Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator), 1343

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(within.) Woe's me! I'm stricken a mortal blow within!

CHORUS 1

Agamemnon. Aeschylus. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1849.

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Current edition Experimental

The Agamemnon (OCR draft) (English) (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)

Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1407-1430 focus

str. 1

Χορός

τί κακόν, ὦ γύναι, χθονοτρεφὲς ἐδανὸν

ἢ ποτὸν πασαμένα ῥυτᾶς¹ ἐξ ἁλὸς ὄρμενον²

τόδ᾽ ἐπέθου θύος, δημοθρόους τ᾽ ἀράς;

ἀπέδικες ἀπέταμές <τ᾽:>³ ἀπόπολις⁴ δ᾽ ἔσει
1410

μῖσος ὄβριμον ἀστοῖς.

1412

Κλυταιμήστρα

νῦν μὲν δικάζεις ἐκ πόλεως φυγὴν ἐμοὶ

καὶ μῖσος ἀστῶν δημόθρους τ᾽ ἔχειν ἀράς,

οὐδὲν τότ᾽⁵ ἀνδρὶ τῷδ᾽ ἐναντίον φέρων:

ὃς οὐ προτιμῶν, ὡσπερεὶ βοτοῦ μόρον,
1415

μήλων φλεόντων εὐπόκοις νομεύμασιν,

ἔθυσεν αὑτοῦ παῖδα, φιλτάτην ἐμοὶ

ὠδῖν᾽, ἐπῳδὸν Θρῃκίων ἀημάτων.⁶

οὐ τοῦτον ἐκ γῆς τῆσδε χρῆν⁷ σ᾽ ἀνδρηλατεῖν,

μιασμάτων ἄποιν᾽; ἐπήκοος δ᾽ ἐμῶν
1420

ἔργων δικαστὴς τραχὺς εἶ. λέγω δέ σοι

τοιαῦτ᾽ ἀπειλεῖν, ὡς παρεσκευασμένης

ἐκ τῶν ὁμοίων χειρὶ νικήσαντ᾽ ἐμοῦ

ἄρχειν: ἐὰν δὲ τοὔμπαλιν κραίνῃ θεός,

γνώσει διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.
1425

ant. 1

1426

Χορός

μεγαλόμητις εἶ, περίφρονα δ᾽ ἔλακες:

ὥσπερ οὖν φονολιβεῖ τύχᾳ φρὴν ἐπιμαίνεται:

λίβος⁸ ἐπ᾽ ὀμμάτων αἵματος ἐμπρέπει:⁹

ἀτίετον ἔτι σὲ χρὴ στερομέναν φίλων

τύμμα τύμματι¹⁰ τῖσαι.
1430
1431

Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 1407-1430 focus

Χορός

τί κακόν, ὦ γύναι,

χθονοτρεφὲς ἐδανὸν ἢ ποτὸν

πασαμένα ῥυτᾶς ἐξ ἁλὸς ὀρόμενον

τόδʼ ἐπέθου θύος, δημοθρόους τʼ ἀράς;

ἀπέδικες ἀπέταμες· ἀπόπολις δʼ ἔσῃ
1410

μῖσος ὄβριμον ἀστοῖς.

1412

Κλυταιμήστρα

νῦν μὲν δικάζεις ἐκ πόλεως φυγὴν ἐμοὶ

καὶ μῖσος ἀστῶν δημόθρους τʼ ἔχειν ἀράς,

οὐδὲν τότʼ ἀνδρὶ τῷδʼ ἐναντίον φέρων·

ὃς οὐ προτιμῶν, ὡσπερεὶ βοτοῦ μόρον,
1415

μήλων φλεόντων εὐπόκοις νομεύμασιν,

ἔθυσεν αὑτοῦ παῖδα, φιλτάτην ἐμοὶ

ὠδῖνʼ, ἐπῳδὸν Θρῃκίων ἀημάτων.

οὐ τοῦτον ἐκ γῆς τῆσδε χρῆν σʼ ἀνδρηλατεῖν,

μιασμάτων ἄποινʼ; ἐπήκοος δʼ ἐμῶν
1420

ἔργων δικαστὴς τραχὺς εἶ. λέγω δέ σοι

τοιαῦτʼ ἀπειλεῖν, ὡς παρεσκευασμένης

ἐκ τῶν ὁμοίων χειρὶ νικήσαντʼ ἐμοῦ

ἄρχειν· ἐὰν δὲ τοὔμπαλιν κραίνῃ θεός,

γνώσῃ διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.
1425

1426

Χορός

μεγαλόμητις εἶ,

περίφρονα δʼ ἔλακες. ὥσπερ οὖν

φονολιβεῖ τύχᾳ φρὴν ἐπιμαίνεται,

λίπος ἐπʼ ὀμμάτων αἵματος εὖ πρέπει·

ἀτίετον ἔτι σὲ χρὴ στερομέναν φίλων

τύμμα τύμματι τεῖσαι.
1430

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1343 focus

ΑΓ.

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΧΟΡΟΥ

ὁ ά.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1343 focus

Ἀγαμέμνων

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1343 focus

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ

Ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1343 focus

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΧΟ.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1343 focus

ὤιμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν †πληγὴν ἔσω†.

ΧΟ.

Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1343 focus

ΑΓ.

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πλευρῶν ἔσω.

Translations (8)

Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 1407-1430 focus

CHOROS.

What evil, O woman, food or drink, earth-bred

Or sent from the flowing sea,

Of such having fed

Didst thou set on thee

This sacrifice

And popular cries

Of a curse on thy head?
1410

Off thou hast thrown him, off hast cut

The man from the city: but —

Off from the city thyself shalt be

Cut — to the citizens

A hate immense!

1412

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Now, indeed, thou adjudgest exile to me,

And citizens’ hate, and to have popular curses:

Nothing of this against the man here bringing,

Who, no more awe-checked than as ’t were a beast’s fate, —
1415

With sheep abundant in the well-fleeced graze-flocks, —

Sacrificed his child, — dearest fruit of travail

To me, — as song-spell against Threkian blowings.

Not him did it behove thee hence to banish

— Pollution’s penalty? But hearing mzy deeds
1420

Justicer rough thou art! Now, this I tell thee:

To threaten thus — me, one prepared to have thee

(On like conditions, thy hand conquering) o’er me

Rule: but if God the opposite ordain us,

Thou shalt learn — late taught, certes — to be modest.
1425

1426

CHOROS.

Greatly-intending thou art:

Much-mindful, too, hast thou cried

(Since thy mind, with its slaughter-outpouring part,

Is frantic) that over the eyes, a patch

Of blood — with blood to match —

Is plain for a pride!

Yet still, bereft of friends, thy fate

Is — blow with blow to expiate!
1430

AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1343 focus

qui l'exempte de maux ?

On entend tout à coup derrière la porte l'appel d'Agamemnon. Parlé.

AGAMEMNON

Hélas ! un coup mortel

Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1343 focus

Oh, I am wounded with a deadly blow.

SEMICHORUS.

Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1343 focus

Ahimè! Che colpo, a morte, entro mi fora!

CORIFEO

Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1343 focus

Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1343 focus

Seid einer andern ihrer Fluchbegabung Zier.

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.) — 1343 focus

O I am sped—a deep, a mortal blow.
1550

Chorus.

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos, Band I, Agamemnon. Independent Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, twelve located textual notes and opening metrical facsimiles. Unfinished OCR proofreading and note attribution are documented in the review inventory.) — 1343 focus

Weh! Tief in's Herz des Lebens traf mich Mörderhand!

Der Chorführer.

Commentary

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

155. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-105

ἐτητύμως

ἐτυτήμως

G. Ald.

155

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

40-269. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-26

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.

155. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-95

χρονίας ἐχενηΐδας αὔρας d.i. χρονίαν ἄπλοιαν.

Aeschylus Agamemnon 1343

Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator)

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CHORUS 1

Current edition Experimental

ΑΓ.

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΧΟΡΟΥ

ὁ ά.

Ἀγαμέμνων

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ

Ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΧΟ.

ὤιμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν †πληγὴν ἔσω†.

ΧΟ.

ΑΓ.

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πλευρῶν ἔσω.

AGAMEMNON

Hélas ! un coup mortel

SEMICHORUS.

CORIFEO

O I am sped—a deep, a mortal blow.
1550

Chorus.

Weh! Tief in's Herz des Lebens traf mich Mörderhand!

Der Chorführer.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

CHORUS 1

Current edition Experimental

ΑΓ. ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΧΟΡΟΥ ὁ ά.

Ἀγαμέμνων ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ Ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΧΟ.

ὤιμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν †πληγὴν ἔσω†.

ΧΟ.

ΑΓ. ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πλευρῶν ἔσω.

AGAMEMNON Hélas ! un coup mortel

SEMICHORUS.

CORIFEO

O I am sped—a deep, a mortal blow. 1550

Chorus.

Weh! Tief in's Herz des Lebens traf mich Mörderhand!

Der Chorführer.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

ΑΓ.

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΧΟΡΟΥ

ὁ ά.

Ἀγαμέμνων

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ

Ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.

ΑΓ.

ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πλευρῶν ἔσω.

AGAMEMNON

Hélas ! un coup mortel

O I am sped—a deep, a mortal blow.
1550