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Erlauchte Väter unsrer Stadt, ich will die Scheu

bezwingen und, ihr würd'gen Herrn, vor euch gesteh'n,

wie Lieb' und Sehnsucht nach dem Gatten mich be-

herrscht.

890

Denn Zeit bricht alle Rücksicht, und so sprech'

ich's aus,

wie schwer das Leben diese lange Zeit, da er

860 vor Ilios verweilte, mir geworden ist.

Schon gar so lange von dem Manne fern zu Haus
895

862 einsam zu sitzen wird der Frau zu schlimmer Qual.

Und dann die Unheilsboten —

ist der eine da,

865 bringt gleich der andre noch viel schlimm're Kunde

nach.
900

Und wenn die Wunden alle, welche das Gerücht

uns zu beschreiben wußte, wirklich unser Herr

empfangen hätte, müßte jetzt mehr Löcher als

ein Netz sein Körper zeigen, und wenn er so oft

gestorben wär' als tot gesagt, er könnte traun
905

870 dreileibig wie Geryones gewesen sein,

872 und würd' in jeglicher Gestalt doch einmal tot

längst unter'm Rasen liegen, seines Anspruchs quitt

auf dreimal sechs Schuh Erde.

Zur Verzweiflung trieb
910

mich oft mit ewig neuen Schrecken das Gerücht.

875 Und oftmals mußten fremde Hände meinen Hals,

den schon die Schlinge schnürte, mit Gewalt befrei'n.

Sie wendet sich zum Wagen.

Klytaimestra.

Agamemnon. Aeschylus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Translator). Berlin. 1919–1923.

Current edition Experimental

Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) (German) (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)

Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 975-1033 focus

str. 1

Χορός

τίπτε μοι τόδ᾽ ἐμπέδως
975

δεῖμα¹ προστατήριον

καρδίας τερασκόπου ποτᾶται,

μαντιπολεῖ δ᾽ ἀκέλευστος ἄμισθος ἀοιδά,

οὐδ᾽ ἀποπτύσαι² δίκαν
980

δυσκρίτων ὀνειράτων

θάρσος εὐπειθὲς ἵζει³

φρενὸς φίλον θρόνον; χρόνος δ᾽ ἐπὶ⁴

πρυμνησίων ξυνεμβολαῖς⁵

ψαμμίας ἀκάτας⁶ παρή-
985

βησεν, εὖθ᾽ ὑπ᾽ Ἴλιον

ὦρτο ναυβάτας στρατός.

ant. 1

988

Χορός

πεύθομαι δ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων

νόστον, αὐτόμαρτυς ὤν:

τὸν δ᾽ ἄνευ λύρας ὅμως⁷ ὑμνῳδεῖ
990

θρῆνον Ἐρινύος⁸ αὐτοδίδακτος ἔσωθεν

θυμός, οὐ τὸ πᾶν ἔχων

ἐλπίδος φίλον θράσος.

σπλάγχνα δ᾽ οὔτι⁹ ματᾴζει
995

πρὸς ἐνδίκοις φρεσὶν τελεσφόροις

δίναις κυκλούμενον κέαρ.

εὔχομαι δ᾽ ἐπ᾽¹⁰ ἐμᾶς τοιαῦτ᾽¹¹

ἐλπίδος ψύθη πεσεῖν

ἐς τὸ μὴ τελεσφόρον.
1000

str. 2

1001

Χορός

μάλα γέ τοι¹² τὸ μεγάλας ὑγιείας

ἀκόρεστον τέρμα. νόσος γάρ <ἀεὶ>¹³

γείτων ὁμότοιχος ἐρείδει,

καὶ πότμος εὐθυπορῶν
1005

ἀνδρὸς ἔπαισεν ἄφαντον ἕρμα.

καὶ τὸ μὲν πρὸ χρημάτων

κτησίων ὄκνος βαλὼν

σφενδόνας ἀπ᾽ εὐμέτρου,
1010

οὐκ ἔδυ πρόπας δόμος

πημονᾶς¹⁴ γέμων ἄγαν,

οὐδ᾽ ἐπόντισε σκάφος.

πολλά τοι δόσις ἐκ Διὸς ἀμ-

φιλαφής τε καὶ ἐξ ἀλόκων ἐπετειᾶν
1015

νῆστιν ὤλεσεν νόσον.

ant. 2

1017

Χορός

τὸ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γᾶν πεσὸν¹⁵ ἅπαξ θανάσιμον

προπάροιθ᾽¹⁶ ἀνδρὸς μέλαν αἷμα τίς ἂν
1020

πάλιν ἀγκαλέσαιτ᾽ ἐπαείδων;

οὐδὲ¹⁷ τὸν ὀρθοδαῆ

τῶν φθιμένων ἀνάγειν

Ζεὺς ἀπέπαυσεν¹⁸ ἐπ᾽ εὐλαβείᾳ;

εἰ δὲ μὴ τεταγμένα
1025

μοῖρα μοῖραν ἐκ θεῶν

εἶργε μὴ πλέον φέρειν,

προφθάσασα καρδία

γλῶσσαν ἂν τάδ᾽ ἐξέχει.

νῦν δ᾽ ὑπὸ σκότῳ βρέμει
1030

θυμαλγής τε καὶ οὐδὲν ἐπελ-

πομένα ποτὲ καίριον ἐκτολυπεύσειν

ζωπυρουμένας φρενός.

Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 975-1033 focus

Χορός

τίπτε μοι τόδʼ ἐμπέδως
975

δεῖμα προστατήριον

καρδίας τερασκόπου ποτᾶται,

μαντιπολεῖ δʼ ἀκέλευστος ἄμισθος ἀοιδά,

οὐδʼ ἀποπτύσαι δίκαν
980

δυσκρίτων ὀνειράτων

θάρσος εὐπειθὲς ἵ-

ζει φρενὸς φίλον θρόνον;

χρόνος δʼ ἐπὶ πρυμνησίων ξυνεμβολαῖς

ψαμμίʼ ἀκτᾶς παρή-
985

μησεν, εὖθʼ ὑπʼ Ἴλιον

ὦρτο ναυβάτας στρατός.

988

Χορός

πεύθομαι δʼ ἀπʼ ὀμμάτων

νόστον, αὐτόμαρτυς ὤν·

τὸν δʼ ἄνευ λύρας ὅμως ὑμνῳδεῖ
990

θρῆνον Ἐρινύος αὐτοδίδακτος ἔσωθεν

θυμός, οὐ τὸ πᾶν ἔχων

ἐλπίδος φίλον θράσος.

σπλάγχνα δʼ οὔτοι ματᾴ-
995

ζει πρὸς ἐνδίκοις φρεσὶν

τελεσφόροις δίναις κυκώμενον κέαρ.

εὔχομαι δʼ ἐξ ἐμᾶς

ἐλπίδος ψύθη πεσεῖν

ἐς τὸ μὴ τελεσφόρον.
1000

1001

Χορός

μάλα γέ τοι τὸ μεγάλας ὑγιείας

ἀκόρεστον τέρμα· νόσος γάρ

γείτων ὁμότοιχος ἐρείδει.

καὶ πότμος εὐθυπορῶν
1005

ἀνδρὸς ἔπαισεν ἄφαντον ἕρμα.

καὶ πρὸ μέν τι χρημάτων

κτησίων ὄκνος βαλὼν

σφενδόνας ἀπʼ εὐμέτρου,
1010

οὐκ ἔδυ πρόπας δόμος

πημονᾶς γέμων ἄγαν,

οὐδʼ ἐπόντισε σκάφος.

πολλά τοι δόσις ἐκ Διὸς ἀμφιλα-

φής τε καὶ ἐξ ἀλόκων ἐπετειᾶν
1015

νῆστιν ὤλεσεν νόσον.

1017

Χορός

τὸ δʼ ἐπὶ γᾶν πεσὸν ἅπαξ θανάσιμον

πρόπαρ ἀνδρὸς μέλαν αἷμα τίς ἂν
1020

πάλιν ἀγκαλέσαιτʼ ἐπαείδων;

οὐδὲ τὸν ὀρθοδαῆ

τῶν φθιμένων ἀνάγειν

Ζεὺς ἀπέπαυσεν ἐπʼ εὐλαβείᾳ;

εἰ δὲ μὴ τεταγμένα
1025

μοῖρα μοῖραν ἐκ θεῶν

εἶργε μὴ πλέον φέρειν,

προφθάσασα καρδία

γλῶσσαν ἂν τάδʼ ἐξέχει.

νῦν δʼ ὑπὸ σκότῳ βρέμει
1030

θυμαλγής τε καὶ οὐδὲν ἐπελπομέν-

α ποτὲ καίριον ἐκτολυπεύσειν

ζωπυρουμένας φρενός.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 887 focus

ἔμοιγε μὲν δὴ κλαυμάτων ἐπίσσυτοι

πηγαὶ κατεσβήκασιν, οὐδ᾽ ἐνι σταγών.

ἐν ὀψικοίτοις δ᾽ ὄμμασι βλάβας ἔχω

τὰς ἀμφί σοι κλάουσα λαμπτηρουχίας

890

ἀτημελήτους αἰέν. ἐν δ᾽ ὀνείρασι

λεπταῖς ὑπαὶ κώνωπος ἐξηγειρόμην

ῥιπαῖσι θωΰσσοντος, ἀμφί σοι πάθη

ὁρῶσα πλείω τοῦ ξυνεύδοντος χρόνου.

[νῦν ταῦτα πάντα τλᾶσ᾽ ἀπενθήτῳ φρενὶ

895

λέγοιμ᾽ ἂν ἄνδρα τόνδε τῶν σταθμῶν κύνα,

σωτῆρα ναὸς πρότονον, ὑψηλῆς στέγης

στῦλον ποδήρη, μονογενές τέκνον πατρὶ,

καὶ γῆν φανεῖσαν ναυτίλοις παρ᾽ ἐλπίδα,

κάλλιστον ἦμαρ εἰσιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος,

900

ὁδοιπόρῳ διψῶντι πηγαῖον ῥέος.

τερπνὸν δὲ τἀναγκαῖον ἐκφυγεῖν ἅπαν.]

τοιοϊσδέ τοί νιν ἀξιῶ προσφθέγμασιν.

φθόνος δ᾽ ἀπέστω· πολλὰ γὰρ τὰ πρὶν κακὰ

ἠνειχόμεσθα. νῦν δέ μοι, φίλον κάρα,

905

ἔκβαιν᾿ ἀπήνης τῆσδε, μὴ χαμαὶ τιθεὶς

τὸν σὸν πόδ᾽, ὦναξ, Ἰλίου πορθήτορα.

δμωαὶ, τί μέλλεθ᾽, αἷς ἐπέσταλται τέλος

πέδον κελεύθου στορνύναι πετάσμασιν;

εὐθὺς γενέσθω πορφυρόστρωτος πόρος

910

ἐς δῶμ᾽ ἄελπτον ὡς ἂν ἡγῆται δίκη.

τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα φροντὶς οὐχ ὕπνῳ νικωμένη

θήσει δικαίως σὺν θεοῖς εἰμαρμένα.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 887 focus

ἔμοιγε μὲν δὴ κλαυμάτων ἐπίσσυτοι

πηγαὶ κατεσβήκασιν, οὐδ᾽ ἔνι σταγών.
855

ἐν ὀψικοίτοις δ᾽ ὄμμασιν βλάβας ἔχω,

τὰς ἀμφί σοι κλαίουσα λαμπτηρουχίας

ἀτημελήτους αἰέν. ἐν δ᾽ ὀνείρασιν

Κλυταιμνήστρα

λεπταῖς ὑπαὶ κώνωπος ἐξηγειρόμην

ῥιπαῖσι θωύσσοντος, ἀμφί σοι πάθη
860

ὁρῶσα πλείω τοῦ ξυνεύδοντος χρόνου.

νῦν, ταῦτα πάντα τλᾶσ', ἀπενθήτῳ φρενὶ

λέγοιμ' ἂν ἄνδρα τόνδε τῶν σταθμῶν κύνα,

σωτῆρα ναὸς πρότονον, ὑψηλῆς στέγης

στῦλον ποδήρη, μονογενὲς τέκνον πατρί,
865

καὶ γῆν φανεῖσαν ναυτίλοις παρ᾽ ἐλπίδα,

κάλλιστον ἦμαρ εἰςιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος,

ὁδοιπόρῳ διψῶντι πηγαῖον ῥέος.

τερπνὸν δὲ τἀναγκαῖον ἐκφυγεῖν ἅπαν.

τοιοῖςδέ τοί νιν ἀξιῶ προςφθέγμασιν.
870

φθόνος δ᾽ ἀπέστω· πολλὰ γὰρ τὰ πρὶν κακὰ

ἠνειχόμεσθα· νῦν δέ μοι, φίλον κάρα,

ἔκβαιν᾽ ἀπήνης τῆσδε, μὴ χαμαὶ τιθεὶς

τὸν σὸν πόδ᾽, ὦναξ, Ἰλίου πορθήτορα.

δμῳαί, τί μέλλεθ', αἷς ἐπέσταλται τέλος
875

πέδον κελεύθου στρωννύναι πετάσμασιν;

εὐθὺς γενέσθω πορφυρόστρωτος πόρος,

ἐς δῶμ᾽ ἄελπτον ὡς ἂν ἡγῆται Δίκη.

τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα φροντὶς οὐχ ὕπνῳ νικωμένη

θήσει δικαίως σὺν θεοῖς εἱμαρμένα.
880

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 887 focus

Ἔμοιγε μὲν δὴ κλαυμάτων ἐπίσσυτοι

πηγαὶ κατεσβήκασιν καθεστήκασιν s.l., οὐδ' ἔνι σταγών·

ἐν ὀψικοίτοις δ' ὄμμασιν βλάβας κλά- ἔχω

τὰς ἀμφί σοι ἀμφὶ σοὶ (item in 893) κλαίουσα λαμπτηρουχίας
890

ἀτημελήτους αἰέν· ἐν δ' ὀνείρασιν

λεπταῖς ὑπαὶ κώνωπος ἐξηγειρόμην

ῥιπαῖσι θωύσσοντος, ἀμφί σοι πάθη

ὁρῶσα πλείω τοῦ ξυνεύδοντος χρόνου.

Νῦν, ταῦτα πάντα τλᾶσ', ἀπενθήτῳ φρενὶ
895

λέγοιμ' ἂν ἄνδρα τόνδε τῶν σταθμῶν κύνα,

σωτῆρα ναὸς πρότονον, ὑψηλῆς ὑψιλῆς στέγης

στῦλον στύλον στόλον ποδήρη, μονογενὲς τέκνον πατρί,

καὶ γῆν φανεῖσαν ναυτίλοις παρ' ἐλπίδα,

κάλλιστον ἦμαρ εἰσιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος,
900

ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ

ΚΛΥΤΑΙΜΗΣΤΡΑ

ὁδοιπόρῳ διψῶντι πηγαῖον ῥέος·

τερπνὸν δὲ τἀναγκαῖον ἐκφυγεῖν ἅπαν·

τοιοῖσδέ τοί νιν τοίνυν ἀξιῶ προσφθέγμασιν προσφεγ-·

φθόνος δ' ἀπέστω· πολλὰ γὰρ τὰ πρὶν κακὰ

ἠνειχόμεσθα. Νῦν δέ μοι δ' ἐμοὶ, φίλον κάρα,
905

ἔκβαιν' ἀπήνης τῆσδε, μὴ χαμαὶ τιθεὶς

τὸν σὸν πόδ', ὤναξ ἄναξ, Ἰλίου πορθήτορα.

Δμωαί, τί μέλλεθ', αἷς ἐπέσταλται τέλος τάδε

πέδον κελεύθου στρωννύναι πετάσμασιν ;

εὐθὺς γενέσθω πορφυρόστρωτος πόρος,
910

ἐς δῶμ' ἄελπτον ὡς ἂν ἡγῆται Δίκη.

Τὰ δ' ἄλλα φροντὶς οὐχ ὕπνῳ νικωμένη

θήσει δικαίως σὺν θεοῖς εἱμαρμένα.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 887 focus

ἔμοιγε μὲν δὴ κλαυμάτων ἐπίσσυτοι

πηγαὶ κατεσβήκασιν, οὐδ᾽ ἔνι σταγών.

¹²³

φάσις, ut videtur, τέτρηται πλέον ἐπλήθυον ἐπλήθυνον τἂν τ' ἂν fort. πολλὰς τεράμνων (ἄνωθεν ex 862 ortum videtur). fort. ἀνημμένης. πιστωμάτων πιστευμάτων (τόν τ' h) καταρρίψειεν κατεσβήκασιν

ἐν ὀψικοίτοις δ᾽ ὄμμασιν βλάβας ἔχω,

880

τὰς ἀμφί σοι κλαίουσα λαμπτηρουχίας

ἀτημελήτους αἰέν. ἐν δ᾽ ὀνείρασιν

λεπταῖς ὑπαὶ κώνωπος ἐξηγειρόμην

ῥιπαῖσι θωύσσοντος, ἀμφί σοι πάθη

ὁρῶσα πλείω τοῦ ξυνεύδοντος χρόνου.

885

νῦν ταῦτα πάντα τλᾶσ᾽, ἀπενθήτῳ φρενὶ

λέγοιμ᾽ ἂν ἄνδρα τόνδε τῶν σταθμῶν κύνα,

σωτῆρα ναὸς πρότονον, ὑψηλῆς στέγης

στύλον ποδήρη, μονογενὲς τέκνον πατρί,

καὶ γῆν φανεῖσαν ναυτίλοις παρ᾽ ἐλπίδα,

890

κάλλιστον ἦμαρ εἰσιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος,

ὁδοιπόρῳ διψῶντι πηγαῖον ῥέος.

τερπνὸν δὲ τἀναγκαῖον ἐκφυγεῖν ἅπαν.

τοιοῖσδέ τοί νιν ἀξιῶ προσφθέγμασιν.

φθόνος δ᾽ ἀπέστω· πολλὰ γὰρ τὰ πρὶν κακὰ

895

ἠνειχόμεσθα· νῦν δέ μοι, φίλον κάρα,

ἔκβαιν᾽ ἀπήνης τῆσδε, μὴ χαμαὶ τιθεὶς

τὸν σὸν πόδ᾽, ὦναξ, Ιλίου πορθήτορα.

δμῳαί, τί μέλλεθ᾽, αἷς ἐπέσταλται τέλος

πέδον κελεύθου στρωννύναι πετάσμασιν;

900

εὐθὺς γενέσθω πορφυρόστρωτος πόρος,

ἐς δῶμ᾽ ἄελπτον ὡς ἂν ἡγῆται δίκη.

τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα φροντὶς οὐχ ὕπνῳ νικωμένη

θήσει δικαίως σὺν θεοῖς εἱμαρμένα.

⁴⁵

κλάβας τόνδε βουστάθμων ὑψιλῆς στόλον στύλον γαῖαν post 886 inserit τοί νιν τοίνυν δέ μοι δ᾽ ἐμοὶ avaş δμωαί (ἐπέσταλται τάδε h) στορνύναι θεοῖσιν ἄρμενα

ΑΓ.

Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 887 focus

ἔμοιγε μὲν δὴ κλαυμάτων ἐπίσσυτοι

πηγαὶ κατεσβήκασιν, οὐδ᾽ ἔνι σταγών·

ἐν ὀψικοίτοις δ᾽ ὄμμασιν βλάβας ἔχω

τὰς ἀμφὶ σοὶ κλαίουσα λαμπτηρουχίας

890

ἀτημελήτους αἰέν. ἐν δ᾽ ὀνείρασιν

λεπταῖς ὑπαὶ κώνωπος ἐξηγειρόμην

ῥιπῆισι θωύσσοντος, ἀμφὶ σοὶ πάθη

ὁρῶσα πλείω τοῦ ξυνεύδοντος χρόνου.

νῦν ταῦτα πάντα τλᾶσ᾽ ἀπενθήτωι φρενί

895

λέγοιμ᾽ ἂν ἄνδρα τόνδε, τῶν σταθμῶν κύνα,

σωτῆρα ναὸς πρότονον, ὑψηλῆς στέγης

στῦλον ποδήρη, μονογενὲς τέκνον πατρί,

καὶ γῆν φανεῖσαν ναυτίλοις παρ᾽ ἐλπίδα,

κάλλιστον ἦμαρ εἰσιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος,

900

ὁδοιπόρωι διψῶντι πηγαῖον ῥέος·

τερπνὸν δὲ τἀναγκαῖον ἐκφυγεῖν ἅπαν.

τοιοῖσδέ τοί νιν ἀξιῶ προσφθέγγμασιν,

φθόνος δ᾽ ἀπέστω· πολλὰ γὰρ τὰ πρὶν κακά

ἠνειχόμεσθα. νῦν δέ μοι φίλον κάρα

905

ἔκβαιν᾽ ἀπήνης τῆσδε, μὴ χαμαὶ τιθείς

τὸν σὸν πόδ᾽ ὦναξ Ἰλίου πορθήτορα.

δμωιαί, τί μέλλεθ᾽, αἷς ἐπέσταλται τέλος

πέδον κελεύθου στορνύναι πετάσμασιν;

εὐθὺς γενέσθω πορφυρόστρωτος πόρος,
910

εἰς δῶμ᾽ ἄελπτον ὡς ἂν ἡγῆται Δίκη.

τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα φροντὶς οὐχ ὕπνωι νικωμένη

θήσει δικαίως ξὺν θεοῖς †εἱμαρμένα†.

Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 887 focus

ἔμοιγε μὲν δὴ κλαυμάτων ἐπίσσυτοι

πηγαὶ κατεσβήκασιν, οὐδ᾽ ἔνι σταγών.

ἐν ὀψικοίτοις δ᾽ ὄμμασιν βλάβας ἔχω

τὰς ἀμφί σοι κλαίουσα λαμπτηρουχίας

890

ἀτημελήτους αἰέν. ἐν δ᾽ ὀνείρασιν

Apparatus Criticus

ὑπ᾽ Ἰλίωι ἐπ᾿ ἰλίωι ἔκπαγλον ἔκπαγγλον πολλὰς κλύουσαν κληδόνας παλιγκότους del Ahrens φάτις φάσις τέτρηται τέτρωται ἐπλήθυον ἐπλήθυνον πολλὴn ἄνωθεν, τὴn κάτω γὰρ οὐ λέγω, del. Schütz λαβεῖν λαβών πιστωμάτων πιστευμάτων τόn θ᾽ ὑπ᾽ τόn τ᾽ ὑπ κατεσβήκασιν καθεστήκασιν βλάβας κλάβας

ΚΛ.

λεπταῖς ὑπαὶ κώνωπος ἐξηγειρόμην

ῥιπαῖσι θωύσσοντος, ἀμφί σοι πάθη

ὁρῶσα πλείω τοῦ ξυνεύδοντος χρόνου.

νῦν ταῦτα πάντα τλᾶσα τῶν σταθμῶν κύων,
895

λέγοιμ᾽ ἂν ἄνδρα τόνδ᾽ ἀπενθήτωι φρενί

σωτῆρα ναὸς πρότονον, ὑψηλῆς στέγης

στῦλον ποδήρη, μονογενὲς τέκνον πατρί,

γαῖαν φανεῖσαν ναυτίλοις παρ᾽ ἐλπίδα,

κάλλιστον ἦμαρ εἰσιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος,
900

ὁδοιπόρωι διψῶντι πηγαῖον ῥέος·

τερπνὸν δὲ τἀναγκαῖον ἐκφυγεῖν ἅπαν.

τοιοῖσδέ τοί νιν ἀξιῶ προσφθέγμασιν.

φθόνος δ᾽ ἀπέστω· πολλὰ γὰρ τὰ πρὶν κακά

ἠνειχόμεσθα· νῦν δέ μοι φίλον κάρα
905

ἔκβαιν᾿ ἀπήνης τῆσδε μὴ χαμαὶ τιθείς

τὸν σὸν πόδ᾽, ὦναξ, Ἰλίου πορθήτορα.

δμωιαὶ τί μέλλεθ᾽, αἷς ἐπέσταλται τάδε,

πέδον κελεύθου στορνύναι πετάσμασιν;

εὐθὺς γενέσθω πορφυρόστρωτος πόρος,
910

ἐς δῶμ᾽ ἄελπτον ὡς ἂν ἡγῆται δίκη.

τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα φροντὶς οὐχ ὕπνωι νικωμένη

θήσει δικαίως σὺν θεοῖσιν ἄρμενα.

Translations (8)

Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 810-974 focus

AGAMEMNON.

First, indeed, Argos , and the gods, the local,
810

’T is right addressing — those with me the partners

In this return and right things done the city

Of Priamos: gods who, from no tongue hearing

The rights o’ the cause, for Ilion ’s fate man-slaught’rous

Into the bloody vase, not oscillating,
815

Put the vote-pebbles, while, o’ the rival vessel,

Hope rose up to the lip-edge: filled it was not.

By smoke the captured city is still conspicuous:

Até’s burnt offerings live: and, dying with them,

The ash sends forth the fulsome blasts of riches.
820

Of these things, to the gods grace many-mindful

’T is right I render, since both nets outrageous

We built them round with, and, for sake of woman,

It did the city to dust — the Argeian monster,

The horse’s nestling, the shield-bearing people
825

That made a leap, at setting of the Pleiads,

And, vaulting o’er the tower, the raw-flesh-feeding

Lion licked up his fill of blood tyrannic.

I to the gods indeed prolonged this preface;

But — as for thy thought, I remember hearing —
830

I say the same, and thou co-pleader hast me.

Since few of men this faculty is born with —

To honour, without grudge, their friend, successful.

For moody, on the heart, a poison seated

Its burthen doubles to who gained the sickness:
835

By his own griefs he is himself made heavy,

And out-of-door prosperity seeing groans at.

Knowing, I’d call (for well have I experienced)

Fellowship’s mirror, phantom of a shadow,

Those seeming to be mighty gracious to me:
840

While just Odusseus — he who sailed not willing —

When joined on, was to me the ready trace-horse.

This of him, whether dead or whether living,

I say. For other city-and-gods’ concernment —

Appointing common courts, in full assemblage
845

We will consult. And as for what holds seemly —

How it may lasting stay well, must be counselled:

While what has need of medicines Paionian

We, either burning or else cutting kindly,

Will make endeavour to turn pain from sickness.
850

And now into the domes and homes by altar

Going, I to the gods first raise the right-hand —

They who, far sending, back again have brought me.

And Victory, since she followed, fixed remain she!

855

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Men, citizens, Argeians here, my worships!
855

I shall not shame me, consort-loving manners

To tell before you: for in time there dies off

The diffidence from people. Not from others

Learning, I of myself will tell the hard life

I bore so long as this man was ’neath Ilion .
860

First: for a woman, from the male divided,

To sit at home alone, is monstrous evil —

Hearing the many rumours back-revenging:

And for now This to come, now That bring after

Woe, and still worse woe, bawling in the household!
865

And truly, if so many wounds had chanced on

My husband here, as homeward used to dribble

Report, he’s pierced more than a net to speak of!

While, were he dying (as the words abounded)

A triple-bodied Geruon the Second,
870

Plenty above — for loads below I count not —

Of earth a three-share cloak he’d boast of taking,

Once only dying in each several figure!

Because of suchlike rumours back-revenging,

Many the halters from my neck, above head,
875

Others than I loosed — loosed from neck by main force!

From this cause, sure, the boy stands not beside me —

Possessor of our troth-plights, thine and mine too —

As ought Orestes: be not thou astonished!

For, him brings up our well-disposed guest-captive
880

Strophios the Phokian — ills that told on both sides

To me predicting — both of thee ’neath Ilion

The danger, and if anarchy’s mob-uproar

Should overthrow thy council; since ’t is born with

Mortals, — whoe’er has fallen, the more to kick him.
885

Such an excuse, I think, no cunning carries!

887

As for myself — why, of my wails the rushing

Fountains are dried up: not in them a drop more!

And in my late-to-bed eyes I have damage,

Bewailing what concerned thee, those torch-holdings
890

For ever unattended to. In dreams — why,

Beneath the light wing-beats o’ the gnat, I woke up

As he went buzzing — sorrows that concerned thee

Seeing, that filled more than their fellow-sleep-time.

Now, all this having suffered, from soul grief-free
895

I would style this man here the dog o’ the stables,

The saviour forestay of the ship, the high roof’s

Ground-prop, son sole-begotten to his father,

— Ay, land appearing to the sailors past hope,

Loveliest day to see after a tempest,
900

To the wayfaring-one athirst a well-spring,

— The joy, in short, of ’scaping all that ’s — fatal!

I judge him worth addresses such as these are

— Envy stand off! — for many those old evils

We underwent. And now, to me — dear headship! —
905

Dismount thou from this car, not earthward setting

The foot of thine, O king, that’s Ilion ’s spoiler!

Slave-maids, why tarry? — whose the task allotted

To strew the soil o’ the road with carpet-spreadings.

Immediately be purple-strewn the pathway,
910

So that to home unhoped may lead him — Justice!

As for the rest, care shall — by no sleep conquered —

Dispose things — justly (gods to aid!) appointed.

914

AGAMEMNON.

Offspring of Leda, of my household warder,

Suitably to my absence hast thou spoken,
915

For long the speech thou didst outstretch! But aptly

To praise — from others ought to go this favour.

And for the rest, —-not me, in woman’s fashion,

Mollify, nor — as mode of barbarous man is —

To me gape forth a groundward-falling clamour!
920

Nor, strewing it with garments, make my passage

Envied! Gods, sure, with these behoves we honour:

But, for a mortal on these varied beauties

To walk — to me, indeed, is nowise fear-free.

I say — as man, not god, to me do homage!
925

Apart from foot-mats both and varied vestures,

Renown is loud, and — not to lose one’s senses,

God’s greatest gift. Behoves we him call happy

Who has brought life to end in loved well-being.

If all things I might manage thus — brave man, I!
930

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Come now, this say, nor feign a feeling to me!

AGAMEMNON.

With feeling, know indeed, I do not tamper!

KLUTAIMNESTRA

Vowed’st thou to the gods, in fear, to act thus?

AGAMEMNON.

If any, I well knew resolve I outspoke.

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

What think’st thou Priamos had done, thus victor?
935

AGAMEMNON.

On varied vests — I do think — he had passaged.

KLUTAIMNESTRA

Then, do not, struck with awe at human censure ....

AGAMEMNON.

Well, popular mob-outcry much avails too.

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Ay, but the unenvied is not the much valued.

AGAMEMNON.

Sure, ’t is no woman’s part to long for battle.
940

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Why, to the prosperous, even suits a beating.

AGAMEMNON.

What? thou this beating us in war dost prize too?

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Persuade thee! power, for once, grant me — and willing!

944

AGAMEMNON.

But if this seem so to thee — shoes, let someone

Loose under, quick — foot’s serviceable carriage!
945

And me, on these sea-products walking, may no

Grudge from a distance, from the god’s eye, strike at!

For great shame were my strewment-spoiling — riches

Spoiling with feet, and silver-purchased textures!

Of these things, thus then. But this female-stranger
950

Tenderly take inside! Who conquers mildly

God, from afar, benignantly regardeth.

For, willing, no one wears a yoke that’s servile:

And she, of many valuables, outpicked

The flower, the army’s gift, myself has followed.
955

So, — since to hear thee, I am brought about thus, —

I go into the palace — purples treading.

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

There is the sea — and what man shall exhaust it? —

Feeding much purple’s worth-its-weight-in-silver

Dye, ever fresh and fresh, our garments’ tincture;
960

At home, such wealth, king, we begin — by gods’ help —

With having, and to lack, the household knows not.

Of many garments had I vowed a treading

(In oracles if fore-enjoined the household)

Of this dear soul the safe-return-price scheming!
965

For, root existing, foliage goes up houses,

O’erspreading shadow against Seirios dog-star;

And, thou returning to the hearth domestic,

Warmth, yea, in winter dost thou show returning.

And when, too, Zeus works, from the green-grape acrid,
970

Vine — then, already, cool in houses cometh —

The perfect man his home perambulating!

Zeus, Zeus Perfecter, these my prayers perfect thou!

Thy care be — yea — of things thou mayst make perfect!

The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 887 focus

In me, indeed, the gushing fountains of my weeping have been exhausted, not even a drop is left. I bear too marrings of mine eyes, late closed in slumber, bewailing the lamp kept burning for thy sake ever unheeded : and in my dreams I was awakened by the light flitting of the buzzing gnat, seeing more sufferings befall thee than could possibly have happened during my time of sleep .—Now having endured all these horrors, I will, with a soul not sorrowful, call this my husband, a watch-dog of the folds, a saving mainstay of the ship, a foundation pillar of the lofty roof, an only child to parent, a land that hath appeared to mariners beyond their hopes, a day most fair to look upon after tempest, a gushing rill to a thirsty wayfarer . And delightful 'tis to have escaped from all constraint. With such salutations then, as these, do I honour him. But be envy far away ; for many are the previous ills we have endured. And now I pray thee beloved one, step forth from out this car, not planting on the bare ground, my liege, thy foot that trod down Ilion. Maidens, why do ye delay, on whom hath been imposed the charge of strewing the surface of the way with tapestry? Let a purple-strawn path be made forthwith, that Justice may usher him into his unlooked-for home . And for the rest my care, not overcome by slumbering, shall by favour of the gods order aright what hath been decreed.

AGAMEMNON

AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 887 focus

Pour moi, j'ai vu se tarir les flots jaillissants de mes pleurs ; je n'ai plus une larme. J'ai brûlé mes
yeux au cours des longues veilles où je pleurais sur toi, dans l'obstiné silence des signaux enflammés. Et, dans mes songes, le vol léger et harcelant du moucheron m'éveillait, les yeux encore pleins des maux que j'avais vus t'assaillir,
plus nombreux que les minutes de mon rêve ¹. Après tant de peines, l'âme enfin libre d'angoisses, je puis bien appeler cet homme le chien de l'étable, le câble sauveur du navire, la colonne soutien de la haute toiture, le fils seul enfant de son père — et aussi la terre inespérée apparue
au matelot, la lumière si douce après la tempête, la source ²

AGAMEMNON

CLYTEMNESTRE

vive qui désaltère le voyageur. Qui triomphe du sort goûte joie sans mélange : ces noms sont ceux qui lui conviennent.
Et que l'envie ici se taise : nous avons, pour cette joie, supporté assez de misères ! Et maintenant, tête chérie, descends de ce char, sans poser à terre, ô maître, ce pied qui renversa Troie. Que tardez-vous ? captives à qui j'avais confié le soin de joncher de tapis le sol qu'il doit fouler. Que
sur ses pas naisse un chemin de pourpre, par où la Justice le mène dans un séjour qui passe son attente ³ ! Le reste, une pensée que le sommeil ne dompte pas le réglera comme il convient, avec l'aide des dieux, dans le sens voulu

Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 887 focus

Such care dwells not with fraud. At thy return

The gushing fountains of my tears are dried,

1000

Save that my eyes are weak with midnight watchings,

Straining, thro’ tears, if haply they might ſee

Thy ſignal fires, that claim’d my fix’d attention.

If they were clos’d in ſleep, a ſilly fly

Wou’d, with its ſlightest murm’rings, make me ſtart,

1005

And wake me to more fears.

For thy dear ſake

All this I ſuffer’d: but my jocund heart

Forgets it all, whilſt I behold my lord,

My guardian, the ſtrong anchor of my hope,

1010

The ſtately column that ſupports my houſe,

Dear as an only child to a fond parent;

Welcome as land, which the toſt mariner

Beyond his hope deſcries; welcome as day

After a night of ſtorms with fairer beams

1015

Returning; welcome as the liquid lapſe

Of fountain to the thirſty traveller:

So pleaſant is it to eſcape the chain

Of hard conſtraint.

AGAMEMNON.

Such greeting I eſteem

1020

Due to thy honour: let it not offend,

For I have ſuffer’d much.

But, my lov’d lord,

Leave now that car; nor on the bare ground ſet

That royal foot, beneath whoſe mighty tread

1025

Troy trembled.

Haſte, ye virgins, to whoſe care

This pleaſing office is entrusted, ſpread

The ſtreets with tapeſtry; let the ground be cover’d

With richest purple, leading to the palace;

1030

That honour with juſt ſtate may grace his entry,

Tho’ unexpected. My attentive care,

Shall, if the Gods permit, diſpoſe the reſt

To welcome his high glories, as I ought.

AGAMEMNON.

Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 887 focus

Inaridite in me son le precipiti

fonti del pianto, e piú stilla non v'è.

Nelle insonni pupille impresso ho il danno:

ch'io piangevo per te, sempre aspettando

del fuoco il nunzio, e non giungea.
1030

Dai lievi

sogni, il susurro e il battito dell' ali

CLITENNESTRA

d'una zanzara mi destava; e tue

sciagure viste avea, piú che del sonno

non ne capesse il tempo.
1035

Ed or che il male

sofferto è già, con cuor lieto, quest' uomo

dirò cane fedel della sua casa,

gómena che salvezza è della nave,

saldo pilastro dell' eccelso tetto,
1040

figliuolo unico al padre, terra apparsa

ai naviganti contro ogni speranza,

giorno fulgente dopo il turbine, acqua

di vena al peregrino arso di sete.

Questo è il saluto ond'io t'onoro: e lunge
1045

rimanga invidia: ché da troppi mali

fummo di già colpiti.

Ora, o diletto,

dal cocchio scendi; e non poggiare al suolo,

quel piede, o sire, ch'llio calpestò.
1050

Che indugiate, fantesche ? E' vostro il compito

di ricoprire coi tappeti il suolo:

presto, velata sia la via di porpora,

sí che Giustizia lo conduca ai tetti

com' egli non credea.
1055

Quanto altro bramo,

col voler degli Dei provvederà

che si compia, un pensier che non assonna.

AGAMENNONE

Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 887 focus

English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 887 focus

For me, long since the gushing fount of tears

Is wept away; no drop is left to shed.

Dim are the eyes that ever watched till dawn,
1030

Weeping the bale-fires, piled for thy return,

Night after night unkindled. If I slept,

Each sound—the tiny humming of a gnat,

Roused me again, again, from fitful dreams

Wherein I felt thee smitten, saw thee slain,
1035

Thrice for each moment of mine hour of sleep.

All this I bore, and now, released from woe,

I hail my lord as watch-dog of a fold,

As saving stay-rope of a storm-tossed ship,

As column stout that holds the roof aloft,
1040

As only child unto a sire bereaved,

As land beheld, past hope, by crews forlorn,

As sunshine fair when tempest's wrath is past,

As gushing spring to thirsty wayfarer.

So sweet it is to 'scape the press of pain.
1045

With such salute I bid my husband hail!

Nor heaven be wroth therewith! for long and hard

I bore that ire of old.

Sweet lord, step forth,

Step from thy car, I pray—nay, not on earth
1050

Plant the proud foot, king, that trod down Troy!

Women! why tarry ye, whose task it is

To spread your monarch's path with tapestry?

Swift, swift, with purple strew his passage fair,

That justice lead him to a home, at last,
1055

He scarcely looked to see.

For what remains,

Zeal unsubdued by sleep shall nerve my hand

To work as right and as the gods command.

Agamemnon.

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.) — 887 focus

Mir aber ging der Thränen ewigrinnender
845

Brunnquell versiegen, daß darin kein Tropfe blieb.

Mein spätentschlummernd Auge schmerzt erloschen halb

Von Weinen, weil du meine Feuerwachen stets

Vergeblich harren ließest. Lag ich träumend dann,

So weckte mich der Mücke leiser Flügelschlag,
850

Die summend schwirrte, wann ich mehr Gefahr um dich

Sah, als die Zeit umfaßte, da ich schlummerte.

Nun, weil ich dieses Alles trug, nun darf ich wohl

Mit frohem Sinn dich grüßen als des Hauses Hort,

Des Schiffes rettend Ankertau, der hohen Burg
855

Grundfesten Pfeiler, greisen Vaters einzig Kind,

Dem Wandersmann, der dürstet, frische Quellenflut,

Des stillen Tages Heitre nach Gewittersturm,

Ein Land, den Schiffern wider Hoffen aufgetaucht!

Süß ist es, allem Ungemach entfloh'n zu sein.
860

Drum acht' ich solcher Grüße dich, o König, werth.

Sei nur die Mißgunst ferne! Noth ja trugen wir

Zuvor genug schon. (Sie steigt einige Stufen der Bühnentreppe hinab.) Steige nun, geliebtes Haupt,

Herab vom Wagen, doch zur Erde setze nicht

Den Fuß, o König, der die Troerburg zertrat!
865

Was säumt ihr, Jungfrau'n, denen aufgegeben ward,

Die Decken auszubreiten auf des Pfades Grund?

Schnell glänze rings von Purpur überdeckt die Bahn,

Daß Dike wider Hoffen ihn einführt in's Haus!

Das Andre fügt mein Eifer, den kein Schlaf bezwingt,
870

Gerecht mit Götterhülfe, wie's ihr Rath verhängt.

(Die Dienerinnen breiten Purpurteppiche über die Bühne bis an den Palast.)

Agamemnon.

Commentary

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

859-860. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-508

NA Quum tribus haec modis construi possint, uno

ὑπαὶ κώνωπος ἐξηγειρόμην, λεπταῖς ῥιπαῖσι θωύσσοντος

, altero

λεπταῖς ῥιπαῖσιν ἐξηγειρόμην ὑπαὶ κώνωπος θωύσσοντος

, tertio

ὑπαὶ λεπταῖς ῥιπαῖσι κώνωπος θωύσσοντος ἐξηγειρόμην

, haec postrema ratio magis quam ceterae dictioni poeticae convenit.

862. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-509

νῦν, ταῦτα πάντα τλᾶσ', ἀπενθήτω φρενὶ Legebatur

νῦν ταῦτα πάντα τλᾶσ᾽ ἀπενθήτω φρενί, λέγοιμ᾽ ἂν etc.

Illud

ἀπενθήτῳ φρενί

miro modo significare volunt animo dolori non succumbente. Mira est etiam P. Camperi ad Eur. El. p. 213. interpretatio, pectore doloribus clauso. Infelix coniectura Schneidewini in thesi VIII. dissertationi de Diana Phacelitide adiecta,

νῦν ταῦτα πάντα πλᾶσα παντλήτῳ φρενί

. Recte vero Elberlingius intellexit distinguendum sic esse,

νῦν, ταῦτα πάντα τλᾶσ', ἀπενθήτω φρενὶ λέγοιμ' ἂν etc.

Quoniam se nunc tandem omni sollicitudine liberatam quasi ex intimo animo dicere videri cupit,

νῦν

sine copula in principio dicti huius positum est, ut supra praeco dixit v. 486.

νῦν χαῖρε μὲν χθών

862

863. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-510

βουστάθμων In Vict. Cant. haec sic interpuncta sunt

λέγοιμ' ἂν ἄνδρα τόνδε, τῶν σταθμῶν κύνα, σωτῆρα ναός, πρότονον ὑψηλῆς στέγης, στῦλον ποδήρη, etc.

Quomodo interpungenda essent vidit in adnotatione Canterus itemque Gatakerus Adv. misc. II. 20. p. 383. Sed tamen duobus vitiis affectus est hic Shakespearianae ubertati comparandus locus. Non scripsit enim Aeschylus

τὸν σταθμῶν

, quod poetica dictio non patiebatur cum articulo dici, sed

βουστάθμων

, quo vocabulo Euripides usus est in Helena. De altero vitio dicam ad v. 866.

863

864. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-511

NA Ne quis forte velit

σταθμῶν

sive potius

βουστάθμων κύνα σωτῆρα

iungere, ut hominem stabulorum custodem

σταθμῶν οὐρῆα

Homerus dixit Od. XVII, 187. 223. reputandum est per se patere

κύνα βουστάθμων

eum esse qui tueatur stabula,

ναὸς πρότονον

autem, nisi explicate dicatur servandae navi inservire, non habere adiunctam utilitatis eminentiorem significationem. De

προτόνοις

videndus Seidlerus ad Eur. Iph. T. v. 1104. ὑψηλῆς

ὑψιλῆς

Farn.

864

865. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-512

στῦλον

στύλον

Flor.

στῦλον

Farn. Vict. pravo accentu.

865

866-868. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-513

ὁδοιπόρῳ διψῶντι πηγαῖον ῥέος, γαληνὸν ἦμαρ εἰςιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος, καὶ γῆν φανεῖσαν ναυτίλοις παρ' ἐλπίδα. Libri

καὶ γῆν φανεῖσαν ναυτίλοις παρ' ἐλπίδα, κάλλιστον ἦμαρ εἰσιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος, ὁδοιπόρῳ διψῶντι πηγαῖον ῥέος.

In Farn. scriptum

παρ' ἐλπίδα

. Sed errore factum esse puto ut ex eo codice adnotaretur

καὶ γῆς φανεῖσαν

, quum tacuerit Bekkerus, neque Elmsleius nisi consensum codicis cum editionibus indicare voluisse videtur. Nam Porsonus dubitationis notam ad

φανεῖσαν

apposuerat: unde Blomfieldius abiecto inutili

καὶ

vel

γῆν ἐκφανεῖσαν

vel

γαῖαν φανεῖσαν

scribendum existimabat. Mihi quidem non tam videtur in his verbis aliquid vitii esse, quam in ordine rerum, quae nec satis apte coniunctae sunt, et ita ut in medio cursu abrumpatur potius oratio quam iustum producatur ad finem. Itaque mutato ordine versuum sic poetam scripsisse arbitror,

ὁδοιπόρῳ διψῶντι πηγαῖον ῥέος, γαληνὸν ἦμαρ εἰςιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος, καὶ γῆν φανεῖσαν ναυτίλοις παρ' ἐλπίδα.

Nam

κάλλιστον ἦμαρ

non scripsisse videtur Aeschylus. Friget enim nomen superlativum, multoque deterius est positivo, ubi non idonea de caussa positum est. Quare

γαληνὸν

quae scripsi, ut in notissimo illo Euripidis Or. v. 279.

ἐκ κυμάτων γὰρ αὖθις αὖ γαλήν' ὁρῶ.

Hunc versum,

ὁδοιπόρῳ — ῥέος

, Suidas affert in v.

πλέκος

869. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-514

τερπνὸν δ' ἀπαλλαχθῆναι παντὸς ἐκ πόνου Insiticium hunc versum iudicavit Blomfieldius, certe frigidiusculum sonare. Schützius eum in editione minore post eum qui sequitur collocavit, quod id ordo sententiarum postularet. Non recte obiicit Wellauerus, suo versum loco positum esse in libris, quia caussam contineat, quare istis appellationibus usa sit mulier. Nam caussa etiam post recte affertur. Rectius dixisset non fuisse

φθόνος δ᾽ ἀπέστω

τοιοῖςδε προςφθέγμασιν

divellendum. Servandus vero versus eo quo in libris est loco. Refertur enim ad illa v. 862.

ἀπενθήτῳ φρενὶ λέγοιμ᾽ ἄν

869

870. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-515

τοιοῖςδε τοί νυν Libri

τοιοῖςδε τοίνυν

. Schützii emendationem,

τοιοῖςδε τοί νυν

, Porsonus aliique receperunt.

870

872. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-516

νῦν δέ μοι Librorum scriptura,

νῦν δ' ἐμοὶ φίλον κάρα

, demum a Scholefieldio emendata est.

872

874. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-517

ποίας

, ut Scaliger aliique scribendum viderunt, Farn.

ποίας

Flor. Vict. Valckenario ad Phoen. v. 1518. more suo suspicanti

πρόπαντος

a poeta scriptum esse, nemo exstitit qui obsequeretur: arrisisse tamen illud videtur Blomfieldio.

874

875. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-518

τέλος Pro

τέλος

, quod Flor. Vict. habent, in Farn. est

τάδε

, quod nescio an praeferendum sit. Videri enim possunt oculi describentis ad verba

τάδε

τέλος

aberrasse, quae duos continuos versus terminant 900. 901.

875

876. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-519

στόρνυτε Elmsleius ad Eur. Med. v. 1209. dubitabat an praestaret

στορνύναι

876

877-878. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-520

NA In editionibus veteribus hi duo versus sine ulla interpunctione procedunt. In Farn. plene distinctum post

εἵλετο

. Recte post

πόρος

comma ponitur, cetera autem coniunguntur.

886. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-521

βαρβάρου

, sed

supra scripto, Flor.

886

887. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-522

βόγμα

βόαμα

Flor. Vict. sed in Flor.

supra scriptum.

βόγμα

Farn.

887

890. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-523

κάλλεσιν

cum

libri habent. Suidas in v.

Κάλαϊς

καὶ καλάϊνον χρῶμα. Αἰσχύλος, ἐν ποικίλοις χρώμασι

. Idem

κάλλη, τὰ πορφυρᾶ ἱμάτια. καὶ κέραμος καλάϊνος. Αἰσχύλος, ἐν ποικίλοις κάλλοις

. Etym. M. p. 486, 48. totum versum affert,

γὰρ

pro

δὲ

exhibens. Plura de

κάλλεσιν

Fritzschius in comm. de Socrate p. 201.

890

897. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-524

εἰ πάντα δ' ὡς πράσσοιμεν Consentit Farn. cum Flor. Vict. in

εἰ πάντα δ' ὡς πράσσοιμ' ἄν, εὐθαρσὴς ἐγώ

, nec verum est quod Wellauerus dicit,

ἄνευ θαρσοῦς

Blomfieldium ex eo codice recepisse. Immo ea ipsius est Blomfieldii infelicissima coniectura. Scribendum vero erat

εἰ πάντα δ᾽ ὡς πράσσοιμεν, εὐθαρσὴς ἐγώ.

Eandem emendationem fecit Dindorfius.

897

899. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-525

διαφερόντως Porsonus in Adv. p. 158. coniecerat

διαφέρουσ' ἐμοί

. Bene factum, quod Blomfieldius librorum scripturam defendit, modo ne tamen verum putasset

διαφέρουσα

, quod

θιγοῦσα

cum participio ad eum plerumque qui compellatus est referatur. Cuiusmodi argumentum quam nullam vim habeat apertum est. Tum autem, ut consentaneum est, non desunt exempla quae non sunt in illis plerisque, ut in Philocteta v. 253.

ὡς μηδὲν εἰδότ᾽ ἴσθι μὲ ὧν ἀνιστορεῖς.

899

900. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-526

δείσασαν Libri

ηὔξω θεοῖς δείσας ἂν ὧδ' ἔρδειν τάδε;

quod interpretantur

vovistine diis metuens sic facturum te ista?

Blomfieldius, quod

ἂν

huic sententiae non convenit, signo interrogationis deleto, hanc putat sententiam esse, vovisses haec ita facere, si aliquid metuisses. Haec non repugnant quidem legibus grammaticis, sed perversa laborant collocatione verborum. Oportebat enim, si hoc vellet Clytaemnestra, dici

δείσας ἂν ηὔξω ὧδ' ἔρδειν τάδε

. Vulgatum imperitissime eo tuitus est Wellauerus, quod

ἂν

ad infinitivum sit referendum: ex quo patet eum

ἂν

cum infinitivo ita pro infinitivo futuri poni existimasse, ut id ubique et sine discrimine fieri possit. Iohannes Auratus, qui omnes Aeschyli interpretes iudicio et recti sensu superavit, pro

δείσας

scribi

δήσας

volebat, non ille hic quidem verum assecutus, sed tamen coniiciens quod aptissimam praeberet sententiam. Scribendum erat

ηὔξω θεοῖς δείσασαν ὧδ᾽ ἔρδειν τάδε;

900

901. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-527

τέλος

Τέλος

sic dictum ut sit pro decreto. Similiter in Suppl. ν. 587.

ποῖ κεκύρωται τέλος

, et v. 605.

Ζεὺς δὲ κράνοιεν τέλος

901

902. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-528

δοκεῖς Libri

δοκῶ

. Emendavit Stanleius.

902

903. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-529

δοκεῖ Hic quoque

δοκῶ

Flor. Vict.

δοκεῖς

Stanleius, et ita Farn.

903

904. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-530

αἰδοῖ

αἰδοῖς

Flor. Vict.

αἴδοι

Farn. Restituerat coniunctivum primus Auratus, receperuntque editores novissimi praeter Wellauerum, nescientem quibus conditionibus interrumpi possit oratio.

904

906. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-531

NA Male in Vict. Cant. interrogationis nota apposita.

906

909. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-532

ἦ καὶ σὺ ... δήριος τίεις; Libri

ἦ καὶ σὺ νίκην τήνδε δήριος τίεις;

Auratus

τῆσδε

. Ionica genitivi forma offensus Bothius

δήριος

dedit. Ac diserte Suidas

δῆρις δήριος δῆριν δῆριν

. Semel, quod sciam, praeter hunc versum in superstitibus tragoediis invenitur

δῆρις

, in Suppl. Aeschyli v. 397.

καὶ μήτε δῆρις ῥυσίων ἐφάψεται.

Butlerus inepte

ἀδήριτος

coniecit, ut id esset animo obstinato et insuperabili. Erat quum putarem adiectivum hic latere,

δηριτὴς

(nam

δηριτὴς

finxit Etym. M. p. 248, 31.) vel

δηριτικός

, quod esset rixabunda. Dicuntur autem talia masculina forma, ut in Choeph. v. 233.

ἄζωστος

τριβή

. Id expressit vertendo Humboldtus. Sed scribendum potius est

ἢ οὐ καὶ σὺ νίκην τήνδε δήριος (vel δήρεως) τίεις;

Intellexit hoc etiam Franzius, nisi quod is

οὐ

scripsit.

909

910. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-533

μέντοι Blomfieldii, qui

μέν τοι

divisim scripsit, permira adnotatio est, “vulgo

μέντοι

. Vid. Hermann. Elem. Doctr. Metric. p. 111." Ibi ego exempla attuli versuum quorum singuli vel pedes vel dipodiae singulis vocibus constant. Itaque ut ex eo numero hunc versum eximeret, divisit voculas non separandas. Nam

μέντοι

, tamen, precantis est. Ceterum, si quis non rectis numeris hunc versum incedere putabit, monendus erit ut recte recitet, neve negligat pausam quam fieri iubet interpunctio.

910

912. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-534

πρόδουλον Invenustissime a quibusdam positum est

πρόδουλος

. Librorum scripturam, male intellectam a Stanleio, recte interpretatus est Schützius. Calcei quasi servi pedum dicuntur. Similiter in Prometheo soluto (fr. 205.)

ἵππων ὄνων τ᾽ ὀχεῖα καὶ ταύρων γονὰς δοὺς ἀντίδουλα καὶ πόνων ἐκδέκτορα.

De consuetudine soleas ponendi, ne stragulis labes afferretur, dixit Gatakerus Adv. misc. II. 19. p. 376.

912

913. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-535

καὶ τοῖσδέ μ'

σὺν τοῖς δέ μ'

inde a Cantero edebatur.

σὺν τοῖς δέ μ'

Vict.

σὺν ταῖςδέ μ'

Farn.

σὺν ταῖςδε

Heathius. Recepi ex Flor.

καὶ τοῖςδέ μ'

. Neutro

τοῖςδε

ἁλουργέσιν

usus est poeta, nec dixit

ἁλουργίσιν

, ut qui de stragulis, non de vestibus loqueretur. De colore isto videndus Arnaldus Animadv. crit. c. 35. p. 234. seqq. de forma vocabuli Lobeckius ad Phryn. p. 185. ἐμβαίνονθ' ἁλουργέσιν

ἐμβαίνοντ᾽ ἀλουργέσιν

Flor. Farn.

ἐμβαίνονθ' ἁλουργέσιν

Vict.

913

914. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-536

βάλοι Recte libri

βάλοι

, quod ab nemine correctum miratus Blomfieldius, sublata plena interpunctione post

ἔμβασιν ποδός

, edidit

βάλῃ

, comparans Eur. El. v. 900.

αἰσχύνομαι μέν, βούλομαι δ᾽ εἰπεῖν ὅμως, νεκροὺς ὑβρίζειν, μή μέ τις φθόνῳ βάλῃ,

ubi probat Tyrwhitti coniecturam

φθόνος

. Licebit vicissim mirari, non solum quod quid esset diversitatis inter hos locos non viderit Blomfieldius, sed etiam quod sententiam intulerit ineptam: quamquam etiam ab aliis haec non recte intellecta sunt. Nam quid est hoc, exuite mihi calceos, ne me deorum invidia in his purpuris incedentem adspiciat? Num si nudis pedibus incedit, minus invident dii? Immo purpuras erat deprecatus, ne superbire videretur: sed ubi cedit Clytaemnestrae, purpuris parcens soleas exuit, incessurus autem per eas optat ne deorum concitet invidiam. Accedit quod aliquid spatii inter haec disticha interiectum fuit, dum solutae essent soleae.

914

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

774-965. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-439

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.

860. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-488

ὡς ἐπλήθυον, wie häufig die Reden waren d. i. so oft, als die Rede ging.

861. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-489

„Dann könnte er traun als ein zweiter Geryon mit drei Leibern eines grofsen Erdenmantels der als Decke diente denn von dem (unendlich grofsen) unten sehe ich ab, eines dreifachen sich rühmen." Die schwülstige Redeweise kennzeichnet die unlautere Gesinnung der Klytämestra. Mit χλαίναν vgl. Hom. Г 57 λάινον ἔσσο χιτῶνα vom Steinigungstode und Theogn. 429 καὶ κεῖσθαι πολλὴν γαῖαν ἐφεσσάμενον. Von der Erde, die unter dem Toten liegt, ebenso Sept. 931 ὑπὸ δὲ σώματι γᾶς πλοῦτος ἄβυσσος ἔσται.

866-867. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-490

τεράμνων: vgl. Eur. Hipp. 768 τεράμνων ἀπὸ νυμφιδίων κρεμαστὸν ἅψεται ἀμφὶ βρόχον λευκᾶ καθαρμόζουσα δείρα, Phoen. 333 ἀνῆξε μὲν ξίφους ἐπ᾿ αὐτόχειρά τε σφαγὰν ὑπὲρ τέραμνά τ᾿ ἀγχόνας. Ζα ἐμῆς δέρης ἀνημμένης vgl. noch Eur. Hel. 136 βρόχῳ γ᾽ ἅψασαν εὐγενῆ δέρην, Hipp. 802. ἄλλοι πρὸς βίαν, nur andere gegen meinen Willen. Zu

869. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-491

Das Unterpfand unseres Ehebündnisses. Vgl. Eum. 214 .

871. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-492

Die Sage, nach der Orestes bei der Ermordung Agamemnons beiseite geschafft wird, ist geändert, damit am Schlusse (1646, 1667) auf den in der Ferne weilenden Rächer hingewiesen werden kann. Im zweiten Stück der Trilogie mufs ja auch Orestes bereits erwachsen sein. Vgl. auch Einl. S. 21.

872. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-493

Στρόφιος ὁ Φωκεύς wie Cho. 675 . ἀμφίλεκτα erklären einige,,dubia, ambigua"; nach dem Folgenden aber mufs es ,, doppelseitige" bedeuten. Vgl. γόος ἀμφιλαφής Cho. 330 von der Klage, die von den beiden Geschwistern ausgeht.

874. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-494

δημόθρους ἀναρχία, lärmender Volksaufstand.

875-876. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-495

βουλὴν καταρράψειεν, gegen das Leben des Orestes schlimme Ränkeschmiede. Vgl. ῥαφεύς 1604, Eum. 26 , Hom. π 379 οἱ φόνον αἰπὺν ἐράπτομεν, 421 Τηλεμάχῳ θάνατόν τε μόρον τε ῥάπτεις. – ὥστε, wie. τὸν πεσόντα bezieht sich auf Agamemnon. Zum Gedanken vgl. Soph. Ai. 989 τοῖς σθένουσί τοι φιλοῦσι πάντες κειμένοις ἐπεγγελᾶν, 1348 οὐ γὰρ θανόντι καὶ προσεμβῆναί σε χρή.

877. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-496

Diese meine Rechtfertigung ist frei von jedem Hintergedanken. Qui s'excuse, s'accuse, was auch für das Folgende gilt.

879. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-497

κατεσβήκασιν, exaruerunt.

880. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-498

D. i. ich wachte bis in die späte Nacht, da ich in jeder Nacht auf das Feuerzeichen wartete, und die Nachtwachen und die Thränen darüber, dafs die Interesse für dich vorbereiteten Feuer nicht beachtet (nicht angezündet) wurden, haben den Glanz meiner Augen trübe gemacht. aus

883. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-499

ὑπαὶ κώνωπος λεπταῖς ῥιπαῖσι θωύσσοντος. Für die Verbindung ὑπαὶ ῥιπαῖσι könnte man von Aschylos nur etwa Sept. 915 ἐτελεύτασαν ὑπ᾿ ἀλλαλοφόνοις χερσίν anführen.

885. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-500

πλείω τοῦ χρόνου, mehr als in der Zeit, während deren ich schlief, geschehen konnten. Die Traumbilder ziehen in so rascher Folge vorüber, dafs für die Wirklichkeit der Erscheinungen die Zeit des Schlafes viel zu kurz wäre. Mit ὁ ξυνεύδων χρόνος, die während des Schlafes vergehende Zeit, vgl. Soph. Oed. K. 7 ὁ χρόνος ξυνών (die Zeit meines Lebens), Oed. Τ. 1082 οἱ συγγενεῖς μῆνες.

⁴

886-887. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-501

Ζα ἀπενθήτῳ φρενί giebt der Zwischensatz die Erklärung: das ausgestandene Leid verwandelt sich in Freude.

888. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-502

στῦλον ποδήρη, die Säule mit festem Fufse, welche das hohe Dach des Hauses trägt. Vgl. Pind. frg. 65, 5 Bgk. ἀδαμαντοπέδιλοι κίονες.

890. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-503

Mit καί wird, wenn nicht nach Blomfields Vermutung γαῖαν für καὶ γῆν zu setzen ist, wie Eum. 758 die Handschrift καὶ γῆς für γαίας bietet, eine neue Reihe von Bildern angeknüpft, welche unverhoffte Erlösung aus grofser Not angeben, während die vorhergehenden Erhaltung und Sicherheit vor Gefahr ausdrücken. Vgl. Eur. Androm. 891 ὦ ναυτίλοισι χείματος λιμὴν φανείς, Plat. Phileb. p. 29 A καθορῶμέν που καὶ γῆν, καθάπερ οἱ χειμαζόμενοί φασιν.

891. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-504

ήμαρ κάλλιστον εἰσιδεῖν. Vgl. λευκὸν ἦμαρ 673.

892. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-505

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

⁵

894. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-506

ἀξιῶ προσφθέγμασιν, vgl. Eur. Or. 1210 καλοῖσιν ὑμεναίοισιν ἀξιουμένη.

895. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-507

γὰρ: das Übermaſs meines Glückes, das sich in meiner Begrüfsung ausgesprochen hat, darf keinen Neid erwecken, da ich es durch viele Leiden mir wohl verdient habe.

896. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-508

φίλον κάρα: vgl. Hom. 287 Τεῦκρε, φίλη κεφαλή, Hor. carm. I 24, 1 desiderio tam cari capitis.

⁶

898. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-509

πόδα πορθήτορα affektierter als etwa πόδα παρθένιον, ἀπίστῳ βραχίονι Eur. Iph. T. 130, 796.

899. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-510

τέλος, Amt, Aufgabe.

900. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-511

Diese Erfindung des Dichters steigert den Gegensatz des Scheins und der Wirklichkeit und damit die tragische Wirkung der Katastrophe.

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902. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-512

Zweideutig wie das Folgende: damit er in das unverhoffte d. i. ganz anders, als er erwartet, geschmückte Haus geführt werde wie sich's gebührt damit die Vergeltung (des vergossenen Blutes der Iphigenie) ihu in das unverhoffte Haus (des Hades) geleite.

904. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-513

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θήσει ἄρμενα, wird es passend, recht machen.

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905. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-514

In sequentibus poeta prudentissime effecit, ut Agamemnon, dum honores ab uxore sibi oblatos anxie deprecatur, quasi praesagire impendentem sibi mortem videatur (Schütz).

906. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-515

„Longa tua oratio longae absentiae meae consentanea." Inest in hac comparatione aliquid iocosae comitatis (Klausen).

907-908. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-516

ὅτι τὸ αἰνεῖσθαι δηλονότι μὴ παρὰ τῶν οἰκείων ἢ παρ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ πρέπει ἔρχεσθαι. Schol. τόδε weist wie in Prosa τοῦτο ( ταῦτα) nachdrücklich auf den Infin. zurück.

909-910. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-517

γυναικὸς ἐν τρόποις 8. v. a. ὡς γυναῖκα, dagegen βαρβάρου φωτὸς δίκην δ. ν. α. ὡς βάρβαρος. Das προσκυνεῖν war dem freien Griechen widerwärtig. Vgl. Eur. Or. 1507 προσκυνῶ σ᾽, ἄναξ, νόμοισι βαρβάροισι προσπίτνων.

911. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-518

χαμαιπετές (zu Boden geworfen, von dem Boden auf) von der Person übertragen. Damit ,,lehnt er die 897f. zu ihm auf dem Wagen emporgerichtete demütige Ansprache ab: der Schauspieler mufs dabei sich beugend und fast zu Boden bückend gedacht werden" (Schneidewin). Mit βόαμα προσχάνῃς vgl. τὰ δεινὰ ῥήματα .. χανεῖν Soph. Ai. 1226 f. , Accius Arm. iud. frg. XI vereor plus quam fas est captivum hiscere.

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913. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-519

τιμαλφεῖν: zu Eum. 15 .

Aeschylus Agamemnon 887

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Translator)

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Klytaimestra.

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ΑΓ.

Apparatus Criticus

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Come now, this say, nor feign a feeling to me!

AGAMEMNON.

With feeling, know indeed, I do not tamper!

KLUTAIMNESTRA

Vowed’st thou to the gods, in fear, to act thus?

AGAMEMNON.

If any, I well knew resolve I outspoke.

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

What think’st thou Priamos had done, thus victor?
935

AGAMEMNON.

On varied vests — I do think — he had passaged.

KLUTAIMNESTRA

Then, do not, struck with awe at human censure ....

AGAMEMNON.

Well, popular mob-outcry much avails too.

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Ay, but the unenvied is not the much valued.

AGAMEMNON.

Sure, ’t is no woman’s part to long for battle.
940

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Why, to the prosperous, even suits a beating.

AGAMEMNON.

What? thou this beating us in war dost prize too?

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Persuade thee! power, for once, grant me — and willing!

AGAMEMNON

AGAMEMNON.

Nelle insonni pupille impresso ho il danno:

ch'io piangevo per te, sempre aspettando

del fuoco il nunzio, e non giungea.
1030

Dai lievi

sogni, il susurro e il battito dell' ali

AGAMENNONE

Agamemnon.

Agamemnon.

Commentary

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Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Klytaimestra.

Current edition Experimental

ΑΓ.

Apparatus Criticus

KLUTAIMNESTRA. Come now, this say, nor feign a feeling to me!

AGAMEMNON. With feeling, know indeed, I do not tamper!

KLUTAIMNESTRA Vowed’st thou to the gods, in fear, to act thus?

AGAMEMNON. If any, I well knew resolve I outspoke.

KLUTAIMNESTRA. What think’st thou Priamos had done, thus victor? 935

AGAMEMNON. On varied vests — I do think — he had passaged.

KLUTAIMNESTRA Then, do not, struck with awe at human censure ....

AGAMEMNON. Well, popular mob-outcry much avails too.

KLUTAIMNESTRA. Ay, but the unenvied is not the much valued.

AGAMEMNON. Sure, ’t is no woman’s part to long for battle. 940

KLUTAIMNESTRA. Why, to the prosperous, even suits a beating.

AGAMEMNON. What? thou this beating us in war dost prize too?

KLUTAIMNESTRA. Persuade thee! power, for once, grant me — and willing!

AGAMEMNON

AGAMEMNON.

Nelle insonni pupille impresso ho il danno: ch'io piangevo per te, sempre aspettando del fuoco il nunzio, e non giungea. 1030 Dai lievi sogni, il susurro e il battito dell' ali

AGAMENNONE

Agamemnon.

Agamemnon.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Come now, this say, nor feign a feeling to me!

AGAMEMNON.

With feeling, know indeed, I do not tamper!

KLUTAIMNESTRA

Vowed’st thou to the gods, in fear, to act thus?

AGAMEMNON.

If any, I well knew resolve I outspoke.

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

What think’st thou Priamos had done, thus victor?
935

AGAMEMNON.

On varied vests — I do think — he had passaged.

KLUTAIMNESTRA

Then, do not, struck with awe at human censure ....

AGAMEMNON.

Well, popular mob-outcry much avails too.

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Ay, but the unenvied is not the much valued.

AGAMEMNON.

Sure, ’t is no woman’s part to long for battle.
940

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Why, to the prosperous, even suits a beating.

AGAMEMNON.

What? thou this beating us in war dost prize too?

KLUTAIMNESTRA.

Persuade thee! power, for once, grant me — and willing!

Nelle insonni pupille impresso ho il danno:

ch'io piangevo per te, sempre aspettando

del fuoco il nunzio, e non giungea.
1030

Dai lievi

sogni, il susurro e il battito dell' ali