Aeschylus Agamemnon 218

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Jetzt, als er aufnahm das Joch des Zwanges,
Und Sinneswandlung im Busen hauchte,
Gottlose, schnöd unheilige,
Ergriff er tollkühn das kecke Wagniß.
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Denn dreist in Unthat verlockt die Menschen
Unsel'ger Wahnsinn, des Fluches Quelle.
So trug er's denn, sein Kind schlachten zu seh'n,
Dem frauenraubrächenden Krieg zum Schuße,
Als Voropfer des Seezugs:
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Vierte Gegenstrophe.

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.) — 258-366 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 258-366 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 218 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 218 focus
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον,
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φρενὸς πνέων δυςσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον, ἀνίερον, τόθεν
τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω.
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων.
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ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός,
γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγὰν
καὶ προτέλεια ναῶν.
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 218 focus
Ἐπεὶ δ' ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον
Str. 4.
φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον, ἀνίερον, τόθεν
τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω·
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βροτοὺς θρασύνει θρασύνοι γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων·
ἔτλα δ' οὖν θυτὴρ γενέ-
σθαι θυγατρός, γυναικοποί-
νων πολέμων ἀρωγὰν
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Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 218 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 218 focus
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον
φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον ἀνίερον, τόθεν
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τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω.
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων᾽ ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν
θυτὴρ γενέσθαι
θυγατρός, γυναικοποίνων
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πολέμων ἀρωγάν
καὶ προτέλεια ναῶν.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 218 focus
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον
φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον ἀνίερον, τόθεν
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τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω.
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων. ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν
θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός,
γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγάν
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καὶ προτέλεια ναῶν. –
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.) — 258-366 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 218 focus
But after that he had put on the yoke of necessity, breathing an impious, impure, unholy change of soul, from that time he changed his mind so as to cherish all-daring thoughts. For wretched frenzy, first source of woe, of foul counsel, hardens mortals. And thus he dared to become the sacrificer of his daughter, to promote a war undertaken for the avenging of a woman, and as a first-offering 2
for the fleet:
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 218 focus
un parti qui ne soit un malheur ? Puis-je, déserteur de ma flotte, manquer à mes alliés ? Si ce sacrifice,
ce sang virginal enchaîne les vents, avec ardeur, ardeur profonde, on peut le désirer sans crime. Qu'il tourne à notre salut ! »

Et, sous son front une fois ployé au joug du destin, un revirement se fait, impur, impie,
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 218 focus
Bound in neceſſity’s iron chain
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Reluctant nature ſtrives in vain :
Impure, unholy thoughts ſucceed,
And dark’ning o’er his boſom roll;
Whilſt madneſs prompts the ruthleſs deed,
Tyrant of the miſguided ſoul:
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Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 218 focus
Strofe V
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Or, poi ch'ei fu del Fato al giogo avvinto,
il cuor suo tramutarono impuri aliti
empî, che ad ogni ardir l'ebbero spinto.
Poi che Follia, che turpi mal' consiglia,
prima d'affanni miseranda origine,
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rende gli uomini audaci. Ed ei la figlia
sgozzare osò, per confortar la lotta
per una donna impresa, e perché l'esito
fausto avesse la flotta.
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Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 218 focus
Poſtquam neceßitatis ſubijt uinculum
Mentis fpirans impiam mutationem,
Impura profanamq unde audace ſapientia mutauit
Mortalibus, audebat enim turpitudo
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Mifera, amentia, præcipuum nocumentum.
Tolerabat igitur facrificulus
Fieri filiæ muliere laboriofo
Bello auxiliator, principią nauium
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 218 focus
Geheiß des Schicksals,
190 Als des Euripos' Strudel hohl am Strande
von Aulis brandend der Hellenenflotte
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die Fahrt versagte.
Vom Strymon kam der Sturm, und mit dem Sturm
Verzug und Hunger kam,
195 Das Ankertau riß, die Planken krachten,
die Mannschaft lief ratlos hin und wider;
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das stolze Heer tatenlos verkümmert.
Und als den Fürsten Kalchas
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 218 focus
ÆGISTHOS
Hail, joyous light of justice-bearing day!
At length I can aver that Gods supernal,
Judges of men, look down on earthly woes,
Beholding, in the Erinyes' woven robes,
This man, thus prostrate, welcome sight to me,
The wiles atoning compassed by his sire.
For Atreus, Argos' ruler, this man's father,
Did from the city and his home expel
Thyestes, rival in the sovereignty,-
My father, to be plain, and his own brother.
But coming back, a suppliant of the hearth,
Wretched Thyestes found a lot secure,
Not doomed his natal soil with blood to stain,
Here in his home: but this man's godless sire,
Atreus, with zeal officious more than kind,
Feigning a joyous banquet-day to hold,
Served to my sire, for food, his children's flesh.
Their feet indeed, the members of their hands,—
Seated aloof, in higher place, he hides.
Partaking of the undistinguished parts,
In ignorance, Thyestes eats the food,
Curse-laden, as thou seest, to the race.
Discerning then the impious deed, he shrieked,
And back recoiling the foul slaughter spewed.
Spurning, with righteous curse, th' insulted board
Dread doom he vows to the Pelopidæ ;—
" So perish the whole race of Pleisthenes."
Hence is it that ye see this man laid low;
The righteous planner of his death am I.
For me, the thirteenth child, in swathing clothes,
He with my wretched sire, to exile drove.
But, grown to manhood, Justice led me back,
And I, although aloof, have reached this man,
The threads combining of the fatal plot.
Now for myself 'twere glorious to die,
Seeing this man entrapped in Justice' toils.
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.) — 218 focus
Thus on his neck he took
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Fate's hard compelling yoke;
Then, in the counter-gale of will abhorr'd, accursed,
To recklessness his shifting spirit veered—
Alas! that Frenzy, first of ills and worst,
With evil craft men's souls to sin hath ever stirred!
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And so he steeled his heart—ah well-a-day—
Aiding a war for one false woman's sake,
His child to slay,
And with her spilt blood make
An offering, to speed the ships upon their way!
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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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αὐδᾷ περιόργως ἐπιθυμεῖν θέμις
ὀργᾷ
M.
ὀργᾷ
vel
ὀργᾷ
G. Bess. Flor. Ald. Turn. Vict.
ὀργαὶ
Rob. In G.
αὐδᾷ
ad
ὀργᾷ
superscriptum.
αὐδᾷ
, cum glossa
λέγει ὁ μάντις
, Farn. In M. G. hoc scholion est,
τῷ τρόπῳ γὰρ αὐδᾷ ὁ μάντις δηλονότι. Scribendum ὀργᾷ, τῷ τρόπῳ. γρ. αὐδᾷ, ὁ μάντις δὴ λοιπόν
. Ex iis, qui vulgatum
ὀργᾷ
explicare studuerunt, fuere qui verba haec,
ὀργᾷ περιόργως
, fortasse quod
περιόργως
etiam
ὑπεροργῶντως
significat, de Diana, quae irata eiusmodi sacrificium exigeret, dictum existimarent. Quo factum ut Casaubonus adscripserit
ἐπιθυμεῖ Ἄρτεμις
et Ruhnkenius ad Timaeum p. 194. tacens posuerit
παρθενίου θ' αἵματος ὀργῇ, περιέργως τ᾽ ἐπιθυμεῖ Ἄρτεμις
, non laudabili levitate metrorum negligens. Sed ne sententiam quidem haec ratio aptam praebet, propter adiectum
παυσανέμου
, quod hic aperte non ornatus caussa, sed significanter ob rem ipsam est additum. Sacrificium si sibi poscit Diana, poscit, ipsa ut placetur, non ut cessent adversi venti. Illi vero interpretes, quibus
ὀργᾷ
cum scholiasta non pro verbo, sed pro nomine accipere placuit, quod fecerunt H. Vossius, Blomfieldius, Wellauerus, quam moleste inutili additamento oneraverint orationem, non opus est demonstrari. Ὀργᾷ nihil aliud est quam error librarii, ad sequens vocabulum
περιόργως
aberrantis. Recte vero se habet
αὐδᾷ περιόργως ἐπιθυμεῖν θέμις
, vales dicit fas esse avide expetere ventos pacans sacrificium virgineumque sanguinem. De indeclinabili
θέμις
dixi ad Soph. Oed. Col. v. 1189. Non intellectus hic usus fecit ut
εὖ γὰρ εἴη
in
θέμις γὰρ εὖ
scriberetur in Flor. Farn. Quod reliqui libri habent,
εὖ γὰρ εἴη
, ita explicandum est, ut omissa censeatur sententia, ad quam
γάρ
referatur: sic fiat. Ita quod brevissime dixit poeta, accipiendum est hunc in modum, nam, quoniam evitari non potest, optandum ut bene vertat.

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λέπαδνον
λέδαπνον
Bess.
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206. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-131

δυςσεβῆ
δυσεβῆ
Flor. τροπαίαν
τρόπαιαν
G. Ald.
206

207. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-132

τόθεν
ὅθεν
pro
τόθεν
Turnebus.
207

208. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-133

τὸ παντότολμον Μ. G. Bess. Flor. Farn.
τόπαν τότολμον
Αld.
τὸ ταυτότολμον
Rob.
τὸ πάντολμον
Turn. Vict.
208

209. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-134

βροτοὺς Omnes libri
βροτοῖς
, quod servavit Porsonus una cum mala post hanc vocem plena interpunctione, quae in Ald. recte posita est post
μετέγνω
. Schützius quum recte corrigeret
βροτοὺς
, peccavit eo, quod non ad sequentia hoc verbum rettulit. Id et ego feci et Blomfieldius. Perperam sic emendatum esse pronuntiavit parum considerate G. Bernhardy in Syntaxi p. 93.
209

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.

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ἀπὸ Στρυμόνος: der ἄνεμος Στρυμονίης, wie bei Herod. VIII 118 der aus dem Norden wehende und für Schiffe auf dem Ägäischen Meere gefährliche Sturm heifst. Vgl. auch Demosth. IV § 31 Φίλιππος φυλάξας τοὺς ἐτησίας ἢ τὸν χειμῶνα ἐπιχειρεῖ, ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν ἡμεῖς μὴ δυναίμεθα ἐκεῖσε ἀφικέσθαι.
1

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κακόσχολοι: ἐπὶ κακῶ ποιοῦσαι σχολάζειν Schol. νήστιδες von den Menschen, auf welche die ἄπλοια κεναγγής ihre Wirkung übt, übertragen. Vgl. νῆστις λιμός Cho. 249 . – δύσορμοι: die Schiffe werden auf der Reede hin- und hergestofsen.

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2
Irrsal für die Menschen, weil der fortdauernde Wind Befangenheit des Kopfes erzeugt.

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Hom. B 135 καὶ δὴ δοῦρα σέσηπε νεῶν καὶ σπάρτα λέλυνται.
3

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τρίβω: διατριβῇ Schol. ἄνθος ᾿Αργείων wie Pers. 255 τὸ Περσῶν ἄνθος.

209-210. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-124

ἄλλο mit Bezug auf βριθύτερον ( πικρότερον).