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CHORUS
FROM THE ŒDIPUS COLONEUS.
(668-718.)
Εὐίππου, ξένε, τᾶσδε χώρας
Ἵκου τὰ κράτιστα γᾶς ἔπαυλα, κ.τ.λ.
Ἵκου τὰ κράτιστα γᾶς ἔπαυλα, κ.τ.λ.
Thou hast found the fairest seat
Of this bright and broad domain,
Where the noblest coursers' feet
Tread the Colonean plain.
Here the melodious nightingale
Loves to tell her plaintive tale,
Where the thickest copses bloom,
Hid beneath the ivy's gloom,
Or 'neath that sacred foliage veil'd,
Where thousand blossoms spring,
In vain by fiercest noon assail'd,
Unswept by the tempest's wing.
For Bacchus loves these chosen groves,
Where oft his feet have trod;
While mid the bands of Nymphs he roves,
That nursed the Infant God.
Of this bright and broad domain,
Where the noblest coursers' feet
Tread the Colonean plain.
Here the melodious nightingale
Loves to tell her plaintive tale,
Where the thickest copses bloom,
Hid beneath the ivy's gloom,
Or 'neath that sacred foliage veil'd,
Where thousand blossoms spring,
In vain by fiercest noon assail'd,
Unswept by the tempest's wing.
For Bacchus loves these chosen groves,
Where oft his feet have trod;
While mid the bands of Nymphs he roves,
That nursed the Infant God.
Here, wet with dews that freshly fall,
Narcissus clusters wild,
For thee the ancient coronal,
Great Ceres, and thy child.
Narcissus clusters wild,
For thee the ancient coronal,
Great Ceres, and thy child.