Homérosz - Odüsszeia - A Küklopsz (részlet) - zene - Honterus - előadó - Sonivius Vappae

Fordította: Devecseri Gábor
Cyclops - an excerpt from The Odyssey of Homer with the music by Honterus - performed by Sonivius Vappae
In this performance lyrics are in Hungarian translation.
The English translation of the corresponding excerpts:
From there we sailed on, our spirits now at a low ebb,
and reached the land of the high and mighty Cyclops,
lawless brutes, who trust so to the everlasting gods
they never plant with their own hands or plow the soil
But as soon as we reached the coast I mentioned-no long trip-
we spied a cavern just at the shore, gaping above the surf,
towering, overgrown with laurel. And here big flocks,
sheep and goats, were stalled to spend the nights,
and around its mouth a yard was walled up
with quarried boulders sunk deep in the earth
and enormous pines and oak-trees looming darkly …
Here was a giant’s lair, in fact, who always pastured
his sheepflocks far afield and never mixed with others.
A grim loner, dead set in his own lawless ways.
Here was a piece of work, by god, a monster
built like no mortal who ever supped on bread,
no, like a shaggy peak, I’d say-a man-mountain
rearing head and shoulders over the world.
Translated by Robert Fagles
Painting by Szőke Erzsébet