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Wecklein’s commentary on Agamemnon (1888; German; OCR draft) (German) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 30–140; Iowa and Harvard OCR collated conservatively. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.)
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Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 681-781 focus
Χορός
τίς ποτ᾽ ὠνόμαζεν ὧδ᾽
ἐς τὸ πᾶν ἐτητύμωσ—
μή τις ὅντιν᾽ οὐχ ὁρῶ-
μεν προνοίαισι τοῦ πεπρωμένου
γλῶσσαν ἐν τύχᾳ νέμων;—
685
τὰν δορίγαμβρον ἀμφινει-
κῆ θ᾽ Ἑλέναν; ἐπεὶ πρεπόντως
ἑλένας, ἕλανδρος, ἑλέπτολις,
ἐκ τῶν ἁβροτίυων
1
690
προκαλυμμάτων ἔπλευσε
ζεφύρου γίγαντος αὔρᾳ,
πολύανδροί τε φεράσπιδες
κυναγοὶ κατ᾽ ἴχνος πλατᾶν
2
ἄφαντον
695
κελσάντων Σιμόεντος
ἀκτὰς ἐπ᾽ ἀεξιφύλλους
3
δι᾽ ἔριν αἱματόεσσαν.
Χορός
Ἰλίῳ δὲ κῆδος ὀρθ-
ώνυμον τελεσσίφρων
700
μῆνις ἤλασεν,
4
τραπέ-
ζας ἀτίμωσιν
5
ὑστέρῳ χρόνῳ
καὶ ξυνεστίου Διὸς
πρασσομένα τὸ νυμφότι-
μον μέλος ἐκφάτως τίοντας,
ὑμέναιον, ὃς τότ᾽ ἐπέρρεπεν
γαμβροῖσιν ἀείδειν.
μεταμανθάνουσα δ᾽ ὕμνον
Πριάμου πόλις γεραιὰ
710
πολύθρηνον μέγα που στένει
κικλήσκουσα Πάριν τὸν αἰνόλεκτρον,
αἰῶνα διαὶ
8
πολιτᾶν
715
μέλεον αἷμ᾽ ἀνατλᾶσα.
Χορός
ἔθρεψεν δὲ λέοντος ἶ-
νιν
9
δόμοις ἀγάλακτον οὕ-
τως ἀνὴρ φιλόμαστον,
10
ἐν βιότου προτελείοις
720
ἅμερον, εὐφιλόπαιδα
καὶ γεραροῖς ἐπίχαρτον.
πολέα δ᾽ ἔσκ᾽
11
ἐν ἀγκάλαις
νεοτρόφου τέκνου δίκαν,
φαιδρωπὸς ποτὶ χεῖρα σαί-
725
νων τε γαστρὸς ἀνάγκαις.
Χορός
χρονισθεὶς δ᾽ ἀπέδειξεν ἦ-
γὰρ τροφεῦσιν
14
ἀμείβων
μηλοφόνοισι σὺν
15
ἄταις
730
δαῖτ᾽ ἀκέλευστος ἔτευξεν:
αἵματι δ᾽ οἶκος ἐφύρθη,
ἄμαχον ἄλγος οἰκέταις
μέγα σίνος πολύκτονον.
ἐκ θεοῦ δ᾽ ἱερεύς τις ἄ-
735
τας δόμοις προσεθρέφθη.
16
Χορός
πάραυτα δ᾽ ἐλθεῖν ἐς Ἰλίου πόλιν
λέγοιμ᾽ ἂν φρόνημα μὲν
νηνέμου γαλάνας,
740
ἀκασκαῖον <δ᾽>
17
ἄγαλμα πλούτου,
μαλθακὸν ὀμμάτων βέλος,
δηξίθυμον ἔρωτος ἄνθος.
παρακλίνασ᾽ ἐπέκρανεν
δὲ γάμου πικρὰς τελευτάς,
745
δύσεδρος καὶ δυσόμιλος
συμένα Πριαμίδαισιν,
πομπᾷ Διὸς ξενίου,
νυμφόκλαυτος Ἐρινύς.
Χορός
παλαίφατος δ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς γέρων λόγος
750
τέτυκται, μέγαν τελε-
σθέντα φωτὸς ὄλβον
τεκνοῦσθαι μηδ᾽ ἄπαιδα θνῄσκειν,
ἐκ δ᾽ ἀγαθᾶς τύχας γένει
755
βλαστάνειν ἀκόρεστον οἰζύν.
δίχα δ᾽ ἄλλων μονόφρων εἰ-
μί. τὸ δυσσεβὲς γὰρ
18
ἔργον
μετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει,
σφετέρᾳ δ᾽ εἰκότα γέννᾳ.
760
οἴκων δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ εὐθυδίκων
καλλίπαις πότμος ἀεί.
Χορός
φιλεῖ δὲ τίκτειν ὕβρις
μὲν παλαιὰ νεά-
ζουσαν ἐν κακοῖς βροτῶν
765
ὕβριν τότ᾽ ἢ τόθ᾽, ὅτε
19
τὸ κύριον μόλῃ
φάος τόκου,
20
ἀνίερον θράσος, μελαί-
νας μελάθροισιν Ἄτας,
770
εἰδομένας
23
τοκεῦσιν.
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 681-781 focus
Χορός
τίς ποτʼ ὠνόμαζεν ὧδʼ
ἐς τὸ πᾶν ἐτητύμως—
μή τις ὅντινʼ οὐχ ὁρῶμεν προνοί-
αισι τοῦ πεπρωμένου
γλῶσσαν ἐν τύχᾳ νέμων;—
685
τὰν δορίγαμβρον ἀμφινει-
κῆ θʼ Ἑλέναν; ἐπεὶ πρεπόντως
ἑλένας, ἕλανδρος, ἑλέ-
πτολις, ἐκ τῶν ἁβροτίμων
690
προκαλυμμάτων ἔπλευσε
ζεφύρου γίγαντος αὔρᾳ,
πολύανδροί τε φεράσπιδες κυναγοὶ
κατʼ ἴχνος πλατᾶν ἄφαντον
695
κελσάντων Σιμόεντος ἀ-
κτὰς ἐπʼ ἀεξιφύλλους
διʼ ἔριν αἱματόεσσαν.
Χορός
Ἰλίῳ δὲ κῆδος ὀρθ-
ώνυμον τελεσσίφρων
700
μῆνις ἤλασεν, τραπέζας ἀτί-
μωσιν ὑστέρῳ χρόνῳ
καὶ ξυνεστίου Διὸς
πρασσομένα τὸ νυμφότι-
μον μέλος ἐκφάτως τίοντας,
ὑμέναιον, ὃς τότʼ ἐπέρ-
ρεπεν γαμβροῖσιν ἀείδειν·
μεταμανθάνουσα δʼ ὕμνον
Πριάμου πόλις γεραιὰ
710
πολύθρηνον μέγα που στένει κικλήσκου-
σα Πάριν τὸν αἰνόλεκτρον,
παμπορθῆ πολύθρηνον
αἰῶνα διαὶ πολιτᾶν
μέλεον αἷμʼ ἀνατλᾶσα.
715
Χορός
ἔθρεψεν δὲ λέοντος ἶ-
νιν δόμοις ἀγάλακτον οὕ-
τως ἀνὴρ φιλόμαστον,
ἐν βιότου προτελείοις
720
ἅμερον, εὐφιλόπαιδα
καὶ γεραροῖς ἐπίχαρτον.
πολέα δʼ ἔσχʼ ἐν ἀγκάλαις
νεοτρόφου τέκνου δίκαν,
φαιδρωπὸς ποτὶ χεῖρα σαί-
725
νων τε γαστρὸς ἀνάγκαις.
Χορός
χρονισθεὶς δʼ ἀπέδειξεν ἦ-
θος τὸ πρὸς τοκέων· χάριν
γὰρ τροφεῦσιν ἀμείβων
μηλοφόνοισιν
ἐν ἄταις
730
δαῖτʼ ἀκέλευστος ἔτευξεν·
αἵματι δʼ οἶκος ἐφύρθη,
ἄμαχον ἄλγος οἰκέταις
μέγα σίνος πολυκτόνον.
ἐκ θεοῦ δʼ ἱερεύς τις ἄ-
735
τας δόμοις προσεθρέφθη.
Χορός
πάραυτα δʼ ἐλθεῖν ἐς Ἰλίου πόλιν
λέγοιμʼ ἂν φρόνημα μὲν
νηνέμου γαλάνας,
ἀκασκαῖον
δʼ ἄγαλμα πλούτου,
740
μαλθακὸν ὀμμάτων βέλος,
δηξίθυμον ἔρωτος ἄνθος.
παρακλίνασʼ ἐπέκρανεν
δὲ γάμου πικρὰς τελευτάς,
745
δύσεδρος καὶ δυσόμιλος
συμένα Πριαμίδαισιν,
πομπᾷ Διὸς ξενίου,
νυμφόκλαυτος Ἐρινύς.
Χορός
παλαίφατος δʼ ἐν βροτοῖς γέρων λόγος
750
τέτυκται, μέγαν τελε-
σθέντα φωτὸς ὄλβον
τεκνοῦσθαι μηδʼ ἄπαιδα θνῄσκειν,
ἐκ δʼ ἀγαθᾶς τύχας γένει
755
βλαστάνειν ἀκόρεστον οἰζύν.
δίχα δʼ ἄλλων μονόφρων εἰ-
μί· τὸ δυσσεβὲς γὰρ ἔργον
μετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει,
σφετέρᾳ δʼ εἰκότα γέννᾳ.
760
οἴκων δʼ ἄρʼ εὐθυδίκων
καλλίπαις πότμος αἰεί.
Χορός
φιλεῖ δὲ τίκτειν Ὕβρις
μὲν παλαιὰ νεά-
ζουσαν ἐν κακοῖς βροτῶν
765
ὕβριν τότʼ ἢ τόθʼ, ὅτε τὸ κύρ-
ιον μόλῃ φάος τόκου,
δαίμονά τε τὰν ἄμαχον ἀπόλεμ-
ον, ἀνίερον Θράσος, μελαί-
νας μελάθροισιν Ἄτας,
770
εἰδομένας τοκεῦσιν.
Χορός
Δίκα δὲ λάμπει μὲν ἐν
δυσκάπνοις δώμασιν,
τὸν δʼ ἐναίσιμον τίει
βίον.
775
τὰ χρυσόπαστα δʼ ἔδεθλα σὺν
πίνῳ χερῶν παλιντρόποις
ὄμμασι λιποῦσʼ, ὅσια προσέμολ-
ε, δύναμιν οὐ σέβουσα πλού-
του παράσημον αἴνῳ·
780
πᾶν δʼ ἐπὶ τέρμα νωμᾷ.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 681 focus
ΧΟ.
τίς ποτ' ὠνόμαζεν ὧδ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν ἐτητύμως –
μή τις ὅντιν᾽ οὐχ ὁρῶμεν προνοίαισι τοῦ πεπρω-
μένου
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 681 focus
Χορὸς Πρεσβυτῶν
στρ. α'.
τίς ποτ' ὠνόμαζεν ὧδ'
ἐς τὸ πᾶν ἐτητύμως
660
μή τις ὅντιν᾽ οὐχ ὁρῶμεν προνοί-
αισι τοῦ πεπρωμένου
γλῶσσαν ἐν τύχᾳ νέμων; —
τὰν δορίγαμβρον ἀμφινεικῆ θ'
Χορὸς Πρεσβυτῶν
Ἑλέναν, ἐπεὶ πρεπόντως
665
ἑλέναυς, ἕλανδρος, ἑλέπτολις,
ἐκ τῶν ἁβροτίμων
προκαλυμμάτων ἔπλευσεν
Ζεφύρου γίγαντος αὔρᾳ,
πολύανδροί τε φεράσπιδες κυναγοὶ
670
κατ᾽ ἴχνος πλάταν ἄφαντον
ἀντ. α'.
κελσάντων Σιμόεντος ἀ-
κτὰς ἐπ᾽ ἀεξιφύλλους
δι᾽ ἔριν αἱματόεσσαν.
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 681 focus
ΧΟΡΟΣ
Τίς ποτ'
ὠνόμαζεν
-ξεν ὧδ'
Str. 1.
ἐς τὸ πᾶν ἐτητύμως —
μή τις ὅντιν' οὐχ ὁρῶμεν
προνοί-
αισι
-αις τοῦ πεπρωμένου
γλῶσσαν ἐν τύχᾳ νέμων ; —
685
τὰν δορίγαμβρον ἀμφινει-
κῆ θ' Ἑλέναν ; ἐπεὶ πρεπόντως
ἑλένας, ἕλανδρος, ἑλέ-
πτολις, ἐκ τῶν ἁβροτίμων
προκαλυμμάτων ἔπλευσεν
690
ζεφύρου γίγαντος αὔρᾳ,
πολύανδροί τε φεράσπιδες κυναγοὶ
κατ' ἴχνος
πλατᾶν
πλάταν ἄφαντον
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝαισι -αις τοῦ πεπρωμένου
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 681 focus
τίς ποτ᾽ ὠνόμαζεν ὧδ᾽
ἐς τὸ πᾶν ἐτητύμως·
μή τις ὅντιν᾽ οὐχ ὁρῶμεν προνοί-
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 681 focus
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 681 focus
ΧΟΡΟΣ
τίς ποτ ὠνόμαζεν ὧδ᾽
ἐς τὸ πᾶν ἐτητύμως·
μή τις ὅντιν᾽ οὐχ ὁρῶμεν προνοί-
αισι τοῦ πεπρωμένου
γλῶσσαν ἐν τύχαι νέμων·
685
τὰν δορίγαμβρον ἀμφινει-
κῆ θ᾽ Ἑλέναν; ἐπεὶ πρεπόντως
ἑλέναυς ἕλανδρος ἑλέ-
πτολις ἐκ τῶν ἁβροπήνων
προκαλυμμάτων ἔπλευσεν
690
Ζεφύρου γίγαντος αὔραι,
πολύανδροί τε φεράσπιδες κυναγοὶ
κατ᾽ ἴχνος πλατᾶν ἄφαντον
κελσάντων Σιμόεντος ἀκ-
τὰς ἐπ᾿ ἀεξιφύλλους
695
δι᾽ ἔριν αἱματόεσσαν. –
Testim.:
Apparatus Criticus
γοῦn δ᾽ οὖn χλωρόn τε καὶ βλέποντα καὶ ζῶντα καὶ βλέποντα κλυών κλύειν προνοίαισι προνοίαις ἑλέναυς ἑλένας ἁβροπήνων ἁβροτίμων ἐπ᾿ ἀεξιφύλλους εἰς ἀξιφύλλους ἀξιφύλλωνTranslations (9)
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 681-802 focus
CHOROS.
Who may he have been that named thus wholly with exactitude —
(Was he someone whom we see not, by forecastings of the future
Guiding tongue in happy mood?)
— Her with battle for a bridegroom, on all sides contention-wooed,
Helena? Since — mark the suture! —
685
Ship’s-Hell, Man’s-Hell, City’s-Hell,
From the delicately-pompous curtains that pavilion well,
Forth, by favour of the gale
Of earth-born Zephuros did she sail.
Many shield-bearers, leaders of the pack,
690
Sailed too upon their track,
Theirs who had directed oar,
Then visible no more,
To Simois’ leaf-luxuriant shore —
For sake of strife all gore!
695
699
To
Ilion
Wrath, fulfilling her intent,
This marriage-care — the rightly named so — sent:
700
In after-time, for the tables’ abuse
And that of the hearth-partaker Zeus,
Bringing to punishment
Those who honoured with noisy throat
The honour of the bride, the hymenseal note
705
Which did the kinsfolk then to singing urge.
But, learning a new hymn for that which was,
The ancient city of Priamos
Groans probably a great and general dirge,
Denominating Paris
710
The man that miserably marries: —
She who, all the while before,
A life, that was a general dirge
For citizens’ unhappy slaughter, bore.
716
And thus a man, by no milk’s help,
Within his household reared a lion’s whelp
That loved the teat
In life’s first festal stage:
Gentle as yet,
720
A true child-lover, and, to men of age,
A thing whereat pride warms;
And oft he had it in his arms
Like any new-born babe, bright-faced, to hand
Wagging its tail, at belly’s strict command.
725
727
But in due time upgrown,
The custom of progenitors was shown:
For-thanks for sustenance repaying
With ravage of sheep slaughtered —
730
It made unbidden feast;
With blood the house was watered,
To household came a woe there was no staying:
Great mischief many-slaying!
737
From God it was-some priest
Of Até, in the house, by nurture thus increased.
At first, then, to the city of Ilion went
A soul, as I might say, of windless calm —
740
Wealth’s quiet ornament,
An eyes’-dart bearing balm,
Love’s spirit-biting flower.
But — from the true course bending —
She brought about, of marriage, bitter ending:
745
Ill-resident, ill-mate, in power
Passing to the Priamidai — by sending
Of Hospitable Zeus —
Erinus for a bride, — to make brides mourn, her dower.
750
Spoken long ago
750
Was the ancient saying
Still among mortals staying:
Man’s great prosperity at height of rise
Engenders offspring nor unchilded dies;
And, from good fortune, to such families,
755
Buds forth insatiate woe.
Whereas, distinct from any,
Of my own mind I am:
For ’t is the unholy deed begets the many,
Resembling each its dam.
760
Of households that correctly estimate,
Ever a beauteous child is born of Fate.
763
But ancient Arrogance delights to generate
Arrogance, young and strong mid mortals’ sorrow,
Or now, or then, when comes the appointed morrow.
765
And she bears young Satiety;
And, fiend with whom nor fight nor war can be,
Unholy Daring — twin black Curses
Within the household, children like their nurses.
772
But Justice shines in smoke-grimed habitations,
And honours the well-omened life;
While, — gold-besprinkled stations
Where the hands’ filth is rife,
775
With backward-turning eyes
Leaving, — to holy seats she hies,
Not worshipping the power of wealth
Stamped with applause by stealth:
And to its end directs each thing begun.
780
782
Approach then, my monarch, of
Troia
the sacker, of Atreus the son!
How ought I address thee, how ought I revere thee, — nor yet overhitting
Nor yet underbending the grace that is fitting?
Many of mortals hasten to honour the seeming-to-be —
785
Passing by justice: and, with the ill-faring, to groan as he groans all are free.
But no bite of the sorrow their liver has reached to:
They say with the joyful, — one outside on each, too,
As they force to a smile smileless faces.
But whoever is good at distinguishing races
790
In sheep of his flock — it is not for the eyes
Of a man to escape such a shepherd’s surprise,
As they seem, from a well-wishing mind,
In watery friendship to fawn and be kind.
Thou to me, then, indeed, sending an army for Helena’s sake,
795
(I will not conceal it) wast — oh, by no help of the Muses! — depicted
Not well of thy midriff the rudder directing. — convicted
Of bringing a boldness they did not desire to the men with existence at stake.
But now — from no outside of mind, nor unlovingly — gracious thou art
To those who have ended the labour, fulfilling their part;
800
And in time shalt thou know, by inquiry instructed,
Who of citizens justly, and who not to purpose, the city conducted.
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 681 focus
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 681 focus
donna ce nom si vrai à l'épousée qu'entourent la discorde et la guerre, à Hélène 1 ?
(Plus soutenu.)
Elle est née en effet pour perdre les vaisseaux, les hommes et les villes, celle
qui, soulevant ses luxueuses courtines, s'est enfuie sur la mer au souffle puissant du zéphyr, cependant qu'innombrables, d'étranges
qui, soulevant ses luxueuses courtines, s'est enfuie sur la mer au souffle puissant du zéphyr, cependant qu'innombrables, d'étranges
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 681 focus
Why elſe this fatal name,
That Helen and deſtruction are the ſame?
Affianc’d in contention, led,
The ſpear her dowry, to the bridal bed;
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 681 focus
per la donna che a tante contese
fu segno, cui pronube
fûr l'aste, che, come è palese,
navigli e guerrieri a sterminio
795
condusse, a sterminio città ?
Dai mollissimi velarii,
la guidò gigante Zefiro
sopra i valichi del mar:
su la pesta non visibile
800
delle navi che approdavano
CORO
1
al Simèta fitto d'alberi,
guerrieri ad una caccia
sanguinosa si lanciâr.
1
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 681 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 681 focus
Herold.
Darauf hat niemand zuverlässigen Bescheid
als Helios, der Allerhalter dieser Welt.
Chorführer.
Wie war es mit dem Sturme, den der Götter Zorn
635
der Flotte sandte? Wie begann, wie ging er aus?
685
Herold.
Den Tag der Freude sollte Trauerbotschaft nicht
entweihen, Himmelsgöttern und Erinyen
derselbe Mund nicht opfern. Wenn verstörten Blicks
ein Bote kommt um seinem Volk unsäglich Weh,
den Untergang des Heeres, zu verkündigen,
690
640
dann, wo mit allgemeiner Not den ganzen Staat
heimsuchend manchem Hause manchen Mann der
Schlag
der Doppelgeißel raubte, die der Kriegsgott liebt -,
Verderbens Doppelschneide, Mordes Henkerpaar
695
ja, wer mit solcher Zeitung schwerbeladen kommt,
645
dem steht ein Hymnus höllischer Dämonen zu.
Allein ein Herold des Gewinnes, den Triumph
dem Volke kündend, das in Siegeswonne schwelgt,
74
Herold.
700
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.) — 681 focus
Say, from whose lips the presage fell?
Who read the future all too well,
800
And named her, in her natal hour,
Helen, the bride with war for dower?
'Twas one of the Invisible,
Guiding his tongue with prescient power.
On fleet, and host, and citadel,
805
War, sprung from her, and death did lour,
When from the bride-bed's fine-spun veil
She to the Zephyr spread her sail.
Strong blew the breeze—the surge closed o'er
The cloven track of keel and oar,
810
But while she fled, there drove along,
Fast in her wake, a mighty throng—
Athirst for blood, athirst for war,
Forward in fell pursuit they sprung,
Then leapt on Simois' bank ashore,
815
The leafy coppices among—
No rangers, they, of wood and field,
But huntsmen of the sword and shield.
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.) — 681 focus
Wer erfand den Namen Ihr,
Der so ganz sich wahr erwies?
(War es Einer, den wir nicht sah'n, und der,
Ahnend künftiger Zeiten Loos,
Recht gelenkt der Zunge Laut?)
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Ihr, der umrungenen Speeresbraut,
Helena? Ja, sie ward der Schiffe
Und der Männer und Städte Vertilgerin,
Als Zephyros' Hauch sie,
Des gewaltigen, aus dem Prunke
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Des Gemachs im Schiff davontrug!
Und den Schild schwingend verfolgt ein Jägerschwarm
Muthig die Spur des entschwundnen Schiffes,
Das zu Simois' Felsenstrand
Lenkte, dem laubumgrünten,
670
Daß er kämpfe den Blutkampf.
Erste Gegenstrophe.
Notes on the current edition
Agamemnon
Commentary
Critical apparatus to Agamemnon (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Agamemnon.) focus
681.
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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
481-685.
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681.
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