Aeschylus Agamemnon 1481

Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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

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Current edition Perseus

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.) — 1448-1576 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1481 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1481 focus
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1481 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1481 focus
ἦ μέγαν οἴκοις τοῖσδε
δαίμονα καὶ βαρύμηνιν αἰνεῖς,
φεῦ φεῦ, κακὸν αἶνον ἀτη-
ρᾶς τύχας ἀκορέστου
1485
ἰὼ ἰή, διαὶ Διὸς
παναιτίου πανεργέτα.
τί γὰρ βροτοῖς ἄνευ Διὸς τελεῖται;
τί τῶνδ᾽ οὐ θεόκραντόν ἐστιν;
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1481 focus
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1481 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.)) — 1481 focus
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 1481 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1481 focus
Verily thou praisest the mighty daemon of this household, dreadful in his wrath. Alas! alas for the horrible praise of calamity ever greedy! Woe! woe! 'tis by the will of Jove, cause of all, doer of all: for what is accomplished among mortals without Jove? what of these things is not decreed by heaven?
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1481 focus
Oui, il est terrible, (terrible) pour cette maison, et cruel dans ses rancunes, le Génie que tu viens de rappeler. Ah ! rappel douloureux d'un sort insatiable
d'horreurs ! Las ! hélas ! Et cela, par Zeus, qui seul tout veut et tout achève ! Rien, sans Zeus, s'accomplit-il parmi les hommes ? Est-il ici rien qui ne soit œuvre des dieux ?
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1481 focus
And doſt thou glory in these deeds of death,
This vengeance of the Fury? Thus to pride thee
In ruin, and the havoc of thy house,
Becomes thee ill.
Ah! ’tis an higher pow’r,
1670
That thus ordains; we ſee the hand of Jove,
Whose will directs the fate of mortal man.
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1481 focus
Deh!, qual rammemori possente Dèmone,
di questa casa qual grave Furia!
1735
D'un fato insaziabile
di guai, triste memoria!
Ahi, ahi! Giove lo volle, che tutto opera,
tutto compie. Quale esito
senza il voler di Giove hanno i mortali ?
1740
Quale ei non disegnò di questi mali?
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1481 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1481 focus
und wenn an einer Leiche je ein Freudentrunk
geziemend wär', hier wär' es recht und mehr als recht.
So voll fluchwürd'ger Frevel war der Trank, den er
gemischt für uns, doch selber ausgetrunken hat.
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1481 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.) — 1481 focus
Grim is his wrath and heavy on our home,
That fiend of whom thy voice has cried—
Alas, an omened cry of woe unsatisfied,
An all-devouring doom.
1730
Ah woe, ah Zeus! from Zeus all things befall—
Zeus the high cause and finisher of all!—
Lord of our mortal state, by him are willed
All things, by him fulfilled!
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.) — 1481 focus
Traun, den gewaltigen, schwer
Zürnenden Dämon des Hauses rühmst du!
Ach, trauriger Ruhm des grausen,
Niemals endenden Unheils!
1435
O Graun, o Graun! So lenkt es Zeus,
Der Alles fügt, der Alles schafft!
Denn was geschieht den Menschen ohne dich, Zeus?
Ist nicht Alles der Götter Schickung?

Commentary

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

1481. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-851

ἰώ, ἰώ In Ven.
ἡμιχόριον
praefixum.
ἰὼ ἰὼ
Farn. Vict.
ἰὼ
semel Ven. Flor.
1481

1483. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-852

τί ποτ' εἴπω; Farn. hic quoque
τί ποτ' ἆρ᾽ εἴπω;
et mox
ἐκπνείων
.
1483

1485. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-853

εὐσεβεῖν
εὐσεβεῖ
Flor.
1485

1486. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-854

ἀνελεύθερον
ἀνελεύθερα
hic quoque Farn.
1486

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

1449-1576. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-789

Kommos bestehend aus drei Strophenpaaren. Die Chorpartieen bestehen immer aus drei Teilen, von welchen den ersten die drei στοίχοι (jeder στοίχος ein Strophenpaar), den zweiten der Koryphaios, den dritten der Gesamtchor vorzutragen scheint. Den Inhalt bildet die verschiedene Auffassung und die sittliche Motivierung des Rachewerks sowie die Anklage der Klytämestra. τίς ἂν Μοίρα: zu 627.

1482. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-807

1
ἔγκασι (die Form wie Hom. 1 438) mit Bezug auf νείρα 1480: „Fürwahr, einen mächtig in den Eingeweiden wirkenden und schwergrollenden Dämon preisest du da, wehe, in schlimmem Preisen, einen Dämon, der unersättlich ist in Mordwerken." ἀτηρᾶς τύχας ἀκόρεστον giebt den Sinn von η πρὶν .. νέος ἰχώρ 1480 f. wieder.

1486. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-808

διαὶ Διός d. i. der Dämon ist unersättlich nach dem Willen des Zeus.

1488. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-809

Vgl. Suppl. 829 σὸν δ᾽ ἐπίπαν ζυγὸν ταλάντου· τί δ᾽ ἄνευ σέθεν θνατοῖσι τέλειόν ἐστιν;