Aeschylus Agamemnon 1095

Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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

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Ἀγαμέμνων (Greek) (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.)

Editions (7)
Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1072-1177 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1095 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1095 focus
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1095 focus
μαρτυρίοισι γὰρ τοῖσδ' ἐπιπείθομαι·
1
κλαιόμενα τάδε βρέφη σφαγὰς
2
ὀπτάς τε σάρκας πρὸς πατρὸς βεβρωμένας.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1095 focus
μαρτυρίοισι γὰρ τοῖσδ᾽ ἐπιπείθομαι·
1080
κλαιόμενα τάδε βρέφη σφαγὰς
ὀπτάς τε σάρκας πρὸς πατρὸς βεβρωμένας.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1095 focus
μαρτυρίοισ ι γὰρ τοῖσδ᾽ ἐπιπείθομαι·
1095
κλαιόμενα τάδε βρέφη σφαγάς,
ὀπτάς τε σάρκας πρὸς πατρὸς βεβρωμένας.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1095 focus
Translations (11)
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1095 focus
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 1095 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1095 focus
For I trust to these testimonies here before me; these babes here, bewailing the butchery, and their roasted flesh eaten by their parents.
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1095 focus
ces membres rôtis dévorés par un père 1 !
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1095 focus
Theſe are convincing proofs. Look there, look there,
1230
Whilſt pity drops a tear, the children butcher'd i ,
The father feasting on their roasted flesh!
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1095 focus
Ecco, ecco i testimonî che fede a me ne fanno :
questi fanciulli piangenti sgozzati:
maciulla il padre le carni combuste !
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1095 focus
Teſtibus his objequor,
330
Flensq; hos pueros, cedesq;
Apparentes & carnes à patre uoratas.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1095 focus
zu säumen. An des Hauses innerstem Altar
1095
1057 steh'n schon die Schafe zu der Opferung bereit.
Willst du mir denn gehorchen, so beeile dich.
1060 Und wenn das Ohr die Worte nicht begreifen kann,
so gebe mir ein Zeichen die Barbarenhand.
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1095 focus
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.) — 1095 focus
Ah! can the ghostly guidance fail,
1255
Whereby my prophet-soul is onwards led?
Look! for their flesh the spectre-children wail,
Their sodden limbs on which their father fed!
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.) — 1095 focus
Ha, ha!
Wohl ja den Zeugen hier darf ich, den Kindern, trau'n:
Sie weinen, daß man sie gemordet,
Zum Mahl gebraten und dem Vater vorgesept!
1045

Commentary

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

1096. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-649

τὸ γὰρ ἐμὸν θροεῖς πάθος ἐπεγχέας.
θροῶ πάθος ἐπεγχέασα
M. G. Rob.
θροῶ
(
θροᾷ
Turn.)
πάθος ἐπεγχέασα
Ald. Turn.
θροῶ πάθος ἐπαγχέασα
Ven. Flor. Farn. Vict. Scholiastes
συναναμίξασα τῷ τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονος καὶ συγκεράσασα
. Verbum recte explicat, sed prava scriptura deceptus se dicere Cassandram putat. Scripserat Aeschylus
τὸ γὰρ ἐμὸν θροεῖς πάθος ἐπεγχέας.
Chorum alloquitur.
Ἐπεγχέας
quidem legendum esse etiam Franzius vidit, sed male scripsit
προεῖς
.
1096

1097. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-650

ἤγαγεν Libri
ἤγαγες
. Alloqui putatur Apollinem, cui supra v. 1046. similia dixerat. Sed id non aptum, nulla posita appellatione Apollinis. Scribendum erat
ἤγαγεν
. Agamemnonem enim dicit, ut ex sequente versu apparet.
1097

1098. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-651

οὐ δήποτ'
οὐδέν ποτ'
M. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
οὐδέ ποτ'
Vict. et affertur id ex Ven.
οὐ δήποτ'
Farn. Deinde
εἰμὶ
pro
εἰ μὴ
Ald. Turn. Verba
τί γάρ
choro tribuit Rob.
1098

1099. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-652

εἰ
ἢ
pro
εἰ
G. Ald. Turn.
1099

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

1056-1176. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-593

Kommos, welcher die Vorgänge im Innern des Hauses gewissermafsen auf die Bühne verlegt, bestehend aus drei Teilen. Im ersten Teile (1056-1100), welcher die Vorbereitung der blutigen That beschreibt, spricht der Chor (d. i. Chorführer) nur in Trimetern, während die Partieen der Kasandra melisch sind. Kasandra steigt jetzt vom Wagen. Über d ᾶ zu Eum. 844. -
1

1094-1095. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-610

2
Ζυ τόδε τελεῖς kommt die Erklärung: „du wirst den eigenen Gemahl im Bade wie soll ich es zu Ende sagen?"

1097-1098. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-611

„Eine Hand um die andere langt Darreichungen hervor." Kasandra sieht, wie Dienerinnen, welche Klytämestra vorher beauftragt hat, die verschiedenen Mordwerkzeuge, das Netz, das Beil, in das Badezimmer hereinreichen.

1099-1100. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-612

νῦν γὰρ κτέ., nunc enim, si ante visa est aenigmata dicere, magis obscura loquitur (Hermann). Andere erklären (mit Pauw): oracula per et propter aenigmata obscura.