶς, ὅ φασιν ἐνθάδε \\ ἐς τούσδε ναοὺς οὺρανοῦ πεσεῖν ἄπο· \\ λαβόντα δ' ἢ τέχναισιν ἢ τύχῃ τινί, \\ κίνδυνον ἐκπλήσαντ', Ἀθηναίων χθονὶ \\ δοῦναι -- τὸ δ' ἐνθένδ' οὐδεὲν ἐρρήθη πέρα -- \\ καὶ ταῦτα δράσαντ' ἀμπνοὰς ἕξειν πόνων. \\! }% {orestes}{\vskip 8ex}{% Phoebus, why have you brought me again into this snare having given an oracle, since I avenged my father's blood having killed my mother? \sps{60}By successions of Furies, we have been pursued as exiles driven from our land and I have completed many races, doubling back. And coming I asked you how I might come to the end of my whirling madness and of my toils, \sps{65}which I have laboured over, wandering throughout Greece. You told me to come to the borders of the Taurian land, where Artemis, your sister, has her altars, to take the statue of the goddess, which, they say fell from the heavens into this temple here. \sps{70}Taking it either by stratagems or by some good fortune, having risked all danger, to the Athenians' land to give it -- nothing beyond this was instructed to me -- and, having done this, to have a respite from my labours. }% \pchapter{}{74}{75}{% ἥκω δὲ πεισθεὶς σοῖς λόγοισιν ἐνθάδε \\ ἄγνωστον ἐς γῆν, ἄξενον. σὲ δ' ἑστορῶ, \\ Πυλάδη -- σὺ γὰρ μοι τοῦδε συλλήπτωρ πόνου -- \\ τί δρῶμεν; ἀμφίβληστρα γὰρ τοίχων ὁρᾷς \\ ὑφηλά· πότερα δωμάτων προσαμβάσεις \\ ἐμβησόμεσθα; πῶς ἂν οὗν λάθοιμεν ἄν; \\ ἢ χαλκότεθκτα κλῇθρα λύσαντες μοχλοῖς -- \\ ὧν οὐδὲν ἴσμεν; ἢν δ' ἀνοίγοντες πύλας \\ ληφθῶμεν ἐσβάσεις τε μηχανώμενοι, \\ θανούμεθ'. ἀλλὰ πρὶν θανεῖν, νεὼς ἔπι \\ φεύγωμεν, ᾗπερ δεῦρ' ἐναυστολήσαμεν \\! }% {}{}{% I have come here, persuaded by your words, to this land \sps{75}unknown, and hostile to strangers. I ask you, Pylades -- for you are my partner in my labour -- what are we to do? For do you see the high encirclements of the walls? Do we go up the stairways of the buildings? And so how would we escape notice doing this? Or should we loosed, with our crowbars, \sps{80}the bronze-made bolts of which we know nothing? If when opening the gates and devising entrances we will die. But before we die, let us flee to our ship, by means of which we made our journey here.}% \bigskip \pchapter{πυλαδης}{85}{85}{% φεύγειν μὲν οὐκ ἀνεκτὸν οὐδ' εἰώθαμεν, \\ τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ δὲ χρησμὸν οὐ κακιστέον; \\ ναοῦ δ' ἀπαλλαχθέντε κρύψωμεν δέμας \\ κατ' ἄντρ' ἃ πόντος νοτίδι διακλύζει μέλας -- \\ νεὼς ἄπωθεν, μή τις εἰσιδὼν σκάφος \\ βασιλεῦσιν εἴπῃ κᾆτα ληφθῶμεν βίᾳ. \\ ὅταν δὲ νυκτὸς ὄμμα λυγαίας μόλῃ, \\ τολμητέον τοι ξεστὸν ἐκ ναοῦ λαβεῖν \\ ἄγαλμα πάσας προσφέροντε μηχανάς. \\! }% {pylades}{\vskip 8ex}{% \sps{85}It is not tolerable to flee nor are we accustomed to, and we must not bring reproach on the oracle of the god. Having departed from the temple let us hide our bodies in a cave which the dark sea washes with the tidal surge -- far from our ship, lest someone, seeing our boat, tell the \sps{90}rulers, and then we are taken by force. But when the eye of murky night comes, we must dare to take the polished effigy from the temple, using every device. }% \hfill \emph{[Exeunt} \pagebreak \par \medskip \emph{The Chorus of captive Greek maidens, now attendants on Iphigeneia, sings a lament for the ruined house of Atreus and for the hard lot of Greek exiles in the Tauric land. A herdsman enters to tell Iphigeneia that two Greek strangers, one named Pylades, have reached the land and have been captured after the other one in a fit of madness attacked some cattle. It is Iphigeneia's duty to consecrate them to the altar for sacrifice. Thinking that her brother is dead and remembering her own intended slaughter at Aulis for the sake of Helen, she steels herself to be ruthless. The Chorus sings an ode wondering who the strangers are and wishing that Helen, the cause of so many woes, might be slain on the altar here. The captives are brought onto the stage, where Iphigeneia sees her brother for the first time without knowing who he is.} \par \emph{Lines \emph{94--171}. Iphigeneia asks Orestes his name, which he refuses to give, and enquires about the return of the Greeks from Troy, and about her own parents, of whose death she now hears for the first time. She also learns that despite her dream Orestes is somewhere alive.} \bigskip \pchapter{}{94}{95}{% \giph ποτερος ἄρ' ὑμῶν ἐνθάδ' ὠνομασμένος \\ Πυλάδης κέκληται; τόδε μαθεῖν πρῶτον θέλω. \\ \gore ὅδ', εἴ τι δή σοι τοῦτ' ἐν ἡδονῇ μαθεῖν. \\ \giph ποίας πολίτης πατρίδος Ἕλληνος γεγώς; \\ \gore τί δ' ἄν μαθοῦσα τόδε πλέον λάβοις, γύναι; \\ \giph πότερον ἀδελφὼ μητρός ἐστον ἐκ μιᾶς; \\ \gore φιλότητί γ'· ἐσμὲν δ' οὐ κασιγνήτω, γύναι. \\ \giph σοὶ δ' ὄνομα ποῖον ἔθεθ' ὁ γεννήσας πατήρ; \\ \gore τὸ μὲν δίκαιον Δθστθχὴς καλοίμεθ' ἄν. \\ \giph οὐ τοῦτ' ἐρωτῶ· τοῦτο μὲν δὸς τῇ τύχῃ. \\ \gore ἀνώνυμοι θανόντες οὐ γελῴμεθ' ἄν. \\ \giph τί δὲ φθνεῖς τοῦτ'; ἦ φρονεῖς οὕτω μέγα; \\ \gore τὸ σῶμα θύσεις τοὐμόν, οὐχὶ τοὔνομα. \\ \giph οὐδ' ἂν πόλιν φράσειας ἥτις ἐστί σοι; \\ \gore ζητεῖς γὰρ οὐδὲν κέρδος, ὡς θανουμένῳ. \\ \giph χάριν δὲ δοῦναι τήνδε κωλύει τί σε; \\ \gore τὸ κλεινὸν Ἄργος πατρίδ' ἐμὴν ἐπεύχομαι. \\ \giph πρὸς θεῶν, ἀληθῶς, ὦ ξέν', εἶ κεῖθεν γεγώς; \\ \gore ἐκ τῶν Μυκηνῶν γ', αἵ ποτ' ἦσαν ὄλβιαι. \\ \giph φυγὰς δ' ἀπῆρας πατρίδος, ἢ ποίᾳ τύχῃ; \\ \gore φεύγω τρόπον γε δή τιν' οὐχ ἑκὼν ἑκών. \\ \giph καὶ μὴν ποθεινός γ' ἦλθες ἐξ Ἄργους μολών. \\ \gore οὔκουν ἐμαυτῷ γ'· εἰ δὲ σοί, σὺ τοῦτ' ἔρα. \\ \giph ἆρ' ἄν τί μοι φράσειας ὧν ἐγὼ θέλω; \\ \gore ὡς ἐν παρέργῳ τῆς ἐμῆς δυσπραξίας. \\ \giph Τροίαν ἴσως οἶσθ', ἧς ἁπανταχοῦ λόγος. \\ \gore ὡς μήποτ' ὤφελόν γε μηδ' ἰδὼν ὄναρ. \\ \giph φασίν νιν οὐκέτ' οὖσαν οἴχεσθαι δορί. \\ \gore ἔστιν γὰρ οὕτως οὐδ' ἄκραντ' ἠκούσατε. \\ \giph Ἑλένη δ' ἀφῖκται δῶμα Μενέλεω πάλιν; \\ \gore ἥκει, κακῶς γ' ἐλθοῦσα τῶν ἐμῶν τινι. \\ \giph καὶ ποῦ 'στι; κἀμοὶ γάρ τι πτουφείλει κακόν. \\ \gore Σπάρτῃ ξυνοικεῖ τῷ πάρος ξυνευνέτῃ. \\ \giph ὦ μῖσος εἰς Ἕλληνας, οὐκ ἐμοὶ μόνῃ. \\ \gore ἀπέλαυσα κἀγὼ δή τι τῶν κείνης γάμων. \\ \giph νόστος δ' Άχαιῶν ἐγένεθ', ὡς κηρύσσεται; \\ \gore ὡς πάνθ' ἅπαξ με συλλαβοῦσ' ἀνιστορεῖς. \\ \giph πρὶν γὰρ θανεῖν σε, τοῦδ' ἐπαυρέσθαι θέλω. \\ \gore ἔλεγχ', ἐπειδὴ τοῦδ' ἐρᾷς· λέζω δ' ἐγώ. \\ \giph Κάλχας τις ἦλθε μάντις ἐκ Τροίας πάλιν;\\ \gore ὄλωλεν, ὡς ἦν ἐν Μυκηναίοις λόγος. \\ \giph ὦ πότνι', ὡς εὖ -- τί γὰρ ὁ Λαέρτου γόνος; \\ \gore οὔπω νενόστηκ' οἶκον, ἔστι δ', ὡς λόγος. \\ \rule[0.7ex]{0.1\textwidth}{0.3pt} \hfill \vskip \baselineskip \giph ὄλοιτο, νόστου μήποτ' ἐς πάτραν τυχών. \\ \gore μηδὲν κατεύχου· πάντα τἀκείνου νοσεῖ. \\ \giph Θέτιδος δ' ὁ τῆς Νηρῇδος ἔστι παῖς ἔτι; \\ \gore οὐκ ἔστιν· ἄλλως λέκτρ' ἔγημ' ἐν Αὐλίδι. \\ \giph δόλια γάρ, ὡς ἴσασιν οἱ πεπονθότες. \\ \gore τίς εἶ ποθ'; ὡς εὖ πυνθάνῃ τἀφ' Ἑλλάδος \\ \giph ἐκεῖθέν εἰμι· παῖς ἔτ' οὖσ' ἀπωλόμην. \\ \gore ὀρθῶς ποθεῖς ἄρ εἰδέναι τἀκεῖ, γύναι. \\ \giph τί δ' ὁ στρατηγός, ὃν λέγουσ' εὐδαιμονεῖν; \\ \gore τίς; οὐ γὰρ ὅν γ' ἐγᾦδα τῶν εὐδαιμόνων. \\ \giph Ἀτρέως ἐλέγετο δή τις Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ. \\ \gore οὐκ οἶδ'· ἄπελθε τοῦ λόγου τούτου, γύναι. \\ \giph μὴ πρὸς θεῶν, ἀλλ' εἴφ', ἵν' εὐφρανθῶ, ζένε. \\ \gore τέθνηχ' ὁ τλήμων, πρὸς δ' ἀπώλεσέν τινα. \\ \giph τέθνηκε; πόᾳ συμφορᾷ; τάλαιν' ἐγώ. \\ \gore τί δ' ἐστέναξας τοῦτο; μῶν προσῆκέ σοι; \\ \giph τὸν ὄλβον αὐτοῦ τὸν πάροιθ' ἀναστένω. \\ \gore δεινῶς γὰρ ἐκ γυναικὸς οἴχεται σφαγείς. \\ \giph ὦ πανδάκρυτος ἡ κτανοῦσα\ldots χὡ κτανών. \\ \gore παῦσαί νυν ἤδη μηδ' ἐρωτήσῃς πέρα. \\ \giph τοσόνδε γ', εἰ ζῇ τοῦ ταλαιπώρου δάμαρ. \\ \gore οὐκ ἔστι· παῖς νιν ὃν ἔτεχ', οὗτος ὤλεσεν. \\ \giph ὦ συνταραχθεὶς οἶκος. ὡς τί δὴ θέλων; \\ \gore πατρὸς θανόντος τήνδε τιμωρούμενος. \\ \giph φεῦ· \vskip \baselineskip \vin \phantom{φεῦ·} ὡς εὖ κακὸν δίκαιον εἰσεπράξατο. \\ \gore ἀλλ' οὐ τὰ πρὸς θεῶν εὐτυχεῖ δίκαιος ὤν. \\ \rule[0.7ex]{0.1\textwidth}{0.3pt} \hfill \vskip \baselineskip \giph λείπει δ' ἐν οἴκοις ἄλλον Ἀγαμέμνων γόνων; \\ \gore λέλοιπεν Ἠλέκτραν γε παρθένον μίαν. \\ \giph τί δέ; σφαγείσης θυγατρὸς ἔστι τις λόγος; \\ \gore οὐδείς γε, πλὴν θανοῦσαν οὐχ ὁρᾶν φάος. \\ \giph τάλαιν' ἐκείνη χὡ κτανὼν αὐτὴν πατήρ. \\ \gore κακῆς γυναικὸς χάριν ἄχαριν ἀπώλετο. \\ \giph ὁ τοῦ θανόντος δ' ἔστι παῖς Ἄργει πατρός; \\ \gore ἔστ', ἄθλιός γε, κοὐδαμοῦ καὶ πανταχοῦ. \\ \giph ψευδεῖς ὄνειροι, χαίρετ'· οὐδὲν ἦτ' ἄρα. \\! }% {}{}{% \eiph Which of the two of you here is called by name Pylades? \linebreak \vin This is the first thing I wish to learn. \\ \eore This man is. If this is something for you to learn in \linebreak \eiph A citizen of what Greek state is he born? \hfill \makebox[2ex]{[pleasure.} \\ \eore What more would you gain by learning this, lady? \\ \eiph Are you brothers of one mother? \\ \eore In friendship yes. But we are nor brothers, madam. \\ \eiph \mbox{What is the name that your father who begat you gave you?} \\ \eore Justly I would be called `Unfortunate'. \\ \eiph I do not ask for this. Ascribe this to Fortune. \\ \eore If I were to die nameless I would not be mocked. \\ \eiph Why do you begrudge me this? Or are you so proud? \\ \eore You will sacrifice my body, not my name. \\ \eiph Would you not name the city which is yours? \\ \eore \mbox{No, for you are seeking something of no benefit to me since I am} \\ \eiph What prevents you from giving me this favour? \hfill \makebox[3ex]{[about to die.} \\ \eore I boast that famous Argos is my homeland. \\ \eiph By Heavens, truly, stranger, are you born from there? \\ \eore Indeed from Mycenae, which was one prosperous. \\ \eiph \mbox{Have you departed from your country as an exile, or by what} \linebreak \eore I flee in a certain way, both willingly and unwillingly. \hfill \makebox[-1ex]{[fortune?} \\ \eiph And indeed you have come longed-for from Argos. \\ \eore Not for me; but if to you, then you enjoy this. \\ \eiph \mbox{Would you then tell me something of what I want to know?} \\ \eore Yes, it is a minor point in my present misfortune. \\ \eiph Perhaps you know Troy, whose reputation is everywhere. \\ \eore \mbox{How I wish that I had never known of it, not even seeing it in} \\ \eiph They say that it is no longer, destroyed by the spear. \hfill \makebox[-0.5ex]{[a dream.} \\ \eore For thus it is, and you have heard things not unfulfilled. \\ \eiph Has Helen come back again to the house of Menelaus? \\ \eore She came; she came evilly for any of my kin. \\ \eiph And where is she? For she owed me some evil debt. \\ \eore She lives in Sparta with her previous husband. \\ \eiph O hateful thing to the Hellenes, not to me alone. \\ \eore I too have benefited somewhat from her marriage. \\ \eiph Did the Achaeans journey home, as it is reported? \\ \eore Taking all together at once you question me. \\ \eiph Before you die, I want to gain this advantage. \\ \eore Ask then, since you desire this. And I will speak. \\ \eiph Did a certain Calchas, a seer, come back again from Troy? \\ \eore He has died, as the story went in Mycenae. \\ \eiph Oh Queen, how justly! And what of the son of Laertes? \\ \eore He has not yet completed his journey home, but he is \linebreak \vin alive, as the story goes. \\ \eiph May he perish! May he never gain the journey back to his \linebreak \eore Do not curse him. All his affairs are in distress. \hfill \makebox[2ex]{[homeland.} \\ \eiph Is the son of Thetis the Nereid still alive? \\ \eore He is not. His marriage in Aulis was in vain. \\ \eiph It was a trick, as those who suffered know. \\ \eore Who are you? How well you ascertain things concerning \linebreak \eiph I am from there. Being a child I was lost to Greece. \hfill \makebox[2ex]{[Greece.} \\ \eore Rightly you desire to know things there, lady. \\ \eiph What of the commander whom they call the prosperous? \\ \eore Who? For I do not know of one that belongs to the \linebreak \eiph He was called Agamemnon, the son of Atreus. \hfill \makebox[3ex]{[prosperous.} \\ \eore I do not know. Depart from this story, lady. \\ \eiph \mbox{No by Heavens, but tell it, stranger, that I may be gladdened.} \\ \eore The wretched man has died; he has died in addition to \linebreak \eiph He has died? By what disaster? Ah, wretched me! \hfill \makebox[2ex]{[another.} \\ \eore Why do you groan like this? Was he related to you? \\ \eiph I groan for his former happiness. \\ \eore He was killed in a terrible way, slain by his wife. \\ \eiph Oh all-lamented, she who slew him and he who slew me. \\ \eore Cease now already and do not ask questions further. \\ \eiph Just this at any rate, if the wide of the wretched man still \linebreak \eore She is no more. The son, whom she bore, slew her. \hfill \makebox[2ex]{[lives?} \\ \eiph Oh house distraught! With what purpose? \\ \eore Taking vengeance on her for the death of his father. \\ \eiph Alas! \linebreak \phantom{Alas!} How well he exacted an evil justice! \\ \eore But he does not prosper as far as the gods are concerned, \linebreak \vin although he is righteous. \\ \eiph Does Agamemnon leave any other children in his house? \\ \eore He has left one unmarried girl, Electra. \\ \eiph \mbox{What then? Is there any news of the daughter who was sacri-} \\ \eore None, except that being dead she does not see the light. \hfill \makebox[-3ex]{[ficed?} \\ \eiph That poor wretched girl, and wretched too the father who \\ \eore She perished for the worthless sake of a bad woman. \hfill \makebox[-2ex]{[killed her.} \\ \eiph And does the son of the dead father still live in Argos? \\ \eore He lives, poor wretch, both nowhere and everywhere. \\ \eiph Farewell, false dreams. You were nothing, then. \\ }% \end{Parallel} \begin{multicols}{2} \printglossaries \end{multicols} \end{document}