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Mir bezeugt des Königs Angstruf, daß die That vollendet ist.
1295

Zweiter Halbchorführer.

Laßt gemeinsam uns berathen, was zu thun das Beste sei.

Erster Greis des Chores.

Agamemnon. Aeschylus. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (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.)

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.) — 1346 focus

β΄.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγματι.

γ΄.

ἀλλὰ κοινωσαίμεθ᾽ ἂν πῶς ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα;

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1346 focus

Χοροῦ Β

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγματι.

Χοροῦ Γ

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἂν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1346 focus

ΧΟΡΟΣ

Τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι -ᾶσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν·

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ', ἄνδρες ἄν πως, ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1346 focus

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν·
1345

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἄν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1346 focus

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν.

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἤν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματ᾽ ἦι.

Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1346 focus

ΧΟΡΟΣ.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν.

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἄνδρες ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα;

Apparatus Criticus

ἡλίου ἡλίωι τοῖς ἐμοῖς τιμαόροις, ἐχθροῖς φ. τοῖς ἐμοῖς τ. δυστυχοῖ δυστυχή πράσσειn πράττειν βροτοῖσιν βροτοῖς μηκέτ᾽ ἐσέλθηις μηκέτι δ᾽ εἰσέλθηις ἐπικραίνει θ. ἄγαν ἐπ. ἐπικρανεῖ (ποτ᾽) suppl. E. A. Ahrens πλευρῶν πληγήν ἀσφαλῆ ἄν πως ἀσφ.

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

The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1346 focus

To me it seems, from the cry of the king, that the deed hath been done .

CHORUS 3

But let us in some way or other concert unfailing measures.

CHORUS 4

AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1346 focus

Le crime est accompli : croyez-en les plaintes du roi ! Allons, amis, réunissons

Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1346 focus

’Tis the king’s cry; the dreadful deed is doing.

What ſhall we do? What meaſures ſhall we form?

SEMICHORUS.

Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1346 focus

E' del re questa la voce: dunque il fatto è già compito !

COREUTA II

Consigliamoci, avvisiamo quale sia miglior partito.
1570

COREUTA III

Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1346 focus

Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1346 focus

wie mich in diesem Kleide höhnten Freund und Feind,

die mein zu lachen einig waren. Und ich trug's,

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.) — 1346 focus

The bloody act is over—I have heard the monarch's cry—

Let us swiftly take some counsel, lest we too be doomed to die.

One of the Chorus.

Commentary

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

1296. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-762

NA Excidit post

Ἰλίου

aliquid, fortasse

διὰ παντός

, ut est in Choeph. v. 847.

ἢ πάνυ θήσειν Ἀγαμεμνονίων οἴκων ὄλεθρον διὰ παντός.

Respondent enim inter se duo systemata.

1296

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

1296-1297. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-710

αὐτῆς wie 1136. θεήλατον βοῦν dicit quae se ultro offert ad immolandum, quales memorant historici plus semel (Stanley). Vgl. Tac. hist. III 56 accessit dirum omen, profugus altaribus taurus disiecto sacrificii apparatu longe nec ubi feriri hostias mos est confossus.

Aeschylus Agamemnon 1346

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Mir bezeugt des Königs Angstruf, daß die That vollendet ist.
1295

Zweiter Halbchorführer.

Laßt gemeinsam uns berathen, was zu thun das Beste sei.

Erster Greis des Chores.

Current edition Experimental

β΄.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγματι.

γ΄.

ἀλλὰ κοινωσαίμεθ᾽ ἂν πῶς ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα;

Χοροῦ Β

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγματι.

Χοροῦ Γ

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἂν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

ΧΟΡΟΣ

Τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι -ᾶσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν·

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ', ἄνδρες ἄν πως, ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν·
1345

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἄν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν.

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἤν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματ᾽ ἦι.

ΧΟΡΟΣ.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν.

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἄνδρες ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα;

Apparatus Criticus

CHORUS 3

But let us in some way or other concert unfailing measures.

CHORUS 4

SEMICHORUS.

COREUTA II

Consigliamoci, avvisiamo quale sia miglior partito.
1570

COREUTA III

The bloody act is over—I have heard the monarch's cry—

Let us swiftly take some counsel, lest we too be doomed to die.

One of the Chorus.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

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Mir bezeugt des Königs Angstruf, daß die That vollendet ist. 1295

Zweiter Halbchorführer. Laßt gemeinsam uns berathen, was zu thun das Beste sei.

Erster Greis des Chores.

Current edition Experimental

β΄. τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγματι.

γ΄. ἀλλὰ κοινωσαίμεθ᾽ ἂν πῶς ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα;

Χοροῦ Β τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγματι.

Χοροῦ Γ ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἂν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

ΧΟΡΟΣ Τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι -ᾶσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν· ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ', ἄνδρες ἄν πως, ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν· 1345 ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἄν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν. ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἤν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματ᾽ ἦι.

ΧΟΡΟΣ. τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν. ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἄνδρες ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα;

Apparatus Criticus

CHORUS 3 But let us in some way or other concert unfailing measures.

CHORUS 4

SEMICHORUS.

COREUTA II Consigliamoci, avvisiamo quale sia miglior partito. 1570

COREUTA III

The bloody act is over—I have heard the monarch's cry— Let us swiftly take some counsel, lest we too be doomed to die.

One of the Chorus.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

Mir bezeugt des Königs Angstruf, daß die That vollendet ist.
1295

Zweiter Halbchorführer.

Laßt gemeinsam uns berathen, was zu thun das Beste sei.

β΄.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγματι.

γ΄.

ἀλλὰ κοινωσαίμεθ᾽ ἂν πῶς ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα;

Χοροῦ Β

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγματι.

Χοροῦ Γ

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἂν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

ΧΟΡΟΣ

Τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι -ᾶσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν·

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ', ἄνδρες ἄν πως, ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν·
1345

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἄν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν.

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἤν πως ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματ᾽ ἦι.

ΧΟΡΟΣ.

τοὔργον εἰργάσθαι δοκεῖ μοι βασιλέως οἰμώγμασιν.

ἀλλὰ κοινωσώμεθ᾽ ἄνδρες ἀσφαλῆ βουλεύματα;

CHORUS 3

But let us in some way or other concert unfailing measures.

COREUTA II

Consigliamoci, avvisiamo quale sia miglior partito.
1570

The bloody act is over—I have heard the monarch's cry—

Let us swiftly take some counsel, lest we too be doomed to die.