Agamemnon. N. Wecklein. . 2026-09-06.
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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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Editions (8)
Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1407-1430 focus
Χορός
τί κακόν, ὦ γύναι, χθονοτρεφὲς ἐδανὸν
τόδ᾽ ἐπέθου θύος, δημοθρόους τ᾽ ἀράς;
μῖσος ὄβριμον ἀστοῖς.
1412
Κλυταιμήστρα
νῦν μὲν δικάζεις ἐκ πόλεως φυγὴν ἐμοὶ
καὶ μῖσος ἀστῶν δημόθρους τ᾽ ἔχειν ἀράς,
οὐδὲν τότ᾽
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ἀνδρὶ τῷδ᾽ ἐναντίον φέρων:
ὃς οὐ προτιμῶν, ὡσπερεὶ βοτοῦ μόρον,
1415
μήλων φλεόντων εὐπόκοις νομεύμασιν,
ἔθυσεν αὑτοῦ παῖδα, φιλτάτην ἐμοὶ
ὠδῖν᾽, ἐπῳδὸν Θρῃκίων ἀημάτων.
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οὐ τοῦτον ἐκ γῆς τῆσδε χρῆν
7
σ᾽ ἀνδρηλατεῖν,
μιασμάτων ἄποιν᾽; ἐπήκοος δ᾽ ἐμῶν
1420
ἔργων δικαστὴς τραχὺς εἶ. λέγω δέ σοι
τοιαῦτ᾽ ἀπειλεῖν, ὡς παρεσκευασμένης
ἐκ τῶν ὁμοίων χειρὶ νικήσαντ᾽ ἐμοῦ
ἄρχειν: ἐὰν δὲ τοὔμπαλιν κραίνῃ θεός,
γνώσει διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.
1425
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 1407-1430 focus
Χορός
τί κακόν, ὦ γύναι,
χθονοτρεφὲς ἐδανὸν ἢ ποτὸν
πασαμένα ῥυτᾶς ἐξ ἁλὸς ὀρόμενον
τόδʼ ἐπέθου θύος, δημοθρόους τʼ ἀράς;
ἀπέδικες ἀπέταμες· ἀπόπολις δʼ ἔσῃ
1410
μῖσος ὄβριμον ἀστοῖς.
1412
Κλυταιμήστρα
νῦν μὲν δικάζεις ἐκ πόλεως φυγὴν ἐμοὶ
καὶ μῖσος ἀστῶν δημόθρους τʼ ἔχειν ἀράς,
οὐδὲν τότʼ ἀνδρὶ τῷδʼ ἐναντίον φέρων·
ὃς οὐ προτιμῶν, ὡσπερεὶ βοτοῦ μόρον,
1415
μήλων φλεόντων εὐπόκοις νομεύμασιν,
ἔθυσεν αὑτοῦ παῖδα, φιλτάτην ἐμοὶ
ὠδῖνʼ, ἐπῳδὸν Θρῃκίων ἀημάτων.
οὐ τοῦτον ἐκ γῆς τῆσδε χρῆν σʼ ἀνδρηλατεῖν,
μιασμάτων ἄποινʼ; ἐπήκοος δʼ ἐμῶν
1420
ἔργων δικαστὴς τραχὺς εἶ. λέγω δέ σοι
τοιαῦτʼ ἀπειλεῖν, ὡς παρεσκευασμένης
ἐκ τῶν ὁμοίων χειρὶ νικήσαντʼ ἐμοῦ
ἄρχειν· ἐὰν δὲ τοὔμπαλιν κραίνῃ θεός,
γνώσῃ διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.
1425
Χορός
μεγαλόμητις εἶ,
περίφρονα δʼ ἔλακες. ὥσπερ οὖν
φονολιβεῖ τύχᾳ φρὴν ἐπιμαίνεται,
λίπος ἐπʼ ὀμμάτων αἵματος εὖ πρέπει·
ἀτίετον ἔτι σὲ χρὴ στερομέναν φίλων
τύμμα τύμματι τεῖσαι.
1430
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1343 focus
ΑΓ.
ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.
ΧΟΡΟΥ
ὁ ά.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1343 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων
ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1343 focus
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ
Ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1343 focus
ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω.
ΧΟ.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1343 focus
ὤιμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν †πληγὴν ἔσω†.
ΧΟ.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1343 focus
ΑΓ.
ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πλευρῶν ἔσω.
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.) — 1407-1430 focus
CHOROS.
What evil, O woman, food or drink, earth-bred
Or sent from the flowing sea,
Of such having fed
Didst thou set on thee
This sacrifice
And popular cries
Of a curse on thy head?
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Off thou hast thrown him, off hast cut
The man from the city: but —
Off from the city thyself shalt be
Cut — to the citizens
A hate immense!
1412
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
Now, indeed, thou adjudgest exile to me,
And citizens’ hate, and to have popular curses:
Nothing of this against the man here bringing,
Who, no more awe-checked than as ’t were a beast’s fate, —
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With sheep abundant in the well-fleeced graze-flocks, —
Sacrificed his child, — dearest fruit of travail
To me, — as song-spell against Threkian blowings.
Not him did it behove thee hence to banish
— Pollution’s penalty? But hearing mzy deeds
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Justicer rough thou art! Now, this I tell thee:
To threaten thus — me, one prepared to have thee
(On like conditions, thy hand conquering) o’er me
Rule: but if God the opposite ordain us,
Thou shalt learn — late taught, certes — to be modest.
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CHOROS.
Greatly-intending thou art:
Much-mindful, too, hast thou cried
(Since thy mind, with its slaughter-outpouring part,
Is frantic) that over the eyes, a patch
Of blood — with blood to match —
Is plain for a pride!
Yet still, bereft of friends, thy fate
Is — blow with blow to expiate!
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The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1343 focus
CHORUS 1
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1343 focus
AGAMEMNON
Hélas ! un coup mortel
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1343 focus
SEMICHORUS.
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1343 focus
CORIFEO
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1343 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1343 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.) — 1343 focus
O I am sped—a deep, a mortal blow.
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Chorus.
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.) — 1343 focus
Weh! Tief in's Herz des Lebens traf mich Mörderhand!
Der Chorführer.
Commentary
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
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