Aeschylus Agamemnon 87

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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CLYTEMNESTRA
Haply thou thus to act hast vowed in fear.

Agamemnon. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.

Sponsored by University of Leipzig.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition Experimental

Agamemnon (OCR draft) (English) (Agamemnon. Anna Swanwick, 1886.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)
Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 104-257 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 104-257 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 83 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 83 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμνήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
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τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ' ἀγοραίων,
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ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 83 focus
Σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω -ρεα -ρεου
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος ; τί νέον ; τί δ' ἐπαισθομένη,
τίνος ἀγγελίας
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πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς θυοσκινεῖς ;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων, τῶν τε θυραίων τ' οὐρανίων
τῶν τ' ἀγοραίων,
βωμοὶ δώροισι -ροις φλέγονται·
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ἄλλη δ' ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει, φαρμασσομένη
χρίματος χρήμ- χρίσμ- ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
πελανῶν... βασιλείων -λάνῳ (-λανῶ Μ)... -λείῳ.
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Τούτων λέξασ' ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις αἴνει αἰνεῖν εἰπεῖν, παιών τε γενοῦ
τῆσδε μερίμνης, ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν
κακόφρων τελέθει, τοτὲ δ' ἐκ θυσιῶν
ἃς ἀναφαίνεις ἀγανὰ φαίνεις φαίνει φαίνουσ' ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει
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τὴν θυμοβόρον
λύπης φρενὶ φροντίδ' ἄπληστον φροντίδ' ἄπληστον τὴν θυμοβόρον λύπης φρένα.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 83 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
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τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ᾿ ἀγοραίων,
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βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει,
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
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πελάνῳ μυχόθεν βασιλείῳ.
τούτων λέξασ᾽ ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις αἰνεῖν,
παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης,
ἢ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν κακόφρων τελέθει,
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τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἀγανὰ φαίνεις
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽ ἄπληστον
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 83 focus
σὺ δὲ Τυνδάρεω θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
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τίνος ἀγγελίας πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων, τῶν τε θυραίων τῶν τ᾽ ἀγοραίων
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βωμοὶ δώροισ ι φλέγονται: βωμοὶ δώροισι⟨ν⟩ φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
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πελανῶι μυχόθεν βασιλείωι.
τούτων λέξασ᾽ ὅτι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις, αἴνει παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης,
ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν κακόφρων τελέθει,
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τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἃς ἀναφαίνεις
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽ ἄπληστον
καὶ θυμοβόρον φρενὶ λύπην.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 83 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
85
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων χθονίων,
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τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ᾽ ἀγοραίων,
βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
95
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
πελάνωι μυχόθεν βασιλείωι.
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.) — 104-257 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 83 focus
But thou, daughter of Tyndarus, Queen Clytemnestra, what means this? what new event? what is it that thou hast heard, and on the faith of what tidings art thou burning incense sent around 2
? and the altars of all our city-guarding gods, of those above and those below, gods of heaven and gods of the forum, are blazing with offerings: and in different directions different flames are streaming upward, high as heaven, drugged with the mild unadulterated cordials of pure unguent, with the royal cake, brought from the inmost cells 3
. Concerning these things tell one both what is possible and lawful for thee to say 4
, and become thou the healer of this distracting anxiety, which now one while is full of evil thought, but at another time, because of the sacrifices, hope blandly fawning 1
upon me repels the insatiate care, the rankling sorrow that is preying upon my heart. I am 2
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 83 focus
vigueur qu'un enfant, il erre ainsi qu'un songe apparu en plein jour.

A toi de parler, fille de Tyndare, reine Clytemnestre : qu'y a-t-il ? qu'as-tu donc appris ? sur la foi de quel message tes ordres vont-ils partout provoquer des sacrifices ?

Tous les dieux de la ville, dieux du ciel et des enfers, dieux de la maison et de la place publique 1 , voient leurs autels chargés de tes dons.

Et, de tous côtés, jaillit jusqu'au ciel, au stimulant appel d'une huile sainte dont la douceur n'est pas trompeuse 2 , la flamme des offrandes royales tirées du fond du palais.

De tout cela daigne me dire ce qu'il m'est possible et permis d'apprendre, et guéris mon âme anxieuse, qui
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 83 focus
—But what tidings,
What circumſtances of fair event hath reach’d
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Thy royal ears, daughter of Tyndarus,
Inducing thee to ſend the victims round?
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 83 focus
Che è mai l'uom decrepito? Quando
già secca è la fronda, cammina
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su vie di tre piedi:
né piú saldo che parvolo, vagola
come sogno che appaia nel giorno.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 83 focus
Tu uerò Tyndari
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Filia, regina Clytemnestra
Quid opus sit, quid noui, quidue fentiens, cuius nuncij
Persuasione immittens uaticinaris.
Omniū deorŭ patriorū, excellentißimoru, terrestrium,
Cœlestiumą; ac forenfiu are donis fplendēt.
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Alia aliunde ex lato cœlo lampas oritur,
Infecta unctione caſta,
Delicatis, non fraudulentis confolationibus,
Libo ex feceffu regio: hoc dices quod et fieri potest
Et fas laudare, Peang; fiat huius cure,
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Que nunc mala mente est,
Tunc uerò feruens admodum appares.
Spes arcet inexplebilem curam,
Animiuoram mentem doloris.
Poſsum narrare uifum in uia robur
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Aufpicatum uirorum
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 83 focus
wankt dahin, dreifüßig, schwach und kindisch,
schwankes Traumgebild am hellen Tag.
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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.) — 83 focus
But thou, O child of Tyndareus,
Queen Clytemnestra, speak! and say
What messenger of joy to-day
Hath won thine ear? what welcome news,
That thus in sacrificial wise
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E'en to the city's boundaries
Thou biddest altar-fires arise?
Each god who doth our city guard,
And keeps o'er Argos watch and ward
From heaven above, from earth below—
120
The mighty lords who rule the skies,
The market's lesser deities,
To each and all the altars glow,
Piled for the sacrifice!
And here and there, anear, afar,
125
Streams skyward many a beacon-star,
Conjur'd and charm'd and kindled well
By pure oil's soft and guileless spell,
Hid now no more
Within the palace' secret store.
130
O queen, we pray thee, whatsoe'er,
Known unto thee, were well revealed,
That thou wilt trust it to our ear,
And bid our anxious heart be healed!
That waneth now unto despair—
135
Now, waxing to a presage fair,
Dawns from the altar Hope—to scare
From our rent hearts the vulture Care.
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.) — 83 focus
Auf, Tyndaros' Kind,
O Königin, sprich, Klytämnestra: was ist's?
Was Neues geschah? Was vernahm dein Ohr?
Auf welches Gerücht
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Dich stützend, erregst du die Opfer umher? 1
Denn den Göttern gesammt, den Behütern der Stadt
Und der Tiefen und Höh'n
Und des Markts und Olymps, flammt jeder Altar
Von duftenden Opfergeschenken.
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Und von hier und von dort, zu dem Himmel empor,
Wallt leuchtende Glut,
Balsamisch getränkt mit des heiligen Oels
Süßathmendem, lauterem, labendem Born,
Mit der Spende vom Königeshause.
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So sage mir denn, was du kundthun darfst
Und zu melden vermagst,
Und wehre der Angst und banne die Qual,
Die jetzt das Gemüth uns feindlich befällt;
Doch strahlt auch ein freudiges Hoffen mir auf
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Von den Opfern und stillt das unendliche Leid,
Die verzehrende Trauer im Busen.

Commentary

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

87. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-52

πειθοῖ
πυθοῖ
Flor.
πειθοῖ
Farn. cum reliquis. Quod Blomfieldius scribendum coniecit,
πευθοῖ
, Scaliger primus coniecerat, probabile illud, sed ut non necesse sit
πειθοῖ
mutare. θυοσκεῖς Turn.
θυοσκεῖς
, probatum Aurato, Vossio, Bentleio, Stanleio, Blomfieldio. In Farn. in quo
θυοσκινεῖς
, ut in ceteris libris, scriptum est, adscripta haec glossa est,
θύματα κινεῖς, πέμπεις
. Ibidem scholion
εὕρηται καὶ θυοσκοεῖς, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ θυοσκόος, ὁ διὰ θυσιῶν τὸ μέλλον κοῶν ἤτοι νοῶν. θύος γὰρ τὸ θύμα
. Hesychius
θυοσκεῖν, ἱεροῖς παρέχεσθαι, ἢ θεοῖς
, quod recte emendatur
ἱερὰ παρέχεσθαι τοῖς θεοῖς
. Eustathio assentitur Blomfieldius, p. 1626, 47. et 1905, 22.
θυοσκόος
a
κέω
pro
καίω
derivanti, licet posteriore loco, ut p. 1346, 36. 1601, 3. etiam alteram rationem, qua a
κοεῖν
dici voluerunt, sicut Etym. M. p. 457, 42. et Orion p. 73, 16. 102, 21. afferat. V. etiam schol. ad Il. XXIV. 221. Si recte se habet
θυοσκεῖν
, eadem haec analogia est quae in
βοηθεῖν, βοηθόος
. Sed si
θυοσκόος
non est a
θυοσκοέω
factum (ignorare autem videntur hoc verbum grammatici, qui
κοεῖν
pro fonte ponant), verbum esse debebit
θυοσκοεῖν
, ut recte scriptum sit in scholio codicis Farn.
θυοσκοεῖς
. Quis autem contendat non Hesychium quoque
θυοσκοεῖν
potius quam
θυοσκεῖν
scripsisse? Quamquam non probo Boissonadum, qui exhibuit quod Lobeckio ad Phryn. p. 523. in Aeschyli versu placebat,
θυοσκοεῖ
. Id saltem
θυοσκοιεῖς
scribendum erat. Pro
θυοσκόος
etiam
θνησκόος
ab Hesychio adnotatum est, quae nominis forma restituenda est Eustathio p. 1601, 3. Accedunt ad haec alia huius verbi vestigia apud Hesychium:
κοίης, ἱερεὺς Καβείρων ὁ καθαίρων φονέα· οἳ δέ, κόης
. Item
κοιᾶται, ἱερᾶται
, et
κοιώσατο, ἀφιερώσατο, καθιερώσατο
. Quae quum ita sint, non ausus ego quidem sum tam dubia fide nisum
θυοσκεῖς
admittere, sed servandum duxi quod libri habent
θυοσκινεῖς
, etsi ne hoc quidem verbum aliunde innotuit. Videtur sic etiam Porsonus sensisse, qui nullam suspicionis notam apposuerit.
Θυοσκεῖς
si scripsit Aeschylus, decem habemus systemata, caditque Lindneri observatio, quam suam fecit 0. Müllerus, ternario numero procedere anapaestorum systemata. De eo invento dixi in Opusc. VI. p. 142.
87

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.

87. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-59

πειθοὶ, vgl. 284, 286, 481 ff. Ζυ θυοσκεῖν (sacra facere) vgl. Hesych. θυοσκεῖν· ἱεροῖς παρέχεσθαι ἢ θεοῖς, entstanden aus einem Schol. zu Soph. Οed. Τ. 896 τί δεῖ με θυοσκεῖν· ἱερὰ παρέχεσθαι ἢ θεοῖς χορεύειν ( Ν. Rhein. Mus. 36 S. 139). Das Wort verhält sich zu θυοσκόος (von κέω, καίω) wie βοηθείν τα βοηθόος.