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Agamemnon. Aeschylus. Guilielmus Dindorfius (Editor). Lipsiae. 1882.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by Schmidt Sciences.

Current edition Experimental

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) (Greek) (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1407-1430 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 1407-1430 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1412 focus
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1412 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1412 focus
νῦν μὲν δικάζεις ἐκ πόλεως φυγὴν ἐμοὶ
καὶ μῖσος ἀστῶν δημόθρους τ᾽ ἔχειν ἀράς,
οὐδὲν τότ᾽ ἀνδρὶ τῷδ᾽ ἐναντίον φέρων
ὃς οὐ προτιμῶν, ὡσπερεὶ βοτοῦ μόρον,
1415
μήλων φλεόντων εὐπόκοις νομεύμασιν,
ἔθυσεν αὑτοῦ παῖδα, φιλτάτην ἐμοὶ
ὠδῖν, ἐπῳδὸν θρηκίων ἀημάτων.
οὐ τοῦτον ἐκ γῆς τῆσδε χρῆν 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,
γνώσῃ διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.
1425
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1412 focus
νῦν μὲν δικάζεις ἐκ πόλεως φυγὴν ἐμοί
καὶ μῖσος ἀστῶν δημόθρους τ᾽ ἔχειν ἀράς.
οὐδὲν τότ᾽ ἀνδρὶ τῶιδ᾽ ἐναντίον φέρων,
ὃς οὐ προτιμῶν, ὡσπερεὶ βοτοῦ μόρον
1415
μήλων φλεόντων εὐπόκοις νομεύμασιν,
ἔθυσεν αὑτοῦ παῖδα, φιλτάτην ἐμοί
ὠδῖν', ἐπωιδὸν θρηικίων ἀημάτων.
οὐ τοῦτον ἐκ γῆς τῆσδε χρῆ ν 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,
γνώσηι διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.
1425
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1412 focus
Translations (9)
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
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1412 focus
Now indeed thou adjudgest me to endure banishment from the city, and the abhorrence of the citizens, and public execrations,—thou that didst formerly bring nothing against this man, who, making no account of her fate, as it were of a brute, while sheep abounded in fleecy folds, immolated his own daughter, the dearest to me of my child-birth pangs, as a charm for the Thracian blasts. Shouldst thou not have banished that person out of this land, in retribution for his foul deeds? but now that thou hearest of my deeds, thou art a stern judge. But this I tell thee—Menace me as knowing that I am prepared on equal terms,—that when thou hast got the victory with thy hand, thou mayest rule me 3
;—but if God bring the contrary to pass, thou shalt, though late, be taught to know discretion.
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1412 focus
imprécations d'un peuple, tandis que contre lui tu ne t'insurgeais guère, quand,
insouciant comme un homme qui prend une victime dans les brebis sans nombre de ses troupeaux laineux, il immolait sa propre fille, l'enfant chérie de mes entrailles — pour enchanter les vents de Thrace ! N'était-ce pas lui qu'il
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1412 focus
And doſt thou now denounce upon my head
1590
Vengeance, and hate, and exile? 'Gainſt this man
Urging no charge?
Yet he without remorſe,
As if a lamb that wanton'd in his pastures
Were doom’d to bleed, cou’d ſacrifice his daughter,
1595
For whoſe dear ſake I felt a mother’s pains,
T' appeaſe the winds of Thrace.
Shou'd not thy voice
Adjudge this man to exile, in juſt vengeance
For ſuch unholy deeds?
1600
Scarce hast thou heard
What I have done, but ſentence is pronounc’d,
And that with rigor too.
But mark me well,
I boldly tell thee that I bear a ſoul
1605
Prepar’d for either fortune: if thy hand
Be ſtronger, uſe thy pow’r: but if the Gods
Proſper my cauſe, be thou aſſur’d, old man,
Thou ſhalt be taught a leſſon of diſcretion.
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1412 focus
Ora per me sentenzi il bando, e ch' io
son l' abominio degli Argivi, e il popolo
1645
mi maledice: e non rinfacci nulla
a quest'uomo, che piú non valutò
d'una pecora, quando nelle greggi
opulente di lana i capi abbondano,
la figlia sua, la figlia dilettissima
1650
della mia doglia, e la sgozzò, perché
placasse i venti della Tracia.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1412 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1412 focus
Nirgend tritt die Antwort ihm entgegen.
1335 Geh vorbei, wir haben dein genug.
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Agamemnon haben über Troia
Sieg des Himmels sel'ge Herrn beschieden;
gottbegnadet kehrt er in die Heimat.
Ach, wenn er die Schuld des alten Blutes
sterbend büßen muß und für die Toten
1420
1340 sterbend Tod den künftigen vererbt,
welcher Mensch wagt sich vor diesem Beispiel
zu vermessen, daß er in das Leben
keines Fluches Erbschaft mitgebracht?
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.) — 1412 focus
O ye just men, who speak my sentence now,
The city's hate, the ban of all my realm!
Ye had no voice of old to launch such doom
On him, my husband, when he held as light
My daughter's life as that of sheep or goat,
1640
One victim from the thronging fleecy fold!
Yea, slew in sacrifice his child and mine,
The well-loved issue of my travail-pangs,
To lull and lay the gales that blew from Thrace.
That deed of his I say, that stain and shame,
1645
Had rightly been atoned by banishment;
But ye, who then were dumb, are stern to judge
This deed of mine that doth affront your ears.
Storm out your threats, yet knowing this for sooth,
That I am ready, if your hand prevail
1650
As mine now doth, to bow beneath your sway:
If God say nay, it shall be yours to learn
By chastisement a late humility.
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.) — 1412 focus
Nun sprichst du mir mein Urthel, Flucht aus Argos' Stadt,
Rufst über mich des Volkes Haß und Fluch herab,
Und wälzest keine, keine Schuld auf diesen Mann,
Der unbedenklich mordend, gleich als wär's ein Lamm,
1365
Wie wollenreicher Heerden Zucht ihm viele bot,
Das eigne Kind geopfert, ach mein liebstes Kind,
Die wilden Stürme Thrakia's zu bändigen!
Und mußtest du nicht diesen aus dem Lande hier
Zum Lohn des Gräuls verbannen? Nur von meiner That
1370
Vernehmend, übst du strenges Recht. Ich sage dir :
Du magst mir immer also droh'n, ich bin bereit,
Mich dir zu beugen, wenn mich deine Hand besiegt,
Wie meine diesen! Wenn es anders fügt ein Gott,
So wirst du Weisheit lernen, doch zu spät belehrt.
1375

Commentary

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

1413. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-822

φέρουσ' ἐφ' ἡμῖν Libri
φέρουσ' ἐν ἡμῖν
. Porsonus contra metrum
φέρουσ' ἡμῖν
. Emperius
φέρουσ᾽ ἂν ἡμῖν
. Praestat
φέρουσ' ἐφ' ἡμῖν
.
1413

1416. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-823

καὶ ... διαί Recte libri veteres
καὶ
huic versui addunt.
διαί
, quod Ven. Flor. Vict. habent, etiam in Farn. esse puto: nam quod Elmsleius sic adnotavit, “
γυναικὸς διὰ
(gl. ad
ι
.
διαι
)", scribere voluit, opinor, "gl. ad
γ
.
διαι
."
1416

1418. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-824

παράνους Libri
οἳ παρανόμοις
. Alterum
οἳ
addendum esse vidit Blomfieldius. Canterus coniecit
καὶ παράνομος
, quod recepit Schützius. Porsoni editio
οἳ, παρὰ νόμους
. Mea emendatio,
παράνους
, ab novissimis editoribus recepta est.
1418

1420. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-825

ὀλέσασα
ὀλέσας
Flor.
1420

1421-1429. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-826

ἦ πολύμναστον ἐπηνθίσω αἷμ' ἄνιπτον, στᾶσα τότ' ἐν δόμοισιν ἐρίδματός τις ἀνδρὸς οἰζύς. Libri sic,
νῦν δὲ τελείαν πολύμναστον ἐπηνθίσω δι' αἷμ' ἄνιπτον, ἥτις ἦν τότ' ἐν δόμοις ἔρις ἐρίδματος ἀνδρὸς ὀϊζύς.
In
ἐπηνθίσω
consentiunt Ven. Flor. Farn. Vict. Id Auratus in
ἀπήνθισεν
mutandum putabat. Casauboni coniecturam
ἀπηνθίσω
receperunt Schützius, Porsonus, Blomfieldius, ceterum haec sic ut in libris leguntur cohaerere existimantes. Et videri possent cohaerere, si legeretur
νῦν δὲ τέλειον ἐπηνθίσω αἷμ' ἄνιπτον.
Sed nunc et orationis perversitas et metrorum ratio ostendunt aliquot versus excidisse post
τελείαν
. Nam et anapaestis et iis, quae hos excipiunt, respondent versus 1504-1515.
Ἐπηνθίσω
non erat mutandum, sed deleri debebat, ut Wellauerus quoque vidit,
δι'
, adscriptum ab interprete vel ortum ex proxime sequentibus litteris. Respondet enim antistrophico versui hic, cuius prima syllaba deest, supplenda, ut videtur, hoc modo,
ἦ πολύμναστον ἐπηνθίσω αἷμ' ἄνιπτον,
i. e. profecto multum recordandum tibi adspersisti inexpiabilem sanguinem. Dicit haec de Helena. Alio modo, sed non plane dissimili, usus est hoc verbo Aeschylus in Sept. c. Th. v. 924.
ἰὼ πολλοῖς ἐπανθίσαντες πόνοισι γενεάν
. Mox libri
ἥτις ἦν τότ' ἐν δόμοις
. Quum Schutzius et Butlerus legi vellent
ἦ τις
, minime se hoc probare dixit Blomfieldius. At ostendere debebat qui sensus vulgatae lectionis esset, quove modo expediri illa posset orationis perversitas. Etiamsi non moneret metrum antistrophicum, neminem, qui aliquem tragicae dictionis aut orationis poeticae sensum habeat, non intellecturum arbitror illud
ἥτις ἦν
non esse a poeta profectum, sed adscriptum ab interprete aut alio errore ortum. Deinde quid est
ἔρις ἐρίδματος ἀνδρὸς ὀϊζύς
? Scaliger
ἐρίδματος
, ab
ἐριθμαίνω
, quod placuit Blomfieldio. Quin Scottus in Appendice Thesauri Stephaniani
ἐρίδματος
pro genitivo habuit ab
ἔρισμα
ducto. Immo
ἐρίσματος ἀνδρὸς ὀϊζύς
est
ἐρίδμητος
, gravis domitricis viri calamitas, quo nomine hic patet Helenam, quae etiam Agamemnoni interfectionis caussa exstiterit, designari.
Ἔρις
autem ex sequentibus syllabis ortum videtur. Post
ἐρίδματος
aperte excidit
τις
. Scribendum igitur videtur
ἦ πολύμναστον ἐπηνθίσω αἷμ' ἄνιπτον, στᾶσα τότ' ἐν δόμοισιν ἐρίδματός τις ἀνδρὸς οἰζύς. hei memorique cruore neque cluendo conspicua, in domo tum gravis pestis viri peremptrix.

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

1412-1413. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-765

νῦν μέν, wie wenn τότε δὲ οὐδὲν .. ἔφερες (1414) folgte. φυγήν ist direkt von δικάζεις, dagegen μίσος und ἀράς von ἔχειν abhängig.
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1414. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-766

τότε, vorher. ἐναντίον φέρων, Widerwärtiges entgegenbringend d. h. feindselig drohend.

1415-1416. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-767

sich nichts daraus machend wie man sich nichts aus dem Tod eines Lammes bei üppig gedeihender Herde macht." Der Dativ bei φλεόντων wie bei πιμπλάναι, πληροῦν und wie φλέω selbst wahrscheinlich auch Suppl. 675 γεραροῖσι φλεόντων (nach der Verbesserung von Hermann) mit dem Dativ verbunden ist. Mit νομεύειν νόμευμα vgl. βόσκειν – βόσκημα.
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1418. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-768

ὠδῖνα, das unter Wehen geborene Kind. Vgl. Soph. El. 532 f. ἐπῳδὸν .. ἀημάτων mit Bitterkeit: weiter hatte es keinen Zweck".
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1419. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-769

ἀνδρηλατεῖν wird vorzugsweise von der Verfolgung des Mörders gesagt. Vgl. Eum. 221 .

1420. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-770

ἄποι ἄποινα: zu 235. Vgl. Eur. Alk. 7 καί με θητεύειν πατὴρ θνητῷ παρ᾽ ἀνδρὶ τῶνδ᾽ ἄποιν᾽ ἠνάγκασεν.

1421. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-771

ich fordere dich aber ebenso auf, mich mit Gewalt zu besiegen und dann zu beherrschen (anders nicht)" d. h. „wenn du mit Gewalt drohst, so sage ich dir auch meinerseits, daſs ich Gewalt mit Gewalt erwidern werde." Dieser Gedanke wird durch V. 1422 gestört, der aus einem Miſsverständnis hervorgegangen zu scheint.

1425. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-772

Vgl. 1619 und Soph. Ant. 1349 μεγάλοι δὲ λόγοι μεγάλας πληγὰς τῶν ὑπεραύχων ἀποτίσαντες γήρᾳ τὸ φρονεῖν ἐδίδαξαν.
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