Aeschylus Agamemnon 456

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Der Bürger zornathmend Wort lastet schwer,
Zahlt die Schuld alten Völkerfluchs zurück,
In banger Angst harr' ich stets,
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Zu hören, was Nacht verhüllt.
Denn der Götter Aug' entflieht
Nimmerdar, wer Blut vergof.
Wer durch Frevel glücklich ward,
Den stürzt zuleht der Eumeniden
440
Schwarze Schaar in Nacht hinab,
Sein Glück zertrümmernd; ohne Macht
Wohnt er im Dunkel - bei den Todten.
In des Ruhmes Uebermaß droht
Die Gefahr: das Auge trifft,
445
Schmetternd von Zeus, der Blisstrahl.
Neidlos lob' ich das Glück mir.
Weder Städte zertrümmern
Möcht' ich, noch gefangen mich selbst
Schau'n im Joche der Knechtschaft.
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Schlußgesang.

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.) — 488-680 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 488-680 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 456 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 456 focus
βαρεῖα δ᾽ ἀστῶν φάτις ξὺν κότῳ·
δημοκράντου δ᾽ ἀρᾶς τίνει χρέος.
μένει δ᾽ ἀκοῦσαί τί μου
μέριμνα νυκτηρεφές.
τῶν πολυκτόνων γὰρ οὐκ
440
ἄσκοποι θεοί. κελαι-
ναὶ δ᾽ Ἐρινύες χρόνῳ
τυχηρὸν ὄντ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
παλιντυχεῖ τριβᾷ βίου
τιθεῖσ᾽ ἀμαυρόν, ἐν δ᾽ ἀΐστοις
445
τελέθοντος οὔτις ἀλκά·
τὸ δ᾽ ὑπερκόπως κλύειν εὖ
βαρύ· βάλλεται γὰρ ὄσσοις
Διόθεν κεραυνός.
κρίνω δ᾽ ἄφθονον ὄλβον.
450
μήτ᾽ εἴην πτολιπόρθης,
μήτ᾽ οὖν αὐτὸς ἁλοὺς ὑπ᾽ ἄλ-
λων βίον κατίδοιμι.
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 456 focus
Βαρεῖα δ' ἀστῶν φάτις σὺν κότῳ·
δημοκράντου -κράτου δ' ἀρᾶς τίνει χρέος·
455
μένει δ' ἀκοῦσαί τί μοι μου
μέριμνα νυκτηρεφές·
τῶν πολυκτόνων γὰρ οὐκ
ἄσκοποι ἀπόσκ- θεοί· κελαι-
ναὶ δ' δ' οὖν Ἐρινύες χρόνῳ
460
τυχηρὸν ὄντ' ἄνευ δίκας παλιντυχεῖ -χῇ (uel -χῆ)
τριβᾷ βίου τιθεῖσ' ἀμαυρόν, ἐν δ' ἀΐ-
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 456 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 456 focus
βαρεῖα δ᾽ ἀστῶν φάτις ξὺν κότωι,
δημοκρά ντου δ᾽ ἀρᾶς τίνει χρέος·
μένει δ᾽ ἀκοῦσαί τί μου
μέριμνα νυκτηρεφές·
460
τῶν πολυκτόνων γὰρ οὐκ
ἄσκοποι θεοί, κελαι-
ναὶ δ᾽ Ἐρινύες χρόνωι
τυχηρὸν ὄντ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
παλιντυχεῖ τριβᾶι βίου
465
τιθεῖσ᾽ ἀμαυρόν, ἐν δ᾽ ἀϊσ-
τοις τελέθοντος οὔτις ἀλκά.
τὸ δ᾽ ὑπερκόπως κλύειν εὖ
βαρύ’ βάλλεται γὰρ ὄσσοις
Διόθεν κεραυνός.
470
κρίνω δ᾽ ἄφθονον ὄλβον·
μήτ᾽ εἴην πτολιπόρθης,
μήτ᾽ οὖν αὐτὸς ἁλοὺς ὑπ᾽ ἄλ-
λων βίον κατίδοιμι.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 456 focus
βαρεῖα δ᾽ ἀστῶν φάτις σὺν κότωι·
δημοκράντου δ᾽ ἀρᾶς τίνει χρέος.
μένει δ᾽ ἀκοῦσαί τί μοι
455
μέριμνα νυκτηρεφές.
τῶν πολυκτόνων γὰρ οὐκ
ἄσκοποι θεοί. κελαι-
ναὶ δ᾽ Ἐρινύες χρόνωι
τυχηρὸν ὄντ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
460
παλιντυχεῖ τριβᾶι βίου
τιθεῖσ᾽ ἀμαυρόν, ἐν δ᾽ ἀί-
στοις τελέθοντος οὔτις ἀλ-
κά· τὸ δ᾽ ὑπερκόπως κλύειν
εὐ βαρύ· βάλλεται γὰρ ὄσ-
465
σοις Διόθεν κεραυνός.
κρίνω δ᾽ ἄφθονον ὄλβον.
μήτ᾽ εἴην πτολιπόρθης,
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.) — 488-680 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 456 focus
Bitter is the rumour of the citizens accompanied by wrath, and it pays the debt as of a curse 2
ratified by the people. And my anxious care is waiting to hear something wrapt in nightly gloom. For the gods are not regardless of those that occasion great slaughter: and the black Erinnyes in time, reduce to obscurity the man that is fortunate without righteousness, by a reverse of fortune; and the power of him that lives among the obscure is nought. Now for a man to have an exceedingly 3
high reputation is a sad thing; for the thunderbolt from Jove is launched against his eyes 4
; but I prefer happiness free from envy. May I never be a sacker of cities, nor yet myself a captive may I see my life under the control of others.
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 456 focus
chemine, mêlée de haine contre les fils d'Atrée, champions de la vengeance.
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 456 focus
How dreadful, when the people raiſe
Loud murmurs mix’d with hate!
Yet this the tribute greatneſs pays
For its exalted ſtate.
520
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 456 focus
Strofe III
Se compagno ha rancor, grave è del popolo
la voce: e chi n'è fatto segno, ben paga il debito.
Onde or, cinta di tènebre,
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del pensier mio l'ambascia
attende nuovi orror':
ché non isfuggono
allo sguardo dei Numi quei che intridono
le man' troppo nel sangue. E quanti ascesero
520
senza giustizia, poi che gli anni volgono,
le negre Erinni annientano con l'impeto
di sorte avversa.
Nulla può chi vegeta
nel buio: e troppo celebre
525
essere, è grave: il folgore
di Giove ognor minaccia.
Oh!, lungi vivere
da invidia! Espugnar rocche io non vorrei,
né, preso, viver servo i giorni miei.
530
Dalla città si levano clamori e grida confuse.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 456 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 456 focus
am Bild der Geliebten; er fühlt sich
von Aphrodite verlassen.
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.) — 456 focus
Therefore for each and all the city's breast
Is heavy with a wrath supprest,
As deep and deadly as a curse more loud
Flung by the common crowd:
And, brooding deeply, doth my soul await
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Tidings of coming fate,
Buried as yet in darkness' womb.
For not forgetful is the high gods' doom
Against the sons of carnage: all too long
Seems the unjust to prosper and be strong,
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Till the dark Furies come,
And smite with stern reversal all his home,
Down into dim obstruction—he is gone,
And help and hope among the lost is none.
O'er him who vaunteth an exceeding fame,
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Impends a woe condign;
The vengeful bolt upon his eyes doth flame,
Sped from the hand divine.
This bliss be mine, ungrudged of god, to feel—
To tread no city to the dust,
560
Nor see my own life thrust
Down to a slave's estate beneath another's heel!

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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εὔμορφοι
εὔμορφοι
Flor. Vict.
εὐμόρφως
Farn. Plane otiosum ratus
εὔμορφοι
Blomfieldius scribendum putabat
εὐμόρφους
. Profecto, si, ut Schutzius, formosi interpretere, nescias quid de poeta statuas. Venustius Valckenarius in exemplo quod possideo adscripsit l.
εὔμοροι
. Id scribendum esset
εὔμοιροι
. Sed obstare videntur sequentia verba: neque enim felices praedicandi sunt qui non in patrio solo sunt sepulti. Non sollicitem ego quidem vulgatam scripturam. Nam
εὔμορφος
non semper proprie dicitur, sed refertur etiam ad alia quae laudabilia vel ornata sunt. In Choeph. v. 484.
ὦ Περσέφασσα, δὸς δέ γ' εὔμορφον κράτος
. Et in Cyclope Euripidis v.317.
τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα κόμποι καὶ λόγων εὐμορφίαι
. Itaque intelligendum esse videtur decori. Paleius non combustos, sed integro corpore interpretatur, oppositos cineri combustorum, sententia bona, sed ut scribi debeat
ἄμορφοι
. ἐχθρὰ δ' ἔχοντας ἔκρυψεν Deinde
ἐχθρὰ δ' ἔχοντας ἔκρυψεν
Flor. Vict.
ἐχθρῶν δ᾽ ἔχοντας ἔκρυψεν
Farn. Orellius ad Isocr. p. 371.
ἐχθρὰ δ᾽ ἔχθοντας ἔκρυψεν
. Melius Auratus aliique
ἑλόντας
. Sed recte se habet
ἔχοντας
, quod propter praegressum
κατέχουσι
dictum, etsi, ut vere animadvertit Blomfieldius, ad
θήκας
refertur, tamen sic est dictum, ut simul compotitos terrae illius significet.

436. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-284

NA Libri
οὔτις
.
436

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δημοκράντου
δημοκράντου
Porsonus. Libri
δημοκράτου
. Ambigua est sententia. Aut hoc dicit, decretae a populo imprecationi persolvit iracundus rumor debitum, h. e. punit auctores multarum caedium, aut hoc, iratus populi rumor persolvit debitam populi imprecationem. Hoc probem.
437

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τί μοι
τί μου
Flor.
τι μου
Farn. Vict.
438

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ἀπόσκοποι
ἀπόσκοποι
Flor. κελαιναὶ δ' Ἐρινύες
κελαιναὶ δ᾽ οὖν Ἐριννύες
Far. Vict.
κελαιναὶ δ' Ἐρινύες
Flor. quem recte secutus est Blomfieldius.

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παλιντυχεῖ
παλιντυχῆ
Flor. Vict.
παλιντυχῇ
, cum gl.
ἐναντίᾳ δυςτυχείᾳ
, Farn.
παλιντυχεῖ
Scaliger et in Excerptis Grotius, indeque alii.
444

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ἀΐστοις Ambigue dicit
ἀΐστοις
, quamquam ipse de mortuis cogitans.
445

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ὑπερκόπως Libri
ὑπερκότως
. Glossa codicis Farn.
ἤγουν τὸ λίαν, ἁπλῶς
. Grotius, Vossius, Pearsonus, Heathius
ὑπερκόπως
, quod recte recepit Blomfieldius, qui tamen eo progreditur, ut
ὑπερκότως
nullius auctoritatis vocem esse dicat. Eius parum firmam disputationem v. ad Sept. c. Theb. v. 387. Assentiri tamen videtur Aug. Matthiae ad Eur. Herc. fur. v. 1059. ubi cur convenientissimum
ὑπερκότως
, vocabulum recte compositum, damnandum sit, non magis perspicio, quam quomodo
πάχνας ὑπερκόπους
in Agam. v.789. praestet vulgato
ὑπερκότους
. Temere itidem damnatum
ὑπέροπτος
a metro praesidium habet in versibus Menandri apud Strabonem X. p. 452. Hic quidem, ubi de sola immodica felicitate sermo est, praeferendum erat
ὑπερκόπως
. Choeph. v. 129.
οἵ δ' ὑπερκόπως ἐν τοῖσι σοῖς πόνοισι χλίουσιν μέγα
. Sept. c. Theb. v. 435.
πρὶν ἐμὸν ἐςθορεῖν δόμον, πωλικών θ' ἑδωλίων μὲ ὑπερκόπῳ δορί ποτ' ἐκλαπάξαι
.
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ὄσσοις
Ὄσσοις
ita addit ut lumine oculorum et luce vitae privatos dicat: referuntur enim haec ad
τιθεῖσ᾽ ἀμαυρόν
et
ἐν ἀΐστοις τελοῦντος
. Mira est Lobeckii coniectura in Aiacis ed. sec. p. 344.
βάλλεται γὰρ Ὄσσα Διόθεν κεραυνός
.
448

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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erstes Stasimon. Die rhythmischen Ephymnien, bestehend in der dreimaligen Wiederkehr des gleichen Versmafses am Schlusse der drei Strophen und Antistrophen, lassen vermuten, daſs die drei Strophenpaare von den drei στοίχοι des Chors, die Ephymnien von dem Gesamtchore vorgetragen wurden. Eine ähnliche Form hat das Segensgebet Suppl. 638 ff. Die sittlichen Erwägungen, welche der Fall Trojas in Bezug auf die Besiegten und die Sieger erweckt (zu 413), werden mit, dafs Zeus getroffen, darf man wohl sagen" das Vorhergehende angeschlossen. an
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οἴκους ἐφεστίους wie 842, Sept. 73 δόμους ἐφεστίους von dem Inneren des Hauses.

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καὶ ὑπερβατώτερα τῶνδε.

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Durchweg ist bei denen, welche von hellenischen Landen zusammen aufgebrochen sind, herzverzehrende Trauer des Hauses eines jeden sichtbar d.h. in jedem Hause derer die nach Troja gezogen sind sieht man die Zeichen tiefer Trauer. ὁ δὲ ἀντὶ τοῦ γάρ merken die Schol. gewöhnlich in solchen Fällen (z. B. Cho. 238 ) an, wo die Erklärung in Form einer neuen Angabe gebracht wird. Ἕλλανος αἴας wie 1253 Ἕλληνα φάτιν, Eur. Iph. Τ. 341 Ἕλληνος ἐκ γῆς, 495 πατρίδος Ἕλληνος. πένθεια τηξικάρδιος in Gegensatz zu den Sehnsuchtsschmerzen. Hom. τ 263 μηδέ τι θυμὸν τῆκε, πόσιν γοόωσα, Eur. frg. 900 τήκω τάλαιναν καρδίαν ὀρρωδία, Cic. Tusc. IV § 36 tabificae mentis perturbationes.
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χρίμπτεται (Hesych. χρίμπτεται· προσεγγίζει) πρὸς ἡπαρ wie ἐφ᾿ ἡπαρ προσικνείται 783, χωρεί πρὸς ἦπαρ γενναία δύη Soph. Ai. 938 .
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443. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-255

τεύχη νοn Aschenkrügen wie τεῦχος Soph. El. 1120.

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Ares macht Wechselgeschäfte mit Körpern und die Wage haltend nicht am Wechseltische ( τράπεζα), sondern im Lanzenkampfe giebt er den Lieben für die Körper nicht Goldstaub ( ψήγμα mit oder ohne χρυσοῦ, χρυσίου, vgl. Herod. 1 93 τοῦ ἐκ τοῦ Τμώλου καταφερομένου ψήγματος), sondern Staub der vom Scheiterbaufen gewonnen ist ( πυρωθέν wie στρατωθέν 139). Vgl. zu 82. – ἐν μάχη δορός wie Eur. Kykl. 5 γηγενή μάχην δορός. Doch s. Anhang. πέμπει: Hom. Η 333 κατακήομεν αὐτοὺς ( νεκρούς) τυτθὸν ἀποπρὸ νεῶν, ὡς κ᾽ ὀστέα παισὶ ἕκαστος οἰκαδ᾽ ἄγῃ, ὅτ᾽ ἂν αὖτε νεώμεθα πατρίδα γαίαν. – βαρύ: wenn auch nur Staub, doch eine schwere Last (von Leid), vgl. Eur. Suppl. 1152 φέρω ἐκ πυρᾶς πατρὸς μέλη, βάρος μὲν οὐκ ἀβριθὲς ἀλγέων υπ ύπερ. ἀντήνωρ, vg!. ἀντίφερνος 415, Soph. E Ι. 1158 ἀντὶ φιλτάτης μορφῆς σποδόν τε καὶ σκιὰν ἀνωφελή.
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