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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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)
Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1407-1430 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 1407-1430 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1372 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1372 focus
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1372 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1372 focus
πολλῶν πάροιθεν καιρίως εἰρημένων
τἀναντί᾽ εἰπεῖν οὐκ ἐπαισχυνθήσομαι.
πῶς γάρ τις ἐχθροῖς ἐχθρὰ πορσύνων, φίλοις
δοκοῦσιν εἶναι, πημονῆς ἀρκύστατ᾽ ἂν
φράξειεν ὕψος κρεῖσσον ἐκπηδήματος;
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ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἀγὼν ὅδ᾽ οὐκ ἀφρόντιστος πάλαι
νείκης παλαιᾶς ἦλθε, σὺν χρόνῳ γε μήν
ἕστηκα δ᾽ ἔνθ᾽ ἔπαισ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ἐξειργασμένοις.
οὕτω δ᾽ ἔπραξα, καὶ τάδ᾽ οὐκ ἀρνήσομαι,
ὡς μήτε φεύγειν μήτ᾽ ἀμύνεσθαι μόρον.
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ἄπειρον ἀμφίβληστρον, ὥσπερ ἰχθύων,
περιστιχίζω, πλοῦτον εἵματος κακόν.
παίω δέ νιν δίς· καν δυοῖν οἰμώγμασιν
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1372 focus
πολλῶν πάροιθεν καιρίως εἰρημένων
τἀναντί᾽ εἰπεῖν οὐκ ἐπαισχυνθήσομαι.
πῶς γάρ τις ἐχθροῖς ἐχθρὰ πορσύνων, φίλοις
δοκοῦσιν εἶναι, πημονῆς ἀρκύστατ᾽ ἄν
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φάρξειεν ὕψος κρεῖσσον ἐκπηδήματος;
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἀγὼν ὅδ᾽ οὐκ ἀφρόντιστος †πάλαι
νίκης παλαιᾶς† ἦλθε, σὺν χρόνωι γε μήν.
ἕστηκα δ᾽ ἔνθ᾽ ἔπαισ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ἐξειργασμένοις·
οὕτω δ᾽ ἔπραξα, καὶ τάδ᾽ οὐκ ἀρνήσομαι,
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ὡς μήτε φεύγειν μήτ᾽ ἀμύνασθαι μόρον·
ἄπειρον ἀμφίβληστρον, ὥσπερ ἰχθύων,
περιστοχίζω, πλοῦτον εἵματος κακόν·
παίω δέ νιν, δίς, κἀν δυοῖν οἰμωγμάτοιν
μεθῆκεν αὐτοῦ κῶλα’ καὶ πεπτωκότι
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τρίτην ἐπενδίδωμι, τοῦ κατὰ χθονός
Διὸς νεκρῶν σωτῆρος εὐκταίαν χάριν.
οὕτω τὸν αὑτοῦ θυμὸν ὁρμαίνει †πεσών†,
κἀκφυσιῶν ὀξεῖαν αἵματος σφαγήν
βάλλει μ᾽ ἐρεμνῆι ψακάδι φοινίας δρόσου,
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χαίρουσαν οὐδὲν ἧσσον ἢ διοσδότωι
γάνει σπορητὸς κάλυκος ἐν λοχεύμασιν.
εἰ δ᾽ ἦν, πρεπόντων ὥστ᾽ ἐπισπένδειν νεκρῶι,
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τοῦδ᾽ ἂν δικαίως ἦν, ὑπερδίκως μὲν οὖν
τοσόνδε κρατῆρ᾽ ἐν δόμοις κακῶν ὅδε
πλήσας ἀραίων αὐτὸς ἐκπίνει μολών.
ὡς ὧδ᾽ ἐχόντων, πρέσβος Ἀργείων τόδε,
χαίροιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ χαίροιτ᾽, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐπεύχομαι.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1372 focus
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
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1372 focus
Though many things have been before spoken as suited the occasion, I shall not blush to speak the contrary. For how else could one, while providing enmity for enemies, construct for those that seem friends dense snares of mischief, a height too great to overleap? and this struggle of an ancient feud came not on me without having been long since meditated, though certainly late. And I stand where I struck him,—now the deed is done and over 1 : I did it too in such a way—and this I will not deny—that he could neither escape nor ward on his doom. I stake around an endless net, as if for fishes, the deathly treasure of a vesture. And I smite him twice, and with two groans he dropped his limbs, and on him fallen I add a third blow, a votive offering to him beneath the earth, Hades, the guardian of the dead. Thus he gulps away 2 his own soul as he falls; and gurgling forth the sharp gush of the shedded blood, he smites with black drops of gory dew me that rejoiced no less than the sown [land] does in Jove's rich gift 3 during the travails of the ear. Since then 'tis thus, oh elders of Argos present here, rejoice ye, if ye can rejoice, for I glory in the deed. And were it possible becomingly 4 to make libation over the corpse, this would be justly done—full justly, sure, he who bath filled up a cup of so many accursed ills in his home, should drain it on his return.
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1372 focus
fait à l'Atride.
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1372 focus
To many’ a fair ſpeech ſuited to the times
If my words now be found at variance,
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1372 focus
Dire l'opposto a quanto prima io dissi
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per opportunità, non m'è vergogna.
Come, se no, chi contro ai suoi nemici
che gli sembrano amici, un danno trama,
tale una rete di sciagure tendere
potrebbe mai, che nessun balzo valga
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Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1372 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1372 focus
das eig'ne Schicksal kennest, warum gehst du kühn
zur Schlachtbank wie ein gottgeführtes Opfertier?
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.) — 1372 focus
Ho, ye who heard me speak so long and oft
The glozing word that led me to my will—
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Hear how I shrink not to unsay it all!
How else should one who willeth to requite
Evil for evil to an enemy
Disguised as friend, weave the mesh straitly round him,
Not to be overleaped, a net of doom.
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This is the sum and issue of old strife
Of me deep-pondered and at length fulfilled.
All is avowed, and as I smote I stand
With foot set firm upon a finished thing!
I turn not to denial: thus I wrought
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So that he could nor flee nor ward his doom.
Even as the trammel hems the scaly shoal,
I trapped him with inextricable toils,
The ill abundance of a baffling robe;
Then smote him, once, again—and at each wound
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He cried aloud, then as in death relaxed
Each limb and sank to earth; and as he lay,
Once more I smote him, with the last third blow,
Sacred to Hades, saviour of the dead.
And thus he fell, and as he passed away,
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Spirit with body chafed; each dying breath
Flung from his breast swift bubbling jets of gore,
And the dark sprinklings of the rain of blood
Fell upon me; and I was fain to feel
That dew—not sweeter is the rain of heaven
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To cornland, when the green sheath teems with grain.
Elders of Argos—since the thing stands so,
I bid ye to rejoice, if such your will:
Rejoice or not, I vaunt and praise the deed,
And well I ween, if seemly it could be,
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'Twere not ill done to pour libations here,
Justly—ay, more than justly—on his corpse
Who filled his home with curses as with wine,
And thus returned to drain the cup he filled.
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.) — 1372 focus
Kühn, ohn' Erröthen, sag' ich nun das Gegentheil
Von Vielem, was ich früher sprach der Zeit gemäß.
Wie könnte sonst dem Feinde, der als Freund erscheint,
Der Feind mit Haß entgegnen, wie des Jammers Nez
Ihm stellen, das unüberspringbar hoch sich schlingt?
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Mir kam er endlich, lange schon vorausbedacht,
Der Kampf des alten Grolles, ob mit Zögern auch.
Da steh' ich jekt am Ziele, wo mein Opfer fiel.
Und so vollzog ich's und verläugn' es nimmermehr,
Daß weder Flucht ihm übrig war noch Widerstand.
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Ein endlos lang Gewebe, gleich dem Fischerney,
Schlang ich um ihn, ein reiches Prunkgewand des Leids.
Ich traf ihn zweimal; zweimal stöhnt er auf und läßt
Sofort die Glieder sinken: als er niederlag,
Verses' ich ihm den dritten Schlag, willkommnen Dank
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Dem Todtenretter Hades dort im Schattenland.
Und also haucht er sinkend aus des Lebens Geist;
Und wie des Blutes jäher Strahl aussprudelte,
Besprigt er mich mit dunkeln Tropfen rothen Thau's,
Die mich erfreuten, wie Kronions feuchter Süd
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Die Saaten, wenn's im Mutterschooß der Knospen schwillt.
Ob solchen Glück's, ihr grauen Häupter dieser Stadt,
Freut euch, wofern ihr Freude fühlt; ich juble laut!
Ja, ziemte sich's, Trankopfer über Leichname
Zu sprengen, wär' es hier gerecht, ja vollgerecht.
1345
Er, der so vielen Wehes fluchbeladnen Kelch
Im Hause füllte, leert ihn nun heimkehrend selbst.

Commentary

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

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δικαίως
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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

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μαντευσόμεσθα ὡς ὀλωλότος τοῦ ἀνδρός: vgl. 677, Herod. ΙΙ 1 Αἰολέας ὡς δούλους πατρωίους ἐόντας ἐνόμιζε, Krüger II § 56, 4, 4 und I § 47, 10, 13.