Euripides' CYCLOPS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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First Semi-Chorus: (singing) Happy he who plays the Bacchanal amid
the precious streams distilled from grapes, stretched at full length
for a revel, his arm around the friend he loves, and some fair dainty
damsel on his couch, his hair perfumed with nard and glossy, the while
he calls, "Oh! who will ope the door for me?" (The Cyclops enters.
He is obviously drunk.)

Cyclops: (singing) Ha! ha! full of wine and merry with a feast's
good cheer am I, my hold freighted like a merchant-ship up to my belly's
very top. This turf graciously invites me to seek my brother Cyclopes
for revel in the spring-tide. Come, stranger, bring the wine-skin
hither and hand it over to me.

Second Semi-Chorus: (singing) Forth from the house its fair lord
comes, casting his fair glance round him. We have someone to befriend
us. A hostile brand is awaiting thee, no tender bride in dewy grot.
No single colour will those garlands have, that soon shall cling so
close about thy brow.

Odysseus: (returning with the wine-skin. He is followed by Silenus,
who is also drunk.) Hearken, Cyclops; for I am well versed in the
ways of Bacchus, whom I have given thee to drink.

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