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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.

Agamemnon. Aeschylus. ed. N. Wecklein. Berolini. 1885.

Current edition Experimental

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) (Greek) (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)

Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1448-1576 focus

str. 1

Χορός

φεῦ, τίς ἂν ἐν τάχει, μὴ περιώδυνος,

μηδὲ δεμνιοτήρης,

μόλοι τὸν ἀεὶ φέρουσ᾽ ἐν ἡμῖν
1450

Μοῖρ᾽ ἀτέλευτον ὕπνον, δαμέντος

φύλακος εὐμενεστάτου

πολέα¹ τλάντος γυναικὸς διαί;

πρὸς γυναικὸς δ᾽ ἀπέφθισεν βίον.

1455

Χορός

ἰὼ ἰὼ² παράνους³ Ἑλένα
1455

μία τὰς πολλάς, τὰς πάνυ πολλὰς

ψυχὰς ὀλέσασ᾽ ὑπὸ Τροίᾳ.

†νῦν δὲ τελείαν..⁴⁵

πολύμναστον ἐπηνθίσω δι᾽⁶ αἷμ᾽ ἄνιπτον,

ἥτις⁷ ἦν τότ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
1460

ἔρις ἐρίδματος ἀνδρὸς οἰζύσ†.

1462

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μηδὲν θανάτου μοῖραν ἐπεύχου

τοῖσδε βαρυνθείς:

μηδ᾽ εἰς Ἑλένην κότον ἐκτρέψῃς,

ὡς ἀνδρολέτειρ᾽, ὡς μία πολλῶν
1465

ἀνδρῶν ψυχὰς Δαναῶν ὀλέσασ᾽

ἀξύστατον ἄλγος ἔπραξε.

ant. 1

1468

Χορός

δαῖμον, ὃς ἐμπίτνεις⁸ δώμασι καὶ

διφυίοισι⁹ Τανταλίδαισιν,¹⁰

κράτος <τ᾽>¹¹ ἰσόψυχον ἐκ γυναικῶν
1470

καρδιόδηκτον¹² ἐμοὶ κρατύνεις.

ἐπὶ δὲ σώματος δίκαν [μοι]¹³

κόρακος ἐχθροῦ σταθεῖσ᾽¹⁴ ἐκνόμως¹⁵

ὕμνον ὑμνεῖν ἐπεύχεται...¹⁶¹⁷<˘¯>

1475
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νῦν δ᾽ ὤρθωσας στόματος γνώμην,
1475

τὸν τριπάχυντον¹⁸

δαίμονα γέννης τῆσδε κικλήσκων.

ἐκ τοῦ γὰρ ἔρως αἱματολοιχὸς

νείρῃ¹⁹ τρέφεται, πρὶν καταλῆξαι

τὸ παλαιὸν ἄχος, νέος ἰχώρ.
1480

str. 2

1481

Χορός

ἦ μέγαν οἰκονόμον²⁰

δαίμονα καὶ βαρύμηνιν αἰνεῖς,

φεῦ φεῦ, κακὸν αἶνον ἀτη-

ρᾶς τύχας ἀκορέστου:

ἰὴ ἰὴ διαὶ Διὸς
1485

παναιτίου πανεργέτα:²¹

τί γὰρ βροτοῖς ἄνευ Διὸς τελεῖται;

τί τῶνδ᾽ οὐ θεόκραντόν ἐστιν;

1489

Χορός

ἰὼ ἰὼ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ,

πῶς σε δακρύσω;
1490

φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας τί ποτ᾽ εἴπω;

κεῖσαι δ᾽ ἀράχνης ἐν ὑφάσματι τῷδ᾽

ἀσεβεῖ θανάτῳ βίον ἐκπνέων.

ὤμοι μοι κοίταν τάνδ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον

δολίῳ μόρῳ δαμεὶς <δάμαρτοσ>²²
1495

ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμῳ βελέμνῳ.

1497

Κλυταιμήστρα

αὐχεῖς εἶναι τόδε τοὔργον ἐμόν:

μηδ᾽ ἐπιλεχθῇς²³

Ἀγαμεμνονίαν εἶναί μ᾽ ἄλοχον.

φανταζόμενος δὲ γυναικὶ νεκροῦ
1500

τοῦδ᾽ ὁ παλαιὸς δριμὺς ἀλάστωρ

Ἀτρέως χαλεποῦ θοινατῆρος

τόνδ᾽ ἀπέτισεν,

τέλεον νεαροῖς ἐπιθύσας.

ant. 2

1505

Χορός

ὡς μὲν ἀναίτιος εἶ
1505

τοῦδε φόνου τίς ὁ μαρτυρήσων;

πῶ πῶ; πατρόθεν δὲ συλλή-

πτωρ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν ἀλάστωρ.

βιάζεται δ᾽ ὁμοσπόροις

ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων
1510

μέλας Ἄρης, ὅποι δίκαν²⁴ προβαίνων²⁵

πάχνᾳ κουροβόρῳ παρέξει.

1513

Χορός

ἰὼ ἰὼ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ,

πῶς σε δακρύσω;

φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας τί ποτ᾽ εἴπω;
1515

κεῖσαι δ᾽ ἀράχνης ἐν ὑφάσματι τῷδ᾽

ἀσεβεῖ θανάτῳ βίον ἐκπνέων.

ὤμοι μοι κοίταν τάνδ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον

δολίῳ μόρῳ δαμεὶς <δάμαρτοσ>

ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμῳ βελέμνῳ.
1520

1521
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[οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον

τῷδε γενέσθαι.]²⁶

οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην

οἴκοισιν ἔθηκ᾽;

ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδ᾽ ἔρνος ἀερθέν,
1525

τὴν πολυκλαύτην²⁷ Ἰφιγενείαν,

ἄξια²⁸ δράσας ἄξια πάσχων

μηδὲν ἐν Ἅιδου μεγαλαυχείτω,

ξιφοδηλήτῳ,
θανάτῳ τίσας ἅπερ ἦρξεν.²⁹

1531

str. 3

Χορός

ἀμηχανῶ φροντίδος στερηθεὶς
1530

εὐπάλαμον μέριμναν

ὅπα τράπωμαι, πίτνοντος οἴκου.

δέδοικα δ᾽ ὄμβρου κτύπον δομοσφαλῆ

τὸν αἱματηρόν: ψακὰς δὲ λήγει.

δίκην³⁰ δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλο πρᾶγμα θηγάνει³¹ βλάβης
1535

πρὸς ἄλλαις θηγάναισι Μοῖρα.

1537

Χορός

ἰὼ γᾶ γᾶ, εἴθ᾽ ἔμ᾽ ἐδέξω,

πρὶν τόνδ᾽ ἐπιδεῖν ἀργυροτοίχου

δροίτας κατέχοντα χαμεύνην.
1540

τίς ὁ θάψων νιν; τίς ὁ θρηνήσων;

ἦ σὺ τόδ᾽ ἔρξαι τλήσει, κτείνασ᾽

ἄνδρα τὸν αὑτῆς ἀποκωκῦσαι,

ψυχῇ τ᾽³² ἄχαριν χάριν ἀντ᾽ ἔργων
1545

μεγάλων ἀδίκως ἐπικρᾶναι;

τίς δ᾽ ἐπιτύμβιον αἶνον³³ ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ θείῳ

σὺν δακρύοις ἰάπτων

ἀλαθείᾳ φρενῶν πονήσει;
1550
1551

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οὐ σὲ προσήκει τὸ μέλημ᾽ ἀλέγειν³⁴³⁵

τοῦτο: πρὸς ἡμῶν

κάππεσε, κάτθανε, καὶ καταθάψομεν

οὐχ ὑπὸ κλαυθμῶν τῶν ἐξ οἴκων,..

ἀλλ᾽ Ἰφιγένειά νιν³⁶ ἀσπασίως
1555

θυγάτηρ, ὡς χρή,

πατέρ᾽ ἀντιάσασα πρὸς ὠκύπορον

πόρθμευμ᾽ ἀχέων

περὶ χεῖρε³⁷ βαλοῦσα φιλήσει.

1560

ant. 3

Χορός

ὄνειδος ἥκει τόδ᾽ ἀντ᾽ ὀνείδους.
1560

δύσμαχα δ᾽ ἔστι κρῖναι.

φέρει φέροντ᾽, ἐκτίνει δ᾽ ὁ καίνων.

μίμνει δὲ μίμνοντος ἐν θρόνῳ³⁸ Διὸς

παθεῖν τὸν ἔρξαντα: θέσμιον γάρ.

τίς ἂν γονὰν ἀραῖον³⁹ ἐκβάλοι δόμων;
1565

κεκόλληται γένος πρὸς ἄτᾳ.⁴⁰⁴¹

1567

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ἐς τόνδ᾽ ἐνέβη ξὺν ἀληθείᾳ

χρησμός.⁴² ἐγὼ δ᾽ οὖν

ἐθέλω δαίμονι τῷ Πλεισθενιδῶν

ὅρκους θεμένη τάδε μὲν στέργειν,
1570

δύστλητά περ ὄνθ᾽: ὃ δὲ λοιπόν, ἰόντ᾽

ἐκ τῶνδε δόμων ἄλλην γενεὰν

τρίβειν θανάτοις αὐθένταισι:

κτεάνων τε μέρος

βαιὸν ἐχούσῃ πᾶν ἀπόχρη μοι⁴³
μανίας μελάθρων
1575

ἀλληλοφόνους⁴⁴ ἀφελούσῃ.

1577

Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 1448-1576 focus

Χορός

φεῦ, τίς ἂν ἐν τάχει, μὴ περιώδυνος,

μηδὲ δεμνιοτήρης,

μόλοι τὸν αἰεὶ φέρουσʼ ἐν ἡμῖν
1450

Μοῖρʼ ἀτέλευτον ὕπνον, δαμέντος

φύλακος εὐμενεστάτου καὶ

πολλὰ τλάντος γυναικὸς διαί·

πρὸς γυναικὸς δʼ ἀπέφθισεν βίον.

1455

Χορός

ἰὼ ἰὼ παράνους Ἑλένα
1455

μία τὰς πολλάς, τάς πάνυ πολλὰς

ψυχὰς ὀλέσασʼ ὑπὸ Τροίᾳ.

νῦν δὲ τελέαν πολύμναστον ἐπηνθίσω

διʼ αἷμʼ ἄνιπτον. ἦ τις ἦν τότʼ ἐν δόμοις
1460

ἔρις ἐρίδματος ἀνδρὸς οἰζύς.

1462

Κλυταιμήστρα

μηδὲν θανάτου μοῖραν ἐπεύχου

τοῖσδε βαρυνθείς·

μηδʼ εἰς Ἑλένην κότον ἐκτρέψῃς,

ὡς ἀνδρολέτειρʼ, ὡς μία πολλῶν
1465

ἀνδρῶν ψυχὰς Δαναῶν ὀλέσασʼ

ἀξύστατον ἄλγος ἔπραξεν.

1468

Χορός

δαῖμον, ὃς ἐμπίτνεις δώμασι καὶ διφυί-

οισι Τανταλίδαισιν,

κράτος τʼ ἰσόψυχον ἐκ γυναικῶν
1470

καρδιόδηκτον ἐμοὶ κρατύνεις.

ἐπὶ δὲ σώματος δίκαν μοι

κόρακος ἐχθροῦ σταθεῖσʼ ἐκνόμως

ὕμνον ὑμνεῖν ἐπεύχεται ˘¯

1475

Κλυταιμήστρα

νῦν δʼ ὤρθωσας στόματος γνώμην,
1475

τὸν τριπάχυντον

δαίμονα γέννης τῆσδε κικλήσκων.

ἐκ τοῦ γὰρ ἔρως αἱματολοιχὸς

νείρᾳ τρέφεται, πρὶν καταλῆξαι

τὸ παλαιὸν ἄχος, νέος ἰχώρ.
1480

1481

Χορός

ἦ μέγαν οἰκονόμον

δαίμονα καὶ βαρύμηνιν αἰνεῖς,

φεῦ φεῦ, κακὸν αἶνον ἀτη-

ρᾶς τύχας ἀκορέστου·

ἰὴ ἰή, διαὶ Διὸς
1485

παναιτίου πανεργέτα·

τί γὰρ βροτοῖς ἄνευ Διὸς τελεῖται;

τί τῶνδʼ οὐ θεόκραντόν ἐστιν;

1489

Χορός

ἰὼ ἰὼ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ,

πῶς σε δακρύσω;
1490

φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας τί ποτʼ εἴπω;

κεῖσαι δʼ ἀράχνης ἐν ὑφάσματι τῷδʼ

ἀσεβεῖ θανάτῳ βίον ἐκπνέων.

ὤμοι μοι κοίταν τάνδʼ ἀνελεύθερον

δολίῳ μόρῳ δαμεὶς δάμαρτος
1495

ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμῳ βελέμνῳ.

1497

Κλυταιμήστρα

αὐχεῖς εἶναι τόδε τοὔργον ἐμόν;

μηδʼ ἐπιλεχθῇς

Ἀγαμεμνονίαν εἶναί μʼ ἄλοχον.

φανταζόμενος δὲ γυναικὶ νεκροῦ
1500

τοῦδʼ ὁ παλαιὸς δριμὺς ἀλάστωρ

Ἀτρέως χαλεποῦ θοινατῆρος

τόνδʼ ἀπέτεισεν,

τέλεον νεαροῖς ἐπιθύσας.

1505

Χορός

ὡς μὲν ἀναίτιος εἶ
1505

τοῦδε φόνου τίς ὁ μαρτυρήσων;

πῶς πῶς; πατρόθεν δὲ συλλή-

πτωρ γένοιτʼ ἂν ἀλάστωρ.

βιάζεται δʼ ὁμοσπόροις

ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων
1510

μέλας Ἄρης, ὅποι δίκαν προβαίνων

πάχνᾳ κουροβόρῳ παρέξει.

1513

Χορός

ἰὼ ἰὼ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ,

πῶς σε δακρύσω;

φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας τί ποτʼ εἴπω;
1515

κεῖσαι δʼ ἀράχνης ἐν ὑφάσματι τῷδʼ

ἀσεβεῖ θανάτῳ βίον ἐκπνέων.

ὤμοι μοι κοίταν τάνδʼ ἀνελεύθερον

δολίῳ μόρῳ δαμεὶς

ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμῳ βελέμνῳ.
1520

1521

Κλυταιμήστρα

οὔτʼ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον

τῷδε γενέσθαι.

οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην

οἴκοισιν ἔθηκʼ;

ἀλλʼ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδʼ ἔρνος ἀερθέν.
1525

τὴν πολυκλαύτην Ἰφιγενείαν,

ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων

μηδὲν ἐν Ἅιδου μεγαλαυχείτω,

ξιφοδηλήτῳ,

θανάτῳ τείσας ἅπερ ἦρξεν.

1530

Χορός

ἀμηχανῶ φροντίδος στερηθεὶς
1530

εὐπάλαμον μέριμναν

ὅπα τράπωμαι, πίτνοντος οἴκου.

δέδοικα δʼ ὄμβρου κτύπον δομοσφαλῆ

τὸν αἱματηρόν· ψακὰς δὲ λήγει.

δίκην δʼ ἐπʼ ἄλλο πρᾶγμα θηγάνει βλάβης
1535

πρὸς ἄλλαις θηγάναισι μοῖρα.

1537

Χορός

ἰὼ γᾶ γᾶ, εἴθʼ ἔμʼ ἐδέξω,

πρὶν τόνδʼ ἐπιδεῖν ἀργυροτοίχου

δροίτης κατέχοντα χάμευναν.
1540

τίς ὁ θάψων νιν; τίς ὁ θρηνήσων;

ἦ σὺ τόδʼ ἔρξαι τλήσῃ, κτείνασʼ

ἄνδρα τὸν αὑτῆς ἀποκωκῦσαι

ψυχῇ τʼ ἄχαριν χάριν ἀντʼ ἔργων
1545

μεγάλων ἀδίκως ἐπικρᾶναι;

τίς δʼ ἐπιτύμβιον αἶνον ἐπʼ ἀνδρὶ θείῳ

σὺν δακρύοις ἰάπτων

ἀληθείᾳ φρενῶν πονήσει;
1550

1551

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οὐ σὲ προσήκει τὸ μέλημʼ ἀλέγειν

τοῦτο· πρὸς ἡμῶν

κάππεσε, κάτθανε, καὶ καταθάψομεν,

οὐχ ὑπὸ κλαυθμῶν τῶν ἐξ οἴκων,

ἀλλʼ Ἰφιγένειά νιν ἀσπασίως
1555

θυγάτηρ, ὡς χρή,

πατέρʼ ἀντιάσασα πρὸς ὠκύπορον

πόρθμευμʼ ἀχέων

περὶ χεῖρε βαλοῦσα φιλήσει.

1560

Χορός

ὄνειδος ἥκει τόδʼ ἀντʼ ὀνείδους.
1560

δύσμαχα δʼ ἔστι κρῖναι.

φέρει φέροντʼ, ἐκτίνει δʼ ὁ καίνων.

μίμνει δὲ μίμνοντος ἐν θρόνῳ Διὸς

παθεῖν τὸν ἔρξαντα· θέσμιον γάρ.

τίς ἂν γονὰν ἀραῖον ἐκβάλοι δόμων;
1565

κεκόλληται γένος πρὸς ἄτᾳ.

1567

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ἐς τόνδʼ ἐνέβης ξὺν ἀληθείᾳ

χρησμόν. ἐγὼ δʼ οὖν

ἐθέλω δαίμονι τῷ Πλεισθενιδῶν

ὅρκους θεμένη τάδε μὲν στέργειν,
1570

δύστλητά περ ὄνθʼ· ὃ δὲ λοιπόν, ἰόντʼ

ἐκ τῶνδε δόμων ἄλλην γενεὰν

τρίβειν θανάτοις αὐθένταισι.

κτεάνων τε μέρος

βαιὸν ἐχούσῃ πᾶν ἀπόχρη μοι

μανίας μελάθρων

ἀλληλοφόνους ἀφελούσῃ.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1505 focus

ΧΟ.

ὡς μὲν ἀναίτιος εἶ
1505

τοῦδε φόνου τίς ὁ μαρτυρήσων;

πῶς πῶς; πατρόθεν δὲ συλλήπτωρ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν

ἀλάστωρ.

βιάζεται δ᾽ ὁμοσπόροις ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων
1510

μέλας Ἄρης· ὅποι δὲ καὶ προβαίνων

πάχνᾳ κουροβόρῳ παρέξει.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1505 focus

Ζυγὸς Γ
ἀντ. ε'.

ὡς μὲν ἀναίτιος εἶ

τοῦδε φόνου, τίς ὁ μαρτυρήσων;

πῶ, πῶ; πατρόθεν δὲ συλλή-
1475

πτωρ γένοιτ' ἂν ἀλάστωρ.

βιάζεται δ᾽ ὁμοσπόροις

ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων

μέλας Ἄρης· ὅποι δὲ καὶ προβαίνων

πάχνᾳ κουροβόρῳ παρέξει.
1480

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1505 focus

ΧΟΡΟΣ

Ὡς μὲν ἀναίτιος εἶ <σύ> om.

Ant. 3.

τοῦδε φόνου τίς ὁ μαρτυρήσων ;
1505

πῶς πῶς πῶ πῶ ; Πατρόθεν δὲ πατρόθεν συλλή-

πτωρ γένοιτ' ἂν ἀλάστωρ·

βιάζεται δ' ὁμοσπόροις

ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων

μέλας Ἄρης ὅποι δίκαν δὲ καὶ προβαίνων προσβ-
1510

πάχνᾳ -να κουροβόρῳ παρέξει.

¹

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.

ΧΟΡΟΣ

ephymn. 2

Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1505 focus

ΧΟ.

ὡς μὲν ἀναίτιος εἶ

τοῦδε φόνου, τίς ὁ μαρτυρήσων;

πῶς, πῶς; πατρόθεν δὲ συλλή-

πτωρ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν ἀλάστωρ.
1510

βιάζεται δ᾽ ὁμοσπόροις ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων

μέλας Ἄρης· ὅποι δὲ καὶ προβαίνοι,

πάχναν κουροβόρον παρέξει.

ἰὼ ἰὼ βασιλεῦ βασιλεῦ,

πῶς σε δακρύσω;
1515

φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας τί ποτ᾽ εἴπω;

κεῖσαι δ᾽ ἀράχνης ἐν ὑφάσματι τῶιδ᾽

ἀσεβεῖ θανάτωι βίον ἐκπνέων.

ὤμοι μοι

κοίταν τάνδ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον,
1520

δολίωι μόρωι δαμεὶς (δάμαρτος)

ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμωι βελέμνωι. =

ΚΛ.

οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον

τῶιδε γενέσθαι,

οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην
1525

Apparatus Criticus

(δάμαρτος) suppl. Enger τόδε τοὔργον ἐμόν τοὔργον ἐμὸn τόδε νεαροῖς νεκροῖς πῶς, πῶς πῶ πῶ δὲ δé om προβαίνοι προσβαίνων προβαίνων correxi πάχναν κουροβόρον πάχνα κουροβόρωι τί ποτ᾽ εἴπω ποτ᾿ ἂρ᾽ εἴπω ἐκπνέων ἐκπνείων ἀνελεύθερον ἀνελεύθερα (δάμαρτος) suppl. Enger

ΚΛ.

οἴκοισιν ἔθηκ᾽. ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδ᾽

ἔρνος ἀερθέν, τὴν πολύκλαυτον

(παῖδ᾽) Ιφιγένειαν (ἔθυσε πατήρ).

ἄξια δράσας, ἄξια πάσχων

μηδὲν ἐν ῞Αιδου μεγαλαυχείτω,
1530

ξιφοδηλήτωι

θανάτωι τείσας ἅπερ ἦρξεν.

ΧΟ.

ἀμηχανῶ φροντίδος στερηθείς

εὐπαλάμων μεριμνᾶν,

ὅπαι τράπωμαι, πίτνοντος οἴκου.
1535

δέδοικα δ᾽ ὄμβρου κτύπον δομοσφαλῆ

τὸν αἱματηρόν· ψακὰς δὲ δηλοῖ.

δίκην δ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ἄλλο πρᾶγμα θηγάνει βλάβης

πρὸς ἄλλαις θηγάναισι μοῖρα.

ἰὼ γᾶ γᾶ,
1540

εἴθ᾽ ἔμ᾽ ἐδέξω πρὶν τόνδ᾽ ἐπιδεῖν

ἀργυροτοίχου

δροίτης κατέχοντα χάμευναν.

τίς ὁ θάψων νιν; τίς ὁ θρηνήσων;

ἢ σὺ τόδ᾽ ἔρξαι τλήσηι, κτείνασ᾽
1545

ἄνδρα τὸν αὑτῆς ἀποκωκῦσαι

ψυχῆι τ᾽ ἄχαριν χάριν ἀντ᾽ ἔργων

μεγάλων ἀδίκως ἐπικρᾶναι;

τίς δ᾽ ἐπιτύμβιον αἶνον ἐπ᾿ ἀνδρὶ θείωι

σὺν δακρύοις ἰάπτων
1550

ἀληθείαι φρενῶν πονήσει; -

Testim.:

1535 Hesych. θηγάνει· ὀξύνει.

Apparatus Criticus

(παῖδ᾽) παῖδ᾽ (ἔθυσε πατήρ) supplevi ἄξια δράσας ἀνάξια δρ. φροντίδος φροντίδων εὐπαλάμων μεριμνᾶν εὐπάλαμνον μέριμναν ψακὰς δὲ δηλοῖ ψεκάς λήγει δίκην δίκα δίκη θηγάνει θήγει θηγάναισι θηγάναις δροίτης κατέχοντα δροίτας νῦn κατ. χάμευναν χαμεύνην ψυχῆι τ᾽ ἄχαριν ψυχὴν ἄ. ἐπιτύμβιον αἶνον ἐπιτύμβιος αἶνος

ΚΛ.

οὐ σὲ προσήκει τὸ μέλημ᾽ ἀλέγειν

τοῦτο· πρὸς ἡμῶν

κάππεσε κάτθανε, καὶ καταθάψομεν,

οὐχ ὑπὸ κλαυθμῶν τῶν ἐξ οἴκων,
1555

ἀλλ᾽ Ιφιγένειά νιν ἀσπασίως

θυγάτηρ, ὡς χρή,

πατέρ᾽ ἀντιάσασα πρὸς ὠκύπορον

πόρθμευμ᾽ ἀχέων

περὶ χεῖρε βαλοῦσα φιλήσει.
1560

ΧΟ.

ὄνειδος ἥκει τόδ᾽ ἀντ᾽ ὀνείδους.

δύσμαχα δ᾽ ἐστὶ κρῖναι.

φέρει φέροντ᾽, ἐκτίνει δ᾽ ὁ καίνων.

μένει δὲ μίμνοντος ἐν θρόνωι Διὸς

παθεῖν τὸν ἔρξαντα· θέσμιον γάρ.
1565

τίς ἂν γονὰν ἀραῖον ἐκβάλοι δόμων;

κεκόλληται γένος πρὸς ἄται.

ΚΛ.

ἐς τόνδ᾽ ἐνέβης σὺν ἀληθείαι

χρησμόν. ἐγὼ δ᾽ οὖν

ἐθέλω, δαίμονι τῶι Πλεισθενιδῶν
1570

ὅρκους θεμένη τάδε μὲν στέργειν

δύστλητά περ ὄνθ᾽, ὁ δὲ λοιπόν, ἰόντ᾽

Apparatus Criticus

οὐ σὲ οὔτε πρ. κάππεσε κάπεσε Ιφιγένειά νιν Ιφιγένειαν ἵν' χεῖρε χεῖρα φιλήσει φιλήση μίμνοντος μίμνει ἐν θρόνωι χρόνωι γονὰn ἀραῖον ῥᾶον κεκόλληται προσάψαι ἐνέβης ἐνέβη ἐθέλω ἐθέλω sc. θάψαι καὶ θρηνῆσαι πλεισθενιδᾶν θεμένη θεμένα δύστλητά δύσπλητα

ΧΟ.

δι᾽ αἷμ᾽ ἄνιπτον. ἢ τις ἦν τότ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
1480

Ἔρις, ἐρίδματος ἀνδρὸς οἰζύς.) =

ΚΛ.

νῦν δ᾽ ὤρθωσας στόματος γνώμην,
1475

τὸν τριπάχυντον

δαίμονα γέννης τῆσδε κικλήσκων.

ἐκ τοῦ γὰρ ἔρως αἱματολοιχὸς

νείραι τρέφεται, πρὶν καταλήξαι

τὸ παλαιὸν ἄχος, νέος ἰχώρ.
1480

ΧΟ.

ἢ μέγαν οἰκοσινῆ

δαίμονα καὶ βαρύμηνιν αἰνεῖς,

φεῦ φεῦ, κακὸν αἶνον, ἀτη-

ρᾶς τύχας ἀκόρεστον,

ἰὼ ἰή,
1485

διαὶ Διὸς παναιτίου πανεργέτα.

τί γὰρ βροτοῖς

ἄνευ Διὸς τελεῖται;

τί τῶνδ᾽ οὐ θεόκραντόν ἐστιν;

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

Apparatus Criticus

τριπάχυντον τριπάχυιον γέννης γέννας γεννήσας νείραι νείρει οἰκοσινῆ οἴκοις τοῖσδε ἀκόρεστον ἀκορέστου πανεργέτα πανεργέταν ἰὼ ἰὼ ἰὼ semel τί ποτ᾽ εἴπω ποτ᾿ ἂρ᾽ εἴπω ἐκπνέων ἐκπνείων ἀνελεύθερον ἀνελεύθερα

ΧΟ.

δολίωι μόρωι δαμεὶς (δάμαρτος)

ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμωι βελέμνωι. –

ΚΛ.

αὐχεῖς εἶναι τόδε τοὔργον ἐμόν·

†μηδ᾽ ἐπιλεχθῆις
1500

᾿Αγαμεμνονίαν εἶναί μ᾿ ἄλοχον.

φανταζόμενος δὲ γυναικὶ νεκροῦ

τοῦδ᾽ ὁ παλαιὸς δριμὺς ἀλάστωρ

Ατρέως χαλεποῦ θοινατῆρος

τόνδ᾽ ἀπέτεισεν
1505

τέλεον νεαροῖς ἐπιθύσας.

ΧΟ.

ὡς μὲν ἀναίτιος εἶ

τοῦδε φόνου, τίς ὁ μαρτυρήσων;

πῶς, πῶς; πατρόθεν δὲ συλλή-

πτωρ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν ἀλάστωρ.
1510

βιάζεται δ᾽ ὁμοσπόροις ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων

μέλας Ἄρης· ὅποι δὲ καὶ προβαίνοι,

πάχναν κουροβόρον παρέξει.

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.) — 1448-1576 focus

CHOROS.

Alas, that some

Fate would come

Upon us in quickness —

Neither much sickness

Neither bed-keeping —
1450

And bear unended sleeping,

Now that subdued

Is our keeper, the kindest of mood!

Having borne, for a woman’s sake, much strife —

By a woman he withered from life!

1455

Ah me!
1455

Law-breaking Helena who, one,

Hast many, so many souls undone

’Neath Troia! and now the consummated

Much-memorable curse

Hast thou made flower-forth, red

With the blood no rains disperse,
1460

That which was then in the House —

Strife all-subduing, the woe of a spouse.

1462

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Nowise, of death the fate —

Burdened by these things — supplicate!

Nor on Helena turn thy wrath

As the man-destroyer, as she who hath,
1465

Being but one,

Many and many a soul undone

Of the men, the Danaoi —

And wrought immense annoy!

1468

CHOROS.

Daimon, who fallest

Upon this household and the double-raced

Tantalidai, a rule, minded like theirs displaced,

Thou rulest me with, now,
1470

Whose heart thou gallest!

And on the body, like a hateful crow,

Stationed, all out of tune, his chant to chant

Doth Something vaunt!

1475

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Now, of a truth, hast thou set upright
1475

Thy mouth’s opinion, —

Naming the Sprite,

The triply gross,

O’er the race that has dominion:

For through him it is that Eros

The carnage-licker

In the belly is bred: ere ended quite

Is the elder throe — new ichor!
1480

1481

CHOROS.

Certainly, great of might

And heavy of wrath, the Sprite

Thou tellest of, in the palace

(Woe, woe!)

— An evil tale of a fate
1485

By Até’s malice

Rendered insatiate!

1489

Oh, oh, —

King, king, how shall I beweep thee?
1490

From friendly soul whatever say?

Thou liest where webs of the spider o’ersweep thee

In impious death, life breathing away.

O me — me!

This couch, not free.

By a slavish death subdued thou art,
1495

From the hand, by the two-edged dart.

1497

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Thou boastest this deed to be mine:

But leave off styling me

The Agamemnonian wife!

For, showing himself in sign
1500

Of the spouse of the corpse thou dost see,

Did the ancient bitter avenging-ghost

Of Atreus, savage host,

Pay the man here as price —

A full-grown for the young one’s sacrifice.

1505

CHOROS.

That no cause, indeed, of this killing art thou,
1505

Who shall be witness-bearer?

How shall he bear it — how?

But the sire’s avenging-ghost might be in the deed a sharer.

He is forced on and on

By the kin-born flowing of blood,
1510

— Black Ares: to where, having gone,

He shall leave off, flowing done,

At the frozen-child’s-flesh food.

1513

King, king, how shall I beweep thee?

From friendly soul whatever say?

Thou liest where webs of the spider o’ersweep thee
1515

In impious death, life breathing away.

O me — me!

This couch, not free!

By a slavish death subdued thou art,

From the hand, by the two-edged dart.
1520

1521

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

No death unfit for the free

Do I think this man’s to be:

For did not himself a slavish curse

To his household decree?

But the scion of him, myself did nurse —
1525

That much-bewailed Iphigeneia, he

Having done well by, — and as well, nor worse,

Been done to, — let him not in Haides loudly

Bear himself proudly!

Being by sword-destroying death amerced

For that sword’s punishment himself inflicted first.

1530

CHOROS.

I at a loss am left —
1530

Of a feasible scheme of mind bereft —

Where I may turn: for the house is falling:

I fear the bloody crash of the rain

That ruins the roof as it bursts amain:

The warning-drop

Has come to a stop.

Destiny doth Justice whet
1535

For other deed of hurt, on other whetstones yet.

1537

Woe, earth, earth — would thou hadst taken me

Ere I saw the man I see,

On the pallet-bed

Of the silver-sided bath-vase, dead!
1540

Who is it shall bury him, who

Sing his dirge? Can it be true

That thou wilt dare this same to do —

Having slain thy husband, thine own,

To make his funeral moan:

And for the soul of him, in place
1545

Of his mighty deeds, a graceless grace

To wickedly institute? By whom

Shall the tale of praise o’er the tomb

At the god-like man be sent —

From the truth of his mind as he toils intent?
1550

1551

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

It belongs not to thee to declare

This object of care!

By us did he fall — down there!

Did he die — down there! and down, no less,

We will bury him there, and not beneath

The wails of the household over his death:

But Iphigeneia, — with kindliness, —
1555

His daughter, — as the case requires,

Facing him full, at the rapid-flowing

Passage of Groans shall — both hands throwing

Around him — kiss that kindest of sires!

1560

CHOROS.

This blame comes in the place of blame:
1560

Hard battle it is to judge each claim.

He is borne away who bears away:

And the killer has all to pay.

And this remains while Zeus is remaining,

The doer shall suffer in time — for, such his ordaining.

Who may cast out of the House its cursed brood?
1565

The race is to Até glued!

1567

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Thou hast gone into this oracle

With a true result. For me, then, — I will

— To the Daimon of the Pleisthenidai

Making an oath — with all these things comply
1570

Hard as they are to bear. For the rest —

Going from out this House, a guest,

May he wear some other family

To nought, with the deaths of kin by kin!

And, — keeping a little part of my goods, —

Wholly am I contented in

Having expelled from the royal House

These frenzied moods
1575

The mutually-murderous.

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 .

CHORUS

AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1505 focus

immolant un guerrier pour venger des enfants.

Même mouvement.

LE CHŒUR

Toi, innocente de ce meurtre ! qui trouveras-tu pour en témoigner ? Et comment ? comment ? Mais le Génie vengeur de cette race peut bien être ton complice. Si,
brutal, le noir Arès fait couler à flots le sang familial,

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?

CLYTEMNESTRA.

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

COREUTA

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:

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.

1513. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-869

ἐπιτύμβιον αἰῶ Inutilem Stanleii sive potius Vossii coniecturam,

ἐπιτύμβιον αἶνον

, receperunt Schutzius, Blomfieldius, Scholefieldius, probavitque G. Bernhardy in Syntaxi p. 108. non memores

λάσκων

neutraliter dictum esse, ut in Suppl. v. 531.

1513

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.

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

,, 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

Aeschylus Agamemnon 1505

ed. N. Wecklein

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ΧΟΡΟΣ

ephymn. 2

ephymn. 2

ΚΛ.

οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον

τῶιδε γενέσθαι,

οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην
1525

Apparatus Criticus

Testim.:

Apparatus Criticus

Apparatus Criticus

ΧΟ.

δι᾽ αἷμ᾽ ἄνιπτον. ἢ τις ἦν τότ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
1480

Ἔρις, ἐρίδματος ἀνδρὸς οἰζύς.) =

Apparatus Criticus

ΧΟ.

δολίωι μόρωι δαμεὶς (δάμαρτος)

ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμωι βελέμνωι. –

CHOROS.

Alas, that some

Fate would come

Upon us in quickness —

Neither much sickness

Neither bed-keeping —
1450

And bear unended sleeping,

Now that subdued

Is our keeper, the kindest of mood!

Having borne, for a woman’s sake, much strife —

By a woman he withered from life!

Ah me!
1455

Law-breaking Helena who, one,

Hast many, so many souls undone

’Neath Troia! and now the consummated

Much-memorable curse

Hast thou made flower-forth, red

With the blood no rains disperse,
1460

That which was then in the House —

Strife all-subduing, the woe of a spouse.

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Nowise, of death the fate —

Burdened by these things — supplicate!

Nor on Helena turn thy wrath

As the man-destroyer, as she who hath,
1465

Being but one,

Many and many a soul undone

Of the men, the Danaoi —

And wrought immense annoy!

CHOROS.

Daimon, who fallest

Upon this household and the double-raced

Tantalidai, a rule, minded like theirs displaced,

Thou rulest me with, now,
1470

Whose heart thou gallest!

And on the body, like a hateful crow,

Stationed, all out of tune, his chant to chant

Doth Something vaunt!

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Now, of a truth, hast thou set upright
1475

Thy mouth’s opinion, —

Naming the Sprite,

The triply gross,

O’er the race that has dominion:

For through him it is that Eros

The carnage-licker

In the belly is bred: ere ended quite

Is the elder throe — new ichor!
1480

CHOROS.

Certainly, great of might

And heavy of wrath, the Sprite

Thou tellest of, in the palace

(Woe, woe!)

— An evil tale of a fate
1485

By Até’s malice

Rendered insatiate!

King, king, how shall I beweep thee?

From friendly soul whatever say?

Thou liest where webs of the spider o’ersweep thee
1515

In impious death, life breathing away.

O me — me!

This couch, not free!

By a slavish death subdued thou art,

From the hand, by the two-edged dart.
1520

CHORUS

LE CHŒUR

Toi, innocente de ce meurtre ! qui trouveras-tu pour en témoigner ? Et comment ? comment ? Mais le Génie vengeur de cette race peut bien être ton complice. Si,
brutal, le noir Arès fait couler à flots le sang familial,

CLYTEMNESTRA.

E nei rivi di strage consanguinea,

Marte livido infuria,

dove compenso vindice ai vermigli

grumi offrirà dei divorati figli.
1765

COREUTA

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.

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ΧΟΡΟΣ ephymn. 2

ephymn. 2

ΚΛ. οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον τῶιδε γενέσθαι, οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην 1525

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ΧΟ. δι᾽ αἷμ᾽ ἄνιπτον. ἢ τις ἦν τότ᾽ ἐν δόμοις 1480 Ἔρις, ἐρίδματος ἀνδρὸς οἰζύς.) =

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ΧΟ. δολίωι μόρωι δαμεὶς (δάμαρτος) ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμωι βελέμνωι. –

CHOROS. Alas, that some Fate would come Upon us in quickness — Neither much sickness Neither bed-keeping — 1450 And bear unended sleeping, Now that subdued Is our keeper, the kindest of mood! Having borne, for a woman’s sake, much strife — By a woman he withered from life!

Ah me! 1455 Law-breaking Helena who, one, Hast many, so many souls undone ’Neath Troia! and now the consummated Much-memorable curse Hast thou made flower-forth, red With the blood no rains disperse, 1460 That which was then in the House — Strife all-subduing, the woe of a spouse.

KLUTAIMNESTRA. Nowise, of death the fate — Burdened by these things — supplicate! Nor on Helena turn thy wrath As the man-destroyer, as she who hath, 1465 Being but one, Many and many a soul undone Of the men, the Danaoi — And wrought immense annoy!

CHOROS. Daimon, who fallest Upon this household and the double-raced Tantalidai, a rule, minded like theirs displaced, Thou rulest me with, now, 1470 Whose heart thou gallest! And on the body, like a hateful crow, Stationed, all out of tune, his chant to chant Doth Something vaunt!

KLUTAIMNESTRA. Now, of a truth, hast thou set upright 1475 Thy mouth’s opinion, — Naming the Sprite, The triply gross, O’er the race that has dominion: For through him it is that Eros The carnage-licker In the belly is bred: ere ended quite Is the elder throe — new ichor! 1480

CHOROS. Certainly, great of might And heavy of wrath, the Sprite Thou tellest of, in the palace (Woe, woe!) — An evil tale of a fate 1485 By Até’s malice Rendered insatiate!

Oh, oh, — King, king, how shall I beweep thee? 1490 From friendly soul whatever say? Thou liest where webs of the spider o’ersweep thee In impious death, life breathing away. O me — me! This couch, not free. By a slavish death subdued thou art, 1495 From the hand, by the two-edged dart.

King, king, how shall I beweep thee? From friendly soul whatever say? Thou liest where webs of the spider o’ersweep thee 1515 In impious death, life breathing away. O me — me! This couch, not free! By a slavish death subdued thou art, From the hand, by the two-edged dart. 1520

CHORUS

LE CHŒUR Toi, innocente de ce meurtre ! qui trouveras-tu pour en témoigner ? Et comment ? comment ? Mais le Génie vengeur de cette race peut bien être ton complice. Si, brutal, le noir Arès fait couler à flots le sang familial,

CLYTEMNESTRA.

E nei rivi di strage consanguinea, Marte livido infuria, dove compenso vindice ai vermigli grumi offrirà dei divorati figli. 1765

COREUTA

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.

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Stable identifiers

ΧΟΡΟΣ

ephymn. 2

ΚΛ.

οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον

τῶιδε γενέσθαι,

οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην
1525

ΧΟ.

δι᾽ αἷμ᾽ ἄνιπτον. ἢ τις ἦν τότ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
1480

Ἔρις, ἐρίδματος ἀνδρὸς οἰζύς.) =

ΧΟ.

δολίωι μόρωι δαμεὶς (δάμαρτος)

ἐκ χερὸς ἀμφιτόμωι βελέμνωι. –

CHOROS.

Alas, that some

Fate would come

Upon us in quickness —

Neither much sickness

Neither bed-keeping —
1450

And bear unended sleeping,

Now that subdued

Is our keeper, the kindest of mood!

Having borne, for a woman’s sake, much strife —

By a woman he withered from life!

Ah me!
1455

Law-breaking Helena who, one,

Hast many, so many souls undone

’Neath Troia! and now the consummated

Much-memorable curse

Hast thou made flower-forth, red

With the blood no rains disperse,
1460

That which was then in the House —

Strife all-subduing, the woe of a spouse.

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Nowise, of death the fate —

Burdened by these things — supplicate!

Nor on Helena turn thy wrath

As the man-destroyer, as she who hath,
1465

Being but one,

Many and many a soul undone

Of the men, the Danaoi —

And wrought immense annoy!

CHOROS.

Daimon, who fallest

Upon this household and the double-raced

Tantalidai, a rule, minded like theirs displaced,

Thou rulest me with, now,
1470

Whose heart thou gallest!

And on the body, like a hateful crow,

Stationed, all out of tune, his chant to chant

Doth Something vaunt!

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Now, of a truth, hast thou set upright
1475

Thy mouth’s opinion, —

Naming the Sprite,

The triply gross,

O’er the race that has dominion:

For through him it is that Eros

The carnage-licker

In the belly is bred: ere ended quite

Is the elder throe — new ichor!
1480

CHOROS.

Certainly, great of might

And heavy of wrath, the Sprite

Thou tellest of, in the palace

(Woe, woe!)

— An evil tale of a fate
1485

By Até’s malice

Rendered insatiate!

King, king, how shall I beweep thee?

From friendly soul whatever say?

Thou liest where webs of the spider o’ersweep thee
1515

In impious death, life breathing away.

O me — me!

This couch, not free!

By a slavish death subdued thou art,

From the hand, by the two-edged dart.
1520

LE CHŒUR

Toi, innocente de ce meurtre ! qui trouveras-tu pour en témoigner ? Et comment ? comment ? Mais le Génie vengeur de cette race peut bien être ton complice. Si,
brutal, le noir Arès fait couler à flots le sang familial,

E nei rivi di strage consanguinea,

Marte livido infuria,

dove compenso vindice ai vermigli

grumi offrirà dei divorati figli.
1765

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.