Sophocles Electra 106

Thomas Francklin (Translator)

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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 106 focus
ἔστ᾽ ἂν *παμφεγγεῖς λεύσσω παμφεγγεῖς MSS. (παμφαεῖς Pal.) Herm. corr. ἄστρων
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 121-250 focus
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English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 106 focus
CH
Alas! the stock of our old masters, then,
Is utterly uprooted and destroyed.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 103 focus
Nein, niemals hemm' ich die Stimme des Grams
Und den finsteren Harm,
So lang ich schaue der Sterne
105
Weitstrahlenden Glanz und den Tag hier,
Daß, wie Philomel' um des Kindes Verlust,
Ich den Ruf an der Thür des Gemordeten hier
Nicht jammernd erhöb' und von Allen gehört.
Ach, Aïdes' Haus, Persephone's Haus!
110
Du Hermes drunten! O Fluchgöttin, 1
Und Erinnyen ihr, ein göttlich Geschlecht,
Die heimlichen Ehbruch strafen und schau'n,
Wen tückischer Mord unschuldig verdarb,
Kommt helfend heran:
115
O rächet den Mord, an dem Vater verübt,
Und zum Beistand führt mir den Bruder zurück!
Denn nimmer zu tragen vermag ich allein
Das Gewicht in der Schale des Unglücks.
(Der Chor, von der Stadtseite kommend, ordnet sich vor dem Palaste.) Elektra. Der Chor. Erste Strophe.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 106 focus
Electra
A wretched me! I now have cause to mourn
Thy wretched fate, Orestes, e'en in death
Thus taunted by a mother. Is this well?
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 121-250 focus

Commentary

Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-490-1 πάρεισιν ἐλπίδων ἔτι 1

mvp-comment-490-2 With the other reading,

εὐπατρίδων τ’
, both epithets belong to
ἐλπίδων
, and
ἐλπίδες κοινότοκοι εὐπάτριδές τε
mean, ‘hopes from brothers and princes,’— i.e., ‘hopes from a princely brother’: the sense is unchanged, but the phrase is more artificial.

mvp-comment-490-3 That the MSS. have

εὐπατριδᾶν
is more significant than that they also have
τ’
, which might easily creep in. Suidas, who omits
τ’
, has
εὐπατριδᾶν
, or (in codd. A and C)
εὐπατριδῶν
: but the latter variant can hardly be said to confirm
εὐπατρίδων τ’
.—At 162 Orestes is called
εὐπατρίδαν
. The fem.
εὔπατρις
occurs at 1081.

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

823-869. mvp-comment-388-1 In this short commos, in which the broken lines are expressive of intense feeling, the several members of the Chorus, with the exception of the Coryphaeus, who, having spoken in 11. 764, 5, remains in silent sympathy with Electra, attempt to rouse her from her utter despair, partly with consolation and partly with expressions of pity. But she is, if possible, more inconsolable than before. The metres are as follows:-

857-858. mvp-comment-407-1 (οὐ) πάρεισιν .. ἀρωγαί] 'There is no longer within call the aid of hopes that rest on common birth from a most noble sire.' The language is much condensed: i.e. ἀρωγαὶ ἐν ἐλπίδι γιγνόμεναι ἀπὸ τοῦ εὐπατρίδου καὶ κοινοτόκου, sc. Ὀρέστου. See Essay on L. § 43. p. 81.