Aeschylus Agamemnon 218

Ioannes Sanravius (Translator)

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Poſtquam neceßitatis ſubijt uinculum
Mentis fpirans impiam mutationem,
Impura profanamq unde audace ſapientia mutauit
Mortalibus, audebat enim turpitudo
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Mifera, amentia, præcipuum nocumentum.
Tolerabat igitur facrificulus
Fieri filiæ muliere laboriofo
Bello auxiliator, principią nauium

Agamemnon. Aeschylus. Ioannes Sanravius (Translator). Basileae. 1555.

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Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) (Latin) (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)
Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 258-366 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 258-366 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 218 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 218 focus
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον,
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φρενὸς πνέων δυςσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον, ἀνίερον, τόθεν
τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω.
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων.
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ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός,
γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγὰν
καὶ προτέλεια ναῶν.
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 218 focus
Ἐπεὶ δ' ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον
Str. 4.
φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον, ἀνίερον, τόθεν
τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω·
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βροτοὺς θρασύνει θρασύνοι γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων·
ἔτλα δ' οὖν θυτὴρ γενέ-
σθαι θυγατρός, γυναικοποί-
νων πολέμων ἀρωγὰν
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Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 218 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 218 focus
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον
φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον ἀνίερον, τόθεν
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τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω.
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων᾽ ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν
θυτὴρ γενέσθαι
θυγατρός, γυναικοποίνων
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πολέμων ἀρωγάν
καὶ προτέλεια ναῶν.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 218 focus
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον
φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον ἀνίερον, τόθεν
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τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω.
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων. ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν
θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός,
γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγάν
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καὶ προτέλεια ναῶν. –
Translations (9)
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 258-366 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 218 focus
But after that he had put on the yoke of necessity, breathing an impious, impure, unholy change of soul, from that time he changed his mind so as to cherish all-daring thoughts. For wretched frenzy, first source of woe, of foul counsel, hardens mortals. And thus he dared to become the sacrificer of his daughter, to promote a war undertaken for the avenging of a woman, and as a first-offering 2
for the fleet:
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 218 focus
un parti qui ne soit un malheur ? Puis-je, déserteur de ma flotte, manquer à mes alliés ? Si ce sacrifice,
ce sang virginal enchaîne les vents, avec ardeur, ardeur profonde, on peut le désirer sans crime. Qu'il tourne à notre salut ! »

Et, sous son front une fois ployé au joug du destin, un revirement se fait, impur, impie,
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 218 focus
Bound in neceſſity’s iron chain
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Reluctant nature ſtrives in vain :
Impure, unholy thoughts ſucceed,
And dark’ning o’er his boſom roll;
Whilſt madneſs prompts the ruthleſs deed,
Tyrant of the miſguided ſoul:
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Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 218 focus
Strofe V
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Or, poi ch'ei fu del Fato al giogo avvinto,
il cuor suo tramutarono impuri aliti
empî, che ad ogni ardir l'ebbero spinto.
Poi che Follia, che turpi mal' consiglia,
prima d'affanni miseranda origine,
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rende gli uomini audaci. Ed ei la figlia
sgozzare osò, per confortar la lotta
per una donna impresa, e perché l'esito
fausto avesse la flotta.
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Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 218 focus
Geheiß des Schicksals,
190 Als des Euripos' Strudel hohl am Strande
von Aulis brandend der Hellenenflotte
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die Fahrt versagte.
Vom Strymon kam der Sturm, und mit dem Sturm
Verzug und Hunger kam,
195 Das Ankertau riß, die Planken krachten,
die Mannschaft lief ratlos hin und wider;
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das stolze Heer tatenlos verkümmert.
Und als den Fürsten Kalchas
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 218 focus
ÆGISTHOS
Hail, joyous light of justice-bearing day!
At length I can aver that Gods supernal,
Judges of men, look down on earthly woes,
Beholding, in the Erinyes' woven robes,
This man, thus prostrate, welcome sight to me,
The wiles atoning compassed by his sire.
For Atreus, Argos' ruler, this man's father,
Did from the city and his home expel
Thyestes, rival in the sovereignty,-
My father, to be plain, and his own brother.
But coming back, a suppliant of the hearth,
Wretched Thyestes found a lot secure,
Not doomed his natal soil with blood to stain,
Here in his home: but this man's godless sire,
Atreus, with zeal officious more than kind,
Feigning a joyous banquet-day to hold,
Served to my sire, for food, his children's flesh.
Their feet indeed, the members of their hands,—
Seated aloof, in higher place, he hides.
Partaking of the undistinguished parts,
In ignorance, Thyestes eats the food,
Curse-laden, as thou seest, to the race.
Discerning then the impious deed, he shrieked,
And back recoiling the foul slaughter spewed.
Spurning, with righteous curse, th' insulted board
Dread doom he vows to the Pelopidæ ;—
" So perish the whole race of Pleisthenes."
Hence is it that ye see this man laid low;
The righteous planner of his death am I.
For me, the thirteenth child, in swathing clothes,
He with my wretched sire, to exile drove.
But, grown to manhood, Justice led me back,
And I, although aloof, have reached this man,
The threads combining of the fatal plot.
Now for myself 'twere glorious to die,
Seeing this man entrapped in Justice' toils.
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.) — 218 focus
Thus on his neck he took
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Fate's hard compelling yoke;
Then, in the counter-gale of will abhorr'd, accursed,
To recklessness his shifting spirit veered—
Alas! that Frenzy, first of ills and worst,
With evil craft men's souls to sin hath ever stirred!
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And so he steeled his heart—ah well-a-day—
Aiding a war for one false woman's sake,
His child to slay,
And with her spilt blood make
An offering, to speed the ships upon their way!
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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.) — 218 focus
Jetzt, als er aufnahm das Joch des Zwanges,
Und Sinneswandlung im Busen hauchte,
Gottlose, schnöd unheilige,
Ergriff er tollkühn das kecke Wagniß.
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Denn dreist in Unthat verlockt die Menschen
Unsel'ger Wahnsinn, des Fluches Quelle.
So trug er's denn, sein Kind schlachten zu seh'n,
Dem frauenraubrächenden Krieg zum Schuße,
Als Voropfer des Seezugs:
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Vierte Gegenstrophe.

Commentary

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

212. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-135

γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγὰν
γυναικοποίνῳ πολέμῳ ἀρωγὸν
infelici coniectura Turnebus.
212

213. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-136

προτέλεια
προτέλειῳ
G.
προτελείῳ
Ald. Turn. Ceteri recte
προτέλεια
.
213

214. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-137

NA Male strophas distinxerat Canterus. Correctae sunt a me, ab Erfurdtio, a Blomfieldio.
214

215. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-138

παρθένειόν τ'
παρθένιον
M. G. Bess. et edd. Emendate
παρθένειον
Flor. Farn. Copulam
τ'
addendam esse primus vidit Pearsonus.
215

216. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-139

βραβῆς
βραβῆς
M. G. Ald. Rob.
βραβεῖς
Turn. Vict.
βραβῆς
Bess. Flor. Farn.
216

217. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-140

φράσεν δ᾽ ἀόζοις Flor. Turn.
φράσεν δ᾽ ἐν ὄσσοις
Farn. μετ' εὐχάν Post
εὐχὰν
Ald. ut in fine versus puncto distinguit, Turn. commate, quem plerique secuti sunt. Recte eam distinctionem omisere Rob. Vict. Nam
μετ' εὐχὰν
cum
λαβεῖν
coniungendum est.
217

218. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-141

χιμαίρας
χιμαίρας
Flor. Farn. Turn. Vict.
χιμαίρας
M. G. Bess. Ald. Rob. ὕπερθε Flor. Vict. Ceteri recte
ὕπερθε
.
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219. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-142

περιπετῆ
περιπετεῖ
G. Ald. sed in G.
εῖ
a pr. manu in
ῆ
mutatum.
219

220. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-143

λαβεῖν
βαλεῖν
Farn. ἀέρδην
ἀέρδειν
Flor.
220

221. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-144

καλλιπρώρου
καλλιπρώιρου
Μ.
καλλιπρώρου
Bess. Flor. Farn. Rob. Turn. Vict.
καλλιπρώιρον
G.
καλλίπρωρον
Ald. φυλακὰν κατασχεῖν
φυλακ᾽ ἀγκατασχεῖν
Ald. unde
φύλακ᾽ ἀγκατασχεῖν
Turn. Sed G. ut ceteri
φυλακὰν κατασχεῖν
.
221

223. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-145

τ' M. G. Bess. Flor. et edd.
δ'
Farn. ἀναύδῳ
ἀναύδων
Flor.
223

224-225. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-146

κρόκου βαφὰς δ᾽ ἐς πέδον χέουσα ἔβαλλ᾽ ἕκαστον θυτήρων
δ'
omittit Farn.
χέουσα ἔβαλλ'
Μ. Bess. Farn. Rob. Turn.
χέουσα ἔβαν
G. Ald.
χέουσ' ἔβαλ'
Flor. Vict. Deinde
ἕκατον
Bess. Non credam isto hiatu
χέουσα ἔβαλλ'
Aeschylum non abstinuisse. Suspicetur quis forsitan, quoniam post
βαφὰς
in Farn.
δ'
omissum est, scribendum esse
χέουσά δ'
. Sed et parum elegans haec collocatio est et syllabam in fine versus longam requirimus. Scripsisse videtur Aeschylus
κρόκου βαφὰς δ᾽ ἐς πέδον χέουσ', ὧδ᾽ ἔβαλλ᾽ ἕκαστον θυτήρων
. Qui cum Stanleio
κρόκου βαφάς
de sanguine intelligendum censuerunt, non cogitarunt mox dicere chorum
τὰ δ᾽ ἔνθεν οὔτ᾽ εἶδον οὔτ᾽ ἐννέπω
. Nec sanguis nec vittae intelligendae, de quibus Lucretius immolationem Iphigeniae describens I. 88.
cui simul infula virgineos circumdata comtus ex utraque pari malarum parte profusa est
. Qui non abiectas, sed aptatas capiti vittas dicit. Eaeque non croceae, sed albae erant. Aliud est quod Aeschylus narrat. Iusserat Agamemno prehendi Iphigeniam obvolutamque vestibus ne mala imprecaretur ad aram sisti. At illa reiecto croceo velamine, quo ut regia virgo induta erat, sponte vocem comprimit, satis habens adspicere duces, tamquam verba factura.

226. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-147

ἀπ᾽ ὄμματος βέλει
ἀπὸ ὄμματος βέλει
Μ.
βέλει ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων
Farn.
226

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

40-269. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-26

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.

211-212. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-125

προφέρων (hinweisend auf) " Αρτεμιν deutet die Sache nur von ferne an. -

215. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-126

τόδε wie 418. εἶπε φωνῶν nach epischer Weise ( φωνήσας προσηύδα, ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη) wie ἔφη λέγων Soph. Αi. 757, ἔφασκε λέγων Aristoph. Vö. 472.

216. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-127

Vgl. Eur. Iph. A. 1257 δεινῶς δ᾽ ἔχει μοι ταῦτα τολμῆσαι, γύναι, δεινῶς δὲ καὶ μὴ κτἑ.

221. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-128

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Vgl. Cho. 337 τί τῶνδ᾽ εὖ, τί δ᾽ ἄτερ κακῶν; vor

222-223. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-129

Um sein Gewissen zu beruhigen, stellt sich Agamemnon mit der Sophistik der Leidenschaft die unehrenhafte Handlung eines λιπόναυς (desertor classis) Augen. Vor allem aber fürchtet er, seine Bundesgenossen zu verlieren, d. h. den Oberbefehl einzubüfsen. Das letztere wird begründet durch παυσανέμου γὰρ κτέ.
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224. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-130

Vgl. Verg. Aen. II 116 sanguine placastis ventos et virgine caesa.

225-226. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-131

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ὀργᾶν s. v. α. ἐπιτεταμένως ἐπιθυμεῖν (Hesych. Phot. Suid. Et. M.). Der übertreibende Ausdruck ὀργᾶν περιοργώς kommt der Sophistik der Leidenschaft zu. Die Worte στόλον ἀνδρῶν sind dem Sinn entsprechend ergänzt. Vgl. Anhang.
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227. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-132

So möge es denn sein zum Heile. γὰρ wie in εἰ γάρ. Vgl. Eur. Kykl. 261 ἐγώ; κακῶς γὰρ ἐξόλοιο.

228. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-133

ἔδυ, weil λέπαδνον eigentlich der Zuggurt um die Brust der Pferde ist, an welchem das Joch befestigt wird.

229. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-134

τροπαίαν scil. πνοήν, welches sich aus πνέων ergänzt. Vgl. ζεύξω βαρείαις ( ζεύγλαις) 1640. τροπαίαν auch Cho. 771 , Schol. μετατροπήν.
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