Aeschylus Agamemnon 1489

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.) — 1489 focus
ἰὼ ἰὼ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ,
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1489 focus
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1489 focus
Ἰὼ ἰὼ Ἰώ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ,
1
πῶς σε δακρύσω ;
φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας τί ποτ' ποτ' ἄρ' εἴπω ;
2
κεῖσαι δ' ἀράχνης ἐν ὑφάσματι τῷδ'
ἀσεβεῖ θανάτῳ βίον ἐκπνέων -είων.
1500
3
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1489 focus
ἰὼ ἰὼ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ,
1490
πῶς σε δακρύσω;
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1489 focus
ἰὼ ἰὼ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ, πῶς σε δακρύσω;
1490
φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας τί ποτ᾽ εἴπω;
κεῖσαι δ᾽ ἀράχνης ἐν ὑφάσματι τῶιδ᾽
ἀσεβεῖ θανάτωι βίον ἐκπνέων,
ὤιμοι μοι, κοίταν τάνδ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον,
δολίωι μόρωι δαμείς
1495
ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμωι βελέμνωι.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1489 focus
ἰὼ ἰὼ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ,
1490
πῶς σε δακρύσω;
φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας τί ποτ᾽ εἴπω;
κεῖσαι δ᾽ ἀράχνης ἐν ὑφάσματι τῶιδ᾽
ἀσεβεῖ θανάτωι βίον ἐκπνέων.
ὤμοι μοι
1495
κοίταν τάνδ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον
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.)) — 1489 focus
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 1489 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1489 focus
Woe! woe! My king! my king! How shall I mourn thee? what shall I utter from my affectionate soul? But thou liest in this web of the spider, breathing forth thy life by an impious death.
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1489 focus
Ah ! mon roi, mon roi, comment te
pleurer ? Du fond de ce cœur qui t'aime, quels mots t'adresser ? Ton corps est là, gisant dans ces fils d'araignée, et ton âme s'exhale sous un coup sacrilège !
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1489 focus
My king, my royal lord, what words can ſhow
My grief, my reverence for thy princely virtues!
Art thou thus fall’n, caught in a cobweb ſnare,
1675
By impious murder breathing out thy life?
Art thou thus fall’n, Ah the diſloyal bed!
Secretly ſlaughter’d by a treach’rous hand?
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1489 focus
Ahi, ahi, con che lagrime, o re,
mio re, debbo piangerti ! Quali
parole dal fido mio cuore
esprimer: tu giaci in tal ragna d'insidia,
1745
lo spirito a fine esecrando esalasti :
in questo giaciglio d'obbrobrio cadesti,
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1489 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1489 focus
Tadelt oder lobt,
1490
das gilt mir gleich. So steht es. Dieser Leichnam hier
1405 ist mein Gemahl, ist Agamemnon, und sein Tod
ist meiner Rächerhände Werk, ein Meisterwerk.
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1489 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.) — 1489 focus
Yet ah my king, my king no more!
1735
What words to say, what tears to pour
Can tell my love for thee?
The spider-web of treachery
She wove and wound, thy life around,
And lo! I see thee lie,
1740
And thro' a coward, impious wound
Pant forth thy life and die!
A death of shame—ah woe on woe!
A treach'rous hand, a cleaving blow!
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.) — 1489 focus
Wie wein' ich, (s Schmerz!) mein König und Herr,
1440
Wie wein' ich um dich?
Was sag' ich aus liebender Seele?
Da liegst du verstrickt in der Spinne Geweb,
Von frevelnden Händen gemordet!
Weh, weh! So schmachvoll sankst du dahin in den Staub:
1445
Von des -Truges Mord entseelt,
Sankst du, getroffen von scharfem Beile!

Commentary

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

1489. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-855

NA Ante hunc versum in libris hi duo leguntur,
οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον τῷδε γενέσθαι.
Schützius
οὐκ
, quem secutus est Blomfieldius. Sed hos duos versus ab Aeschylo abiudicavit Seidlerus de versibus dochm. p. 408. cum quo etsi dissentiebam in dissertatione de versibus spuriis apud Aeschylum p. IX. (Opusc. II. p. 82.), tamen nunc assentior. Nam ut hiatus excusationem habere videatur a pausa quae post
γενέσθαι
est, tamen frigent maxime hi versus produntque manum interpretis, rationem reddentis eorum quae sequuntur.
1489

1490. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-856

NA Signum interrogandi recte apposuit Schützius. Blomfieldius, dubitans de interrogatione propter sequens
ἀλλά
(id quomodo dubitari potuerit non video), Dobraei praeclaram, quam vocat, emendationem recepit,
δολοκτόνῳ ἄτῃ
. Miror Dobraei, viri recto iudicio insignis, hanc fuisse coniecturam, quae prorsus absurda est. Sermo est enim de doloso sacrificio Iphigeniae.
1490

1492-1493. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-857

ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδ᾽ ἔρνος ἀερθὲν τῆς πολυκλαύτης Ἰφιγενείας, ἄξια δράσας, ἄξια πάσχων, Libri
τὴν πολύκλαυτόν τ' Ἰφιγένειαν ἀνάξια δράσας, ἄξια πάσχων
. Porsonus ad Medeae v. 822.
τὴν πολυκλαύτην
. Infeliciter Elmsleius ad Med. v. 807.
τ' Ἰφιγένειαν
deleri volebat. Monui in adnotatione ad interpretationem Humboldti scribendum esse
ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδ᾽ ἔρνος ἀερθὲν τῆς πολυκλαύτης Ἰφιγενείας, ἄξια δράσας, ἄξια πάσχων,
i. e.
ἄξια ἀξίων δραμάτων πάσχων
. Nimirum grammaticus quum ab- surde dici putaret
ἄξια δράσας
, scribendumque esse
ἀνάξια
, huic verbo cetera, ut metro ne repugnarent, accommodaverat.

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.

1494. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-810

ἐκπνέων: vgl. Eur. Hel. 142 ἐκπνεῦσαι βίον. Über die Synizese bei ɛw zu Eur. Hipp. 10.

1495. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-811

Веі κοίταν schwebt noch vor κείσαι (1493).

1496-1497. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-812

ἐκ χερὸς δάμαρτος: das in den Handschriften fehlende δάμαρτος scheint schon durch das folgende ἄλοχον (1500) gefordert zu werden. ἀμφιτόμῳ βελέμνῳ, vgl. ξιφοδηλήτῳ θανάτῳ 1530 น. 1261, 1147, 1350, Cho. 1009 . Dagegen Soph. Εl. 99 σχίζουσι κάρα φονίῳ πελέκει, Eur. Hek. 1279 πέλεκυν ἐξάρασ᾽ ἄνω und dazu Schol. of νεώτεροι μὴ νοήσαντες τὸ παρ᾿ Ὁμήρῳ ( δ 535) “ δειπνίσσας ὡς τίς τε κατέκτανε βοῦν ἐπὶ φάτνη” ὅτι ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ἔδει μετὰ τοὺς πόνους ἀπολαύσεως τυχεῖν τοῦτον ὡς βοῦν ἀπέκτεινεν ἡ Κλυταιμήστρα, προσέθηκαν ὅτι καὶ πελέκει ἀνηρέθη.
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