N. Wecklein Agamemnon 892.comm-892

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Wecklein’s commentary on Agamemnon (1888; German; OCR draft) (German) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 30–140; Iowa and Harvard OCR collated conservatively. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.)

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Editions (8)
Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 975-1033 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 975-1033 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 914 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 914 focus
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 914 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 914 focus
Λήδας γένεθλον, δωμάτων ἐμῶν φύλαξ,
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ἀπουσίᾳ μὲν εἶπας εἰκότως ἐμῇ·
μακρὰν γὰρ ἐξέτεινας· ἀλλ᾽ ἐναισίμως
αἰνεῖν, παρ᾽ ἄλλων χρὴ τόδ᾽ ἔρχεσθαι γέρας.
καὶ τἆλλα μὴ γυναικὸς ἐν τρόποις ἐμὲ
ἄβρυνε, μηδὲ βαρβάρου φωτὸς δίκην
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χαμαιπετὲς βόαμα προσχάνῃς ἐμοί,
μηδ' εἵμασι στρώσασ᾽ ἐπίφθονον πόρον
τίθει· θεούς τοι τοῖσδε τιμαλφεῖν χρεών,
ἐν ποικίλοις δὲ θνητὸν ὄντα κάλλεσιν
βαίνειν ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐδαμῶς ἄνευ φόβου.
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λέγω κατ᾽ ἄνδρα, μὴ θεόν, σέβειν ἐμέ.
χωρὶς ποδοψήστρων τε καὶ τῶν ποικίλων
κληδὼν ἀϋτεῖ· καὶ τὸ μὴ κακῶς φρονεῖν
θεοῦ μέγιστον δῶρον. ὀλβίσαι δὲ χρὴ
βίον τελευτήσαντ᾽ ἐν εὐεστοῖ φίλῃ.
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εἰ πάντα δ᾽ ὡς πράσσοιμ᾽ ἂν εὐθαρσὴς ἐγώ.
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 914 focus
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 914 focus
Translations (9)
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 975-1028 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 914 focus
Daughter of Leda, guardian of my dwelling, thou hast spoken suitably to my absence ; for thou hast eked out thy greeting to a great length: but to praise becomingly, this honour must come from others. And for the rest, pamper me not after the fashions of women, nor as though I were a barbaric monarch, gape-out to me an outcry of earth-prostrate [homage] : nor make my path obnoxious to the evil eye by strewing it with vestments. With these indeed it is fitting to honour the gods : but for one that is a mortal to walk on embroidered purple, is for me by no means free from dread ; I bid thee reverence me as a man, not a god. Without carpetings and gay fineries my fame speaks clearly forth; and to be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift. But we should call him happy that has ended his life in beloved prosperity 2
. And if I shall fare 3
thus in all things, I shall be of good confidence.
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 914 focus
du Destin.
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 914 focus
Daughter of Leda, guardian of my house,
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Thy words are correſpondent to my abſence,
Of no ſmall length.
With better grace my praiſe
Wou’d come from others: Sooth me not with ſtrains
Of adulation, as a girl;
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Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 914 focus
Figlia di Leda, della casa mia
custode, acconce son le tue parole:
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lunga l'assenza fu, lungo il tuo dire.
E l'elogio è tal dono, che dagli altri
solo venir ci può.
Ma, quanto al resto,
non mi trattare mollemente, a guisa
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di donna, né levar voce prostrata
al suol, come di barbaro, né fare
che la mia via, cosparsa di tappeti,
segno d' invidia sia.
Simili onori
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si prestino agli Dei.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 914 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 914 focus
So kommt es auch, daß unsres Eheglückes Pfand,
Orestes, nicht den Vater, wie er sollte, grüßt.
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Darüber mußt du dich nicht wundern. Strophios,
880 der Gastfreund unsres Hauses hält in Phokis ihn
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.) — 914 focus
Daughter of Leda, watcher o'er my home,
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Thy greeting well befits mine absence long,
For late and hardly has it reached its end.
Know, that the praise which honour bids us crave,
Must come from others' lips, not from our own:
See too that not in fashion feminine
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Thou make a warrior's pathway delicate;
Not unto me, as to some Eastern lord,
Bowing thyself to earth, make homage loud.
Strew not this purple that shall make each step
An arrogance; such pomp beseems the gods,
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Not me. A mortal man to set his foot
On these rich dyes? I hold such pride in fear,
And bid thee honour me as man, not god.
Fear not—such footcloths and all gauds apart,
Loud from the trump of Fame my name is blown:
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Best gift of heaven it is, in glory's hour,
To think thereon with soberness: and thou—
Bethink thee of the adage, Call none blest
Till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.
'Tis said 1 : I fain would fare unvexed by fear.
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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.) — 914 focus
O Tochter Leda's, meines Hauses Hüterin,
Weil ich so spät heimkehrte, sprachst du ziemend wohl,
Du spannest lange Reden; doch das ächte Lob,
Aus fremdem Munde komme nur ein solcher Lohn!
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Auch halte mich im Andern nicht nach Frauenart
Zu weichlich; nimmer gelle, wie Barbaren thun,
In Staub gesunken deinen Gruß herauf zu mir,
Und wecke meinem Wege nicht der Götter Neid
Mit deinem Purpur: Göttern nur ziemt solcher Preis!
880
Auf buntem Prachtgewebe wag' ich nimmermehr
Einherzuschreiten ohne Furcht, ein Sterblicher.
Als Menschen, sag' ich, ehre mich, nicht Göttern gleich!
Auch ohne Purpurdecken und getünchte Pracht
Schallt laut der Nachruhm, und ein arglos weiser Sinn
885
Ist höchste Gottesgabe. Selig preist den Mann,
Der still in wonnereichem Glück sein Leben schloß!
Wenn Alles so mir glückte, wär' ich wohlgemuth.

Notes on the current edition

Agamemnon

1. Harvard has additional OCR text here; see collation record. Possible omission or layout disagreement remains unresolved.

Commentary

Wecklein’s commentary on Agamemnon (1888; German; OCR draft) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 30–140; Iowa and Harvard OCR collated conservatively. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.) focus

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drittes Epeisodion. 6* Der siegreiche Agamemnon erscheint auf einem Wagen. Zur Seite sitzt ihm Kasandra, als Seherin gekennzeichuet durch weifses Gewand, den χιτών ὀρθοστάδιος (Poll. IV 18, 119), über dem sie ein Netz von Wollenfäden ἄγρηνον (Poll. IV 18, 116, Hesych. u. d. W.) trägt (1269), dann durch Scepter und den mit Wolle umwickelten Lorbeerkranz, der um den Hals auf die Brust herabhängt (1264, Hom. A 15 und Schol. zu Aristoph. Plut. 39, vgl. Wieseler Zeitschr. f. d. Altertumsw. 1848 S. 108 f.). Über Purpurteppiche, die Klytämestra hinbreiten läfst, schreitet Agamemnon später in den Palast. So wird der tragische Eindruck durch den Kontrast des Glanzes und Glückes gesteigert. Die Anapäste recitiert der Chorführer.

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,,Dem durstgequälten Wandrer frischen Sprudelquell" (Keck). Vgl. Catull 68, 58 rivos muscoso prosilit e lapide lasso in sudore levamen. dulce viatori
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