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Agamemnon. Aeschylus. London. 1889.

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

Editions (8)
Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 104-257 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 83 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δʼ ἐπαισθομένη,
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τίνος ἀγγελίας

  πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
τῶν τʼ οὐρανίων τῶν τʼ ἀγοραίων,
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βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δʼ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει,
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
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πελάνῳ μυχόθεν βασιλείῳ.
τούτων λέξασʼ ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις αἰνεῖν,
παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης,
ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν κακόφρων τελέθει,
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τοτὲ δʼ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἀγανὴ φαίνουσʼ
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδʼ ἄπληστον

  τῆς θυμοβόρου φρένα λύπης.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 83 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 83 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμνήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
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τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ' ἀγοραίων,
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ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 83 focus
Σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω -ρεα -ρεου
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος ; τί νέον ; τί δ' ἐπαισθομένη,
τίνος ἀγγελίας
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πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς θυοσκινεῖς ;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων, τῶν τε θυραίων τ' οὐρανίων
τῶν τ' ἀγοραίων,
βωμοὶ δώροισι -ροις φλέγονται·
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ἄλλη δ' ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει, φαρμασσομένη
χρίματος χρήμ- χρίσμ- ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
πελανῶν... βασιλείων -λάνῳ (-λανῶ Μ)... -λείῳ.
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Τούτων λέξασ' ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις αἴνει αἰνεῖν εἰπεῖν, παιών τε γενοῦ
τῆσδε μερίμνης, ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν
κακόφρων τελέθει, τοτὲ δ' ἐκ θυσιῶν
ἃς ἀναφαίνεις ἀγανὰ φαίνεις φαίνει φαίνουσ' ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει
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τὴν θυμοβόρον
λύπης φρενὶ φροντίδ' ἄπληστον φροντίδ' ἄπληστον τὴν θυμοβόρον λύπης φρένα.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 83 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
85
τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ᾿ ἀγοραίων,
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βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει,
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
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πελάνῳ μυχόθεν βασιλείῳ.
τούτων λέξασ᾽ ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις αἰνεῖν,
παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης,
ἢ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν κακόφρων τελέθει,
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τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἀγανὰ φαίνεις
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽ ἄπληστον
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 83 focus
σὺ δὲ Τυνδάρεω θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
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τίνος ἀγγελίας πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων, τῶν τε θυραίων τῶν τ᾽ ἀγοραίων
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βωμοὶ δώροισ ι φλέγονται: βωμοὶ δώροισι⟨ν⟩ φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
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πελανῶι μυχόθεν βασιλείωι.
τούτων λέξασ᾽ ὅτι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις, αἴνει παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης,
ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν κακόφρων τελέθει,
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τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἃς ἀναφαίνεις
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽ ἄπληστον
καὶ θυμοβόρον φρενὶ λύπην.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 83 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
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τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων χθονίων,
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τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ᾽ ἀγοραίων,
βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
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μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
πελάνωι μυχόθεν βασιλείωι.
Translations (10)
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 83 focus

 
But, O daughter of Tyndareos, Queen Clytaemestra,
what has happened? What news do you have? On what intelligence and convinced by what report do you send about your messengers to command sacrifice? For all the gods our city worships, the gods supreme, the gods below,
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the gods of the heavens and of the marketplace, have their altars ablaze with offerings. Now here, now there, the flames rise high as heaven, yielding
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to the soft and guileless persuasion of holy ointment, the sacrificial oil itself brought from the inner chambers of the palace. Of all this declare whatever you can and dare reveal, and be a healer of my uneasy heart.
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This now at one moment bodes ill, while then again hope, shining with kindly light from the sacrifices, wards off the biting care of the sorrow that gnaws my heart.
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The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 83 focus
But thou, daughter of Tyndarus, Queen Clytemnestra, what means this? what new event? what is it that thou hast heard, and on the faith of what tidings art thou burning incense sent around 2
? and the altars of all our city-guarding gods, of those above and those below, gods of heaven and gods of the forum, are blazing with offerings: and in different directions different flames are streaming upward, high as heaven, drugged with the mild unadulterated cordials of pure unguent, with the royal cake, brought from the inmost cells 3
. Concerning these things tell one both what is possible and lawful for thee to say 4
, and become thou the healer of this distracting anxiety, which now one while is full of evil thought, but at another time, because of the sacrifices, hope blandly fawning 1
upon me repels the insatiate care, the rankling sorrow that is preying upon my heart. I am 2
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 83 focus
vigueur qu'un enfant, il erre ainsi qu'un songe apparu en plein jour.

A toi de parler, fille de Tyndare, reine Clytemnestre : qu'y a-t-il ? qu'as-tu donc appris ? sur la foi de quel message tes ordres vont-ils partout provoquer des sacrifices ?

Tous les dieux de la ville, dieux du ciel et des enfers, dieux de la maison et de la place publique 1 , voient leurs autels chargés de tes dons.

Et, de tous côtés, jaillit jusqu'au ciel, au stimulant appel d'une huile sainte dont la douceur n'est pas trompeuse 2 , la flamme des offrandes royales tirées du fond du palais.

De tout cela daigne me dire ce qu'il m'est possible et permis d'apprendre, et guéris mon âme anxieuse, qui
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 83 focus
—But what tidings,
What circumſtances of fair event hath reach’d
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Thy royal ears, daughter of Tyndarus,
Inducing thee to ſend the victims round?
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 83 focus
Che è mai l'uom decrepito? Quando
già secca è la fronda, cammina
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su vie di tre piedi:
né piú saldo che parvolo, vagola
come sogno che appaia nel giorno.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 83 focus
Tu uerò Tyndari
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Filia, regina Clytemnestra
Quid opus sit, quid noui, quidue fentiens, cuius nuncij
Persuasione immittens uaticinaris.
Omniū deorŭ patriorū, excellentißimoru, terrestrium,
Cœlestiumą; ac forenfiu are donis fplendēt.
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Alia aliunde ex lato cœlo lampas oritur,
Infecta unctione caſta,
Delicatis, non fraudulentis confolationibus,
Libo ex feceffu regio: hoc dices quod et fieri potest
Et fas laudare, Peang; fiat huius cure,
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Que nunc mala mente est,
Tunc uerò feruens admodum appares.
Spes arcet inexplebilem curam,
Animiuoram mentem doloris.
Poſsum narrare uifum in uia robur
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Aufpicatum uirorum
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 83 focus
wankt dahin, dreifüßig, schwach und kindisch,
schwankes Traumgebild am hellen Tag.
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Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 83 focus
Tyndareus' daughter, Argos queen,
What hath befallen ? What hast heard ?
Confiding in what tidings now
Sendest thou round the altar-kindling word ?
Of all the gods who guard the state,
Supernal, or of realms below,
In heaven, or in the mart who wait,
With gifts the altars glow.
Now here, now yonder, doth a torch arise,
Streaming aloft to reach the skies,
Charmed with pure unguent's soothing spell,
Guileless and suasive, from the royal cell.
What here 'tis lawful to declare,
What may be told proclaim;
Be healer of this care
Which now a lowering form doth wear,
Till fawning Hope, from out the flame
Of sacrifice, with gentle smile
Doth sateless grief's soul-gnawing pang beguile.
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.) — 83 focus
But thou, O child of Tyndareus,
Queen Clytemnestra, speak! and say
What messenger of joy to-day
Hath won thine ear? what welcome news,
That thus in sacrificial wise
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E'en to the city's boundaries
Thou biddest altar-fires arise?
Each god who doth our city guard,
And keeps o'er Argos watch and ward
From heaven above, from earth below—
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The mighty lords who rule the skies,
The market's lesser deities,
To each and all the altars glow,
Piled for the sacrifice!
And here and there, anear, afar,
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Streams skyward many a beacon-star,
Conjur'd and charm'd and kindled well
By pure oil's soft and guileless spell,
Hid now no more
Within the palace' secret store.
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O queen, we pray thee, whatsoe'er,
Known unto thee, were well revealed,
That thou wilt trust it to our ear,
And bid our anxious heart be healed!
That waneth now unto despair—
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Now, waxing to a presage fair,
Dawns from the altar Hope—to scare
From our rent hearts the vulture Care.
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.) — 83 focus
Auf, Tyndaros' Kind,
O Königin, sprich, Klytämnestra: was ist's?
Was Neues geschah? Was vernahm dein Ohr?
Auf welches Gerücht
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Dich stützend, erregst du die Opfer umher? 1
Denn den Göttern gesammt, den Behütern der Stadt
Und der Tiefen und Höh'n
Und des Markts und Olymps, flammt jeder Altar
Von duftenden Opfergeschenken.
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Und von hier und von dort, zu dem Himmel empor,
Wallt leuchtende Glut,
Balsamisch getränkt mit des heiligen Oels
Süßathmendem, lauterem, labendem Born,
Mit der Spende vom Königeshause.
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So sage mir denn, was du kundthun darfst
Und zu melden vermagst,
Und wehre der Angst und banne die Qual,
Die jetzt das Gemüth uns feindlich befällt;
Doch strahlt auch ein freudiges Hoffen mir auf
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Von den Opfern und stillt das unendliche Leid,
Die verzehrende Trauer im Busen.

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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Τυνδάρεω Egressam interea dum locutus erat coryphaeus ex regiis aedibus Clytemnestram compellat, quae in scena sacris faciendis occupatur. Pro
Τυνδάρεω
nescio an scribendum sit
Τυνδαρίου
. V. ad Eur. Iph. Aul. v. 596.
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πειθοῖ
πυθοῖ
Flor.
πειθοῖ
Farn. cum reliquis. Quod Blomfieldius scribendum coniecit,
πευθοῖ
, Scaliger primus coniecerat, probabile illud, sed ut non necesse sit
πειθοῖ
mutare. θυοσκεῖς Turn.
θυοσκεῖς
, probatum Aurato, Vossio, Bentleio, Stanleio, Blomfieldio. In Farn. in quo
θυοσκινεῖς
, ut in ceteris libris, scriptum est, adscripta haec glossa est,
θύματα κινεῖς, πέμπεις
. Ibidem scholion
εὕρηται καὶ θυοσκοεῖς, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ θυοσκόος, ὁ διὰ θυσιῶν τὸ μέλλον κοῶν ἤτοι νοῶν. θύος γὰρ τὸ θύμα
. Hesychius
θυοσκεῖν, ἱεροῖς παρέχεσθαι, ἢ θεοῖς
, quod recte emendatur
ἱερὰ παρέχεσθαι τοῖς θεοῖς
. Eustathio assentitur Blomfieldius, p. 1626, 47. et 1905, 22.
θυοσκόος
a
κέω
pro
καίω
derivanti, licet posteriore loco, ut p. 1346, 36. 1601, 3. etiam alteram rationem, qua a
κοεῖν
dici voluerunt, sicut Etym. M. p. 457, 42. et Orion p. 73, 16. 102, 21. afferat. V. etiam schol. ad Il. XXIV. 221. Si recte se habet
θυοσκεῖν
, eadem haec analogia est quae in
βοηθεῖν, βοηθόος
. Sed si
θυοσκόος
non est a
θυοσκοέω
factum (ignorare autem videntur hoc verbum grammatici, qui
κοεῖν
pro fonte ponant), verbum esse debebit
θυοσκοεῖν
, ut recte scriptum sit in scholio codicis Farn.
θυοσκοεῖς
. Quis autem contendat non Hesychium quoque
θυοσκοεῖν
potius quam
θυοσκεῖν
scripsisse? Quamquam non probo Boissonadum, qui exhibuit quod Lobeckio ad Phryn. p. 523. in Aeschyli versu placebat,
θυοσκοεῖ
. Id saltem
θυοσκοιεῖς
scribendum erat. Pro
θυοσκόος
etiam
θνησκόος
ab Hesychio adnotatum est, quae nominis forma restituenda est Eustathio p. 1601, 3. Accedunt ad haec alia huius verbi vestigia apud Hesychium:
κοίης, ἱερεὺς Καβείρων ὁ καθαίρων φονέα· οἳ δέ, κόης
. Item
κοιᾶται, ἱερᾶται
, et
κοιώσατο, ἀφιερώσατο, καθιερώσατο
. Quae quum ita sint, non ausus ego quidem sum tam dubia fide nisum
θυοσκεῖς
admittere, sed servandum duxi quod libri habent
θυοσκινεῖς
, etsi ne hoc quidem verbum aliunde innotuit. Videtur sic etiam Porsonus sensisse, qui nullam suspicionis notam apposuerit.
Θυοσκεῖς
si scripsit Aeschylus, decem habemus systemata, caditque Lindneri observatio, quam suam fecit 0. Müllerus, ternario numero procedere anapaestorum systemata. De eo invento dixi in Opusc. VI. p. 142.
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NA Hunc versum editores nonnulli, in iisque Porsonus, Heathio suasore eiiciendum censuerunt. Non est cur damnetur. Omnium, inquit, in aris deorum ardet flamma, qui urbem regunt, superum, inferum, quique in caelo degunt, quique hominum negotiis adsunt. Praeterea ne idem quidem si significaretur hoc versu quod praecedente, reprehendi posset. Sic Sophocles Ant. v. 851.
οὔτε βροτοῖσιν οὔτ᾽ ἐν νεκροῖσιν μέτοικος, οὐ ζῶσιν, οὐ θανοῦσιν
. Quin ipse Aeschylus tuetur hunc versum, quum in Sept. ad Th. v. 254. dicat
χώρας τοῖς πολισσούχοις θεοῖς, πεδιονόμοις τε κἀγορᾶς ἐπισκόποις
. Quos ibi dicit
πολισσούχους
, eos hic
ἀστυνόμους
, quo modo
ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς
Sophocles Ant. v. 355.
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δώροισι
δώροις
M. Marc. Bess. G. Flor. Ald. Rob.
δώροισι
Farn. Turn. Vict. Schol. Aristophanis ad Equitum v. 1317.
ἔθος ἦν τοῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς ἱσταμένοις θεοῖς ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐρχομέναις ἀγγελίαις θύειν, ὡς ἂν εἰ ἀγαθαὶ εἶεν, ἐπινεύσαιεν ταύταις, εἰ δὲ τοὐναντίον, ἀποτρέψαιεν
.
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χρίματος
χρήματος
M. Marc. Rob.
χρήματος
Bess. G. Ald.
χρίσματος
Flor. Farn. Turn. Antiquior et poetis usitata forma
χρίμα
est.
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τούτων
τοῦτον
Marc. Rob. λέξασ᾽ M. Flor. Bess. Farn. Rob.
λέξας
G.
λέξαι
Ald. Turn. ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
ὅτι καὶ δυνατὸν
M. Bess. Farn. Ald. Rob.
ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
Flor. Vict. Solus Turn.
ὅτι καὶ σοὶ δυνατὸν
, deceptus errore Aldinae
σοί
. Frustra haesitatum est in constructione. Monui iam in priore Nubium editione ad v. 180. et ad Vigerum n. 219. copulam participio, quasi id verbum rectum esset, esse subiectam, ut apud Homerum Il. ΧΧΙ. 247.
ὣς φαμένη, καὶ κερδοσύνῃ ἡγήσατ' Ἀθήνη
, ubi unus scholiastarum
ἢ περισσὸς ὁ καί, ἢ τὸ φαμένη ἀντὶ τοῦ ἔφη
. Sed quod addit,
ἢ πρὸς τῷ ταῦτα εἰρηκέναι καὶ δολίως ἡγήσατο
, ab Homerica dicendi consuetudine abhorret. Id non reputavit Doederlinus, qui in Lectionum Homericarum specimine II. p. 9. seqq. exempla, quae hoc genus constructionis habent, parum feliciter removere conatus est. Hesiodi quidem illud in Theog. v. 56.
ὃ δ᾽ ἀσφαλέως ἀγορεύων, αἶψά τε καὶ μέγα νεῖκος ἐπισταμένως κατέπαυσεν
, non est hoc modo dictum, sed
τέ
eam habet potestatem, ut plerumque fieri solita notet.
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αἰνεῖν
εἰπεῖν
Victorius ex Flor. Farn. Canterus ceterorum librorum scripturam
αἰνεῖν
restituit, cuius explicatio est
εἰπεῖν
. Ancipitis enim significatus est
αἰνεῖν
, ut Latinum praedicare. Vt hic, ita Choeph. v. 187.
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ἣ νῦν ποτὲ μὲν
ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν
M. Flor. Bess. Rob. Turn. In M. glossa
ἔσθ' ὅτε μὲν
adscripta est.
ἣ νυν
(cum gl.
δὴ
)
τοτὲ
(cum gl.
ποτὲ
)
μὲν
Farn.
ἣ νῦν ἔσθ' ὅτε μὲν
, verbis
ὅτε μὲν
punctis deletis et supra scripto
τότε μὲν
, G.
ἣ νῦν εὖτ' ὅτε
, omisso
μὲν
, Ald.
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ἀγανὰ φαίνουσ'
ἀγανὰ φαίνεις
M. G. Turn.
ἄγαν ἀφαίνεις
Ald.
ἀγανὰ φαίνει
Bess.
ἀγανὰ φανεῖσ'
Rob.
ἀγανὰ φαίνουσ'
Flor. Farn. Vict. Butleri elegantem coniecturam
σαίνουσ'
in textum recepit Blomfieldius. Sed recte se habere videtur
φαίνουσ'
, etsi Porsono quoque suspectum erat, non illud quidem cum Wunderlichio et Wellauero omissione participii, sed propria vi verbi defendendum. Est enim
φαίνειν
lucere, et hinc demum activa collustrandi declarandique potestas deducta. Euripides El. v. 1233. de Dioscuris
ἀλλ᾽ οἵδε δόμων ὑπὲρ ἀκροτάτων φαίνουσί τινες δαίμονες ἢ θεῶν τῶν οὐρανίων
. Quod recte interpretatus est Seidlerus. Vt ex
φαείνω
factum est
φαίνω
, sic
φαίνω
ex Homerico
φαείνω
.
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ἄπληστον
ἄπλητον
M. G. Ald. Rob. Veram scripturam ceteri habent.
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τῆς θυμοβόρου φρενολύπης
τὴν θυμοφθόρον λύπης φρένα
M. Bess. G. Ald. Rob.
τὴν θυμοβόρον λυποφρένα
Farn.
τὴν θυμοβόρον λύπης φρένα
Vict. ex Flor.
τὴν θυμοβόρον φρένα λύπην
ex coniectura Turn. Porsonus ex Pauwii coniectura
τὴν θυμοβόρον φρενὶ λύπην
. Languet haec appositio. Quam nonneminis coniecturam in Annalibus Heidelbergensibus memoratam dicit Blomfieldius,
τῆς θυμοβόρου φρενολύπης
, mea est, non illa quidem a genere dicendi Aeschyleo aliena et, ut mihi videtur, aliis coniecturis melior. Requiritur enim genitivus ad
ἄπληστον
. Et sane cogitatio insatiabilis est sollicitudinis de capta urbe et salute Agamemnonis.
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103.note. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-62

Non respondet choro Clytaemnestra. Scilicet quum ante aedes regias in scena complures arae cerni videantur, in quibus ignis vel accensus erat vel iam accendebatur, egressa ex aedibus regina, ut mos est, cum duabus ancillis, ad eas aras deinceps accedit, tus et suffimenta in ignes iniiciens. Deinde videtur spectatoribus a dextra abire, ut in urbe sacra factura; tum redire finito chori carmine. Postquam igitur chorus parodum et coniunctum cum ea stasimon cecinit, propius ad orchestram accedente Clytaemnestra, unde v. 241.
τόδ᾽ ἄγχιστον Ἀπίας γαίας ἕρκος
vocatur, iterum eam compellat, spectareque ad illud quod antea non responderat videntur haec verba v. 248.
οὐδὲ σιγώσῃ φθόνος
. Parodum autem quum chorus canere incipit, aliquid nuntii acceptum esse ex accensis ignibus coniiciens, adhuc se de reditu sperare significat. Ceterum parodus haec chori similiter composita est ut illa quae est in Persis, ut anapaestos sequantur stropha, antistropha, epodus, tum autem carmen quod iusti chorici carminis formam habeat a totoque choro cani videatur, praegressum autem carmen epodicum inter partes quasdam chori sit distributum. Quomodo ea distributio facta sit, certo dici non potest. Illud patet, non esse de hemichoriis cogitandum, quae strophas cecinerint, epodum deinde universo choro canente. Id enim fieri non patiebatur Calchantis oratio, coepta in antistropha, finita autem in epodo. Multo credibilius est hanc trium partium distinctionem ad tres στοίχους pertinuisse. Atque haud scio an pauci, ac fortasse non plures quam cuiusque στοίχου medius, simul cecinerint stropham, antistropham, epodum; versum autem intercalarem,
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω
, in stropha totus secundus στοῖχος, in antistropha totus tertius, in epodo vel totus primus vel omnes tres στοῖχοι cecinerint. Certe si aequalitatis studium respicimus, quod tam magnum apud tragicos invenitur, consentaneum est ordines sic fuisse dispositos, Quae O. Müllerus in Eumenidibus p. 196. de parodo excogitavit, ab ipso conficta sunt, nec sane perite.

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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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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Der Chorführer redet die im Hause weilende Klytämestra wie Soph. Ai. 134 den im Zelte abwesenden Aias an.

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πειθοὶ, vgl. 284, 286, 481 ff. Ζυ θυοσκεῖν (sacra facere) vgl. Hesych. θυοσκεῖν· ἱεροῖς παρέχεσθαι ἢ θεοῖς, entstanden aus einem Schol. zu Soph. Οed. Τ. 896 τί δεῖ με θυοσκεῖν· ἱερὰ παρέχεσθαι ἢ θεοῖς χορεύειν ( Ν. Rhein. Mus. 36 S. 139). Das Wort verhält sich zu θυοσκόος (von κέω, καίω) wie βοηθείν τα βοηθόος.

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Vgl. Aristoph. Ri. 1320 τίν᾿ ἔχων φήμην ἀγαθὴν ἥκεις, ἐφ᾽ ὅτῳ κνισῶμεν ἀγυιάς; und dazu Schol. ἔθος ἦν τοῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς ἱσταμένοις θεοῖς ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐρχομέναις ἀγγελίαις θύειν, ὡς ἂν εἰ ἀγαθαὶ εἶεν, ἐπινεύσαιεν ταύταις, εἰ δὲ τοὐναντίον, ἀποτρέψαιεν.

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θυραίων: die δαίμονες ἀντήλιοι (524), deren Altäre an den Thoren der Paläste errichtet waren, besonders Apollon. Vgl. 1065, Soph. Oed. T. 919 , El. 637 , 1375, Hesych. ἀντήλιοι θεοί· οἱ πρὸ τῶν πυλῶν ἱδρυμένοι. Εὐριπίδης Μελεάγρῳ und προστατήριος· τὸν ᾿Απόλλωνα οὕτω λέγουσι, παρόσον πρὸ τῶν θυρῶν αὐτὸν ἀφιδρύοντο. Tertull. de Idol. 15 apud Graecos Apollinem Thyraeum et Antelios daemonas ostiorum praesides legimus.

91. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-62

δώροισι, durch die Opfergaben, wie es 94 f. erklärt wird.
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92. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-63

ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν: diese Form der anapästischen Dipodie -NIGC findet sich nicht häufig. Vgl. Pers. 47 , Sept. 1060 und unten zu 370. – οὐρανομήκης, ein Homerisches Wort ( ε 239).

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ἀδόλοισι: vgl. Eur. Suppl. 1029 συντηχθεὶς αὔραις ἀδόλοις.

96. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-65

πελάνῳ μυχόθεν βασιλείῳ 8. ν. α. πελάνῳ ἐκ μυχοῦ βασιλείου.

98. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-66

αἰνεῖν, sich zu etwas verstehen, zusagen, gewähren.

99. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-67

τε: das zweite Glied ,,undbestätige die Hoffnung, die mir aus den angezündeten Opferfeuern entgegenleuchtet" hat sich in der folgenden Unterabteilung τοτὸ μὲν τοτὲ δ᾽ .. ἐλπὶς κτέ, verloren. Ebenso Pers. 485 ff. ..

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Die eigentliche Ursache der bangen Stimmung des Chors erklärt der folgende Teil. – ἄπληστον λύπης wie ἄπληστον κακῶν Eum. 977, μάχης ἄπληστον Suppl. 750 . φρενοδαλής auch Eum. 331 . Das handschriftliche θυμοφθόρον ist Erklärung zu φρενοδαλῆ. Vgl. Anhang.
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