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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.) — 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.) — 40 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 40 focus
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμνήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
85
τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ' ἀγοραίων,
90
κύριός εἰμι θροεῖν ὅδιον κράτος αἴσιον ἀνδρῶν
ἐκτελέων· ἔτι γὰρ θεόθεν καταπνείει
105
πειθὼ μολπάν,
ἀλκᾷ σύμφυτος αἰών·
ὅπως Ἀχαιῶν δίθρονον κράτος, Ἑλλάδος ἥβας
ξύμφρονα ταγάν,
πέμπει ξὺν δορὶ πράκτορι 1
110
θοῦριος ὄρνις Τευκρίδ᾽ ἐπ' αἶαν,
οἰωνῶν βασιλεὺς βασιλεῦσι νεῶν, ὁ κελαινός, ὅ τ᾽ ἐξόπιν ἀργᾶς,
φανέντες ἔκταρ μελάθρων, χερὸς ἐκ δοριπάλτου,
παμπρέπτοις ἐν ἕδραισιν,
βοσκόμενοι λαγίναν ἐρικύμονα φέρματι γένναν,
115
βλαβέντα λοισθίων δρόμων.
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω.
ἀντ. α'.
κεδνὸς δὲ στρατόμαντις ἰδὼν δύο λήμασι δισσοὺς
Ἀτρείδας μαχίμους, ἐδάη λαγοδαίτας
πομπούς τ' ἀρχάς·
120
οὕτω δ᾽ εἶπε τεράζων·
τόσσον περ εὔφρων ἁ καλά,
δρόσοις ἀέπτοις μαλερῶν λεόντων
πάντων τ' ἀγρονόμων φιλομάστοις
θηρῶν ὀβρικάλοις ἔπι τερπνά,
135
τούτων αἰτεῖ ξύμβολα κρᾶναι,
δεξιὰ μέν, κατάμομφα δὲ φάσματα.
ἰήϊον δὲ καλέω Παιᾶνα,
μή τινας ἀντιπνόους Δαναοῖς χρονίας ἐχενῇδας ἀπλοίας
τεύξῃ, σπευδομένα θυσίαν ἑτέραν ἄνομόν τιν', ἄδαιτον,
140
νεικέων τέκτονα σύμφυτον, οὐ δεισήνορα 2
μίμνει γὰρ φοβερὰ παλίνορτος
οἰκονόμος δολία μνάμων μῆνις τεκνόποινος.
τοιάδε Κάλχας
ξὺν μεγάλοις ἀγαθοῖς ἀπέκλαγξεν
145
μόρσιμ᾽ ἀπ' ὀρνίθων ὁδίων οἴκοις βασιλείοις·
τοῖς δ᾽ ὁμόφωνον
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ' εὖ νικάτω.
στρ. β'.
Ζεύς, ὅςτις ποτ᾽ ἐστίν, εἰ τόδ᾽ αὐ-
τῷ φίλον κεκλημένῳ,
150
τοῦτό νιν προςεννέπω.
οὐκ ἔχω προςεικάσαι,
οὐδ᾽ ὅςτις πάροιθεν ἦν μέγας,
παμμάχῳ θράσει βρύων,
οὐδὲ λέξεται πρὶν ὤν·
ὃς δ᾽ ἔπειτ᾽ ἔφυ, τρια-
κτῆρος οἴχεται τυχών.
160
Ζῆνα δέ τις προφρόνως ἐπινίκια κλάζων
τεύξεται φρενῶν τὸ πᾶν·
στρ. γ'.
τὸν φρονεῖν βροτοὺς ὁδώ-
σαντα, τῷ πάθει μάθος
θέντα κυρίως ἔχειν.
165
στάζει δ᾽ ἔν θ᾽ ὕπνῳ πρὸ καρδίας
μνησιπήμων πόνος· καὶ παρ᾽ ἄ-
κοντας ἦλθε σωφρονεῖν.
δαιμόνων δέ που χάρις
βίαιος σέλμα σεμνὸν ἡμένων.
170
ἀντ. γ'.
καὶ τόθ᾽ ἡγεμὼν ὁ πρέσ-
βυς νεῶν Ἀχαιϊκῶν,
μάντιν οὔτινα ψέγων,
ἐμπαίοις τύχαισι συμπνέων,
εὖτ᾽ ἀπλοίᾳ κεναγγεῖ βαρύ-
175
νοντ' Ἀχαιϊκὸς λεώς,
Χαλκίδος πέραν ἔχων
παλιρρόθοις ἐν Αὐλίδος τόποις,
στρ. δ'.
πνοαὶ δ᾽ ἀπὸ Στρυμόνος μολοῦσαι
κακόσχολοι, νήστιδες, δύςορμοι,
180
βροτῶν ἄλαι,
νεῶν τε καὶ πεισμάτων ἀφειδεῖς,
ἄναξ δ᾽ ὁ πρέσβυς τότ᾽ εἶπε φωνῶν·
βαρεῖα μὲν κὴρ τὸ μὴ πιθέσθαι,
βαρεῖα δ᾽, εἰ
τέκνον δαΐξω, δόμων ἄγαλμα,
195
μιαίνων παρθενοσφάγοισιν
ῥεέθροις πατρῴους χέρας πέλας βωμοῦ.
τί τῶνδ᾽ ἄνευ κακῶν;
πῶς λιπόναυς γένωμαι,
ξυμμαχίας ἁμαρτών;
200
παυσανέμου γὰρ θυσίας
παρθενίου θ' αἵματος αὐ-
δᾷ περιόργως ἐπιθυ-
μεῖν θέμις. εὖ γὰρ εἴη.
στρ. ε'.
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον,
205
φρενὸς πνέων δυςσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον, ἀνίερον, τόθεν
τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω.
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων.
210
ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός,
γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγὰν
καὶ προτέλεια ναῶν.
βίᾳ χαλινῶν τ' ἀναύδῳ μένει.
στρ. ς'.
κρόκου βαφὰς δ᾽ ἐς πέδον χέουσα
ἔβαλλ᾽ ἕκαστον θυτήρων
225
ἀπ᾽ ὄμματος βέλει φιλοίκτῳ,
πρέπουσα θ᾽ ὡς ἐν γραφαῖς, προςεννέπειν
θέλουσ', ἐπεὶ πολλάκις
πατρὸς κατ' ἀνδρῶνας εὐτραπέζους
ἔμελψεν· ἁγνᾷ δ᾽ ἀταύρωτος αὐδᾷ πατρὸς φίλου
230
τριτόσπονδον εὔποτμον
παιῶνα φίλως ἐτίμα.
ἀντ. ς'.
τὰ δ᾽ ἔνθεν οὔτ᾽ εἶδον οὔτ᾽ ἐννέπω·
τέχναι δὲ Κάλχαντος οὐκ ἄκραντοι.
Δίκα δὲ τοῖς μὲν παθοῦσιν
235
μαθεῖν ἐπιρρέπει· τὸ μέλλον·
τὸ προκλύειν δ᾽ ἐπιγνοιη· προχαιρέτω·
ἴσον δὲ τῷ προστένειν.
τορὸν γὰρ ἥξει σύνορθρον αὐγαῖς.
πέλοιτο δ᾽ οὖν τἀπὶ τούτοισιν εὔπραξις, ὡς θέλει
240
τόδ᾽ ἄγχιστον Ἀπίας
γαίας μονόφρουρον ἕρκος.
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 40 focus
Σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω -ρεα -ρεου
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος ; τί νέον ; τί δ' ἐπαισθομένη,
τίνος ἀγγελίας
85
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς θυοσκινεῖς ;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων, τῶν τε θυραίων τ' οὐρανίων
τῶν τ' ἀγοραίων,
βωμοὶ δώροισι -ροις φλέγονται·
90
ἄλλη δ' ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει, φαρμασσομένη
χρίματος χρήμ- χρίσμ- ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
πελανῶν... βασιλείων -λάνῳ (-λανῶ Μ)... -λείῳ.
95
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
100
τὴν θυμοβόρον
λύπης φρενὶ φροντίδ' ἄπληστον φροντίδ' ἄπληστον τὴν θυμοβόρον λύπης φρένα.
Κεδνὸς δὲ στρατόμαντις ἰδὼν δύο λήμασιν ἴσους -σι δισσοὺς
Ant.
Ἀτρεΐδας μαχίμους ἐδάη λαγοδαίτας πομπᾶς πομπούς τ'
ἀρχούς ἀρχάς· οὕτω δ' εἶπε τεράζων·
« Χρόνῳ μὲν ἀγρεῖ Πριάμου πόλιν ἅδε κέλευθος,
120
πάντα δὲ πύργων
κτήνη πρόσθε τὰ δημιοπληθῆ
Μοῖρ' ἀλαπάξει πρὸς τὸ βίαιον·
οἷον μή τις ἄγα ἄτα θεόθεν κνεφά-
σῃ προτυπὲν στόμιον μέγα Τροίας
125
στρατωθέν· οἴκτῳ οἴκῳ γὰρ ἐπίφθονος Ἄρτεμις ἁγνὰ
πτανοῖσιν -οῖς κυσὶ -σὶν πατρὸς
αὐτότοκον πρὸ λόχου μογερὰν πτάκα πτάωνκα πτῶκα θυομένοισιν·
« Τόσον περ εὔφρων <ἁ> Καλά,
Epod.
δρόσοις ἀέπτοις μαλερῶν λεόντων
140
πάντων τ' ἀγρονόμων φιλομάστοις
θηρῶν ὀβρικάλοισιν τερπνά,
τούτων (μ') αἰτεῖ ξύμβολα κρῖναι,
δεξιὰ μέν, κατάμομφα δὲ φάσματα.
Ἰήϊον δὲ καλέω Παιᾶνα,
145
μή τινας ἀντιπνόους Δαναοῖς χρονί-
ας ἐχενῇδας ἀπλοίας τεύξῃ,
σπευδομένα θυσίαν ἑτέραν ἄνομόν τιν' ἄδαιτον
νεικέων τέκτονα σύμφυτον, οὐ δεισήνορα· μίμνει
γὰρ φοβερὰ παλίνορτος
150
οἰκονόμος δολία μνάμων Μῆνις τεκνόποινος. »
Τοιάδε Κάλχας ξὺν μεγάλοις ἀγαθοῖς ἀπέκλαγξεν
μόρσιμ' ἀπ' ὀρνίθων ὁδίων οἴκοις βασιλείοις·
τοῖς δ' ὁμόφωνον
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ' εὖ νικάτω.
155
Ζεὺς ὅστις ποτ' ἐστίν, εἰ τόδ' αὐ-
Str. 1.
τῷ φίλον κεκλημένῳ,
τοῦτό νιν προσεννέπω·
οὐκ ἔχω προσεικάσαι
πάντ' ἐπισταθμώμενος
160
πλὴν Διός, εἰ τὸ μάταν ἀπὸ φροντίδος ἄχθος
χρὴ βαλεῖν ἐτητύμως·
οὐδ' ὅστις πάροιθεν ἦν μέγας,
Ant. 1.
τὸν φρονεῖν βροτοὺς ὁδώ-
170
Str. 2.
σαντα, τῷ πάθει μάθος
θέντα κυρίως ἔχειν·
στάζει δ' ἔν θ' ὕπνῳ πρὸ καρδίας
μνησιπήμων πόνος καὶ παρ' ἄ-
κοντας ἦλθε σωφρονεῖν·
175
δαιμόνων δέ που ποῦ χάρις βίαιος βιαίως
σέλμα σεμνὸν ἡμένων.
Καὶ τόθ' ἡγεμὼν ὁ πρέ-
Ant. 2.
σβυς νεῶν Ἀχαιϊκῶν,
μάντιν οὔτινα ψέγων,
180
ἐμπαίοις τύχαισι συμπνέων —
εὖτ' ἀπλοίᾳ κεναγγεῖ βαρύ-
νοντ' Ἀχαιϊκὸς λεώς,
Χαλκίδος πέραν ἔχων παλιρρό-
χθοις ἐν Αὐλίδος τόποις·
185
πνοαὶ δ' ἀπὸ Στρυμόνος μολοῦσαι
Str. 3.
κακόσχολοι, νήστιδες, δύσορμοι,
βροτῶν ἄλαι, ναῶν <τε> om. καὶ
πεισμάτων ἀφειδεῖς,
παλιμμήκη χρόνον τιθεῖσαι
190
τρίβῳ κατέξαινον ἄν-
θος Ἀργείων· ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ πικροῦ
ἄναξ δ' ὁ πρέσβυς τόδ' εἶπε φωνῶν·
Ant. 3.
« Βαρεῖα μὲν κὴρ τὸ μὴ πιθέσθαι πειθέσθαι πείθεσθαι,
200
βαρεῖα δ', εἰ τέκνον δαΐ-
ξω, δόμων ἄγαλμα,
μιαίνων παρθενοσφάγοισιν
ῥείθροις ῥεέθροις πατρῴους -ῴας χέρας
πέλας βωμοῦ βωμοῦ πέλας· τί τῶνδ' ἄνευ κακῶν ;
205
πῶς τί· πῶς λιπόναυς -ναυς τε γένωμαι
ξυμμαχίας ἁμαρτών ;
παυσανέμου γὰρ θυσίας
παρθενίου θ' αἵματος ὀρ-
γᾷ περιοργῶς -όργως ἐπιθυ-
210
μεῖν θέμις· εὖ γὰρ θέμις γὰρ εὖ εἴη. »
Ἐπεὶ δ' ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον
Str. 4.
φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον, ἀνίερον, τόθεν
τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω·
215
βροτοὺς θρασύνει θρασύνοι γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων·
ἔτλα δ' οὖν θυτὴρ γενέ-
σθαι θυγατρός, γυναικοποί-
νων πολέμων ἀρωγὰν
220
Λιτὰς δὲ καὶ κληδόνας πατρῴους
Ant. 4.
παρ' οὐδέν, αἰῶνα παρθένειον,
ἔθεντο φιλόμαχοι βραβῆς -βεῖς·
φράσεν δ' ἀόζοις ἐν ὄσσοις πατὴρ μετ' εὐχὰν
225
δίκαν χιμαίρας ὕπερθε βωμοῦ
πέπλοισι περιπετῆ παντὶ θυμῷ
προνωπῆ λαβεῖν βαλεῖν ἀέρ-
δην στόματός τε καλλιπρῴ-
ρου φυλακᾷ -κὰν κατασχεῖν
230
φθόγγον ἀραῖον οἴκοις,
βίᾳ χαλινῶν τ' δ' ἀναύδῳ -δων μένει·
Str. 5.
κρόκου βαφὰς δ' βαφὰς ἐς πέδον χέουσα
ἔβαλλ' ἕκαστον θυτή-
ρων ἀπ' ὄμματος ὀμμάτων βέλει
235
φιλοίκτῳ, πρέπουσά θ' ὡς
ἐν γραφαῖς προσεννέπειν
θέλουσ', ἐπεὶ πολλάκις
πατρὸς κατ' ἀνδρῶνας εὐτραπέζους
ἔμελψεν, ἁγνᾷ ἁγνὰ δ' ἀταύ-
240
ρωτος αὐδᾷ αὐδὰ πατρὸς
φίλου τριτόσπονδον εὔ-
ποτμον εὐπόταμον εὔποτον παιᾶνα αἰῶνα φίλως ἐτίμα.
Τὰ δ' ἔνθεν οὔτ' εἶδον οὔτ' ἐννέπω·
Ant. 5.
τέχναι δὲ Κάλχαντος οὐκ ἄκραντοι·
245
Δίκα δὲ τοῖς μὲν παθοῦ-
σιν μαθεῖν ἐπιρρέπει·
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 40 focus
δέκατον μὲν ἔτος τόδ᾽ ἐπεὶ Πριάμου
40
μέγας ἀντίδικος,
Μενέλαος ἄναξ ἠδ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνων,
διθρόνου Διόθεν καὶ δισκήπτρου
τιμῆς ὀχυρὸν ζεῦγος Ἀτρειδᾶν,
στόλον Ἀργείων χιλιοναύτην
45
τῆσδ᾽ ἀπὸ χώρας
ἦραν, στρατιῶτιν ἀρωγήν,
μέγαν ἐκ θυμοῦ κλάζοντες Ἄρη,
τρόπον αἰγυπιῶν, οἶτ᾽ ἐκπατίοις
ἄλγεσι παίδων ὕπατοι λεχέων
50
στροφοδινοῦνται,
πτερύγων ἐρετμοῖσιν ἐρεσσόμενοι,
δεμνιοτήρη
πόνον ὀρταλίχων ὀλέσαντες·
ὕπατος δ᾽ ἀίων ἤ τις Ἀπόλλων
55
ἢ Πὰν ἢ Ζεὺς οἰωνόθροον
γόον ὀξυβόαν
τῶνδε μετοίκων ὑστερόποινον
σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
85
τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ᾿ ἀγοραίων,
90
βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης
λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει,
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
95
πελάνῳ μυχόθεν βασιλείῳ.
τούτων λέξασ᾽ ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις αἰνεῖν,
παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης,
ἢ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν κακόφρων τελέθει,
100
τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἀγανὰ φαίνεις
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽ ἄπληστον
κύριός εἰμι θροεῖν ὅδιον κράτος
αἴσιον ἀνδρῶν
105
ἐκτελέων· ἔτι γὰρ
θεόθεν καταπνείει
πειθώ, μολπᾶν
ἀλκὰν σύμφυτος αἰών·
ὅπως Ἀχαιῶν
110
δίθρονον κράτος, Ἑλλάδος ἥβας
ξύμφρονα τὰν γᾶν,
πέμπει σὺν δορὶ καὶ χερὶ πράκτορι
θούριος ὄρνις Τευκρίδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ αἶαν,
οἰωνῶν βασιλεὺς
115
βασιλεῦσι νεῶν, ὁ κελαινὸς
ὅ τ᾽ ἐξόπιν ἀργάς,
κεδνὸς δὲ στρατόμαντις ἰδὼν δύο
125
λήμασι δισσοὺς
Ἀτρείδας μαχίμους
ἐδάη λαγοδαίτας
πομπούς τ᾿ ἀρχάς·
οὕτω δ᾽ εἶπε τερᾴζων·
130
χρόνῳ μὲν ἀγρεῖ
Πριάμου πόλιν ἅδε κέλευθος,
πάντα δὲ πύργων
κτήνη πρόσθε τὰ δημιοπληθῆ
μοῖρα λαπάξει πρὸς τὸ βίαιον·
135
οἷον μή τις ἄγα
τόσσων περ εὔφρων καλὰ
δρόσοισιν ἀέλπτοις μαλερῶν λεόντων,
πάντων τ᾿ ἀγρονόμων φιλομάστοις
θηρῶν ὀβρικάλοισι, τερπνὰ
τούτων αἰτεῖ ξύμβολα κρᾶναι,
150
δεξιὰ μέν, κατάμομφα δὲ
φάσματα στρουθῶν.
ἰήιον δὲ καλέω Παιᾶνα,
Ζεὺς ὅστις ποτ᾽ ἐστίν, εἰ τόδ᾽ αὐ-
170
τῷ φίλον κεκλημένῳ,
τοῦτό νιν προσεννέπω.
οὐκ ἔχω προσεικάσαι
πάντ᾽ ἐπισταθμώμενος
πλὴν Διός, εἰ τὸ μάταν
175
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 40 focus
δέκατον μὲν ἔτος τόδ᾽ ἐπεὶ Πριάμωι μέγας ἀντίδικος
40
Μενέλαος ἄναξ ἠδ᾽ Ἀγαμέμνων,
διθρόνου Διόθεν καὶ δισκήπτρου
τιμῆς ὀχυρὸν ζεῦγος Ἀτρειδᾶν,
στόλον Ἀργείων χιλιοναύτην
45
τῆσδ᾽ ἀπὸ χώρας ἦραν, στρατιῶτιν ἀρωγήν,
μέγαν ἐκ θυμοῦ κλάζοντες ἄρη,
τρόπον αἰγυπιῶν οἵτ᾽ ἐκπατίοις ἄλγεσι παίδων
50
†ὕπατοι† λεχέων στροφοδινοῦνται
πτερύγων ἐρετμοῖσιν ἐρεσσόμενοι,
δεμνιοτήρη πόνον ὀρταλίχων ὀλέσαντες·
ὕπατος δ᾽ ἀΐων ἤ τις Ἀπόλλων ἢ Πὰν ἢ Ζεὺς
55
οἰωνόθροον γόον ὀξυβόαν τῶνδε μετοίκων
ὑστερόποινον πέμπει παραβᾶσιν Ἐρινύν.
οὕτω δ᾽ Ἀτρέως παῖδας ὁ κρείσσων
60
ἐπ’ Ἀλεξάνδρωι πέμπει ξένιος
Ζεὺς πολυάνορος ἀμφὶ γυναικός,
πολλὰ παλαίσματα καὶ γυιοβαρῆ
γόνατος κονίασιν ἐρειδομένου
διακναιομένης τ᾽ ἐν προτελείοις
65
κάμακος θήσων Δαναοῖσιν
Τρωσί θ' ὁμοίως. ἔστι δ᾽ ὅπηι νῦν
ἐστι· τελεῖται δ᾽ εἰς τὸ πεπρωμένον·
οὔθ᾽ ὑποκαίων οὔτ᾽ ἐπιλείβων
οὔτε †δακρύων† ἀπύρων ἱερῶν
70
ὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει.
ἡμεῖς δ᾽ ἀτίται σαρκὶ παλαιᾶι
τῆς τότ᾽ ἀρωγῆς ὑπολειφθέντες
μίμνομεν, ἰσχὺν ἰσόπαιδα νέμοντες ἐπὶ σκήπτροις·
75
ὅ τε γὰρ νεαρὸς μυελὸς στέρνων ἐντὸς ἀνάσσων
ἰσόπρεσβυς, ἄρης δ᾽ οὐκ ἔνι χώραι,
τό θ' ὑπεργήρων, φυλλάδος ἤδη κατακαρφομένης,
80
τρίποδας μὲν ὁδοὺς στείχει, παιδὸς δ’ οὐδὲν ἀρείων
ὄναρ ἠμερόφα ντον ἀλαίνει. ὄναρ ἡμερόφα⟨ν⟩τον ἀλαίνει.
σὺ δὲ Τυνδάρεω θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
85
τίνος ἀγγελίας πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων, τῶν τε θυραίων τῶν τ᾽ ἀγοραίων
90
βωμοὶ δώροισ ι φλέγονται: βωμοὶ δώροισι⟨ν⟩ φλέγονται·
ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν οὐρανομήκης λαμπὰς ἀνίσχει
φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ
μαλακαῖς ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις,
95
πελανῶι μυχόθεν βασιλείωι.
τούτων λέξασ᾽ ὅτι καὶ δυνατὸν
καὶ θέμις, αἴνει παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης,
ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν κακόφρων τελέθει,
100
τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἃς ἀναφαίνεις
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽ ἄπληστον
καὶ θυμοβόρον φρενὶ λύπην.
κύριός εἰμι θροεῖν ὅδιον κράτος αἴσιον ἀνδρῶν
ἐκτελέων -- ἔτι γὰρ θεόθεν καταπνεύει
105
πειθώ, μολπᾶν ἀλκάν, ξύμφυτος αἰών --
ὅπως Ἀχαιῶν δίθρονον κράτος, Ἑλλάδος ἥβας
ξύμφρονα ταγάν,
110
πέμπει ξὺν δορὶ καὶ χερὶ πράκτορι θούριος ὄρνις
Τευκρίδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ αἷαν,
οἰωνῶν βασιλεὺς βασιλεῦσι νε-
ῶν, ὃ κελαινὸς ὅ τ᾽ ἐξόπιν ἀργᾶς,
115
φανέντες ἴκταρ μελάθρων χερὸς ἐκ δορυπάλτου
παμπρέπτοις ἐν ἕδραισιν
βοσκόμενοι λαγίναν ἐρικύμονα φέρματι γένναν,
βλαβέντα λοισθίων δρόμων.
120
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω.
κεδνὸς δὲ στρατόμαντις ἰδὼν δύο λήμασι δισσούς
Ἀτρεΐδας μαχίμους ἐδάη λαγοδαίτας
πομπούς τ᾽ ἀρχάς· οὕτω δ᾽ εἶπε τεράζων·
125
“χρόνωι μὲν ἁγ'ρεῖ Πριάμου πόλιν ἅδε κέλευθος,
πάντα δὲ πύργων
κτήνη πρόσθε τὰ δημιοπληθέα Μοῖρα λαπάξει
πρὸς τὸ βίαιον·
130
οἷον μή τις ἄγα θεόθεν κνεφά-
σηι προτυπὲν στόμιον μέγα Τροίας
στρατωθέν. οἴκ τωι γὰρ ἐπίφθονος Ἄρτεμις ἁγνά
πτανοῖσιν κυσὶ πατρός
135
αὐτότοκον πρὸ λόχου μογερὰν πτάκα θυομένοισιν,
198 ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩ͂Ν
στυγεῖ δὲ δεῖπνον αἰετῶν.᾽
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω.
“τόσον περ εὔφρων Ἑκάτα
140
δρόσοις ἀέπτοις μαλερῶν λεόντων
πάντων τ᾽ ἀγρονόμων φιλομάστοις
θηρῶν ὀβρικάλοισι τερπνά·
τούτων αἰτεῖ ξύμβολα κρᾶναι.
δεξιὰ μέν, κατάμομφα δὲ φάσματα †στρουθῶν†.
145
ἰήϊον δὴ καλέω Παιῶνα,
μή τινας ἀντιπνόους Δαναοῖς
χρονίας ἐχενῆιδας ἀπλοίας
τεύξηι, σπευδομένα θυσίαν
150
ἑτέραν, ἄνομόν τιν᾽, ἄδαιτον,
νεικέων τέκτονα σύμφυτον, οὐ δει-
σήνορα' μίμνει γὰρ φοβερὰ παλίνορτος
οἰκονόμος δολία, μνάμων Μῆνις τεκνόποινος.᾽
155
τοιάδε Κάλχας
ξὺν μεγάλοις ἀγαθοῖς ἀπέκλαγξεν
μόρσιμ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὀρνίθων ὁδίων οἴκοις βασιλείοις·
τοῖς δ᾽ ὁμόφωνον
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω.
Ζεύς, ὅστίς ποτ᾽ ἐστίν, εἰ τόδ᾽ αὐ-
τῶι φίλον κεκλημένωι,
τοῦτό νιν προσεννέπω·
οὐκ ἔχω προσεικάσαι
πάντ᾽ ἐπισταθμώμενος
πλὴν Διός, εἰ τὸ μάταν ἀπὸ φροντίδος ἄχθος
165
χρὴ βαλεῖν ἐτητύμως.
οὔθ᾽ ὅστις πάροιθεν ἦν μέγας
παμμάχωι θράσει βρύων,
οὐδὲ λέξ εται πρὶν ὤν·
170
ὅς τ᾽ ἔπειτ᾽ ἔφυ. τριακ-
τῆρος οἴχεται τυχών·
Ζῆνα δέ τις προφρόνως ἐπινίκια κλάζων
τεύξεται φρενῶν τὸ πᾶν,
175
τὸν φρονεῖν βροτοὺς ὁδώ-
σαντα, τὸν πάθει μάθος
θέντα κυρίως ἔχειν.
στάζει δ᾽ ἀνθ ὕπνου πρὸ καρδίας
μνησιπήμων πόνος· καὶ παρ᾽ ἄ-
180
κοντας ἦλθε σωφρονεῖν.
δαιμόνων δὲ ποῦ χάρις,
βιαίως σέλμα σεμνὸν ἡμένων;
καὶ τόθ᾽ ἡγεμὼν ὁ πρέσ-
βυς νεῶν Ἀχαιϊκῶν,
185
μάντιν οὔτινα ψέγων,
ἐμπαίοις τύχαισι συμπνέων,
εὖτ᾽ ἁπλοίαι κεναγγεῖ βαρύ-
νοντ᾽ Ἀχαιϊκὸς λεώς
Χαλκίδος πέραν ἔχων
190
παλιρρό χθοις ἐν Αὐλίδος τόποις,
πνοαὶ δ᾽ ἀπὸ Στρυμόνος μολοῦσαι
κακόσχολοι, νήστιδες, δύσορμοι,
βροτῶν ἄλαι, ναῶν τε καὶ πεισμάτων ἀφειδεῖς,
195
παλιμμήκη χρόνον τιθεῖσαι
τρίβωι κατέξαινον ἄν-
θος Ἀργείων. ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ πικροῦ
χείματος ἄλλο μῆχαρ
βριθύτερον πρόμοισιν
200
μάντις ἔκλαγξεν,
προφέρων Ἄρτεμιν, ὥστε χθόνα βάκτροις
ἐπικρούσαντας Ἀτρείδας
δάκρυ μὴ κατασχεῖν,
ἄναξ δ᾽ ὁ πρέσβυς τόδ᾽ εἶπε φωνῶν·
205
“βαρεῖα μὲν κὴρ τὸ μὴ πιθέσθαι,
βαρεῖα δ᾽ εἰ τέκνον δαΐξω, δόμων ἄγαλμα,
μιαίνων παρθενοσφάγοισιν
ῥείθροις πατρώιους χέρας
210
πέλας βωμοῦ· τί τῶνδ᾽ ἄνευ κακῶν;
πῶς λιπόναυς γένωμαι
ξυμμαχίας ἁμαρτών;
παυσανέμου γὰρ
θυσίας παρθενίου θ' αἵματος ὀργᾶι
215
περιόργως· ἀπὸ δ᾽ αὐδᾶι
θέμις. εὖ γὰρ εἴη.·
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον
φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον ἀνίερον, τόθεν
220
τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω.
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων᾽ ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν
θυτὴρ γενέσθαι
θυγατρός, γυναικοποίνων
225
πολέμων ἀρωγάν
καὶ προτέλεια ναῶν.
λιτὰς δὲ καὶ κληδόνας πατρώιους
παρ᾽ οὐδὲν αἰῶ τε παρθέν ειον παρ᾽ οὐδὲν αἰῶ τε παρθέ⟨ε⟩ιον
ἔθεντο φιλόμαχοι βραβῆς·
230
φράσεν δ᾽ ἀόζοις πατὴρ μετ᾽ εὐχάν
δίκαν χιμαίρας ὕπερθε βωμοῦ
πέπλοισι περιπετῆ παντὶ θυμῶι προνωπῆ
λαβεῖν ἀέρδην,
στόματός τε καλλιπρώιρου
235
φυλακᾶι κατασχεῖν
φθόγγον ἀραῖον οἴκοις,
βίαι χαλινῶν τ᾽ ἀναύδωι μένει.
κρόκου βαφὰς δ᾽ εἰς πέδον χέουσα
ἔβαλλ᾽ ἕκαστον θυτήρων ἀπ᾽ ὄμματος βέλει
240
φιλοίκτωι, πρέπουσα τὼς
ἐν γραφαῖς, προσεννέπειν
θέλουσ᾽, ἐπεὶ πολλάκις
πατρὸς κατ' ἀνδρῶνας εὐτραπέζους
ἔμελψεν, ἁγνᾶι δ᾽ ἀταύρωτος αὐδᾷ πατρὸς
245
φίλου τριτόσπονδον εὔ-
ποτμον παιῶνα φίλως ἐτίμα. ποτμον ⟨αἰ⟩ῶνα φίλως ἐτίμα.
τὰ δ᾽ ἔνθεν οὔτ᾽ εἶδον οὔτ᾽ ἐννέπω·
τέχναι δὲ Κάλχαντος οὐκ ἄκραντοι.
Δίκα δὲ τοῖς μὲν παθοῦσιν μαθεῖν ἐπιρρέπει·
250
τὸ μέλλον δ᾽ ἐπεὶ γένοιτ᾽
ἂν κλύοις· πρὸ χαιρέτω·
ἴσον δὲ τῶι προστένειν·
τορὸν γὰρ ἥξει ξύνορθρον αὐγαῖς.
πέλοιτο δ᾽ οὖν τἀπὶ τούτοισιν εὖ πρᾶξις, ὡς
255
θέλει τόδ᾽ ἄγχιστον Ἀ-
πίας γαίας μονόφρουρον ἕρκος.
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 40 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,
90
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.
κύριός εἰμι θροεῖν ὅδιον κράτος αἴσιον ἀνδρῶν
105
ἐντελέων· ἔτι γὰρ θεόθεν καταπνεύει
πειθὼ μολπᾶν ἀλκαι σύμφυτος αἰών·
ὅπως Ἀχαιῶν δίθρονον κράτος, Ἑλλάδος ἥβας
ξύμφρονα ταγάν,
110
πέμπει ξὺν δορὶ καὶ χερὶ πράκτορι
θούριος ὄρνις Τευκρίδ᾽ ἐπ᾿ αἶαν,
οἰωνῶν βασιλεὺς βασιλεῦσι νε-
ῶν, ὁ κελαινὸς ὅ τ᾽ ἐξόπιν ἀργᾶις,
φανέντες ἴκταρ μελάθρων χερὸς ἐκ δοριπάλτου
115
παμπρέπτοις ἐν ἕδραισιν
κεδνὸς δὲ στρατόμαντις ἰδὼν δύο λήμασι δισσοὺς
᾿Ατρείδας μαχίμους ἐδάη λαγοδαίτας
πομπᾶς [τ᾽] ἀρχούς·
οὕτω δ᾽ εἶπε τεράιζων·
125
“χρόνωι μὲν ἀγρεῖ Πριάμου πόλιν ἅδε κέλευθος,
πάντα δὲ πύργων
κτήνη πρόσθε τὰ δημιοπληθῆ
μοῖρα λαπάξει πρὸς τὸ βίαιον·
130
οἷον μή τις ἄγα θεόθεν κνεφά-
σηι προτυπὲν στόμιον μέγα Τροίας
στρατωθέν. οἴκτωι γὰρ ἐπίφθονος Ἄρτεμις ἁγνά
πτανοῖσιν κυσὶ πατρός
135
αὐτότοκον πρὸ λόχου μογερὰν πτάκα θυομένοισιν·
στυγεῖ δὲ δεῖπνον αἰετῶν.
αἴλινὸν αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ᾽ εὐ νικάτω.
τόσονπερ εὔφρων ἁ καλά,
140
δρόσοις ἀέπτοις μαλερῶν λεόντων
πάντων τ᾽ ἀγρονόμων φιλομάστοις
θηρῶν ὀβρικάλοισι τερπνά,
Ζεὺς ὅστις ποτ᾽ ἐστίν, εἰ τόδ᾽ αὐ-
160
τῶι φίλον κεκλημένωι,
τοῦτό νιν προσεννέπω.
οὐκ ἔχω προσεικάσαι
πάντ᾽ ἐπισταθμώμενος
πλὴν Διός, εἰ τὸ μάταν ἀπὸ φροντίδος ἄχθος
165
χρὴ βαλεῖν ἐτητύμως. –
οὐδ᾽ ὅστις πάροιθεν ἦν μέγας
παμμάχωι θράσει βρύων,
οὐδὲ λέξεται πρὶν ὤν·
170
ὃς δ᾽ ἔπειτ᾽ ἔφυ, τρια-
κτῆρος οἴχεται τυχών.
Ζῆνα δέ τις προφρόνως ἐπινίκια κλάζων
τεύξεται φρενῶν τὸ πᾶν· =
καὶ τόθ᾽ ἡγεμὼν ὁ πρέ-
σβυς νεῶν ᾿Αχαιικῶν,
185
μάντιν οὔτινα ψέγων,
ἐμπαίοις τύχαισι συμπνέων,
εὐτ᾿ ἀπλοίαι κεναγγεῖ βαρύ-
νοντ᾽ Ἀχαιικὸς λεώς,
Χαλκίδος πέραν ἔχων πα-
190
λιρρόχθοις ἐν Αὐλίδος τόποις· =
πνοαὶ δ᾽ ἀπὸ Στρυμόνος μολοῦσαι
κακόσχολοι νήστιδες δύσορμοι,
βροτῶν ἄλαι, ναῶν (τε) καὶ
πεισμάτων ἀφειδεῖς,
195
παλιμμήκη χρόνον τιθεῖσαι
τρίβωι κατέξαινον ἄν-
θος ᾿Αργείων. ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ πικροῦ
χείματος ἄλλο μῆχαρ
200
βριθύτερον πρόμοισιν
μάντις ἔκλαγξεν, προφέρων
Ἄρτεμιν, ὥστε χθόνα βάκ-
τροις ἐπικρούσαντας ᾿Ατρεί-
δας δάκρυ μὴ κατασχεῖν· –
205
ἄναξ δ᾽ ὁ πρέσβυς τότ᾽ εἶπε φωνῶν·
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον
φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν
ἄναγνον ἀνίερον, τόθεν
220
τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω.
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων. ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν
θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός,
γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγάν
225
καὶ προτέλεια ναῶν. –
λιτὰς δὲ καὶ κληδόνας πατρώιους
παρ᾽ οὐδὲν αἰῶ τε παρθένειον
ἔθεντο φιλόμαχοι βραβῆς.
230
φράσεν δ᾽ ἀόζοις πατήρ μετ᾿ εὐχάν
δίκαν χιμαίρας ὕπερθε βωμοῦ
πέπλοισι περιπετῆ παντὶ θυμῶι προνωπῆ
λαβεῖν ἀέρδην, στόματός
βίαι χαλινῶν τ᾽ ἀναύδωι μένει
κρόκου βαφὰς [δ᾽] ἐς πέδον χέουσα
ἔβαλλ᾽ ἕκαστον θυτήρων ἀπ᾿ ὄμ-
240
ματος βέλει φιλοίκτωι,
πρέπουσ᾽ ὅπως ἐν γραφαῖς, προσεννέπειν
θέλουσ᾽, ἐπεὶ πολλάκις
πατρὸς κατ᾿ ἀνδρῶνας εὐτραπέζους
ἔμελψεν. ἁγνᾶι δ᾽ ἀταύρωτος αὐδᾶι πατρὸς
245
φίλου τριτόσπονδον εὔ-
ποτμον παιῶνα φίλως ἐτίμα. –
τὰ δ᾽ ἔνθεν οὔτ᾽ εἶδον οὔτ᾽ ἐννέπω·
τέχναι δὲ Κάλχαντος οὐκ ἄκραντοι.
Δίκα δὲ τοῖς μὲν παθοῦσιν μαθεῖν
250
ἐπιρρέπει. τὸ μέλλον
ἐπεὶ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν κλύοις· προχαιρέτω·
ἴσον δὲ τῶι προστένειν.
τορὸν γὰρ ἥξει σύνορθρον αὐγαῖς.
πέλοιτο δ᾽ οὖν τἀπὶ τούτοισιν εὖ πρᾶξις, ὡς
255
θέλει τόδ᾽ ἄγχιστον ᾿Α-
πίας γαίας μονόφρουρον ἕρκος. =
Translations (10)
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.) — 40 focus
This is now the tenth year since the great adversary of Priam, king Menelaus and Agamemnon the stalwart yoke 1
the Atreidae, by the gift of Jove [possessed] of a twin-throned and twin-sceptred majesty, led from this land their armament of a thousand ships of the Argives, a warrior aid, screaming through passion a great noise of war, like vultures, which, in their sorrows for their young far from the [paths of men 2
,] wheel their flight high above their nests, oaring with the oars of their pinions, having lost the nestling care 3
of their callow young: but some god 4
, either Apollo, or Pan, or Jove, hearing aloft the shrill-voiced wail uttered by the birds on account of these outcasts 5
, sends Erinnys, the late avenger, upon the transgressors; even so mighty Jove the Hospitable sends the sons of Atreus against Paris, about to impose on Greeks and Trojans alike, on account of the wife of many husbands, many limb-wearying struggles, when the knee is strained in the dust, and the spear-staff is shivered in the onset. But things are as they are; and will be brought to the issue doomed. Neither by weeping nor by pouring libations, nor by shedding tears, will he soothe away the intense wrath of fireless rites 1
. But we, with our unhonoured aged frame, remain left behind the armament of that time, propping on staves our childlike strength. For both the marrow of youth shooting up within our breasts is weak as age, and Mars is not in place; and very advanced age likewise, after that its foliage is already withered, totters along its three-footed path, and nought superior to a child, flits like a day-dream.
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
able to tell of the prowess of the surpassing 3
heroes, well-omened on the way—for still from the gods doth persuasion inspire me with song, [and] the commensurate crisis with strength 4
—how the impetuous bird sends against the land of Teucer the twin-throned power of the Archaeans, the one-minded chief of the youth of Hellas, with spear and avenging hand, the monarch of birds to the monarchs of the ships, one of them black and the other white behind, having appeared near the palace, on the right hand in all-conspicuous position 5
, feeding on a hare-brood teeming with embryo-offspring, cut off from their last 6
course. Chaunt Aelinon, Aelinon! but may the good prevail.
And the clever seer of the army, having seen the twin-warlike Atreidae differing 7
in their spirits, knew [them for] the devourers of the hare, and the commanders who led the expedition, and thus he spake expounding the portent: "In time of a truth shall this inroad take the city of Priam; but of all the public wealth in its towers shall Destiny first violently make havoc 8
. Only may no envy from the gods fling gloom over the mighty embattled curb forged against Troy: for chaste Diana is jealous against the house, on account of the winged hounds 1
of the sire, that made a victim of the wretched hare together with her brood before delivery, and she loathes the banquet of the eagles. Chaunt Aelinon, Aelinon! but may the good prevail.
So kindly is the fair 2
goddess to the cubs of fierce lions unable to follow 3
[their dams], and to the suckling whelps of all the wild beasts that roam the field, and she beseeches [her father 4
] to bring to a favourable issue these omens; propitious indeed, yet open to complaint are the apparitions 5
. And I invoke Ieïan Paean, that she may not work any long ship-detaining stress of weather, with winds adverse to the Greeks, urging on another sacrifice, an impious one, banquetless, the framer of strife among kindred, having no awe for a husband: for there abides a fearful, recurring 6
, fraudful keeper of the house, a mindful child-avenging wrath."—Such destinies, drawn from birds seen upon the march, did Calchas along with great blessings chaunt forth to the royal households. And in harmony with these chaunt Aelinon, Aelinon! but may the good prevail.
Jove—whosoever 7
he be, if this name be well-pleasing to him when invoked, by this do I address him; balancing all reasons. I am not able to make any further guess, except Jove, if in truth it behoves me to cast off the groundless burthen of anxiety.
Nor can he who before was great, flourishing in unconquerable boldness say aught, as one that has passed away 1
; and he who existed next has passed away, having found his third thrower 2
. But any one that cheerfully celebrates Jove in songs of triumph shall completely attain to understanding;
him that leads mortals the way to wisdom, that places knowledge upon suffering, firmly to remain 3
. But e'en in slumber the pang of the memory of ills keeps dripping before the heart, and Wisdom hath come to the wayward. But 'tis a gift, I ween, of the divinities who sit severely 4
on the awful bench.
Then too the senior leader of the ships of the Greeks, blaming no seer, but breathing with the fortunes that befell him—when the Grecian host was afflicted by stress of weather 5
, while it was occupying the coast beyond Chalcis, in the refluent coasts of Aulis,
and blasts that came from the Strymon. of evil holiday, of direful famine, and ill anchorage, stray guides to mortals, unsparing both of ships and cables, rendering the time [of voyage] twice the length —were carding down with delay 6
the flower of the Greeks; when moreover the seer loudly announced to the chieftains another more grievous remedy for the fell tempest 7
, bringing forward Diana; so that the Atreidae, smiting the ground with their sceptres, checked not the tear,
and the elder monarch spake thus aloud: “Hard is the fate not to obey; hard too if I am to sacrifice my daughter, the ornament of my house, polluting a father's hands with the gushings of a virgin's blood near the altar. Which of these alternatives is without its horrors? How can I be a deserter of the fleet, failing the confederacy? for it is meet that they 1
with wrath full wrathfully should desire the sacrifice that shall lull the winds, and the blood of the maiden,—for it would be well.”
But after that he had put on the yoke of necessity, breathing an impious, impure, unholy change of soul, from that time he changed his mind so as to cherish all-daring thoughts. For wretched frenzy, first source of woe, of foul counsel, hardens mortals. And thus he dared to become the sacrificer of his daughter, to promote a war undertaken for the avenging of a woman, and as a first-offering 2
for the fleet:
and the chieftains, eager for the fight, set at nought her supplications, and her cries to her father 3
, and her maiden age. But after prayer her father bade the ministering priests with all zeal, to lift like a kid high above the altar, her who lay prostrate wrapt in her robes, and to put a check upon her beauteous mouth, a voice of curses 4
upon the house, by force of muzzles and strength which allowed no vent to her cry.
And pouring to the ground her vestments of saffron dye, she smote each of her sacrificers with a piteous glance from her eye, and remarkable in her beauty as in a picture , wishing to speak; since oft times in the hospitable halls of her father she was wont to sing, and undeflowered in maidenhood, to do honour with fond respect by her voice to the life of her father happy to a third libation 1
.
What followed thereupon neither did I witness, nor do I tell; but the divinations of Calchas fail not of accomplishment. To those that suffer, indeed Justice brings knowledge. But for futurity 2
, since it will come farewell to it—’tis but the same with sorrowing beforehand; for the event will come dawning clearly with the morning rays 3
. Oh! may there be in the sequel a happy issue, as wishes this the sole guardian, closest bulwark of the Apian land 4
. I have come revering thy majesty, Clytemnestra; for right it is to honour the consort of a chieftain hero, when the monarch's throne has been left empty. And gladly shall I hear whether thou, having learned aught that is good or not, art doing sacrifice with hopes that herald gladness—yet not if thou continuest silent will there be offence.
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que Priam a vu un terrible adversaire, les rois Ménélas et Agamemnon, fils d'Atrée, couple puissant, honoré par Zeus d'un double trône et d'un double sceptre, lever de ce pays une flotte
argienne de mille vaisseaux, pour prêter à leur cause le secours des armes.
Terribles, ils criaient la guerre du fond de leur cœur
irrité, semblables aux vautours qui, éperdus du deuil de
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 6 , 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 7 , 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
tantôt se torture, et tantôt, devant les sacrifices dont tu fais jaillir les lueurs, voit l'espoir écarter d'elle le dévorant souci, insatiable de ma peine 8 .
au dos blanc.
Ils apparurent près du palais, du côté du bras qui brandit
la lance, perchés bien en vue, en train de dévorer, avec toute sa portée, une hase pleine,
son ombre le terrible mors qui doit brider Troie,
biens sans prix, qu'en face des présages du départ Calchas proclama pour la maison de nos princes. — Et, d'accord avec ces présages, dis le chant lugubre, lugubre ; mais que triomphe le sort heureux !
celui dont je l'appelle. J'ai tout pesé : je ne reconnais
que Zeus propre à me décharger vraiment du poids de ma stérile angoisse.
débordant d'une audace prête à
tous les combats : quelque jour on ne dira plus qu'il a seulement existé. Un autre vint ensuite, qui trouva son vainqueur 12 et sa fin. Mais l'homme qui, de toute son âme,
célébrera le nom triomphant de Zeus aura la sagesse suprême.
Il a ouvert aux hommes les voies de la prudence, en leur donnant
pour loi : « Souffrir pour comprendre ». Quand, en plein sommeil, sous le regard du cœur 13 , suinte le doulou-
reux remords 14 , la sagesse en eux, malgré eux, pénètre. Et c'est bien là, je crois, violence bienfaisante des dieux assis à la barre céleste !

C'est ainsi qu'en ces temps-là l'aîné des
chefs de la flotte achéenne, plutôt que de critiquer un devin, se faisait le complice du sort capricieux. Voiles pliées, ventres creux, les
Achéens s'énervaient, arrêtés en vue de Chalcis, au milieu des brisants d'Aulis.
Et, quand le devin, se couvrant
un parti qui ne soit un malheur ? Puis-je, déserteur de ma flotte, manquer à mes alliés ? Si ce sacrifice,
ce sang virginal enchaîne les vents, avec ardeur, ardeur profonde, on peut le désirer sans crime. Qu'il tourne à notre salut ! »

Et, sous son front une fois ployé au joug du destin, un revirement se fait, impur, impie,
sacrilège : il est prêt à tout oser, sa résolution désormais est prise. Car, à la source de tous les maux, la funeste démence aux desseins honteux est là pour souffler l'audace aux mortels. Il osa, lui, sacrifier son
enfant pour aider une armée à reprendre une femme, ouvrir la mer à des vaisseaux !
comprendre sa faute ? c'est ce que les vieillards se demandent avec angoisse.
pour que, telle une chèvre, au-dessus de l'autel, couverte de ses voiles et désespérément s'attachant à la terre,
elle soit saisie, soulevée, cependant qu'un bâillon fermant sa belle bouche arrêtera toute imprécation sur les siens 17 Cela par la force, la brutalité muette d'un frein ! Mais, tandis que sa robe teinte de safran coule sur le sol 18 , le trait
de son regard va blesser de pitié chacun de ses bourreaux. Elle semble
une image, impuissante à parler, elle qui, tant de fois, dans la salle des banquets paternels, chantait et, de sa
voix pure de vierge aimante, entonnait pour la troisième libation 19 l'heureux péan de son père aimé !
Ce qui a suivi, je ne l'ai point vu, je ne peux le dire. Mais l'art de Calchas n'est pas vain, et ce n'est qu'à celui qui a
souffert que la Justice accorde de comprendre. L'avenir, il 20
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The tenth ſlow year rolls on, ſince great in arms
The noble ſons of Atreus, each exalted
To majeſty and empire, royal brothers,
Led hence a thouſand ſhips, the Argive fleet,
Big with the fate of Priam and of Troy;
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A warlike preparation; their bold breaſts
Breathing heroic ardor to high deeds;
Like vultures, which their unplumed offspring loſt d
,
—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?
It ſwells upon my ſoul; I feel the pow’r
To hail th’ auſpicious hour,
95
When, their brave hoſts marching in firm array,
The heroes led the way.
The fire of youth glows in each vein,
And heav’n-born confidence inſpires the ſtrain.
Pleas’d the omen to record,
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That to Troy’s ill-fated ſtrand
The venerable ſeer, whoſe ſkill divine i
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Knows what the Fates deſign,
On
“The virgin Goddeſs of the chace,
“Fair from the ſpangled dew-drops that adorn
“The breathing flowrets of the morn,
“Protectreſs of the infant race
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“Of all that haunt the tangled grove,
“Or o’er the rugged mountains rove,
“She, beauteous queen, commands me to declare
“What by the royal birds is ſhown,
“Signal of conqueſt, omen fair,
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“But darken’d by her aweful frown.
O thou n
, that ſit’ſt ſupreme above,
Whatever name thou deign’ſt to hear,
Unblam’d may I pronounce thee Jove!
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Feeble and helpleſs to the light
The proudeſt of man’s race aroſe,
Tho’ now, exulting in his might,
Dauntleſs he ruſhes on his foes;
Great as he is, in duſt he lies;
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He meets a greater, and he dies.
Yet often, when to wiſdom’s ſeat
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Jove deigns to guide man’s erring feet,
His virtues to improve;
He to affliction gives command
To form him with her chaſt’ning hand:
The memory of her rigid lore,
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On the ſad heart imprinted deep,
Attends him thro’ day’s active hour,
Nor in the night forſakes his ſleep.
When now in Aulis’ rolling bay
His courſe the refluent floods refus’d,
And ſick’ning with inaction lay
In dead repoſe th’ exhauſted train,
Did the firm chief of chance complain?
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No prophet he accus’d;
His eyes towards Chalcis bent he stood,
And ſilent mark’d the ſurging flood.
Sullen the winds from Strymon ſweep,
Miſchance and famine in the blaſt,
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Ceaſeleſs torment the angry deep,
The cordage rend, the veſſels waſte,
With tedious and ſevere delay
Wear the freſh flow’r of Greece away.
“Dreadful the ſentence: not t’ obey,
“Vengeance and ruin cloſe us round:
Bound in neceſſity’s iron chain
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Reluctant nature ſtrives in vain :
Impure, unholy thoughts ſucceed,
And dark’ning o’er his boſom roll;
Whilſt madneſs prompts the ruthleſs deed,
Tyrant of the miſguided ſoul:
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Arm’d in a woman’s cauſe, around
Fierce for the war the princes roſe;
No place affrighted pity found.
240
Rent on the earth her maiden veil ſhe throws
That emulates the roſe;
And on the ſad attendants rolling
The trembling luſtre of her dewy eyes,
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Their grief-empaſſion’d ſouls controlling,
And for her country’s good,
With patient, meek, ſubmiſſive mind
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To her hard fate reſign’d,
Pour’d out the rich ſſtream of her blood.
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L'anno decimo volge, dal giomo
che di Priamo il grande avversario,
Menelao, col sovrano Agamènnone,
salda coppia d'Atridi, cui Giove
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die' fregio di duplice scettro,
di duplice trono, disciolsero
da questa contrada lo stuolo
dei mille navigli,
belligero, vindice, alzando
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dall'alma clangore di guerra
altissimo, come avvoltoi
che, perso il travaglio dei figli
dai nidi vegliati, nel cruccio
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.
Strofe I
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Ben potrei dire nel canto la possa e la gesta fatale
di valorosi campioni — fiducia m' ispirano i Numi,
possa canora l' età —:
come la forza dal duplice trono, i concordi signori
del fior giovanile de l' Ellade,
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verso la spiaggia di Troia,
sospinse con lancie, con vindice mano
impetuoso portento:
il re delle navi sospinse
il re degli augelli: uno negro
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ne apparve, uno candido a tergo,
vicino alla reggia, da destra,
nei nitidi campi del cielo,
che a brani una lepre facevano, feconda di molti rampolli,
ghermita nell' ultima fuga.
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Lugubre, lugubre canto s' intoni; ma il bene trionfi.
Antistrofe I
Il venerando profeta Calcante, ben vide che i due
per animo e ardire diversi, belligeri Atridi, erano essi
l'aquile divoratrici,
135
i condottier' della gesta; e disse, spiegando il prodigio:
« Vien tempo; e per questi guerrieri
crolla la rocca di Priamo;
e quante ricchezze già chiuser le genti
dentro le torri, la Parca
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distrugge, saccheggia a furore.
Deh! Invidia celeste non franga
né oscuri le schiere, il gran freno
di Troia! Ché Artemide aborre
gli aligeri cani di Giove,
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e il pasto dell' aquile aborre, pietosa alla timida lepre,
sbranata digiuna coi figli ».
Lugubre, lugubre canto s' intoni; ma il bene trionfi.
Mesodo
« Sebbene tu sei, bella Diva,
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benevola ai teneri parvoli
d'ardenti leoni, ed ai cuccioli
poppanti di fiere selvagge,
ti prego che questo presagio
commisto d'augurî felici e di biasimo,
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tu arrechi a benevolo termine.
E supplico Apollo Peàne, che ai Dànai
la Dea non appresti
indugi di venti contrarî
che a lungo le navi trattengano,
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Strofe II
Giove! Sia qual Nume sia:
a tal nome, ov'ei ne giubili,
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volerà la prece mia.
Invocar, per quanto ponderi,
io non so che Giove solo,
se veramente conviene gittare dall'anima
questo vano e greve duolo.
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2
Antistrofe II
Chi primo ebbe e possa e gloria,
e fiori d'ardor belligero,
n'è sin persa la memoria:
chi secondo ebbe il dominio,
185
dal piú forte fu sconfitto:
chi preferisce per Giove cantar l'epinicio,
batterà cammin diritto.
Strofe III
I mortali sopra tramiti
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esso avvia di sapïenza:
esso fa che dalla doglia
forze attinga esperienza.
E nel sonno il cruccio memore
stilla in cuor l'antico affanno;
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e se pure alcun recalcitra,
giungon l'ore, e savio il fanno.
Questa è pur grazia dei Dèmoni,
che, seduti in sacri seggi,
con la forza segnan leggi.
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3
Antistrofe III
E il maggiore dei due principi
delle navi, all' indovino
non gittò taccia di biasimo,
ma coi colpi del destino
205
cospirò, quando l'indugio
a far vela, che struggea
entro i vasi ogni viatico,
aggravò la gente Achea
che avea campo innanzi a Calcide,
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dove in Aulide, alla sponda
con fragor si spezza l'onda.
4
Strofe IV
E venti che giungevano
dallo Strimone, i venti
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Antistrofe IV
E il maggior dei due principi
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tai detti profferia:
«È duro fato se il responso io spregio;
e duro fato è se la figlia mia,
se di mia casa il fregio,
sopra l'altare sgozzo,
235
e le mani paterne entro i virginei
rivi di sangue insozzo.
Or, quale è dei consigli
scevro di male? Frangere
l'alleanza, e i navigli
240
disertare? - Oh!, con furia,
nelle virginee vene
il rimedio si cerchi, onde si plachino
i venti; e sia pel bene! »
Strofe V
245
Or, poi ch'ei fu del Fato al giogo avvinto,
il cuor suo tramutarono impuri aliti
empî, che ad ogni ardir l'ebbero spinto.
Poi che Follia, che turpi mal' consiglia,
prima d'affanni miseranda origine,
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rende gli uomini audaci. Ed ei la figlia
sgozzare osò, per confortar la lotta
per una donna impresa, e perché l'esito
fausto avesse la flotta.
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Antistrofe V
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Gli appelli al padre, e le preghiere, nulla
mossero i prenci, né l'età virginea.
Ordine il padre die' che la fanciulla
su l'altare i ministri, a mo' di capra,
dopo la prece, arditamente levino,
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prona, nei pepli avvinti. E a che non s'apra
la bocca bella, e l'improperio scagli
contro i suoi Lari, con la muta furia
la frenin dei bavagli.
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Strofe VI
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Al suolo essa le crocee
vesti gittò: dal guardo
su ciascuno di quei che l'immolavano
vibrò, di pianto evocatore, un dardo,
bella come dipinta immagine, ansia
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di parlar: ché sovente, d'Agamènnone
nei virili concilii,
Antistrofe VI
Gli effetti ignoro e taccio;
ma di Calcante mai
l'arti non furono irrite. Giustizia
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offre saggezza a chi patí.
Saprai
ciò che serba il futuro insiem con l'esito.
Non dartene pensier: sarebbe piangere
prima della disgrazia.
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T'apparirà ben chiaro
al raggio del mattino.
Eventi prosperi
nascan da ciò, come or brama quest'unico
dell'Apio suol riparo.
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Rientra Clitennestra, alla quale alludono le ultime parole.
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Decimus quidem annus est, quod pro Priamo
Menelaus rex, Agamemnon, (magnus hostis
Duorum thronorum ſceptrorum ex Iove
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Honoris, forte iugum Atridarum,
Claſſem Argiuorum mille nauium ab hac regione
Collegerunt nauem auxiliatricem,
Magnum ex animo clamantes Martem,
More uulturum, qui magnis
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Doloribus pedum alti ex lectis circumuertuntur,
Alarum remis remigantes, cubilia obſeruantem
Laborem pullorum perdentes.
Supremus audiens, ut Apollo,
Aut Pan, aut Iupiter
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Luctum acutum
Horum habitatorum poſteram pæna mittit furiam
Sic uerò Atrei filios melior (traducentibus ipfos,
Contrà Alexandrum mittit hofpitalis
Iupiter: pro muliere multis uiris nupta
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Multa certamina, grauia,
Genu puluere firmato,
Pugnis tedio afficientis
Haſte faciens Danais,
Troianisq; fimiliter. est quo nunc uerò,
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Est, perfectum est fatum:
Neq; celebrans, neq; libans,
Neq; excipiens igne carentia facrificia,
Iras auſteras demulcebit.
Nos uerò extenuati antiqua carne,
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Hoc auxilium tunc derelicti expectamus, fortitudi-
Iuuenilem colentes cum fceptris.
(nem
Quado enim iuuenis medulla pectoris intus regës,
Aequaliter fenex Isopresbys, Mars nõ inest regioni,
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Tunc fenectutis ſtrue iam
Siccatæ, tripodas per uias quidem
It: puero uerò nihil melior,
Somnus lucem mitigans uagatur.
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
110
Aufpicatum uirorum
Perfectorum: adhuc enim
Diuinitus ſpirat
Persuasio carmen,
Subsidium und natum euum,
115
Vt Achæorum
Ditronum robur Græcie pubem,
Eiufdem mentis imperium,
Mitrit cum hafta pænas uindici
Bellicosa ales in Teucrida terram,
120
Auium rex
Regibus nauium niger,
Retro uero albus.
Apparentes prope ueftibula
Ex manu quatiente hastam,
125
Splendidis folijs
Paſcentes leporinam
Tumultuosam reti generationem
Nocentem ultimo curſu.
Lamentationem lamentationem dic, hoc bene uincat.
130
Probus exercitus uates uidens duos,
Consilijs geminos
Atridas bellicofos,
Cognouit cœnas, comites, ac principes
Sic dixit portendens,
135
Tempore quidem accipiet
Priami urbem, hec uerò una est.
Omnes uerò turrium
Poſseſsiones populi multitudinem
Parca depopulabitur per uim,
140
Tanquam nullum nocumentum
Diuinitus obſcurabit fictum frænum
Magnumn Troiæ,
Ab exercitu.
Domui inuidiosa caſta
145
Diana. celeribus canibus patris,
Cum ipſo fætu ame agmen
Laboriosum leporem ſacrificantibus,
Edit cœnam aquilarum,
Vlulatum ululatum dic uerò, hoc bene uincat.
150
Tantum enim imprudens
Curſibus in ſperatis, defatigatis
Omnibus rusticis charis
Venans catulis iucunditatem.
Horum petit figna perficere,
155
Dextras quidem accufaui uiſiones aquilarum.
Propriu uoco peana, ne aliquas cõtrariò refpirantes
Danais moras naues retinētes innauigabiles cõcilies,
Faciens facrificiu alienu, iniquũ, cõuiuio uacuũ,
Contentioni artificē cognatu non timentē uirũ. manet
160
Enim
Terribilis rurfus concitata rectrix fraudulenta
Memoriarum ira pariens dolores.
Talia Calchas cum
Magnis bonis clanxit,
165
Fata ab auibus fauftis. domibus regijs.
His uerò eiufdē mentis exiſlens, lamentationë lamen
Bene uincat.
Iupiter, quis tadein est fic hoc ipsi inuocato charum
Hoc ipfum alloquor.non poffum aßimilare,
170
Omnia ponderans,præter Iouem. fi hoc fruftra,
A cura dolorem oportet eijcere uerè,
Neq; qui antea erat magnus
Bellicosa audacia florens. nihil diceret prius,
Qui uerò deinde fuit,it aßecutus uictum,
175
Iouem uerò quis alacriter epinicia clamans
Mente obtinebit omnirio
Deducentem mortales ut faperent,
Molestie moleftiam propriè facientcm habere,
Stillat uerò intus ſono ad cor labor recordatu tristis,
180
Et ad inuitos uenit ſapere.
Deorum gratia uerò uiolenta.
Gubernator uerò ſenex nauium Achaicarum
Vatem nullum uituperans,
Conſpirans fortibus mœnibus.
185
Quando incomoditate nauigandi grauahat populus
Detentus trans Chalcidem tempeſtuosis in Aulidis
Auræ ab Strymone uenientes
Male quieſcere faciunt. Impetuosi errores mortales,
Nauiumq; rudentibus infeſti
190
Longo tempore diſposui
mori lacerarunt florem
Argiuorum. poſtquam uerò
Acris hyemis alia machinatione grauiore, primatibus
Vates clanxit proſtrens
195
Dianam, ut terram
Fuſtibus concutientes Atride
Non continuerint lachrymas.
Rex uerò ſenex hoc dixit clamans:
Grauis Parca non creditu est,
200
Grauis uerò,ſi
Natam opprimam domorum effigiem.
Inquinans iugulatis uirginis
Fluentis paternas manus.
Prope aram, ſine his
205
Malis, fic defertor nauis ero,
Aberrans à focietate.
Quiescente uerò facrificio,
E' uirgineo ſanguine
Ira,iratè cupere
210
Fas, bene enim erit
Poſtquam neceßitatis ſubijt uinculum
Mentis fpirans impiam mutationem,
Impura profanamq unde audace ſapientia mutauit
Mortalibus, audebat enim turpitudo
215
Mifera, amentia, præcipuum nocumentum.
Tolerabat igitur facrificulus
Fieri filiæ muliere laboriofo
Bello auxiliator, principią nauium
Preces & fortes paternas
220
Nihil pependerunt uitam uirgineam pugnæ cupidi arbitris.
Dixit uerò sacrificiis pater post preces,
Inſtar Chimæræ ſuper aram
Peplis procidentem omni animo
Et procumbentem ut acciperent ſublimi,
225
Pulchri orisque
Custodiam obtinerent,
Sonum horridum domi,
Vi frenorum, multo animi robore.
Croci colorem in campum fundens,
230
Eiecit quemq; ſacrificorum ab oculos iaculo
Lugubri, decens ut in tabulis loqui
Volens ſæpiſsime postquam
Patris iuxta uiriles conuiuas
Debuit caſta ſine iugo loquutio
235
Patris chari beatum ter confæderatum
Seculum charè honorabat.
Que uerò inde, neq; noui, neq; dicam,
Techne Calchamis non imperfect ſunt.
Pena hos dolentes discere propendit
240
Futura: hoc uerò audire,
Poſtquam fiet expiatio, ualeat.
Aequale uerò
Manifestum fatum ueniet uerum cum ipfis.
Fit uerò in his bonum opus,
245
Vt uult hoc proximum Apiæ
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verständlich, den nicht Wissenden ein Rätsel ist.
40
wankt dahin, dreifüßig, schwach und kindisch,
schwankes Traumgebild am hellen Tag.
85
ruf uns auf, dein Freudenfest zu teilen,
105
uns, die Ältesten des Volks von Argos,
Agamemnon treu und zugethan.
Aber wenn den Mund dir fromme Rücksicht
noch verschließt, wenn du der Opfer Anlaß
später erst verkünden willst, so harren
110
wir bescheiden: Lieder und Gebete
stimmen ein in deinen Gottesdienst.
wider das troische Land zur Heerfahrt beide gerufen,
gab ein kriegerischer Angang Geleit.
Nahe dem Lager erschienen auf weithin sichtbarem
Sitze
125
Vogelkönige zween, sich den Königen zeigend der
Flotte
115 auf des Speerarms Seite. Das Schwanzgefieder des
einen
weiß, des anderen schwarz. Sie fraßen der trächtigen
130
120 Häsin
nicht ausgetrag'ne Leibesfrucht.
Wehe, Wehe!
Wehe lasset uns singen, doch endlich möge das Gute
triumphieren.
135
Und auf die beiden verschiedengemuteten Atreussöhne
schaute Kalchas, der weise Prophet.
Da verstand er die streitbaren Fresser des Hasen,
des Angangs Weisung für die Fahrt.
125
140
Deutend sprach er, „der Tag wird kommen, wo unsere
140
Heerfahrt
Priamos' Veste bewältigt und alle die Habe des Volkes,
alle die Fülle der Herden, die hinter den Wällen sich
bergen,
130 fällt dem Geschick der Vernichtung anheim.
145
aller der Tiere des Waldes,
160
selbst die Kätzchen der grimmen Leuen
freundlich behütet,
heißt so weit mich den Sinn des Zeichens enthüllen:
145 Glück verkündet, doch kann auch Unheil bergen der
Angang.
165
Bewahre Phoibos uns davor.
Möge sie nicht den Achäern mit widrig wehenden
Winden
hindern die Fahrt und hemmen die Flotte.
150 Möge sie nicht ein anderes
170
widernatürliches Opfer
fordern, das unüberwindlichen,
Gattenliebe vernichtenden
Hader entfache.
Sonst bleibt nimmer vergessende,
175
155
tückisch am Hausherd lauernde,
endlich schrecklich erstehende,
Kindesschlachtung vergeltende
Rache zurück."
Ertöne drum in gleicher Weise
Wehe, Wehe!
185
Wehe lasset uns singen, doch endlich möge das Gute
triumphieren.
160 Zeus, Zeus.
Mit diesem Namen ruf' ich ihn,
mit jedem, den er hören mag.
190
Und ob ich alles wäge,
zu leicht befind' ich alles.
Von Sorgen und von Sinnen
165 und Zweifeln löst das Herze
mir Zeus allein.
195
Hin, hin,
vergessen ist, der einst geherrscht,
der Urwelt ungeheurer Gott.
Titanenlist bezwang ihn.
170 Auch sie fand ihren Meister.
200
Doch aller Weisheit Ende
ist andachtvoll zu preisen
175 des Zeus' Triumph.
Er wies den Weg zur Weisheit;
uns zwingt die ew'ge Satzung,
205
durch Leiden lernen.
Auf unser müdes Herze
senkt quälend sich und ängstend
statt Schlummers Reue.
180 Auch wider Willen kommt der Mensch zur Einsicht.
210
Gott lenkt das Weltenregiment gewaltsam,
doch Gott ist gütig.
Geheiß des Schicksals,
190 Als des Euripos' Strudel hohl am Strande
von Aulis brandend der Hellenenflotte
220
die Fahrt versagte.
Vom Strymon kam der Sturm, und mit dem Sturm
Verzug und Hunger kam,
195 Das Ankertau riß, die Planken krachten,
die Mannschaft lief ratlos hin und wider;
225
das stolze Heer tatenlos verkümmert.
Und als den Fürsten Kalchas
wider die feindlichen Stürme
nannte das schlimmere Mittel,
als er die Artemis nannte,
230
200 stießen entsetzt die Atreiden
auf den Boden das Scepter;
aus unwilligem Auge
brachen die Tränen.
205 Da war es, wo der ält're der Atreidenfürsten also sprach:
235
„Schwer wiegt die Schuld, will ich nicht gehorchen:
schwer wiegt sie auch, schlacht' ich meine Tochter,
des Hauses Stolz, tauch' ich am Altare
210 die Vaterhand in das Blut der Jungfrau.
Was ist hier nicht Verbrechen?
240
215 Nein, die Gefährten, die Flotte
kann ich nicht feige verraten,
und zu dem Blute der Jungfrau,
zum windstillenden Opfer
treibt es mich unwiderstehlich.
245
Und als er erst dem Joch der Not sich beugte,
220 den Sinn auf Frevel, auf Verbrechen wandte,
da war das Schwanken aus, da wagt' er alles.
250
Der Mensch wird kühn, hat ihm erst Leidenschaft
den Sinn berückt.
225 Zum Bösen ist's der erste Schritt.
Da fand er den Mut seine Tochter zu schlachten,
Gelingen zu schaffen dem Krieg um ein Weib,
255
der Flotte den Segen zu geben.
Der Jungfrau Bitten, ihre Vaterrufe,
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Chorus
For Ares, bartering for gold
The flesh of men, the scales doth hold
In battle of the spear.
From Ilion, back to sorrowing friends,
Rich dust, fire-purified, he sends,
Wash'd with full many a tear.
No living warriors greet them, but instead
Urns filled with ashes smoothly spread.
Groaning, each hero's praise they tell;
How this excelled in martial strife;
And that in fields of carnage fell,
Right nobly for another's wife.
Breathing such murmurs, jealous hate
Doth on the Atridan champions wait.
Achaians, cast in fairest mould,
Ensépulchred 'neath Ilion's wall,
The foughten shore now firmly hold,
The hostile sod their pall.
Chorus
Direful the people's voice, to hate
Attuned, which worketh soon or late
As ban of public doom.
Now o'er my spirit anxious fear
Broodeth, lest tidings I should hear
That night still shrouds in gloom;
For blind to deeds of blood the gods are not.
In Time the swarthy brood of Night
With slow eclipse reverse his lot,
Who Fortune reareth in despite
Of Justice. Reft of succour lies
The wretch once prone. Excessive praise
Is bodeful ever; 'gainst men's eyes
Zeus hurls his blinding rays.
But may ungrudged success be mine!
No city-spoiler let me be!
Nor, subject to another, pine
Myself in slavery.
Chorus
Borne by the joy-announcing flame
Swift through the town the tidings fly;
But whether true who may proclaim,
Or not a heavenly lie?
For who so childish, so distraught,
To warm his spirit at the beacon's glow,
When other news, with evil fraught,
His joy may change to woe?
'Tis woman's way the boon, ere seen, to prize;
Too credulous, her fancy open lies
To rumour's rapid inroad, but the fame
Published by women quickly dies.
Chorus Leader
Soon shall we know whether the signal fires,
The swift relays of courier-light be true,
Or whether, dreamlike, they beguiled our minds
With grateful splendour; -Yonder, from the coast,
A herald comes, shaded with laurel boughs;
While Clay's twin-brother, thirsty Dust, attests
That neither voiceless, nor of mountain wood
Kindling the blaze, will he report in smoke;
No, either will his voice announce more joy,
Or, but ill-omened words I deprecate.
Be omens fair with fair assurance crown'd!
May he who 'gainst the state breathes other prayer,
First reap the fruit of his malignant thought.
HERALD
Oh soil of Argos, oh my native land,
In light of this tenth year to thee I come;
While many a hope hath snapt, this one still holds,
For ne'er I counted, dying here, to share
Beloved sepulture in Argive soil.
Now hail, O earth, bright sunlight hail, and Zeus,
Supreme o'er Argos.
HERALD
Thou too, Pythian king,
With thy fell darts assailing us no more;
Let it suffice that on Scamander's banks
Thy mien was hostile; now, Apollo, lord,
Be thou the Saviour,-be the Healer thou!
Ye Gods of Council, all I now invoke,
Thee, my protector Hermes, Herald dear,
Whom Heralds venerate, and Heroes, ye
Who sent us forth, now kindly welcome back
The Argive host, poor remnant of the spear.
HERALD
Hail royal palace! roofs beloved, hail!
Ye seats august, ye powers that front the sun,
If e'er of yore, now, with those cheerful eyes
Receive in state the monarch absent long,
For he returns bringing in darkness light
Common to you and all assembled here,
King Agamemnon. Welcome, as beseems,
Him who with mattock of avenging Zeus
Hath Ilion razed, her under-soil uptorn.
Quenched are the fanes, the altars of the gods,
And of the land entire the seed is crushed.
Such yoke round Troy hath Atreus' elder son
Fastened: and lo! blest by the gods, he comes
Of living men most worthy of renown.
Nor Paris now nor his associate town
Their deed may vaunt as greater than their woe
Cast in a suit for rapine and for theft,
His surety forfeit, he to utter doom
Hath mowed his natal home. Thus Priam's sons
With twofold forfeit have atoned their crime.
Chorus
Hail, herald of Achaia's host!
HERALD
All hail!
So please the gods, I grudge not now to die.
Chorus
Love for thy father-land thy heart hath wrung!
HERALD
So wrung that from mine eyes fall tears of joy.
Chorus
Sweet the heart-sickness that o'ercame you thus.
HERALD
The key I lack which may thy words unlock.
Chorus
Smit with desire for those who longed for you.
HERALD
Hath Argos yearned then for the yearning host ?
Chorus
Ay, so that oft from darken'd soul I groaned.
HERALD
Whence this sad gloom, abhorrent to the host?
Chorus
Silence I long have held bale's safest cure.
HERALD
How! Aught didst fear in absence of thy lords?
Chorus
To die was oft my wish as whilom thine.
HERALD
Well ended, all is well. But, in long years,
Some chances, one might say, fell happily,
While others adverse were. For who, save gods,
Lives through the whole of life by grief unscathed ?
For should I tell of toils, of lodgment rude,
Infrequent landings, vexed by dangerous surf,
†What portion of the day exempt from groans?
Still more abhorrent was our life ashore ;-
For close to hostile walls our beds were strewn ;
Dank vapours fell from heaven, while from the earth
Drizzled the meadow dews,—our raiment's canker,
Matting, like savage beast's, our shaggy hair.
Or spake I of bird-killing winter's cold,
Unbearable, from snows of Ida born ;
Or summer's heat, when, stretched on noonday couch,
By breeze unruffled, slept the waveless sea ?
But why lament these hardships ? Past the toil!
Past now and gone,-past also for the dead,
Who ne'er will trouble them again to rise.
Why call the spectral army-roll? and why,
Living, bemoan reverses ? Nay, I claim
With many a farewell to salute mischance.
For us, the remnant of the Argive host,
Joy triumphs, nor can Sorrow tilt the scale.
Winging o'er land and sea our homeward flight.
We to the sun-light well may make this boast,
" The Argive host, captors at length of Troy,
These spoils, an off'ring to Achaia's gods,
Hang up, bright glory of their ancient shrines."
Whoso these tidings hears must needs extol
The city and the leaders of the host;
Also the consummating grace of Zeus
Due honour shall attain. My tale is told.
Chorus
Ungrudged surrender yield I to thy words.
Age still is young enough for grateful lore.
But Atreus' halls and Clytemnestra most
These news concern ; me also they enrich.
CLYTEMNESTRA
The shout of jubilee erewhile I raised,
When first by night the fiery herald came,
Telling of Ilion captured and o'erthrown.
Then some one spake and taunting asked," Dost think
Trusting the beacon-light, that Troy is sacked ?
'Tis woman's way to be elate of heart."
By such bold utt'rance was my wit misprised:
Yet still I sacrificed : and through the town
With woman's note they tuned the joyous trill,
Pæans uplifting in the gods' abodes,
The while they lulled the fragrant incense-flames.
And now, what need that thou shouldst tell me more ?
I from the king himself the tale shall hear.
With honour due, my venerated lord
To welcome home, myself will hasten : for-
What sight for woman sweeter than the day
Which to her spouse, Heaven-shielded from the fight,
Throws wide the gates? Then hither bid my lord,
Beloved of Argos, to return with speed.
Arriving, may he find a faithful wife,
Such as he left her, watch-dog of his house,
To him devoted, hostile to his foes,
In all points like herself, no single seal
Through these long years invaded by her hand.
Pleasure, or blameful word from other man,
Foreign to me as dyer's hue to brass.
613
A boast like this, fraught as it is with truth,
The lip misseems not of a high-born dame.
Chorus
Behold! The queen herself hath tutored thee;
Decorous words her clear interpreters.
But tell me, Herald, touching Menelas,
Doth he in safety homeward with the host
Hither return, prince to his country dear ?
HERALD
False news were I to tell, in flatt'ring terms,
Not long would friends enjoy the fair deceit.
Chorus
Oh, could'st thou speak auspicious words yet true!
That here they sundered are is all too plain.
HERALD
The man is vanished from th' Achaian host;
Himself and galley. No untruth I tell.
Chorus
Steering ahead from Troy ? or hath a storm,
A common terror, snatched him from the host?
HERALD
Like skilful archer thou hast hit the mark;
And hast in brief a mighty woe declared.
Chorus
Say, doth the voice of other mariners
Report of him as living, or as dead ?
HERALD
Not one so knoweth as to speak his doom,
Save the bright Sun, feeder of teeming earth.
Chorus
How ! Burst the tempest on the naval host
Through anger of the gods ? say, what the end ?
HERALD
Auspicious day with ill-announcing tongue
Beseems not to defile. In weal and woe
Diverse the honour due unto the gods.
When messenger, sad-visaged, tidings dire
Of routed armies to the city bears,
A common wound inflicting on the state,
While many men from many homes are banned,
Smit by the twofold scourge which Ares loves,
Twin-speared Calamity, a gory pair :—
Whoso is laden with such woes as these
The pæan of the Furies well may raise.
But coming to a town in jubilee,
Glad messenger of safety and success,
How shall I tidings mingle fair and foul,
The tale unfolding of the storm that smote
The Achaian host, not without wrath of Heaven ?
For fire and ocean, bitter foes of yore,
Sware true alliance and redeemed their pledge,
Whelming Achaia's luckless armament.
Then in the night foul-surging mischiefs rose :
Beneath the Thracian blasts ship against ship
Dashed wildly; they, sore-butted by the storm,
With furious wind and stress of pelting rain,
Vanished from sight, 'neath whirl of shepherd dire.
And when uprose the sun's fair light, behold,
The Aegean sea with flowerage overstrewn,—
Corpses of Grecian men and wrecks of ships.
Us, and our vessel with undamaged hull,
Some god, I ween, (not mortal was the power,)
Ruling the helm, hath saved, by stealth or prayer.
But Saviour Fortune lighting on our ship,
At moorage she nor felt the billows' strain,
Nor drave against the iron-girded coast.
Then safe at last, from watery Hades snatch'd,
In genial daylight, still mistrusting chance,
With anxious thought o'er this new grief we brooded,—
Our host sore wearied, and in evil plight.
And doubtless now, if any still survive,
They speak of us as dead. Why should they not ?
As we imagine a like fate for them.
But may the best befal! For Menelas,
Foremost and chief, expect him to arrive;
If any sunbeam knows of him as safe,
Rejoicing in the light, (through the device
Of Zeus, not willing yet the race to whelm,)
Good hope there is that he may yet return.
Hearing this tale, know, thou the truth hast heard.
Chorus
Who, oh who, with truest aim,
Did the battle-wedded dame,
Prize of conflict, Helen name ?
Was it not one, unseen, in happy hour,
Guiding his tongue with Fate-presaging power?
Helen, the captor;-titled fittingly,—
Captor of ships, of men, of cities, she
From dainty curtained bower hath fled,
By Titan zephyr borne along ;
Straight in her quarrel mustered strong
The shielded hunters' mighty throng,
Marshalled for battle;-forth they sped,
Swift on their track whose viewless oar
Harbour had found on Simois' leafy shore.
Chorus
Wrath, with direful issue fraught,
Thus to hapless Ilion brought
Dear alliance, dearly bought:
Requiter of the outraged festal board,
And of high Zeus, tho hearth's presiding Lord ;
Late vengeance wreaking on the guilty throng,
Who carol jubilant tho bridal song,
Which, fate-impelled, tho bridegroom's kin prolong.
But aged Priam's city hoar
A novel hymn doth now intone,
From many a voice; with mighty groan,
Woe upon Paris' bridal bed
She utters ;—she who long before
A dirgeful life, alas ! had led,
Weeping her sons in wretched slaughter sped.
Chorus
So once did wight incautious rear
A suckling lion, for the breast
Still yearning, to the house a pest.
Tame in life's early morning, dear
To childhood, and by Eld caressed.
Carried full oft in fondling play,
Like to a babe in arms he lay;
The hand with winning glances wooed,
And, smit with pangs of hunger, fawned for food.
Chorus
But time the temper doth bewray
Inherent in his race. Due meed
Of gentle nurture to repay,
Rending the flocks with cruel greed,
Unbidden he prepares the feast,
And mars with gory stain the halls.
Resistless, dire, athirst for prey,
The pest the menial train appals,
Reared for the house by Heaven, fell Atè's priest.
Chorus
So came to Troia's walls, in evil hour,
Spirit of breathless calm, fair pride
Of riches, love's soul-piercing flower,
The eyes' soft dart; but from her course aside
Swerving, to wedlock bitter end she wrought.
To Priam's offspring came she, mischief fraught,
Evil companion, bringing evil dower.
By Zeus escorted, guardian of the guest,
She sped, dire Fury, bridal pest.
Chorus
Lives among men this saw, voiced long ago;
" Success consummate breeds apace,
Nor childless dies, but to the race
From prosperous Fortune springeth cureless Woe."
Apart I hold my solitary creed.
Prolific truly is the impious deed;
Like to the evil stock, the evil seed;
But fate ordains that righteous homes shall aye
Rejoice in goodly progeny.
Chorus
†But ancient Arrogance, or soon or late,
When strikes the hour ordained by Fate,
Breedeth new Arrogance, which still
Revels, wild wantoner in human ill;
And the new birth another brood
Unhallowed, in the house doth bear ;—
Gorged Insolence, and, not to be withstood,
Defiant Boldness, demon unsubdued ;—
Swart curses twain, their parents' mien that wear.
Chorus
But Justice doth the smoke-begrimèd cell
Illumine with celestial sheen,
And loves with honest worth to dwell.
Gold-spangled palaces with hands unclean,
Forsaking with averted eyes,
To holy Innocence she flies.
The power of wealth, if falsely stamped with praise,
With homage she disdains to recognize,
And to their fated issue all things sways.
Chorus
Hail, royal lord! Stormer of Ilion, hail!
Scion of Atreus! How compose my speech,
How due obeisance render thee,
Yet neither overshoot the mark, nor fail
The goal of fitting compliment to reach ?
For many men, transgressing right, there be
Semblance who place above reality.
To him who groans beneath affliction's smart,
All men have prompt condolence; but the sting
Of feignèd sorrow reaches not the heart.
So men with others' joy rejoicing, bring
Over their visage an enforced smile :
But the discerning shepherd knows his fleck,
And his unerring glance detects their guile,
Who simulating love, with glozing art
And watery kindness fawn, but inly mock.
But thou, O King, (I speak without disguise,)
In Helen's quarrel asking war's array,
A mien didst wear unseemly in mine eyes,
Guiding not well the rudder of thy mind,
Who didst, on death-devoted men, essay
Courage to urge, by sacrifice.
But those who have achieved the great emprize,
Not from the surface of my mind alone,
I welcome now, with feelings not unkind ;
And inquest made, in time shall it be known,
Who of thy citizens at home the while
Guarded thy state with truth, and who with guile.
AGAMEMNON
speaking from the chariot.
First Argos and her tutelary gods,
Who with me wrought to compass my return,
And visit Priam's town with vengeance due,
Justly I hail. For in this cause the gods,
Swayed by no hearsay, in the bloody urn
Without dissentient voice the pebbles cast,
Sealing the doom of Ilion and her sons.
But to the rival urn, by no hand filled,
Hope only came. Smoke still uprising marks
The captured city ; Atè's incense-fires
Are living still, but, dying as they die,
The ash sends upward costly fumes of wealth.
Wherefore 'tis meet to render to the gods
Memorial thanks; since round them we have east
Our vengeful toils, and in a woman's cause
The Argive monster, offspring of the horse,
Host shield-accoutred, made its deadly leap,
And Priam's city levelled to the dust,
What time the Pleiades in ocean waned;
So, bounding o'er the towers, of princely blood
The raw-devouring lion lapped his fill.
This lengthened prelude to the gods! and now
Weighing the judgment ye erewhile expressed,
I say the same, and am with you agreed.
To few is it congenial, envy-free,
To venerate the friend whom Fortune crowns.
The jealous poison, lodged within the heart,
Tortures with twofold pang whom it infects ;
By his own griefs oppressed, the envious man
Groans also to behold another's joy.
Out of my proof I speak, for, well I wot,
Who friendship most pretended, only were
Its mirrored image, shadow of a shade.
None but Odysseus, who unwilling sailed,
Once harnessed, was my trusty yoke-fellow;
This I affirm, be he alive or dead.
But for the rest, what to the state pertains,
And to the gods, a full assembly called,
We'll weigh in free debate. Counsel we need.
That where the state is sound, we keep it so;
But where disease the healer's art requires,
By kind excision, or by cautery,
We shall attempt to remedy the harm.
Now to my palace and my household hearth
Returning, first will I the gods salute,
Who forward sped me, and who lead me home;
Since victory so far hath followed me,
Here may she henceforth stedfastly abide!
CLYTEMNESTRA
Men of our city, Argive elders here,
I shame not in your presence to avow
My wifely temper ; bashful Fear in time
From mortals dieth : not by others taught,
But from myself, the wretched life I'll tell
'Twas mine to lead while this man was at Troy.
First, for a woman severed from her mate,
To sit forlorn at home is grievous woe,
Hearing malignant murmurs manifold.
One courier comes, another in his train
Worse tidings brings to echo through the house ;
And as for wounds, had my dear lord received
As many as report kept pouring in,
A net methinks had not been more transpierced.
Or had he died oft as reported then,
A second triple-bodied Geryon, 1
†A threefold cloak of earth he must have donned, 2
Enduring death in every form he wore.
Thus harassed by these ever-rife reports,
Full often from my neck have forceful hands
Seized and untied the beam-suspended noose.
And for this cause our son, pledge of our troth,
Of mine and thine, stands not beside me now,
As stand he should, Orestes. Marvel not,
For him thy trusty spear-guest nourisheth ; 1
Strophius, the Phocian, who hath me forewarned
Of twofold peril, thine 'neath Ilion's wall,
And next lest clamour-fostered Anarchy
Hazard the plot, for 'tis with men inborn
To trample further him already down.
This pretext, trust me, carries no deceit.
But for myself the gushing founts of grief
Are all dried up, no single tear is left;
Sore with late watching are my weary eyes,
Weeping the fiery beacons set for thee
Neglected ever. Often from my dreams
Was I awakened by the tiny hum
Of buzzing gnat, seeing, endured by thee,
More woes than could have filled mine hour of sleep.
These sorrows past, now with a heart unwrung
I hail my husband, watchdog of the fold,
Sure forestay of the ship; of lofty roof
Pillar firm based ; Sire's sole-begotten child ;
Land beyond hope looming to mariners;
Day after storm most brilliant to behold;
To thirsty wayfarer clear gushing spring.
Sooth, sweet it is to 'scape from harsh constraint;
With such addresses do I honour him.
Let Envy stand aloof! for we have borne
Ere this full many a woe. Now dear my lord
Come from thy car; but on the ground, O King,
Plant not the foot that trampled Ilion.
Maidens, why tarry ye, whose duty 'tis
With carpets to bespread his stepping-floor ?
Swift, purple-strew his passage to a home
Unlooked for, e'en as Justice may conduct;
What further she decreeth with the gods,
887
Thought, not by sleep o'ermastered, shall dispose.
AGAMEMNON
Daughter of Leda! Guardian of my home!
Such as my absence was, is now thy speech,
Drawn out to ample length. With better grace
My praise had come from others than from thee.
And for the rest, seek not in woman's guise
To pamper me, nor, gaping forth loud cries,
Bow down to me, as to barbaric wight.
Make not my path with tapestries bestrewn
A mark for envy. To the gods belong
Such signal honours ; but for mortal man,
On bright-hued broidery to plant his foot,
I own it, is to me not free from dread ;
As mortal honour me, but not as god;
Without foot-carpeting or gorgeous web,
Glory resounds ; a constant mind to keep
Is Heaven's best gift; him only call we blest
Who ends in fair prosperity his days.
If thus I bear myself I need not fear.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Against my settled purpose speak not thus.
AGAMEMNON
Deem not my sober purpose I will mar.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Haply thou thus to act hast vowed in fear.
AGAMEMNON
Final and sure my word as man e'er spake.
CLYTEMNESTRA
What, thinkest thou, had Priam done if victor ?
AGAMEMNON
Purples, I ween, he verily had trod.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Then stand not thou in fear of human blame.
AGAMEMNON
Yet hath the people's rumour mighty power.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Life envy-free is life unenviable.
AGAMEMNON
'Tis not for woman to be fond of strife.
CLYTEMNESTRA
But it becomes the fortunate to yield.
AGAMEMNON
Does conquest in this struggle rate so high ?
CLYTEMNESTRA
Yield thee; thy will bend willingly to mine.
AGAMEMNON
If thou wilt have it so, let one with speed
These buskins loosen, vassals of the foot;
Lest, if with them sea-tinctured robes I tread,
Some jealous eye of gods smite me from far.
For much it shameth me, with wanton feet
To mar this wealth of silver-purchased web.
Of this enough. This stranger damsel now
Kindly receive. Zeus, with propitious eye,
Beholds the victor's sway with mercy crowned.
For willingly none bears the captive yoke;
But she, the chosen flower of many a spoil,
Fair present from the host, hath followed me.
But since herein I yield me to thy will,
Treading on purple to my halls I go.
CLYTEMNESTRA
A sea there is (which who may drain ?) that breeds
Abundant purple, fresh from many a shell,
Precious as silver, brilliant dye of robes,
Whereof, through favour of the gods, these halls
May boast, O King, a store right plentiful;
And poverty is stranger to our house
Trampling of many garments had I vowed,
Had thus the oracles our house enjoined,
Ransom devising for this precious life.
For while the root lives on, the leafage spreads,
Screening the mansion from the dog-star's ray.
So now, returning to thy household hearth,
As warmth in winter doth thy presence show.
And when Zeus breweth from the acrid grape
Rich wine, then coolness thro' the halls is shed,
Where, crowner of the home, the husband dwells.
Zeus, Zeus, all-crowner, my petitions crown :
Thine be the care of that which crown thou wilt.
Chorus
Whence this dread portent, that untired
Before my bodeful spirit floats ?
Wherefore, unbidden and unhired,
Waken these dark prophetic notes?
Why sits not on my bosom's throne
The direful presage to disown
As riddling dream, assurance strong?
Time's youth hath flown
Since the stern-cables from the boats
Were flung, what time the ship-borne host
Marched on to Ilion from the sandy coast.
Chorus
After long absence their return
With self-informing eyes I learn ;
Yet in its depths my soul, self-taught,
Chanteth Erinys' lyreless strains ;
My hopes, of courage reft, depart;
Not vainly throb my inmost reins ;
Whirleth on eddies of dark thought
My bodeful heart;
Yet, against hope, the gods I pray,
That, false to augury, my lay
Futile may fall, with vain foreboding fraught.
Chorus
Never will perfect health confess
Her limit sated ; though disease,
Neighbour, with party-wall, against her press.
Sailing with prosperous course elate,
Strikes on the hidden reef man's proud estate.
Then if reluctant Fear, with well-poised sling,
His bales doth into ocean fling,
Riseth once more the bark ; and though
With evil freighted to the full,
Floateth secure the lightened hull.
So likewise, gift of ample worth
From Zeus, the year's increase,
Whose teeming harvests in the furrows grow,
Quells the disease of dearth.
Chorus
But when on earth the crimson gore
Of man hath fallen, never more
May charm or spell the vanished life evoke;
Hence he of old, whose mystic lore
Was skilled the dead from Hades to restore,
Fell, blasted by the Thunderer's warning stroke.
†Now did not Fate—a heaven-sent Fate—
Baffle my impulse, ere too late,
Leaving behind the lagging tongue,
My heart its bodeful strain had sung.
But now it raves; no cheering rays
My anguished spirit knows,
And hopeless to unravel Fate's dark maze
With fiery ardour glows.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Come thou too in, Cassandra, thee I mean;
For not in wrath Zeus placed thee in our house
A sharer in our lustral rites to stand,
With many slaves beside his household altar.
Now from this car descend; be not too proud,
For e'en Alcmena's son,—so runs the tale,—
Sold as a slave, endured the forceful yoke ;
But if such fate befal thee, great the boon
Heirs of ancestral wealth to own as lords ;
For upstarts, beyond hope who fortune reap,—
These reckless are and cruel to their slaves.
From us thou hast what usuage warranteth.
Chorus
Thee in clear words she hath addressed, and thou,
Meshed as thou art within the toils of Fate,
Yield if thou canst; mayhap thou wilt not yield.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Nay, an she be not, swallow-like, possessed
Of an unknown, barbaric tongue, my words,
Reaching her mind, must move her to comply.
Chorus
Follow! She counsels for thy need the best:
Be thou persuaded;—leave thy chariot-seat.
CLYTEMNESTRA
No leisure have I here before the gates
To linger; for, beside the central hearth,
The victims wait the sacrificial fire ;
A favour that our fondest hope transcends.
But thou, if aught wilt do of what I say,
Make no delay; but if, of sense bereft,
Thou canst not catch the meaning of my words,
In lieu of voice, speak with barbarian hand.
Chorus
A clear interpreter the stranger needs :
Distraught she seems, like creature newly caught.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Nay, she is mad ; to her distempered thoughts
She listens ; from a newly-captured town
She cometh here, nor knows the yoke to bear,
Till quelled in foam the passion of her blood.
But words I'll waste no more, thus to be scorned.
Exit.
Chorus
But I, by pity moved, will not be wroth ;
Come, wretched sufferer, this car forsake ;
To Fortune yielding, hansel this new yoke.
CASSANDRA
Ah me ! alas ! Gods, Earth!
Apollo, O Apollo!
Chorus
Why raise for Loxias these cries of bale ?
Not he the god to need the mourner's wail.
CASSANDRA
Ah me ! alas ! Gods, Earth!
Apollo, O Apollo!
Chorus
Once more she calleth with ill-omened cry,
The god who hath no part in misery.
CASSANDRA
Apollo, O Apollo!
Thou way-god! my destroyer!
Once more thou hast destroyed me utterly.
Chorus
She seems about to augur her own ills ;
Heaven's breathing e'en in bonds her spirit fills.
CASSANDRA
Apollo, O Apollo!
Thou way-god! my destroyer !
Ah, whither hast thou led me ? to what roof?
Chorus
To the Atreidan; an thou dost not know
I tell thee; thou'lt not say it is not so.
CASSANDRA
Ah! Ah!
A heaven-detested house, whose walls of yore
Halters have seen, and streams of kindred gore;
A human shambles with blood-reeking floor.
Chorus
Keen scented seems the stranger, like a hound ;
Ay, and the blood she's tracking will be found.
CASSANDRA
Ah! Ah!
Lo ! witnesses trust-worthy ! Vouchers dire!
These babes, who weep their death-wound, faith inspire,
Their roasted members eaten by their sire!
Chorus
Thy fame oracular hath reached our ear;
But certes seek we now no prophet here.
CASSANDRA
Alas! ye gods!
What is she plotting? what new blow ?
A mighty mischief plots she 'neath this roof;
An unimaginable cureless woe,
Unbearable to friends. Help stands aloof.
Chorus
Dark are these oracles ; the first I know ;
For, them the city voucheth wholly true.
CASSANDRA
Ah wretched one!
The deed wilt consummate? With guile
Wilt in the bath thy wedded consort cheer?
How speak the issue ? Soon it will be here ;—
Hand after hand is lifted. Woe the while !
Chorus
I comprehend her not; this mystic lore,
These blear-eyed oracles perplex me sore.
CASSANDRA
Woe! woe! Look! look! What see I there?
Is it, ye gods, a net of hell ?
The wife herself, joint-slayer, is the snare.
Now o'er the accursèd rite
Let the dread brood of Night,
Unglutted with the race, their chorus swell!
Chorus
What Fury 'gainst this house doth summon ? What,
The shriek to raise ? Such utt’rance cheers me not.
Pallid through every vein
Blood to my heart doth run,
Which to the battle-slain
Quencheth life's sun ;
But Atè comes amain.
CASSANDRA
Hold! hold ! Woe! woe! The heifer there
Keep from the bull. In meshes fell
†Of black-woofed garb entangled,-guileful snare,-
Catching,—she smites him dead;-
Prone in his watery bed
He falls. The laver’s guileful doom I tell.
Chorus
I boast not to be skilled in auguries,
Yet mischief here I cannot but surmise.
Chorus
Through spells, say, if ye know,
To mortals here below,
What grateful cheer is sent ?
Their wordy arts from human woe
Breed dark presentiment.
CASSANDRA
Woe! woe! my wretched ill-starred lot!
Wailing another's fate mine own I mourn ;
Why hast thou led me hither, all forlorn,
Unless with thee to perish ? Wherefore not ?
Chorus
Thou'rt frenzied, by some god possest,
And tuneless quirest forth thy doom,
Like nightingale, with dusky plume
Sateless of song. From heart opprest,
Ceaseless her Itys, Itys, flows, 1
Her life bewailing, rich alone in woes.
CASSANDRA
Woe ! woe ! Clear-voicèd bird, arrayed
In plumed shape, by powers divine ;
1
Sweet life, unmarred by tears, is thine :
But me awaits the double-edged blade.
Chorus
Whence hast thou these prophetic throes,
Rushing athwart thy soul, in vain ?
Why body forth in dismal strain,
Blent with shrill cries, these direful woes ?
Whence cometh thus to vex thy soul
Of prophecy the dark, ill-omened goal ?
CASSANDRA
Oh, nuptial rite, oh, nuptial rite,
Of Paris, fraught with doom !
Scamander ! whence my fathers drank,
Nourished of yore upon thy bank,
I throve in youthful bloom.
Me now Cocytos and the streams of night
To augur on their dismal shores invite.
Chorus
What thought hast uttered all too clear?
An infant might interpret here.
Smitten within am I with gory sting,
The while thy bird-like cry to hear
My heart doth wring.
CASSANDRA
Oh deadly coil, oh, deadly coil
Of Ilion, doomed to fall !
Alas, the flower-cropping kine
Slain by my father at the shrine
To save her sacred wall!
But cure was none : she perished ; vain the toil!
I too, soul-kindled, soon shall press the soil.
Chorus
This tallies with thy former strain ;
Sure some ill demon smites thy brain,
And falling on thee moves thee thus to tell
In piteous chant thy doleful pain.
The end I cannot spell.
CASSANDRA
In sooth the oracle no more shall peer
Forth from a veil, like newly wedded bride ;
But flashing on the soul, like wind that blows
Sunward, it dasheth 'gainst the orient beams
A mighty surge that doth this grief o'ertop.
No more through dark enigmas will I teach!
And bear me witness, how in eager chase
The track I scent of crimes wrought long ago.
For from this roof departeth never more
A choir, concordant but unmusical,
To evil tuned. Ay, drunk with human blood,
And by the draught made bold, within these halls
Abides a rout, not easy to eject,
Of sister Furies ; lodged within these walls
They chant in chorus the primeval curse.
Hostile to him his brother's couch who trod,
In turn they tell their loathing. Have I missed,
Or, like true archer, have I hit the mark?
Or strolling cheat, or lying prophet am I ?
Before I die, attest ye now on oath
That of these halls the hoary crimes I know.
Chorus
And how can oath be healer of a woe
Inherent in the race? Yet marvel I
That, nurtured o'er the sea, thou know'st to speak
Of foreign city as though native there.
CASSANDRA
Loxias, the seer, me with this grace endowed.
Chorus
How! passion-smitten was he, though a god?
CASSANDRA
Till now it shamed me to speak of this.
Chorus
True ; for who fareth well grows over-nice.
CASSANDRA
Love-wrestler was he, warm his favour breathed.
Chorus
Came ye in course to rite conjugial ?
CASSANDRA
Consent I gave, but cheated Loxias.
Chorus
Mistress already of presaging art?
CASSANDRA
Ay, to the townsmen all their woes I spelled.
Chorus
How then by wrath of Loxias unharmed ?
CASSANDRA
No credence won I after this offence.
Chorus
To us thy oracles seem all too true.
CASSANDRA
Woe! woe! alas! alas! ye miseries !
Of faithful augury the direful toil
Racks me once more, with bodeful preludings
Vexing my soul.-Seated within these halls,
See, tender boys, like dreamy phantoms; children,
As by their dear ones done to death, their hands
Filled with their proper flesh, for nutriment;
Their heart and vitals,—loathsome, piteous, meal,—
Look, how they hold,-their sire has tasted, look!
For these, I say, vengeance devising, waits
A dastard lion, wallowing in bed;
House-warden, sooth, to him that's come, my master.
For the slave’s yoke, alas ! I needs must bear.
The naval leader, leveller of Troy,
He knows not that the fell she-dog, whose tongue
Spoke words of guileful welcome, long drawn out,
Like lurking Atè, will achieve his doom.
Such things she dares ; the female slays the male!
Her,—what detested monster may I name
Aud hit the mark ?-Some basilisk, or Scylla
Housing in rocks, deadly to mariners,
Infuriate dam of Hades, breathing forth,
Against her dearest, curse implacable ?
What triumph-notes exultantly she raised,
All daring one, as in the turn of fight,
Feigning to gratulate his safe return !
What boots it whether I persuade or no ?
The doomed must come ; ere long to pity moved,
Me thou wilt own a prophet all too true.
Chorus
Thyestes' banquet of his children's flesh
I knew and shudder at; fear takes my soul,
Hearing the truth, no imaged counterfeit.
The rest I heard, but follow not the track.
CASSANDRA
On Agamemnon dead, I say, thou'lt look.
Chorus
Lull, poor forlorn one, thy ill-omened tongue.
CASSANDRA
Yet o'er this speech no healing god presides.
Chorus
If be it must; but may it never be;
CASSANDRA
The while thou prayest, theirs it is to slay.
Chorus
What man deviseth this accursèd deed ?
CASSANDRA
Widely thy glance hath missed mine oracles.
Chorus
Ay, for the plotter's scheme to me is dark.
CASSANDRA
Yet in Hellenic speech my words are couched.
Chorus
So too are Pythian chants, yet hard to spell.
CASSANDRA
Alas ! what fire is this! It seizes me.
Woe! woe! Lykeian god! Apollo! Woe!
The biped lioness, that with the wolf
In absence of the noble lion couched,
Will me, her victim, slaughter, and as one
Poison who mixeth, she my doom will add
To crown her vengeance ; whetting 'gainst her lord
The murderous knife, sho boasteth to exact
His death, as payment for escorting me.
Why longer wear this scorn-provoking gear,
This wand, these wreaths prophetic round my neck ?
Thee I will shatter ere myself am doomed.
Hence to destruction : I will follow soon;
Another, in my place, enrich with woes.
Behold, Apollo’s self doth strip me bare
Of the prophetic robe ; coldly he gazed,
What time, in these adornments vainly tricked,
To friends and enemies, with one consent,
All undeserved, a laughter I became :
Vagrant yclept, poor hunger-stricken wretch,
A strolling mountebank, I bare it all;
And now the seer (his vengeance wreaked on me
The seeress) calls me to this deadly fate.
My father at the altar fell, but me
The slaughter-block awaiteth, smitten down
By stroke relentless, reeking with hot gore.
Yet not unhonoured of the gods we fall;
For other champion of our cause shall come,
Seed matricidal, venger of his sire.
An exiled wanderer, from this land estranged,
Returns, this vengeance for his friends to crown.
For, lo, the gods a mighty oath have sworn,
His father's prostrate form shall lead him home.
But why, an alien here, pour I my wail ?
When that I first have seen my Ilion fare
As fared it hath, and they who won the town
In sorry plight, through judgment of the gods.
I'll do! I'll suffer ! I will dare to die.
These gates, as gates of Hades, I adjure,
One prayer I offer, " mortal be the stroke
Free from convulsive throes, in easy death,
While ebbs my life-blood, may I close mine eyes.
Chorus
Oh woman, thou most wretched and most wise;
Lengthy thy speech hath been ; but if thou knowest
Truly thine own sad doom, how walkest thou
Like heaven-led victim, boldly to the altar ?
CASSANDRA
There’s no escape; brief respite, nothing more.
Chorus
Yet to be last is gain at least of time.
CASSANDRA
The day is come, small were my gain by flight.
Chorus
Enduring art thou, and of dauntless mind.
CASSANDRA
Such words none heareth from the fortunate.
Chorus
Yet dear to mortals is a glorious death.
CASSANDRA
Alas, my sire, for thee and thy brave sons!
She suddenly starts back.
Chorus
What may this mean ? What terror drives thee back ?
CASSANDRA
Alas! alas!
Chorus
Why this alas, unless some horror scare thee?
CASSANDRA
Blood-reeking murder breatheth from these halls.
Chorus
'Tis but the scent of victims at the hearth.
CASSANDRA
Nay, but such breath as issues from a tomb.
Chorus
No Syrian odour tell'st thou for the house.
CASSANDRA
Well! I will go, within these palace halls
To wail mine own and Agamemnon's doom.
Enough of life ! Strangers! Alas! Alas!
Yet quail I not, as bird at the brake,
Idly ; in death my vouchers be in this,
When, in my place, woman for woman dies,
And when for man ill-wedded, man shall fall.
Dying, this hospitable grace I crave.
Chorus
Poor wretch ; Thy fateful doom my pity moves.
CASSANDRA
Once more I fain would speak, but not to pour
Mine own funereal wail; but to the Sun,
Looking my last upon his beams, I pray
That my avengers pay my murderers back,
Requiting me, poor slave, their easy prey.
Alas, for man's estate! If Fortune smile,
A shadow may o'erturn it; should she frown,
A moistened sponge the picture doth destroy.
More than the first this doom my pity moves.
Chorus
All are of boundless weal insatiate ;—
None warneth from his halls
Him at whom Envy points, as rich or great,
Saying, " Come here no more."—
So to this man the Blessed Ones have given
To capture Priam's walls ;—
Home he returns, beloved of Heaven;—
But must he now the blood repay
Of ancient murder ; must he die,
And dying expiate,
With his own death, their deaths who died of yore ;
Who, being mortal, this can hear, nor pray,
That he were born to scathless destiny ?
AGAMEMNON
In the palace.
Woe's me ! I'm smitten with a deadly blow !
Chorus
Hush! Wounded unto death who lifts this cry.
AGAMEMNON
Woe’s me ! Again ! a second time I'm struck.
Choraphæus
By the groaning of the monarch, wrought methinks is now the deed ;
But together taking counsel, weave we now some prudent scheme.
Chorus
I. To you my counsel is to raise the cry,
And to the palace call the citizens.
II. To me seems best, at quickest, breaking in,
To prove the deed by newly-dripping blade.
III. I, this opinion sharing, give my vote
For action ;-not to dally is the point.
IV. 'Tis manifest; for they, thus preluding,
Give to the city signs of tyranny.
V. Ay, we delay ;-they, treading under foot
All thoughts of dalliance, sleep not with the hand.
VI. No plan I know to fashion or propose ;
Against the guilty doer we must plot.
VII. That view I share, for no device I know,
By words, the dead man to restore to life.
VIII. What! dragging on our lives, shall we obey
These home-polluters? Them our leaders make?
IX. That were past hearing, better far to die;
For milder doom were death than tyranny.
X. How ! may we not on evidence of groans
Augur full surely that the man is dead ?
XI. Ere we can argue, we must know the facts;
Assurance differs widely from surmise.
XII. This I commend, taking the general vote,
Plainly to know how fareth Atreus' son.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Though much to suit the times before was said,
It shames me not the opposite to speak :
For, plotting against foes,—our seeming friends,-
How else contrive with Ruin's wily snare.
Too high to overleap, to fence them round?
To me, not mindless of an ancient feud,
Hath come at last this contest ;-late indeed.
The deed achieved, here stand I, where I slew.
So was it wrought (and this I'll not deny),
That he could neither 'scape, nor ward his doom;
Around him, like a fish-encircling net,
This garment’s deadly splendour did I cast ;—
Him twice I smote, and he, with twofold groan,
His limbs relaxed ;—then, prostrate where he lay,
Him with third blow I dowered, votive gift
To nether Hades, saviour of the dead.
Thus as he fell he chafed his soul away;
And gurgling forth the swift death-tide of blood,
He smites me with black drops of gory dew,
Not less exultant than, with heaven-sent joy
The corn-sown land, in birth-hour of the ear.
For this great issue, Argive Senators,
Joy ye, if joy ye can, but I exult.
Nay, o'er the slain were off'rings meet, with right
Here were they poured,—with emphasis of right.
Such goblet having filled with cursèd ills
At home,-himself on his return drains off.
Chorus
We marvel at thy tongue, how bold thy speech,
Who o'er thy husband makest so thy vaunt.
CLYTEMNESTRA
As witless woman are ye proving me ;
But I with steadfast heart, to you who know,
Proclaim,—and whether ye will praise or blame,
It recks me not,-this man is Agamemnon,-
My husband, dead, the work of this right hand,
Doer of righteous deed ;-so stands the case.
Chorus
O woman, what earth-nurtured bane,
What potion, upsent from the wind-ruffled sea,
Hast tasted, that on thine own head dost heap
Curses, for incense, folk-mutter'd and deep !
Hast cast off, hast slain ;—
Out-cast, uncitied, thyself shalt be,
Huge hate of the townsmen blasting thee.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Me thou dost doom to exile,-to endure
The people's hate, their curse deep-muttered,-thou,
Who 'gainst this man of yore hadst naught to urge.
He, all unmoved, as though brute life he quenched,
The while his fleecy pastures teem'd with flocks,
His own child slaughtered,-of my travail throes
To me the dearest, ---charm for Thracian blasts.
Him shouldst thou not have chased from land and home
Just guerdon for foul deed ? Stern judge thou art
When me thou dost arraign ;- but, mark my words,
(Nerved as I am to threat on equal terms,)
If with strong hand ye conquer me, then rule;-
But should the god decree the opposite,
Though late, to sober sense shalt thou be schooled.
Chorus
O haughty of council art thou ; —
And haughtily-minded thou vauntest amain,
As raveth thy mind 'neath blood-reeking fate.
Calling for vengeance, glares forth on thy brow
Of blood the foul stain ;—
Forsaken of friends, the common hate,
Death-blow with death-blow shalt expiate.
CLYTEMNESTRA
This solemn sanction of mine oaths thou hearest ;—
By the accomplished vengeance of my child,
By Atè, by Erinyes, unto whom
I slew this man,—Expectancy for me
Treads not the halls of Fear, while on my hearth,
Aegisthos, kind as heretofore, burns fire ;—
For he of boldness is no puny shield.
There prostrate lies this woman's outrager,
Minion to each Chryseis under Troy.
There too, this captive slave, this auguress,
And this man's concubine,-this prophetess,
His faithful bedfellow, who shared with him
The sailor's bench. Not unrequited wrought they ;
For he lies-thus. While she, in swan-like fashion,
Having breathed forth her last, her dying wail,
Lies here, to him a paramour, and so
Adds keener relish to my sweet revenge.
Chorus
Oh might some sudden Fate
Not tethered to a weight
Of couch-enchaining anguish, hither waft
The boon of endless sleep!
For our most gracious guardian slain we weep,
In woman's cause of yore
Full many a pang who bore,
And now lies smitten by a woman's craft.
Chorus
Woe! frenzied Helen, woe !
Through thee alone, through one,
How many souls, how many, were undone ;
What havoc dire 'neath Troia thou hast wrought.
* * * * *
Chorus
And now the cureless woe,
Heirloom of blood, shed long ago,
Through thee hath blossomed, causing strife
Unquenchable, with husband-murder rife.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Bowed beneath sorrow's weight,
Invoke not deadly Fate,
Nor in thine anger Helen thus arraign,
As though through her, through one,
Fell many a Danaan son ;—
She-man-destroyer, working cureless bane!
Chorus
Demon, who now dost fall
Ruthless on Atreus' hall
Making the twin Tantalidæ thy prey,
†Through women's haughty reign,
Gnawing my heart, thou dost confirm thy sway.
Like bodeful raven hoarse,
She standeth o'er the corse,
And chants exulting her discordant strain.

ANTISTROPHE IV.

CLYTEMNESTRA
Ay now thy speech in sooth
Runs even with the truth,
Calling the thrice-dread demon of this race ;
For in their veins is nursed,
By him, the quenchless thirst
For blood ; ere pales the trace
Of ancient pang, now ichor flows apace.
Chorus
Mighty the demon, dire his hate,
Whom here thou boastest to preside ;
Woe ! woe ! ill-omened praise of Fate,
Baneful and still unsatisfied !
Alas! 'Tis Zeus, in will, in deed,
Sole cause, sole fashioner; for say
What comes to mortals undecreed
By Zeus, what here, that owneth not his sway ?
Chorus
Woe ! woe!
King ! King! how thee shall I bewail ?
How voice my heartfelt grief? Thou liest there
Entangled in the spider's guileful snare;
In impious death thy life thou dost exhale.
Chorus
Ah me! ah me! to death betrayed,
Sped by the two-edged blade,
On servile couch now ignominious laid.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Dost boast as mine this deed ?
Then wrongly thou dost read,
†To count me Agamemnon's wife ;-not so;
Appearing in the mien
Of this dead monarch's queen,
The ancient fiend of Atreus dealt the blow ;—
Requiting his grim feast,
For the slain babes, as priest,
The full-grown victim now he layeth low.
Chorus
That thou art guiltless of this blood
Who will attest? Yet by thy side,
Haply, as thy accomplice, stood
The Fury who doth here preside.
Through streams of kindred gore
Presseth grim Ares on to claim
Requital for the deed of shame
The clotted blood of babes devoured of yore.
Chorus.
Woe ! woe!
King ! King ! thee how shall I bewail ?
How voice my heartfelt grief ? Thou liest there
Entangled in the spider's guileful snare,
In impious death thy life thou dost exhale.

ANTISTROPHE VII.

Ah me ! ah me! to death betrayed,
Sped by the two-edged blade,
On servile couch now ignominious laid.
CLYTEMNESTRA

ANTISTROPHE VIII.

By no unjust decree
Perished this man, for he
Through guile hath household death enacted here :—
His proper child he slew,
Sweet bud from me that grew,
Iphigenia, wept with many a tear.
Foul quittance for foul deed ;—
He reaped the sword's due meed,
Hence no proud boast from him let Hades hear!
Chorus

STROPHE IX.

Perplexed I am, bewildered sore
Which way to turn; escape is vain ;
Totters the house; I dread the crimson rain
That with loud plashing shakes these walls; no more
Falleth in niggard droppings now the gore.
And bent on deed of mischief, Fate anew
On other whetstones, whetteth vengeance due.
Chorus.

ANTISTROPHE II.

Earth! Earth! oh hadst thou been
My shroud ere I my king
Prone in the silver-sided bath had seen !
Who will inter him? Who his dirge shall sing?
So hardy thou? Wilt thou who didst assail
Thy husband's life, thyself uplift the wail ?
Wilt to his shade, for the great deeds he wrought,
Render a graceless grace, with malice fraught ?
Chorus.
With tears of honest grief
Weeping the godlike chief,
Above the tomb who now shall raise
The funeral hymn ? Who speak the hero's praise ?
CLYTEMNESTRA

STROPHE X.

Not thine the task to counsel here.
By us he fell: this man we slew;
Ours be it to inurn him too;
Borne from the palace, o'er the bier
Shall sound no notes of wailing ;-no,
But him, with blandishments, shall meet
Iphigenia; by the rapid streams
Of Acheron, his daughter, as beseems,
Facing her father, shall around him throw
Her loving arms, and him with kisses greet.
Chorus
That taunt still answers taunt we see.
Here to adjudge is hard indeed.
Spoiled be the spoiler ; who sheds blood must bleed.
While Zeus surviveth shall this law survive.
Doer must suffer; 'tis the Fates' decree;
Who from the house the fated curse may drive ?
The race is welded to calamity.
CLYTEMNESTRA

ANTISTROPHE X.

Ay! now on Truth thou dost alight!
I with the demon of this race-
The Pleisthenid—an oath will plight.
My doom, though grievous, I embrace.
But for the rest, hence let him haste!
Leaving this house, let him another race
Harass with kindred murders. For myself,
When from these halls blood-frenzy I have chased,
Small pittance shall I crave of worldly pelf.
ÆGISTHOS
Hail, joyous light of justice-bearing day!
At length I can aver that Gods supernal,
Judges of men, look down on earthly woes,
Beholding, in the Erinyes' woven robes,
This man, thus prostrate, welcome sight to me,
The wiles atoning compassed by his sire.
For Atreus, Argos' ruler, this man's father,
Did from the city and his home expel
Thyestes, rival in the sovereignty,-
My father, to be plain, and his own brother.
But coming back, a suppliant of the hearth,
Wretched Thyestes found a lot secure,
Not doomed his natal soil with blood to stain,
Here in his home: but this man's godless sire,
Atreus, with zeal officious more than kind,
Feigning a joyous banquet-day to hold,
Served to my sire, for food, his children's flesh.
Their feet indeed, the members of their hands,—
Seated aloof, in higher place, he hides.
Partaking of the undistinguished parts,
In ignorance, Thyestes eats the food,
Curse-laden, as thou seest, to the race.
Discerning then the impious deed, he shrieked,
And back recoiling the foul slaughter spewed.
Spurning, with righteous curse, th' insulted board
Dread doom he vows to the Pelopidæ ;—
" So perish the whole race of Pleisthenes."
Hence is it that ye see this man laid low;
The righteous planner of his death am I.
For me, the thirteenth child, in swathing clothes,
He with my wretched sire, to exile drove.
But, grown to manhood, Justice led me back,
And I, although aloof, have reached this man,
The threads combining of the fatal plot.
Now for myself 'twere glorious to die,
Seeing this man entrapped in Justice' toils.
Chorus
To honour insolence in guilt, Aegisthos,
I know not ;—that with purpose thou didst kill
This man, thou boastest; of his piteous doom
Sole author thou :—I tell thee thine own head
To Justice brought, be sure shall not escape
The curse of stoning by the people's hand.
ÆGISTHOS
Plying the lowest oar, dost menace us
Who from the upper benches sway the helm ?
Being old thou know’st how bitter at thy years
Wisdom by stern necessity to learn.
But bonds and hunger-pangs, to cure the mind
Of stubborn old, are skilful leeches found.
Hast eyes, yet seest not this? Against the pricks
Kick not, lest stumbling, thou shouldst come to grief.
Chorus
Woman, house-mate to him from recent war
Return’d,— defiler of thy husband's bed,
Death thou didst plot against this warrior chief.
ÆGISTHOS
These words will fountains be of bitter tears.
Thy tongue the opposite to Orpheus is;
For he drew all by rapture of his voice,
While thou, by idle bark, dost all things stir
†To hate ; — when conquered, thou wilt tamer
show.
Chorus
Shalt thou be ruler of the Argives, thou,
Who, when that thou hadst plotted this man's death,
Didst courage lack to strike the blow thyself?
ÆGISTHOS
To spread the snare was plainly woman's part,
For I, his ancient foeman, was suspect;
But armed with this man's treasure, be it mine
To rule the citizens. Th' unruly colt
That, barley-fed, turns restive, I will bind
†With heavier thong than yokes the trace-horse;
—him,
Darkness' grim comrade, Famine, shall see tamed.
Chorus
This man why didst thou not, O base of soul,
Slaughter thyself? But him his wife, with thee,
The land polluting, and her country's gods,
Hath slain. Orestes, sees he still the light,
That, home-returning with auspicious Fate,
He may, with mighty stroke, deal death to both ?
ÆGISTHOS
Since thou art minded thus to act, not talk alone,
know quickly.
* * * * *
To his attendants.
Come on, my faithful body-guard, the fray is not far distant.
Chorus
Come on then, and with hand on hilt, his sword let each make ready.
ÆGISTHOS
Be well assured, with hand on hilt, to die I too refuse not.
Chorus
To die,—thine utterance we accept, and take as thy death-omen.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Dearest of husbands let us not, I pray, work further mischief.
Already in our many woes reaped have we wretched harvests.
Of sorrow there hath been enough ; let us forbear more bloodshed.
Go thou, and ye too aged men, seek your appointed mansions,
Ere aught ye do to work mischance. As fate enjoined we’ve acted.
If trouble is the lot of man, enough have we encountered ;
Sore smitten by the heavy hoof of some avenging demon.
Thus ye a woman's counsel have, if any deign to hearken.
ÆGISTHOS
To think that their vain tongue 'gainst me into such speech should blossom;-
That they should hurl forth words like these, their proper doom, thus tempting :
They against sober reason err, thus to insult their ruler.
Chorus
Upon the evil man to fawn is not the wont of Argives.
ÆGISTHOS
But, be assured, some future day, I yet shall overtake you.
Chorus
Not so if hither to return some god should guide Orestes.
ÆGISTHOS
Full well I know that exiles still on hopes are wont to batten.
Chorus
Work as thou listest. Gorge thy fill. Stain justice. Thou canst do it.
ÆGISTHOS
Be sure that thou to me shalt pay the forfeit of thy folly.
Chorus
Be boastful and be bold, like cock beside his partner strutting.
CLYTEMNESTRA
These senseless barkings heed not thou ; thyself and I together,
Ruling within these royal halls, will all things wisely order.
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.) — 40 focus
Ten livelong years have rolled away,
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Since the twin lords of sceptred sway,
By Zeus endowed with pride of place,
The doughty chiefs of Atreus' race,
Went forth of yore,
To plead with Priam, face to face,
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Before the judgment-seat of War!
A thousand ships from Argive land
Put forth to bear the martial band,
That with a spirit stern and strong
Went out to right the kingdom's wrong—
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Pealed, as they went, the battle-song,
Wild as the vultures' cry;
When o'er the eyrie, soaring high,
In wild bereaved agony,
Around, around, in airy rings,
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They wheel with oarage of their wings,
But not the eyas-brood behold,
That called them to the nest of old;
But let Apollo from the sky,
Or Pan, or Zeus, but hear the cry,
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The exile cry, the wail forlorn,
Of birds from whom their home is torn—
On those who wrought the rapine fell,
Heaven sends the vengeful fiends of hell.
Even so doth Zeus, the jealous lord
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And guardian of the hearth and board,
Speed Atreus' sons, in vengeful ire,
'Gainst Paris—sends them forth on fire,
Her to buy back, in war and blood,
Whom one did wed but many woo'd!
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And many, many, by his will,
The last embrace of foes shall feel,
And many a knee in dust be bowed,
And splintered spears on shields ring loud,
Of Trojan and of Greek, before
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That iron bridal-feast be o'er!
But as he willed 'tis ordered all,
And woes, by heaven ordained, must fall—
Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine
Poured forth too late, the wrath divine
90
Glares vengeance on the flameless shrine. 1
And we in gray dishonoured eld,
Feeble of frame, unfit were held
To join the warrior array,
That then went forth unto the fray:
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And here at home we tarry, fain
Our feeble footsteps to sustain,
Each on his staff—so strength doth wane,
And turns to childishness again.
For while the sap of youth is green,
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And, yet unripened, leaps within,
The young are weakly as the old,
And each alike unmeet to hold
The vantage post of war!
And ah ! when flower and fruit are o'er,
105
And on life's tree the leaves are sere,
Age wendeth propped its journey drear,
As forceless as a child, as light
And fleeting as a dream of night
Lost in the garish day!
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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.
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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—
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Now, waxing to a presage fair,
Dawns from the altar Hope—to scare
From our rent hearts the vulture Care.
List! for the power is mine, to chant on high
The chiefs' emprise, the strength that omens gave!
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List! on my soul breathes yet a harmony,
From realms of ageless powers, and strong to save!
How brother kings, twin lords of one command,
Led forth the youth of Hellas in their flower,
Urged on their way, with vengeful spear and brand,
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By warrior-birds, that watched the parting hour.
Go forth to Troy, the eagles seemed to cry—
And the sea-kings obeyed the sky-kings' word,
When on the right they soared across the sky,
And one was black, one bore a white tail barred.
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High o'er the palace were they seen to soar,
Then lit in sight of all, and rent and tare,
Far from the fields that she should range no more,
Big with her unborn brood, a mother-hare.
And one beheld, the soldier-prophet true,
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And the two chiefs, unlike of soul and will,
In the twy-coloured eagles straight he knew,
And spake the omen forth, for good and ill.
(Ah woe and well-a-day! but be the issue fair!)
Go forth, he cried, and Priam's town shall fall.
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Yet long the time shall be; and flock and herd,
The people's wealth, that roam before the wall,
Shall force hew down, when Fate shall give the word.
But O beware! lest wrath in Heaven abide,
To dim the glowing battle-forge once more,
165
And mar the mighty curb of Trojan pride,
The steel of vengeance, welded as for war!
For virgin Artemis bears jealous hate
Against the royal house, the eagle-pair,
Who rend the unborn brood, insatiate—
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Yea, loathes their banquet on the quivering hare.
(Ah woe and well-a-day! but be the issue fair!)
For well she loves—the goddess kind and mild—
The tender new-born cubs of lions bold,
Too weak to range—and well the sucking child
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Of every beast that roams by wood and wold.
So to the Lord of Heaven she prayeth still
"Nay, if it must be, be the omen true!
Yet do the visioned eagles presage ill;
The end be well, but crossed with evil too!"
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Healer Apollo! be her wrath controlled,
Nor weave the long delay of thwarting gales,
To war against the Danaans and withhold
From the free ocean-waves their eager sails!
She craves, alas! to see a second life
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Shed forth, a curst unhallowed sacrifice—
'Twixt wedded souls, artificer of strife,
And hate that knows not fear, and fell device.
At home there tarries like a lurking snake,
Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled,
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A wily watcher, passionate to slake
In blood, resentment for a murdered child.
Such was the mighty warning, pealed of yore—
Amid good tidings, such the word of fear,
What time the fateful eagles hovered o'er
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The kings, and Calchas read the omen clear.
(In strains like his, once more,
Sing woe and well-a-day! but be the issue fair!)
Zeus—if to The Unknown
That name of many names seem good—
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Zeus, upon Thee I call.
Thro' the mind's every road
I passed, but vain are all,
Save that which names thee Zeus, the Highest One,
Were it but mine to cast away the load,
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The weary load, that weighs my spirit down.
He that was Lord of old,
In full-blown pride of place and valour bold,
Hath fallen and is gone, even as an old tale told!
And he that next held sway,
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By stronger grasp o'erthrown
Hath pass'd away! 2
And whoso now shall bid the triumph-chant arise
To Zeus, and Zeus alone,
He shall be found the truly wise.
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'Tis Zeus alone who shows the perfect way
Of knowledge: He hath ruled,
Men shall learn wisdom, by affliction schooled.
In visions of the night like dropping rain
Descend the many memories of pain
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Before the spirit's sight: through tears and dole
Comes wisdom o'er the unwilling soul—
A boon, I wot, of all Divinity,
That holds its sacred throne in strength, above the sky!
And then the elder chief, at whose command
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The fleet of Greece was manned,
Cast on the seer no word of hate,
But veered before the sudden breath of Fate—
Ah weary while! for, ere they put forth sail,
Did every store, each minish'd vessel, fail,
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While all the Achæan host
At Aulis anchored lay,
Looking across to Chalcis and the coast
Where refluent waters welter, rock, and sway;
And rife with ill delay
235
From northern Strymon blew the thwarting blast—
Mother of famine fell,
That holds men wand'ring still
Far from the haven where they fain would be!—
And pitiless did waste
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Each ship and cable, rotting on the sea,
And, doubling with delay each weary hour,
Withered with hope deferred th' Achæans' warlike flower.
But when for bitter storm a deadlier relief,
And heavier with ill to either chief,
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Pleading the ire of Artemis, the seer avowed,
The two Atridæ smote their sceptres on the plain,
And, striving hard, could not their tears restrain!
And then the elder monarch spake aloud—
Ill lot were mine, to disobey!
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And ill, to smite my child, my household 's love and pride!
To stain with virgin blood a father's hands, and slay
My daughter, by the altar's side!
'Twixt woe and woe I dwell—
I dare not like a recreant fly,
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And leave the league of ships, and fail each true ally;
For rightfully they crave, with eager fiery mind,
The virgin's blood, shed forth to lull the adverse wind—
God send the deed be well!
Thus on his neck he took
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Fate's hard compelling yoke;
Then, in the counter-gale of will abhorr'd, accursed,
To recklessness his shifting spirit veered—
Alas! that Frenzy, first of ills and worst,
With evil craft men's souls to sin hath ever stirred!
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And so he steeled his heart—ah well-a-day—
Aiding a war for one false woman's sake,
His child to slay,
And with her spilt blood make
An offering, to speed the ships upon their way!
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Lusting for war, the bloody arbiters
Closed heart and ears, and would nor hear nor heed
The girl-voice plead,
Pity me, Father! nor her prayers,
Nor tender, virgin years.
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And, when the chant of sacrifice was done,
Her father bade the youthful priestly train
Raise her, like some poor kid, above the altar-stone,
From where amid her robes she lay
Sunk all in swoon away—
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Bade them, as with the bit that mutely tames the steed,
Her fair lips' speech refrain,
Lest she should speak a curse on Atreus' home and seed.
So, trailing on the earth her robe of saffron dye,
With one last piteous dart from her beseeching eye
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Those that should, smite she smote—
Fair, silent, as a pictur'd form, but fain
To plead Is all for got?
How oft those halls of old,
Wherein my sire high feast did hold,
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Rang to the virginal soft strain,
When I, a stainless child,
Sang from pure lips and undefiled,
Sang of my sire, and all
His honoured life, and how on him should fall
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Heaven's highest gift and gain!
And then—but I beheld not, nor can tell,
What further fate befel:
But this is sure, that Calchas' boding strain
Can ne'er be void or vain.
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This wage from Justice' hand do sufferers earn,
The future to discern:
And yet—farewell, O secret of To-morrow!
Fore-knowledge is fore-sorrow.
Clear with the clear beams of the morrow's sun,
305
The future presseth on.
Now, let the house's tale, how dark soe'er,
Find yet an issue fair!
—So prays the loyal, solitary band
That guards the Apian land.
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[ They turn to Clytemnestra, who leaves the altars and comes forward.
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.) — 40 focus
Zehn Sommer entfloh'n, seit Priamos' Feind, 1
Recht fordernd mit Macht,
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Menelaos der Fürst, Agamemnon mit ihm,
Das gewaltige Paar der Atriden, von Zeus
Durch Scepter und Thron zwiefältig geehrt,
Mit den tausend Masten Achäa's Heer,
Die Genossen des Kampfs,
45
Von den heimischen Fluren entführten.
Laut schnoben sie Mord aus zorniger Brust,
Wie der Weihen Geschlecht,
Die, der Jungen beraubt, in unendlichem Schmerz
Hoch über dem Horst hin kreisend und her,
50
Mit der Fittige Schlag durchrudern die Luft,
Die verlorenen Müh'n
Um der Kindlein Pflege betrauernd.
Doch ein Gott in den Höh'n, ob Apollon, ob Pan,
Ob Zeus, er vernimmt der Beraubten Geschrei,
55
Das mit klagendem Ruf die Gebirge durchhallt,
Und die Frevler ereilt
Der vergeltende Fluch der Erinnys.
So sandte des Atreus Söhne der Gott,
Der des Gastrechts wahrt, der gewaltige Zeus,
60
Auf Paris heran für der Buhlerin Raub,
Vielfältige Müh'n, abmattenden Kampf,
Da gestemmt in den Staub arbeitet das Knie,
Da die Lanze zerschellt in den vordersten Reih'n,
Dem achäischen Volke zu wecken,
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Und den Troern zugleich. Nun geht es einmal,
Wie's geht; es erfüllt sich der Spruch des Geschicks;
Nicht Weinen und nicht Trankspende versöhnt,
Kein Jammern den unauslöschbaren Groll
Um die fehlende Flamme des Opfers.
70
Uns Greisen indeß, die das Alter gebeugt,
Uns ward kein Theil an der Ehre des Zugs;
Wir blieben zurück,
Gleich Kindern am Stab aufstüßend die Kraft.
Denn das jüngere Mark, das jugendlichſtolz
75
Im Busen sich hebt,
Flieht, schwach wie der Greis, vor dem Kampfe zurück:
Der Gealterte schleicht, wann herbstlich bereits
Sich entlaubte der Stamm, dreifüßig dahin;
Unmächtig, dem Kind gleich, wankt er einher,
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Ein Traumbild, irrend am Tage.
(Während dieser Worte ist aus den Pforten des königlichen Palastes ein Zug von Dienerinnen mit Schalen und Krügen um die Altäre getreten, um zu opfern; zu gleicher Zeit erscheint Klytämnestra mit Gefolge, und läßt das Opfer beginnen.)
Auf, Tyndaros' Kind,
O Königin, sprich, Klytämnestra: was ist's?
Was Neues geschah? Was vernahm dein Ohr?
Auf welches Gerücht
85
Dich stützend, erregst du die Opfer umher? 2
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.
90
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.
95
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
100
Von den Opfern und stillt das unendliche Leid,
Die verzehrende Trauer im Busen.
Singend verherrlichen darf ich der Könige Fahrt mit der Zeichen 3
Glücklichem Stern, (noch haucht ja Vertrau'n von den Göttern
Mir den Gesang ein,
105
Kraft noch gönnt mir das Alter,) 4
Wie Hellas' stolzthronendes Paar, der achäischen Jugend
Fürsten in Eintracht,
Sandten die stürmischen Adler mit rächenden
Armen und Lanzen in's Troergefilde,
110
Da die Beherrscher der Luft den Beherrschern des Meers,
Der eine mit schwarzem Gefieder,
Der andre weiß, nah dem Palaste, zur Rechten erschienen;
Auf weitglänzendem Horste
Saßen sie, gierig verschlingend das Fleisch der befruchteten Häsin,
115
Die matt im letzten Laufe sank.
Hebe den klagenden Ruf! Doch siegreich walte das Gute!
Gegenstrophe.
Aber der Seher des Heers, der erfahrene, sah der Atriden 5
Zwiefachen Sinn, und erkennt in den Mördern des Hasen
Argos' Feldherrn;
120
Und so deutend begann er:
„Wohl bricht dereinst stürmend in Priamos' Veste der Zug hier;
Alle die reichen
Schätze der Burg, die das Volk ihr steuerte, 6
Wird mit Gewalt einst rauben das Schicksal.
125
Daß nur göttlicher Neid nicht breche die Kraft
Dem gewaltigen Zaume des Heeres,
Das Troja stürzt! Artemis grollt ja dem Hause des Atreus,
Weil Zeus' fliegende Diener
Vor der Geburt mit der Frucht die geängstigte Mutter geopfert:
130
Sie haßt der Adler grauses Mahl."
Hebe den klagenden Ruf! Doch siegreich walte das Gute!
Schlußgesang.
„Die Holde, die so liebevoll 7
Dem grimmen Leu'n hütet die zarten Sprossen, 8
Die sich der milchverlangenden Jungen
135
Freut der schweifenden Thiere des Waldes, 9
Wünscht doch, daß sich das Zeichen erfülle,
Das Heilvolles verhieß, und zugleich uns schreckte mit Unheil.
Zu Phöbos ruf' ich, dem Gott des Heiles,
Daß sie dem Danaervolk durch Hemmungen feindlicher Winde
140
Nicht aufhalte die Fahrt,
Heischend ein anderes Mahl, ein verrucht unseliges Opfer
Welches gebäre den Streit, scheulos zu vertilgen den Gatten. 10
Fürchterlich harrt ja des einst heimkehrenden,
Tückisch im Haus ingeheim um das Kind fortglühend, die Rachsucht."
145
Solches verkündete Kalchas zugleich mit unendlichem Glücke,
Was von den Vögeln des Weges dem Königeshause verhängt ward.
Diesem entsprechend
Hebe den klagenden Ruf! Doch siegreich walte das Gute!
Zeus, wer Zeus auch immer sei, mit dem
150
Namen ruf' ich jetzt ihn an,
Hört er so sich gern genannt.
Wäg' ich Alles sinnend ab,
Keinen weiß ich auszuspäh'n,
Keinen, als Zeus, auf den ich die nichtige Bürde der Sorge 12
155
Werfen mag mit Zuversicht.
Erste Gegenstrophe.
Denn der ehedem gewaltig war,
Alles stürmte trozigfrech,
Seiner wird nicht mehr gedacht. 13
Der nach ihm erstand, auch er
160
Fand den Sieger und erlag.
Doch wer fromm im Gesange des Siegs den Kroniden verherrlicht,
Pflückt des Geistes schönsten Kranz.
Zweite Strophe.
Denn zur Weisheit leitet uns
Zeus und heiligt als Gesetz,
165
Daß in Leiden Lehre wohnt.
Auch in Träumen wallt ja vor das Herz
Schuldbewußt Seelenangst, und es keimt
Wider Willen weiser Sinn.
Huld der Gottheit ist es, die gewaltig
170
Hoch am Weltenruder thront.
Zweite Gegenstrophe.
Das erwog der ält're Fürst,
Der Achäa's Heereszug
Führte, schalt den Seher nicht,
Nein, trug still die ringsentbrannte Noth,
175
Als in thatloser Rast Hungerqual
Schwer bedrängt' Achäa's Volk,
Das in Aulis' wildumwogtem Porte
Chalkis gegenüber lag.
Dritte Strophe.
Vom Strymon her wehend, tobt der Sturmwind,
180
Bringt Zögern, bringt Hunger, wehrt die Landung,
Und führt die Menschen irre,
Schont Kiele nicht noch Taue,
Und dehnt endlos die lange Säumniß,
Daß Argos' Volksblüthe matt dahinwelkt. 14
185
Und als den Fürsten nun
Kalchas ein anderes Mittel,
Schmerzlicher, als des bittern
Sturmes Verzug, Artemis' Zorn meldend, enthüllt, daß sie den Stab
Wild in den Grund stießen und laut weinten, die Söhne des Atreus:
190
Dritte Gegenstrophe.
Da sprach er also, der ält're Heerfürst:
„Ein hartes Loos ist es, nicht zu folgen,
Ein hartes, soll ich schlachten
Mein Kind, des Hauses Kleinod,
Und bei'm Altar die Vaterhand hier
195
Nuchlos in's Herzblut der Tochter tauchen! 15
Was bleibt da frei von Leid?
Ueb' ich Verrath am Heere?
Täusch' ich die Kampfgenossen?
Daß sie das windstillende Sühnopfer, das jungfräuliche Blut,
200
Fordern in zornglühender Gier, recht ist's: führ' es zum Heile!"
Vierte Strophe.
Jetzt, als er aufnahm das Joch des Zwanges,
Und Sinneswandlung im Busen hauchte,
Gottlose, schnöd unheilige,
Ergriff er tollkühn das kecke Wagniß.
205
Denn dreist in Unthat verlockt die Menschen
Unsel'ger Wahnsinn, des Fluches Quelle.
So trug er's denn, sein Kind schlachten zu seh'n,
Dem frauenraubrächenden Krieg zum Schuße,
Als Voropfer des Seezugs:
210
Vierte Gegenstrophe.
Ihr Fleh'n, ihr Angstruf zum Vater rührt nicht,
Nicht ihre jungfräulich holde Blüthe,
Der Richter kampfentbrannten Muth.
Er hieß den Priestern, als ihr Gebet schwieg,
Sie, gleich der Ziege, hoch über'm Altar
215
Vorwärts gebeugt, tiefverhüllt in Schleier,
Mit Armeskraft emporheben, gebot
Der Tochter schönrosigen Mund zu fesseln,
Daß sie dem Haus nicht fluche,
Fünfte Strophe.
Mit Zwang und lautlosen Zaums starrer Macht.
220
Ihr Safrankleid floß zur Erde nieder,
Des Auges Blick traf mit Mitleids
Geschossen ihrer Opf'rer jeden,
Und reizend schön, einem Bild gleich, wollte sie
Wie sonst ihn anreden, da
225
Ihr Lied im mahlreichen Vätersaale
Erklungen. Oft sang sie da liebevoll, kindlichfromm, 16
Die Heldenjungfrau, das heitre Glück
Das selige Loos des Vaters.
Fünfte Gegenstrophe.
Was dann geschah, sah ich nicht, sag' ich nicht:
230
Doch Kalchas' Wort bleibt nicht unvollendet.
Denn Dike wägt allem Leide
Belehrung zu für späte Zukunft.
Vorauszuschau'n, was die Zeit bringt, wünsch' ich nicht; 17
Voraus trauern wäre das.
235
Denn klar enthüllt's einst der Sonne Frühstrahl.
So möge Heil uns hinfort blühen, wie Sie es wünscht,
Die dort heranwandelt und allein
Des apischen Landes Hort ist.
(Klytämnestra verläßt die Altäre, und kommt näher.)

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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ἐπεὶ Πριάμου
ἐπὶ Πριάμου
Ald. Turn.
ἐπεὶ Πριάμοιο
M. Bess. G.
ἀπὸ πριάμοιο
Rob.
ἀπὸ πριάμοιο
habere videtur Farn.
ἐπὶ πριάμοιο
Ven. Flor. Hanc scripturam, quae exstat etiam apud scholiastam Euripidis ad Hec. 246. (239.) reposuit Victorius.
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Ἀτρειδᾶν codices et Rob.
Ἀτρειδῶν
Ald. Turn. Aeque ad
τιμῆς
pertinet
Διόθεν
atque ad
Ἀτρειδᾶν
.
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χιλιοναύταν
χιλιονάυτην
Rob. Ad
χιλιοναύταν
in M. G. Flor. adscripta alia lectio,
χιλιονάυτην
. Quod alias
χιλιοναύτης
, hic
χιλιοναύτας
dictum, ut in Iph. Taur. v. 141.
σὺν κόπᾳ χιλιοναύτᾳ
.
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NA In Ven. ingens lacuna: finitur enim folium v. 45. proximum incipit v. 1054.
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στρατιῶτιν
στρατιώτιν
Ald. Rob. ἀρωγάν ad ultimam vocalem
αν
supra adscripto M. Non puto haec verba,
στρατιῶτιν ἀρωγάν
, per appositionem ad
στόλον
addita esse, sed epitheti officio fungi: exercitum eduxerunt ad militare auxilium.
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κλάζοντες
ἀλάζοντες
Flor. Farn.
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ἄλγεσι παίδων Hesychius
ἐκπάτιον, τὸ ἔξω πάτου
.
ἄλγεσι παίδων
codices et Rob.
ἄλγεσι ποδῶν
Ald. Hinc Turn.
ἄλγεσσι ποδῶν
. Non latuit Bochartum Hieroz. II. p. 319. esse haec ex illis Homeri expressa, Od. XVI. 216.
κλαῖον δὲ λιγέως, ἀδικώτερον ἤ τ' οἰωνοί, φῆναι, ἢ αἰγυπιοὶ γαμψώνυχες, οἶσί τε τέκνα ἀγρόται ἐξείλοντο, πρὶν πετεεινὰ γενέσθαι
.
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ἐρετμοῖσιν
ἐρετμοῖσι
Bess.
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δεμνιοτήρη πόνον ὀρταλίχων Inutilis est Musgravii coniectura
γόνον
. Hesychius
δεμνιοτήρη πόνον. Αἰσχύλος Ἀγαμέμνονι. καθόσον οἱ νεοσσοὶ ἔτι τοιοῦτοί εἰσιν ὡς τὰ δέμνια τηρεῖν καὶ κατέχειν, μηδέπω πέτεσθαι δυνάμενοι. πόνον δὲ τὰ περὶ τὴν τροφὴν αὐτῶν
. Non satis accurate. Δεμνιοτήρης πόνος ὀρταλίχων est cubiliprema cura pullorum, sive labor quem parentes pullis incubando sustinuerunt.

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ἤ τις
ἥτις
G. Ald.
Τίς
cum nomine proprio coniunctum significat talem aliquem qualis est qui nominatur. Explicavit hunc usum Fritzschius in Quaest. Lucian. p. 16. Hic Aeschylus primo agrestes deos, ut proprios in hac re, Apollinem et Panem, tum iracundius assurgens, quippe iam quo tendat similitudo illa in animo habens, supremum deorum Iovem nominat. Mire abutitur doctrina sua Müllerus in Doriens. vol. 1. p. 295. Iovem ut regnatorem mundi, Pana ut concitatorem insaniae, Apollinem ut deum punitorem nominari censens.
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τῶνδε μετοίκων Libri
τῶνδε μετοίκων
. Nulla in Rob. interpunctio. In Ald. post
οἰωνόθροον
, tum post
ὀξυβόαν
et post
ὑστερόποινον
interpunctum. A Turnebo virgula post
μετοίκων
posita, ut iungerentur
οἰωνόθροον γόον ὀξυβόαν τῶνδε μετοίκων
. Ita construxisse videtur scholiastes Sophoclis ad Oed. Col. 934.
μετοίκους δὲ καλοῦμεν τοὺς ἀπὸ ἑτέρας χώρας οἰκοῦντας πρὸς τοὺς μετοικισθέντας ποθέν· τοῦτο δὲ ἔνοικον. κέχρηται δὲ καὶ Αἰσχύλος ἐπὶ τῶν οἰωνῶν ἐν Ἀγαμέμνονι λέγων οὕτω, τῶνδε μετοίκων, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐνοίκων· μετοίκους γὰρ εἶπε τῶν ὑψηλῶν τόπων τοὺς οἰωνοὺς κἀκεῖσε ἀντὶ τῶν ἐνοίκων
. Sic haec ex codice edidit Elmsleius. Eadem fere Suidas habet. Aliter paullo scholiorum editio Romana, aliter rursum Brunckiana, non tamen ut emendatus sit locus. Si
τῶνδε μετοίκων
iungitur cum superioribus, luctus ob amotos pullos est intelligendus. At ita
τῶνδε
inutile est, quoniam aut
τῶν μετοίκων
aut
μετοίκων
ponendum erat. Pauwium, qui verba illa ad sequentia referri iussit, secuti sunt recentiores editores. Scholiastes quo rettulerit, non liquet, qui scribat
ὑπὲρ τῶν μετοικισθέντων νεοσσῶν
. Παραβᾶσιν, quod non potest de raptoribus pullorum anguibus dictum esse, aperte refertur ad Troianos, qui Helenam rapuerint violato iure hospitii. Eodem modo ad hanc rem, non ad pullos, respexit poeta, quum paullo ante Iovem commemoravit. Itaque etiam
μετοίκων
de Helena dictum est, ut omnino ineptum sit
τῶνδε
. Scripsi
τῶν δὲ μετοίκων
, ut ad
ὕπατος δ' ἀΐων
intelligeretur verbum substantivum. Dubitari autem potest, an post
ὀξυβόαν
exciderit hemistichium, hac sententia,
μέγα θυμοῦται
. Idque confirmatur fortasse eo quod in codice M. ceterisque antiquis libris versus ita distincti sunt,
γόον ὀξυβόαν | τῶνδε μετοίκων ὑστέροποινον
.
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παραβᾶσιν
παρὰ βᾶσιν
G. Ald. Ἐρινύν
ἐρινὺν
M. Bess. G. Ald. Rob.
ἐριννὺν
Flor. Farn. Turn.
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Ἀτρέως
Ἀτρέος
Turn.
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γυιοβαρῆ
γυιοβαρῆ
Turn. Virgulam quidam recentiorum editorum post
γυιοβαρῆ
posuerunt. Magis conveniunt poeticae dictioni
παλαίσματα γόνατος
, quam genitivi absoluti.
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ἐρειδομένου
ἐριδομένου
Bess. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἐρειδομένου
M.
ἐρειδομένου
Farn. et
δ
ad
δ
supra scripto Flor. In Farn. glossa
πίπτοντος
.
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ἐν προτελείοις
ἐμπροτελείοις
G.
ἐν πρωτελείοις
Flor.
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Δαναοῖσιν
Δαναοῖσι
M. Marc. G. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob.
Δαναοῖσι
Bess. Turn. Quam egregie hoc verbo, non iis quae sequuntur,
Τρωσί θ' ὁμοίως
, poeta systema concluserit ostendi in Elem. doctr. metr. p. 379.
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οὔθ᾽ ὑποκλαίων οὔθ᾽ ὑπολείβων ἀπύρων ἱερῶν ὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει Omnes in initio quoque
οὔθ'
. Non placet asyndeton. Quare, nisi forte aliquid excidit, malim
οὐδ'
. Legitur autem vulgo
οὐδ᾽ ὑποκλαίων οὔθ᾽ ὑπολείβων οὔτε δακρύων ἀπύρων ἱερῶν ὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει
. Habent
ὑποκλαίων
M. Marc. Bess. Flor. Farn. Rob.
ὑποκλέων
G.
ὑποκλίων
Ald.
ὑποκλείων
Turn. Pauwii coniecturam,
ὑποκλάσας
, ne quis probet, meminerit id non significare in genua procumbentem: v. Ruhnk. Ep. crit. p. 243 (276). Casaubonus scribendum putabat
ὑποκαίων
. Delenda potius sunt haec verba,
οὔτε δακρύων
, in quibus Aldinae error
δακεύων
fecit ut Turnebus ederet
δοκεύων
. Potest quidem
δακρύων
de fletu,
ὑποκλαίων
de lamentis accipi: sed coniungenda potius, quam interposito quod diversi generis est
οὔθ᾽ ὑπολείβων
separanda erant. Nihil est illud
οὔτε δακρύων
nisi interpretatio adscripta aut ad
οὔθ᾽ ὑποκλαίων
, aut fortasse ad
οὔθ᾽ ὑπολείβων
. Hesychius
λείβειν, σπένδειν. Διὶ λείβειν αἴθοπα οἶνον. καὶ δακρύειν, ὅ ἐστι τοῖς δακρύοις ῥέειν. δάκρυα λείβων καὶ στάζων
. Delendum esse
οὔτε δακρύων
vidit etiam Paleyus, sed ut falsa admisceret. In sequentibus verbis decepit interpretes scholiasta,
ἀπύρων ἱερῶν
de Parcis Furiisque dici putans. Eum refutare non ausus Spanhemius ad Callimachi Lav. Pall. v. 107. aliorum testimoniis scriptorum vindicare ignem illis sacris satis habuit. Quae Pindarus Ol. VII. 88. proprie
ἄπυρα ἱερά
dixit, apud Aeschylum metaphorice dicta sunt, ut sacra igne carentia ea intelligantur, quae irrita sunt impieque facta. Hesychius
ἀπύρου, ἀθύτου. ἀπύρου, ἀθύτου. Σοφοκλῆς Μυσοῖς
. Ita apud Aeschinem contra Ctesiph. §. 131. 152.
ἀθύτων καὶ ἀκαλλιερήτων τῶν ἱερῶν
, ubi ad priorem locum videndus est Taylorus. Respicit autem chorus immolationem Iphigeniae, quam v. 140. similiter
θυσίαν ἄδαιτον
vocat. Participia cum scholiasta ad omissum
τις
referenda sunt, de qua constructione dixi ad Hecubae v. 485. Sed cogitat chorus de Agamemnone.

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ἀτίτᾳ
ἀτίται
Μ.
ἀτίτῃ
G.
ἀτιταὶ
Farn.
ἀτίτᾳ
Flor. Ald. Turn.
ἀτίτα
Marc. Rob. Vict.
ἀτιταία
Bess. Non temere damnandus est nominativus
ἀτίται
, etsi terminatio illa
ης
pro
ος
, de qua dixerunt Valckenarius ad Phoen. v. 120. Lobeckius ad Phryn. p. 639. et ad Ai. v. 604. quum est in vocibus a verbis factis, raro passivam significationem habet. Sed dictum ita est
ἀτίτας
Eum. v. 254. V. Lob. ad Αi. v. 241. Paralip. p. 428. Hesychius
ἀτίτην, ἀτιμώρητον, ἄπορον, ἄτιμον, τὸν μὴ ἔχοντα ἀποτῖσαι
. Praestare tamen videtur
ἀτίτα
. Homerum ego Il. XIV. 484.
δηρὸν ἔῃ ἄτιτος
posuisse credo cum Clarkio et Heynio, non
δηρὸν ἄτιτος ἔῃ
, quod in libris est.
Πολύτιτον ἐόντα
tamen in oraculo est apud Herod. V. 92. et inde apud Eusebium Praep. euang. V. 29. quod poterat
πολύτιμον
dici.
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ἰσόπαιδα
ἰσόπεδα
Flor. Rob.
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ὅ τε Librorum scripturam
ὅτε
emendavit Auratus. νεαρὸς
νοερὸς
Bess.
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ἀνάσσων Libri
ἀνάσσων
, non aptum infirmae medullae verbum. Correxi in priore Aristophanis Nubium editione ad v. 994.
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οὐκ ἔνι χώρᾳ
οὐκ ἔνι χώραι
Μ.
οὐκ ἔνι χώρᾳ
Farn. Vict.
οὐκ ἐνιχώρᾳ
Rob.
οὐκένι χώρᾳ
G.
οὐκένι χώρα
Ald.
οὐκ ἔνι χώρα
Turn.
οὐκ ἐνὶ χώρᾳ
Bess. Frustra
οὐκ ἔνι χώρα
quum ab aliis, tum a Wakefieldio Silv. crit. II. p. 44. tentatum est. De formula
ἐν χώρᾳ, κατὰ χώραν
, quae usurpatur de iis quae firma suo loco stant sive, ut Horatii verbis utar, certa sede manent, videndi Valckenarius ad Herod. IV. 135. ad Theocr. Adon. p. 365. Ernestius ad Callim. h. D. v. 192. Boissonadus ad Eunap. p. 306. Αpud Callimachum est
πλαζομένη πελάγεσσι, πόδες δέ οἱ οὐκ ἐνὶ χώρᾳ
. Similiter Pindarus Pyth. IV. 485.
ῥᾴδιον μὲν γὰρ πόλιν σεῖσαι καὶ ἀφαυροτέροις, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ χώρας αὖτις ἕσσαι δυςπαλὲs δὴ γίγνεται
. Verum id non satis aptum hoc loco videtur, praesertim si
ν
scribitur. Id recte se haberet, si ullo pacto admitti posset scholiastae explicatio
τῷ τόπῳ ἐκείνῳ
. Nam
ἐνί
si legitur, omnis vis in hoc verbo est. Eatenus recte Boissonadus cum cod. Bess.
οὐκ ἐνὶ χώρᾳ
. Sed id vix potest aliter defendi, quam ut tota formula ex epicis petita dicatur. Nam in Attico scriptore requirimus potius
οὐκ ἐν χώρᾳ
, neque tragici
ἐνί
alibi quam in melicis admisisse videntur. Equidem
χώρᾳ
intellexerim de loco et numero in quo quid habetur, ut apud Theognidem v. 151.
ὕβριν, Κύρνε, θεὸς πρῶτον κακὸν ὤπασεν ἀνδρί, οὗ μέλλει χώρην μηδεμίαν θέμεναι.
et v. 821.
οἳ δ᾽ ἀπογηράσκοντας ἀτιμάζουσι τοκῆας, τούτων τοι χώρη, Κύρν', ὀλίγη τελέθει.
Dicit igitur chorus non inest, non censetur in loco aliquo et numero.
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τό θ᾽ ὑπεργήρων φυλλάδος
τίθιπεργήρως
M. G. (sic M. G.)
τίθι περ γήρως
Marc. Ald.
τίθι περ γήρυς
Rob.
τόθι περγήρως
Bess.
τόθιπερ γήρως
Flor.
τόθη περ γήρως
Turn.
τόθ' ὑπεργήρων
Farn.
τόθ' ὑπέργηρων
Vict. De accentu v. Göttlingium p. 288. Tum
φυγάδος
G.
φυλάδος
Ald.
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τρίποδας
τρίποδος
Flor. Farn.
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δ᾽ omittit Bess. ἀρείων
ἀρείων
Ald. Ad
γέρων
, quod in
ὑπεργήρων
inest, referendum esse
ἀρείων
Blomfieldius intellexit.
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ἡμερόφαντον
ἡμερόφατον
M. Bess. G. Ald. Rob. Emendatam scripturam
ἡμερόφαντον
habent Farn. Turn. Vict.
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Τυνδάρεω Egressam interea dum locutus erat coryphaeus ex regiis aedibus Clytemnestram compellat, quae in scena sacris faciendis occupatur. Pro
Τυνδάρεω
nescio an scribendum sit
Τυνδαρίου
. V. ad Eur. Iph. Aul. v. 596.
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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.
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NA Hunc versum editores nonnulli, in iisque Porsonus, Heathio suasore eiiciendum censuerunt. Non est cur damnetur. Omnium, inquit, in aris deorum ardet flamma, qui urbem regunt, superum, inferum, quique in caelo degunt, quique hominum negotiis adsunt. Praeterea ne idem quidem si significaretur hoc versu quod praecedente, reprehendi posset. Sic Sophocles Ant. v. 851.
οὔτε βροτοῖσιν οὔτ᾽ ἐν νεκροῖσιν μέτοικος, οὐ ζῶσιν, οὐ θανοῦσιν
. Quin ipse Aeschylus tuetur hunc versum, quum in Sept. ad Th. v. 254. dicat
χώρας τοῖς πολισσούχοις θεοῖς, πεδιονόμοις τε κἀγορᾶς ἐπισκόποις
. Quos ibi dicit
πολισσούχους
, eos hic
ἀστυνόμους
, quo modo
ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς
Sophocles Ant. v. 355.
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δώροισι
δώροις
M. Marc. Bess. G. Flor. Ald. Rob.
δώροισι
Farn. Turn. Vict. Schol. Aristophanis ad Equitum v. 1317.
ἔθος ἦν τοῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς ἱσταμένοις θεοῖς ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐρχομέναις ἀγγελίαις θύειν, ὡς ἂν εἰ ἀγαθαὶ εἶεν, ἐπινεύσαιεν ταύταις, εἰ δὲ τοὐναντίον, ἀποτρέψαιεν
.
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χρίματος
χρήματος
M. Marc. Rob.
χρήματος
Bess. G. Ald.
χρίσματος
Flor. Farn. Turn. Antiquior et poetis usitata forma
χρίμα
est.
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τούτων
τοῦτον
Marc. Rob. λέξασ᾽ M. Flor. Bess. Farn. Rob.
λέξας
G.
λέξαι
Ald. Turn. ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
ὅτι καὶ δυνατὸν
M. Bess. Farn. Ald. Rob.
ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν
Flor. Vict. Solus Turn.
ὅτι καὶ σοὶ δυνατὸν
, deceptus errore Aldinae
σοί
. Frustra haesitatum est in constructione. Monui iam in priore Nubium editione ad v. 180. et ad Vigerum n. 219. copulam participio, quasi id verbum rectum esset, esse subiectam, ut apud Homerum Il. ΧΧΙ. 247.
ὣς φαμένη, καὶ κερδοσύνῃ ἡγήσατ' Ἀθήνη
, ubi unus scholiastarum
ἢ περισσὸς ὁ καί, ἢ τὸ φαμένη ἀντὶ τοῦ ἔφη
. Sed quod addit,
ἢ πρὸς τῷ ταῦτα εἰρηκέναι καὶ δολίως ἡγήσατο
, ab Homerica dicendi consuetudine abhorret. Id non reputavit Doederlinus, qui in Lectionum Homericarum specimine II. p. 9. seqq. exempla, quae hoc genus constructionis habent, parum feliciter removere conatus est. Hesiodi quidem illud in Theog. v. 56.
ὃ δ᾽ ἀσφαλέως ἀγορεύων, αἶψά τε καὶ μέγα νεῖκος ἐπισταμένως κατέπαυσεν
, non est hoc modo dictum, sed
τέ
eam habet potestatem, ut plerumque fieri solita notet.
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αἰνεῖν
εἰπεῖν
Victorius ex Flor. Farn. Canterus ceterorum librorum scripturam
αἰνεῖν
restituit, cuius explicatio est
εἰπεῖν
. Ancipitis enim significatus est
αἰνεῖν
, ut Latinum praedicare. Vt hic, ita Choeph. v. 187.
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ἣ νῦν ποτὲ μὲν
ἣ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν
M. Flor. Bess. Rob. Turn. In M. glossa
ἔσθ' ὅτε μὲν
adscripta est.
ἣ νυν
(cum gl.
δὴ
)
τοτὲ
(cum gl.
ποτὲ
)
μὲν
Farn.
ἣ νῦν ἔσθ' ὅτε μὲν
, verbis
ὅτε μὲν
punctis deletis et supra scripto
τότε μὲν
, G.
ἣ νῦν εὖτ' ὅτε
, omisso
μὲν
, Ald.
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ἀγανὰ φαίνουσ'
ἀγανὰ φαίνεις
M. G. Turn.
ἄγαν ἀφαίνεις
Ald.
ἀγανὰ φαίνει
Bess.
ἀγανὰ φανεῖσ'
Rob.
ἀγανὰ φαίνουσ'
Flor. Farn. Vict. Butleri elegantem coniecturam
σαίνουσ'
in textum recepit Blomfieldius. Sed recte se habere videtur
φαίνουσ'
, etsi Porsono quoque suspectum erat, non illud quidem cum Wunderlichio et Wellauero omissione participii, sed propria vi verbi defendendum. Est enim
φαίνειν
lucere, et hinc demum activa collustrandi declarandique potestas deducta. Euripides El. v. 1233. de Dioscuris
ἀλλ᾽ οἵδε δόμων ὑπὲρ ἀκροτάτων φαίνουσί τινες δαίμονες ἢ θεῶν τῶν οὐρανίων
. Quod recte interpretatus est Seidlerus. Vt ex
φαείνω
factum est
φαίνω
, sic
φαίνω
ex Homerico
φαείνω
.
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ἄπληστον
ἄπλητον
M. G. Ald. Rob. Veram scripturam ceteri habent.
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τῆς θυμοβόρου φρενολύπης
τὴν θυμοφθόρον λύπης φρένα
M. Bess. G. Ald. Rob.
τὴν θυμοβόρον λυποφρένα
Farn.
τὴν θυμοβόρον λύπης φρένα
Vict. ex Flor.
τὴν θυμοβόρον φρένα λύπην
ex coniectura Turn. Porsonus ex Pauwii coniectura
τὴν θυμοβόρον φρενὶ λύπην
. Languet haec appositio. Quam nonneminis coniecturam in Annalibus Heidelbergensibus memoratam dicit Blomfieldius,
τῆς θυμοβόρου φρενολύπης
, mea est, non illa quidem a genere dicendi Aeschyleo aliena et, ut mihi videtur, aliis coniecturis melior. Requiritur enim genitivus ad
ἄπληστον
. Et sane cogitatio insatiabilis est sollicitudinis de capta urbe et salute Agamemnonis.
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Non respondet choro Clytaemnestra. Scilicet quum ante aedes regias in scena complures arae cerni videantur, in quibus ignis vel accensus erat vel iam accendebatur, egressa ex aedibus regina, ut mos est, cum duabus ancillis, ad eas aras deinceps accedit, tus et suffimenta in ignes iniiciens. Deinde videtur spectatoribus a dextra abire, ut in urbe sacra factura; tum redire finito chori carmine. Postquam igitur chorus parodum et coniunctum cum ea stasimon cecinit, propius ad orchestram accedente Clytaemnestra, unde v. 241.
τόδ᾽ ἄγχιστον Ἀπίας γαίας ἕρκος
vocatur, iterum eam compellat, spectareque ad illud quod antea non responderat videntur haec verba v. 248.
οὐδὲ σιγώσῃ φθόνος
. Parodum autem quum chorus canere incipit, aliquid nuntii acceptum esse ex accensis ignibus coniiciens, adhuc se de reditu sperare significat. Ceterum parodus haec chori similiter composita est ut illa quae est in Persis, ut anapaestos sequantur stropha, antistropha, epodus, tum autem carmen quod iusti chorici carminis formam habeat a totoque choro cani videatur, praegressum autem carmen epodicum inter partes quasdam chori sit distributum. Quomodo ea distributio facta sit, certo dici non potest. Illud patet, non esse de hemichoriis cogitandum, quae strophas cecinerint, epodum deinde universo choro canente. Id enim fieri non patiebatur Calchantis oratio, coepta in antistropha, finita autem in epodo. Multo credibilius est hanc trium partium distinctionem ad tres στοίχους pertinuisse. Atque haud scio an pauci, ac fortasse non plures quam cuiusque στοίχου medius, simul cecinerint stropham, antistropham, epodum; versum autem intercalarem,
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω
, in stropha totus secundus στοῖχος, in antistropha totus tertius, in epodo vel totus primus vel omnes tres στοῖχοι cecinerint. Certe si aequalitatis studium respicimus, quod tam magnum apud tragicos invenitur, consentaneum est ordines sic fuisse dispositos, Quae O. Müllerus in Eumenidibus p. 196. de parodo excogitavit, ab ipso conficta sunt, nec sane perite.

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ὅδιον κράτος αἴσιον Attulit hunc versum Aristophanes in Ranis v. 1308. (1276.) ubi vulgo
ὅσιον κράτος αἴσιον
legitur. Ravennatis libri scripturam
ὃς διον
patet ex
ὅσιον
et
ὅδιον
in unum coniunctis esse conflatam. Scholiastae ad Aristophanis locum verba,
ἐν τοῖς πλείστοις αἴσιον, Ἀσκληπιάδης τὸ ὅσιον
, rectene emendaverit, quem Brunckius probat, Pauwius,
ἐν τοῖς πλείστοις ὅδιον, Ἀσκληπιάδης δὲ ὅσιον
, an contrarium ille rettulerit, dubitari potest. Si ita iudicavit Asclepiades, fecit id eo, quod
ὅδιον
idem esse atque
αἴσιον
existimavit. Nam Hesychius
ὅδιος οἰωνός, αἴσιος
. Hic quidem ego Aeschylum non hoc, sed proprio significatu
ὅδιον κράτος
dixisse puto vim viatricem, quo indicaret profectionem instituentes. Nam etiam
ὅδιος οἰωνός
non quaevis fausta avis est, sed quae iter facturo fausta pronuntiat. Vnus apud Brunckium Aristophanis codex
λέγειν
pro
θροεῖν
.
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ἐκτελέων Libri omnes
ἐκτελέων
, nisi quod Rob. divisim
ἐκ τελέων
. Afferuntur haec,
αἴσιον ἀνδρῶν ἐκτελέων
, in scholio ad Aristoph. Ran. v. 1295. Certatim viri docti
ἐντελέων
emendarunt, Auratus, Scaliger, Casaubonus, alii. Nam
ἐντελεῖς
grammatici interpretantur per
οἱ ἄρχοντες
. Librorum scripturam qui defendere volet, divisim scribere debebit
ἐκ τελέων
, ut
κράτος ἐξ ἀνδρῶν τελέων
dicatur imperium quo a supremis ducibus imperata est expeditio. Sic Agamemno
ἀνὴρ τέλειος
dicitur v. 939. et
κράτος
, licet alio significatu,
ἔκ τινος
v. 1438.
κράτος ἰσόψυχον ἐκ γυναικῶν
. Sed multo praestabilius est
ἐντελέων
. καταπνείει Αld.
καταπνέ ει
, erasa post e una littera, M.
καταπνέει
Rob. Turn.
καταπναίει
G.
καταπνεύει
Bess. Flor. Farn. In Farn. ad
καταπνεύει
adscriptum
διὰ τὸ μέτρον
.
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μολπάν, ἀλκᾷ σύμφυτος αἰών
μολπάν
etiam M. Deinde omnes libri
ἀλκὰν σύμφυτος αἰών
. Scholiastes
ὁ γὰρ σύμφυτός μοι αἰών, ὃ ἐστι τὸ γῆρας, διὰ τὴν εἰς θεοὺς πειθὼ μολπήν μοι καὶ ἀλκὴν καταπνεῖ. ὅ ἐστιν, εἰ καὶ γέρων εἰμί, ὅμως μέλψω τὰ γεγονότα· πέποιθα γὰρ ὅτι εἰς πέρας αὐτὰ ἄξουσιν οἱ θεοί.
Patet haec neque cum verbis poetae congruere, nec, si congruerent, aptam sententiam praebere. Non minus inepta sunt quae recentiores, vel ut similem sententiam extunderent interpretando, vel temere coniectando attulerunt. Quid dici oporteat, res ipsa monstrat. Nam chorus quum dicit adhuc mihi fiducia cantum inspirat, quo augurio suscepta sit expeditio, quid aliud indicat quam adhuc se confidere ratum fore augurium? Cur autem adhuc? Nempe quia destinatum tempus nondum est exactum. Ex quo manifestum est ad
πειθώ
per appositionem adiectum fuisse id quo niteretur ea fiducia. Quare scripsi
ἀλκᾷ σύμφυτος αἰών
. Saepe
ἀλκή
pugnam et bellum significat, ut in Sept. ad Th. v. 855. Bello autem
σύμφυτος αἰών
tempus est coniunctum cum eo, satis usitato genere dicendi. Sophocles Oed. C. v. 7.
στέργειν γὰρ αἱ πάθαι με χὦ χρόνος ξυνὼν μακρὸς διδάσκει.
Oed. R. v. 1082.
οἱ δὲ συγγενεῖς μῆνές με μικρὸν καὶ μέγαν διώρισαν.
Ita Euripidi Herc. fur. v. 1293.
συγγενῶς δύστηνος ὤν
dicitur qui per omnem vitam infelix fuit. Saepe autem
σύμμετρος
eodem modo dicitur, ut in Choeph. v. 602. et in Oed. R. v. 1113. vel
συμμετρούμενος
, ut ibidem v. 73. 963. Aliter paullo, sed tamen non plane dissimiliter persona indutus
Αἰών
apud Nonnum VII. 9.
καὶ Διὶ παμμεδέοντι δυηπαθέων γένος ἀνδρῶν ἄμμορον εὐφροσύνης ἐπεδείκνυε σύντροφος Αἰών.
Insolentius autem Aeschylus
αἰῶνα
, aetatem, de spatio temporis dixit. Sic tamen etiam Apollonius IV. 1216.
ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν στείχοντος ἄδην αἰῶνος ἐτύχθη
.

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ἥβας Hunc quoque versum habet Aristophanes Ran. v.1317. (1284.) apud quem vulgo ut in Aeschyli libris
ἥβαν
legitur, sed codices Rav. Ven. aliique veram lectionem
ἥβας
conservarunt. Scholiastes ibi
δίθρονον δὲ κράτος, αὐτόν τε καὶ τὸν Μενέλαον. ἀκμὴν δὲ τὴν νεότητα. ἔστι δὲ ἀναπόδοτον.
Scilicet
ἥβαν
erant
ἀκμήν
interpretati, ex quo in nonnullis Aristophanis codicibus ad
ἥβας
adscriptum est
ἀκμῆς, ἰσχύος
.
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ξύμφρονα M. G. et edd.
σύμφρονα
Bess. Flor. Farn. ταγάν
τὰν γᾶν
M. G. Ald. Rob.
ταγαν
Turn.
ταγάν
, cum glossa
τὴν ὁμόφρονα τάξιν
, Farn.
ταγάν
Flor. Bess. Vict. Blomfieldius, quod
ταγή
prima brevi est, scripsit
ταγόν
. Adiungenda est altera caussa, non illa levior, quod sententia duces nominari postulat. At non erat scribendum
ταγόν
, sed accentu tantum mutato
τάγαν
. Hac uti forma maluit poeta non solum quod magis poetica esset, sed etiam quod longa vocalis aptius responderet antistrophico
πύργων
.
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πέμπει ξὺν δορὶ πράκτορι ποινᾶς θοῦριος ὄρνις
σὺν δορὶ καὶ χερὶ πράκτορι θούριος ὄρνις
affert Aristophanes Ran. v.1321. (1289.) qui visus est viris doctis veram servasse scripturam. Aeschyli libri
πέμπει σὺν δορὶ δίκας πράκτορι θούριος ὄρνις
, hac tantum differentia quod
πέμπει σὺν
habent M. G. Ald. Turn.
πέμπει ξὺν
Bess. Farn. Flor.
πέμπῃ σὺν
Rob.
πέμπῃ ξὺν
Vict. et deinde
πλάκτορα
Ald. Scholiastes Aristophanis
τὸ δὲ ξὺν δορὶ καὶ χειρὶ πράκτορι ἐξ Ἀγαμέμνονος, ἐκ τῆς συνεπείας τοῦ κύριός εἰμι θροεῖν
. Aristophanes ista vel minus fida memoria citavit vel pro suo arbitrio paullum mutavit. Aeschylum aliud scripsisse et libri arguunt et ostendit metrum versus antistrophici. Id fuit
ξὺν δορὶ πράκτορι ποινᾶς
.

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νεῶν Ald. Turn. ἀργᾶς
ἀργίας
M. Bess. Flor. Farn. Rob. Turn.
ἀργείας
G. Ald. Simili errore Suidas
ἀργείης, ὁ λευκός
. Scribendum erat
ἀργήεις
, et apud Aeschylum
ἀργᾶς
, quod Blomfieldius quoque et Heindorfius apud Buttmannum in Gramm. Gr. I. p. 172. viderunt. Pindarus Ol. XIII. 99.
ταῦρον ἀργᾶντα
. V. ad Eur. Hel. v. 1322. Hanc aquilam, quae
πύγαργος
sive
νεβροφόνος
vocatur, magnitudine primam, quae autem
μέλας
sive
μελανάετος
et
λαγωφόνος
dicitur tertiam magnitudine, sed validissimam esse scribit Aristoteles Hist. An. IX. 32.
112

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φανέντες
οἱ φανέντες
Flor. χερὸς
χειρὸς
Bess. δοριπάλτου
δορυπάλτου
Μ. G. Bess. Flor. Farn. Rob.
δορυπάλκτου
G.
δορυπάλκτον
Ald.
δοριπάλτου
Turn. Vict.
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παμπρέπτοις ἐν ἕδραισιν
παμπρέπτοις
scribendum esse Abreschius vidit, et sic
παμπρέπτοις ἐν ἕδραισι
Bess.
παμπρέποις ἐν ἕδραισιν
M. Ald. et ultima littera omissa Turn. Vict.
παμπρέποις ἐνέδραισιν
G. Rob.
παμπρέποισιν ἕδραις
Flor.
παμπρέπεσιν ἕδραις
, cum glossa
εὐπρεπέσιν. ἡ εὐθεῖα ἡ παμπρέπτης
, Farn. Errant qui Stanleio duce has
παμπρεπεῖς ἕδρας
de palatio Agamemnonis intelligunt. Caeli fausta portendens regio est quam dicit chorus. Euripides Herc. fur. v. 596.
ὄρνιν δὲ ἰδών τιν' οὐκ ἐν αἰσίοις ἕδραις
. Plura vide apud Spanhemium ad Callim. Lav. Pall. v. 124. Quod Aeschylus, similiter dixit Ennius apud Ciceronem de div. I. 48.
cedunt de caelo ter quattuor corpora sancta avium, praepetibus sese pulcrisque locis dant
.
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115. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-72

βοσκόμενοι
βοσκομένην
Farn. ἐρικύμονα φέρματι
ἐρικύματα φέρματι
Μ. (sic M. non φέρματα) G. Rob.
ἐρ' ἱκύματα φέρματι
Ald.
ἐρικύματα φέρματα
Turn.
ἐρικύμονα φέρματι
Bess.
ἐρικύμονα φέρβοντο
Victorius ex Flor. Farn. In Farn. adscripta glossa
ἤσθιον
. Elegans est Seidleri coniectura
ἐρικυμάδα
, hausta ex eo quod Hesychius adnotavit
κυμάδας, ἐγκύους
. Sed non ausim reiicere
ἐρικύμονα
, quum facile propter sequens
φέρματι
corrumpi potuerit. Et scholiastes
πολυκύμονα
adscripsit.
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116. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-73

NA Ad
βλαβέντα
intelligendum est
λαγωόν
. Non dicit autem
λοισθίων δρόμων
de postremo ante partum cursu, sed ut significetur quum iam in eo esset ut effugeret lepus impetum aquilarum. Refertur enim augurium ad captam post diuturnum bellum Troiam, sperantibus Troianis non simulato reditu vela dedisse Graecos. Aquila leporem lacerans, itemque serpens passerum nido inhians, conspicitur in anaglypho cuius picturam Böttigerus primo volumini Amaltheae praefixit, quem vide ibi p. 48.
116

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αἴλινον αἴλινον
αἴλινον
semel Flor. τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω
τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω
Farn. Vict.
τόδ' εὖ νικάτω
Μ. Rob. Τurn.
τόδ᾽ εὐνικάτω
G. Ald. Infra v. 334.
τὸ δ᾽ εὖ κρατοίη
. Comparari potest hoc Demosthenis in fine Philippicae I.
νικῴη δ᾽ ὅ τι πᾶσιν ὑμῖν μέλλει συνοίσειν
.
117

118. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-75

δύο
δύω
G. Ald. Rob. λήμασι
λήμμασι
Flor. Farn. δισσοὺς Omnes
δισσούς
. Auratus et Canterus coniecerunt
δισσοῖς
, quod Blomfieldius recepit.
Δισσούς
si verum est, non geminos, ut verterant, sed diversos significare dixi ad Soph. El. v. 635. Videri autem potest Aeschylus diversitatem eam ducum intellexisse, qua Plato in Convivio p. 174. C. ex Homero Agamemnonem
διαφερόντως ἀγαθόν
, Menelaum autem
μαλθακὸν αἰχμητὴν
dixit. Non male, opinor, coniiciat quis
δύο λήματα, δισσοὺς Ἀτρείδας
. Saepius enim
λῆμα
de ipsa persona dicitur. Pindarus Pyth. III. 42.
ἔσχε τοιαύταν μεγάλαν ἀάταν καλλιπέπλου λῆμα Κορωνίδος
. Sophocles El. v. 1426.
μηκέτ' ἐκφοβοῦ μητρῷον ὡς σε λῆμ᾽ ἀτιμάσει ποτέ
. Οed. Col. v. 960.
ὦ λῆμ' ἀναιδές, τοῦ καθυβρίζειν δοκεῖς;
Euripides Iph. Aul. v. 1422.
ὦ λῆμ' ἄριστον, οὐκ ἔχω πρὸς τοῦτ᾽ ἔτι λέγειν, ἐπεί σοι τάδε δοκεῖ
. Elegans est Lobeckii ad Ai. v. 151. p. 139. coniectura
δύο λήμασι πιστούς
, ut est in Persis v. 56.
τοξουλκῷ λήματι πιστούς
, et in Simonidis epigr. 38.
εὐτόλμῳ ψυχᾶς λήματι πειθόμενοι
, quod Thucydides II. 39. dixit
πιστεύοντες τῷ ἀφ' ἑαυτῶν εὐψύχῳ
.
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Ἀτρείδας Blomfieldius Monkio auctore. Recte fortasse. λαγοδαίτας Victorius ex Flor. Farn.
λογοδαίτας
M. G. Bess. Ald. Rob. Turn.
119

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ἀρχάς M. G. Bess. Ald. Rob. Turn. quod recte restituit Blomfieldius.
ἀρχούς
Victorius ex Flor. Farn.
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τεράζων
δ᾽ οὖν
pro
δ'
Flor. Pro
τεράζων
scripsi
τεράζων
. V. Etym. M. p. 737, 11.
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ἀγρεῖ Libri omnes
ἀγρεῖ
. In Farn. glossa est
ἀγρεύσει, πορθήσει
. Blomfieldius Elmsleio auctore
αἱρεῖ
. Illo verbo usa est Sappho II. 14. πόλιν ἅδε
πόλιαδε
,
ι
superscripto, M.
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πρόςθετα
πρόσθετὰ
Μ. G.
πρόσθε τὰ
Bess.
πρόσθε τὰ
ceteri. δημιοπληθῆ
δημιοπλησθῆ
Ald. Dici quidem potest
πρόσθε τὰ δημιοπληθῆ
pro
τὰ πρόσθε δημιοπληθῆ
: v. similia apud Soph. Εl. 1456. Oed. R. 617. collato Eustathio p. 1062, 40. Antig. 710. Eur. Alc. 1050. Andr. 215. Sed sententia frigida est, quia
πύργων κτήνη
si antea dicuntur populi Troiani fuisse, tam nihil id ad indicandam opulentiam confert, ea ut minui potius videatur. Recte Pauwius
πρόσθετα
. Sententia haec est, vi fatum turrium opes diripiet collatas a populo. Opulentiam dicit Priami, ex tributis civium collatam.
Δημιοπληθῆ
est
πολλὰ δήμια
, ut dicitur
ἀρσενοπληθής
in Suppl. v. 29. et
γυναικοπληθής
in Pers. v. 122.
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λαπάξει
μοῖρ᾽ ἀλαπάξει
vulgo.
μοῖρα λαπάξει
Farn. quod merito probarunt Elmsleius ad Med. v. 888. et Blomfieldius.
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οἷον M. Bess. Flor. Farn. Turn. In Farn. glossa
μόνον
. Ita et scholiastes.
οἷον
G. Ald. Rob. Vict. ἄγα omnes
ἄτα
, nisi quod
ἄτᾳ
Ald. Burneii
ὅσα
probavit Elmsleius ad Med. v. 240. Quod ego in adnotationibus ad Humboldti versionem et in El. doctr. metr. p. 704. suasi,
ἄγα
, receperunt Blomfieldius aliique. κνεφάσῃ
κνεφάσειε
Farn. προτυπὲν M. Bess. Flor. Rob. Vict.
προτυπὲς
G. Ald.
προτυφθὲν
Farn. Non videtur hoc verbo proruens exercitus significari posse, quum ea activi tantum verbi potestas sit; multo minus autem procusum ferrum : sed proprie intelligendum, prius percussum, i. e. ante belli clades immolatione Iphigeniae afflictum. Τροίας
πὸλ
G. spatio relicto, quo novi versus initium indicatur.
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στρατωθέν M. Bess. Flor. Farn. Rob.
στρατῶθεν
G. Ald.
στρατευθὲν
Turn. Vict. quae Turnebi coniectura esse videtur. Recte Blomfieldius
στρατωθὲν
restituit. Est autem
στρατοῦσθαι
, quod significat in castris esse, diversum a
στρατεύεσθαι
. Hic commorantes Aulide intelliguntur. οἴκτῳ
οἴκτῳ
Scaliger: non recte. ἐπίφθονος Ἄρτεμις ἁγνὰ
ἐπὶ φθόνος ἄρτεμις ἀγνὰ
G.
ἔπι, φθόνος ἄρτεμις ἁγνά
Ald.
127

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πτανοῖσιν Μ.
πτανοῖσι
G. Bess. Ald. Rob. Turn. Vict.
πτανοῖς
Flor. Farn. κυσὶ
κυσὶν
M. Rob. Dubitari posset an per parenthesin insertis his verbis,
οἴκτῳ γὰρ ἐπίφθονος Ἄρτεμις ἁγνά
, quae sequuntur cum praecedentibus essent coniungenda, nisi adderetur
στυγεῖ δὲ δεῖπνον αἰετῶν
. Ex quo patet
πτανοῖσιν κυσὶ πατρός
non ad
ἐπίφθονος
referendum esse, ut propter aquilas irata esse Diana dicatur, sed pertinere ad primariam loci sententiam, ut sit quantum per aquilas cognosci potest.
128

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πτάκα Porsonus, et ita M. G.
πτᾶκα
Rob.
πτῶκα
Flor. Farn. Turn. Vict.
πτάωνκα
Bess. Etiam Ald.
πτάων καθυομένοισιν
. θυομένοισιν
θυομένοισι
Bess.
129

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αἴλινον αἴλινον
αἴλινον
semel Flor. εἰπέ Bess. τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω
τό δ᾽ εὐνικάτω
G. Ald. sed in G.
οἶμαι εὖ νικάτω
supra scriptum.
τόδ᾽ εὖ νικάτω
Rob. Emendate Vict.
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τόσσον
τόσσων
M. G. Ald. Rob.
τόσον
rectius fortasse Flor. Farn.
τόσσον
Turn. Vict. εὔφρων ἁ καλά
εὔφρων καλὰ
M. G. Rob.
ἄφρων καλὰ
Bess. Ald.
ἄφρων καλὰ δρόσοισιν
, altera voce cum sequente coniuncta, Turn.
εὔφρων ἁ καλὰ
Flor. Farn. Vict. In Farn. glossa
ἄρτεμις
adscripta. Καλλίστη Diana est apud Euripidem Hipp. v. 66. et apud Leonidam Tar. epigr. 20. eoque nomine culta ab Arcadibus: v. Paus. VIII. 35, 8. et Athenis, teste eodem I. 29, 2. Non infestam feris, sed patronam potius habitam esse monuit Müllerus Dor. I. p. 379. Atque ipsum nomen deae rerum naturae integritatis conservatricem prodit. Quum igitur dicit Aeschylus
τόσσον περ εὔφρων
, hoc significat, quamvis tantopere favens catulis ferarum, tamen bona vult portendi.
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δρόσοις ἀέπτοις
δρόσοις
Farn. Ceteri
δρόσοισιν
.
ἀέλπτοις
M. G. Ald. Rob. Τurn.
λέπτοις
Bess. Flor.
ἀέπτοισι
, cum glossa
τοῖς μὴ δυναμένοις πτῆναι
, Farn. et sic Vict. Scribendum erat
δρόσοις ἀέπτοις
. Verissime scholiastes in M.
ἀέλπτοις δέ, τοῖς ἕπεσθαι γονεῦσι μὴ
(μὴ omittit M.)
δυναμένοις
, quae interpretatio ad
ἀέπτοις
pertinet. Blomfieldius coniecit
ἀλέπτοις
, quod vocabulum proprie significaret pullum ovo nondum exclusum,
ἄεπτος
in omnes analogiae regulas peccare ratus. De analogia quod dicit, neque Aristophani grammatico ita visum esse ex scholiis ad Il. I. 567. patet, et falsum esse vel
ἄαπτος
, quod eodem modo formatum est, demonstrat. Wellauerus non dubitavit
λεπτοῖς
reponere, facili ad litteras emendatione: at illud ostendendum erat, potuisse catulos leonum
λεπτούς
dici. μαλερῶν λεόντων
μαλερῶν ὄντων
M. G. Bess. Ald. Turn. Vict.
μαλερῶν ὄλτων
Rob. Posteriorem vocem omittunt Flor. et Farn. in quo
τῶν φθαρτικῶν πετεινῶν
adscriptum est. Etym. Μ. p. 377, 37.
ἔρσαι, αἱ ἐν ἔαρι γεννηθεῖσαι· ἢ αἱ ἁπαλαὶ καὶ τελείως νέαι, μεταφορικῶς, ὡς καὶ Αἰσχύλος ἐν Ἀγαμέμνονι τοὺς σκύμνους τῶν λεόντων δρόσους κέκληκε, μεταφράζων τοῦτο
. Inde Stanleius correxit
μαλερῶν λεόντων
.
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ὀβρικάλοις ἔπι τερπνά
ὀβρικάλοις
Flor. Farn.
ὀβρικάλοισι
M. Bess. Rob. Turn. Vict.
ἀκρικάλοισι
G. Ald. Aelianus V. H. VII. 47.
τῶν δὲ ὑστρίχων καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἀγρίων τὰ ἔκγονα ὄβρια καλεῖται, καὶ μέμνηται Εὐριπίδης ἐν Πελιάσι τοῦ ὀνόματος, καὶ Αἰσχύλος ἐν Ἀγαμέμνονι καὶ Δικτυουλκοῖς
. Hesychius
ὀβρικάλοις, τοῖς τῶν θηρίων ἐκγόνοις
. Photius
ὄβρια καὶ ὀβρίκαλα, τὰ τῶν λεόντων καὶ λύκων σκυμνία. Αἰσχύλος Δικτυουλκοῖς
. Eustathius p. 1395, 47.
ἐκεῖθεν καὶ ὀβρίκαλα παρὰ Αἰσχύλῳ λεόντων σκυμνία, τὰ δηλαδὴ καὶ ὄβριμα καὶ καλά
. Εt p. 1625, 42.
ὑστρίχων δὲ καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἔβρια καὶ ὀβρίκαλα, ὧν χρῆσις καὶ παρ' Αἰσχύλῳ ἐν Ἀγαμέμνονι
. Idem p.291, 16.
Αἰσχύλος δὲ ὀβρίκαλά φησι τοὺς λεοντιδεῖς
, ubi de
ἅπαξ λεγομένοις
. Post
ὀβρικάλοις
vel
ὀβρικάλοισι
vulgo statim scriptum est
τερπνά
cum sequentibus verbis coniunctum. In Farn. ad
τερπνὰ
adscripta glossa
ἄρτεμις
. Scribendum videtur
θηρῶν ὀβρικάλοις ἔπι τερπνά
, ut
τερπνά
passive dictum sit, laeta. Non puto Aeschylum nisi addito
ἔπι
sic dicturum fuisse, sed omiserunt librarii
ἔπι
, quia
τερπνά
ad
ξύμβολα
referebant. At id absurdum ad sententiam, pravumque ad metrum est, quod dactylicum esse debet.
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136. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-90

αἰτεῖ Ad
αἰτεῖ
adscriptum
με
in Farn. κρᾶναι M. G. Bess. Ald. Rob.
κρᾶναι
Flor. Farn. Turn. In M. ad hunc versum hoc scholion adscriptum est,
τὰ σύμβολα αἰτεῖ με φάναι
. In Farn.
κρᾶναι
ita explicatur,
τελέσαι, ἀντὶ τοῦ φᾶναι τελεσθῆναι
. Hinc Victorius
φάναι
posuit. Scribendum erat
κρῖναι
.
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137. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-91

κατάμομφα
κατάμορφα
Rob. φάσματα
φάσματα στρουθῶν
M. G. Bess. et edd.
φάσματα τῶν στρουθῶν
Flor. Farn. Porsonus Adv. p. 157. (138.) deleri iussit
στρουθῶν
, ut adscriptum ex Il. II. 311. Sed hoc vel quia sic iusta catalexis deesset fieri non potest. Molestum est autem
ξύμβολα
et
φάσματα
iungi, quorum alterutrum satis erat. Scribendum
φάσματι τῷ στρουθῶν
. Scholiastes
στρουθῶν
interpretatur
τῶν ἀετῶν
. Id probari non potest. Alienum est enim quod Eustathius p. 228, 38. docet,
στρουθόν
esse etiam
γενικὴν λέξιν
, his verbis usus Aelii Dionysii,
ἄγριαι στρουθοὶ αἱ στρουθοκάμηλοι
. Immo notum ex Iliade passerum augurium intelligendum est, quo Troiam decimo anno captum iri significabatur. Id augurium cum altero aquilarum augurio comparat Calchas. Anaglyphum, in quo utrumque coniunctum est, commemoravi ad v. 116.
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ἰήϊον
ἴον
Ald. Turn.
ἴκιον
Rob. Non Apollinem ad avertendam Dianae iram invocat Calchas, sed Paeanem, qui, quisquis est, non est frater Dianae.
138

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ἀντιπνόους
ἀντιπρόους
G.
ἀντὶ πνόους
Ald. χρονίας ἐχενῇδας ἀπλοίας
χρονίας
Farn. habet post
ἐχενηίδας
: sic enim libri.
ἀπλοίας
Turn. Vict.
ἀπλοΐας
M. G. Bess. Rob.
ἁπλοΐας
Αld.
ἀπλοΐδας
Flor. Farn.
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τεύξῃ, σπευδομένα Ex scholiastae adnotatione,
ὦ Ἄρτεμι
, patet fuisse qui
τεύξῃς
legerent.
σπευδομένα
Μ. Bess. Flor. Farn. Rob. Vict.
σπευδόμενα
, sic, sed mutatum in
σπενδόμενα
, G. Inde
σπενδομένα
Ald. Turn. Reprehensum ab Elmsleio ad Med. v. 179. medium
σπεύδεσθαι
tuitus est Blomfieldius Eumenidum v. 355. cui loco minime fidendum est. Hic quidem etsi
σπερχομένα
scribere poterat poeta, tamen, quoniam ipsi Dianae hoc sacrificium fit, recte usus est medio
σπευδομένα
. Qui
ἑτέραν
infaustam interpretantur, inferunt quod noluit poeta dicere. Respexit is Iphigeniae immolationem, quae
ἑτέρα
est, alia quam aquilarum, quas
μογερὰν πτάκα θυομένους
dixerat.
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σύμφυτον
συμμενεῖ φυτὸν
pro
σύμφυτον
Bess. Videtur librarius
μενεῖ
, interpretationem ad
μίμνει
adscriptam, textui intulisse. δεισήνορα φωτός Bene vidit Lachmannus deesse post
δεισήνορα
unum trochaeum, quem tamen non apte per
μ' ἦν
supplendum coniecit: quamquam minus etiam probari potest quod mox scripsit
μίμνει γὰρ ὁ φοβερά
, sententia pariter ac metro adversantibus. Numero quidem per novem dactylos porrecto non offenderer, nisi sic
μίμνει
obscuraretur,
γάρ
autem erigeretur. Credibilius est
φωτός
excidisse. Erant autem hi versus 138 – 143. aliter atque vulgo factum est disponendi.
141

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γὰρ omittunt Flor. Farn. παλίνορτος Μ. (sic M.) Bess. G. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob.
παλίνορσος
Turn. Vict. Etym. Μ. p. 648, 27.
παλίνορσος. παρὰ τὸ ὄρω γίνεται ῥηματικὸν ὄνομα ὀρτός, καὶ παλίνορτος, ἐχρῆν διὰ τοῦ τ γράφεσθαι, οὐχὶ διὰ τοῦ σ, ἵν᾽ ᾖ ὁ πάλιν ὡρμημένος, σημαίνει δὲ τὸ ὀπισθόρμητος, ἐκ τοῦ πάλιν, τοῦ σημαίνοντος τὸ εἰς τουπίσω, καὶ τοῦ ὄρσω Αἰολικοῦ μέλλοντος.
Quae adnotatio ad Il. III. 33. pertinet.
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μνάμων
μνάμην
Ald. Turn. sed G. cum ceteris
μνάμων
.
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ἀπέκλαγξεν
ἀπέκλαιξεν
Μ. G. Ald. Ceteri
ἀπέκλαγξεν
.
145

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οἴκοις
οἶκος
Flor.
146

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τοῖς δ᾽ Vict. ὁμόφωνον
ὠμόφωνον
Bess.
ὁμόφρονον
Ald. unde Turn.
ὁμόφρων ὤν
. Sed G. cum ceteris
ὁμόφωνον
.
147

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αἴλινον αἴλινον
αἴλινον
semel Flor. τὸ δ'
τόδ'
G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
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εἰ τόδ᾽ αὐτῷ Incipit carmen universi chori trochaeo semanto.
εἰ τό δ᾽ αὖ τῷ
Αld.
εἰ τὸ δ᾽ αὐτῷ
Rob.

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τοῦτό νιν
τοῦτον νίν
G. Ald. προςεννέπω
προςἐννέπω
G.
πρὸς ἐννέπω
Rob.
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Διός, εἰ τὸ μάταν
Διὰ
Ald.
Δία
Turn. Sed
Διός
ut ceteri G. Deinde libri
εἰ τόδε μάταν
, praeter Farn. in quo ex Triclinii emendatione
εἶχε μάταν
est.
εἰ τό γε μάτας
Auratus, et
μάτας
vel
ματᾶν
placet Blomfieldio. Legisse videtur
μάτας
scholiastes, cuius haec interpretatio est,
εἰ τὸ τῆς ματαιότητος ὀφείλει τις ἀποσείσασθαι τῆς γνώμης, Δία νομιζέτω
. Habuit
μάταν
alius scholiastes, cuius explicationem (quae non est in Rob. neque in codicibus M. G.) edidit Stephanus,
ἐγώ, φησί, πάντα ἐρευνῶν καὶ πάντα ἐξετάζων ὡς ἐν σταθμῷ τινί, οὐκ ἔχω ὁμοιόν τι εὑρεῖν τῷ Διῒ, εἰ χρὴ ἀληθῶς ἀποβαλεῖν ἀπὸ τῆς φροντίδος καὶ τοῦ λογισμοῦ μάταιον ἄλλο ἄχθος, τὸ γὰρ περί τινων ἄλλων διαλογίζεσθαι μάταιον ἐστὶν ὄντως ἄχθος. ἡ δέ γε περὶ θεοῦ ἔννοια καὶ τὸ διὰ μνήμης ἐκεῖνον ἔχειν ἀεί, οὐ μόνον ἄχθους παντός ἐστιν ἀπηλλαγμένον, ἀλλὰ καὶ χαρᾶς ἀφάτου τὴν καρδίαν πληροῖ. ὡς καὶ Εὐριπίδης φησίν, “ἦ μέγα μοι τὰ θεῶν μελεδήμαθ', ὅταν φρένας ἔλθῃ, λύπας παραιρεῖ.” τοῦτο δὲ ὅμοιόν ἐστι τῷ “ἐμνήσθην τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ εὐφράνθην.” ταῦτα δὲ ἄγαν ἐστὶν εὐσεβῆ.
Quae adnotatio ita comparata est, ut suspiceris, qui eam scripsit, in codice suo legisse
εἴ τι μάταν ἄλλο φροντίδος ἄχθος
. Sed quidquid ille legit, a poetae mente longe aberravit. Recte Porsonum ex Pauwii coniectura scripsisse puto
εἰ τὸ μάταν
. Vocat chorus suam sollicitudinem
τὸ μάταν ἄχθος
, quia caussam eius non idoneam esse videt.
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ἐτητύμως
ἐτυτήμως
G. Ald.
155

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οὐδὲ λέξεται πρὶn ὤν
οὐδὲν λέξαι
M. G. Bess. Flor. Ald. Rob. Turn.
οὐδέν τι λέξαι
Farn. Vict. Deinde
πρὶν ἄν
Turn. Ceteri
πρὶν ὤν
. Schutzius scripsit
οὐδὲν ἂν λέξαι
, quod non recte interpretatus est
nec quicquam nobis dicere possit
, quum deberet,
nullius momenti est
. Monui in addendis ad Eur. Suppl. v. 612. et ad Vigerum adn. 189. Aristophanes Eq. v. 334.
νῦν δεῖξον ὡς οὐδὲν λέγει τὸ σωφρόνως τραφῆναι
. Athenaeus XIV. p. 628. D.
εἰ δέ τις ἀμέτρως διαθείη τὴν σχηματοποιΐαν καὶ ταῖς ᾠδαῖς ἐπιτυγχάνων μηδὲν λέγοι κατὰ τὴν ὄρχησιν, οὗτος δ᾽ ἦν ἀδόκιμος
. Non recte haec intellecta erant. Hoc dicit, si quis cantu probaretur, nihil autem valeret saltando, contemnebatur. Blomfieldius, qui
οὐδὲν ἂν δείξαι πρὶν ὤν
legendum coniecit, id ut esset, non se quicquam fuisse ostendet, non videtur animum neque ad
πρίν
attendisse, neque ad totam sententiam, quae haec potius esse deberet, non se nunc aliquid esse ostendet, nec denique ad numeros, in quibus dubitari non potest quin vitiosus sit spondeus. Isque etiam Schützianae emendationi refragatur, praesertim quum vel praeter numeros poeta rectius
λέγοι
dicturus fuisse videatur. Scribendum puto
οὐ λελέξεται πρὶν ὤν
, neque, qui antea potens erat, non dicetur fuisse, i. e. ille dicetur non amplius esse. Ceterum recte haec interpretatus est Schützius, Vranum et Saturnum dici videns, qui ante Iovem regnaverint, recteque quum illa comparans in Prometheo v. 960.
οὐκ ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ ἐγὼ δισσοὺς τυράννους ἐκπεσόντας ᾔσθόμην, τρίτον δὲ τὸν νῦν κοιρανοῦντ᾽ ἐπόψομαι αἴσχιστα καὶ τάχιστα
, tum quae de Vrano Hesiodus narrat in Theog. v. 154. seqq. Nam hunc
παμμάχῳ θράσει βρύοντα
dicit Aeschylus propter saevitiam, qua quiqui ei nati sunt filii, eos non sivit in lucem prodire, sed sub terra occuluit.
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φρενῶν
φρονῶν
Rob.
162

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τῷ πάθει μάθος Libri omnes
τῷ πάθει
, ad quod in M. adscriptum est
τῷ παθεῖν
. Deinde
μάθος
M. Bess. Farn. Ald. Rob. Turn.
μάθος
, ultima syllaba punctis notata, supra autem scripto
ος
, G.
μά
, supra scripto
ο
, et super ea littera
η
, Flor.
τῷ πάθει μάθον
Vict. Schützius
τὸ
pro
τῷ
, quod receperunt Porsonus et Blomfieldius. Recte se habere
τῷ πάθει μάθος θέντα
vidit Wellauerus. Iuppiter dicitur
βροτοὺς φρονεῖν ὁδῶσαι θεὶς τῷ πάθει μάθος κυρίως ἔχειν
.
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πρὸ καρδίας
πρὸς καρδίας
Turn. Gravissima, sed obscurius expressa sententia non videtur satis percepta esse. Ad
στάζει
ex sequentibus, ut particula post posita ostendit, accusativus
τὸ σωφρονεῖν
supplendus est.
Μνησιπήμων πόνος
, etsi conscientiam malefactorum significari patet, tamen utrum, ut Blomfieldio placuit, angor sit ex recordatione malorum, an quod mihi et aptius et fortius dictum videtur, angor excitans vel recordationem peccatorum vel cogitationem poenarum, valde ambigi potest. Certe
μνησιπήμων
similiter ut in contrariam partem
λαθικήδης
dictum videtur. Vtcumque est, eadem ambiguitate Latine dicas
instillat et in somno cordi moderationem admonitor malorum labor, et venit illa ad invitos
.
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δέ που
δε που
Ald. Rob. βίαιος
βίαιος
M. Bess. Flor. Farn. Ald. Vict. et e correctione G.
βιαίῳ
Rob.
βίαιος
Turn. et ante correctionem G. Quod Schützius in ultima editione posuit,
βίαια
, sensu carere visum Wellauero, verissima est Bothii emendatio.
Βίαια
sic adverbialiter dictum est in Suppl. v. 789. Versus harum stropharum ultimus recte a Bothio factus est trimeter brachycatalectus, neque credibile est in antistrophico versu Aeschylum non
παλιρρόθοις
scripsisse, sed aliud quid, veluti
παλιρροθίοις
, quo vocabulo Oppianus Hal. V. 220. utitur. Ab sensu autem loci Bothius aeque ut alii aberravit, quum
βίαια
potenter vertit. Hoc dicit poeta, malis ut corrigantur homines deorum forsitan benignitate institutum esse, per vim imperia sua exsequentium, si sponte sua virtutem colere mortales negligant. Blomfieldio
δαιμόνων χάρις
ab interpretibus mirum in modum pro dono deorum accepta esse visa est. Magis mirum est ipsum non sic, sed de reverentia diis adhibenda accepisse.
169

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Ἀχαιϊκῶν
ἀχαιικῶν
M. G. Bess. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob.
ἀχαιικῶν
Turn. Vict.
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ἐμπαίοις τύχαισι
ἐκπαίοις τύχεσι
Ald. unde
ἐμπαίοις τείχεσι
Turn.
ἐμπαίοις τύχαισι
G. ut ceteri praeter Flor. qui
ἐμπαίοις τύχαις
habet. συμπνέων
συμπνέει
Farn.
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ἀπλοίᾳ
ἀπλοΐᾳ
M. G. Bess. Farn.
ἀπλοίῳ
Ald.
ἀπλοίᾳ
Rob. Turn. Vict. κεναγγεῖ
κενάγει
Ald.
κεναγγεῖ
Turn.
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Ἀχαιϊκὸς
ἀχαικὸς
M. G. Bess. Farn. Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἀχαιικὸς
Vict.
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NA Livius XXVIII. 6. de Chalcide,
ex patenti utrimque coactum in angustias mare speciem intuenti primo gemini portus in ora duo versi praebuerit: sed haud facile alia infestior classi statio est. nam et venti ab utriusque terrae praealtis montibus subiti ac procellosi se deiiciunt, et fretum ipsum Euripi non septies die, sicut fama fert, temporibus statis reciprocat, sed temere in modum venti nunc huc nunc illuc verso mari velut monte praecipiti devolutus torrens rapitur. ita nec nocte nec die quies navibus datur.
178

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νεῶν τε καὶ Porsonus. Libri
ναῶν καί
.
182

183. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-117

παλιμμήκη
πολυμήκη
Flor. et supra adscripto
παλίμμ
Farn.
183

184. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-118

τρίβῳ exquisitius dictum pro
τριβῇ
. V. Steph. Thes. κατέξαινον
κατέξενον
, sed
αι
ad penultimam syllabam superscripto, M.
κατάξενον
Bess. Ἄργους Libri
ἀργείων
. Scribendum
Ἄργους
.
184

185. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-119

ἐπεὶ
ἐπειδὴ καὶ
Rob.
185

187. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-120

πρόμοισιν
πρόμοις
M. G. Bess. Ald. Rob.
πρόμοισι
Flor. Turn. Vict.
187

188. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-121

ἔκλαγξεν Porsonus. Libri
ἔκλαγξε
.
188

189. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-122

Ἄρτεμιν, ὥςτε
ὡς τε
Farn. Rob. Turn.
ὅς τε
Ald. Recte ceteri. βάκτροις
μάκτροις
Rob.
189

192. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-123

τότ᾽ Libri
τόδ᾽ εἶπε φωνῶν
, nisi quod
τό δ᾽ εἶπε φρωνῶν
est in Ald. Haec verba quum aperte repetant quod v. 171. dici coeptum erat,
καὶ τόθ᾽ ἡγεμὼν ὁ πρέσβυς
, non
τόδε
, sed
τότε
dici postulant. Vidit hoc Stanleius, cuius emendationem eo minus dubitavi recipere, quod, pronomine si uti voluisset poeta, credibilius est
τάδε
dicturum fuisse.
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193. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-124

πιθέσθαι Turn.
πειθέσθαι
M. G. Bess. Ald. Rob.
πείθεσθαι
Farn. Vict.
193

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παρθενοσφάγοισιν M. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
παρθενοσφάγοισι
Farn. Vict.
παρθενοσφάγοις
Flor.
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ῥεέθροις πατρῴους χέρας πέλας βωμοῦ Vulgo legitur
ῥεέθροις πατρῴους χέρας βωμοῦ πέλας
. Quod Porsonus scripsit,
ῥεέθροις
, habet Farn. ex Triclinii, ut patet, coniectura. Deinde
πατρῴοις
G.
πατρώοις
Ald.
πατρώας
Bess. Tum
πέλας
mendose Ald.
Βωμοῦ
credibile est ab interprete profectum esse. Deleto hoc vocabulo et mutato verborum ordine usitatum metrum sic restitui,
πέλας πατρῴους χέρας ῥεέθροις
. Ῥέεθρα, quae forma multo usitatior tragicis est quam contracta, ad profusum sanguinem rettulit Aeschylus, quum alibi, saltem apud tragicos, tantum de fluviis dictum inveniatur.
197

199. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-127

πῶς
τί πῶς
Μ. G. Bess. Flor.
τὶ πῶς
Rob.
τί; πῶς
Vict.
τί πως
Ald. Turn. λιπόναυς γένωμαι
λιπόναυς τε γένωμαι
M. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. In Bess.
τε
supra adscriptum est.
λειπόναυς τὲ γένωμαι
Flor. Vict. Veram scripturam
πῶς λιπόναυς γένωμαι
, quam Porsonus restituit, habet Farn. Male plerique interpretes
λιπόναυς
active dictum putarunt. Hoc dicit, quomodo a classe destituar, orbatus sociis? Nam si nolet immolare filiam, destituent eum qui se socios praebuerunt expeditioni in ipsius et fratris gratiam susceptae.
199

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ἁμαρτών
ἁμαρτῶν
G.
200

202-204. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-129

αὐδᾷ περιόργως ἐπιθυμεῖν θέμις
ὀργᾷ
M.
ὀργᾷ
vel
ὀργᾷ
G. Bess. Flor. Ald. Turn. Vict.
ὀργαὶ
Rob. In G.
αὐδᾷ
ad
ὀργᾷ
superscriptum.
αὐδᾷ
, cum glossa
λέγει ὁ μάντις
, Farn. In M. G. hoc scholion est,
τῷ τρόπῳ γὰρ αὐδᾷ ὁ μάντις δηλονότι. Scribendum ὀργᾷ, τῷ τρόπῳ. γρ. αὐδᾷ, ὁ μάντις δὴ λοιπόν
. Ex iis, qui vulgatum
ὀργᾷ
explicare studuerunt, fuere qui verba haec,
ὀργᾷ περιόργως
, fortasse quod
περιόργως
etiam
ὑπεροργῶντως
significat, de Diana, quae irata eiusmodi sacrificium exigeret, dictum existimarent. Quo factum ut Casaubonus adscripserit
ἐπιθυμεῖ Ἄρτεμις
et Ruhnkenius ad Timaeum p. 194. tacens posuerit
παρθενίου θ' αἵματος ὀργῇ, περιέργως τ᾽ ἐπιθυμεῖ Ἄρτεμις
, non laudabili levitate metrorum negligens. Sed ne sententiam quidem haec ratio aptam praebet, propter adiectum
παυσανέμου
, quod hic aperte non ornatus caussa, sed significanter ob rem ipsam est additum. Sacrificium si sibi poscit Diana, poscit, ipsa ut placetur, non ut cessent adversi venti. Illi vero interpretes, quibus
ὀργᾷ
cum scholiasta non pro verbo, sed pro nomine accipere placuit, quod fecerunt H. Vossius, Blomfieldius, Wellauerus, quam moleste inutili additamento oneraverint orationem, non opus est demonstrari. Ὀργᾷ nihil aliud est quam error librarii, ad sequens vocabulum
περιόργως
aberrantis. Recte vero se habet
αὐδᾷ περιόργως ἐπιθυμεῖν θέμις
, vales dicit fas esse avide expetere ventos pacans sacrificium virgineumque sanguinem. De indeclinabili
θέμις
dixi ad Soph. Oed. Col. v. 1189. Non intellectus hic usus fecit ut
εὖ γὰρ εἴη
in
θέμις γὰρ εὖ
scriberetur in Flor. Farn. Quod reliqui libri habent,
εὖ γὰρ εἴη
, ita explicandum est, ut omissa censeatur sententia, ad quam
γάρ
referatur: sic fiat. Ita quod brevissime dixit poeta, accipiendum est hunc in modum, nam, quoniam evitari non potest, optandum ut bene vertat.

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λέπαδνον
λέδαπνον
Bess.
205

206. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-131

δυςσεβῆ
δυσεβῆ
Flor. τροπαίαν
τρόπαιαν
G. Ald.
206

207. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-132

τόθεν
ὅθεν
pro
τόθεν
Turnebus.
207

208. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-133

τὸ παντότολμον Μ. G. Bess. Flor. Farn.
τόπαν τότολμον
Αld.
τὸ ταυτότολμον
Rob.
τὸ πάντολμον
Turn. Vict.
208

209. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-134

βροτοὺς Omnes libri
βροτοῖς
, quod servavit Porsonus una cum mala post hanc vocem plena interpunctione, quae in Ald. recte posita est post
μετέγνω
. Schützius quum recte corrigeret
βροτοὺς
, peccavit eo, quod non ad sequentia hoc verbum rettulit. Id et ego feci et Blomfieldius. Perperam sic emendatum esse pronuntiavit parum considerate G. Bernhardy in Syntaxi p. 93.
209

212. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-135

γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγὰν
γυναικοποίνῳ πολέμῳ ἀρωγὸν
infelici coniectura Turnebus.
212

213. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-136

προτέλεια
προτέλειῳ
G.
προτελείῳ
Ald. Turn. Ceteri recte
προτέλεια
.
213

214. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-137

NA Male strophas distinxerat Canterus. Correctae sunt a me, ab Erfurdtio, a Blomfieldio.
214

215. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-138

παρθένειόν τ'
παρθένιον
M. G. Bess. et edd. Emendate
παρθένειον
Flor. Farn. Copulam
τ'
addendam esse primus vidit Pearsonus.
215

216. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-139

βραβῆς
βραβῆς
M. G. Ald. Rob.
βραβεῖς
Turn. Vict.
βραβῆς
Bess. Flor. Farn.
216

217. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-140

φράσεν δ᾽ ἀόζοις Flor. Turn.
φράσεν δ᾽ ἐν ὄσσοις
Farn. μετ' εὐχάν Post
εὐχὰν
Ald. ut in fine versus puncto distinguit, Turn. commate, quem plerique secuti sunt. Recte eam distinctionem omisere Rob. Vict. Nam
μετ' εὐχὰν
cum
λαβεῖν
coniungendum est.
217

218. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-141

χιμαίρας
χιμαίρας
Flor. Farn. Turn. Vict.
χιμαίρας
M. G. Bess. Ald. Rob. ὕπερθε Flor. Vict. Ceteri recte
ὕπερθε
.
218

219. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-142

περιπετῆ
περιπετεῖ
G. Ald. sed in G.
εῖ
a pr. manu in
ῆ
mutatum.
219

220. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-143

λαβεῖν
βαλεῖν
Farn. ἀέρδην
ἀέρδειν
Flor.
220

221. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-144

καλλιπρώρου
καλλιπρώιρου
Μ.
καλλιπρώρου
Bess. Flor. Farn. Rob. Turn. Vict.
καλλιπρώιρον
G.
καλλίπρωρον
Ald. φυλακὰν κατασχεῖν
φυλακ᾽ ἀγκατασχεῖν
Ald. unde
φύλακ᾽ ἀγκατασχεῖν
Turn. Sed G. ut ceteri
φυλακὰν κατασχεῖν
.
221

223. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-145

τ' M. G. Bess. Flor. et edd.
δ'
Farn. ἀναύδῳ
ἀναύδων
Flor.
223

224-225. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-146

κρόκου βαφὰς δ᾽ ἐς πέδον χέουσα ἔβαλλ᾽ ἕκαστον θυτήρων
δ'
omittit Farn.
χέουσα ἔβαλλ'
Μ. Bess. Farn. Rob. Turn.
χέουσα ἔβαν
G. Ald.
χέουσ' ἔβαλ'
Flor. Vict. Deinde
ἕκατον
Bess. Non credam isto hiatu
χέουσα ἔβαλλ'
Aeschylum non abstinuisse. Suspicetur quis forsitan, quoniam post
βαφὰς
in Farn.
δ'
omissum est, scribendum esse
χέουσά δ'
. Sed et parum elegans haec collocatio est et syllabam in fine versus longam requirimus. Scripsisse videtur Aeschylus
κρόκου βαφὰς δ᾽ ἐς πέδον χέουσ', ὧδ᾽ ἔβαλλ᾽ ἕκαστον θυτήρων
. Qui cum Stanleio
κρόκου βαφάς
de sanguine intelligendum censuerunt, non cogitarunt mox dicere chorum
τὰ δ᾽ ἔνθεν οὔτ᾽ εἶδον οὔτ᾽ ἐννέπω
. Nec sanguis nec vittae intelligendae, de quibus Lucretius immolationem Iphigeniae describens I. 88.
cui simul infula virgineos circumdata comtus ex utraque pari malarum parte profusa est
. Qui non abiectas, sed aptatas capiti vittas dicit. Eaeque non croceae, sed albae erant. Aliud est quod Aeschylus narrat. Iusserat Agamemno prehendi Iphigeniam obvolutamque vestibus ne mala imprecaretur ad aram sisti. At illa reiecto croceo velamine, quo ut regia virgo induta erat, sponte vocem comprimit, satis habens adspicere duces, tamquam verba factura.

226. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-147

ἀπ᾽ ὄμματος βέλει
ἀπὸ ὄμματος βέλει
Μ.
βέλει ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων
Farn.
226

230-232. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-148

ἔμελψεν M. Bess. Flor. Farn. Vict.
ἔμελθεν
G. Ald. Rob.
ἔμελλεν
Turn. Ἔμελψεν aperte ineptum est. Neque enim illo aevo in conviviis cantabant virgines, quaeque id Aeschyli tempore faciebant, tibicinae erant et saltatrices, et arte illa et corpore quaestum facientes. Scribendum
ἤνυσεν
, quoniam illi saepe in hospitali domo patris ad mensam convenerant. ἁγνᾷ Schutzius: libri
ἁγνά
. αὐδᾷ M. Bess. Turn. Ceteri
αὐδᾷ
. τριτόσπονδον
τριτοσποδον
Rob. εὔποτμον Μ. G. Bess. et edd.
εὐπόταμον
Flor.
εὔποτον
Farn. Elmsleium secutus Blomfieldius
εὔποτμόν τ'
addita copula scripsit. Scribendum potius videtur
εὐπότμαν
. Codicis Flor. scriptura ex
εὔποτμον
orta est. De his formis v. Lobeckium ad Ai. v. 604. In explicando hoc loco mirum quantum a vero aberraverint interpretes. Scholiastes
ἀταύρωτος
interpretatur
ἄζευκτος, παρθενική
. Hesychius
ἀταύρωτος, ἄζυγος, καὶ παρθένος, παρ᾽ ὅσον ἐξεῖχθαι γάμοις αἱ γεγαμημέναι λέγονται
. Vide etiam Eustathium p. 259, 9. 1554, 28. et Valckenarium animadv. ad Ammonium p. 40. seq. Non negaverim hoc significatu potuisse hanc vocem ab aliquo tragico usurpari. Sic Aeschylus infra v. 1054.
ἄπεχε τῆς βοὸς τὸν ταῦρον
, et Horatius
nondum subacta ferre iugum valet cervice, nec tauri ruentis in Venerem tolerare pondus
. Eiusmodi locum in mente habuisse videtur Aristophanes in Lysistrata v. 217. quem versum afferens Suidas scripsit
σταυρώτη, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἁγνὴ καὶ ἄμικτος. ταῦρος γὰρ τὸ αἰδοῖον τοῦ ἀνδρός, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἀταυρώτη ἡ ἁγνὴ ἢ ἄζευκτος γάμου καὶ ἀζυγής
: quam obscenam explicationem mirum est probare potuisse Blomfieldium. Idem Suidas mox addit
ἐπειδὴ οἱ ταῦροι κατωφερεῖς· “οἴκοι δ᾽ ἀταυρώτη διάξω τὸν βίον.”
Ab Aeschyli loco haec significatio tam aliena est quam quod maxime. Quid enim attinebat hic virginem incorruptam vocari Iphigeniam? Immo
ἀταύρωτος
est non efferata. Hoc enim dicit poeta, puellam, non indignatam quod immolaretur, pio silentio honorasse sortem patris, faustam futuram per hoc sacrificium. Euripides Med. v. 91.
ἤδη γὰρ εἶδον ὄμμα νιν ταυρουμένην τοῖςδ'
. Et v. 190.
καίτοι τοκάδος δέργμα λεαίνης ἀποταυροῦται δμωσίν
. Eodem pertinent haec in Herc. fur. v. 867.
καὶ διαστρόφους ἑλίσσει σίγα γοργώπους κόρας, ἀμπνοὰς δ᾽ οὐ σωφρονίζει, ταῦρος ὡς ἐς ἐμβολήν, δεινὰ μυᾶται δέ
. Recte vero Schützius
ἁγνᾷ αὐδᾷ
, quod eodem modo dictum quo
τὸ τῆς εὐφήμου στόμα φροντίδος ἱέντες
apud Sophoclem Oed. Col. v. 131. Τριτόσπονδον autem
αἰῶνα
quum dicit, de quibus verbis videndum Blomfieldii glossarium, ad libationem respicit Iovi Servatori factam, qui scilicet servaturus sit classem adversis ventis ab destinato cursu prohibitam.

234. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-149

ἄκραντοι
ἄγραντοι
Ald.
ἄχραντοι
Turn. Dicit hoc universe, non vana est ars Calchantis. Respicit enim quae supra commemoraverat v. 126. seqq. non ex omni parte prospere successuram esse expeditionem, quumque modo de impio facto Agamemnonis dixisset, simul ex hoc aliquid mali nasciturum praesagit.
234

235-236. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-150

τοῖς μὲν παθοῦσιν μαθεῖν ἐπιρρέπει
δίκα δύς τοῖς
error Aldinae a Turnebo repetitus. Deinde omnes libri
παθοῦσι
. Sensus est, iustitia his quidem (eos dicit qui virginem immolarunt) experiundo admovet cognitionem futuri. Id supra dixerat
πάθει μάθος ἔχειν
. Activum est
ἐπιρρέπει
, ut Eum. v. 875.
οὔτἂν δικαίως τῇδ᾽ ἐπιρρέποις πόλει μῆνίν τιν ἢ κότον τίν ἢ βλάβην στρατῷ.
Et apud Theognidem v. 157.
Ζεὺς γάρ τοι τὸ τάλαντον ἐπιρρέπει ἄλλοτε ἄλλως
.

237. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-151

τὸ προκλύειν δ᾽ ἐπιγνοιη· προχαιρέτω Libri
τὸ δὲ προκλύειν
, nisi quod in Farn. haec verba omissa sunt. In M. ab alia manu adiecta sunt. Deinde post
προκλύειν
sequitur
ἐπιγένοιτ' ἂν κλύοις
(sic M. G.
ἀνκλύοις
Rob.)
προχαιρέτω
M. G. Rob. et Ald. nisi quod haec
ἀνηλύοις
habet.
ἐπεὶ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν κλύοις προχαιρέτω
Bess. Flor. et sic etiam Farn.
ἐπεὶ γένοιτ' ἂν ἡ λύσις προχαιρέτω
Turn. Vict. Triclinius, cuius recensionem codex Farn. exhibet, videtur haec sic constituisse,
τὸ μέλλον, ἐπεὶ γένοιτ', ἂν κλύοις
. Aurati coniectura est
ἤλυσις
, in quam Schutzius quoque incidit. Elmsleius quum
τὸ δὲ προκλύειν
in Farn. omissum videret, non satis caute
τὸ προκλύειν
ab interprete adiectum esse iudicavit, quod verbum minime redolet interpretem, aperteque ad haec verba refertur quod sequitur
ἴσον δὲ τὸ προστένειν
. Secutus eum tamen Blomfieldius exhibuit
δίκα δὲ τοῖς μὲν παθοῦσιν μαθεῖν ἐπιρρέπει· τὸ μέλλον δ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὐ γένοιτ' ἂν λύσις, προχαιρέτω
, atque
ἐπεὶ οὐ γένοιτ' ἂν ἡ λύσις
iam alii coniecerant. Sed haec, sive numeros, sive sententiam spectes, non habent quo commendentur. Ad sensum quidem reprehendi non potest
τὸ προκλύειν δ᾽, ἐπεὶ γένοιτ' ἂν ἤλυσις, προχαιρέτω
: sed ita si legitur, debet aliquid omissum ab librariis in strophicis putari, in quibus tamen nulla est omissionis suspicio. Ego non dubitavi reponere, quod in adnotationibus ad Humboldti versionem conieci,
τὸ προκλύειν δ᾽ ἤλυσιν προχαιρέτω.
Nam illud potius
ἐπεὶ γένοιτ' ἂν ἤλυσις
ab interprete adscriptum fuerat.
237

238. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-152

ἴσον
ἴσον
Farn. Ceteri
ἴσον
.
238

239. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-153

σύνορθρον αὐγαῖς
σύνορθὸν ἀνταῖς
(id est
αὐταῖς
) Μ.
σύνορθὸν αὐταῖς
Rob.
σὺν ὀρθὸν αὐταῖς
G. Bess. Ald. Turn.
σύναρθρον αὔταις
Flor. Farn. Glossa in Farn.
συνηρμοσμένον βοαῖς καὶ θρήνοις
, et alia,
συνίζησις
. Blomfieldius
αὐταῖς
cum Stanleio ad artes Calchantis refert, quod patet quam putidum sit. Nec melius Elmsleii
αὐτᾷ
, scilicet
τῇ δίκῃ
. Mea coniectura est
αὐγαῖς
. Fallitur Wellauerus,
αὐγαῖς
de luce diei intelligi posse negans, nisi accesserit aliquid quod de his sermonem esse indicet. Quasi non
λεύσσειν ὑπ' αὐγάς
per se intelligatur, aut non in hac ipsa fabula v. 1140. legatur
ὥστε κύματος δίκην κλύζειν πρὸς αὐγὰς τοῦδε πήματος πολὺ μεῖζον
. Recte tamen, quamquam non recto usus argumento, coniecisse videtur Wellauerus
σύνορθρον αὐγαῖς
. Orietur, inquit, cum luce solis eventus.
239

240. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-154

πέλοιτο δ᾽ οὖν
πέλοι δ᾽ οὖν
Rob. τούτοισιν
τούτοις
Flor. Vict. Sed
τούτοισιν
M. G. Bess. Farn. Ald. Rob. εὔπραξις quod libri habent, non Graecum esse censuit Lobeckius ad Phryn. p. 501. Scribere possis
εὖ πρᾶξις
, ut dicitur v. 478.
εὖ γὰρ πρὸς εὖ φανεῖσι προσθήκη πέλοι
. Sed
εὔπραξις
defensum est in Parisina editione Thesauri Stephani in v.
εὐθεράπευσις
.
240

241-242. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-155

NA Vix credas fuisse qui his verbis chorum semet ipsum dicere existimarent, scholiastam secuti, nec viderent quam haec stolida et importuna esset iactatio, praesertim quum in eo sit, ut alloquantur reginam illi, qui se
ὄναρ ἡμερόφαντον ἀλαίνειν
supra dixerunt. Diversae et originis et significationis esse Homeri
ἀπίην γαῖαν
, ex praepositione
ἀπό
dictam, et tragicorum
Ἀπίαν
, appellatam ab antiquissimo rege Apide, bene animadvertit Buttmannus in Lexilogo c. 19. vol. I. p. 67. sed ille quae de aliquot aliorum nominum cum isto Apide cognatione dixit, cur falsa sint, non opus videtur demonstrare.
Ἄπις
, Doricae linguae nomen, cognatum esse cum
ὕδωρ
satis ostendunt quae de Apide praedicat Aeschylus in Suppl. v. 249. seqq.

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Χορὸς Πρεσβυτῶν In G. Bess. Flor. Ald. Turn. Vict. et a sec. manu in M. praefixum
ἄγγελος
.
ἄγγελος φύλαξ
Farn.
φύλ.
Rob. Chori nomen apposuit Stanleius.
243

244. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-157

φωτὸς
ἐπιφωτός
error Aldinae.
244

245. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-158

ἄρσενος
ἄρσενου
G.
ἀρσένου
Ald. Turn.
245

246. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-159

σὺ δ᾽ εἴ τι κεδνὸν
εὖ δ᾽ εἴτε κεδνόν
error Aldinae. Inde
εὖ δ', εἴτε κεδνὸν
Turn.
σὺ δ' εἴτε κεδνὸν
codices et Rob. Vict. sed in M. ultima in
εἴτε
littera e correctione
ι
est. Aurati coniectura est
σὺ δ᾽ εἴ τι κεδνόν
, quam ex margine Askewiana Blomfieldius recepit. Estque id aptius, licet defendi possit
εἴτε
. Nam potius hic est, num quid fausti acceperit quaeri.
246

247. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-160

ἐλπίσιν
ἐλπίσι
M. Bess.
247

248. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-161

σιγώσῃ Clytaemnestrae hunc versum tribuunt Bess. Flor. Farn. Turn.
σιγῶντι
Flor. Farn.
σιγώσης
M. Ceteri
σιγώσῃ
. Correctoris mutatio est
σιγῶντι
, qui haec verba a Clytaemnestra dici putaret. V. ad v. 256.
248

249. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-162

Κλυταιμνήστρα Clytaemnestrae nomen adscriptum in M. G. Ald. Vict.
γυν.
in Bess. Flor. Farn. Omissa personae nota in Rob. Eustathius p. 22, 32. affert
εὐάγγελος ἠὼς γένοιτο μητρὸς εὐφρόνης πάρα
, comparans cum Soph. Trach. v. 95.
249

251. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-163

Χορὸς Πρεσβυτῶν In M. hic et in sequentibus lineola personas distinguit.
Nuntii
nota adscripta in G. Ald. Rob. Turn. Vict. Nulla personae nota in Rob. πεύσει Bess. Ceteri
πεύσῃ
.
251

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Χορὸς Πρεσβυτῶν Versus chori in G. Bess. Flor. Farn. Ald. Turn. Vict. Clytaemnestrae, Clytaemnestrae versus nuntio tributi sunt. Illis Clytaemnestrae nomen, his
χο.
praefixum in Rob.
253

254. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-165

τορῶς
ἦ τορῶς
G. Ald.
254

255. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-166

χαρὰ μ' ὑφέρπει δάκρυον ἐκκαλουμένη Ad Od. XIX. 471.
τὴν δ᾽ ἄρα χάρμα καὶ ἄλγος ἕλε φρένας
, haec habet scholiastes,
Σοφοκλῆς “χάρμα ὑφέρπει δάκρυον ἐκκαλουμένη.”
Aeschyli esse et Barnesium fugit et Buttmannum. Ad eundem Homeri versum Eustathius p. 1872, 64.
ὅθεν λαβών φασι Σοφοκλῆς ἔφη, ὡς χάρμα ὑφέρπει δάκρυον ἐκκαλούμενον
.
255

256. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-167

φρονοῦντος
φρονούσης
Flor. Farn. Vict. quod correctoris est prava personarum distinctione moti. ὄμμα σοῦ Farn. Turn. Vict. et ante rasuram M.
ὄμμα σου
G. Ald. Rob. et nunc M.
256

257. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-168

τί γάρ; τὸ πιστὸν ἔστι τῶνδέ σοι τέκμαρ Libri
τί γὰρ τὸ πιστόν ἐστιν τῶνδέ σοι τέκμαρ
, nisi quod
ἔστι νῦν
habet Ald.
τί δ᾽ ἂν
Auratus. Sentiebat enim vulgatam scripturam non congruere cum eo quod respondet Clytaemnestra. Eam ob caussam Abreschius
τὶ γὰρ τὸ πιστὸν
scribi volebat, quod esset
ecquod, quod certum sit, signum
. Optime Schutzius
τί γάρ; τὸ πιστὸν ἐστὶ τῶνδέ σοι τέκμαρ ;
Tenuere tamen vulgatum Blomfieldius et Wellauerus, Schützium bene refutatum esse rati a Doederlino in Actis Monac. I. p. 40. Scilicet, ut huic, sic ipsi quoque in solam articuli cum
τίς
consociationem, de qua nemini dubium esse potest, intuentes, parum solliciti de sententia, ne caussam quidem perspexerunt, qua ad mutandam distinctionem vir egregius, qui se poetam legere, non construendi exercitia ante oculos habere sciret, fuerit adductus.
257

258. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-169

ἔστιν· τί δ᾽ M. Farn. Rob. Vict.
ἔστιν τὶ δ᾽
G.
ἔστι τί δ᾽
Bess.
ἔστιν τ' δ'
, omisso per errorem
ι
, Ald. unde Turn.
ἐστὶ τάδ'
.
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εὐπιθῆ
εὐπειθῇ
G. Ald. Ceteri
εὐπειθῆ
. Recte Blomfieldius
εὐπιθῆ
.
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ἄπτερος
εὔπτερος
Turnebus. Ceteri omnes
ἄπτερος
. Scholiastes
ἰσόπτερος, κούφη
. Hesychius
ἄπτερα, ἰσόπτερα, ταχέα, ἡδέα
. Idem
ἄπτερος, αἰφνίδιος, παρὰ Ὁμήρῳ. ὁ προςηνὴs ἢ ταχύς. Αἰσχύλος Ἀγαμέμνονι. αἰφνίδιον.
Idem
ἀπτέρωτα, ταχέα, αἰφνίδια
. Εtym. Μ. p. 133, 26.
ἄπτερος. “τῇ δ᾽ ἄπτερος ἔπλετο μῦθος.” ταχὺς πρὸς τὸ πεισθῆναι, καὶ ἰσόπτερος. ἡ γὰρ ἅ στέρησις δηλοῖ καὶ τὸ ὅμοιον καὶ τὸ ἴσον, οἷον ἀτάλαντος, ἄλοχος. ἔνιοι δέ, οὐ παραπτάς, ἀλλ᾽ ἔμμονος. ἔνιοι δέ, ἄπτερον τὸ ἡδύ, ἄσμενον, ὀρθόν
. Partem horum habet etiam Zonaras. Vide etiam Apollonium in Lex. Hom. et Eustathium p. 1811, 39. In Etym. Μ. p. 133, 34. et 183, 24.
ἀπτερέως
ex Hesiodo affertur, pro quo Ruhnkenius in Epist. crit. I. p. 67 (sive 105. et noviss. ed. 158.) vereor ne temere Apollonii Rhodii nomen, IV. 1765. ea voce ita ut sit celeriter usi, substituendum censuerit, Parmenidem quoque afferens apud Sextum Emp. adv. log. I. p. 393.
ὡς σφιν βαλανωτὸν ὀχῆα ἀπτερέως ὤσειε πυλέων ἄπο
. Eodem significata
ἀπτέρως
dixit Lycophron v. 627. et nescio qui alius poeta apud Pollucem IX. 152.
ἀπτέρῳ τάχει
, quod ab Leone Diacono VII. 2. assumptum attulit Boissonadus. Scribit autem Etymologus p. 133. 34.
ἀπτερέως παρ' Ἡσιόδῳ, ὥσπερ τὸ ἀψοφέως. σημαίνει τὸ . . ἔστιν ἀπωτέρω, ἀπτέρω, οὕτως Ἡρωδιανός. ἔστι ταχέως, ἑτοίμως, ἀφροντίστως, οἳ δέ, ἀπροθύμως, ἐλαφρῶς. ἔνιοι δέ, ἐμελημένως.
Εt p. 183, 24.
ὅμοιον δὲ τούτου (ἀψοφέως dicit) καὶ τὸ ἀπτερέως παρ' Ἡσιόδῳ, ἀπὸ τοῦ πτερέως, τὸ ταχέως.
Hoc
πτερέως
quidem a grammaticis fictum puto, etsi apud Hesychium est
ἀγαπτερέως, ἀσμένως, προθύμως, ταχέως
. Quod nescio an ipsum quoque inconsiderate Ruhnkenius
ἀγαπτερέως
scribi iusserit. Pertinet huc etiam verbum
ἀπτερύσσεται
, quod Hesychius
πέτεται
interpretatur, et
ἀπτερύονται
apud Aratum v. 1009. agnitum quidem illud a scholiasta, sed in libris etiam
αὖτ' ἐρύονται
et
αὖ πτερύωνται
scriptum. Vtrumque suspectum habeo vereorque ne fuerit
ἀμπερύσσεται
et
ἀμπτερύονται
. Apud Atticorum tragicos sicubi
ἄπτερος
invenitur, propria significatione nunc non alatum notat, ut in Eum. v. 53. 249. et in Iph. Taur. v. 1095. nunc implumem, ut in Herc. fur. v. 1039.
ὃ δ᾽, ὡς τις ὄρνις ἄπτερον καταστένων ὠδῖνα τέκνων, πρέσβυς ὑστέρῳ ποδὶ πικρὰν διώκων ἤλυσιν πάρεσθ᾽ ὅδε
Et hic quidem locus accommodatissimus est ad tuendam hanc vocem in Agamemnone. Nam
ἄπτερος φάτις
est rumor immaturus, cui nondum fides habenda, comparatione ab avibus petita, quibus nondum ad volatum pennis firmatae sunt alae. Non est autem obscurum, etiam qui illa voce in contrarium significatum usi videntur, re vera non recessisse a proprio. Sunt enim illi Homerum secuti, cui quum
ἄπτερος μῦθος
dictum significet non avolans, sed sedulo mente custoditum,
ἄπτερος, ἀπτέρως, ἀπτερέως
de iis rebus dictum est, quae non leviter aut oscitanter, sed sedulo et strenue aguntur.
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ὣς sine accentu M. G. Ald. Rob.
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καὶ τίς τόδ᾽ ἐξίκοιτ' ἂν ἀγγέλων τάχος
καὶ πῶς
Farn.
καὶ τὶς
Rob. Ceteri
καὶ τίς
. Deinde
ἐξίκοιτ᾽ ἀναγγέλων
ex primae manus correctione, quum antea scriptum fuisset
ἐξ ἵκοιτ' ἀν ἄγχος
, G.
ἐξίκοιτ᾽ ἂν ἀγγέλων
Ald.
ἐξίκοιτ' ἂν ἀγγέλων
ceteri. Stanleius
ἀγγέλλων
scribi volebat, Abreschio vel hoc placebat vel
ἀγγελῶν
, quod recepit Porsonus. Hoc cur praestet vulgato, ac non potius deterius sit, vix intelligas.
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ἀπ' ἀγγάρου
ἀπαγγέλου
G. et a pr. manu M.
ἀπ' ἀγγέλου
Μ. a sec. manu et ceteri.
ἀγγάρου
commendatum a Cantero receptum est inde a Schützio et Porsono. Etym. M. p. 7, 16. et grammaticus in Bekkeri Anecd. p. 212, 5.
ἔλεγον δὲ καὶ τοὺς σταθμοὺς ἄγγαρα, καὶ τοὺς ἐπὶ τὸ καθοδηγεῖν παραλαμβανομένους ἄκοντας. Αἰσχύλος γοῦν ἐν Ἀγαμέμνονι τὸν ἐκ διαδοχῆς πυρσὸν “ἀπ' ἀγγάρου πυρός” ἔφη
. Suidas et grammaticus in Bekkeri Anecd. p. 325, 13.
ἄγγαροι, οἱ ἐκ διαδοχῆς γραμματοφόροι. οἱ δὲ αὐτοὶ καὶ ἀστάνδαι. τὰ δὲ ὀνόματα Περσικά. Αἰσχύλος Ἀγαμέμνονι “φρυκτὸς δὲ φρυκτὸν δεῦρ᾽ ἀπ' ἀγγάρου πυρὸς ἔπεμπεν.”
Eustathius p. 1854, 26.
παρὰ τῷ αὐτῷ δὲ ποιητῇ ἐν Ἀγαμέμνονι καὶ οἱ ἄγγαροι κεῖνται, λέξις φανερῶς Περσική “φρυκτὸς δὲ φρυκτὸν δεῦρ᾽ ἀπ' ἀγγάρου πυρὸς ἔπεμπε.” τοιοῦτον δὲ τὸ τῶν φανῶν. κυρίως δὲ κατὰ Λίλιον Διονύσιον ἄγγαροι οἱ ἐκ διαδοχῆς γραμματοφόροι. οἱ δὲ αὐτοί, φησί, καὶ ἀστάνδαι Περσικῶς.
Descripsit rem Herodotus VIII. 98. V. Brodaci Misc. VI. 6.
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Ἑρμαῖον
ἑρμαῖον
G. Ald. Vict. et ut videtur M.
ἕρμαιον
Rob. Turn. Non quadrare videtur in hunc montem quod Arcadius praecipit p. 43, 8.
Ἑρμαῖος
scribi nomen proprium.
Ἑρμαῖος λόφος
, de quo Etym. Μ. p. 375, 57. est Od. XVI. 471.
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πανὸν Libri
φανόν
. Porsonus
πανόν
ex Athenaeo XV. p. 700. Ε.
πρότερος δὲ τούτων (Menandrum et Diphilum dicit) Αἰσχύλος ἐν Ἀγαμέμνονι μέμνηται τοῦ πανοῦ· ἐχρῶντο δὲ αὐτῷ ὡς λαμπάδι
. Ammonius p. 90.
φανός
comicorum,
πανός
tragicorum esse ait. Valckenarius in Animadv. ad Amm. p. 147. ab scholiasta Aristophanis ad Pacem v. 841. promiscuum utriusque formae usum tragicis adscribi dicit. Sed quum scholiastes iste sic scribat,
τοὺς νῦν φανοὺς καλουμένους λύχνους τινάς φασι λέγειν τῶν παλαιῶν, τὰς δὲ λαμπάδας τοὺς τραγικοὺς φανοὺς ἢ πανοὺς διὰ τοῦ π
, non ille repugnare Ammonio videtur, sed indicare idem esse
πανός
, quo pro altera forma utantur tragici. Photius
πανόν, ἀπὸ τοῦ πάντα φαίνειν σχηματισθέντα, κατὰ μεταβολὴν τοῦ φ. Σοφοκλῆς Ἑλένης γάμῳ
. Idem
πανός, δέσμη κληματίδων. οἱ δὲ νεώτεροι Ἀττικοὶ φανόν. Ἀριστοφάνης
. Pollux X. 117.
πανὸς μέντοι καὶ φανὸς ἡ λαμπάς, ὡς ὅταν φῇ ἐν τῇ Ἀλκμήνῃ Εὐριπίδης “πόθεν δὲ πεύκης πανὸν ἐξεῦρες λαβών;”
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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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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.

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μὲν: als Gegensatz schwebt vor der Wunsch, der den Chor hergeführt hat, Kunde vom Heere zu erhalten 83 ff. ἐπεὶ, ἀφ᾽ οὗ, wie Cho. 607 .
1

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Der Singular entspricht dem metaphorischen Gebrauch von ἀντίδικος, welches für sich steht und in der Apposition Μενέλαος .. Αγαμέμνων seine Erläuterung erhält: ,,der gewaltige Proceſsgegner, vertreten durch Menelaos und Agamemnon". Von dem Bilde des Rechtsstreites ist auch ἀρωγήν 47 entlehnt.
2

43. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-29

διθρόνου καὶ δισκήπτρου Διόθεν nach Hom. B 107, I 98 f. Vgl. Suppl. 379 μονοσκήπτροισι ἐν θρόνοις. τιμῆς von der königlichen Würde wie Hom. I 616, Z 193. ζεύγος bezieht sich auf den in δι- ( θρόνου, - σκήπτρου) liegenden Begriff: „der von Zeus mit Thron und Scepter begnadeten doppelten Würde Vereinigung". Von dem darin liegenden einheitlichen Begriff,,gottbegnadetes Herrscherpaar" hängt der zweite Gen. Ατρείδαιν ab.

45. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-30

χιλιοναύτην wie Eur. Iph. Τ. 141 σὺν κώπᾳ χιλιοναύτᾳ, Androm. 106 ὁ χιλιόναυς .. " Ἄρης, die dichterische Zahl. Vgl. Thuk. I 10.

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ἦραν στόλον wie αἴρειν, απαίρειν ναῦν (das Schiff vom Lande wegheben). στρατιῶτιν ἀρωγήν, einen Rechtsbeistand (zu 41, vgl. Hom. Ψ 574 ἐς μέσον ἀμφοτέροισι δικάσσατε μηδ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ἀρωγῇ), der aus Soldaten besteht, eine Wendung wie κῦμα χερσαῖον στρατοῦ Sept. 64 , vgl. unten zu 82.

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κλάζοντες: Hom. Π 428 οἳ δ᾽, ὥς τ᾽ αἰγυπιοὶ γαμψώνυχες ἀγκυλοχείλαι πέτρῃ ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλῇ μεγάλα κλάζοντε μάχωνται.
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4
Hom. π 216 κλαῖον δὲ λιγέως, ἀδινώτερον ἤ τ᾽ οἰωνοί, φῆναι ἢ αἰγυπιοὶ γαμψώνυχες, οἷσί τε τέκνα ἀγρόται ἐξείλοντο πάρος πετεηνὰ γενέσθαι. ἐκπάγλοις, ein Homerisches Wort. Vgl. 853.
5

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ὕπατοι (hoch über) regiert den Gen. wie ὑπέρ.

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Hom. II 792 στρεφεδίνηθεν δέ οἱ ὄσσε. Ebenso will L. Dindorf hier στρεφεδινοῦνται schreiben.

52. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-36

Die gleiche Cäsur 64, 75, 84, 95 u. ö. Vgl. Christ Metrik § 285.

53-54. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-37

6
„die nesthütende Arbeit mit den Jungen" d. h.,,die Frucht der Mühen, welche die Pflege der Jungen im Neste verursacht hatte". Anders Hesych. unter δεμνιοτήρη πόνον: καθόσον οἱ νεοσσοὶ ἔτι τοιοὔτοί εἰσιν ὡς τὰ δέμνια τηρεῖν καὶ κατέχειν, μηδέπω πέτεσθαι δυνάμενοι, πόνον δὲ τὰ περὶ τὴν τροφὴν αὐτῶν. Vgl. 1450, Eur. Herc. 1039 ὃ δ᾽ ὥς τις ὄρνις ἄπτερον και ταστένων ὠδῖνα τέκνων, Suppl. 1135 ἰὼ ἰώ· ποῦ δὲ πόνος ἐμῶν τέκνων, Phoen. 30 τὸν ἐμὸν ὠδίνων πόνον.

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ὕπατος zeigt durch seine Stellung die Beziehung auf ὕπατοι 50 an: weil die Vögel in der Höhe bei den Göttern sich angesiedelt haben ( μετοίκων 57), hört sie ein Gott in der Höhe. τις ᾿Απόλλων, etwa Apollo ( τὶς cum nomine proprio coniunctum significat talem aliquem qualis est qui nominatur. Explicavit hunc usum Fritzschius in Quaest. Lucian. p. 16). Apollon, Pan, Zeus sind Götter, die auf hohen Bergen verehrt wurden, wie Pausanias VIII 38, 2 ff. auf dem Lykaion in Arkadien Heiligtümer des Zeus, Apollon und Pan angiebt (vgl. Ahrens Philol. Suppl. S. 234 ff.). Sie sind προστάται ihren μέτοικοι, den Geiern, die auf ihren Bergen horsten. τῶνδε μετοίκων, dieser, die ihre μέτοικοι sind, wie Soph. ΕΙ. 790 πρὸς τῆσδ᾽ ὑβρίζῃ μητρός ( νοη dieser, die deine Mutter sein will). .
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ὑστερόποινον, vgl. 705 ὑστέρῳ χρόνῳ, Cho. 382 ὑστερόποινον ἄταν, Soph. Ant. 1074 ὑστεροφθόροι .. Ἐρινύες, Anthol. XII 229 ὑστερόπουν Νέμεσιν, Caes. de b. Gall. I 14 consuesse enim deos immortales, quo gravius homines ex commutatione rerum doleant, quos pro scelere eorum ulcisci velint, his secundiores interdum res et diuturniorem impunitatem concedere, Hor. carm. III 2, 31 Raro antecedentem 3* scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo und die Abhandlung von Plutarch περὶ τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ θείου βραδέως τιμωρουμένων.

59. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-40

παραβᾶσιν: „Raum für alle hat die Erde, Was verfolgst du meine Herde?" Ερινύν: ein Sprichwort (Paroemiogr. Gr. App. II 20) lautet: εἰσὶ καὶ κυνῶν Ἐρινύες. Die Erinyen nehmen sich aller Hilflosen an.

60. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-41

οὕτω δέ wie Cho. 251 . ὁ κρείσσων d. i. der machtvoll waltende Zeus.
8

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Hom. Г 350 ᾿Ατρεΐδης Μενέλαος, ἐπευξάμενος Διὶ πατρί· Ζεῦ ἄνα, δὸς τίσασθαι ὅ με πρότερος κάκ' ἔοργεν, δίον ᾿Αλέξανδρον ὄφρα τις ἐρρίγῃσι καὶ ὀψιγόνων ἀνθρώπων ξεινοδόκον κακὰ ῥέξαι, ὅ κεν φιλότητα παράσχη, Ν 621 Τρώες ὑπερφίαλοι κακαὶ κύνες, οὐδέ τι θυμῷ Ζηνὸς ἐριβρεμέτεω χαλεπὴν ἐδείσατε μῆνιν ξεινίου, ὃς τέ ποτ᾿ ὄμμι διαφθέρσει πόλιν αἰπήν. ..
9

62. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-43

πολυάνορος verächtlich von der vielumfreiten ( πολλοὺς μνηστῆρας ἐσχηκυίας Schol.) und buhlerischen Helena. Vgl. Hom. T 325 εἵνεκα ῥιγεδανῆς Ἑλένης Τρωσὶν πολεμίζω.

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γόνατος κτἑ. ist gen. absol. Ἐρειδομένου κονίαισιν entspricht dem vorhergehenden γυιοβαρῆ: ein Ringer wird durch den anderen niedergedrückt und niedergehalten. Vgl. das Homerische οὔδει ἐρείδε- · σθαι ( Η 145 u. a.) und Eur. frg. 545 ἡμεῖς δὲ Πολύβου παῖδ᾽ ἐρείσαντες πέδῳ ἐξομματοῦμεν.

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προτέλεια das Opfer, das einer heiligen Weihe ( τέλος, bes. τέλος γαμήλιον Eum. 838 ) und Handlung vorhergeht, vgl. 237, deren Einleitung, Beginn (721). Der Lanzenkampf bildet das Vorspiel des Ringkampfes; wenn die Lanze zersplittert ist, kommt es zum Ringen.

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Hom. B 39 θήσειν γὰρ ἔτ᾽ ἔμελλεν ( Ζεὺς) ἐπ᾿ ἄλγεά τε στοναχάς τε Τρωσί τε καὶ Δαναοῖσι διὰ κρατερὰς ὑσμίνας. neuem an. -

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Trotz des grammatischen Anschlusses hebt der Gedanke von ἔστι κτέ., mag es augenblicklich stehen wie es will, das Ende wird der Bestimmung des Schicksals, welche Sühne für Schuld fordert, entsprechen. Vgl. zu 1170 und Cho. 776 , wo ähnliche Wendungen einen verschiedenen Sinn haben.
10

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11
Das Asyndeton bei der Erläuterung.

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Das Opfer, welches die Strafe und das Verderben der Stadt abwenden soll, wird von der zürnenden Gottheit nicht angenommen (1167 ff.). Wenn die Götter ein Opfer verschmähen, so offenbart sich das dadurch, dafs die Opferflamme nicht emporlodert ( ἄπυρα ἱερά, Soph. Ant. 1006 ἐκ δὲ θυμάτων Ἥφαιστος οὐκ ἔλαμπεν), daſs sie im Fettdampf und Qualm erstickt. Mag man auch nachschüren oder Ol (Verg. Aen. VI 256 pingue super oleum infundens ardentibus extis) u. dgl. darauf giefsen ( ὑποκαίων – ἐπιλείβων), es ist vergeblich. Pind. Ol. VII 48 ἀπύροις ἱεροῖς von Opfern bei denen nichts verbrannt wird. - οὔτε δακρύων paſst nicht in den Zusammenhang. παρα-

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Der Zorn des Opfers zeigt sich darin; daſs es nicht brennen will. ἀτενεῖς, unbeugsam, weil alle Versuche eine günstige Flamme anzufachen fehlschlagen. θέλξει: Schol. λείπει τὸ τὶς. Dies ergänzt sich aus dem Zusammenhang. Vgl. 464, Eum. 509 , Soph. ΕΙ. 697 ὅταν δὲ τις θεῶν βλάπτη, δύναιτ᾽ ἂν οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἰσχύων φυγεῖν, Hom. Ν 287 οὐδέ κεν ἔνθα τεόν γε μένος καὶ χεῖρας ὄνοιτο.
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13
ἄτιτος, ungeehrt, der Beachtung nicht wert, unnütz. Wegen der Form s. zu 1527. Der Dativ steht kausal.

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νέμοντες wie νωμῶντες, in Bewegung setzend. Vgl. 793 οἴακα νέμων mit Sept. 3 οἴακα νωμῶν, Sept. 577 ἀσπίδ᾽ εὔκυκλον νέμων mit Sept. 529 Σφίγγ᾽.. ἐνώμα.

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Kind und Greis gleichen sich an körperlicher Ohnmacht ( δὶς παῖδες οἱ γέροντες). Bei den Dichtern wird Gleichnis und eigentlicher Gedanke öfter in beigeordneten Sätzen mit τὲ, καὶ, τὲ τὲ z. B. Sept. 571 μητρός τε πληγὴν τίς κατασβέσει δίκη; πατρίςτε γαῖα σῆς ὑπὸ σπουδῆς δορὶ ἁλοῦσα πῶς σοι ξύμμαχος γενήσεται; mit τὲ καὶ (334 ff.), δὲ, μὲν – δὲ, οὔτε οὔτε, οὐδὲ gegeben. Vgl. Cho. 246 und zu Eur. Bakch. 902.

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ἀνάσσων, aufschieſsend wie eine Pflanze, Hom. 2437 ὃ δ᾽ ἀνέδραμεν ἔρνεϊ ἶσος, Pind. Nem. VIII 40 χλωραῖς ἐέρσαις ὡς ὅτε δένδρεον ᾄσσει.

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Die epischen Formen ἐνὶ und εἰν werden bei den attischen Dichtern nur in epischen Redensarten gebraucht. So εἰν ᾿Αίδα δόμοισιν Eur. Alk, 436. πείση nach Hom. v 23 τῷ δ᾽ ἄρα τ᾽ ἐν πείσῃ κραδίη μένε τετληνία. Seinem kriegerischen Sinne fehlt noch der kräftige Halt.

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Vgl. Archil. frg. 100 οὐκέθ᾽ ὁμῶς θάλλεις ἀπαλὸν χρόα· κάρφεται γὰρ ἤδη. Auch an das Homerische οΐη περ φύλλων γενεή, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν ( Ζ 146) wird man erinnert. In poetischer Weise ist Gleichnis und eigentlicher Ausdruck verbunden. τρίποδας erinnert an das Rätsel der Sphinx. Eur. Tro. 275 & τριτοβάμονος χερὶ δευομένα βάκτρου.

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ὄναρ ἡμερόφαντον, ein Traumbild nicht der Nacht, sondern des Tages. Äschylos liebt es, der Metapher durch ein das Bild aufhebendes Epitheton einen witzigen Anstrich zu geben. Vgl. oben zu 47, unten zu 139, 697 φεράσπιδες κυναγοί, 1257 δίπους λέαινα, 1235 ὄμβρου κτύπον δομοσφαλῆ τὸν αἱματηρόν, Cho. 491 πέδαις ἀχαλκεύ- τοις von dem Fanggarne der Klytämestra (vgl. Eur. frg. 598 αἰδοῦς ἀχαλκεύτοισιν ἔζευκται πέδαις), Eum. 245 μηνυτῆρος ἀφθέγκτου φραδαῖς, 250 ἀπτέροις ποτήμασιν, Suppl. 180 und Sept. 82 κόνις, ἀναυδος ἄγγελος, Sept. 925 ὁ πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθείς von dem Stahle (Schwerte), fragm. 298, 4 ἄπτεροι πελειάδες von den Pleiaden und zu οἴστρου ἄρδις ἄπυρος Prom. 906 .

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Der Chorführer redet die im Hause weilende Klytämestra wie Soph. Ai. 134 den im Zelte abwesenden Aias an.

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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.

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Vgl. Aristoph. Ri. 1320 τίν᾿ ἔχων φήμην ἀγαθὴν ἥκεις, ἐφ᾽ ὅτῳ κνισῶμεν ἀγυιάς; und dazu Schol. ἔθος ἦν τοῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς ἱσταμένοις θεοῖς ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐρχομέναις ἀγγελίαις θύειν, ὡς ἂν εἰ ἀγαθαὶ εἶεν, ἐπινεύσαιεν ταύταις, εἰ δὲ τοὐναντίον, ἀποτρέψαιεν.

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θυραίων: die δαίμονες ἀντήλιοι (524), deren Altäre an den Thoren der Paläste errichtet waren, besonders Apollon. Vgl. 1065, Soph. Oed. T. 919 , El. 637 , 1375, Hesych. ἀντήλιοι θεοί· οἱ πρὸ τῶν πυλῶν ἱδρυμένοι. Εὐριπίδης Μελεάγρῳ und προστατήριος· τὸν ᾿Απόλλωνα οὕτω λέγουσι, παρόσον πρὸ τῶν θυρῶν αὐτὸν ἀφιδρύοντο. Tertull. de Idol. 15 apud Graecos Apollinem Thyraeum et Antelios daemonas ostiorum praesides legimus.

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δώροισι, durch die Opfergaben, wie es 94 f. erklärt wird.
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ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν: diese Form der anapästischen Dipodie -NIGC findet sich nicht häufig. Vgl. Pers. 47 , Sept. 1060 und unten zu 370. – οὐρανομήκης, ein Homerisches Wort ( ε 239).

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ἀδόλοισι: vgl. Eur. Suppl. 1029 συντηχθεὶς αὔραις ἀδόλοις.

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πελάνῳ μυχόθεν βασιλείῳ 8. ν. α. πελάνῳ ἐκ μυχοῦ βασιλείου.

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αἰνεῖν, sich zu etwas verstehen, zusagen, gewähren.

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τε: das zweite Glied ,,undbestätige die Hoffnung, die mir aus den angezündeten Opferfeuern entgegenleuchtet" hat sich in der folgenden Unterabteilung τοτὸ μὲν τοτὲ δ᾽ .. ἐλπὶς κτέ, verloren. Ebenso Pers. 485 ff. ..

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Die eigentliche Ursache der bangen Stimmung des Chors erklärt der folgende Teil. – ἄπληστον λύπης wie ἄπληστον κακῶν Eum. 977, μάχης ἄπληστον Suppl. 750 . φρενοδαλής auch Eum. 331 . Das handschriftliche θυμοφθόρον ist Erklärung zu φρενοδαλῆ. Vgl. Anhang.
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δυνατός εἰμι εἰπεῖν τὸ συμβὰν αὐτοῖς σημεῖον ἐξιοῦσιν Schol. Das Vorzeichen, welches den Auszug begleitet, ist erdichtet nach dem Homerischen τέρας, das in Aulis erschien (B 301 ff.).
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ἐκτελέων, der völlig ausgewachsenen (Eur. Ion 780 ἐκτελῆ νεανίαν) d. h. der kriegstüchtigen, welche die ἤβη ἀκμαία ( Sept. 11 ) haben, in Gegensatz zu den ἔξηβοι, den Greisen (72). ἔτι γὰρ κτἑ., denn noch haucht von Gott her durch Erweckung von Zuversicht mein Alter mir Kraft zum Singen ein d. h. denn wenn nicht zum Kämpfen, so hat doch infolge Gottvertrauens zum Singen mein Alter noch Kraft genug. Vgl. Eur. Herc. 678 ἔτι τοι γέρων ἀοιδὸς κελαδεὶ Μναμοσύναν. Ζα σύμφυτος αἰών vgl. Soph. Oed. Κ. 7 ὁ χρόνος ξυνών, Oed. Τ. 1082 οἱ δὲ συγγενεῖς μῆνες.

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πέμπει, geleitet. – δορὶ καὶ χερὶ wie in einer Grabschrift (Kaibel epigr. Gr. n. 24, 3) κτώμενον εὔκλειαν δορὶ καὶ χερί. πράκτορι scil. δίκας, rächend. Eum. 320 , Suppl. 655 . Mit χερὶ πράκτορι vgl. τύχη σωτήρ 669.
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βασιλεὺς als Appos. zu ὄρνις. Mit θούριος, βασιλεύς, mit der Verschiedenheit der Farben, mit χερὸς ἐκ δοριπάλτου u. s. w. werden die Momente aufgezählt, welche für die Deutung des Sehers mafsgebend sind.

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ὁ κελαινός steht attributiv τα βασιλεύς. Erst die Verschiedenheit der Farben bringt die Unterscheidung der zwei Adler hervor. So steht öfter οἳ δὲ ohne οἱ μὲν z. B. Pers. 816 οὐκ ἐλάσσονα πάσχουσι, τὰ δὲ μέλλουσι, wenn die Teilung gleichsam erst nachträglich einfällt. Ζα κελαινός vgl. Hom. Φ 252 αἰετοῦ οἴματ᾽ ἔχων μέλανος τοῦ θηρητῆρος, ὃς θ᾽ ἅμα κάρτιστός τε καὶ ὤκιστος πετεηνῶν. ἀργᾶς für ἀργάεις. Ἐξόπιν ἀργᾶς, ὁ ἐξοπίσω λευκός, ὅ ἐστιν ὁ πύγαργοςSchol. Vgl. Aristot. Tiergesch. IX c. 32, wo der μέλας oder λαγωφόνος als der stärkste, der πύγαργος als der gröfste bezeichnet wird.

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δοριπάλτου, δεξιᾶς. So ἐπὶ, παρὰ, εἰς δόρυ, ἐκ δόρατος von der rechten, wie ἐπὶ, παρ᾽ ἀσπίδα, ἐξ ἀσπίδος von der linken, der „Degenseite". Vgl. Hom. Β 353 ἀστράπτων ἐπιδέξι᾽, ἐναίσιμα σήματα φαίνων.

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D. i. auf weithin sichtbarem Felsen. Vgl. Prien im N. Rhein. Mus. VIII 378. (Hermann versteht darunter einen glückverheifsenden Bezirk des Himmels nach Eur. Herc. 596 ὄρνιν δ᾽ ἰδών τιν᾿ οὐκ ἐν αἰσίοις ἕδραις.)

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β. λαγίναν γένναν, ἐρικύμονα φέρματα, ausweidend ein Hasengeschlecht, hochschwangere Tracht (d. i. die Tracht der hochschwangeren Häsin).
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βλαβέντα bezieht sich auf ἐρ. φέρματα als die nähere Bezeichnung der Sache. λοισθίων δρόμων 8. ν. 8. τέλους, von der Rennbahn (Hom. Ψ 373 ἀλλ᾿ ὅτε δὴ πύματον τέλεον δρόμον ὠκέες ἵπποι) entlehnt (,,gebracht um die Vollendung d. i. die Geburt"). Der Gen. wie Hom. a 195 τόν γε θεοὶ βλάπτουσι κελεύθου.

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Dieser zweimal (145, 169) wiederholten Aufforderung des Chorführers muſs der Chor jedesmal mit einem ähnlichen und deshalb ausgefallenen ἐπίφθεγμα, etwa (wie Keck vermutet) mit αἴλινον αἴλινον αὖτε, τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω entsprochen haben. αἴλινον αἴλινον, der Ruf schmerzlicher Klage. Vgl. Soph. Ai. 627 αἴλινον αἴλινον οὐδ᾽ οἰκτρᾶς γόον ὄρνιθος ἀηδοῦς ἥσει δύσμορος, ἀλλ᾽ ὀξυτόνους μὲν ᾠδὰς θρηνήσει κτέ., Eur. Or. 1395 αἴλινον αἴλινον ἀρχὰν ἰαλέμου βάρβαροι λέγουσιν. Ζα τὸ δ᾽ εὖ (id quod felix faustumque est) vgl. 361. An den Ausdruck der Besorgnis wird ein allgemeiner Segenswunsch geknüpft.
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στρατόμαντις, vgl. πυθόμαντις Cho. 1028 , Soph. Oed. T. 965. Daneben ἰατρόμαντις ( Ag. 1623 , Eum. 62 ), οἰωνόμαντις, ὀνειρόμαντις, ἀληθόμαντις, ὀρθόμαντις, κακόμαντις, ἀριστόμαντις. – λήμασι δισσούς (diversos, vgl. διπλοῦς 337 und δισσῶν ὀνείρων Soph. Εl. 645): die Verschiedenheit des Charakters ist für den Seher das Wahrzeichen, an dem er in den verschiedenfarbigen und verschieden gearteten Adlern die Atriden erkennt.

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μαχίμους mit Bezug auf den θούριος ὄρνις 114.

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πομποὺς ἀρχᾶς wie πέμπει δίθρονον κράτος 113. Weil das Zeichen mit dem Auszug der Befehlshaber zusammentrifft, deutet Kalchas das Zeichen auf diese. Zu ἀρχᾶς vgl. Suppl. 494 κατ᾿ ἀρχῆς γὰρ φιλαίτιος λεώς.

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μὲν: der vorschwebende Gegensatz wird 136 in anderer Weise gegeben. ἀγρεῖ, αἱρεὶ, das Präsens mit der Bedeutung „es ist bestimmt, daſs erobert". Vgl. Prom. 529 ὧδε δεσμὰ φυγγάνω (praesens propheticum), 793 ἡ πρὸς δάμαρτος ἐξανίσταται θρόνων; Eum. 176 οὗ ποτ᾽ ἐλευθεροῦται, Soph. Phil. 113 αἱρεῖ τὰ τόξα ταῦτα τὴν Τροίαν μόνα, Pind. Ol. VIII 42 Πέργαμος ἀμφὶ τεαῖς, ἥρως, χερὸς ἐργασίαις ἁλίσκεται, Herod. III 155 ἤδη ὧν, ἣν μὴ τῶν σῶν δεήσῃ, αἱρέομεν Βαβυλῶνα.

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Dies schliefst der Seher aus dem Ausweiden der Häsin. μυριοπληθῆ, vgl. Eur. Iph. A. 571 κόσμος ὁ μυριοπληθής, Hom. I 401 οὐδ᾽ ὅσα φασὶν Ἴλιον ἐκτῆσθαι, ἐὐ ναιόμενον πτολίεθρου Τὸ πρὶν ἐπ᾿ εἰρήνης, πρὶν ἐλθέμεν υἷας Ἀχαιῶν.

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πρὸς τὸ βίαιον: τα 393.

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οἷον μή, Schol. μόνον μή (,,dafs nur nicht, wenn nur nicht"). μὴ mit Konjunktiv zum Ausdruck einer Besorgnis wie 353. Vgl. Kr. I 54, 8, 13.

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προτυπὲν, vorher getroffen wie vom Blitze, so daſs es schwarz wird (darauf bezieht sich κνεφάση). Die Missgunst der Gottheit fährt vorher darein durch die Forderung des Opfers der Iphigenie, dessen Leistung dem Heere einen Makel bringt.

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στρατωθέν, kein Halfter gewöhnlicher Art, sondern aus einem Heere gemacht, vgl. στρατιῶτιν ἀρωγήν 47 und zu 82, auch 447 πυρωθὲν ψῆγμα. – ἁγνή und darum eine Feindin solchen Greuels.

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κυσὶ wie Prom. 1054 Διὸς .. πτηνὸς κύων, δαφοινὸς αἰετός als Diener des Zeus. Apoll. Rh. Arg. ΙΙ 289 μεγάλοιο Διὸς κύνας von den Harpyien. Artemis zürnt den Adlern, also auch den Atriden, welche, wie die Adler die Häsin, so die Stadt Troja ausleeren werden (vgl. 354, 467 f.), und fordert von ihnen, um die Greuel der Verwüstung zu hindern, ein Opfer das nicht geleistet werden darf und nach dem Willen der Artemis nicht geleistet werden soll ( θυσίαν ἄδαιτον 158).
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αὐτότοκον, αὐτῷ τόκῳ, samt der Leibesfrucht, wie αὐτόχθονον 541 für αὐτῇ χθονί, αὐτόπρεμνον Eum. 404 für αὐτῷ πρέμνῳ.

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εὔφρων scil. ούσα. (Vok.), vgl. Eur. Hipp. 66 ὦ κόρα Λατοῦς Αρτεμι καὶ Διός, καλλίστα πολὺ παρθένων. In Arkadien hatte auf einem Hügel des Mänalischen Gebirges " Αρτεμις Καλλίστη einen Tempel (Paus. VIII 35, 8) und der alte Sänger Pamphos feierte in einem Hymnus Artemis unter dem Namen Καλλίστη. Vielleicht hat es ursprünglich τόσον περ ευφρον ὦ καλὰ Διὸς κόρα geheifsen.

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δρόσοι wie ἕρσαι bei Homer (1 222) von neugeborenen Lämmern. – ἄλπνος, ἡδύς. Das Wort findet sich noch Pind. Pyth. VIII 120 τοῖς οὔτε νόστος ὁμῶς ἐπ᾿ ἄλπνος ἐν Πυθιάδι κρίθη, der Superlativ ἄλπνιστος ist Pind. Isthm. IV 14 erhalten und Aesch. Pers. 985 wiederhergestellt. Das zarte Wild steht unter dem Schutze der Jagdgöttin Artemis, die einen guten Wildstand fördert. Als λοχεία wacht sie über die Einhaltung der Schonzeit.
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Lafs trotz deiner zärtlichen Fürsorge für das junge Wild die Wahrzeichen, die hievon erfreulich sind, in Erfüllung gehen, nämlich die günstigen, die ungünstigen Erscheinungen aber mache gut. Der absol. Inf. κρᾶναι ἀνορθοῦν im Gebete wie bei Homer. Vgl. Cho. 306 , Sept. 239 θεοὶ πολῖται, μή με δουλείας τυχεῖν, ebd. 75 und zu Cho. 365 . Zum Gedanken (das Gute erfülle, das Schlimme stelle her) vgl. Pers. 220 εἴ τι φλαῦρον εἶδες, αὐτοῦ τῶνδ᾽ ἀποτροπὴν τελεῖν, τὰ δ᾽ ἀγάθ᾽ ἐκτελῆ γενέσθαι κτέ., Soph. Εl. 644 ἃ γὰρ προσεῖδον νυκτὶ τῇδε φάσματα δισσῶν ὀνείρων, ταῦτά μοι .. εἰ μὲν πέφηνεν ἐσθλά, δὸς τελεσφόρα, εἰ δ᾽ ἐχθρά, τοῖς ἐχθροῖσιν ἔμπαλιν μέθες.

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ἰήιον Παιᾶνα: vgl. Soph. Oed. Τ. 154 ἰήτε Δάλιε Παιάν. Wie εὔιος dem Rufe εὐοῖ, so entspricht ἰήιος der Anrufung ἰὴ ἰὴ ( παιῆον).

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χρονίας ἐχενηΐδας αὔρας d.i. χρονίαν ἄπλοιαν.

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σπευδομένα, für sich betreibend. Das Medium kommt in transitivem Sinne sonst nicht vor ( Eum. 361 ist das überlieferte σπευδόμεναι δ᾽ τη σπεύδομεν αΐδ᾽ ver ἑτέραν θυσίαν, ein anbessert). deres Schlachtopfer (die Opferung der Iphigenie) für die Vertilgung ( θυομένοισιν 143) der Hasen. θυσίαν ἄδαιτον wie θυσίαν ἄθυτον. Mit ἄνομον ἄδαιτον vgl. ἄναγνον ἀνίερον 230, ἀτίμους ἀλοιδόρους 421, ἄμαχον ἀπόλεμον ἀνίερον 763, ἀκέλευστος ἄμισθος 969.
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νεικέων τέκτονα σύμφυτον, Stifter von Hader unter den Angehörigen, vgl. Soph. Ant. 794 νεῖκος οὐ δεισήνορα: ἀνδρῶν ξύναιμον. der durch die Opferung der Iphigenie erzeugte Stifter des Haders geht so weit, dafs er sich am Manne vergreift, weil dieser Hader zum Gattenmorde treibt.
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μίμνει οἰκονόμος: während der Mann in den Krieg zieht, bleibt die Gattin als treue (611) Besorgerin des Hauswesens ( οἰκουρός, vgl. 1224) zurück, um alles für die Rückkehr des Gemahls wohl zu bestellen. Hier bleibt die Rachsucht (memor ira Verg. Aen. I 4) zurück nicht als πιστή, sondern als δολία οἰκονόμος und bereitet alles vor, um Buſse für die Kinder (Tochter) zu fordern. δνοφερὰ παλίνορτος, in der Dunkelheit schleichend, aber aus der Dunkelheit wieder hervorbrechend.
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ἀπέκλαγξεν wie μάντις ἔκλαγξεν 211.

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ὁμόφωνον prädikativ zu a ἴλινον.

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Im dritten Teile der Parodos wird die Besorgnis des Kalchas durch eine Art Syllogismus begründet: Der machtvoll waltende Gott hat das Gebot festgesetzt: ,,wer nicht hören will, muſs fühlen" ( πάθει μάθος), „wer frevelt, muſs büfsen" (170-193). Nun aber hat Agamemnon, den Eingebungen seines Ehrgeizes folgend, gefrevelt (194-258). Also muſs er büfsen und die schlimme Weissagung des Kalchas wird sich erfüllen (259 bis 266). Vgl. Soph. Ant. 604 ff. - Ζεύς wird durch τόδε wieder aufgenommen, wie μηκέτ᾽ ἐσέλθῃς 1333 durch τάδε, u. τόδε ist Nom. (,,wenn dieser Name ihm, damit benannt, gefällig ist"). Den Brauch bei Gebeten an die Götter εὔχεσθαι οἵτινές τε καὶ ὁπόθεν χαίρουσιν ὀνομαζόμενοι (Plat. Krat. p. 400 E, vgl. Serv. zu Verg. Aen. IV 577 pontificum more qui sic precantur: Iuppiter omnipotens vel quo alio nomine appellari volueris) befolgend löst der Dichter die Idee der Gottheit von der Zufälligkeit des Namens und den mit dem Namen verknüpften, mit der höheren Vorstellung göttlichen Wesens aber unvereinbaren Mythen ab.

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προσεικάσαι, αὐτῷ: mit Zeus kann ich nur Zeus vergleichen, ihm kommt niemand gleich.

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. τὸ μάταν φροντίδος ἄχθος ἀποβαλεῖν ( ἀποσείσασθαι Schol.), die nichtige Last des Grübelns d. i. die Last unnützen Grübelns abschütteln. Wer sich nicht unnütz mit Zweifeln quälen will, mufs kurzweg und ergeben ( προφρόνως 183) Zeus als höchsten Herrscher anerkennen. Ähnliche Gedanken Eur. Bakch. 424 ff., 893 κούφα γὰρ δαπάνα νομίζειν ἰσχὺν τόδ᾽ ἔχειν, ὅ τι ποτ᾽ ἄρα τὸ δαιμόνιον, το τ ἐν χρόνῳ μακρῷ νόμιμον φύσει τε πεφυκός, Hipp. 1111 ff.

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οὐδὲ knüpft an den Gedanken,, Zeus ist der höchste" an. ὅστις allgemein und unbestimmt, da es nachher heifst οὐδὲ λέξεται πρὶν ὧν (von seinem Dasein wird nicht einmal mehr die Rede sein). Der Dichter deutet damit wohl an, dafs der Mythus von Uranos ziemlich verblafst und verschollen war. Von dem Sturze des Uranos und Kronos ist auch Prom. 989 οὐκ ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ (von der Burg des Himmels) ἐγὼ δισσοὺς τυράννους ἐκπεσόντας ἠσθόμην die Rede. Der Schol. setzt für Uranos den Typhos und die Titanen. Zu ὤν vgl. οὖσαν 281. παμμάχῳ θράσει βρύων wegen der rohen Vernichtung seiner Kinder (Hes. Theog. 157). πάμμαχος von roher und rücksichtsloser Streitlust (,, Kampfhahn "). Vgl. Prom. 223 καρτεροῖς φρονήμασιν ὤοντ᾽ ἀμοχθὶ πρὸς βίαν τε δεσπόσειν (nämlich Τιτᾶνες, Οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ Χθονὸς τέκνα).
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τριακτήρ (Sieger) ist hergenommen vom Ringkampfe, in welchem man Sieger war, wenn man den Gegner dreimal niederwarf ( τριάζειν, ἀποτριάζειν). Vgl. Cho. 338 , Eum. 592 u. Suid. τριαχθῆναι λέγουσιν οἱ παλαιστρικοὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ τρὶς πεσεῖν, Poll. III 30 ἐπὶ πεντάθλου τὸ νικῆσαι ἀποτριάξαι λέγουσιν.

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Ζῆνα ἐπινίκια κλάζειν (Zeus Siegesjubel entgegenjauchzen) wie λέγειν τί τινα.

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ὁλοσχερῶς φρόνιμος ἔσται Schol. Das adverbiale τὸ πᾶν (prorsus, omnino) liebt Äschylos (437, 982, 1167, Cho. 330 , Eum. 163 u. a.).

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Der grammatische Anschluſs an die vorhergehende Strophe ist ähnlich wie 67.

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πάθει μάθος: vgl. Hom. P32 ῥεχθὲν δέ τε νήπιος ἔγνω, Hes. W. υ. Τ. 218 παθὼν δὲ τε νήπιος ἔγνω, Herod. 1 207 τὰ δέ μοι παθήματα ἐόντα ἀχάριτα μαθήματα ἐγεγόνεε, Plat. Symp. p. 222 Β μὴ κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν, ὥσπερ νήπιον, παθόντα γνωναι. So

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Es wird ausgeführt, wie Zeus dem Spruche, Lehre durch Leid" Geltung verschafft. ,, Im Schlafe bedrückt wie ein Alp das Herz die aus der Erinnerung an böse That hervorgehende Angst." wird im Anfang der Choephoren (33 ff.) erwähnt, wie Klyt. von schlimmen Träumen gequält aufgeschrieen habe. Vgl. ebd. 521 ff. (Hermann erklärt μνησιπήμων πόvos als die Angst, durch welche die Erinnerung an böse Thaten oder der Gedanke an Strafe geweckt wird).
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ἄκοντας enthält den Hauptgedanken: „sie mögen wollen oder nicht, sie müssen Vernunft lernen." Vgl. Eum. 524 ξυμφέρει σωφρονεῖν ὑπὸ στένει. ἦλθε ist gnom. Aor.

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Der Fragesatz steht statt eines verneinenden Satzes: ,,und nirgends zeigt sich Gnade der Götter, die mit Gewalt das Steuerruder lenken." σέλμα: ὑψίζυγος (nach Hom. H 69) γὰρ ὁ Ζεύς Schol. Mit σέλμα ἡμένων vgl. Eum. 3 τὸ μαντεῖον ἕζετο, Pers. 143 τόδ᾽ ἐνεζόμενοι στέγος, Prom. 405 θακοῦντι παγκρατεῖς ἕδρας. Krüger II § 46, 6, 2.

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καὶ schliefst die ganze folgende Ausführung, den speziellen Fall an den allgemeinen Satz an (auch bei Agamemnon wird sich das bestätigen). - τότε weist zurück auf das Adlerzeichen und die daran geknüpfte Weissagung des Kalchas. Darauf bezieht sich auch μάντιν – συμπνέων. Der Gedanke ist: „und während damals der Heerfürst keinen Seher tadelte und sich in die (geweissagten) Schicksalsschläge ergab, wurde er, als Windstille eintrat u. gar der Seher die Forderung der Artemis, die Tochter zu opfern, verkündete, von Unwillen übermannt und sprach." Weil aber statt einer participialen Wendung, wie etwa μέγ᾽ ὀχθήσας, der Konsekutivsatz ὥστε κατασχεῖν (212) eintritt, wird im Gegensatz zu ᾿Ατρείδας das Subjekt mit ἄναξ ὁ πρέσβυς und der durch diesen Gegensatz geforderten Partikel δὲ 215 wiederholt.

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οὔτινα wie 1084 οὔτινας. ψέγων: jetzt wäre die Entrüstung am Platze gewesen, mit welcher er den Seher anliefs, als es sich um die Rückgabe der Chryseis handelte: μάντι κακῶν, οὐ πώ ποτέ μοι τὸ κρήγυον εἶπας Hom. A 106.

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ἐμπαίοις, ἐμπαισάσαις Schol., wie Wellen über das Schiff hereinschlagen. Vgl. Eur. Hek. 116 συνέπαισε κλύδων und unten 359 πρόσπαια.

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κεναγγεῖ: vgl. Hom. μ 329 νηῶν ἐξέφθιτο ἤτα πάντα.

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( ἐ) βαρύνοντο λεώς wie 582 ἑλόντες στόλος ἐπασσάλευσαν.

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πέραν steht hier als Akk. von πέρα (das jenseits gelegene Land) abhängig von ἔχων. Vgl. Suppl. 268 ἐκ πέρας Ναυπακτίας. παλιρρόχθοις: Anthol. ΙΧ 73 Εύβοικοῦ κόλποιο παλινδίνητε θάλασσα, πλαγκτὸν ὕδωρ, ἰδίοις ῥεύμασιν ἀντίπαλον κτέ., Liv. 28, 6 fretum Euripi non septies die, sicut fama fert, temporibus statis reciprocat, sed temere in modum venti nunc huc nunc illuc verso mari sicut monte praecipiti devolutus torrens rapitur, daher Soph. Ant. 1145 στονόεντα πορθμόν.

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ἀπὸ Στρυμόνος: der ἄνεμος Στρυμονίης, wie bei Herod. VIII 118 der aus dem Norden wehende und für Schiffe auf dem Ägäischen Meere gefährliche Sturm heifst. Vgl. auch Demosth. IV § 31 Φίλιππος φυλάξας τοὺς ἐτησίας ἢ τὸν χειμῶνα ἐπιχειρεῖ, ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν ἡμεῖς μὴ δυναίμεθα ἐκεῖσε ἀφικέσθαι.
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κακόσχολοι: ἐπὶ κακῶ ποιοῦσαι σχολάζειν Schol. νήστιδες von den Menschen, auf welche die ἄπλοια κεναγγής ihre Wirkung übt, übertragen. Vgl. νῆστις λιμός Cho. 249 . – δύσορμοι: die Schiffe werden auf der Reede hin- und hergestofsen.

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Irrsal für die Menschen, weil der fortdauernde Wind Befangenheit des Kopfes erzeugt.

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Hom. B 135 καὶ δὴ δοῦρα σέσηπε νεῶν καὶ σπάρτα λέλυνται.
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τρίβω: διατριβῇ Schol. ἄνθος ᾿Αργείων wie Pers. 255 τὸ Περσῶν ἄνθος.

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ἄλλο mit Bezug auf βριθύτερον ( πικρότερον).

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προφέρων (hinweisend auf) " Αρτεμιν deutet die Sache nur von ferne an. -

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τόδε wie 418. εἶπε φωνῶν nach epischer Weise ( φωνήσας προσηύδα, ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη) wie ἔφη λέγων Soph. Αi. 757, ἔφασκε λέγων Aristoph. Vö. 472.

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Vgl. Eur. Iph. A. 1257 δεινῶς δ᾽ ἔχει μοι ταῦτα τολμῆσαι, γύναι, δεινῶς δὲ καὶ μὴ κτἑ.

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Vgl. Cho. 337 τί τῶνδ᾽ εὖ, τί δ᾽ ἄτερ κακῶν; vor

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Um sein Gewissen zu beruhigen, stellt sich Agamemnon mit der Sophistik der Leidenschaft die unehrenhafte Handlung eines λιπόναυς (desertor classis) Augen. Vor allem aber fürchtet er, seine Bundesgenossen zu verlieren, d. h. den Oberbefehl einzubüfsen. Das letztere wird begründet durch παυσανέμου γὰρ κτέ.
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Vgl. Verg. Aen. II 116 sanguine placastis ventos et virgine caesa.

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ὀργᾶν s. v. α. ἐπιτεταμένως ἐπιθυμεῖν (Hesych. Phot. Suid. Et. M.). Der übertreibende Ausdruck ὀργᾶν περιοργώς kommt der Sophistik der Leidenschaft zu. Die Worte στόλον ἀνδρῶν sind dem Sinn entsprechend ergänzt. Vgl. Anhang.
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So möge es denn sein zum Heile. γὰρ wie in εἰ γάρ. Vgl. Eur. Kykl. 261 ἐγώ; κακῶς γὰρ ἐξόλοιο.

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ἔδυ, weil λέπαδνον eigentlich der Zuggurt um die Brust der Pferde ist, an welchem das Joch befestigt wird.

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τροπαίαν scil. πνοήν, welches sich aus πνέων ergänzt. Vgl. ζεύξω βαρείαις ( ζεύγλαις) 1640. τροπαίαν auch Cho. 771 , Schol. μετατροπήν.
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τόθεν, inde. τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν, so daſs sein Sinn aller Scheu sich entledigte und vor dem gröfsten Greuel nicht zurückbebte. -

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Ist einmal in der leidenschaftlichen Verrücktheit der Anfang der geistigen Schädigung ( πῆμα, ἄτη) gegeben ( παρακοπὴ πρωτοπήμων, vgl. 1191), so wird daraus verwegener und rücksichtsloser Frevelmut. Vgl. 396 τάλαινα πειθώ, προβούλου παῖς ἄφερτος ἄτας.

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ἔτλα δ᾽ οὖν κτἑ. geht nach der begründenden Bemerkung zurück auf den Hauptgedanken.
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γυναικοποίνων (nicht wert solchen Preises!) ναῶν steht als Apposition zum Inhalt des Satzes und bezeichnet das Ergebnis der Handlung. Vgl. μιασμάτων ἄποινα 1420, χώρας μίασμα 1645. τέλεια ναῶν, Vorweihe für die Schiffe d. i. Opfer, welches dem Auslaufen der Schiffe vorhergeht und dieses erwirkt. Eur. Iph. A. 433 Αρτέμιδι προτελίζουσι τὴν νεάνιδα. προ-
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κληδόνας πατρώους, die Rufe Vater! Vater!

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αἰῶ für αἰῶνα wie Cho. 349 , vgl. Bekk. Anecd. I 363 αἰῶ τὸν αἰῶνα κατὰ ἀποκοπὴν Αἰσχύλος εἶπεν. τὸ wie Sept. 386 λόφοι δὲ κώδων τ᾽ οὐ δάκνουσ᾽ ἄνευ δορός.
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Durch das Epitheton φιλόμαχοι wird der Ehrgeiz als Grund des Frevelmuts hervorgehoben. Vgl. Hor. sat. II 3, 222 quem cepit vitrea fama, Hunc circumtonuit gaudens Bellona cruentis.

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ἀόζοις, διακόνοις. Hesych. ἀοζήσω· διακονήσω. Αἰσχύλος Ἐλευσινίαις.

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Lucret. I 95 nam sublata virum manibus tremibundaque ad aras deductast, non ut sollemni more sacrorum perfecto posset claro comitari Hymenaeo, sed casta inceste, nubendi tempore in ipso, hostia concideret mactatu maesta parentis, exitus ut classi felix faustusque daretur.

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πέπλοισι περιπετῆ d. i. so dafs das Gewand um sie von Nacken und Brust beim Hochheben herabgleite (249). Vgl. Soph. Ai. 907 ἔγχος περιπετές (Schol. ᾧ περιέπεσεν). παντὶ θυμῷ, mit vollem Mute, mit Entschlossenheit.

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προνωπῆ, Schol. προνενευκυῖαν, über den Altar vorwärts geneigt, damit sie dem Opferschlächter den Nacken biete. Vgl. Eur. El. 1022 ὑπερτείνας πυρᾶς λευκὴν διήμησ' Ιφιγόνης παρηίδα. Der Dichter beschreibt, als wolle er dem Maler die Hand führen (vgl. über das Bild des Timanthes Plin. N. H. 35, 10 und das bekannte pompejanische Wandgemälde Mus. Borb. IV 3 oder Baumeister, Denkmäler d. kl. Alt. I S. 755) oder als habe er eine bildliche Darstellung vor Augen. Vgl. 253.

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στόματος ist abhängig von φθόγγον und φυλακὰν κατασχεῖν ( κατέχειν für ἔχειν mit Rücksicht auf das gewaltsame Mittel 248) regiert den Akk. φθόγγον οἴκοις ἀραῖον wie φυλάττεσθαι. Vgl. Sept. 277 μέριμναι ζωπυροῦσι τάρβος τὸν ἀμφιτειχῆ λεών. καλλίπρωρος, καλλιπρόσωπος nach dem Schol. zu Sept. 520 βλάστημα καλλίπρωρον, ἀνδρόπαις ἀνήρ. Hier steht πρώρα als synonym mit στόμα nach der Redeweise, wie sie in κακόποτμοι τύχαι 1130 (Eur. Hipp. 669 κακοτυχεῖς πότμοι), γυναικοβούλους μήτιδας Cho. 624 , ἐλευθεροστόμου γλώσσης Suppl. 959 , γέννα πεντηκοντάπαις . . θηλύσπορος Prom. 881 , τηλέπλανοι πλάναι ebd. 599, πλῆθος τοσουτάριθμον Pers. 435 , βίοτον εὐαίωνα ebd. 713, εὐάμερον φάος Soph. Ai. 709 hervortritt und besonders von Euripides geliebt wird (zu Med. 200).
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Mit besonderem Nachdruck wird das rohe und grausame Mittel nachträglich an der Spitze der neuen Strophe gebracht. Vgl. 186, 67. χαλινοί vom Mundknebel. Vgl. Schol. zu Aristoph. Ri. 1147 Αἰσχύλος ἐν Λυκούργῳ ἀλληγορικῶς τοὺς δεσμοὺς κημοὺς εἴρηκε διὰ τούτων „ καὶ τούσδε κημοὺς στόματος“. ἀναύδῳ nicht eigentlich „stumm machend", sondern,,sprachlos", nur poetisch übertragen. Vgl. ἔσχον ὀργὰν ἄναυδον Soph. Εl. 1283, λειχὴν ἄφυλλος Eum. 788 , ἄκαρπος νόσος ebd. 944, inaequales procellae Hor. carm. II 9, 3, securo mero Tibull. II 11, 46.

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κρόκου βαφάς von dem Safrangewande, welches Iphigenie als Königstochter trägt wie Antigone Eur. Phoen. 1491 στολίδα κροκόεσσαν. Welcker, Asch. Tril. S. 410. Ζυ χέουσα vgl. Hom. E 734 πέπλον μὲν κατέχευεν ἑανὸν πατρὸς ἐπ᾿ οὔδει. .. τε

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βέλος νvon dem Blicke der jemand trifft wie 741. Suppl. 1014 καὶ παρθένων χλιδαῖσιν εὐμόρφοις ἔπι Πᾶς τις παρελθὼν ὄμματος θελκτήριον Τόξευμ᾽ ἔπεμψεν, ἱμέρου νικώμενος. φιλοίκτῳ wie vorher ἀναύδῳ (der Blick fleht um Mitleid). Eur. Phoen. 1440 φωνὴν μὲν οὐκ ἀφῆκεν, ὀμμάτων δ᾽ ἄπο προσεἶπε δακρύοις. πρέπουσά schliefst sich an κρόκου χέουσα an, weil durch das Fallen des Gewandes die bildschöne Gestalt sichtbar wurde. Eur. Hek. 558 λαβοῦσα πέπλους ἐξ ἄκρας ἐπωμίδος ἔρρηξε λαγόνος εἰς μέσον παρ᾽ ὀμφαλόν, μαστούς τ᾽ ἔδειξε στέρνα θ᾽ ὡς ἀγάλματος κάλλιστα, Plat. Charm. ΙΙΙ p. 154 C πάντες, ὥσπερ ἄγαλμα, ἐθεῶντο αὐτόν. Dazu tritt προσεννέπειν θέλουσα: sie redet die Sprache des stummen Bildes und erinnert die Opferer: „habe ich nicht oft vor euch gesungen und durch heilige Lieder Segen über euch herabgefleht?"
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ἁγνᾷ αὐδᾷ, vgl. Suppl. 704 ἁγνῶν ἐκ στομάτων. – ἀταύρωτος, Schol. ἄζευκτος, παρθενική. Vgl. Aristoph. Lys. 217 οἴκοι δ᾽ ἀταυρώτη διάξω τὸν βίον.

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Die Tochter des Hauses sang zur dritten Spende, welche dem Ζεὺς σωτήρ gebracht wurde (vgl. 1386, Suppl. 26 Ζεὺς σωτήρ τρίτος, Soph. frg. 375 Διὸς Σωτη- - ρίου σπονδὴ τρίτου κρατῆρος) den Päan, der von dem rettenden Zeus Heil und Segen für den Vater ( εὔποτμον) erflehte. ἐτίμα νοη dem Feiergesange wie 708 μέλος τίοντας. Vgl. Xen. Symp. II 1 ὡς δ᾽ ἀφηρέθησαν αἱ τράπεζαι καὶ ἔσπεισαν καὶ ἐπαιάνισαν κτέ., Pherekrates fr. 131, 5 Κ. ἔρχει κἀπιβόα τρίτον παιῶν, ὡς νόμος ἐστίν. Die erste Spende galt dem olympischen Zeus und der Hera oder den olympischen Göttern überhaupt, die zweite den Heroen. Schol. zu Pind. Isthm. VI 10 (Aesch. frg. 52 D.), Schol. zu Plat. Phileb. p. 95 A, Poll. VI 15. "

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Was weiter geschah, sah ich nicht und sag' ich nicht." Damit wird der Greuel der Schlachtung besonders scharf hervorgehoben. Zugleich vermeidet der Dichter an die Wendung der Sage, nach welcher Iphigenie nicht wirklich geschlachtet wurde u. welche den Zwecken des Dichters nicht entsprach, zu erinnern.

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Nur das Eine sage ich, dafs die schlimme Weissagung ( τέχναι wie 1126) des Kalchas, wie sie sich teilweise in der θυσία ἑτέρα (157) erfüllt hat, sich vollständig in weiterem Unheil des Agamemnon erfüllen muſs, weil die göttliche Gerechtigkeit Lehre durch Leid verhängt. Vgl. zu 170. Δὲ wie in Prosa ἀλλά nach τὰ μὲν ἄλλα σιωπώ.

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τοῖς μὲν (allgemein) ἐπιρρέπει (transitiv wie Eum. 889 , hergenommen von der Wage, vgl. Theogn. 157 Ζεὺς γάρ τοι τὸ τάλαντον ἐπιρρέπει ἄλλοτε ἄλλως) μαθεῖν παθοῦσιν ( πάθει).

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Das Schlimme hört man immer noch bald genug, wenn es geschehen ist; vorher weg damit. Vorher hören heifst vorher bejammern. γένοιτο, Assimilation der Modi. πρό 8. ν. α. τὸ δὲ προκλύειν. Vgl. Eur. Alk. 526 &, μὴ πρόκλαι᾿ ἄκοιτιν· εἰς τόδ᾽ ἀμβαλοῦ, Cic. Tusc. III 15, 32 stultam (censet Epicurus) esse meditationem futuri mali aut fortasse ne futuri quidem; satis esse odiosum omne malum cum venisset; qui autem semper cogitavisset accidere posse aliquid adversi, ei fieri illud sempiternum malum, Schiller in der Braut von Messina: „Zeit ist's, die Unfälle zu beweinen, Wenn sie nahen und wirklich erscheinen."

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Denn deutlich vernehmbar wird die Zukunft anbrechen mit den Strahlen des Frührots d. i. wie die aufgehende Sonne plötzlich die Dunkelheit erleuchtet, so wird die Erfüllung der Weissagung auf einmal deutliche Bestätigung bringen. Vgl. 1179. Zu ἥξει vgl. 1239 τὸ μέλλον ἥξει, Soph. Oed. T. 341 ἥξει γὰρ αὐτά, κἂν ἐγὼ σιγῇ στέγω.

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Das Auftreten der Klyt. bietet dem Chor Gelegenheit, seine düsteren Ahnungen mit einem Segenswunsche zu beschliefsen: „möge es nur gut stehen um das, was Klytämestren hierher führt." ἄγχιστον („ganz nahe"), weil der Chor die auftretende ankündigt. Vgl. 590. – ᾿Απίας γαίας von Argos. Vgl. Suppl. 266 αὐτῆς δὲ χώρας Απίας πέδον τόδε πάλαι κέκληται φωτὸς ἰατροῦ (nämlich Ἆπις) χάριν, Soph. Oed. Κ. 1303 γῆς ὅσοιπερ Ἀπίας πρῶτοι καλοῦνται. ἕρκος : bei Homer (A 284, 1299) ἕρκος πολέμοιο.