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ed. Arthur Sidgwick

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Agamemnon. Aeschylus. ed. Arthur Sidgwick. Oxford. 1902.

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Ἀγαμέμνων (Greek) (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.)

Editions (7)
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 0-103 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμνήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
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τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ' ἀγοραίων,
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ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1 focus
Σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω -ρεα -ρεου
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος ; τί νέον ; τί δ' ἐπαισθομένη,
τίνος ἀγγελίας
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πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς θυοσκινεῖς ;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων, τῶν τε θυραίων τ' οὐρανίων
τῶν τ' ἀγοραίων,
βωμοὶ δώροισι -ροις φλέγονται·
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ἄλλη δ' ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει, φαρμασσομένη
χρίματος χρήμ- χρίσμ- ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
πελανῶν... βασιλείων -λάνῳ (-λανῶ Μ)... -λείῳ.
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Τούτων λέξασ' ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις αἴνει αἰνεῖν εἰπεῖν, παιών τε γενοῦ
τῆσδε μερίμνης, ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν
κακόφρων τελέθει, τοτὲ δ' ἐκ θυσιῶν
ἃς ἀναφαίνεις ἀγανὰ φαίνεις φαίνει φαίνουσ' ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει
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τὴν θυμοβόρον
λύπης φρενὶ φροντίδ' ἄπληστον φροντίδ' ἄπληστον τὴν θυμοβόρον λύπης φρένα.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1 focus
θεοὺς μὲν αἰτῶ τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλαγὴν πόνων
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φρουρᾶς ἐτείας μῆκος, ἣν κοιμώμενος
στέγαις Ἀτρειδῶν ἄγκαθεν, κυνὸς δίκην,
ἄστρων κάτοιδα νυχτέρων ὁμήγυριν,
καὶ τοὺς φέροντας χεῖμα καὶ θέρος βροτοῖς
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λαμπροὺς δυνάστας, ἐμπρέποντας αἰθέρι
ἀστέρας, ὅταν φθίνωσιν, ἀντολάς τε τῶν.
καὶ νῦν φυλάσσω λαμπάδος τὸ σύμβολον,
αὐγὴν πυρὸς φέρουσαν ἐκ Τροίας φάτιν
ἁλώσιμόν τε βάξιν· ὧδε γὰρ κρατεῖ
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γυναικὸς ἀνδρόβουλον ἐλπίζον κέαρ.
εἶτ᾽ ἂν δὲ νυκτίπλαγκτον ἔνδροσόν τ᾽ ἔχω
εὐνὴν ὀνείροις οὐκ ἐπισκοπουμένην
ἐμήν· φόβος γὰρ ἀνθ᾽ ὕπνου παραστατεῖ
τὸ μὴ βεβαίως βλέφαρα συμβαλεῖν ὕπνῳ.
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δέκατον μὲν ἔτος τόδ᾽ ἐπεὶ Πριάμου
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μέγας ἀντίδικος,
Μενέλαος ἄναξ ἠδ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνων,
διθρόνου Διόθεν καὶ δισκήπτρου
τιμῆς ὀχυρὸν ζεῦγος Ἀτρειδᾶν,
στόλον Ἀργείων χιλιοναύτην
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τῆσδ᾽ ἀπὸ χώρας
ἦραν, στρατιῶτιν ἀρωγήν,
μέγαν ἐκ θυμοῦ κλάζοντες Ἄρη,
τρόπον αἰγυπιῶν, οἶτ᾽ ἐκπατίοις
ἄλγεσι παίδων ὕπατοι λεχέων
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στροφοδινοῦνται,
πτερύγων ἐρετμοῖσιν ἐρεσσόμενοι,
δεμνιοτήρη
πόνον ὀρταλίχων ὀλέσαντες·
ὕπατος δ᾽ ἀίων ἤ τις Ἀπόλλων
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ἢ Πὰν ἢ Ζεὺς οἰωνόθροον
γόον ὀξυβόαν
τῶνδε μετοίκων ὑστερόποινον
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
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τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ᾿ ἀγοραίων,
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βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει,
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
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πελάνῳ μυχόθεν βασιλείῳ.
τούτων λέξασ᾽ ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις αἰνεῖν,
παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης,
ἢ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν κακόφρων τελέθει,
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τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἀγανὰ φαίνεις
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽ ἄπληστον
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1 focus
δέκατον μὲν ἔτος τόδ᾽ ἐπεὶ Πριάμωι μέγας ἀντίδικος
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Μενέλαος ἄναξ ἠδ᾽ Ἀγαμέμνων,
διθρόνου Διόθεν καὶ δισκήπτρου
τιμῆς ὀχυρὸν ζεῦγος Ἀτρειδᾶν,
στόλον Ἀργείων χιλιοναύτην
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τῆσδ᾽ ἀπὸ χώρας ἦραν, στρατιῶτιν ἀρωγήν,
μέγαν ἐκ θυμοῦ κλάζοντες ἄρη,
τρόπον αἰγυπιῶν οἵτ᾽ ἐκπατίοις ἄλγεσι παίδων
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†ὕπατοι† λεχέων στροφοδινοῦνται
πτερύγων ἐρετμοῖσιν ἐρεσσόμενοι,
δεμνιοτήρη πόνον ὀρταλίχων ὀλέσαντες·
ὕπατος δ᾽ ἀΐων ἤ τις Ἀπόλλων ἢ Πὰν ἢ Ζεὺς
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οἰωνόθροον γόον ὀξυβόαν τῶνδε μετοίκων
ὑστερόποινον πέμπει παραβᾶσιν Ἐρινύν.
οὕτω δ᾽ Ἀτρέως παῖδας ὁ κρείσσων
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ἐπ’ Ἀλεξάνδρωι πέμπει ξένιος
Ζεὺς πολυάνορος ἀμφὶ γυναικός,
πολλὰ παλαίσματα καὶ γυιοβαρῆ
γόνατος κονίασιν ἐρειδομένου
διακναιομένης τ᾽ ἐν προτελείοις
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κάμακος θήσων Δαναοῖσιν
Τρωσί θ' ὁμοίως. ἔστι δ᾽ ὅπηι νῦν
ἐστι· τελεῖται δ᾽ εἰς τὸ πεπρωμένον·
οὔθ᾽ ὑποκαίων οὔτ᾽ ἐπιλείβων
οὔτε †δακρύων† ἀπύρων ἱερῶν
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ὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει.
ἡμεῖς δ᾽ ἀτίται σαρκὶ παλαιᾶι
τῆς τότ᾽ ἀρωγῆς ὑπολειφθέντες
μίμνομεν, ἰσχὺν ἰσόπαιδα νέμοντες ἐπὶ σκήπτροις·
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ὅ τε γὰρ νεαρὸς μυελὸς στέρνων ἐντὸς ἀνάσσων
ἰσόπρεσβυς, ἄρης δ᾽ οὐκ ἔνι χώραι,
τό θ' ὑπεργήρων, φυλλάδος ἤδη κατακαρφομένης,
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τρίποδας μὲν ὁδοὺς στείχει, παιδὸς δ’ οὐδὲν ἀρείων
ὄναρ ἠμερόφα ντον ἀλαίνει. ὄναρ ἡμερόφα⟨ν⟩τον ἀλαίνει.
σὺ δὲ Τυνδάρεω θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
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τίνος ἀγγελίας πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων, τῶν τε θυραίων τῶν τ᾽ ἀγοραίων
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βωμοὶ δώροισ ι φλέγονται: βωμοὶ δώροισι⟨ν⟩ φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
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πελανῶι μυχόθεν βασιλείωι.
τούτων λέξασ᾽ ὅτι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις, αἴνει παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης,
ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν κακόφρων τελέθει,
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τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἃς ἀναφαίνεις
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽ ἄπληστον
καὶ θυμοβόρον φρενὶ λύπην.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
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τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων χθονίων,
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τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ᾽ ἀγοραίων,
βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
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μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
πελάνωι μυχόθεν βασιλείωι.
Translations (10)
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 1-103 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1 focus
I pray the gods a deliverance from these toils, a remedy 1
for my year-long watch, in which, couching on my elbows 2
on the roofs of the Atreidae, like a dog, I have contemplated the host 3
of the nightly stars, and the bright potentates that bear winter and summer to mortals, conspicuous in the firmament. And now I am watching for the signal of the beacon, the blaze of fire that brings a voice from Troy, and tidings of its capture; for thus strong in hope is the woman's heart, of manly counsel 4
. And whilst I have a night-bewildered and dew-drenched couch 1
, not visited by dreams, for fear, in place of sleep, stands at my side, so that I cannot firmly close my eyelids in slumber. And when I think to sing or whistle, preparing 2
this the counter-charm of song against sleep, then do I mourn, sighing over the sad condition of this house, that is not, as of yore, most excellently administered. But now, may there be a happy release from my toils, as the fire of joyous tidings appears through the gloom! Oh hail! thou lamp of night, thou that displayest a light like as the day, and the marshalling of many dances in Argos, on account of this event 3
. Ho! ho! I will give a signal distinctly to the wife of Agamemnon, that she, having arisen with all speed from her couch, may raise aloud a joyous shout in welcome to this beacon, if indeed the city of Ilion is taken, as the beacon-light stands forth 4
announcing; and I myself will dance a prelude. For I will count the throws 6
of my lord that have fallen well, mine own 5
, since this kindling of the beacon-light has cast me thrice six. May it then befall me to grasp with this hand of mine the friendly hand of the sovereign of this palace on his arrival. But for the rest I am silent; a mighty ox hath come upon my tongue 7
: but the house itself, could it find a voice, would tell most plainly. Thus I readily speak to them that know, and for such as know not I have no memory.
This is now the tenth year since the great adversary of Priam, king Menelaus and Agamemnon the stalwart yoke 1
the Atreidae, by the gift of Jove [possessed] of a twin-throned and twin-sceptred majesty, led from this land their armament of a thousand ships of the Argives, a warrior aid, screaming through passion a great noise of war, like vultures, which, in their sorrows for their young far from the [paths of men 2
,] wheel their flight high above their nests, oaring with the oars of their pinions, having lost the nestling care 3
of their callow young: but some god 4
, either Apollo, or Pan, or Jove, hearing aloft the shrill-voiced wail uttered by the birds on account of these outcasts 5
, sends Erinnys, the late avenger, upon the transgressors; even so mighty Jove the Hospitable sends the sons of Atreus against Paris, about to impose on Greeks and Trojans alike, on account of the wife of many husbands, many limb-wearying struggles, when the knee is strained in the dust, and the spear-staff is shivered in the onset. But things are as they are; and will be brought to the issue doomed. Neither by weeping nor by pouring libations, nor by shedding tears, will he soothe away the intense wrath of fireless rites 1
. But we, with our unhonoured aged frame, remain left behind the armament of that time, propping on staves our childlike strength. For both the marrow of youth shooting up within our breasts is weak as age, and Mars is not in place; and very advanced age likewise, after that its foliage is already withered, totters along its three-footed path, and nought superior to a child, flits like a day-dream.
But thou, daughter of Tyndarus, Queen Clytemnestra, what means this? what new event? what is it that thou hast heard, and on the faith of what tidings art thou burning incense sent around 2
? and the altars of all our city-guarding gods, of those above and those below, gods of heaven and gods of the forum, are blazing with offerings: and in different directions different flames are streaming upward, high as heaven, drugged with the mild unadulterated cordials of pure unguent, with the royal cake, brought from the inmost cells 3
. Concerning these things tell one both what is possible and lawful for thee to say 4
, and become thou the healer of this distracting anxiety, which now one while is full of evil thought, but at another time, because of the sacrifices, hope blandly fawning 1
upon me repels the insatiate care, the rankling sorrow that is preying upon my heart. I am 2
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1 focus
J'implore des dieux la fin de mes peines, depuis de si longues années qu'à veiller sur ce lit, au palais des Atrides, sans répit 1 , comme un chien, j'ai appris à connaître l'assemblée des étoiles nocturnes,
et ces astres surtout qui apportent aux hommes et l'hiver et l'été, princes lumineux des feux de l'Éther, dont je sais et les levers et les déclins. Et me voici encore épiant le signal du flambeau, la lueur enflammée qui, de Troie, nous
portera la nouvelle, le mot victorieux : ainsi commande un cœur impatient de femme aux mâles desseins. Mais, lorsque je suis là, sur cette couche pénétrée de rosée, qui me retient la nuit loin de mon toit, qui ne connaît point, elle, la visite des songes — car, au lieu du sommeil, c'est
la peur qui seule s'en approche et me défend de joindre mes paupières pour un sommeil paisible — quand je veux donc chanter ou fredonner, me faire avec des refrains un remède contre la torpeur, alors j'éclate en sanglots, déplorant le sort de cette maison, où ne règne plus le bel ordre
d'antan. Ah ! puisse donc luire aujourd'hui l'heureuse fin de mes peines et le feu messager de joie illuminer les ténèbres !
que Priam a vu un terrible adversaire, les rois Ménélas et Agamemnon, fils d'Atrée, couple puissant, honoré par Zeus d'un double trône et d'un double sceptre, lever de ce pays une flotte
argienne de mille vaisseaux, pour prêter à leur cause le secours des armes.
Terribles, ils criaient la guerre du fond de leur cœur
irrité, semblables aux vautours qui, éperdus du deuil de
vigueur qu'un enfant, il erre ainsi qu'un songe apparu en plein jour.

A toi de parler, fille de Tyndare, reine Clytemnestre : qu'y a-t-il ? qu'as-tu donc appris ? sur la foi de quel message tes ordres vont-ils partout provoquer des sacrifices ?

Tous les dieux de la ville, dieux du ciel et des enfers, dieux de la maison et de la place publique 9 , voient leurs autels chargés de tes dons.

Et, de tous côtés, jaillit jusqu'au ciel, au stimulant appel d'une huile sainte dont la douceur n'est pas trompeuse 10 , la flamme des offrandes royales tirées du fond du palais.

De tout cela daigne me dire ce qu'il m'est possible et permis d'apprendre, et guéris mon âme anxieuse, qui
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1 focus
YE fav’ring Gods, relieve me from this toil:
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Fix’d, as a dog, on Agamemnon’s roof
I watch the live-long year, obſerving hence
The
The tenth ſlow year rolls on, ſince great in arms
The noble ſons of Atreus, each exalted
To majeſty and empire, royal brothers,
Led hence a thouſand ſhips, the Argive fleet,
Big with the fate of Priam and of Troy;
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A warlike preparation; their bold breaſts
Breathing heroic ardor to high deeds;
Like vultures, which their unplumed offspring loſt d
,
—But what tidings,
What circumſtances of fair event hath reach’d
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Thy royal ears, daughter of Tyndarus,
Inducing thee to ſend the victims round?
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1 focus
Numi, il riscatto concedete a me
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dei miei travagli, della guardia lunga
un anno già, ch'io vigilo sui tetti
degli Atridi, prostrato su le gomita
a mo' d'un cane. E de le stelle veggo
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il notturno concilio, ed i signori
riscintillanti che nell'ètra fulgono,
ed il verno e la state all'uomo recano.
Ed ora il segno aspetto della lampada,
del fuoco il raggio, che da Troia rechi
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della presa città la fama e il grido.
Cosí comanda il cuor che aspetta e brama
di maschia donna. E intanto, ecco il mio letto,
irrequieto, molle di rugiada,
né sogno alcuno lo frequenta mai:
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ché non sovrasta a me sonno, ma tema
ch'io le pupille a sopor greve chiuda.
L'anno decimo volge, dal giomo
che di Priamo il grande avversario,
Menelao, col sovrano Agamènnone,
salda coppia d'Atridi, cui Giove
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die' fregio di duplice scettro,
di duplice trono, disciolsero
da questa contrada lo stuolo
dei mille navigli,
belligero, vindice, alzando
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dall'alma clangore di guerra
altissimo, come avvoltoi
che, perso il travaglio dei figli
dai nidi vegliati, nel cruccio
Che è mai l'uom decrepito? Quando
già secca è la fronda, cammina
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su vie di tre piedi:
né piú saldo che parvolo, vagola
come sogno che appaia nel giorno.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1 focus
Dijs quidem liberationem peto laborum
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Custodiæ annuæ, diu uerò dormiebam
Supra tectum Atridarum canis instar.
Aſtrorum uidi nocturnorum cœtum,
Et ferentes hyemem & æſtatem mortalibus
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Præclaros principes, ornantes æthera,
Stellas, quando occubuerint, ortus harum.
Et nunc obſeruo lampadis ſignum,
Ignis ſplendorem, ferentem ex Troia famam,
Captiuumq; rumorem, nunc enim imperaturum
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Mulieri ſpero cor uirile.
Quando uerò noctu errantem roſcidum habeo
Lectum, ſomnijs non perſpectum
Meum, metus in ſomno adest,
Vt non firmiter claudere poſsim ſomno palpebras:
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Quando canere cupio, flere uideor.
Somni remedium reſonans diuidens,
Fleo, domus huius calamitatem lugens:
Non tanquam elaborata optimè, ut antea.
Decimus quidem annus est, quod pro Priamo
Menelaus rex, Agamemnon, (magnus hostis
Duorum thronorum ſceptrorum ex Iove
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Honoris, forte iugum Atridarum,
Claſſem Argiuorum mille nauium ab hac regione
Collegerunt nauem auxiliatricem,
Magnum ex animo clamantes Martem,
More uulturum, qui magnis
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Doloribus pedum alti ex lectis circumuertuntur,
Alarum remis remigantes, cubilia obſeruantem
Laborem pullorum perdentes.
Supremus audiens, ut Apollo,
Aut Pan, aut Iupiter
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Luctum acutum
Horum habitatorum poſteram pæna mittit furiam
Sic uerò Atrei filios melior (traducentibus ipfos,
Contrà Alexandrum mittit hofpitalis
Iupiter: pro muliere multis uiris nupta
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Multa certamina, grauia,
Genu puluere firmato,
Pugnis tedio afficientis
Haſte faciens Danais,
Troianisq; fimiliter. est quo nunc uerò,
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Est, perfectum est fatum:
Neq; celebrans, neq; libans,
Neq; excipiens igne carentia facrificia,
Iras auſteras demulcebit.
Nos uerò extenuati antiqua carne,
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Hoc auxilium tunc derelicti expectamus, fortitudi-
Iuuenilem colentes cum fceptris.
(nem
Quado enim iuuenis medulla pectoris intus regës,
Aequaliter fenex Isopresbys, Mars nõ inest regioni,
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Tunc fenectutis ſtrue iam
Siccatæ, tripodas per uias quidem
It: puero uerò nihil melior,
Somnus lucem mitigans uagatur.
Tu uerò Tyndari
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Filia, regina Clytemnestra
Quid opus sit, quid noui, quidue fentiens, cuius nuncij
Persuasione immittens uaticinaris.
Omniū deorŭ patriorū, excellentißimoru, terrestrium,
Cœlestiumą; ac forenfiu are donis fplendēt.
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Alia aliunde ex lato cœlo lampas oritur,
Infecta unctione caſta,
Delicatis, non fraudulentis confolationibus,
Libo ex feceffu regio: hoc dices quod et fieri potest
Et fas laudare, Peang; fiat huius cure,
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Que nunc mala mente est,
Tunc uerò feruens admodum appares.
Spes arcet inexplebilem curam,
Animiuoram mentem doloris.
Poſsum narrare uifum in uia robur
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Aufpicatum uirorum
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1 focus
Macht Ende, Götter, mit den Mühen, die ich hier
ein langes Jahr schon dulde, daß ich, wie ein Hund
gestreckt, auf Agamemnons Dache spähen muß.
Ich kenne jetzt der Sterne nächtlichen Verein,
5 die lichten Herren, deren Glanz vom Himmelszelt
der Jahreszeiten Wechsel auf der Erde lenkt.
8 Auch heute späh' ich nach dem leuchtenden Signal,
der Flamme, die von Troia Kunde bringen soll
10 und Siegesbotschaft. So gebeut erwartungsvoll
die Königin, an Kühnheit und Verstand ein Mann.
Da muß ich liegen, nachtumwittert, thaubenetzt,
und meinem Lager nahet nimmer sich ein Traum,
denn statt des Schlafes steht die Furcht an meinem
Bett,
15 daß nicht zu fest der Schlummer meine Lider schließt.
Und wenn ein Lied ich singen oder pfeifen will
als Gegenzauber, der des Schlafs Betäubung bannt,
so muß ich weinen, klagend um des Hauses Los,
denn nicht mehr ist die alte gute Zucht darin.
20 O möchten diese Mühen enden, durch die Nacht
die frohe Botschaft heute flammen das Fanal.
verständlich, den nicht Wissenden ein Rätsel ist.
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wankt dahin, dreifüßig, schwach und kindisch,
schwankes Traumgebild am hellen Tag.
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Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1 focus
WATCHMAN
I PRAY the gods deliverance from these toils,
Release from year-long watch, which, couch'd aloft
On these Atreidan roofs, dog-like, I keep,
Marking the stars which nightly congregate;
And those bright potentates who bring to mortals
Winter and summer, signal in the sky,
1 What time they wane I note, their risings too.
And for the beacon's token now I watch,
The blaze of fire, bearing from Troy a tale,
2 Tidings of capture; for so proudly hopes 1
A woman's heart, with manly counsel fraught.
Dew-drenched and restless is my nightly couch,
By dreams unvisited, for at my side,
Fear stands, in place of sleep, nor suffers me
Soundly, in slumberous rest, my lids to close.
Then when I think to chant a strain, or hum,
(Such against sleep my tuneful counter-charm,)
Moaning, I wail the sorrows of this house,
Not wisely governed as in days of old.
But may glad respite from these toils be mine,
When fire, joy's herald, through the darkness gleams.
He suddenly beholds the beacon-light and starts to his feet.
Hail lamp of night, forth shining like the day,
Of many a festive dance in Argos' land,
Through joy at this event, the harbinger.
Hurrah! Hurrah! To Agamemnon's queen,
Thus with shrill cry I give th' appointed sign.
That from her couch up-rising with all speed,
She in the palace jubilant may lift
The joyous shout, to gratulate this torch,
If Ilion's citadel in truth is ta'en,
As, shining forth, this beacon-fire proclaims.
The joyous prelude I myself will dance,
For to my lords good fortune I shall score,
Now that this torch hath cast me triple six.
Well! be it mine, when comes this mansion's lord,
In this my hand his much-loved hand to hold !
The rest I speak not; o'er my tongue hath passed
An ox with heavy tread: the house itself,
Had it a voice, would tell the tale full clear ;
And I, with those who know, am fain to speak,
With others, who know nothing, I forget.
Chorus
Enter in rank and file the Chorus of ARGIVE ELDERS, each leaning on his staff; during their slow and measured advance they sing the following Ode, the conclusion of which brings them in front of the stage.
Lo the tenth year rolls apace
Since Priam's mighty challenger,
Lord Menelas and Atreus' heir,
Stalwart Atridæ,--by heaven's grace
Twin-throned, twin-sceptered,-from this land
A thousand sail, with Argives manned,
Unmoor'd,-a martial armament,
Warriors on just reprisal bent,
Fierce battle clanging from their breast,
Like vultures of their young bereaved,
Who, for their nestlings sorely grieved,
Wheel, eddying high above their nest,
By oarage of strong pennons driven,
Missing the eyrie-watching care
Of callow fledglings ; but from heaven,
Some guilt-avenging deity,
Or all-retrieving Zeus, doth lend
An ear attentive to the cry
Of birds, shrill-wailing, sore-distrest,
And doth upon the guilty send
Erinys, late-avenging pest.
So for the dame, by many wooed.
Doth mighty Zeus, who shields the guest,
'Gainst Paris send th' Atridan brood;
Struggles limb-wearing, knees earth-pressed
The spear-shaft, rudely snapt in twain
In war's initial battle,—these
For Danaoi as for Trojans he decrees.
As matters stand, they stand ; the yet to be
Must issue as ordained by destiny.
Nor altar fires, nor lustral rain
Poured forth, nor tear-drops shed in vain,
The wrath relentless can appease
Of violated sanctities.
But we, unhonoured, weak of frame,
Excluded from that proud array,
Tarry at home, and, age-oppressed,
On staves our child-like strength we lean;
In tender years and age, the same,
Life's current feebly sways the breast;
His station Ares holds no more;
Decrepid Eld, with leafage hoar,
No stronger than a child for war,
Treadeth his triple-footed way,
Like dream in daylight seen.
Enter CLYTEMNESTRA, followed by a female train. The Chorus sings the following Ode as it advances to take up its usual position round the altar of ZEUS, adorned with a statue of the god.
But Clytemnestra, thou,
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Tyndareus' daughter, Argos queen,
What hath befallen ? What hast heard ?
Confiding in what tidings now
Sendest thou round the altar-kindling word ?
Of all the gods who guard the state,
Supernal, or of realms below,
In heaven, or in the mart who wait,
With gifts the altars glow.
Now here, now yonder, doth a torch arise,
Streaming aloft to reach the skies,
Charmed with pure unguent's soothing spell,
Guileless and suasive, from the royal cell.
What here 'tis lawful to declare,
What may be told proclaim;
Be healer of this care
Which now a lowering form doth wear,
Till fawning Hope, from out the flame
Of sacrifice, with gentle smile
Doth sateless grief's soul-gnawing pang beguile.
Chorus
The way-side omen mine it is to sing, 1
The leaders' prosperous might foreshadowing,
For still my age, unquenched its natal power,
Doth suasive song inspire, a heaven-sent dower,
How the rapacious bird, the feathered king,
Sends forth against the Teucrid land,
With spear and with avenging hand,
Achaia's double-thronèd Might,
Accordant chiefs of Hellas' martial flower.
Toward spear-poising hand, the palace near,
On lofty station, manifest to sight,
The bird-kings to the navy-kings appear,
One black, and one with hinder plumage white ;
A hare with embryo young, in evil hour,
Amerced of future courses, they devour.
Chant the dirge, uplift the wail!
But may the right prevail!
Chorus
Then the sagacious army-seer, aware
How diverse-minded the Atridan kings,
In the hare-renders sees the martial pair,
And thus, the augury expounding, sings;—
“Priam's stronghold in time this martial raid
Captures, but first the city's store,
Tho people's wealth, shall fate destroy :
Now from no god may jealous ire
O'ercloud the mighty curb forged against Troy, 1
Marshalled for battle; for the holy Maid
Is angered at the house, since of her sire
The winged hounds the wretched trembler tare,
Mother and young unborn, her special care;
Therefore doth she the eagles' meal abhor.
Chant tho dirge, uplift tho wail!
But may the right prevail!
Chorus
†For she, the beauteous goddess, loves
The tender whelps, new-dropped, of creatures rude,
Sparing the udder-loving brood
Of every beast through field or wood that roves,--
Hence with Apollo pleads the seer that he
From these events fair omens will fulfil,
Judging the way-side augury,
Partly auspicious, partly fraught with ill.
Oh ! God of healing! thee I supplicate,
Let not the Huntress on the Danaï bring
Dire ship-detaining blasts and adverse skies,
Preluding other sacrifice,
Lawless, unfestive, natal spring
Of feudful jar and mortal hate,
By husband-fear unawed;
For child-avenging wrath, with fear and fraud,
Dread palace-warden, doth untiring wait."
Such woes, with high successes blent,
By Fate on the twain royal houses sent,
Did Calchas from the way-side auguries
Bodeful proclaim :-Then consonant with these,
Chant the dirge, uplift the wail!
But may the right prevail!
Chorus
Zeus, whoe'er he be, this name
If it pleaseth him to claim,
This to him will I address;
Weighing all, no power I know
Save only Zeus, if I aside would throw
In sooth as vain this burthen of distress.
Chorus
Nor doth he so great of yore, 1
With all-defying boldness rife,
†Longer avail; his reign is o'er.
The next, thrice vanquished in the strife,
Hath also passed ; but who the victor-strain
To Zeus uplifts, true wisdom shall obtain.
Chorus
To sober thought Zeus paves the way,
And wisdom links with pain.
In sleep the anguish of remembered ill
Drops on the troubled heart; against their will
Rebellious men are tutored to be wise;
† A grace I ween of the divinities,
Who mortals from their holy seats arraign.
Chorus
E'en so the elder of the twain,
Achaia's fleet who swayed,
No seer upbraiding, bowed, with grief suppressed,
His soul to fortune's stroke ; what time the host,
In front of Chalcis, tossing off the coast
Of wave-vexed Aulis, lingered, sore-distressed,
While store-exhausting gales their progress stayed.
Chorus
Blasts, dire delay and famine in their train,
And evil-anchorage, from Strymon sweep,-
Ruin to mortals; with malignant power,
Ruthless to ships and cordage, they
Doubling the sojourn on the deep
Wither the Argive flower.
But to the chiefs of that array,
When, than the bitter storm, the seer
A cure shrieked forth, weighted with deadlier banc,-
In name of Artemis,-the Atridan twain,
Smiting on earth their sceptres, strove in vain
To quell the rising tear.
Chorus
Then thus aloud the elder chieftain cried :—
" Grievous, in sooth, the doom to disobey,
But grievous too if I my child must slay,
My home's fair ornament, my pride,
Defiling these paternal hands,
E'en at the altar's side,
With virgin-slaughter's gory tide.
What course exempt from evil? Say,
The fleet can I desert, the leaguèd bands
Failing? With hot desire to crave the spell
Of virgin blood, the storm that shall allay,
Is just. May all be well!"
Chorus
Then harnessed in Necessity's stern yoke
An impious change-wind in his bosom woke,
Profane, unhallowed, with dire evil fraught,
His soul perverting to all daring thought.
For frenzy, that from primal guilt doth spring,
Emboldens mortals, prompting deeds of ill;
Thus, armed a woman to avenge, the king
In sacrifice his daughter dared to kill;
The fleet's initial rite accomplishing.
Chorus
Her prayers, her cries of " Father," her young life
Were nought to those stern umpires, breathing strife:
So, after prayer, her sire the servants bade,
†Stooping, with steelèd hearts, to lift the maid
Robe-tangled, kid-like, as for sacrifice,
High o'er the altar; them he also bade,
Guarding her lovely mouth, her bodeful cries,
Stern curse entailing on their houses twain,
With voiceless muzzles forceful to restrain.
Chorus
Then letting fall her veil of saffron dye,
She smote, with piteous arrow from her eye,
Each murderer; while, passing fair,
†Like to a pictured image, voiceless there,
Strove she to speak; for oft in other days,
She in her father's hospitable halls,
With her chaste voice had carolled forth his praise,
What time the walls
Rang to the Pæan's sound,
Gracing her sire, with third libation crowned.
Chorus
What next befel I know not, nor relate;
Not unfulfill'd were Calchas' words of fate.
For justice doth for sufferers ordain
To purchase wisdom at the cost of pain.
Why seek to read the future? Let it go !
Since dawns the issue clear with dawning day,
What boots it to forestal our date of woe ?
Come weal at last!
So prays, these mischiefs past,
Of Apia's land this one sole guard and stay.
Chorus
Hail Clytemnestra! Hither am I come
Thy majesty revering. For 'tis meet
When the male throne is empty, that we pay
To our high captain's consort honour due.
If thou hast heard auspicious news, or not,
That with joy-vouching hope thou lightest up
The altar fires, I, as a friend, would know,-
Yet shall thy silence nought unkind be deemed.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Joy's harbinger, be radiant Morning born
From kindly, mother Night! So runs the saw.
But thou of joy beyond all hope shalt hear,
For Priam's city have the Argives won.
Chorus
How queen! through unbelief I miss thy word.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Troy is in Argive hands; now speak I plain?
Chorus
Joy, stealing o'er my heart, calls forth the tear.
CLYTEMNESTRA
'Tis true, thine eye thy loyalty bewrays.
Chorus
Of these great tidings what the certain proof?
CLYTEMNESTRA
Warrant I have; -how not? or Heaven deceives me.
Chorus
Trusting the suasive augury of dreams?
CLYTEMNESTRA
The fancies of the sleep-bound soul I heed not.
Chorus
But hath some wingless rumour buoy'd thee up?
CLYTEMNESTRA
Thou chidest me as were I a young girl.
Chorus
But since what time was Priam's city spoiled?
CLYTEMNESTRA
This very night now bringing forth the day.
Chorus
What messenger could travel with such speed?
CLYTEMNESTRA
Hephaestos, a bright flash from Ida sending.
Hither through swift relays of courier-flame,
Beacon transmitted beacon. Ida first
To the Hermæan rock on Lemnos' Isle;
Thence Athos' summit, dedicate to Zeus,
The third in order, caught the mighty glow.
Upsoaring, bridging in its might the sea,
With gathered strength, the onward speeding torch,
In golden splendour, like another sun,
Its message to Makistos' watch-tower sends,
Who, nor delaying, nor by Sleep o'erpowered,
The courier's duty faithfully discharged.
The torch, far-gleaming to Euripos' stream,
Gives signal to Messapios' sentinels.
Firing of withered heath a giant pile,
With answering blaze, they pass the message on.
The stalwart flame, unwearied and undimm'd,
Like a bright moon, o'erleaps Asopos' plain,
And wakens, on Cithaeron's lofty crag,
Another speeder of the fiery post.
The warder hailing the far-journeying fire,
Kindles a beacon of surpassing glow;
Bounded the radiance o'er Gorgopis' lake,
And reaching Aegiplanctos' mountain peak
Urged on without delay the fiery chain.
With vigour unimpaired they onward send,
Kindled anew, a mighty beard of flame,
That, flaring from afar, the headland crossed
†O'erlooking Saron's gulf. Down shooting then,
The blaze, alighting on Arachnæ's height,
The city's nearest watch-tower, reached its goal;
Thence to the roof of Atreus' son this light
Darted, true scion of Idaian fire.
Thus in succession, flame awakening flame
Fulfilled the order of the fiery course:
The first and last are victors in the race.
Such is the proof, the warrant that I give
Of tidings sent me by my Lord from Troy.
Chorus
The gods, O queen, will I invoke hereafter.
But now I fain would marvel at thy words,
Heard more at large so thou wouldst speak again.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Troy on this very day th' Achaians hold.
I ween ill-blending clamour fills the town:
Pour in one vessel vinegar and oil,
They will not lovingly consort, I trow;
So now from captives and from captors rise
Two voices, telling of their twofold fate.
For those, flung prostrate on the lifeless forms
Of husbands and of brothers, children too,
Prone on their aged sires, lamenting wail;
While these, night-stragglers after toilsome fight,
Keen for all viands that the city yields,
Upon no order standing, but as each
Hath snatched the lot of fortune, take their fill.
At length from frost and skiey dews set free,
They dwell in Ilion's spear-won halls, and sleep
†The live-long night, unsentinelled like gods.
If now the tutelary powers they fear,
Who hold the conquered land, and spare their
shrines,
Captors, they shall not captured be in turn.
But may no greedy passion seize the host
To plunder things unlawful, smit with gain.
A safe return has yet to be secured,
And half the double course is yet to run.
But guilty to the gods if come the host,
Wakeful may rise the sorrows of the slain
For vengeance, though no sudden ill befal.
These words from me, a woman thou hast heard;
But may the good in overpoise prevail !
For I of many blessings choose this joy.
Chorus
Like prudent man well hast thou spoken, lady.
But I, on hearing of thy certain proofs,
Forthwith prepare me to salute the gods,
For no unworthy meed requites our toil.
Chorus
Hail, sovereign Zeus, and friendly Night,
Mistress of mighty glories, hail!
Thou who o'er Troia's tower-crowned height,
A snare so closely meshed hast flung,
That none, or fully grown or young,
Thraldom's huge drag-net may avail
To overleap. Vast ruin captures all.
Great guardian of the guest,
Thee I adore ;-
Wrought were those deeds at thy behest:
The bow thou didst of yore
'Gainst Alexander strain,
That nor the destined hour before,
Nor shooting o'er the stars, in vain
The shaft might fall.
Chorus
'Tis Zeus who smote them, this we may aver,
For easy 'tis to trace;
The end he shaped as he decreed.
Yet gods supernal, some declare,
To sinful mortals give no heed
Who trample under foot the grace
Of sacred things. But such are reprobate ;-
Kindred they claim with those, in heaven's despite,
†Who rebel war breathe forth, transgressing right.
Wealth in excess breeds mischief, and o'erturns
The balance of the constant mind;
No bulwark 'gainst destructive fate
In riches shall that mortal find
Who Justice' mighty altar rudely spurns.
Chorus
Frenzy's unhappy suasion, fraught with bane
To hapless children, sways the will;
Against the mischief cure is vain;
Not hidden is the flagrant ill ;-
Baleful it bursts upon the sight;
Like spurious coin, his metal base
Use and the touchstone bring to light,
Who, boy-like, to a winged bird gives chase,
And whelms his native soil in hopeless night.
His orisons tho heavenly powers disclaim,
But sweep to doom the sinful wight
Practised in guile;-thus Paris came
To Atreus' halls;-the friendly board
He shamed, the consort luring from her lord.
Chorus
Bequeathing to her people deadly stour
Of shielded hosts, of spears, and ships' array,
And Ilion's ruin bearing as her dower,
She through the portal swiftly took her way,
Daring what none may dare;-with many a wail,
The palace seers peal'd forth the tale.
"Woe for the house, the house and chieftains, woe!
Woe for the couch, the trace of her once true!"
Wronged, yet without reproach, in speechless woe
There stands he, yearning still her form to view
Lost o'er the far sea-wave: his dreamy pain
Conjures her phantom in his home to reign.
He loathes the sculptor's plastic skill
Which living grace belies;
Not Aphrodite's self can still
The hunger of his eyes.
Chorus
And dreamy fancies, coinage of the brain,
Come o'er the troubled heart with vain delight;
For vain the rapture, the illusion vain,
When forms beloved in visions of the night,
With changeful aspect, mock our grasp, and sweep
On noiseless wing adown the paths of sleep.
Such sorrows o'er the hearth brood evermore,
And woes o'ertowering these. The warrior train
Comrades in danger, steered from Hellas' shore,
Leaving in Hellas' homes heart-withering pain;
Full many sorrows rankle at the core.
Those whom he sent each holds in ken,
But to their homes return
Armour and in the funeral urn,
Ashes instead of men.
Chorus
For Ares, bartering for gold
The flesh of men, the scales doth hold
In battle of the spear.
From Ilion, back to sorrowing friends,
Rich dust, fire-purified, he sends,
Wash'd with full many a tear.
No living warriors greet them, but instead
Urns filled with ashes smoothly spread.
Groaning, each hero's praise they tell;
How this excelled in martial strife;
And that in fields of carnage fell,
Right nobly for another's wife.
Breathing such murmurs, jealous hate
Doth on the Atridan champions wait.
Achaians, cast in fairest mould,
Ensépulchred 'neath Ilion's wall,
The foughten shore now firmly hold,
The hostile sod their pall.
Chorus
Direful the people's voice, to hate
Attuned, which worketh soon or late
As ban of public doom.
Now o'er my spirit anxious fear
Broodeth, lest tidings I should hear
That night still shrouds in gloom;
For blind to deeds of blood the gods are not.
In Time the swarthy brood of Night
With slow eclipse reverse his lot,
Who Fortune reareth in despite
Of Justice. Reft of succour lies
The wretch once prone. Excessive praise
Is bodeful ever; 'gainst men's eyes
Zeus hurls his blinding rays.
But may ungrudged success be mine!
No city-spoiler let me be!
Nor, subject to another, pine
Myself in slavery.
Chorus
Borne by the joy-announcing flame
Swift through the town the tidings fly;
But whether true who may proclaim,
Or not a heavenly lie?
For who so childish, so distraught,
To warm his spirit at the beacon's glow,
When other news, with evil fraught,
His joy may change to woe?
'Tis woman's way the boon, ere seen, to prize;
Too credulous, her fancy open lies
To rumour's rapid inroad, but the fame
Published by women quickly dies.
Chorus Leader
Soon shall we know whether the signal fires,
The swift relays of courier-light be true,
Or whether, dreamlike, they beguiled our minds
With grateful splendour; -Yonder, from the coast,
A herald comes, shaded with laurel boughs;
While Clay's twin-brother, thirsty Dust, attests
That neither voiceless, nor of mountain wood
Kindling the blaze, will he report in smoke;
No, either will his voice announce more joy,
Or, but ill-omened words I deprecate.
Be omens fair with fair assurance crown'd!
May he who 'gainst the state breathes other prayer,
First reap the fruit of his malignant thought.
HERALD
Oh soil of Argos, oh my native land,
In light of this tenth year to thee I come;
While many a hope hath snapt, this one still holds,
For ne'er I counted, dying here, to share
Beloved sepulture in Argive soil.
Now hail, O earth, bright sunlight hail, and Zeus,
Supreme o'er Argos.
HERALD
Thou too, Pythian king,
With thy fell darts assailing us no more;
Let it suffice that on Scamander's banks
Thy mien was hostile; now, Apollo, lord,
Be thou the Saviour,-be the Healer thou!
Ye Gods of Council, all I now invoke,
Thee, my protector Hermes, Herald dear,
Whom Heralds venerate, and Heroes, ye
Who sent us forth, now kindly welcome back
The Argive host, poor remnant of the spear.
HERALD
Hail royal palace! roofs beloved, hail!
Ye seats august, ye powers that front the sun,
If e'er of yore, now, with those cheerful eyes
Receive in state the monarch absent long,
For he returns bringing in darkness light
Common to you and all assembled here,
King Agamemnon. Welcome, as beseems,
Him who with mattock of avenging Zeus
Hath Ilion razed, her under-soil uptorn.
Quenched are the fanes, the altars of the gods,
And of the land entire the seed is crushed.
Such yoke round Troy hath Atreus' elder son
Fastened: and lo! blest by the gods, he comes
Of living men most worthy of renown.
Nor Paris now nor his associate town
Their deed may vaunt as greater than their woe
Cast in a suit for rapine and for theft,
His surety forfeit, he to utter doom
Hath mowed his natal home. Thus Priam's sons
With twofold forfeit have atoned their crime.
Chorus
Hail, herald of Achaia's host!
HERALD
All hail!
So please the gods, I grudge not now to die.
Chorus
Love for thy father-land thy heart hath wrung!
HERALD
So wrung that from mine eyes fall tears of joy.
Chorus
Sweet the heart-sickness that o'ercame you thus.
HERALD
The key I lack which may thy words unlock.
Chorus
Smit with desire for those who longed for you.
HERALD
Hath Argos yearned then for the yearning host ?
Chorus
Ay, so that oft from darken'd soul I groaned.
HERALD
Whence this sad gloom, abhorrent to the host?
Chorus
Silence I long have held bale's safest cure.
HERALD
How! Aught didst fear in absence of thy lords?
Chorus
To die was oft my wish as whilom thine.
HERALD
Well ended, all is well. But, in long years,
Some chances, one might say, fell happily,
While others adverse were. For who, save gods,
Lives through the whole of life by grief unscathed ?
For should I tell of toils, of lodgment rude,
Infrequent landings, vexed by dangerous surf,
†What portion of the day exempt from groans?
Still more abhorrent was our life ashore ;-
For close to hostile walls our beds were strewn ;
Dank vapours fell from heaven, while from the earth
Drizzled the meadow dews,—our raiment's canker,
Matting, like savage beast's, our shaggy hair.
Or spake I of bird-killing winter's cold,
Unbearable, from snows of Ida born ;
Or summer's heat, when, stretched on noonday couch,
By breeze unruffled, slept the waveless sea ?
But why lament these hardships ? Past the toil!
Past now and gone,-past also for the dead,
Who ne'er will trouble them again to rise.
Why call the spectral army-roll? and why,
Living, bemoan reverses ? Nay, I claim
With many a farewell to salute mischance.
For us, the remnant of the Argive host,
Joy triumphs, nor can Sorrow tilt the scale.
Winging o'er land and sea our homeward flight.
We to the sun-light well may make this boast,
" The Argive host, captors at length of Troy,
These spoils, an off'ring to Achaia's gods,
Hang up, bright glory of their ancient shrines."
Whoso these tidings hears must needs extol
The city and the leaders of the host;
Also the consummating grace of Zeus
Due honour shall attain. My tale is told.
Chorus
Ungrudged surrender yield I to thy words.
Age still is young enough for grateful lore.
But Atreus' halls and Clytemnestra most
These news concern ; me also they enrich.
CLYTEMNESTRA
The shout of jubilee erewhile I raised,
When first by night the fiery herald came,
Telling of Ilion captured and o'erthrown.
Then some one spake and taunting asked," Dost think
Trusting the beacon-light, that Troy is sacked ?
'Tis woman's way to be elate of heart."
By such bold utt'rance was my wit misprised:
Yet still I sacrificed : and through the town
With woman's note they tuned the joyous trill,
Pæans uplifting in the gods' abodes,
The while they lulled the fragrant incense-flames.
And now, what need that thou shouldst tell me more ?
I from the king himself the tale shall hear.
With honour due, my venerated lord
To welcome home, myself will hasten : for-
What sight for woman sweeter than the day
Which to her spouse, Heaven-shielded from the fight,
Throws wide the gates? Then hither bid my lord,
Beloved of Argos, to return with speed.
Arriving, may he find a faithful wife,
Such as he left her, watch-dog of his house,
To him devoted, hostile to his foes,
In all points like herself, no single seal
Through these long years invaded by her hand.
Pleasure, or blameful word from other man,
Foreign to me as dyer's hue to brass.
613
A boast like this, fraught as it is with truth,
The lip misseems not of a high-born dame.
Chorus
Behold! The queen herself hath tutored thee;
Decorous words her clear interpreters.
But tell me, Herald, touching Menelas,
Doth he in safety homeward with the host
Hither return, prince to his country dear ?
HERALD
False news were I to tell, in flatt'ring terms,
Not long would friends enjoy the fair deceit.
Chorus
Oh, could'st thou speak auspicious words yet true!
That here they sundered are is all too plain.
HERALD
The man is vanished from th' Achaian host;
Himself and galley. No untruth I tell.
Chorus
Steering ahead from Troy ? or hath a storm,
A common terror, snatched him from the host?
HERALD
Like skilful archer thou hast hit the mark;
And hast in brief a mighty woe declared.
Chorus
Say, doth the voice of other mariners
Report of him as living, or as dead ?
HERALD
Not one so knoweth as to speak his doom,
Save the bright Sun, feeder of teeming earth.
Chorus
How ! Burst the tempest on the naval host
Through anger of the gods ? say, what the end ?
HERALD
Auspicious day with ill-announcing tongue
Beseems not to defile. In weal and woe
Diverse the honour due unto the gods.
When messenger, sad-visaged, tidings dire
Of routed armies to the city bears,
A common wound inflicting on the state,
While many men from many homes are banned,
Smit by the twofold scourge which Ares loves,
Twin-speared Calamity, a gory pair :—
Whoso is laden with such woes as these
The pæan of the Furies well may raise.
But coming to a town in jubilee,
Glad messenger of safety and success,
How shall I tidings mingle fair and foul,
The tale unfolding of the storm that smote
The Achaian host, not without wrath of Heaven ?
For fire and ocean, bitter foes of yore,
Sware true alliance and redeemed their pledge,
Whelming Achaia's luckless armament.
Then in the night foul-surging mischiefs rose :
Beneath the Thracian blasts ship against ship
Dashed wildly; they, sore-butted by the storm,
With furious wind and stress of pelting rain,
Vanished from sight, 'neath whirl of shepherd dire.
And when uprose the sun's fair light, behold,
The Aegean sea with flowerage overstrewn,—
Corpses of Grecian men and wrecks of ships.
Us, and our vessel with undamaged hull,
Some god, I ween, (not mortal was the power,)
Ruling the helm, hath saved, by stealth or prayer.
But Saviour Fortune lighting on our ship,
At moorage she nor felt the billows' strain,
Nor drave against the iron-girded coast.
Then safe at last, from watery Hades snatch'd,
In genial daylight, still mistrusting chance,
With anxious thought o'er this new grief we brooded,—
Our host sore wearied, and in evil plight.
And doubtless now, if any still survive,
They speak of us as dead. Why should they not ?
As we imagine a like fate for them.
But may the best befal! For Menelas,
Foremost and chief, expect him to arrive;
If any sunbeam knows of him as safe,
Rejoicing in the light, (through the device
Of Zeus, not willing yet the race to whelm,)
Good hope there is that he may yet return.
Hearing this tale, know, thou the truth hast heard.
Chorus
Who, oh who, with truest aim,
Did the battle-wedded dame,
Prize of conflict, Helen name ?
Was it not one, unseen, in happy hour,
Guiding his tongue with Fate-presaging power?
Helen, the captor;-titled fittingly,—
Captor of ships, of men, of cities, she
From dainty curtained bower hath fled,
By Titan zephyr borne along ;
Straight in her quarrel mustered strong
The shielded hunters' mighty throng,
Marshalled for battle;-forth they sped,
Swift on their track whose viewless oar
Harbour had found on Simois' leafy shore.
Chorus
Wrath, with direful issue fraught,
Thus to hapless Ilion brought
Dear alliance, dearly bought:
Requiter of the outraged festal board,
And of high Zeus, tho hearth's presiding Lord ;
Late vengeance wreaking on the guilty throng,
Who carol jubilant tho bridal song,
Which, fate-impelled, tho bridegroom's kin prolong.
But aged Priam's city hoar
A novel hymn doth now intone,
From many a voice; with mighty groan,
Woe upon Paris' bridal bed
She utters ;—she who long before
A dirgeful life, alas ! had led,
Weeping her sons in wretched slaughter sped.
Chorus
So once did wight incautious rear
A suckling lion, for the breast
Still yearning, to the house a pest.
Tame in life's early morning, dear
To childhood, and by Eld caressed.
Carried full oft in fondling play,
Like to a babe in arms he lay;
The hand with winning glances wooed,
And, smit with pangs of hunger, fawned for food.
Chorus
But time the temper doth bewray
Inherent in his race. Due meed
Of gentle nurture to repay,
Rending the flocks with cruel greed,
Unbidden he prepares the feast,
And mars with gory stain the halls.
Resistless, dire, athirst for prey,
The pest the menial train appals,
Reared for the house by Heaven, fell Atè's priest.
Chorus
So came to Troia's walls, in evil hour,
Spirit of breathless calm, fair pride
Of riches, love's soul-piercing flower,
The eyes' soft dart; but from her course aside
Swerving, to wedlock bitter end she wrought.
To Priam's offspring came she, mischief fraught,
Evil companion, bringing evil dower.
By Zeus escorted, guardian of the guest,
She sped, dire Fury, bridal pest.
Chorus
Lives among men this saw, voiced long ago;
" Success consummate breeds apace,
Nor childless dies, but to the race
From prosperous Fortune springeth cureless Woe."
Apart I hold my solitary creed.
Prolific truly is the impious deed;
Like to the evil stock, the evil seed;
But fate ordains that righteous homes shall aye
Rejoice in goodly progeny.
Chorus
†But ancient Arrogance, or soon or late,
When strikes the hour ordained by Fate,
Breedeth new Arrogance, which still
Revels, wild wantoner in human ill;
And the new birth another brood
Unhallowed, in the house doth bear ;—
Gorged Insolence, and, not to be withstood,
Defiant Boldness, demon unsubdued ;—
Swart curses twain, their parents' mien that wear.
Chorus
But Justice doth the smoke-begrimèd cell
Illumine with celestial sheen,
And loves with honest worth to dwell.
Gold-spangled palaces with hands unclean,
Forsaking with averted eyes,
To holy Innocence she flies.
The power of wealth, if falsely stamped with praise,
With homage she disdains to recognize,
And to their fated issue all things sways.
Chorus
Hail, royal lord! Stormer of Ilion, hail!
Scion of Atreus! How compose my speech,
How due obeisance render thee,
Yet neither overshoot the mark, nor fail
The goal of fitting compliment to reach ?
For many men, transgressing right, there be
Semblance who place above reality.
To him who groans beneath affliction's smart,
All men have prompt condolence; but the sting
Of feignèd sorrow reaches not the heart.
So men with others' joy rejoicing, bring
Over their visage an enforced smile :
But the discerning shepherd knows his fleck,
And his unerring glance detects their guile,
Who simulating love, with glozing art
And watery kindness fawn, but inly mock.
But thou, O King, (I speak without disguise,)
In Helen's quarrel asking war's array,
A mien didst wear unseemly in mine eyes,
Guiding not well the rudder of thy mind,
Who didst, on death-devoted men, essay
Courage to urge, by sacrifice.
But those who have achieved the great emprize,
Not from the surface of my mind alone,
I welcome now, with feelings not unkind ;
And inquest made, in time shall it be known,
Who of thy citizens at home the while
Guarded thy state with truth, and who with guile.
AGAMEMNON
speaking from the chariot.
First Argos and her tutelary gods,
Who with me wrought to compass my return,
And visit Priam's town with vengeance due,
Justly I hail. For in this cause the gods,
Swayed by no hearsay, in the bloody urn
Without dissentient voice the pebbles cast,
Sealing the doom of Ilion and her sons.
But to the rival urn, by no hand filled,
Hope only came. Smoke still uprising marks
The captured city ; Atè's incense-fires
Are living still, but, dying as they die,
The ash sends upward costly fumes of wealth.
Wherefore 'tis meet to render to the gods
Memorial thanks; since round them we have east
Our vengeful toils, and in a woman's cause
The Argive monster, offspring of the horse,
Host shield-accoutred, made its deadly leap,
And Priam's city levelled to the dust,
What time the Pleiades in ocean waned;
So, bounding o'er the towers, of princely blood
The raw-devouring lion lapped his fill.
This lengthened prelude to the gods! and now
Weighing the judgment ye erewhile expressed,
I say the same, and am with you agreed.
To few is it congenial, envy-free,
To venerate the friend whom Fortune crowns.
The jealous poison, lodged within the heart,
Tortures with twofold pang whom it infects ;
By his own griefs oppressed, the envious man
Groans also to behold another's joy.
Out of my proof I speak, for, well I wot,
Who friendship most pretended, only were
Its mirrored image, shadow of a shade.
None but Odysseus, who unwilling sailed,
Once harnessed, was my trusty yoke-fellow;
This I affirm, be he alive or dead.
But for the rest, what to the state pertains,
And to the gods, a full assembly called,
We'll weigh in free debate. Counsel we need.
That where the state is sound, we keep it so;
But where disease the healer's art requires,
By kind excision, or by cautery,
We shall attempt to remedy the harm.
Now to my palace and my household hearth
Returning, first will I the gods salute,
Who forward sped me, and who lead me home;
Since victory so far hath followed me,
Here may she henceforth stedfastly abide!
CLYTEMNESTRA
Men of our city, Argive elders here,
I shame not in your presence to avow
My wifely temper ; bashful Fear in time
From mortals dieth : not by others taught,
But from myself, the wretched life I'll tell
'Twas mine to lead while this man was at Troy.
First, for a woman severed from her mate,
To sit forlorn at home is grievous woe,
Hearing malignant murmurs manifold.
One courier comes, another in his train
Worse tidings brings to echo through the house ;
And as for wounds, had my dear lord received
As many as report kept pouring in,
A net methinks had not been more transpierced.
Or had he died oft as reported then,
A second triple-bodied Geryon, 1
†A threefold cloak of earth he must have donned, 2
Enduring death in every form he wore.
Thus harassed by these ever-rife reports,
Full often from my neck have forceful hands
Seized and untied the beam-suspended noose.
And for this cause our son, pledge of our troth,
Of mine and thine, stands not beside me now,
As stand he should, Orestes. Marvel not,
For him thy trusty spear-guest nourisheth ; 1
Strophius, the Phocian, who hath me forewarned
Of twofold peril, thine 'neath Ilion's wall,
And next lest clamour-fostered Anarchy
Hazard the plot, for 'tis with men inborn
To trample further him already down.
This pretext, trust me, carries no deceit.
But for myself the gushing founts of grief
Are all dried up, no single tear is left;
Sore with late watching are my weary eyes,
Weeping the fiery beacons set for thee
Neglected ever. Often from my dreams
Was I awakened by the tiny hum
Of buzzing gnat, seeing, endured by thee,
More woes than could have filled mine hour of sleep.
These sorrows past, now with a heart unwrung
I hail my husband, watchdog of the fold,
Sure forestay of the ship; of lofty roof
Pillar firm based ; Sire's sole-begotten child ;
Land beyond hope looming to mariners;
Day after storm most brilliant to behold;
To thirsty wayfarer clear gushing spring.
Sooth, sweet it is to 'scape from harsh constraint;
With such addresses do I honour him.
Let Envy stand aloof! for we have borne
Ere this full many a woe. Now dear my lord
Come from thy car; but on the ground, O King,
Plant not the foot that trampled Ilion.
Maidens, why tarry ye, whose duty 'tis
With carpets to bespread his stepping-floor ?
Swift, purple-strew his passage to a home
Unlooked for, e'en as Justice may conduct;
What further she decreeth with the gods,
887
Thought, not by sleep o'ermastered, shall dispose.
AGAMEMNON
Daughter of Leda! Guardian of my home!
Such as my absence was, is now thy speech,
Drawn out to ample length. With better grace
My praise had come from others than from thee.
And for the rest, seek not in woman's guise
To pamper me, nor, gaping forth loud cries,
Bow down to me, as to barbaric wight.
Make not my path with tapestries bestrewn
A mark for envy. To the gods belong
Such signal honours ; but for mortal man,
On bright-hued broidery to plant his foot,
I own it, is to me not free from dread ;
As mortal honour me, but not as god;
Without foot-carpeting or gorgeous web,
Glory resounds ; a constant mind to keep
Is Heaven's best gift; him only call we blest
Who ends in fair prosperity his days.
If thus I bear myself I need not fear.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Against my settled purpose speak not thus.
AGAMEMNON
Deem not my sober purpose I will mar.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Haply thou thus to act hast vowed in fear.
AGAMEMNON
Final and sure my word as man e'er spake.
CLYTEMNESTRA
What, thinkest thou, had Priam done if victor ?
AGAMEMNON
Purples, I ween, he verily had trod.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Then stand not thou in fear of human blame.
AGAMEMNON
Yet hath the people's rumour mighty power.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Life envy-free is life unenviable.
AGAMEMNON
'Tis not for woman to be fond of strife.
CLYTEMNESTRA
But it becomes the fortunate to yield.
AGAMEMNON
Does conquest in this struggle rate so high ?
CLYTEMNESTRA
Yield thee; thy will bend willingly to mine.
AGAMEMNON
If thou wilt have it so, let one with speed
These buskins loosen, vassals of the foot;
Lest, if with them sea-tinctured robes I tread,
Some jealous eye of gods smite me from far.
For much it shameth me, with wanton feet
To mar this wealth of silver-purchased web.
Of this enough. This stranger damsel now
Kindly receive. Zeus, with propitious eye,
Beholds the victor's sway with mercy crowned.
For willingly none bears the captive yoke;
But she, the chosen flower of many a spoil,
Fair present from the host, hath followed me.
But since herein I yield me to thy will,
Treading on purple to my halls I go.
CLYTEMNESTRA
A sea there is (which who may drain ?) that breeds
Abundant purple, fresh from many a shell,
Precious as silver, brilliant dye of robes,
Whereof, through favour of the gods, these halls
May boast, O King, a store right plentiful;
And poverty is stranger to our house
Trampling of many garments had I vowed,
Had thus the oracles our house enjoined,
Ransom devising for this precious life.
For while the root lives on, the leafage spreads,
Screening the mansion from the dog-star's ray.
So now, returning to thy household hearth,
As warmth in winter doth thy presence show.
And when Zeus breweth from the acrid grape
Rich wine, then coolness thro' the halls is shed,
Where, crowner of the home, the husband dwells.
Zeus, Zeus, all-crowner, my petitions crown :
Thine be the care of that which crown thou wilt.
Chorus
Whence this dread portent, that untired
Before my bodeful spirit floats ?
Wherefore, unbidden and unhired,
Waken these dark prophetic notes?
Why sits not on my bosom's throne
The direful presage to disown
As riddling dream, assurance strong?
Time's youth hath flown
Since the stern-cables from the boats
Were flung, what time the ship-borne host
Marched on to Ilion from the sandy coast.
Chorus
After long absence their return
With self-informing eyes I learn ;
Yet in its depths my soul, self-taught,
Chanteth Erinys' lyreless strains ;
My hopes, of courage reft, depart;
Not vainly throb my inmost reins ;
Whirleth on eddies of dark thought
My bodeful heart;
Yet, against hope, the gods I pray,
That, false to augury, my lay
Futile may fall, with vain foreboding fraught.
Chorus
Never will perfect health confess
Her limit sated ; though disease,
Neighbour, with party-wall, against her press.
Sailing with prosperous course elate,
Strikes on the hidden reef man's proud estate.
Then if reluctant Fear, with well-poised sling,
His bales doth into ocean fling,
Riseth once more the bark ; and though
With evil freighted to the full,
Floateth secure the lightened hull.
So likewise, gift of ample worth
From Zeus, the year's increase,
Whose teeming harvests in the furrows grow,
Quells the disease of dearth.
Chorus
But when on earth the crimson gore
Of man hath fallen, never more
May charm or spell the vanished life evoke;
Hence he of old, whose mystic lore
Was skilled the dead from Hades to restore,
Fell, blasted by the Thunderer's warning stroke.
†Now did not Fate—a heaven-sent Fate—
Baffle my impulse, ere too late,
Leaving behind the lagging tongue,
My heart its bodeful strain had sung.
But now it raves; no cheering rays
My anguished spirit knows,
And hopeless to unravel Fate's dark maze
With fiery ardour glows.
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 1 focus
I pray the gods to quit me of my toils,
1
To close the watch I keep, this livelong year;
For as a watch-dog lying, not at rest,
Propped on one arm, upon the palace-roof
Of Atreus' race, too long, too well I know
5
The starry conclave of the midnight sky,
Too well, the splendours of the firmament,
The lords of light, whose kingly aspect signs—
What time they set or climb the sky in turn—
The year's divisions, bringing frost or fire.
10
And now, as ever, am I set to mark
When shall stream up the glow of signal-flame,
The bale-fire bright, and tell its Trojan tale—
Troy town is ta'en: such issue holds in hope
She in whose woman's breast beats heart of man.
15
Thus upon mine unrestful couch I lie,
Bathed with the dews of night, unvisited
By dreams—ah me!—for in the place of sleep
Stands Fear as my familiar, and repels
The soft repose that would mine eyelids seal.
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And if at whiles, for the lost balm of sleep,
I medicine my soul with melody
Of trill or song—anon to tears I turn,
Wailing the woe that broods upon this home,
Not now by honour guided as of old.
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But now at last fair fall the welcome hour
That sets me free, whene'er the thick night glow
With beacon-fire of hope deferred no more.
All hail!
[ A beacon-light is seen reddening the distant sky.
Fire of the night, that brings my spirit day,
30
Shedding on Argos light, and dance, and song,
Greetings to fortune, hail!
Let my loud summons ring within the ears
Of Agamemnon's queen, that she anon
Start from her couch and with a shrill voice cry
35
A joyous welcome to the beacon-blaze,
For Ilion's fall; such fiery message gleams
From yon high flame; and I, before the rest,
Will foot the lightsome measure of our joy;
For I can say, My master's dice fell fair—
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Behold! the triple sice, the lucky flame!
Now be my lot to clasp, in loyal love,
The hand of him restored, who rules our home:
Home—but I say no more: upon my tongue
Treads hard the ox o' the adage.
45
Had it voice,
The home itself might soothliest tell its tale;
I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn,
To others, nought remember nor discern.
[ Exit. The chorus of old men of Mycenæ enter, each leaning on a staff. During their song Clytemnestra appears in the background, kindling the altars.
Ten livelong years have rolled away,
50
Since the twin lords of sceptred sway,
By Zeus endowed with pride of place,
The doughty chiefs of Atreus' race,
Went forth of yore,
To plead with Priam, face to face,
55
Before the judgment-seat of War!
A thousand ships from Argive land
Put forth to bear the martial band,
That with a spirit stern and strong
Went out to right the kingdom's wrong—
60
Pealed, as they went, the battle-song,
Wild as the vultures' cry;
When o'er the eyrie, soaring high,
In wild bereaved agony,
Around, around, in airy rings,
65
They wheel with oarage of their wings,
But not the eyas-brood behold,
That called them to the nest of old;
But let Apollo from the sky,
Or Pan, or Zeus, but hear the cry,
70
The exile cry, the wail forlorn,
Of birds from whom their home is torn—
On those who wrought the rapine fell,
Heaven sends the vengeful fiends of hell.
Even so doth Zeus, the jealous lord
75
And guardian of the hearth and board,
Speed Atreus' sons, in vengeful ire,
'Gainst Paris—sends them forth on fire,
Her to buy back, in war and blood,
Whom one did wed but many woo'd!
80
And many, many, by his will,
The last embrace of foes shall feel,
And many a knee in dust be bowed,
And splintered spears on shields ring loud,
Of Trojan and of Greek, before
85
That iron bridal-feast be o'er!
But as he willed 'tis ordered all,
And woes, by heaven ordained, must fall—
Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine
Poured forth too late, the wrath divine
90
Glares vengeance on the flameless shrine. 1
And we in gray dishonoured eld,
Feeble of frame, unfit were held
To join the warrior array,
That then went forth unto the fray:
95
And here at home we tarry, fain
Our feeble footsteps to sustain,
Each on his staff—so strength doth wane,
And turns to childishness again.
For while the sap of youth is green,
100
And, yet unripened, leaps within,
The young are weakly as the old,
And each alike unmeet to hold
The vantage post of war!
And ah ! when flower and fruit are o'er,
105
And on life's tree the leaves are sere,
Age wendeth propped its journey drear,
As forceless as a child, as light
And fleeting as a dream of night
Lost in the garish day!
110
But thou, O child of Tyndareus,
Queen Clytemnestra, speak! and say
What messenger of joy to-day
Hath won thine ear? what welcome news,
That thus in sacrificial wise
115
E'en to the city's boundaries
Thou biddest altar-fires arise?
Each god who doth our city guard,
And keeps o'er Argos watch and ward
From heaven above, from earth below—
120
The mighty lords who rule the skies,
The market's lesser deities,
To each and all the altars glow,
Piled for the sacrifice!
And here and there, anear, afar,
125
Streams skyward many a beacon-star,
Conjur'd and charm'd and kindled well
By pure oil's soft and guileless spell,
Hid now no more
Within the palace' secret store.
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O queen, we pray thee, whatsoe'er,
Known unto thee, were well revealed,
That thou wilt trust it to our ear,
And bid our anxious heart be healed!
That waneth now unto despair—
135
Now, waxing to a presage fair,
Dawns from the altar Hope—to scare
From our rent hearts the vulture Care.
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O schafft Erlösung, Götter, mir von diesen Müh'n,
1
Der jahrelangen Wache, da gelagert ich
Hoch auf der Atreussöhne Dach, dem Hunde gleich,
Wahrnahm der Nachtgestirne ringsversammelt Heer,
Und, die den Frost uns bringen und des Sommers Glut,
5
Die lichten Herrscher, deren Glanz am Himmel flammt,
Der Sterne Niedersinken und ihr Aufersteh'n!
Auch heute späh' ich nach des Flammenzeichens Schein,
Dem Feuerstrahle, der Bericht aus Troja bringt,
Die Kunde seines Falles: so gebot es mir
10
Der Herrin mannhaftkühnes, hoffnungvolles Herz.
Und wenn ich, unstät ruhelos, von Thau durchnäßt,
Mein nächtlich Lager hüte, das kein Traum besucht,
Denn Furcht, anstatt des Schlummers, wohnt zur Seite mir,
Daß nie zu festem Schlafe sich mein Auge schließt, -
15
Und wenn ich dann wohl singen oder pfeifen will,
Das Zaubermittel, das des Schlafes Geister bannt:
Da wein' ich seufzend über dieses Hauses Loos,
Das nicht wie vormals ohne Fehl verwaltet wird.
O nahte heut der Mühen heitres Ziel heran,
20
Und tauchte heilverkündend auf der Strahl der Nacht!
Willkommen, Leuchte düstrer Nacht, die hellen Tags
Lichtglanz verkündigt und in Argos weit umher
Festreigen ausweckt, diesem Glück zu frohem Dank!
Triumph! Triumph!
Agamemnons Gattin eil' ich laut es kundzuthun:
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Vom Lager flugs sich hebend, soll im Hause sie
Des Dankes hellsten Jubellaut der Leuchte dort
Entgegenjauchzen, da die Troerburg in Staub
Gesunken, wie's der Flammenbote strahlend ruft!
Und ich Entzückter tanze selbst die Reigen vor.
30
Denn meiner Herrschaft bring' ich jetzt ein glücklich Loos,
Ein Dreimalsechs, das meine Spähe mir gewann.
O möcht' ich denn des Heimgekehrten liebe Hand,
Des Hausgebieters, fassen hier mit dieser Hand!
Vom Andern schweig' ich; mir verschließt ein goldnes Band
35
Den Mund. Das Haus hier spräche selbst am lautesten,
Wär' ihm ein Laut verliehen. Gerne red' ich wohl
Mit Kundigen; vor Unkundigen bin ich lieber stumm.
(Pause. Am fernen Himmel leuchtet eine Flamme auf.) (Mit diesem Rufe verläßt er die Warte, und eilt in die Bühne hinab.) (Geht ab.) (Aus der Stadt kommt der Chor der Greise in die Orchestra herein- gezogen und umwandelt die Thymele.)
Zehn Sommer entfloh'n, seit Priamos' Feind, 1
Recht fordernd mit Macht,
40
Menelaos der Fürst, Agamemnon mit ihm,
Das gewaltige Paar der Atriden, von Zeus
Durch Scepter und Thron zwiefältig geehrt,
Mit den tausend Masten Achäa's Heer,
Die Genossen des Kampfs,
45
Von den heimischen Fluren entführten.
Laut schnoben sie Mord aus zorniger Brust,
Wie der Weihen Geschlecht,
Die, der Jungen beraubt, in unendlichem Schmerz
Hoch über dem Horst hin kreisend und her,
50
Mit der Fittige Schlag durchrudern die Luft,
Die verlorenen Müh'n
Um der Kindlein Pflege betrauernd.
Doch ein Gott in den Höh'n, ob Apollon, ob Pan,
Ob Zeus, er vernimmt der Beraubten Geschrei,
55
Das mit klagendem Ruf die Gebirge durchhallt,
Und die Frevler ereilt
Der vergeltende Fluch der Erinnys.
So sandte des Atreus Söhne der Gott,
Der des Gastrechts wahrt, der gewaltige Zeus,
60
Auf Paris heran für der Buhlerin Raub,
Vielfältige Müh'n, abmattenden Kampf,
Da gestemmt in den Staub arbeitet das Knie,
Da die Lanze zerschellt in den vordersten Reih'n,
Dem achäischen Volke zu wecken,
65
Und den Troern zugleich. Nun geht es einmal,
Wie's geht; es erfüllt sich der Spruch des Geschicks;
Nicht Weinen und nicht Trankspende versöhnt,
Kein Jammern den unauslöschbaren Groll
Um die fehlende Flamme des Opfers.
70
Uns Greisen indeß, die das Alter gebeugt,
Uns ward kein Theil an der Ehre des Zugs;
Wir blieben zurück,
Gleich Kindern am Stab aufstüßend die Kraft.
Denn das jüngere Mark, das jugendlichſtolz
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Im Busen sich hebt,
Flieht, schwach wie der Greis, vor dem Kampfe zurück:
Der Gealterte schleicht, wann herbstlich bereits
Sich entlaubte der Stamm, dreifüßig dahin;
Unmächtig, dem Kind gleich, wankt er einher,
80
Ein Traumbild, irrend am Tage.
(Während dieser Worte ist aus den Pforten des königlichen Palastes ein Zug von Dienerinnen mit Schalen und Krügen um die Altäre getreten, um zu opfern; zu gleicher Zeit erscheint Klytämnestra mit Gefolge, und läßt das Opfer beginnen.)
Auf, Tyndaros' Kind,
O Königin, sprich, Klytämnestra: was ist's?
Was Neues geschah? Was vernahm dein Ohr?
Auf welches Gerücht
85
Dich stützend, erregst du die Opfer umher? 2
Denn den Göttern gesammt, den Behütern der Stadt
Und der Tiefen und Höh'n
Und des Markts und Olymps, flammt jeder Altar
Von duftenden Opfergeschenken.
90
Und von hier und von dort, zu dem Himmel empor,
Wallt leuchtende Glut,
Balsamisch getränkt mit des heiligen Oels
Süßathmendem, lauterem, labendem Born,
Mit der Spende vom Königeshause.
95
So sage mir denn, was du kundthun darfst
Und zu melden vermagst,
Und wehre der Angst und banne die Qual,
Die jetzt das Gemüth uns feindlich befällt;
Doch strahlt auch ein freudiges Hoffen mir auf
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Von den Opfern und stillt das unendliche Leid,
Die verzehrende Trauer im Busen.

Notes on the current edition

Agamemnon

1. ἣν Fl V Fa: δ᾽ ἦν M
2. seclusit Pauw
3. ἐμήν suspectum: τί μήν: Hermann, sed vide 1231–2
4. ἀνθ᾽ ὕπνου] ἀντίνους Wecklein
5. fort. δεσποτουμένου Dübner
6. σημαίνω M: σημανῶ recc.
7. ἀγγέλλων V Fa: ἀγγέλων M
8. Πριάμου V Fl Fa: Πριάμῳ M
9. fort. ἐκπάγλοις Blomfield
10. ὑποκαίων Casaubon: ὑποκλαίων codd.
11. ἀνᾴσσων Hermann: ἀνάσσων codd.
12. τό θ̓ ὑπέργηρων Fa: τίθιπεργήρως M: τόθιπεργήρως B Fl
13. πευθοῖ Scaliger: πειθοῖ M: πυθοῖ Fl
14. θυοσκεῖς Turnebus: θυοσκινεῖς codd.
15. φαίνουσ᾽ Fl Fa: φαίνεις M: fort. φανθεῖσ᾽ Pauw
16. τῆς θυμοβόρου φρένα λύπης Hermann: τὴν θυμοφθόρον λύπης φρένα M: τὴν θυμοβόρον λ. φ. Fl: fort. λύπης, θυμοφθόρον ἄτην H. L. Ahrens

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Agamemnon (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Agamemnon.) focus

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Prima totius fabulae elementa sunt apud Homerum Od. III. 234. seqq. 258. seqq. IV. 512. seqq. XI. 404. seqq. Excubitorem autem sumpsit Aeschylus ex his, IV. 524.
τὸν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀπὸ σκοπιῆς εἶδε σκοπός, ὃν ῥα καθεῖσεν
Αἴγισθος δολόμητις ἄγων· ὕπο δ᾽ ἔσχετο μισθόν,
χρυσοῦ δοιὰ τάλαντα· φύλασσε δ' ὅγ' εἰς ἐνιαυτόν,
μή ἑ λάθοι παριών, μνήσαιτο δὲ θουρίδος ἀλκῆς.
βῆ δ᾽ ἴμεν ἀγγελέων πρὸς δώματα ποιμένι λαῶν.
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μῆκος, ἣν κοιμώμενος Vulgata scriptura inde a Victorio haec est,
φρουρᾶς ἐτείας μῆκος, ἣν κοιμώμενος
. Et sic Flor. Farn. Ven.
ἐτείας· μῆκος δ᾽ ἦν
M. Marc.
ἐτείας, μῆκος δ᾽ ἢν
G. Ald.
ἐτείας, μῆκος δ᾽ ἦν κοιμώμενος
oratione usque ad
δίκην
continuata Rob.
μῆκος δ᾽ ἦν
etiam Bess. In margine M. adscriptum
ἦν ἐπὶ μῆκος κοιμώμενος
, in Flor.
ἐπὶ μῆκος δὲ ἦν κοιμώμενος
. In altera margine M. hoc scholion est,
τῶν κατὰ τὸ μῆκος τῆς ἐτείας φρουρᾶς
. Turnebus, coli signo in fine primi versus posito,
φρουρᾶς ἐτείας μῆκος ἦν κοιμώμενος, στέγαις — δίκην
. Valckenarium, qui ad Herod. IV. 151. p. 743.
μῆχος
scribi iussit, vocem non alibi usurpatam Aeschylo, qui
μήχαρ
praetulisse videtur, secuti sunt Porsonus, Blomfieldus, alii. Μῆκος quos defensores nactum est, eorum quidam
ἐτείας κατὰ μῆκος
interpretati sunt: quos refutare nihil opus esse videtur. Longum annuae observationis spatium intelligi Aeschylus voluit, accusativum adiiciens intellecto tali verbo, quo significaretur in mente habeo. Sic infra v. 1054.
μαρτυρίοισι γὰρ τοῖςδ᾽ ἐπιπείθομαι, κλαιόμενα τάδε βρέφη σφαγάς
. Et Sophocles Ant. v. 857.
ἔψαυσας ἀλγεινοτάτας ἐμοὶ μερίμνας, πατρὸς τριπλοιστὸν οἶκτον
. Sed quid exemplis opus in re pervulgata?
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ἄγκαθεν
ἔγκαθεν
G. Ald. Hesychius mendose
ἀγρίαθεν, ἀνέκαθεν. Αἰσχύλος Ἀγαμέμνονι
. Idem
ἄκκαθεν, ἀνέκαθεν
. Sed ibi codex
ἀγκάθεν, ἀνέκαθεν
. Disertius grammaticus in Bekkeri Anecd. p. 337, 25.
ἄγκαθεν, κατὰ ἀποκοπὴν ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀνέκαθεν. οὕτως Αἰσχύλος
. Sic etiam scholiastes. Mira apocope, qua vocalis necessarius abiicitur. Et licebat hic
ἀνέκαθεν
dicere, ut factum est in Choeph. v. 422. Fierique potuit, ut quemadmodum in Eum. v. 361. male scriptum erat
ἄγκαθεν
, ubi metrum
ἀνέκαθεν
ab Aeschylo profectum ostendit, ita hic quoque peccarent librarii. Diversum est
ἀγκάθεν
ex
ἀγκάς
derivatum, quo utitur Aeschylus in Eum. v. 83. quod est
ἐν ἀγκάλαις
, quae interpretatio in Farn. Agamemnonis versui adscripta est. Videtur ea vera esse. Nam etsi
ἀγκάς, ἀγκάλη, ἀγκαλίζω
de interiore parte brachii dici solent, ut
ἀγκάς, ἄγκαθεν
sit in ulnis, tamen, ut
ἀγκών
, quo vocabulo exterior pars significatur, de interiore dicitur non solum apud Longum I. 6. sed etiam apud Sophoclem Ant. 1237. et apud Euripidem Suppl. 817. Iph. Aul. 131. ita
ἄγκαθεν
significabit quod
ἐπ' ἀγκῶνος
dicitur. Aptissimus Aeschyli loco versus Homeri est Od. XIV. 494.
ἦ, καὶ ἐπ' ἀγκῶνος κεφαλὴν σχέθεν, εἶπε τε μῦθον
.
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νυκτέρων
νεκτέρων
G. Marc. Ald.
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θέρος βροτοῖς M. Bess. et edd. Ita etiam Achilles Tatius, qui in Isagoge in Arati Phaenomena p. 81. sive in Petavii Vranologio p. 122. versus 4. 5. 6. affert.
θόος βροτοῖς
G.
βροτοῖς θέρος
Ven. Flor. Farn.
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αἰθέρι
ἐνθέρει
pro
αἰθέρι
Bess.
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ἀστέρας, ὅταν φθίνωσιν, ἀντολάς τε τῶν
ὅταν
Flor. Turn.
ὅτ' ἂν
M. G. Bess. Marc. Ven. Ald. Rob. ut solent. Quoniam Achilles Tatius non habet hunc versum, Valckenarius ad Phoen, v. 506. eum ut ineptum damnavit: cui assensi sunt quum alii, tum Porsonus in Appendice ad Toup. p. 479. et in editione Aeschyli. Tuiti eum sumus, Heathius, ego in Opusc. II. p. 78. Petersenus in Misc. Hafn. I. p. 45. Conzius, Vossius in Curis Aeschyleis p. 14. Orellius in Symbolis ad philol. ex Helvetia I. p. 193. Nam nec Tatio magna fides habenda, cuius liber non est emendatissimus, et in ipso versu potius cur servetur, quam cur abiiciatur, videtur inesse. Omisso enim, ut recte dicat excubitor se signa quae anni tempestates afferant contemplari, tamen hoc loco rectius addet observare se quando occidant atque oriantur. Numerare enim dies et computare tempora solent, quibus molesta est diuturna exspectatio. Quaerendum vero est, qua ratione iungenda sint verba. Si subiectum est
δυνάστας
, et interpungitur demum post
αἰθέρι
, friget sane addita explicatio
ἀστέρας
: sin, ut quibusdam placuit, iunguntur haec,
ἐμπρέποντας αἰθέρι ἀστέρας
, non est id multo melius, quia descriptio prope idem quod nomen ipsum significat, nec stellae sunt quae non sint in aethere. Quare
ἀστέρας
pro subiecto habendum videtur,
καὶ τοὺς φέροντας χεῖμα καὶ θέρος βροτοῖς ἀστέρας
, quibus adiiciatur amplificandi caussa non
λαμπροὺς δυνάστας, ἐμπρέποντας αἰθέρι
, sed
ἐμπρέποντας αἰθέρι λαμπροὺς δυνάστας
, sidera, quae lucidi in aethere reges micant. In
τῶν
non esse quod offendat monuit Boissonadus, afferens Suppl. 343.
τῶν γὰρ οὐ δεῖται πόλις
, 422.
ἢ τοῖσιν ἢ τοῖς πόλεμον αἴρεσθαι μέγαν
, Sept. ad Th. 178.
χὤτι τῶν μεταίχμιον
, 366.
ὑπ' ἀσπίδος δὲ τῷ χαλκήλατοι κλάζουσι κώδωνες φόβον
. Non est autem
ἀντολάς τε τῶν
interpretandum et ortus horum, sed et aliorum ortus.
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κρατεῖ γυναικὸς ἀνδρόβουλον ἐλπίζον κέαρ
κρατεῖ
codices et Rob.
κρατεῖν
Ald. Turn. Proximo versu
ἐλπίζον
M. Marc. Flor. Ven. Farn. Rob. In M.
ο
iterum super
ἐλπίζον
scriptum est.
ἐλπίζων
G. et
ο
supra adscripto Bess.
ἐλπίζω
Ald. Turn. Sic, inquit, imperat sperans virile mulieris cor. Placebat Reizio quoque haec scriptura,
κρατεῖν ἐλπίζων
, receptaque est ab novissimis editoribus, vellemque non essent alteram defendere conati Elmsleius in censura editionis Blomfieldianae et, qui eleganter in Anglicum sermonem hanc fabulam transtulit, I. Symmons. Elmsleium commoverant haec duo, quod nude dictum esset
ἐλπίζον
, quasi significaretur
εὔελπι
: adiiciendum enim fuisse aliquem accusativum: deinde quod in periphrasi, qualis esset
γυναικὸς κέαρ
, non locum haberet duplex epitheton, sicut non dicturum fuisse Homerum
ἱερὴ Ἂς Τηλεμάχοιο δεδεγμένη
. Fallitur in utroque. Nam
ἐλπίζον
, non participii, sed adiectivi potestate positum, non opus habet accusativo, quia quid speret Clytaemnestra ex re ipsa intelligitur. Ac fortasse consulto ita loqui putandus est excubitor, quo innuat aliquid illam amplius quam excidium Ilii sperare. Intelligit enim excubias eam propterea instituisse, ut ne ex improviso adveniens Agamemno deprehenderet indicia adulterii. Periphrasis autem non est qualis in illo
ἱερὴ ἲς Τηλεμάχοιο
, quae pro ipso est nomine proprio, sed pertinet ad illud genus, in quo singula verba vim suam habent, eoque aliis in construendo legibus tenentur: accedit quod cor sedes est spei, ut Clytaemnestra si sperat, proprie cor eius sperare dicatur. Praeterea, si
ἐλπίζω
, ut Elmsleio placet, pro
νομίζω
dictum esset, non apparet quid sibi velit excubitor illa sententia. Nam nisi Elmsleius
κρατεῖν
sic dictum voluit, quasi esset
κρατήσειν
, quomodo excubitor, quod certo scit, putare se scire dicat? Sin pro
κρατήσει
positum existimavit hoc sensu, sic victricem fore mulierem puto, multo id minus ferri potest. Non enim homo iste, etiamsi praesagiret quod minime praesagit, tam aperte proloqui, quid metueret, auderet. Quare non dubitandum est quin verum sit
κρατεῖ ἐλπίζον
. Rarius est
κρατεῖν
sic dictum ut aliquid imperare magis quam tenere imperium significet. Sic tamen in Hecuba v. 282.
οὐ τοὺς κρατοῦντας χρὴ κρατεῖν ἃ μὴ χρεών
. Neque quod apud Aeschylum excubitor dicit, proprie significat sic iubet, sed sic imperat, i. e. tam durum et grave est reginae hoc imperium. Severitatem enim eius imperii ipse quam maxime experitur. Ἀνδρόβουλον recte explicat Phrynichus in Bekkeri Anecd. p. 19, 23.
ἀνδρόβουλος γυνή, ἡ ἀνδρὸς βουλεύματα βουλευομένη· ἀνδρὸς δέ, τοῦ κατ᾽ ἔπαινον λεγομένου
. Sic infra v. 336.
γύναι, κατ' ἄνδρα σώφρον εὐφρόνως λέγεις.
Sophocles apud Stobaeum LXXIII. 54.
κατ' ὀρφανὸν γὰρ οἶκον ἀνδρόφρων γυνή
.

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δὲ Ad
δὲ
in Flor.
γε
supra adscriptum. Haeserat scilicet librarius in constructione expedienda, quae etiam aliorum non optimos conatus provocavit.
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τί μήν; Libri in principio versus
μὴν
, quod et languidum est et loco positum ineptissimo. Quare iure offendit Auratum, qui
ἐμοὶ φόβος τότ' ἀνθ᾽ ὕπνου παραστατεῖ
coniecit. Haesit in structura verborum etiam scholiastes. Tueri eam studuit Elmsleius. Ego non dubitavi
τί μήν;
reponere. Non accommodata quidem ad hunc locum explicatio Suidae est,
τί μήν; κατάφασιν δηλοῖ, ἀντὶ τοῦ πῶς γὰρ οὔ; διὰ τί γὰρ οὐ;
Aptius quod est in cod. Leidensi Etymologici apud Koenium ad Greg. Cor. p. 236.
τί μήν; τί γάρ; τί οὖν;
V. Schaeferum ad Soph. Trach. v. 390. Est id quid aliud? Sic in Eum. v. 202.
ἔχρησα ποινὰς τοῦ πατρὸς πέμψαι. τί μήν;
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NA Proverbium
ᾠδοὺς ᾄδειν
exstat apud Aristophanem Nub. v. 720. ubi vid. schol.
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ἐντέμνων
ἐκτέμνων
Ven. et
ν
supra scripto Flor.
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(ἰοῦ, ἰοῦ.) Iacuerat cubito innixus excubitor. Nunc viso igne exsilit, postquam paullum tacuerat. De qua re recte scholiastes. In libris
ἰοῦ ἰοῦ
positum est post
τῆσδε συμφορᾶς χάριν
v. 25. Scribi id debebat
ἰοῦ ἰοῦ
. Suidas
ἰοῦ ἰοῦ· τὸ ἰοῦ ἐπὶ χαρᾶς
. Inde Zonaras p. 1115. Et sic boni libri apud Aristophanem. Quod Reisigius in comm. crit. ad Soph. Oed. Col. v. 1485. monuit, hanc in laetitia exclamationem propriam esse comoediae, recte dictum est, dicique poterat etiam si recordatus esset huius loci. Vulgaris enim vitae consuetudinem Aeschylus in hoc excubitore, ut in nutrice quae in Choephoris est, expressit. Sed illas interiectiones quod hic collocandas esse in praefatione ed. prioris Hecubae p. 56. contendi, reprehenderunt Blomfieldius aliique. Qui si tueri vulgatum volebant, non illud debebant afferre, quod expergefacere Clytaemnestram vocibus illis vellet custos: nam haec nimis stolida esset hominis rusticitas: sed rectius dixissent, nunc demum illum plane quantum hoc gaudii sit persentiscere, eoque in voces illas erumpere. Et concederem profecto id non inepte inventum esse, modo, ubi primum ignis conspicitur, alia interiectio, ut
ὢ ὢ
, esset posita. Ipsa enim natura flagitat, ut, qui diu frustra finem exspectaverit molestissimae observationis, tandem conspecto exoptato fulgore, priusquam verba quibus gaudium eloquatur, inveniat, interiectione aliqua proclamet sensum quo perfunditur. Ac nescio an quae ad
ὦ χαῖρε
adscripta sunt scholiastae verba, potius ad interiectiones illas pertineant:
δεῖ διαστήματος ὀλίγου, εἶτα ἀνακραγεῖν, ὡς θεασάμενον τὸν πυρσόν
.
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λαμπτήρ νυκτός, ἡμερήσιον Nulla in Rob. interpunctio. In Ald. virgula post
λαμπτὴρ
et post
νυκτὸς
distinctum. In Turn. tantummodo post
λαμπτήρ
, ex scholiastae sententia. A Victoriana ducitur interpunctio post
νυκτός
, quae orationem habet non solum simpliciorem atque idcirco graviorem, sed omnino magis accommodatam huic loco, quum quod subiicitur
ἡμερήσιον φάος
non tantum de clara luce diei intelligendum sit, sed adiunctam habeat faustae laetaeque rerum Argivarum conditionis notationem.
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φάος
νῦν φάος
pro
φάος
Ven. Flor. Farn.
χορῶν
χορὸν
G. Ald.
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σημανῶ
σημανῶ
Bess. Ven. Flor. Farn.
σημαίνω
M. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. Blomfieldius quum scholiastam
σημαίνω
legisse ex eo colligit, quod is
τορῶς
per
μεγαλοφώνως
interpretetur, ad hanc opinionem eo adductus esse videtur, quod ei excubitor per illud
ἰοῦ ἰοῦ
ex somno excitare velle Clytaemnestram videbatur. Vix dubitari potest veram scripturam esse
σημανῶ
.
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λέκτρων
εὐχὴν
G. Ald.
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ἐπορθιάζειν Ven. Flor. Farn. Turn.
ἐπορθριάζειν
M. Marc. Bess. G. Rob.
ἐπ᾽ ὀρθίοις
Ald.
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ἀγγέλλων
ἀγγέλλων
Ven. Farn. Rob. Turn.
ἀγγέλων
M. Marc. Bess. Flor. G. Ald.
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τὰ δεσποτῶν γὰρ εὖ πεσόντα θήσομαι, τρὶς ἓξ βαλούσης τῆσδέ μοι φρυκτωρίας. Hunc et sequentem versum afferunt Photius et Suidas in
Τρὶς ἕξ
. Apud Suidam legitur
τρὶς ἓξ βαλοῦσα τῆς ἐμῆς φρυκτωρίας
. Apud Eustathium p. 1414, 5.
τρὶς ἓξ βαλούσης τῆς Διὸς φρυκτωρίας
. Copiose rem illustravit Salmasius ad Vopiscum p. 471. seq. Diversum genus quattuor talis ludendi, de quo Cicero de div. I. 13. Orationis figuram, qua hic usus est Aeschylus, audacissimam appellat T. Hemsterhusius ad Lucianum t. I. p. 487. quam numquam sibi indulsisset castigata majestas Sophoclis. Nulla hic Aeschyli audacia, sed imitatio sermonis vulgaris eadem, quae apud Sophoclem in custode, qui est in Antigona.

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βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ μέγας Originem huius proverbii, de quo multa et Aeschyli et Hesychii interpretes aliique ad Zenob. II. 70. Diogen. III. 48. 61. attulerunt, ne Welckerus quidem ad Theogn. p. 111. explicare est ausus. Quod plerique crediderunt, nummo veterum Atheniensium, cui bos signum fuerit, corruptos intelligi, quos Reisigius quoque in Enarratione Oed. Col. ad v. 1047. secutus est et qui scholiastae Aristophanis ad Av. v. 1106. auctoritatem excitavit Ferd. Bambergerus in diss. de Agam. p. 22. fabulam esse Eckhelio auctore II. p. 207. censet in Aglaophami vol. I. p. 36. Lobeckius, ingeniose de
βοείᾳ
sive camo, qui damnatorum ori applicatus fuerit, cogitans. Vsurpatur enim hoc proverbium de iis, qui prae metu tacent. De nummo tamen testis est etiam Plutarchus in Theseo c. 25.
ἔκοψε δὲ καὶ νόμισμα βοῦν ἐγχαράξας ἢ διὰ τὸν Μαραθώνιον ταῦρον ἢ διὰ τὸν Μίνω στρατηγὸν ἢ πρὸς γεωργίαν τοὺς πολίτας παρακαλῶν
. Neque Eckhelius fabulam esse dixit, sed in dubio rem relinquens non inventum esse talem nummum adnotavit. Nihil ad rem illustrandam confert quod similiter dixit Menander in Piscatoribus apud Athenaeum XII. p. 549. D.
Διονύσιος γάρ ἐστιν ἐπὶ στόμα
. Nam id in Dionysium Heracleae tyrannum, obesissimi corporis hominem, sic dictum est, ut per illum impositam esse silendi necessitatem appareat. Multa proverbia tam fortuitam habent originem, eam ut, nisi casu servata est memoria, nemo possit eruere. Quod apud nos vulgo dicitur das maul stopfen, a nutricibus sumptum est, quae infantibus, ut plorare desinant, offam in os ingerunt. Hoc Graecorum fortasse a bove vel pedi hominis pedem suum imponente, vel stragulo aut alii alicui rei insistente, ut subtrahi non possit, sed quasi affixa maneat. Philostratus in vita Apollonii II. 11. p. 241. hoc proverbium a Pythagora repetere videtur, de quo sic scribit,
γλῶττάν τε ὃς πρῶτος ἀνθρώπων ξύνεσχε, βοῦν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ σιωπῆς εὑρὼν δόγμα
. Eustathius, sive quem is secutus est, ad linguam nimis crassam referre videtur p. 962, 19.
παροιμιῶδες δὲ ὁ βοῦς καὶ ὅτι ἐπὶ γλώσσης ἵσταται ἐν τῷ μὴ ἐπὶ γλώσσης βαδίζειν
. Vt Aeschylus, sic Strattis apud Hesychium,
Βοῦς ἐπὶ μέγας
, non adiecto tamen, ut videtur, linguae nomine: nam Hesychius sic dicit,
Βοῦς ἐπὶ μέγας· Στράττις ἐν Τυμπανοποιοῖς τὴν παροιμίαν τὴν βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσης
. Dubitari potest an positum fuerit illud proverbium in Phocylidis poemate νουθετικῷ v. 18. ubi legitur
γλώσσῃ νοῦν ἐχέμεν· κρυπτὸν λόγον ἐν φρεσὶν ἴσχειν
.
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ὡς
ὃς
Flor.
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κοὐ M. ex correctione: antea fuerat
καὶ οὐ
, quod habent G. Ald.
οὐ
Bess.
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ἐπεὶ Πριάμου
ἐπὶ Πριάμου
Ald. Turn.
ἐπεὶ Πριάμοιο
M. Bess. G.
ἀπὸ πριάμοιο
Rob.
ἀπὸ πριάμοιο
habere videtur Farn.
ἐπὶ πριάμοιο
Ven. Flor. Hanc scripturam, quae exstat etiam apud scholiastam Euripidis ad Hec. 246. (239.) reposuit Victorius.
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Ἀτρειδᾶν codices et Rob.
Ἀτρειδῶν
Ald. Turn. Aeque ad
τιμῆς
pertinet
Διόθεν
atque ad
Ἀτρειδᾶν
.
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χιλιοναύταν
χιλιονάυτην
Rob. Ad
χιλιοναύταν
in M. G. Flor. adscripta alia lectio,
χιλιονάυτην
. Quod alias
χιλιοναύτης
, hic
χιλιοναύτας
dictum, ut in Iph. Taur. v. 141.
σὺν κόπᾳ χιλιοναύτᾳ
.
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NA In Ven. ingens lacuna: finitur enim folium v. 45. proximum incipit v. 1054.
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στρατιῶτιν
στρατιώτιν
Ald. Rob. ἀρωγάν ad ultimam vocalem
αν
supra adscripto M. Non puto haec verba,
στρατιῶτιν ἀρωγάν
, per appositionem ad
στόλον
addita esse, sed epitheti officio fungi: exercitum eduxerunt ad militare auxilium.
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κλάζοντες
ἀλάζοντες
Flor. Farn.
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ἄλγεσι παίδων Hesychius
ἐκπάτιον, τὸ ἔξω πάτου
.
ἄλγεσι παίδων
codices et Rob.
ἄλγεσι ποδῶν
Ald. Hinc Turn.
ἄλγεσσι ποδῶν
. Non latuit Bochartum Hieroz. II. p. 319. esse haec ex illis Homeri expressa, Od. XVI. 216.
κλαῖον δὲ λιγέως, ἀδικώτερον ἤ τ' οἰωνοί, φῆναι, ἢ αἰγυπιοὶ γαμψώνυχες, οἶσί τε τέκνα ἀγρόται ἐξείλοντο, πρὶν πετεεινὰ γενέσθαι
.
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ἐρετμοῖσιν
ἐρετμοῖσι
Bess.
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δεμνιοτήρη πόνον ὀρταλίχων Inutilis est Musgravii coniectura
γόνον
. Hesychius
δεμνιοτήρη πόνον. Αἰσχύλος Ἀγαμέμνονι. καθόσον οἱ νεοσσοὶ ἔτι τοιοῦτοί εἰσιν ὡς τὰ δέμνια τηρεῖν καὶ κατέχειν, μηδέπω πέτεσθαι δυνάμενοι. πόνον δὲ τὰ περὶ τὴν τροφὴν αὐτῶν
. Non satis accurate. Δεμνιοτήρης πόνος ὀρταλίχων est cubiliprema cura pullorum, sive labor quem parentes pullis incubando sustinuerunt.

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ἤ τις
ἥτις
G. Ald.
Τίς
cum nomine proprio coniunctum significat talem aliquem qualis est qui nominatur. Explicavit hunc usum Fritzschius in Quaest. Lucian. p. 16. Hic Aeschylus primo agrestes deos, ut proprios in hac re, Apollinem et Panem, tum iracundius assurgens, quippe iam quo tendat similitudo illa in animo habens, supremum deorum Iovem nominat. Mire abutitur doctrina sua Müllerus in Doriens. vol. 1. p. 295. Iovem ut regnatorem mundi, Pana ut concitatorem insaniae, Apollinem ut deum punitorem nominari censens.
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τῶνδε μετοίκων Libri
τῶνδε μετοίκων
. Nulla in Rob. interpunctio. In Ald. post
οἰωνόθροον
, tum post
ὀξυβόαν
et post
ὑστερόποινον
interpunctum. A Turnebo virgula post
μετοίκων
posita, ut iungerentur
οἰωνόθροον γόον ὀξυβόαν τῶνδε μετοίκων
. Ita construxisse videtur scholiastes Sophoclis ad Oed. Col. 934.
μετοίκους δὲ καλοῦμεν τοὺς ἀπὸ ἑτέρας χώρας οἰκοῦντας πρὸς τοὺς μετοικισθέντας ποθέν· τοῦτο δὲ ἔνοικον. κέχρηται δὲ καὶ Αἰσχύλος ἐπὶ τῶν οἰωνῶν ἐν Ἀγαμέμνονι λέγων οὕτω, τῶνδε μετοίκων, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐνοίκων· μετοίκους γὰρ εἶπε τῶν ὑψηλῶν τόπων τοὺς οἰωνοὺς κἀκεῖσε ἀντὶ τῶν ἐνοίκων
. Sic haec ex codice edidit Elmsleius. Eadem fere Suidas habet. Aliter paullo scholiorum editio Romana, aliter rursum Brunckiana, non tamen ut emendatus sit locus. Si
τῶνδε μετοίκων
iungitur cum superioribus, luctus ob amotos pullos est intelligendus. At ita
τῶνδε
inutile est, quoniam aut
τῶν μετοίκων
aut
μετοίκων
ponendum erat. Pauwium, qui verba illa ad sequentia referri iussit, secuti sunt recentiores editores. Scholiastes quo rettulerit, non liquet, qui scribat
ὑπὲρ τῶν μετοικισθέντων νεοσσῶν
. Παραβᾶσιν, quod non potest de raptoribus pullorum anguibus dictum esse, aperte refertur ad Troianos, qui Helenam rapuerint violato iure hospitii. Eodem modo ad hanc rem, non ad pullos, respexit poeta, quum paullo ante Iovem commemoravit. Itaque etiam
μετοίκων
de Helena dictum est, ut omnino ineptum sit
τῶνδε
. Scripsi
τῶν δὲ μετοίκων
, ut ad
ὕπατος δ' ἀΐων
intelligeretur verbum substantivum. Dubitari autem potest, an post
ὀξυβόαν
exciderit hemistichium, hac sententia,
μέγα θυμοῦται
. Idque confirmatur fortasse eo quod in codice M. ceterisque antiquis libris versus ita distincti sunt,
γόον ὀξυβόαν | τῶνδε μετοίκων ὑστέροποινον
.
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παραβᾶσιν
παρὰ βᾶσιν
G. Ald. Ἐρινύν
ἐρινὺν
M. Bess. G. Ald. Rob.
ἐριννὺν
Flor. Farn. Turn.
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Ἀτρέως
Ἀτρέος
Turn.
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γυιοβαρῆ
γυιοβαρῆ
Turn. Virgulam quidam recentiorum editorum post
γυιοβαρῆ
posuerunt. Magis conveniunt poeticae dictioni
παλαίσματα γόνατος
, quam genitivi absoluti.
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ἐρειδομένου
ἐριδομένου
Bess. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἐρειδομένου
M.
ἐρειδομένου
Farn. et
δ
ad
δ
supra scripto Flor. In Farn. glossa
πίπτοντος
.
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ἐν προτελείοις
ἐμπροτελείοις
G.
ἐν πρωτελείοις
Flor.
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Δαναοῖσιν
Δαναοῖσι
M. Marc. G. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob.
Δαναοῖσι
Bess. Turn. Quam egregie hoc verbo, non iis quae sequuntur,
Τρωσί θ' ὁμοίως
, poeta systema concluserit ostendi in Elem. doctr. metr. p. 379.
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οὔθ᾽ ὑποκλαίων οὔθ᾽ ὑπολείβων ἀπύρων ἱερῶν ὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει Omnes in initio quoque
οὔθ'
. Non placet asyndeton. Quare, nisi forte aliquid excidit, malim
οὐδ'
. Legitur autem vulgo
οὐδ᾽ ὑποκλαίων οὔθ᾽ ὑπολείβων οὔτε δακρύων ἀπύρων ἱερῶν ὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει
. Habent
ὑποκλαίων
M. Marc. Bess. Flor. Farn. Rob.
ὑποκλέων
G.
ὑποκλίων
Ald.
ὑποκλείων
Turn. Pauwii coniecturam,
ὑποκλάσας
, ne quis probet, meminerit id non significare in genua procumbentem: v. Ruhnk. Ep. crit. p. 243 (276). Casaubonus scribendum putabat
ὑποκαίων
. Delenda potius sunt haec verba,
οὔτε δακρύων
, in quibus Aldinae error
δακεύων
fecit ut Turnebus ederet
δοκεύων
. Potest quidem
δακρύων
de fletu,
ὑποκλαίων
de lamentis accipi: sed coniungenda potius, quam interposito quod diversi generis est
οὔθ᾽ ὑπολείβων
separanda erant. Nihil est illud
οὔτε δακρύων
nisi interpretatio adscripta aut ad
οὔθ᾽ ὑποκλαίων
, aut fortasse ad
οὔθ᾽ ὑπολείβων
. Hesychius
λείβειν, σπένδειν. Διὶ λείβειν αἴθοπα οἶνον. καὶ δακρύειν, ὅ ἐστι τοῖς δακρύοις ῥέειν. δάκρυα λείβων καὶ στάζων
. Delendum esse
οὔτε δακρύων
vidit etiam Paleyus, sed ut falsa admisceret. In sequentibus verbis decepit interpretes scholiasta,
ἀπύρων ἱερῶν
de Parcis Furiisque dici putans. Eum refutare non ausus Spanhemius ad Callimachi Lav. Pall. v. 107. aliorum testimoniis scriptorum vindicare ignem illis sacris satis habuit. Quae Pindarus Ol. VII. 88. proprie
ἄπυρα ἱερά
dixit, apud Aeschylum metaphorice dicta sunt, ut sacra igne carentia ea intelligantur, quae irrita sunt impieque facta. Hesychius
ἀπύρου, ἀθύτου. ἀπύρου, ἀθύτου. Σοφοκλῆς Μυσοῖς
. Ita apud Aeschinem contra Ctesiph. §. 131. 152.
ἀθύτων καὶ ἀκαλλιερήτων τῶν ἱερῶν
, ubi ad priorem locum videndus est Taylorus. Respicit autem chorus immolationem Iphigeniae, quam v. 140. similiter
θυσίαν ἄδαιτον
vocat. Participia cum scholiasta ad omissum
τις
referenda sunt, de qua constructione dixi ad Hecubae v. 485. Sed cogitat chorus de Agamemnone.

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ἀτίτᾳ
ἀτίται
Μ.
ἀτίτῃ
G.
ἀτιταὶ
Farn.
ἀτίτᾳ
Flor. Ald. Turn.
ἀτίτα
Marc. Rob. Vict.
ἀτιταία
Bess. Non temere damnandus est nominativus
ἀτίται
, etsi terminatio illa
ης
pro
ος
, de qua dixerunt Valckenarius ad Phoen. v. 120. Lobeckius ad Phryn. p. 639. et ad Ai. v. 604. quum est in vocibus a verbis factis, raro passivam significationem habet. Sed dictum ita est
ἀτίτας
Eum. v. 254. V. Lob. ad Αi. v. 241. Paralip. p. 428. Hesychius
ἀτίτην, ἀτιμώρητον, ἄπορον, ἄτιμον, τὸν μὴ ἔχοντα ἀποτῖσαι
. Praestare tamen videtur
ἀτίτα
. Homerum ego Il. XIV. 484.
δηρὸν ἔῃ ἄτιτος
posuisse credo cum Clarkio et Heynio, non
δηρὸν ἄτιτος ἔῃ
, quod in libris est.
Πολύτιτον ἐόντα
tamen in oraculo est apud Herod. V. 92. et inde apud Eusebium Praep. euang. V. 29. quod poterat
πολύτιμον
dici.
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ἰσόπαιδα
ἰσόπεδα
Flor. Rob.
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ὅ τε Librorum scripturam
ὅτε
emendavit Auratus. νεαρὸς
νοερὸς
Bess.
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ἀνάσσων Libri
ἀνάσσων
, non aptum infirmae medullae verbum. Correxi in priore Aristophanis Nubium editione ad v. 994.
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οὐκ ἔνι χώρᾳ
οὐκ ἔνι χώραι
Μ.
οὐκ ἔνι χώρᾳ
Farn. Vict.
οὐκ ἐνιχώρᾳ
Rob.
οὐκένι χώρᾳ
G.
οὐκένι χώρα
Ald.
οὐκ ἔνι χώρα
Turn.
οὐκ ἐνὶ χώρᾳ
Bess. Frustra
οὐκ ἔνι χώρα
quum ab aliis, tum a Wakefieldio Silv. crit. II. p. 44. tentatum est. De formula
ἐν χώρᾳ, κατὰ χώραν
, quae usurpatur de iis quae firma suo loco stant sive, ut Horatii verbis utar, certa sede manent, videndi Valckenarius ad Herod. IV. 135. ad Theocr. Adon. p. 365. Ernestius ad Callim. h. D. v. 192. Boissonadus ad Eunap. p. 306. Αpud Callimachum est
πλαζομένη πελάγεσσι, πόδες δέ οἱ οὐκ ἐνὶ χώρᾳ
. Similiter Pindarus Pyth. IV. 485.
ῥᾴδιον μὲν γὰρ πόλιν σεῖσαι καὶ ἀφαυροτέροις, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ χώρας αὖτις ἕσσαι δυςπαλὲs δὴ γίγνεται
. Verum id non satis aptum hoc loco videtur, praesertim si
ν
scribitur. Id recte se haberet, si ullo pacto admitti posset scholiastae explicatio
τῷ τόπῳ ἐκείνῳ
. Nam
ἐνί
si legitur, omnis vis in hoc verbo est. Eatenus recte Boissonadus cum cod. Bess.
οὐκ ἐνὶ χώρᾳ
. Sed id vix potest aliter defendi, quam ut tota formula ex epicis petita dicatur. Nam in Attico scriptore requirimus potius
οὐκ ἐν χώρᾳ
, neque tragici
ἐνί
alibi quam in melicis admisisse videntur. Equidem
χώρᾳ
intellexerim de loco et numero in quo quid habetur, ut apud Theognidem v. 151.
ὕβριν, Κύρνε, θεὸς πρῶτον κακὸν ὤπασεν ἀνδρί, οὗ μέλλει χώρην μηδεμίαν θέμεναι.
et v. 821.
οἳ δ᾽ ἀπογηράσκοντας ἀτιμάζουσι τοκῆας, τούτων τοι χώρη, Κύρν', ὀλίγη τελέθει.
Dicit igitur chorus non inest, non censetur in loco aliquo et numero.
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τό θ᾽ ὑπεργήρων φυλλάδος
τίθιπεργήρως
M. G. (sic M. G.)
τίθι περ γήρως
Marc. Ald.
τίθι περ γήρυς
Rob.
τόθι περγήρως
Bess.
τόθιπερ γήρως
Flor.
τόθη περ γήρως
Turn.
τόθ' ὑπεργήρων
Farn.
τόθ' ὑπέργηρων
Vict. De accentu v. Göttlingium p. 288. Tum
φυγάδος
G.
φυλάδος
Ald.
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τρίποδας
τρίποδος
Flor. Farn.
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δ᾽ omittit Bess. ἀρείων
ἀρείων
Ald. Ad
γέρων
, quod in
ὑπεργήρων
inest, referendum esse
ἀρείων
Blomfieldius intellexit.
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ἡμερόφαντον
ἡμερόφατον
M. Bess. G. Ald. Rob. Emendatam scripturam
ἡμερόφαντον
habent Farn. Turn. Vict.
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Τυνδάρεω Egressam interea dum locutus erat coryphaeus ex regiis aedibus Clytemnestram compellat, quae in scena sacris faciendis occupatur. Pro
Τυνδάρεω
nescio an scribendum sit
Τυνδαρίου
. V. ad Eur. Iph. Aul. v. 596.
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πειθοῖ
πυθοῖ
Flor.
πειθοῖ
Farn. cum reliquis. Quod Blomfieldius scribendum coniecit,
πευθοῖ
, Scaliger primus coniecerat, probabile illud, sed ut non necesse sit
πειθοῖ
mutare. θυοσκεῖς Turn.
θυοσκεῖς
, probatum Aurato, Vossio, Bentleio, Stanleio, Blomfieldio. In Farn. in quo
θυοσκινεῖς
, ut in ceteris libris, scriptum est, adscripta haec glossa est,
θύματα κινεῖς, πέμπεις
. Ibidem scholion
εὕρηται καὶ θυοσκοεῖς, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ θυοσκόος, ὁ διὰ θυσιῶν τὸ μέλλον κοῶν ἤτοι νοῶν. θύος γὰρ τὸ θύμα
. Hesychius
θυοσκεῖν, ἱεροῖς παρέχεσθαι, ἢ θεοῖς
, quod recte emendatur
ἱερὰ παρέχεσθαι τοῖς θεοῖς
. Eustathio assentitur Blomfieldius, p. 1626, 47. et 1905, 22.
θυοσκόος
a
κέω
pro
καίω
derivanti, licet posteriore loco, ut p. 1346, 36. 1601, 3. etiam alteram rationem, qua a
κοεῖν
dici voluerunt, sicut Etym. M. p. 457, 42. et Orion p. 73, 16. 102, 21. afferat. V. etiam schol. ad Il. XXIV. 221. Si recte se habet
θυοσκεῖν
, eadem haec analogia est quae in
βοηθεῖν, βοηθόος
. Sed si
θυοσκόος
non est a
θυοσκοέω
factum (ignorare autem videntur hoc verbum grammatici, qui
κοεῖν
pro fonte ponant), verbum esse debebit
θυοσκοεῖν
, ut recte scriptum sit in scholio codicis Farn.
θυοσκοεῖς
. Quis autem contendat non Hesychium quoque
θυοσκοεῖν
potius quam
θυοσκεῖν
scripsisse? Quamquam non probo Boissonadum, qui exhibuit quod Lobeckio ad Phryn. p. 523. in Aeschyli versu placebat,
θυοσκοεῖ
. Id saltem
θυοσκοιεῖς
scribendum erat. Pro
θυοσκόος
etiam
θνησκόος
ab Hesychio adnotatum est, quae nominis forma restituenda est Eustathio p. 1601, 3. Accedunt ad haec alia huius verbi vestigia apud Hesychium:
κοίης, ἱερεὺς Καβείρων ὁ καθαίρων φονέα· οἳ δέ, κόης
. Item
κοιᾶται, ἱερᾶται
, et
κοιώσατο, ἀφιερώσατο, καθιερώσατο
. Quae quum ita sint, non ausus ego quidem sum tam dubia fide nisum
θυοσκεῖς
admittere, sed servandum duxi quod libri habent
θυοσκινεῖς
, etsi ne hoc quidem verbum aliunde innotuit. Videtur sic etiam Porsonus sensisse, qui nullam suspicionis notam apposuerit.
Θυοσκεῖς
si scripsit Aeschylus, decem habemus systemata, caditque Lindneri observatio, quam suam fecit 0. Müllerus, ternario numero procedere anapaestorum systemata. De eo invento dixi in Opusc. VI. p. 142.
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NA Hunc versum editores nonnulli, in iisque Porsonus, Heathio suasore eiiciendum censuerunt. Non est cur damnetur. Omnium, inquit, in aris deorum ardet flamma, qui urbem regunt, superum, inferum, quique in caelo degunt, quique hominum negotiis adsunt. Praeterea ne idem quidem si significaretur hoc versu quod praecedente, reprehendi posset. Sic Sophocles Ant. v. 851.
οὔτε βροτοῖσιν οὔτ᾽ ἐν νεκροῖσιν μέτοικος, οὐ ζῶσιν, οὐ θανοῦσιν
. Quin ipse Aeschylus tuetur hunc versum, quum in Sept. ad Th. v. 254. dicat
χώρας τοῖς πολισσούχοις θεοῖς, πεδιονόμοις τε κἀγορᾶς ἐπισκόποις
. Quos ibi dicit
πολισσούχους
, eos hic
ἀστυνόμους
, quo modo
ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς
Sophocles Ant. v. 355.
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91. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-54

δώροισι
δώροις
M. Marc. Bess. G. Flor. Ald. Rob.
δώροισι
Farn. Turn. Vict. Schol. Aristophanis ad Equitum v. 1317.
ἔθος ἦν τοῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς ἱσταμένοις θεοῖς ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐρχομέναις ἀγγελίαις θύειν, ὡς ἂν εἰ ἀγαθαὶ εἶεν, ἐπινεύσαιεν ταύταις, εἰ δὲ τοὐναντίον, ἀποτρέψαιεν
.
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χρίματος
χρήματος
M. Marc. Rob.
χρήματος
Bess. G. Ald.
χρίσματος
Flor. Farn. Turn. Antiquior et poetis usitata forma
χρίμα
est.
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τούτων
τοῦτον
Marc. Rob. λέξασ᾽ M. Flor. Bess. Farn. Rob.
λέξας
G.
λέξαι
Ald. Turn. ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
ὅτι καὶ δυνατὸν
M. Bess. Farn. Ald. Rob.
ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
Flor. Vict. Solus Turn.
ὅτι καὶ σοὶ δυνατὸν
, deceptus errore Aldinae
σοί
. Frustra haesitatum est in constructione. Monui iam in priore Nubium editione ad v. 180. et ad Vigerum n. 219. copulam participio, quasi id verbum rectum esset, esse subiectam, ut apud Homerum Il. ΧΧΙ. 247.
ὣς φαμένη, καὶ κερδοσύνῃ ἡγήσατ' Ἀθήνη
, ubi unus scholiastarum
ἢ περισσὸς ὁ καί, ἢ τὸ φαμένη ἀντὶ τοῦ ἔφη
. Sed quod addit,
ἢ πρὸς τῷ ταῦτα εἰρηκέναι καὶ δολίως ἡγήσατο
, ab Homerica dicendi consuetudine abhorret. Id non reputavit Doederlinus, qui in Lectionum Homericarum specimine II. p. 9. seqq. exempla, quae hoc genus constructionis habent, parum feliciter removere conatus est. Hesiodi quidem illud in Theog. v. 56.
ὃ δ᾽ ἀσφαλέως ἀγορεύων, αἶψά τε καὶ μέγα νεῖκος ἐπισταμένως κατέπαυσεν
, non est hoc modo dictum, sed
τέ
eam habet potestatem, ut plerumque fieri solita notet.
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αἰνεῖν
εἰπεῖν
Victorius ex Flor. Farn. Canterus ceterorum librorum scripturam
αἰνεῖν
restituit, cuius explicatio est
εἰπεῖν
. Ancipitis enim significatus est
αἰνεῖν
, ut Latinum praedicare. Vt hic, ita Choeph. v. 187.
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ἣ νῦν ποτὲ μὲν
ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν
M. Flor. Bess. Rob. Turn. In M. glossa
ἔσθ' ὅτε μὲν
adscripta est.
ἣ νυν
(cum gl.
δὴ
)
τοτὲ
(cum gl.
ποτὲ
)
μὲν
Farn.
ἣ νῦν ἔσθ' ὅτε μὲν
, verbis
ὅτε μὲν
punctis deletis et supra scripto
τότε μὲν
, G.
ἣ νῦν εὖτ' ὅτε
, omisso
μὲν
, Ald.
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ἀγανὰ φαίνουσ'
ἀγανὰ φαίνεις
M. G. Turn.
ἄγαν ἀφαίνεις
Ald.
ἀγανὰ φαίνει
Bess.
ἀγανὰ φανεῖσ'
Rob.
ἀγανὰ φαίνουσ'
Flor. Farn. Vict. Butleri elegantem coniecturam
σαίνουσ'
in textum recepit Blomfieldius. Sed recte se habere videtur
φαίνουσ'
, etsi Porsono quoque suspectum erat, non illud quidem cum Wunderlichio et Wellauero omissione participii, sed propria vi verbi defendendum. Est enim
φαίνειν
lucere, et hinc demum activa collustrandi declarandique potestas deducta. Euripides El. v. 1233. de Dioscuris
ἀλλ᾽ οἵδε δόμων ὑπὲρ ἀκροτάτων φαίνουσί τινες δαίμονες ἢ θεῶν τῶν οὐρανίων
. Quod recte interpretatus est Seidlerus. Vt ex
φαείνω
factum est
φαίνω
, sic
φαίνω
ex Homerico
φαείνω
.
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ἄπληστον
ἄπλητον
M. G. Ald. Rob. Veram scripturam ceteri habent.
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τῆς θυμοβόρου φρενολύπης
τὴν θυμοφθόρον λύπης φρένα
M. Bess. G. Ald. Rob.
τὴν θυμοβόρον λυποφρένα
Farn.
τὴν θυμοβόρον λύπης φρένα
Vict. ex Flor.
τὴν θυμοβόρον φρένα λύπην
ex coniectura Turn. Porsonus ex Pauwii coniectura
τὴν θυμοβόρον φρενὶ λύπην
. Languet haec appositio. Quam nonneminis coniecturam in Annalibus Heidelbergensibus memoratam dicit Blomfieldius,
τῆς θυμοβόρου φρενολύπης
, mea est, non illa quidem a genere dicendi Aeschyleo aliena et, ut mihi videtur, aliis coniecturis melior. Requiritur enim genitivus ad
ἄπληστον
. Et sane cogitatio insatiabilis est sollicitudinis de capta urbe et salute Agamemnonis.
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103.note. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-62

Non respondet choro Clytaemnestra. Scilicet quum ante aedes regias in scena complures arae cerni videantur, in quibus ignis vel accensus erat vel iam accendebatur, egressa ex aedibus regina, ut mos est, cum duabus ancillis, ad eas aras deinceps accedit, tus et suffimenta in ignes iniiciens. Deinde videtur spectatoribus a dextra abire, ut in urbe sacra factura; tum redire finito chori carmine. Postquam igitur chorus parodum et coniunctum cum ea stasimon cecinit, propius ad orchestram accedente Clytaemnestra, unde v. 241.
τόδ᾽ ἄγχιστον Ἀπίας γαίας ἕρκος
vocatur, iterum eam compellat, spectareque ad illud quod antea non responderat videntur haec verba v. 248.
οὐδὲ σιγώσῃ φθόνος
. Parodum autem quum chorus canere incipit, aliquid nuntii acceptum esse ex accensis ignibus coniiciens, adhuc se de reditu sperare significat. Ceterum parodus haec chori similiter composita est ut illa quae est in Persis, ut anapaestos sequantur stropha, antistropha, epodus, tum autem carmen quod iusti chorici carminis formam habeat a totoque choro cani videatur, praegressum autem carmen epodicum inter partes quasdam chori sit distributum. Quomodo ea distributio facta sit, certo dici non potest. Illud patet, non esse de hemichoriis cogitandum, quae strophas cecinerint, epodum deinde universo choro canente. Id enim fieri non patiebatur Calchantis oratio, coepta in antistropha, finita autem in epodo. Multo credibilius est hanc trium partium distinctionem ad tres στοίχους pertinuisse. Atque haud scio an pauci, ac fortasse non plures quam cuiusque στοίχου medius, simul cecinerint stropham, antistropham, epodum; versum autem intercalarem,
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω
, in stropha totus secundus στοῖχος, in antistropha totus tertius, in epodo vel totus primus vel omnes tres στοῖχοι cecinerint. Certe si aequalitatis studium respicimus, quod tam magnum apud tragicos invenitur, consentaneum est ordines sic fuisse dispositos, Quae O. Müllerus in Eumenidibus p. 196. de parodo excogitavit, ab ipso conficta sunt, nec sane perite.

Wecklein’s commentary on Agamemnon (1888; German; OCR draft) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 30–140; Iowa and Harvard OCR collated conservatively. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.) focus

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Prolog. Man erblickt den Wächter auf dem Dache des Atridenpalastes liegend. - Der Prolog besteht in den drei Stücken dieser Trilogie aus einem Monologe, welcher gut motiviert erscheint, auch in den Eumeniden (vgl. zu 1). Einer ausführlicheren Exposition bedarf es hier nicht. Das aufregende Moment wird. 18 f. und 36 ff. von ferne angedeutet. Aus denselben Stellen ergiebt sich, dafs der immer wieder durchbrechende Unmut des treuen Dieners (34 f.) einen tieferen Grund hat. So erweckt schon der Prolog die der Tragödie entsprechende Stimmung. Für die Illusion beginnt die Handlung vor Tagesanbruch. Troja fiel um Mitternacht (Eur. Hek. 914 μεσονύκτιος ὠλλύμαν, wozu der Schol. den Vers der kleinen Ilias: νὺξ μὲν ἔην μέσση, λαμπρὰ δ᾽ ἐπέτελλε σελήνη anführt).

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2
μὲν . . φρουρᾶς ἐτείας μῆκος καὶ νῦν 8 wie ἀεὶ μὲν καὶ νῦν Ζ. Β. Soph. Ai. 1-3 , vgl. Hom. A 107-109 und zu Cho. 692 . Wie ich ein volles Jahr auf der Wache liege, so lauere ich auch jetzt. Da Kalchas vorhergesagt hatte, dafs Troja erst im zehnten Jahre fallen werde (Hom. B 329), so brauchte erst in der letzten Zeit ein Wächter aufgestellt zu werden, wie auch der Späher des Ägisthos Hom. 8 526 ein Jahr lang wacht. Zu dem acc. temp. μήκος vgl. 1140 ἀμφιθαλῆ κακοῖς βίον, Eur. Or. 72 παρθένε μακρὸν δὴ μῆκος Ἠλέκτρα χρόνου. Für ( φρουρὰν) φρουρεῖν tritt κοιμᾶσθαι ein, weil er liegend die Wache versieht. Vgl. Eur. Rhes. 5 τετράμοιρον νυκτὸς φυλακὴν πάσης στρατιᾶς προκάθγνται.

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ἄγκαθεν, mit aufgestützten Armen, wie der wachende Hund die Vorderfüfse stellt. Der Wächter, der nach einem Feuerzeichen ausspäht, braucht nur nachts zu wachen. Die Erklärung des Schol. κατὰ συγκοπὴν ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀνέκαθεν, welcher zuliebe Schneidewin στέγης geschrieben hat, ist unrichtig. Allerdings steht ἄγκαθεν Eum. 375 in diesem Sinne nach der handschriftlichen Überlieferung; aber das Versmafs verlangt dort ἀνέκαθεν.

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3
κάτοιδα, ich habe sie mir genau gemerkt.

6. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-5

δυνάστας, weil sie aus der ὁμήγυρις der anderen Sterne hervorglänzen ( ἐμπρέποντας). Dicit Sirium, Arcturum, Orionem, Pleiades, Hyades, quarum ortus et occasus hiemem et aestatem hominibus disterminat (Klausen). Vgl. Athen. p. 489 Ε τὰς πλειάδας, πρὸς ἃς σπόρος τε καὶ ἄμητος καὶ τῶν καρπῶν ἀρχὴ γενέσεως καὶ συναίρεσις, καθά φησι καὶ Ἡσίοδος· Πληιάδων άτλαγενέων ἐπιτελλομενάων ἄρχεσθ᾽ ἀμήτου, ἀρότοιο δὲ δυσομενάων" καὶ Ἄρατος· „ αἳ μὲν ὅμως ὀλίγαι καὶ ἀφεγγέες, ἀλλ᾽ ὀνομασταὶ ἦρι καὶ ἑσπέριαι, Ζεὺς δ᾽ αἴτιος, εἶλίσσονται· ὅς σφισι καὶ θέρεος καὶ χείματος ἀρχομένοιο σημαίνειν ἐπένευσεν, ἐπερχομένου τ᾿ ἀρότοιο.

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Der überflüssige Vers, der die vorausgehende Metapher prosaisch erklärt, giebt sich als nachträglicher Zusatz zu erkennen. Das demonstrative τῶν ist ohne rechte Beziehung und am Schlusse des Satzes schleppend. Der Daktylus kommt im ersten Fuſse gewöhnlich nur bei Eigennamen vor. Auch fehlt der V. in des Achill. Tat. Εἰσαγωγὴ εἰς τὰ ᾿Αράτου Φαινόμενα p. 122, wo 4-6 angeführt werden.

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ἁλώσιμον βάξιν (Kunde von der Einnahme, vgl. Sept. 622 ἁλώσιμον παιᾶνα) tritt als nähere Bestimmung zu φάτιν.
4

11. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-8

5
γυναικός steht als Gegensatz zu dem folgenden ἀνδρό- ( ἀνδρόβουλος γυνή· ἡ ἀνδρὸς βουλεύματα βουλευομένη· ἀνδρὸς δὲ τοῦ κατ᾿ ἔπαινον λεγομένου Bekk. Anecd. p. 19). ἐλπίδων ist gen. rel. zu ἀνδρόβουλον: in ihren Hoffnungen erhebt sie sich zu männlichen Planen. Mit ironischer Bitterkeit spielt der Wächter auf den Namen K λυταιμήστρα (Etym. Μ. 521,18 ἡ κλυτὰ μηδομένη) an, beschränkt aber das κλυτὰ μήδεσθαι auf das Gebiet der Hoffnungen. Vgl. zu 1085 und Hom. γ 266 δία Κλυταιμήστρη· φρεσὶ γὰρ κεχρῆτ᾽ ἀγαθῇσιν.
6

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7
νυκτίπλαγκτος εὐνή ist das nächtliche Lager das (durch Wind) beunruhigt wird. Er meint: „wenn Wind und Regen mein Lager heimsuchen".
8

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9
τί μήν: wie 677, Eum. 203 (,,was doch?",,warum auch nicht?"), vgl. τί γάρ; quid enim? Kr. I§69, 39, 2. ἀντίπνους, entgegenhauchend, entgegenwirkend. Davon hängt τὸ μὴ συμβαλείν ab. Vgl. zu 1589 ..
10

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ὅταν δοκῶ, wenn es mir einfällt. μινύρεσθαι (trällern, summen): vgl. Aristoph. Ekkl. 880 μινυρομένη τι πρὸς ἐμαυτὴν μέλος. Dem Nachsatz κλαίω κτέ. wird noch einmal ein durch den Zwischensatz τί μήν; φόβος γὰρ κτἑ. veranlafster Nebensatz vorgeschoben.
11

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12
gegensingendes Heilmittel d. i. Gegenmittel das in Gesang besteht. In anderem Sinne heifst es Eur. Med. 1176 ἀντίμολπον ὀλολυγῆς κωκυτόν. - ἐντέμνειν ist hergenommen von den ριζοτόμοι, welche durch Einscheiden von Wurzeln und Pflanzen Heilmittel bereiteten. Vgl. 1260, Pind. Pyth. IV 221 ἀντίτομα στερεᾶν ὀδυνᾶν, Theophr. Pflanzengesch. IX 1, 5-7. Zum Gedanken vgl. Lucr. V 1403 et vigilantibus hinc aderant solacia somni ducere multimodis voces et flectere cantus.

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13
δεσποτουμένου ( Cho.103 , Eum. 530 ): vgl. Tragic. Rom. frgm. inc. 100 ed. Ribb. o domus antiqua, heu quam dispari Dominare domino.

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νῦν, jetzt endlich nachdem das ganze Jahr um ist (2). Damit wird motiviert, daſs gleich darauf wirklich das Feuerzeichen erscheint. Vgl. Soph. Oed. T. 73 . Der Mangel der gewöhnlichen Cäsur wird ausgeglichen durch die Elision nach dem dritten Fufs (vgl. 824, 937, 1253, 1266, Cho. 882 , 918, Eum. 907 ), zumal da die nächste Silbe der erste Teil eines zusammengesetzten Wortes ist (vgl. 1033, 1052, 1269, Cho. 1 , Eum. 447 , auch Cho. 150 ).

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Nach diesem Vers muſs, wie schon der Schol. bemerkt, eine kleine Pause stattfinden, worauf der Wächter, von seinem Lager aufspringend, mit lautem Ruf das Flammenzeichen begrüfst.

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ἡμερήσιον steht gegensätzlich zu νυκτός wie 527 φῶς ἐν εὐφρόνη, Pers. 304 λευκὸν ἦμαρ νυκτὸς ἐκ μελαγχίμου, so daſs νυκτός zuerst im eigentlichen Sinne steht und dann in übertragener Bedeutung gedacht wird.

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χάριν, als Dank, zum Dank. Eur. Alk. 1155 χοροὺς ἐπ᾿ ἐσθλαῖς ξυμφοραῖσιν ἱστάναι.

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14
Spätere Grammatiker unterscheiden durch den Accent ἰοῦ ἰοῦ als Ausdruck der Freude von dem klagenden ἰοὺ ιού. Herodian u. a. kennen diese Unterscheidung nicht.
15

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Die Umschreibung Αγαμέμνονος γυναικί ist im Munde des Wächters anzüglich. Weil der Dichter das Abtreten des Wächters zu motivieren hat, muſs man die Lesart geringerer Handschr. σημανῶ der besseren Überlieferung σημαίνω vorziehen. Die Verwechslung dieser Formen findet sich öfters.

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ἐπαντείλασαν: der Wächter ist noch ganz eingenommen von der Beobachtung der Sterne. δόμοις ζα ἐπορθιάζειν wie 1108.

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ὀλολυγμόν: Hesych. ὀλολυγή· φωνὴ γυναικῶν ἣν ποιοῦνται ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς εὐχόμεναι, Eustath. zu Hom. δ 767 τὸ ὀλολύζειν γυναικεία εὐχὴ λιγύφωνος, Xenoph. Anab. IV 3, 19 ἐπεὶ καλὰ ἦν τὰ σφάγια, ἐπαιάνιζον πάντες οἱ στρατιῶται καὶ ἀνηλάλαζον, συνωλόλυζον δὲ καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες ἅπασαι. Der Wächter denkt also an Dankgesänge von Frauenchören. Vgl. γυναικαῖοι νόμοι 599. τῇδε λαμπάδι τα εὐφημοῦντα.
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θήσομαι: die zugefallenen Würfel werden zum Spiel gesetzt. Vgl. Soph. frg. 686 Dind. στέργειν δὲ τἀκπεσόντα καὶ θέσθαι πρέπει Σοφὸν κυβευτήν, ἀλλὰ μὴ στένειν τύχην, Plat. Rep. p. 604 C ὥσπερ ἐν πτώσει κύβων πρὸς τὰ πεπτωκότα τίθεσθαι τὰ αὐτοῦ πράγματα, Ter. Ad. IV 7, 21 Ita vitast hominum, quasi quom ludas tesseris, Si illud quod maxume opus est iactu non cadit, Illud quod cecidit forte, id arte ut corrigas. Der Wurf τρὶς ἓξ war der beste. Hesych. τρὶς ἕξ· νικητήριος βόλος, καὶ παροιμία· τοὶς ἓξ ἢ τρεῖς κύβοι, Diogenian. V 4 το μὲν τρὶς ἓξ τὴν παντελῆ νίκην δηλοῖ, τὸ δὲ τρεῖς κύβοι τὴν ἧτταν. Auf unser Kartenspiel übertragen würde der Ausdruck etwa lauten: „Das Glück meiner Herrschaft ist eine gute Karte für mein Spiel; vier As hat mir diese Feuerwache eingebracht." (Andere betrachten εὐ πεσόντα als Prädikat zu θήσομαι und erklären: „Des Hauses Glück will ich zu meinem Glückswurf machen.")

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Hesych. βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ· παροιμία ἐπὶ τῶν μὴ δυναμένων παρρησιάζεσθαι. Die dazu gegebene Erklärung ἤτοι διὰ τὴν ἰσχὺν τοῦ ζώου ἢ διὰ τὸ τῶν᾿ Αθηναίων νόμισμα ἔχειν βοῦν ἐγκεχαραγμένον, ὅνπερ ἐκτίνειν τοὺς πέρα τοῦ δέοντος παρρησιαζομένους ἦν ἔθος erscheint als künstlich. Ahnlich ist die Deutung des Schol. ἢ βάρος ἐπίκειται ἢ φοβοῦμαι ζημίαν ἐπικεισομένην μοι. Richtig aber ist gewiſs in beiden Erklärungen, dafs Furcht vor Strafe als Grund des Schweigens angedeutet wird. Augenscheinlich ist enscheinlich der Ausdruck κλὴς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ βέβηκεν (Aesch. frg. 307 ἀλλ᾽ ἔστι κἀμοὶ κλὴς ἐπὶ γλώσση φύλαξ, Soph. Oed. Κ. 1052 χρυσέα κλὴς ἐπὶ γλώσσα βέβακε προσπόλων Ευμολπιδᾶν, vgl. auch Anthol. Pal. Χ 42 ἀρρήτων ἐπέων γλώσσῃ σφρηγὶς ἐπικείσθω) mit volkstümlichem Humor, der gern in Bezeichnung von Strafwerkzeugen sich geltend macht, in βοῦς ἐπὶ γλ. βέβηκεν umgestaltet und bedeutet βοῦς ἱμὰς βόειος oder βοεία: der Ochsenziemer oder die Knute, die gefürchtet wird, ist der Schlüssel am Munde. Vgl. Hesych. βοῦς· μάστιξ, Plaut. Asin. I 1, 21 aput fustitudinas ferricrepinas insulas, ubi vivos homines mortui incursant boves. In witziger Weise ist der sprichwörtliche Ausdruck ausgedeutet bei Theogn. 850 βοῦς μοι ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ κρατερῷ ποδὶ λὰξ ἐπιβαίνων Ἴσχει κωτίλλειν καίπερ ἐπιστάμενον. Dem κρατερῷ ποδὶ λὰξ ἐπιβαίνων entspricht das Epitheton μέγας hier wie bei dem Komiker Strattis fr. 67 Κ. βοῦς ἐμβαίνει ( ἐπεμβαίνει) μέγας ( Στράττις εἶπε παρὰ τὴν παροιμίαν τὴν „ βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώττῃ“ Hesych.). Lobeck (Aglaoph. I S. 36) denkt an einen ledernen Riemen, mit dem Verurteilten der Mund verbunden wurde (vgl. H. L. Ahrens Philol. Suppl. I S. 229 ff.), G. Hermann an den schweren Druck des Stierfuſses, unter dem man nichts hervorziehen kann; Schneidewin (Philol. IX S. 149 ff.) bringt das Sprichwort mit den Mysterien in Zusammenhang; Hartung meint, das Schloſs habe die Gestalt eines Stierfuſses gehabt, Margoliouth hält βοῦς für eine Verballhornung von βῦς, das er als Grundwort von βύειν (stopfen) betrachtet.

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Dieser Gedanke bezeichnet die Sache genügend, wie es Eur. Hipp. 418 von ehebrecherischen Frauen heifst: πῶς ποτ᾽.. βλέπουσιν εἰς πρόσωπα τῶν ξυνευνετῶν οὐδὲ σκότον φρίσσουσι τὸν ξυνεργάτην τέρεμνά τ' οίκων μή ποτε φθογγὴν ἀφῇ; Cic. pro Cael. 24, 60 nonne ipsam domum metuet, ne quam vocem eiciat; non parietes conscios?

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ἑκὼν gehört dem Gedanken nach zu λήθομαι wie Herod. IV 43 ἐπιστάμενος τὸ οὔνομα ἑκὼν ἐπιλήθομαι, „gerne bin ich für Unkundige unwissend, während Kundige mich verstehen". Vgl. Plaut. Mil. Gl. II 6,88 ne tu hercle, si te di ament, linguam comprimes Posthac: etiam illut quod scies nesciveris Nec videris quod videris. Über μαθοῦσι ohne Artikel zu 1394. Vgl. 59 παραβᾶσιν. L'esclave d'Eschyle ne prononce que quelques vers et offre cependant tout l'intérêt d'un caractère dramatique (Patin).
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Parodos, bestehend (wie die Parodos der Perser und der Hiketides) aus drei Teilen, dem Recitativ des Chorführers in Anapästen 40-103, dem Gesang des Chorführers mit ἐπιφθέγματα (124) des Gesamtchores 104-169, dem Chorgesang 170-269. Der erste Teil beginnt mit der Schuld und Sühne der Trojaner, legt die äufseren Verhältnisse dar und giebt mit dem Verlangen zu erfahren, was die überall auf den Altären der Stadt angezündeten Opferfeuer zu bedeuten haben (83-87) die Motivierung für das Auftreten des Chors. Der zweite Teil berichtet eine Weissagung des Kalchas, welche ängstliche Besorgnis in betreff des Heerführers weckt. Der dritte begründet diese Besorgnis mit sittlichen Grundsätzen und erklärt das Leiden, das den siegreichen Agamemnon erwartet, als Sühne für eine Schuld, für die unerhörte Opferung der eigenen Tochter.

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μὲν: als Gegensatz schwebt vor der Wunsch, der den Chor hergeführt hat, Kunde vom Heere zu erhalten 83 ff. ἐπεὶ, ἀφ᾽ οὗ, wie Cho. 607 .
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Der Singular entspricht dem metaphorischen Gebrauch von ἀντίδικος, welches für sich steht und in der Apposition Μενέλαος .. Αγαμέμνων seine Erläuterung erhält: ,,der gewaltige Proceſsgegner, vertreten durch Menelaos und Agamemnon". Von dem Bilde des Rechtsstreites ist auch ἀρωγήν 47 entlehnt.
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διθρόνου καὶ δισκήπτρου Διόθεν nach Hom. B 107, I 98 f. Vgl. Suppl. 379 μονοσκήπτροισι ἐν θρόνοις. τιμῆς von der königlichen Würde wie Hom. I 616, Z 193. ζεύγος bezieht sich auf den in δι- ( θρόνου, - σκήπτρου) liegenden Begriff: „der von Zeus mit Thron und Scepter begnadeten doppelten Würde Vereinigung". Von dem darin liegenden einheitlichen Begriff,,gottbegnadetes Herrscherpaar" hängt der zweite Gen. Ατρείδαιν ab.

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χιλιοναύτην wie Eur. Iph. Τ. 141 σὺν κώπᾳ χιλιοναύτᾳ, Androm. 106 ὁ χιλιόναυς .. " Ἄρης, die dichterische Zahl. Vgl. Thuk. I 10.

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ἦραν στόλον wie αἴρειν, απαίρειν ναῦν (das Schiff vom Lande wegheben). στρατιῶτιν ἀρωγήν, einen Rechtsbeistand (zu 41, vgl. Hom. Ψ 574 ἐς μέσον ἀμφοτέροισι δικάσσατε μηδ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ἀρωγῇ), der aus Soldaten besteht, eine Wendung wie κῦμα χερσαῖον στρατοῦ Sept. 64 , vgl. unten zu 82.

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κλάζοντες: Hom. Π 428 οἳ δ᾽, ὥς τ᾽ αἰγυπιοὶ γαμψώνυχες ἀγκυλοχείλαι πέτρῃ ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλῇ μεγάλα κλάζοντε μάχωνται.
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Hom. π 216 κλαῖον δὲ λιγέως, ἀδινώτερον ἤ τ᾽ οἰωνοί, φῆναι ἢ αἰγυπιοὶ γαμψώνυχες, οἷσί τε τέκνα ἀγρόται ἐξείλοντο πάρος πετεηνὰ γενέσθαι. ἐκπάγλοις, ein Homerisches Wort. Vgl. 853.
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ὕπατοι (hoch über) regiert den Gen. wie ὑπέρ.

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Hom. II 792 στρεφεδίνηθεν δέ οἱ ὄσσε. Ebenso will L. Dindorf hier στρεφεδινοῦνται schreiben.

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Die gleiche Cäsur 64, 75, 84, 95 u. ö. Vgl. Christ Metrik § 285.

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„die nesthütende Arbeit mit den Jungen" d. h.,,die Frucht der Mühen, welche die Pflege der Jungen im Neste verursacht hatte". Anders Hesych. unter δεμνιοτήρη πόνον: καθόσον οἱ νεοσσοὶ ἔτι τοιοὔτοί εἰσιν ὡς τὰ δέμνια τηρεῖν καὶ κατέχειν, μηδέπω πέτεσθαι δυνάμενοι, πόνον δὲ τὰ περὶ τὴν τροφὴν αὐτῶν. Vgl. 1450, Eur. Herc. 1039 ὃ δ᾽ ὥς τις ὄρνις ἄπτερον και ταστένων ὠδῖνα τέκνων, Suppl. 1135 ἰὼ ἰώ· ποῦ δὲ πόνος ἐμῶν τέκνων, Phoen. 30 τὸν ἐμὸν ὠδίνων πόνον.

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ὕπατος zeigt durch seine Stellung die Beziehung auf ὕπατοι 50 an: weil die Vögel in der Höhe bei den Göttern sich angesiedelt haben ( μετοίκων 57), hört sie ein Gott in der Höhe. τις ᾿Απόλλων, etwa Apollo ( τὶς cum nomine proprio coniunctum significat talem aliquem qualis est qui nominatur. Explicavit hunc usum Fritzschius in Quaest. Lucian. p. 16). Apollon, Pan, Zeus sind Götter, die auf hohen Bergen verehrt wurden, wie Pausanias VIII 38, 2 ff. auf dem Lykaion in Arkadien Heiligtümer des Zeus, Apollon und Pan angiebt (vgl. Ahrens Philol. Suppl. S. 234 ff.). Sie sind προστάται ihren μέτοικοι, den Geiern, die auf ihren Bergen horsten. τῶνδε μετοίκων, dieser, die ihre μέτοικοι sind, wie Soph. ΕΙ. 790 πρὸς τῆσδ᾽ ὑβρίζῃ μητρός ( νοη dieser, die deine Mutter sein will). .
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ὑστερόποινον, vgl. 705 ὑστέρῳ χρόνῳ, Cho. 382 ὑστερόποινον ἄταν, Soph. Ant. 1074 ὑστεροφθόροι .. Ἐρινύες, Anthol. XII 229 ὑστερόπουν Νέμεσιν, Caes. de b. Gall. I 14 consuesse enim deos immortales, quo gravius homines ex commutatione rerum doleant, quos pro scelere eorum ulcisci velint, his secundiores interdum res et diuturniorem impunitatem concedere, Hor. carm. III 2, 31 Raro antecedentem 3* scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo und die Abhandlung von Plutarch περὶ τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ θείου βραδέως τιμωρουμένων.

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παραβᾶσιν: „Raum für alle hat die Erde, Was verfolgst du meine Herde?" Ερινύν: ein Sprichwort (Paroemiogr. Gr. App. II 20) lautet: εἰσὶ καὶ κυνῶν Ἐρινύες. Die Erinyen nehmen sich aller Hilflosen an.

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οὕτω δέ wie Cho. 251 . ὁ κρείσσων d. i. der machtvoll waltende Zeus.
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Hom. Г 350 ᾿Ατρεΐδης Μενέλαος, ἐπευξάμενος Διὶ πατρί· Ζεῦ ἄνα, δὸς τίσασθαι ὅ με πρότερος κάκ' ἔοργεν, δίον ᾿Αλέξανδρον ὄφρα τις ἐρρίγῃσι καὶ ὀψιγόνων ἀνθρώπων ξεινοδόκον κακὰ ῥέξαι, ὅ κεν φιλότητα παράσχη, Ν 621 Τρώες ὑπερφίαλοι κακαὶ κύνες, οὐδέ τι θυμῷ Ζηνὸς ἐριβρεμέτεω χαλεπὴν ἐδείσατε μῆνιν ξεινίου, ὃς τέ ποτ᾿ ὄμμι διαφθέρσει πόλιν αἰπήν. ..
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πολυάνορος verächtlich von der vielumfreiten ( πολλοὺς μνηστῆρας ἐσχηκυίας Schol.) und buhlerischen Helena. Vgl. Hom. T 325 εἵνεκα ῥιγεδανῆς Ἑλένης Τρωσὶν πολεμίζω.

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γόνατος κτἑ. ist gen. absol. Ἐρειδομένου κονίαισιν entspricht dem vorhergehenden γυιοβαρῆ: ein Ringer wird durch den anderen niedergedrückt und niedergehalten. Vgl. das Homerische οὔδει ἐρείδε- · σθαι ( Η 145 u. a.) und Eur. frg. 545 ἡμεῖς δὲ Πολύβου παῖδ᾽ ἐρείσαντες πέδῳ ἐξομματοῦμεν.

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προτέλεια das Opfer, das einer heiligen Weihe ( τέλος, bes. τέλος γαμήλιον Eum. 838 ) und Handlung vorhergeht, vgl. 237, deren Einleitung, Beginn (721). Der Lanzenkampf bildet das Vorspiel des Ringkampfes; wenn die Lanze zersplittert ist, kommt es zum Ringen.

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Hom. B 39 θήσειν γὰρ ἔτ᾽ ἔμελλεν ( Ζεὺς) ἐπ᾿ ἄλγεά τε στοναχάς τε Τρωσί τε καὶ Δαναοῖσι διὰ κρατερὰς ὑσμίνας. neuem an. -

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Trotz des grammatischen Anschlusses hebt der Gedanke von ἔστι κτέ., mag es augenblicklich stehen wie es will, das Ende wird der Bestimmung des Schicksals, welche Sühne für Schuld fordert, entsprechen. Vgl. zu 1170 und Cho. 776 , wo ähnliche Wendungen einen verschiedenen Sinn haben.
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Das Asyndeton bei der Erläuterung.

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Das Opfer, welches die Strafe und das Verderben der Stadt abwenden soll, wird von der zürnenden Gottheit nicht angenommen (1167 ff.). Wenn die Götter ein Opfer verschmähen, so offenbart sich das dadurch, dafs die Opferflamme nicht emporlodert ( ἄπυρα ἱερά, Soph. Ant. 1006 ἐκ δὲ θυμάτων Ἥφαιστος οὐκ ἔλαμπεν), daſs sie im Fettdampf und Qualm erstickt. Mag man auch nachschüren oder Ol (Verg. Aen. VI 256 pingue super oleum infundens ardentibus extis) u. dgl. darauf giefsen ( ὑποκαίων – ἐπιλείβων), es ist vergeblich. Pind. Ol. VII 48 ἀπύροις ἱεροῖς von Opfern bei denen nichts verbrannt wird. - οὔτε δακρύων paſst nicht in den Zusammenhang. παρα-

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Der Zorn des Opfers zeigt sich darin; daſs es nicht brennen will. ἀτενεῖς, unbeugsam, weil alle Versuche eine günstige Flamme anzufachen fehlschlagen. θέλξει: Schol. λείπει τὸ τὶς. Dies ergänzt sich aus dem Zusammenhang. Vgl. 464, Eum. 509 , Soph. ΕΙ. 697 ὅταν δὲ τις θεῶν βλάπτη, δύναιτ᾽ ἂν οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἰσχύων φυγεῖν, Hom. Ν 287 οὐδέ κεν ἔνθα τεόν γε μένος καὶ χεῖρας ὄνοιτο.
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ἄτιτος, ungeehrt, der Beachtung nicht wert, unnütz. Wegen der Form s. zu 1527. Der Dativ steht kausal.

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νέμοντες wie νωμῶντες, in Bewegung setzend. Vgl. 793 οἴακα νέμων mit Sept. 3 οἴακα νωμῶν, Sept. 577 ἀσπίδ᾽ εὔκυκλον νέμων mit Sept. 529 Σφίγγ᾽.. ἐνώμα.

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Kind und Greis gleichen sich an körperlicher Ohnmacht ( δὶς παῖδες οἱ γέροντες). Bei den Dichtern wird Gleichnis und eigentlicher Gedanke öfter in beigeordneten Sätzen mit τὲ, καὶ, τὲ τὲ z. B. Sept. 571 μητρός τε πληγὴν τίς κατασβέσει δίκη; πατρίςτε γαῖα σῆς ὑπὸ σπουδῆς δορὶ ἁλοῦσα πῶς σοι ξύμμαχος γενήσεται; mit τὲ καὶ (334 ff.), δὲ, μὲν – δὲ, οὔτε οὔτε, οὐδὲ gegeben. Vgl. Cho. 246 und zu Eur. Bakch. 902.

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ἀνάσσων, aufschieſsend wie eine Pflanze, Hom. 2437 ὃ δ᾽ ἀνέδραμεν ἔρνεϊ ἶσος, Pind. Nem. VIII 40 χλωραῖς ἐέρσαις ὡς ὅτε δένδρεον ᾄσσει.

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Die epischen Formen ἐνὶ und εἰν werden bei den attischen Dichtern nur in epischen Redensarten gebraucht. So εἰν ᾿Αίδα δόμοισιν Eur. Alk, 436. πείση nach Hom. v 23 τῷ δ᾽ ἄρα τ᾽ ἐν πείσῃ κραδίη μένε τετληνία. Seinem kriegerischen Sinne fehlt noch der kräftige Halt.

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Vgl. Archil. frg. 100 οὐκέθ᾽ ὁμῶς θάλλεις ἀπαλὸν χρόα· κάρφεται γὰρ ἤδη. Auch an das Homerische οΐη περ φύλλων γενεή, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν ( Ζ 146) wird man erinnert. In poetischer Weise ist Gleichnis und eigentlicher Ausdruck verbunden. τρίποδας erinnert an das Rätsel der Sphinx. Eur. Tro. 275 & τριτοβάμονος χερὶ δευομένα βάκτρου.

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ὄναρ ἡμερόφαντον, ein Traumbild nicht der Nacht, sondern des Tages. Äschylos liebt es, der Metapher durch ein das Bild aufhebendes Epitheton einen witzigen Anstrich zu geben. Vgl. oben zu 47, unten zu 139, 697 φεράσπιδες κυναγοί, 1257 δίπους λέαινα, 1235 ὄμβρου κτύπον δομοσφαλῆ τὸν αἱματηρόν, Cho. 491 πέδαις ἀχαλκεύ- τοις von dem Fanggarne der Klytämestra (vgl. Eur. frg. 598 αἰδοῦς ἀχαλκεύτοισιν ἔζευκται πέδαις), Eum. 245 μηνυτῆρος ἀφθέγκτου φραδαῖς, 250 ἀπτέροις ποτήμασιν, Suppl. 180 und Sept. 82 κόνις, ἀναυδος ἄγγελος, Sept. 925 ὁ πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθείς von dem Stahle (Schwerte), fragm. 298, 4 ἄπτεροι πελειάδες von den Pleiaden und zu οἴστρου ἄρδις ἄπυρος Prom. 906 .

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Der Chorführer redet die im Hause weilende Klytämestra wie Soph. Ai. 134 den im Zelte abwesenden Aias an.

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πειθοὶ, vgl. 284, 286, 481 ff. Ζυ θυοσκεῖν (sacra facere) vgl. Hesych. θυοσκεῖν· ἱεροῖς παρέχεσθαι ἢ θεοῖς, entstanden aus einem Schol. zu Soph. Οed. Τ. 896 τί δεῖ με θυοσκεῖν· ἱερὰ παρέχεσθαι ἢ θεοῖς χορεύειν ( Ν. Rhein. Mus. 36 S. 139). Das Wort verhält sich zu θυοσκόος (von κέω, καίω) wie βοηθείν τα βοηθόος.

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Vgl. Aristoph. Ri. 1320 τίν᾿ ἔχων φήμην ἀγαθὴν ἥκεις, ἐφ᾽ ὅτῳ κνισῶμεν ἀγυιάς; und dazu Schol. ἔθος ἦν τοῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς ἱσταμένοις θεοῖς ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐρχομέναις ἀγγελίαις θύειν, ὡς ἂν εἰ ἀγαθαὶ εἶεν, ἐπινεύσαιεν ταύταις, εἰ δὲ τοὐναντίον, ἀποτρέψαιεν.

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θυραίων: die δαίμονες ἀντήλιοι (524), deren Altäre an den Thoren der Paläste errichtet waren, besonders Apollon. Vgl. 1065, Soph. Oed. T. 919 , El. 637 , 1375, Hesych. ἀντήλιοι θεοί· οἱ πρὸ τῶν πυλῶν ἱδρυμένοι. Εὐριπίδης Μελεάγρῳ und προστατήριος· τὸν ᾿Απόλλωνα οὕτω λέγουσι, παρόσον πρὸ τῶν θυρῶν αὐτὸν ἀφιδρύοντο. Tertull. de Idol. 15 apud Graecos Apollinem Thyraeum et Antelios daemonas ostiorum praesides legimus.

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δώροισι, durch die Opfergaben, wie es 94 f. erklärt wird.
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ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν: diese Form der anapästischen Dipodie -NIGC findet sich nicht häufig. Vgl. Pers. 47 , Sept. 1060 und unten zu 370. – οὐρανομήκης, ein Homerisches Wort ( ε 239).

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ἀδόλοισι: vgl. Eur. Suppl. 1029 συντηχθεὶς αὔραις ἀδόλοις.

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πελάνῳ μυχόθεν βασιλείῳ 8. ν. α. πελάνῳ ἐκ μυχοῦ βασιλείου.

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αἰνεῖν, sich zu etwas verstehen, zusagen, gewähren.

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τε: das zweite Glied ,,undbestätige die Hoffnung, die mir aus den angezündeten Opferfeuern entgegenleuchtet" hat sich in der folgenden Unterabteilung τοτὸ μὲν τοτὲ δ᾽ .. ἐλπὶς κτέ, verloren. Ebenso Pers. 485 ff. ..

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Die eigentliche Ursache der bangen Stimmung des Chors erklärt der folgende Teil. – ἄπληστον λύπης wie ἄπληστον κακῶν Eum. 977, μάχης ἄπληστον Suppl. 750 . φρενοδαλής auch Eum. 331 . Das handschriftliche θυμοφθόρον ist Erklärung zu φρενοδαλῆ. Vgl. Anhang.
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