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It is the nature of all human kind to be unsatisfied with prosperity. From stately halls none bars it with warning voice that utters the words Enter no more.

So the Blessed Ones have granted to our prince to capture Priam’s town; and, divinely-honored, he returns to his home. Yet if he now must pay the penalty for the blood shed by others before him, and by dying for the dead
1335

he is to bring to pass retribution of other deaths¹, what mortal man, on hearing this, can boast that he was born with scatheless destiny? A shriek is heard from within
1340

Agamemnon. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1926.

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Current edition Perseus

Agamemnon (English) (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.))

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.) — 1331 focus

Χορός

τὸ μὲν εὖ πράσσειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ

πᾶσι βροτοῖσιν· δακτυλοδείκτων δʼ

οὔτις ἀπειπὼν εἴργει μελάθρων,

μηκέτʼ ἐσέλθῃς, τάδε φωνῶν.

καὶ τῷδε πόλιν μὲν ἑλεῖν ἔδοσαν
1335

μάκαρες Πριάμου·

θεοτίμητος δʼ οἴκαδʼ ἱκάνει.

νῦν δʼ εἰ προτέρων αἷμʼ ἀποτείσῃ

καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανὼν ἄλλων

ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικράνῃ,
1340

τίς ἂν ἐξεύξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ

δαίμονι φῦναι τάδʼ ἀκούων;

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1331 focus

ΧΟ.

τὸ μὲν εὖ πράσσειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ

πᾶσι βροτοῖσιν· δακτυλοδείκτων δ᾽

οὔτις ἀπειπὼν εἴργει μελάθρων,

μηκέτ᾽ ἐσέλθῃς, τάδε φωνῶν.

καὶ τῷδε πόλιν μὲν ἑλεῖν ἔδοσαν
1335

μάκαρες Πριάμου·

θεοτίμητος δ᾽ οἴκαδ᾽ ἱκάνει.

νῦν δ᾽ εἰ προτέρων αἷμ᾽ ἀποτίσει

καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανὼν ἄλλων

ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικρανεῖ,

1340

τίς ποτ᾽ ἂν εὔξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ

δαίμονι φῦναι τάδ᾽ ἀκούων;

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1331 focus

Χορὸς Πρεσβυτῶν

τὸ μὲν εὖ πράσσειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ

πᾶσι βροτοῖσιν· δακτυλοδείκτων δ'

οὔτις ἀπειπὼν εἴργει μελάθρων,

“μηκέτ' ἐςέλθῃς,” τάδε φωνῶν.

καὶ τῷδε πόλιν μὲν ἑλεῖν ἔδοσαν
1295

μάκαρες Πριάμου,

θεοτίμητος δ᾽ οἴκαδ᾽ ἱκάνει.

Χορὸς Πρεσβυτῶν

νῦν δ᾽ εἰ προτέρων αἷμ᾽ ἀποτίσει,

καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανὼν ἄλλων

ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικράναι,
1300

τίς ποτ᾽ ἂν εὔξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ

δαίμονι φῦναι, τάδ᾽ ἀκούων;

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1331 focus

Τὸ μὲν εὖ πράσσειν πράττειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ

πᾶσι βροτοῖσιν -οῖς· δακτυλοδεικτῶν δ'

οὔτις ἀπειπὼν εἴργει μελάθρων,

« Μηκέτ' ἐσέλθῃς μηκέτι δ' εἰσέλθῃς », τάδε φωνῶν.

Καὶ τῷδε πόλιν μὲν ἑλεῖν ἔδοσαν
1335

μάκαρες Πριάμου, θεοτίμητος δ'

οἴκαδ' ἱκάνει· νῦν δ' εἰ προτέρων

αἷμ' ἀποτείσει -τίσει

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ

ΧΟΡΟΣ

καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανὼν ἄλλων

ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικρανεῖ ἄγαν ἐπικρανεῖ,
1340

τίς < τίς om.> ἂν εὔξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ

δαίμονι φῦναι τάδ' ἀκούων ;

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1331 focus

τὸ μὲν εὖ πράσσειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ
1330

πᾶσι βροτοῖσιν· δακτυλοδείκτων δ᾽

οὔτις ἀπειπὼν εἴργει μελάθρων,

μηκέτ᾽ ἐσέλθῃς, τάδε φωνῶν.

καὶ τῷδε πόλιν μὲν ἑλεῖν ἔδοσαν

μάκαρες Πριάμου,
1335

θεοτίμητος δ᾽ οἴκαδ᾽ ἱκάνει·

νῦν δ᾽ εἰ προτέρων αἷμ᾽ ἀποτίσει

καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανών ἄλλων

ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικρανεῖ,

τίς ἂν εὔξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ
1340

δαίμονι φῦναι τάδ᾽ ἀκούων;

ΑΓ.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1331 focus

τὸ μὲν εὖ πράσσειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ πᾶσι βροτοῖσ ιν,

δακτυλοδεΐκτων δ᾽ οὔτις ἀπειπὼν εἴργει μελάθρων,

“μηκέτ᾽ ἐσέλθηις", τάδε φωνῶν.

καὶ τῶιδε πόλιν μὲν ἑλεῖν ἔδοσαν μάκαρες Πριάμου,
1335

θεοτίμητος δ᾽ οἴκαδ᾽ ἱκάνει·

νῦν δ᾽ εἰ προτέρων αἷμ᾽ ἀποτείσει

καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανὼν ἄλλων

ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικρανεῖ,
1340

τίς ἂν ἐξεύξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ

δαίμονι φῦναι τάδ᾽ ἀκούων;

ΑΓ.

Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1331 focus

ΧΟ.

τὸ μὲν εὐ πράσσειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ

πᾶσι βροτοῖσιν· δακτυλοδείκτων

δ᾽ οὔτις ἀπειπὼν εἴργει μελάθρων,

„μηκέτ᾽ ἐσέλθηις“ τάδε φωνῶν.

καὶ τῶιδε πόλιν μὲν ἑλεῖν ἔδοσαν
1335

μάκαρες Πριάμου,

θεοτίμητος δ᾽ οἴκαδ᾽ ἱκάνει·

νῦν δ᾽ εἰ προτέρων αἷμ᾽ ἀποτείσει

καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανὼν ἄλλων

ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικραίνει,
1340

τίς (ποτ᾽) ἂν εὔξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ

δαίμονι φῦναι τάδ᾽ ἀκούων;

1343. 45 audiuntur Agamemnonis clamores; choreutae discurrunt, disputant, denique strictis gladiis in portam irrumpunt, sed horrore perculsi statim recedunt.

Translations (10)

Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 1331 focus

CHOROS.

Alas for mortal matters! Happy-fortuned, —

Why, any shade would turn them: if unhappy,

By throws the wetting sponge has spoiled the picture!

And more by much in mortals this I pity.

The being well-to-do —

Insatiate a desire of this

Born with all mortals is,

Nor any is there who

Well-being forces off, aroints

From roofs whereat a finger points,

No more come in! exclaiming. This man, too,

To take the city of Priamos did the celestials give,
1335

And, honoured by the god, he homeward comes;

But now if, of the former, he shall pay

The blood back, and, for those who ceased to live,

Dying, for deaths in turn new punishment he dooms—
1340

Who, being mortal, would not pray

With an unmischievous

Daimon to have been born — who would not, hearing thus?

The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1331 focus

To be thriving indeed, is by nature a glutless thing to all mortals; and none will banish and keep it from their dwelling that all point out , saying these words,

" Enter here no more."

And to this our sovereign the blessed gods have granted to capture the city of Priam; and he returns to his home honoured by heaven. Yet if now he is to pay the price of the bloodshed of his predecessors, and dying for the dead accomplish to the full the vengeance due for the deaths of others, who among mortals that hears this tale would not pray to be born with an innocuous genius ?

AGAMEMNON

AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1331 focus

de pitié.

Mélodrame.

Du succès les mortels ne se rassasient jamais. Nul n'y renonce et, le doigt levé pour l'écarter de sa demeure, ne
lui dit : « N'entre plus ». C'est ainsi qu'à cet homme la grâce fut donnée par les dieux bienheureux de conquérir la cité de Priam ; et le voilà qui rentre en sa patrie comblé des faveurs du Ciel.

Mais, s'il doit maintenant payer le sang qu'ont répandu ses pères et, en mourant lui-même, après tant de morts,
provoquer d'autres morts, châtiment de la sienne,

AGAMEMNON

Qui donc, qui donc, parmi les hommes, pourra, en l'apprenant, se flatter désormais d'être né pour un sort

Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1331 focus

By nature man is form'd with boundless wiſhes

1495

For proſperous fortune; and the great man’s door

Stands ever open to that envied perſon,

On whom ſhe ſmiles: but enter not with words,

Like this poor ſufferer, of ſuch dreadful import.

His arms the pow’rs of Heav’n have grac’d with conqueſt;
1500

Troy’s proud walls lie in duſt; and he returns

Crown’d by the Gods with glory:

but if now

His blood must for the blood there ſhed atone o

,

If he must die for those that died, too dearly
1505

He buys his triumph. Who of mortal men

Hears this, and dares to think his state ſecure?

AGAMEMNON
within.

Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1331 focus

Nessun dei mortali è mai sazio

1550

di beni: nessuno di quelli

cui gli uomini segnano a dito,

tener sa lontana dai tetti

novella fortuna, respingerla,

e dire: « Tu qui non entrar ».

1555

COREUTA II

I Numi assentîr che Agamènnone

di Priamo la rocca espugnasse,

tornasse, onorato dai Numi.

Ma ora, se il sangue che gli avoli

versarono, ei deve espiare,
1560

se morto, pei morti, la pena

scontar della strage degli altri,

chi mai dei mortali oserà

COREUTA II

vantarsi che il Dèmone avverso

presente al suo nascer non fu?
1565

Dall'interno della reggia si leva l'orribile grido di

AGAMENNONE

Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1331 focus

Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1331 focus

Apollon, Heiland, wehe.

Da steht sie, diese Löwin, die dem Wolfe sich

gesellte, weil der edle Löwe ferne war.

1260 Mich ärmste wird sie töten; in den argen Trank,

den sie ihm braut, mischt sie für mich die Rache mit.
1335

Sie prahlt, da für den Gatten sie das Messer wetzt,

sein Blut bezahle, daß er mich hierher geführt.

Kassandra.

Was trag' ich das noch, mir zum Spotte, mir zum Hohn,

1265 Prophetenscepter und Prophetenbind' im Haar?

Dich will ich erst zerbrechen, eh' ich sterben geh'.
1340

Fort, fort mit euch.

Da liegt ihr, das sei euer Dank.

Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1331 focus

Chorus

All are of boundless weal insatiate ;—

None warneth from his halls

Him at whom Envy points, as rich or great,

Saying, " Come here no more."—

So to this man the Blessed Ones have given

To capture Priam's walls ;—

Home he returns, beloved of Heaven;—

But must he now the blood repay

Of ancient murder ; must he die,

And dying expiate,

With his own death, their deaths who died of yore ;

Who, being mortal, this can hear, nor pray,

That he were born to scathless destiny ?

Episode 5

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.) — 1331 focus

Too true it is! our mortal state

With bliss is never satiate,

And none before the palace high
1535

And stately of prosperity

Cries to us with a voice of fear

Away! 'tis ill to enter here!

Lo! this our lord hath trodden down,

By grace of heaven, old Priam's town,
1540

And praised as god he stands once more

On Argos' shore!

Yet now—if blood shed long ago

Cries out that other blood shall flow,

His life-blood, his, to pay again
1545

The stern requital of the slain—

Peace to that braggart's vaunting vain,

Who, having heard the chieftain's tale,

Yet boasts of bliss untouched by bale!

[ A loud cry from within.

Voice of Agamemnon.

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.) — 1331 focus

Kein Sterblicher fühlt an des Glückes Genuß
1280

Sich jemals satt: von dem reichen Palast,

Dem gepriesenen, weist Niemand es zurück,

„Tritt nicht mehr ein!" ihm gebietend.

Dem Atriden verlieh der Unsterblichen Huld,

Daß er Troja bezwang,
1285

Und zur Heimat kam, von den Göttern geehrt.

Doch wenn er jego der Ahnherrn Blut

Abbüßt, und mit Tod der Gemordeten Tod

Austilgt, um die Todten zu sühnen :

Wer rühmte sich noch, wenn er solches vernahm,
1290

Zu harmlosem Glücke geboren?

Agamemnon.
(Im Palaste.)

Notes on the current edition

Agamemnon

1. If Agamemnon is now to pay the price for his father’s killing of Thyestes’ children, and by his own death is to atone for his slaying of Iphigenia, and is thus to bring about requital consisting in yet other deaths (Clytaemestra and Aegisthus).

Commentary

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

1332. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-780

NA Tractis tabulatis conspicitur Clytaemnestra in conclavi stans ad corpus Agamemnonis. πάροιθεν

πάροιθε

Porsonus scripsit: sed

πάροιθεν

habent Ven. Farn. Vict. et, ut videtur, etiam Flor.

1332

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πᾶς γάρ τις ἐχθροῖς ἐχθρὰ πορσύνων, φίλοις δοκοῦσιν εἶναι, πημονῆς ἀρκύστατ᾽ ἂν φράξειεν ὕψος κρείσσον ἐκπηδήματος. Legebatur

πῶς γάρ τις ἐχθροῖς ἐχθρὰ πορσύνων, φίλοις δοκοῦσιν εἶναι, πημονὴν ἀρκύστατον φράξειεν, ὕψος κρεῖσσον ἐκπηδήματος;

Auratus

πημονῆς ἀρκύστατον

scribendum coniecit. Blomfieldius cum Elmsleio ad Med. v. 416. p. 150.

ἀρκύστατ᾽ ἂν

scripsit, semper Graecos plurali

ἀρκύστατα

uti dicens, suspectumque habens Euripidis in Oreste v. 1420.

ἀρκυστάτων μηχανῶν

. At

ἀρκύστατος

adiectivum est, ex quo patet cur retia ipsa plurali numero

ἀρκύστατα

dicantur: ut propter hanc quidem caussam recte videatur dicere poeta potuisse

πημονὴν ἀρκύστατον

. Recte tamen Elmsleius

ἀρκύστατ᾽ ἂν

scribi iussit: sed praetervidit non perfectam eo esse horum versuum emendationem. Nam si ita, ut voluit Elmsleius, Aeschylus scripsisset, hoc diceret, quomodo enim quis inimicis insuperabilia retia pararet? At hoc parum aptum esset, quia sententia non integra esset, sed referretur ad id quod non est dictum, nisi faceret quod ego feci, ut alia diceret quam sentiret. Multo graviorem et aptiorem orationem unius litterae mutatione restituendam esse putavi,

πᾶς γάρ τις ἐχθροῖς ἐχθρὰ πορσύνων, φίλοις δοκοῦσιν εἶναι, πημονῆς ἀρκύστατ᾽ ἂν φράξειεν ὕψος κρείσσον ἐκπηδήματος.

Male post

φράξειεν

virgula ponitur: nam ad

φράξειεν

alter accusativus,

ὕψος

, modum rei describens, adiungitur. Quod Halmius in Lect. Aesch. I. pagina ultima coniecit,

ὕψος κρεῖσσον ἐκπηδήματος

, minus poetice dictum est.

1338. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-782

νείκης Libri

νίκης

. Recte Heathius

νείκης

, quod vocabulum Suidas atque Etym. M. p. 276, 3.

φιλονεικία

interpretantur. Neque dubia vox videri debebat Blomfieldio, quum Etymologicum diserte doceat ex

νεῖκος

factam cum diphthongo scribi.

1338

1339. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-783

ἐφ'

Vict. et, ut videtur, Flor. Quod Scaliger scribendum vidit,

ἐφ'

, est in Ven. Farn.

1339

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

1333. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-726

Vgl. Plaut. Aulul. I 2, 22 Si Bona Fortuna veniet, ne intromiseris, Martial. I 25, 5 Ante fores stantem dubitas admittere Famam? τάδε ( ταῦτα, τοῦτ᾽ ἔπος) vor oder nach direkter Anführung wie 456, Cho. 313 δράσαντι παθεῖν, τριγέρων μύθος τάδε φωνεί, Eum. 513 τοῦτ᾽ ἔπος θροούμενος· ὦ δίκα, Pers. 126 ὀᾶ, τοῦτ᾽ ἔπος ἀπύων.

1337. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-727

προτέρων unbestimmt, so dafs man ebenso an Iphigenie wie an die Kinder des Thyestes denken kann.

1338-1339. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-728

und wenn es so ist, dafs immer ein anderer durch seinen Tod den Getöteten Sühne des Mordes verschafft", allgemein, daher das Präsens ἐπικραίνει. Der Plural θάνατοι von Mordthaten wie 1572, Cho. 52 น. 0.

Aeschylus Agamemnon 1331

Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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ΧΟΡΟΣ

καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανὼν ἄλλων

ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικρανεῖ ἄγαν ἐπικρανεῖ,
1340

τίς < τίς om.> ἂν εὔξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ

δαίμονι φῦναι τάδ' ἀκούων ;

ΑΓ.

ΑΓ.

AGAMEMNON

AGAMEMNON
within.

COREUTA II

I Numi assentîr che Agamènnone

di Priamo la rocca espugnasse,

tornasse, onorato dai Numi.

Ma ora, se il sangue che gli avoli

versarono, ei deve espiare,
1560

se morto, pei morti, la pena

scontar della strage degli altri,

chi mai dei mortali oserà

COREUTA II

vantarsi che il Dèmone avverso

presente al suo nascer non fu?
1565

AGAMENNONE

Kassandra.

Was trag' ich das noch, mir zum Spotte, mir zum Hohn,

1265 Prophetenscepter und Prophetenbind' im Haar?

Dich will ich erst zerbrechen, eh' ich sterben geh'.
1340

Fort, fort mit euch.

Da liegt ihr, das sei euer Dank.

Episode 5

Voice of Agamemnon.

Agamemnon.
(Im Palaste.)

Notes on the current edition

Commentary

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ΧΟΡΟΣ καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανὼν ἄλλων ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικρανεῖ ἄγαν ἐπικρανεῖ, 1340 τίς < τίς om.> ἂν εὔξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ δαίμονι φῦναι τάδ' ἀκούων ;

ΑΓ.

ΑΓ.

AGAMEMNON

AGAMEMNON within.

COREUTA II I Numi assentîr che Agamènnone di Priamo la rocca espugnasse, tornasse, onorato dai Numi. Ma ora, se il sangue che gli avoli versarono, ei deve espiare, 1560 se morto, pei morti, la pena scontar della strage degli altri, chi mai dei mortali oserà

COREUTA II vantarsi che il Dèmone avverso presente al suo nascer non fu? 1565

AGAMENNONE

Kassandra. Was trag' ich das noch, mir zum Spotte, mir zum Hohn, 1265 Prophetenscepter und Prophetenbind' im Haar? Dich will ich erst zerbrechen, eh' ich sterben geh'. 1340 Fort, fort mit euch. Da liegt ihr, das sei euer Dank.

Episode 5

Voice of Agamemnon.

Agamemnon. (Im Palaste.)

Notes on the current edition

Commentary

Stable identifiers

ΧΟΡΟΣ

καὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσι θανὼν ἄλλων

ποινὰς θανάτων ἐπικρανεῖ ἄγαν ἐπικρανεῖ,
1340

τίς < τίς om.> ἂν εὔξαιτο βροτῶν ἀσινεῖ

δαίμονι φῦναι τάδ' ἀκούων ;

AGAMEMNON
within.

COREUTA II

I Numi assentîr che Agamènnone

di Priamo la rocca espugnasse,

tornasse, onorato dai Numi.

Ma ora, se il sangue che gli avoli

versarono, ei deve espiare,
1560

se morto, pei morti, la pena

scontar della strage degli altri,

chi mai dei mortali oserà

COREUTA II

vantarsi che il Dèmone avverso

presente al suo nascer non fu?
1565

Kassandra.

Was trag' ich das noch, mir zum Spotte, mir zum Hohn,

1265 Prophetenscepter und Prophetenbind' im Haar?

Dich will ich erst zerbrechen, eh' ich sterben geh'.
1340

Fort, fort mit euch.

Da liegt ihr, das sei euer Dank.

Agamemnon.
(Im Palaste.)