Agamemnon. Aeschylus. ed. Gottfried Hermann. Lipsiae. 1852.
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Critical apparatus to Agamemnon (OCR draft) (Latin) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Agamemnon.)
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Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 975-1033 focus
Χορός
τίπτε μοι τόδ᾽ ἐμπέδως
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δεῖμα
1
προστατήριον
καρδίας τερασκόπου ποτᾶται,
μαντιπολεῖ δ᾽ ἀκέλευστος ἄμισθος ἀοιδά,
οὐδ᾽ ἀποπτύσαι
2
δίκαν
980
δυσκρίτων ὀνειράτων
θάρσος εὐπειθὲς ἵζει
3
φρενὸς φίλον θρόνον; χρόνος δ᾽ ἐπὶ
4
πρυμνησίων ξυνεμβολαῖς
5
ψαμμίας ἀκάτας
6
παρή-
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βησεν, εὖθ᾽ ὑπ᾽ Ἴλιον
ὦρτο ναυβάτας στρατός.
Χορός
πεύθομαι δ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων
νόστον, αὐτόμαρτυς ὤν:
τὸν δ᾽ ἄνευ λύρας ὅμως
7
ὑμνῳδεῖ
990
θρῆνον Ἐρινύος
8
αὐτοδίδακτος ἔσωθεν
θυμός, οὐ τὸ πᾶν ἔχων
ἐλπίδος φίλον θράσος.
σπλάγχνα δ᾽ οὔτι
9
ματᾴζει
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πρὸς ἐνδίκοις φρεσὶν τελεσφόροις
δίναις κυκλούμενον κέαρ.
ἐλπίδος ψύθη πεσεῖν
ἐς τὸ μὴ τελεσφόρον.
1000
Χορός
μάλα γέ τοι
12
τὸ μεγάλας ὑγιείας
ἀκόρεστον τέρμα. νόσος γάρ <ἀεὶ>
13
γείτων ὁμότοιχος ἐρείδει,
καὶ πότμος εὐθυπορῶν
1005
ἀνδρὸς ἔπαισεν ἄφαντον ἕρμα.
καὶ τὸ μὲν πρὸ χρημάτων
κτησίων ὄκνος βαλὼν
σφενδόνας ἀπ᾽ εὐμέτρου,
1010
οὐκ ἔδυ πρόπας δόμος
πημονᾶς
14
γέμων ἄγαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἐπόντισε σκάφος.
πολλά τοι δόσις ἐκ Διὸς ἀμ-
φιλαφής τε καὶ ἐξ ἀλόκων ἐπετειᾶν
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νῆστιν ὤλεσεν νόσον.
Χορός
τὸ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γᾶν πεσὸν
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ἅπαξ θανάσιμον
προπάροιθ᾽
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ἀνδρὸς μέλαν αἷμα τίς ἂν
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πάλιν ἀγκαλέσαιτ᾽ ἐπαείδων;
οὐδὲ
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τὸν ὀρθοδαῆ
τῶν φθιμένων ἀνάγειν
Ζεὺς ἀπέπαυσεν
18
ἐπ᾽ εὐλαβείᾳ;
εἰ δὲ μὴ τεταγμένα
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μοῖρα μοῖραν ἐκ θεῶν
εἶργε μὴ πλέον φέρειν,
προφθάσασα καρδία
γλῶσσαν ἂν τάδ᾽ ἐξέχει.
νῦν δ᾽ ὑπὸ σκότῳ βρέμει
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θυμαλγής τε καὶ οὐδὲν ἐπελ-
πομένα ποτὲ καίριον ἐκτολυπεύσειν
ζωπυρουμένας φρενός.
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 975-1033 focus
Χορός
τίπτε μοι τόδʼ ἐμπέδως
975
δεῖμα προστατήριον
καρδίας τερασκόπου ποτᾶται,
μαντιπολεῖ δʼ ἀκέλευστος ἄμισθος ἀοιδά,
οὐδʼ ἀποπτύσαι δίκαν
980
δυσκρίτων ὀνειράτων
θάρσος εὐπειθὲς ἵ-
ζει φρενὸς φίλον θρόνον;
χρόνος δʼ ἐπὶ πρυμνησίων ξυνεμβολαῖς
ψαμμίʼ ἀκτᾶς παρή-
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μησεν, εὖθʼ ὑπʼ Ἴλιον
ὦρτο ναυβάτας στρατός.
Χορός
πεύθομαι δʼ ἀπʼ ὀμμάτων
νόστον, αὐτόμαρτυς ὤν·
τὸν δʼ ἄνευ λύρας ὅμως ὑμνῳδεῖ
990
θρῆνον Ἐρινύος αὐτοδίδακτος ἔσωθεν
θυμός, οὐ τὸ πᾶν ἔχων
ἐλπίδος φίλον θράσος.
σπλάγχνα δʼ οὔτοι ματᾴ-
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ζει πρὸς ἐνδίκοις φρεσὶν
τελεσφόροις δίναις κυκώμενον κέαρ.
εὔχομαι δʼ ἐξ ἐμᾶς
ἐλπίδος ψύθη πεσεῖν
ἐς τὸ μὴ τελεσφόρον.
1000
Χορός
μάλα γέ τοι τὸ μεγάλας ὑγιείας
ἀκόρεστον τέρμα· νόσος γάρ
γείτων ὁμότοιχος ἐρείδει.
καὶ πότμος εὐθυπορῶν
1005
ἀνδρὸς ἔπαισεν ἄφαντον ἕρμα.
καὶ πρὸ μέν τι χρημάτων
κτησίων ὄκνος βαλὼν
σφενδόνας ἀπʼ εὐμέτρου,
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οὐκ ἔδυ πρόπας δόμος
πημονᾶς γέμων ἄγαν,
οὐδʼ ἐπόντισε σκάφος.
πολλά τοι δόσις ἐκ Διὸς ἀμφιλα-
φής τε καὶ ἐξ ἀλόκων ἐπετειᾶν
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νῆστιν ὤλεσεν νόσον.
Χορός
τὸ δʼ ἐπὶ γᾶν πεσὸν ἅπαξ θανάσιμον
πρόπαρ ἀνδρὸς μέλαν αἷμα τίς ἂν
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πάλιν ἀγκαλέσαιτʼ ἐπαείδων;
οὐδὲ τὸν ὀρθοδαῆ
τῶν φθιμένων ἀνάγειν
Ζεὺς ἀπέπαυσεν ἐπʼ εὐλαβείᾳ;
εἰ δὲ μὴ τεταγμένα
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μοῖρα μοῖραν ἐκ θεῶν
εἶργε μὴ πλέον φέρειν,
προφθάσασα καρδία
γλῶσσαν ἂν τάδʼ ἐξέχει.
νῦν δʼ ὑπὸ σκότῳ βρέμει
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θυμαλγής τε καὶ οὐδὲν ἐπελπομέν-
α ποτὲ καίριον ἐκτολυπεύσειν
ζωπυρουμένας φρενός.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1001 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1001 focus
μάλα γέ τοι τὸ πολέος γ' ὑγιειᾶς
ἀκόρεστον τέρμα. νόσος γὰρ
1
γείτων ὁμότοιχος ἐρείδει,
970
καὶ πότμος εὐθυπορῶν
ἀνδρὸς ἔπαισεν ἄφαντον ἕρμα.
καὶ τὸ μὲν πρὸ χρημάτων
κτησίων ὄκνος βαλὼν
σφενδόνας ἀπ' εὐμέτρου,
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Χορὸς Πρεσβυτῶν
οὐκ ἔδυ πρόπας δόμος
πημονᾶς γέμων ἄγαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἐπόντισε σκάφος.
πολλά τ' ἂν δόσις ἐκ Διὸς ἀμφιλαφής τε καὶ ἐξ ἀλόκων ἐπετειᾶν
νῆστιν ὤλεσεν νόσον.
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ἀντ. β'.
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1001 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1001 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1001 focus
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1001 focus
ΧΟ.
†μάλα γέ τοι τᾶς πολλᾶς ὑγιείας
†ἀκόρεστον τέρμα. νόσος γὰρ
γείτων ὁμότοιχος ἐρείδει.
καὶ πότμος εὐθυπορῶν
ἀνδρὸς ἔπαισεν ἄφαντον ἕρμα.
1005
καὶ τὸ μὲν πρὸ χρημάτων
κτησίων ὄκνος βαλὼν
σφενδόνας ἀπ᾿ εὐμέτρου,
οὐκ ἔδυ πρόπας δόμος
πλημονᾶς γέμων ἄγαν,
1010
οὐδ᾽ ἐπόντισε σκάφος.
πολλά τοι δόσις ἐκ Διὸς ἀμφιλα-
φής τε καὶ ἐξ ἀλόκων ἐπετειᾶν
νῆστιν ἤλασεν νόσον. –
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.) — 975-1028 focus
CHOROS.
Wherefore to me, this fear —
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Groundedly stationed here
Fronting my heart, the portent-watcher — flits she?
Wherefore should prophet-play
The uncalled and unpaid lay,
Nor — having spat forth fear, like bad dreams — sits she
980
On the mind’s throne beloved — well-suasive Boldness?
For time, since, by a throw of all the hands,
The boat’s stern-cables touched the sands,
Has past from youth to oldness, —
When under
Ilion
rushed the ship-borne bands.
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And from my eyes I learn —
Being myself my witness — their return.
Yet, all the same, without a lyre, my soul,
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Itself its teacher too, chants from within
Erinus’ dirge, not having now the whole
Of Hope’s dear boldness: nor my inwards sin —
The heart that’s rolled in whirls against the mind
Justly presageful of a fate behind.
995
But I pray — things false, from my hope, may fall
Into the fate that’s not-fulfilled-at-all!
1001
Especially at least, of health that’s great
The term’s insatiable: for, its weight
— A neighbour, with a common wall between —
Ever will sickness lean;
And destiny, her course pursuing straight,
1005
Has struck man’s ship against a reef unseen.
Now, when a portion, rather than the treasure,
Fear casts from sling, with peril in right measure,
It has not sunk — the universal freight,
(With misery freighted over-full)
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Nor has fear whelmed the hull.
Then too the gift of Zeus,
Two-handedly profuse,
Even from the furrows’ yield for yearly use
Has done away with famine, the disease;
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But blood of man to earth once falling-deadly, black —
In times ere these, —
Who may, by singing spells, call back?
Zeus had not else stopped one who rightly knew
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The way to bring the dead again.
But, did not an appointed Fate constrain
The Fate from gods, to bear no more than due,
My heart, outstripping what tongue utters,
Would have all out: which now, in darkness, mutters
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Moodily grieved, nor ever hopes to find
How she a word in season may unwind
From out the enkindling mind.
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1001 focus
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1001 focus
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1001 focus
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1001 focus
e frangesi a scoglio invisibile
sovente la sorte che prospera
moveva per rotta sicura.
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Ma se sa, con destra frombola,
una parte del suo bene
il timor gittare in mare,
non affonda tutto il carico,
sotto il peso delle pene,
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né tra i flutti il legno spare.
E spesso dal cielo una pioggia
dirotta, lo sterile male
distrugge nell' annua novale.
CORIFEO
2
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1001 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1001 focus
Denn niemand fügt gutwillig sich dem Sklavenjoch.
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Und als des Heeres Ehrengabe hab' ich sie,
der reichsten Beute schönste Zierde, heimgebracht.
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Agamemnon.
Nun denn, da hierin deinem Wort ich folgen muß,
tret' ich den Purpur, zieh' in meine Hallen ein.
Er geht über die Teppiche langsam auf das Thor zu, Klytaimestra hinter ihm; die Dienerinnen folgen, die Teppiche aufrollend; sein Gefolge verliert sich seitlich.
Klytaimestra.
während des Gehens.
Das Meer ist da, wer trocknet je sein Becken aus?
Es birgt des goldeswerten Purpursafts genug,
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zu färben immer neuer Prachtgewande Schmuck.
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Und unser Haus hat, Gott sei Dank, für jeden Wunsch
die Mittel: was Entbehrung ist, das weiß es nicht.
Tausend Gewande würd' ich dem Zertreten gern
geopfert haben, hätte sie ein Götterspruch
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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.) — 1001 focus
Too far, too far our mortal spirits strive,
Grasping at utter weal, unsatisfied—
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Till the fell curse, that dwelleth hard beside,
Thrust down the sundering wall. Too fair they blow,
The gales that waft our bark on Fortune's tide!
Swiftly we sail, the sooner all to drive
Upon the hidden rock, the reef of woe.
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Then if the hand of caution warily
Sling forth into the sea
Part of the freight, lest all should sink below,
From the deep death it saves the bark: even so,
Doom-laden though it be, once more may rise
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His household, who is timely wise.
How oft the famine-stricken field
Is saved by God's large gift, the new year's yield!
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.) — 1001 focus
Traun, der Gesundheit vollblühende Kraft zerstört
Unersättlich sich selbst; denn die Krankheit wohnt
Ihr allzeit lauernd zur Seite.
Segelnd im Glücke, zerschellt
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Menschengeschick an verborgner Klippe.
Wirft die Furcht vom reichen Schay
Einen Theil dann über Bord,
Schleudernd klug mit weisem Maaß,
Dann versinkt nicht ganz das Haus,
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Stöhnt es auch, von Jammer schwer,
Noch begräbt die Flut den Kahn.
Reichlich strömende Gabe von Zeus, die jährlich entkeimt den gesegneten Furchen,
Bannt des Hungers schwere Noth.
Zweite Gegenstrophe.
Commentary
Critical apparatus to Agamemnon (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Agamemnon.) focus
968-970.
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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
966-1018.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-553
967-968.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-554
969.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-555
970.
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