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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.) — 1505 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1505 focus
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1505 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1505 focus
ὡς μὲν ἀναίτιος εἶ
τοῦδε φόνου τίς ὁ μαρτυρήσων;
πῶ πῶ; πατρόθεν δὲ συλλή-
πτωρ γένοιτ' ἂν ἀλάστωρ.
βιάζεται δ᾽ ὁμοσπόροις
1510
ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων
μέλας Ἄρης, ὅποι δὲ καὶ προβαίνων
πάχνα κουροβόρῳ παρέξει.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1505 focus
ὡς μὲν ἀναίτιος εἶ
1505
τοῦδε φόνου τίς ὁ μαρτυρήσων;
πῶ πῶ; πατρόθεν δὲ συλλήπτωρ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν ἀλάστωρ·
βιάζεται δ᾽ ὁμοσπόροις
ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων
1510
μέλας Ἄρης, ὅποι δίκαν προβαίνων
πάχνας κουροβόρου παρέξει.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1505 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.)) — 1505 focus
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 1505 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1505 focus
That thou art guiltless of this murder, who will testify? How? how? yet the evil genius of his fathers might abet thee. And the wretched battle-god is hurried violently onward in torrents of kindred blood; making his way where he must give course to the clotted gore of children slam for food 1
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AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1505 focus
immolant un guerrier pour venger des enfants.
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1505 focus
That thou art guiltleſs of this blood, what proof,
What witneſs?
— From the father, in his cauſe,
Riſe an avenger! Stain’d with the dark ſtreams
Of kindred blood fierce waves the bick’ring ſword,
1690
And points the ruthleſs boy to deeds of horror.—
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,
By impious murder breathing out thy life?
1695
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.) — 1505 focus
Chi mai potrebbe far testimonio
che tu sei monda di questo scempio ?
Come? Come? Oh! Ma vindice
1760
verrà del padre il Dèmone!
E nei rivi di strage consanguinea,
Marte livido infuria,
dove compenso vindice ai vermigli
grumi offrirà dei divorati figli.
1765
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1505 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1505 focus
ein Haupt aus ungezählter Herden Überfluß,
die eigne Tochter, meines Schoßes liebste Frucht,
den Nordlandstürmen zur Beschwicht'gung schlachtete.
Wie, hättet ihr nicht ihn als Mörder aus dem Land
1510
1420 zur Strafe treiben sollen? Aber meiner Tat
seid ihr gestrenge Richter?
So viel sag' ich euch:
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1505 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.) — 1505 focus
Thou guiltless of this murder, thou!
1755
Who dares such thought avow?
Yet it may be, wroth for the parent's deed,
The fiend hath holpen thee to slay the son.
Dark Ares, god of death, is pressing on
Thro' streams of blood by kindred shed,
1760
Exacting the accompt for children dead,
For clotted blood, for flesh on which their sire did feed.
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.) — 1505 focus
Daß du den blutigen Mord
Nimmer verschuldetest, wer bezeugt das?
Wer? Aber der Ahnen Fluchgeist
Stand wohl helfend zur Seite.
In Strömen stammverwandten Bluts
1460
Rast ewig fort der dunkle Mord,
Und negt sich neu, wohin er auch sich wälze,
Im Thau blutigen Kindermordes.

Commentary

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

1506. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-866

κατέχοντα χαμεύναν
δροίτῃ νῦν κατέχοντα χαμεύναν
Farn. Vict. Triclinii additamentum
νῦν
, quo versus acatalectus fieret, omittunt Ven. Flor. delevitque, a Porsono uncis inclusum, Schützius. Memorant
δροίτην
ex Aeschylo Etym. M. p. 288, 5. Eustathius p. 1726, 11. nomen illud etiam
δρύτην
scribi, nominatimque Eustathius hoc in loco, testantes. Disseruit de eo vocabulo in glossario Blomfieldius. Conf. etiam Zonaras p. 571.
1506

1509. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-867

πλήσῃ Libri
κλήσει
vel
πλήσῃ
. αὐτῆς Deinde
αὐτῆς
Ven. Flor. Vict.
αὑτῆς
male Farn. adscitum tamen a Blomfieldio.
1509

1510-1512. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-868

κτείνασ' ... ἀποκωκῦσαι ... ἐπικρᾶναι Edd. vett.
ἀποκωκύσαι ψυχὴν ἄχαριν χάριν ἀντ᾽ ἔργων μεγάλων ἀδίκως ἐπικράναι
. Servatus pravus accentus
ἀποκωκύσαι
in Porsoniana, quae tamen
ἐπικρᾶναι
dedit.
ἀποκωκῦσαι
Farn. Displicet asyndeton, mallesque pro altero horum verborum legi participium. Verum non ita scripsit Aeschylus, sed sic,
κτείνασ' ἄνδρα τὸν αὑτῆς ἀποκωκῦσαι (scilicet αὐτόν), ψυχῇ τ' ἄχαριν χάριν ἀντ᾽ ἔργων μεγάλων ἀδίκως ἐπικρᾶναι.

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.

1504-1505. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-814

Hunc adultum persolvit ut vindictam pueris, propter eos mactatum (Hermann).

1508. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-815

πῶ· πόθεν. Δωριεῖς Hesych. πατρόθεν von dem Vater des Agamemnon her. "

1510. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-816

1
,, Es schreitet unter immer neuen Strömen von Verwandtenblut der Rachegeist dahin, wohin er vorgehen muſs, um Sühne dem blutigen Kindermahle bieten." Vgl. Soph. El. 1384 ἴδεθ᾽ ὅπου προνέμεται τὸ δυσέριστον αἶμα φυσῶν ῎Αρης. Ζυ πάχνα κουροβόρῳ vgl. 735. zu

1498-1505. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-818

2
gewonnen.
3