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Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1926.

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Χοηφóρoι (Greek) (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.)

Editions (7)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 83-314 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 84 focus
φεῦ.
εἴθ᾽ εἶχε φωνὴν ἔμφρον᾽ ἀγγέλου δίκην,
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ὅπως δίφροντις οὖσα μὴ ᾿κινυσσόμην,
ἀλλ᾽ ἢ σάφ᾽ ἦν μοι τόνδ᾽ ἀποπτύσαι πλόκον,
εἴπερ γ᾽ ἀπ᾿ ἐχθροῦ κρατὸς ἦν τετμημένος,
ἢ ξυγγενὴς ἂν εἶχε συμπενθεῖν ἐμοὶ
ἄγαλμα τύμβου τοῦδε καὶ τιμὴν πατρός.
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ἀλλ᾽ εἰδότας μὲν τοὺς θεοὺς καλούμεθα,
οἵοισιν ἐν χειμῶσι ναυτίλων δίκην
στροβούμεθ᾽· εἰ δὲ χρὴ τυχεῖν σωτηρίας,
σμικροῦ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν σπέρματος μέγας πυθμήν.
καὶ μὴν στίβοι γε, δεύτερον τεκμήριον,
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ποδῶν ὅμοιοι τοῖς τ᾽ ἐμοῖσιν ἐμφερεῖς.
καὶ γὰρ δύ᾽ ἐστὸν τώδε περιγραφὰ ποδοῖν,
αὐτοῦ τ᾽ ἐκείνου καὶ συνεμπόρου τινός.
πτέρναι τενόντων θ᾽ ὑπογραφαὶ μετρούμεναι
ἐς ταυτὸ συμβαίνουσι τοῖς ἐμοῖς στίβοις.
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πάρεστι δ᾽ ὠδὶς καὶ φρενῶν καταφθορά.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 84 focus
φεῦ.
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εἴθ' εἶχε φωνὴν ἔμφρον᾽ ἀγγέλου δίκην,
ὅπως δίφροντις οὖσα μὴ κινυσσόμην,
ἀλλ᾽ ἦν σαφηνῆ τόνδ᾽ ἀποπτύσαι πλόκον,
εἴπερ γ᾽ ἀπ' ἐχθροῦ κρατὸς ἦν τετμημένος,
ἢ ξυγγενὴς ὤν, εἶχε συμπενθεῖν ἐμοὶ
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ἄγαλμα τύμβου τοῦδε καὶ τιμὴν πατρός.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 84 focus
Φεῦ·
εἴθ' εἶχε φωνὴν εὔφρον' ἀγγέλου δίκην,
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ὅπως δίφροντις οὖσα μὴ 'κινυσσόμην μἠκηνυσσόμην,
ἀλλ' εὖ σάφ' ἦν ἢ σαφηνῆ τόνδ' ἀποπτύσαι πλόκον,
εἴπερ γ' ἀπ' ἐχθροῦ κρατὸς ἦν τετμημένος,
ἢ ξυγγενὴς ὢν εἶχε συμπενθεῖν ἐμοί,
ἄγαλμα τύμβου τοῦδε καὶ τιμὴν πατρός.
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Ἀλλ' εἰδότας μὲν τοὺς θεοὺς καλούμεθα
οἵοισιν ἐν χειμῶσι ναυτίλων δίκην δίκηι (ηι in rasura)
στροβούμεθ'· εἰ δὲ χρὴ τυχεῖν σωτηρίας,
σμικροῦ γένοιτ' ἂν σπέρματος μέγας πυθμήν.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 84 focus
δμῳαὶ γυναῖκες, δωμάτων εὐθήμονες,
ἐπεὶ πάρεστε τῆσδε προστροπῆς ἐμοὶ
πομποί, γένεσθε τῶνδε σύμβουλοι πέρι·
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τύμβῳ χέουσα τάσδε κηδείους χοὰς
πῶς εὔφρον᾽ εἴπω, πῶς κατεύξωμαι πατρί;
αἰδουμένη σοι βωμὸν ὣς τύμβον πατρὸς
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λέξω, κελεύεις γάρ, τὸν ἐκ φρενὸς λόγον.
ἵετε δάκρυ καναχὲς ὀλόμενον
ὀλομένῳ δεσπότα,
πρὸς ἔρυμα τόδε κακῶν κεδνῶν τ᾿
ἀπότροπον ἄγος ἀπεύχετον
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κεχυμένων χοᾶν. κλύε δέ μοι, κλύε
σέβας, ὦ δέσποτ᾽, ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός.
ἔχει μὲν ἤδη γαπότους χοὰς πατήρ,
νέου δὲ μύθου τοῦδε κοινωνήσατε.
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φεῦ. εἴθ᾽ εἶχε φωνὴν ἔμφρον᾽ ἀγγέλου δίκην,
αὐτὸν μὲν οὖν ὁρῶσα δυσμαθεῖς ἐμέ,
κουρὰν δὲ ἰδοῦσα τήνδε κηδείου τριχὸς
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ἀνεπτερώθης κἀδόκεις ὁρᾶν ἐμέ,
ἰχνοσκοποῦσά τ᾽ ἐν στίβοισι τοῖς ἐμοῖς.
σαυτῆς ἀδελφοῦ συμμέτρου τῷ σῷ κάρᾳ
σκέψαι τομῇ προσθεῖσα βόστρυχον τριχός.
ἰδοῦ δ᾽ ὕφασμα τοῦτο, σῆς ἔργον χερός,
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ὦ παῖδες, ὦ σωτῆρες ἑστίας πατρός,
σιγᾶθ᾽, ὅπως μὴ πεύσεταί τις, ὦ τέκνα,
γλώσσης χάριν δὲ πάντ᾽ ἀπαγγείλη τάδε
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πρὸς τοὺς κρατοῦντας· οὓς ἴδοιμ᾽ ἐγώ ποτε
ἀλλ᾽ ὦ μεγάλαι Μοῖραι, Διόθεν
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τῇδε τελευτᾶν,
ᾗ τὸ δίκαιον μεταβαίνει.
ἀντὶ μὲν ἐχθρᾶς γλώσσης ἐχθρὰ
γλῶσσα τελείσθω· τοὐφειλόμενον
πράσσουσα Δίκη μέγ᾽ ἀυτεῖ·
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ἀντὶ δὲ πληγῆς φονίας φονίαν
πληγὴν τινέτω. δράσαντι παθεῖν,
τριγέρων μῦθος τάδε φωνεῖ.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 84 focus
φεῦ·
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εἴθ᾽ εἶχε φωνὴν ἔμφρον᾽ ἀγγέλου δίκην,
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ὅπως δίφροντις οὖσα μὴ κινυσσόμην,
ἀλλ᾽ εὖ σάφ᾽ ἦν ἢ τόνδ᾽ ἀποπτύσαι πλόκον,
εἴπέρ γ’ ἀπ’ ἐχθροῦ κρατὸς ἦν τετμημένος,
ἢ ξυγγενὴς ὢν εἶχε συμπενθεῖν ἐμοί,
ἄγαλμα τύμβου τοῦδε καὶ τιμὴν πατρός.
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ἀλλ᾽ εἰδότας μὲν τοὺς θεοὺς καλούμεθα,
οἵοισιν ἐν χειμῶσι ναυτίλων δίκην
στροβούμεθ’· εἰ δὲ χρὴ τυχεῖν σωτηρίας,
σμικροῦ γένοιτ’ ἂν σπέρματος μέγας πυθμήν.
καὶ μὴν στίβοι γε, δεύτερον τεκμήριον,
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Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 84 focus
φεῦ.
εἴθ᾽ εἶχε φωνὴν ἔμφρον᾿ ἀγγέλου δίκην,
ὅπως δίφροντις οὖσα μὴ ᾿κινυσσόμην,
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ἀλλ᾽ εὖ σάφ᾽ ἦν ἢ τόνδ᾽ ἀποπτύσαι πλόκον,
εἴπερ γ᾿ ἀπ᾿ ἐχθροῦ κρατὸς ἦν τετμημένος,
ἢ ξυγγενὴς ὢν εἶχε συμπενθεῖν ἐμοί,
ἄγαλμα τύμβου τοῦδε καὶ τιμὴν πατρός.
ἀλλ᾽ εἰδότας μὲν τοὺς θεοὺς καλούμεθα,
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οἷοισιν ἐν χειμῶσι ναυτίλων δίκην
στροβούμεθ᾽· εἰ δὲ χρὴ τυχεῖν σωτηρίας,
σμικροῦ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν σπέρματος μέγας πυθμήν.
Translations (10)
Libation Bearers Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 84-311 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 84 focus
Ye captive maids, ye garnishers of the palace, since ye are present as my associates in this suppliant procession, be my counsellors in this matter: when I pour these funereal drink-offerings on the tomb, how shall I say what is well-pleasing? how am I to make my prayer to my father? Shall I say that I bring them from a dear wife to a dear husband? from my mother, forsooth 1
? I dare not say it; and I know not what to say, as I pour this thick libation on the tomb of my father. Or shall I say this saying, as is the custom of mortals, that he would recompense those who send these chaplets and this gift with a [gift] worthy their misdeeds 2
or, in silence, ingloriously, even as my father perished, am I, pouring this out, a draught drunk by the earth, to move backwards 3
, like one who casts forth offscourings, as I fling from me the vessel, with eyes never looking back? In this deliberation of mine, my friends, do ye be sharers, for we hold a common object of abhorrence in the house. Hide not your feelings within your heart, through fear of any one. For Destiny awaits alike the free man, and him that is mastered by the hand of another. Tell me if thou knowest aught better than this?
Reverencing the tomb of thy sire as though an altar, I will speak, for thou biddest me, the sentiment of my soul.
Shed ye the pattering death-tear 1
for the dead sovereign, now that drink-offerings have been poured out upon this defence against both evil and good by way of averting 2
unprayed-for pollution. And do thou, O give ear, give ear, O master, from thy darkling spirit. Woe! woe! woe! woe! alas! what stout Scythian spearman is deliverer of the house, and Mars that in the conflict brandishes with his hands the curved darts, and wields hilted weapons in close combat?
My father now has the earth-drunk libations 3
; and do ye share with me in a new discourse.
Alas! would to heaven that it had an intelligent voice, like a messenger, that I might not be agitated by distracted thoughts 1
; but it were clear for me either to spurn this lock of hair when clearly recognized, if indeed it had been severed from the head of a foe, or that, if it claim kin to me, it might be able to bewail with me an ornament to this tomb and an honour to my father 2
. But we invoke the gods, who know in what tempests, like vessels, we are tossed to and fro; and if it is our destiny to attain safety, a great stock might be produced from a tiny seed. And in very truth here are tracks too, a second sign, like to feet, and bearing a resemblance to my own. For there are also here two prints of footsteps, both of himself and of some fellow-traveller. The heels and the impress of the tendons being measured, coincide exactly with my footsteps. But pains (as of a woman in travail) and prostration of mind is upon me.
Nay, now, when thou seest me in person, thou hardly knowest me, but when thou didst see your brother's shorn ringlet of mourning hair which corresponded with thine own head, and wast tracing thy footsteps in the track of my feet, thou wast all of a flutter, and didst fancy thou sawest me. Consider the ringlet of my hair, after placing it on the part whence I clipped it; and behold this web, the work of thy hand, and the strokes of the shuttle, and on it the delineation of wild beasts 2
. Be yourself 3
, and be not over-amazed in soul through joy, for I know that the dearest relatives are bitter foes to us twain.
O children, saviours of your paternal hearth, keep silence, that none may hear you, my children, and, in pleasure for the tongue, report all to the rulers :-whom may I, some time or other, see dead amid the pitchy smoke of the flame!
But, O ye mighty destinies, vouchsafe ye, by the will of Jove, that it may end in the way which Justice takes. "In return for a hostile speech be a hostile speech paid back"— cries Justice aloud as she exacts the debt,-" and in return for a murderous blow let him suffer a murderous blow." DOER MUST SUFFER; thus saith a thrice-antique saw.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 84 focus
amère. Mais, sous mes voiles, je pleure les coups aveugles du sort qui ont frappé mes maîtres, et, du deuil que je cache, mon cœur est glacé.
le même sort est réservé à l'homme, qu'il soit libre ou esclave au pouvoir d'un maître.
Parlez, de grâce, si vous avez mieux à me dire.
dus au maître mort — devant ce sûr rempart 4 dans la peine et la joie ! Leur vertu expiatoire saura détruire l'effet
des libations abominables qui viennent d'être versées. Et toi, écoute, ô Majesté ! écoute, ô maître, l'appel de mon cœur en deuil ! Las ! las ! hélas ! Ah ! quel libérateur viendra donc à cette maison, puissant
guerrier, brandissant à la fois et l'arme scythe, que les mains ploient dans la bataille, et l'épée, où lame et poignée ne font qu'un,
pour combattre de plus près ?
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malgré tout, je sens l'espoir me caresser. Ah ! si elle avait au moins la douce voix d'un messager, afin que je ne fusse plus ballottée entre deux pensées et que je pusse, en confiance, ou la jeter avec horreur, si elle fut coupée sur un front ennemi, ou, si elle est bien de mon frère, l'associer
à mon deuil, pour orner cette tombe et honorer un père ! Mais les dieux que nous invoquons savent, eux, quels orages nous emportent en leur tourbillon comme des marins en détresse, et, s'ils veulent que nous échappions au naufrage, du plus petit germe peut jaillir, immense, l'arbre du salut !
quand tu me vois, tu refuses de me reconnaître, et tout à l'heure, quand tu as aperçu cette boucle coupée en symbole de deuil, ton cœur s'est envolé
Et qu'un coup meurtrier soit puni d'un coup meurtrier : au coupable le châtiment », dit
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 84 focus
Ye captive females, to whoſe care this house
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Owes what it has of order, ſince with me
You here are preſent on these ſuppliant rites
Attendant, ſhow, inſtruct me, as I pour
These ſolemn off'rings on the tomb, what words
Of gracious potency ſhall I pronounce?
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Or how invoke my father?
Since, as ſome hallow'd ſhrine, thy father's tomb
I reverence, at thy bidding I will ſpeak.
Swell the warbling voice of woe,
Loudly let the meaſures flow;
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And ever and anon the forrowing tear
Trickling dew the hallow'd ground,
T' avert the ills we fear;
Whilſt on this ſepulchral mound
Her pious hands the pure libation ſhed,
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T'atone the mighty dead.
Hear me, O hear me, aweful lord,
Thro' the dreary gloom ador'd!
Ha! Who is this c
? See, ſiſters, ſee,
Mark with what force he ſhakes his angry lance:
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Comes he this ruin’d house to free?
So does ſome Thracian chief advance;
So Mars, when rous’d with war’s alarms,
Radiant all his claſhing arms,
Rears high his flaming falchion to the blow,
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And thunders on the foe.
’Tis finiſh'd; these libations to my father
The earth has drunk.
—Thou aweful pow'r, that holdeſt
'Twixt this ætherial ſky and the dark realms
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Beneath dread intercourſe, What may this mean?
’Tis all amazement. Share this wonder with me.
Ah, had they but a voice, cou'd they but ſpeak
That I no more might fluctuate with these doubts
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Perplex’d and troubled; cou’d they plainly tell me
If they were ſhorn from a foe’s hated head,
Or fondly mix their kindred griefs with mine,
A grace and honour to my father's tomb!
But to the Gods, that know what furious ſſtorms
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Burſt o'er me, like a ſhipwreck’d mariner,
I make appeal: if haply ought of ſafety
Remains, from this ſmall root the vig’rous trunk
May ſpread its ſhelt'ring branches.
Further mark
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Th' impreſſion of these feet c
; they ſhow that two
Trod here; himſelf perchance and his attendant;
One of th' exact dimenſions with my own.
But all is anguish and perplexity.
Thou ſeeſt me preſent, yet art ſlow to know me.
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When off'red on the tomb thou ſaw’ſt these locks,
When with thy own th' impreſſions of my feet
Were meaſur’d, joy gave wings to expectation,
And imag’d me before thee.
Mark these locks,
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Shorn from thy brother’s head; obſerve them well,
Compare
Ye generous offspring of this royal house,
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And guardians of its honour, check your tranſports;
Left they are heard, and ſome incontinent tongue
Bear them to our bad rulers: may these eyes
Firſt ſee the dark wreaths of their funeral piles.
And you, tremendous Destinies, whoſe pow'r
Is ratified by Jove, mark the firm courſe
Of juſtice, and by that direct th' event.
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Be th' inſults of the hoſtile tongue repaid
With hoſtile inſults: Juſtice calls aloud,
Demanding vengeance: let the murd'rous blow,
Requite the murd'rous blow. The ſolemn voice,
Requiring that oppreſſive force ſhou’d feel
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Oppreſſive force, is ſanctified by age.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 84 focus
E piede in questo suol mai non porrà!
A maggior pianto i tuoi detti mi sforzano.
Deh!, questo riccio intelligibil voce,
come un araldo, avesse, ed io nel dubbio
non dovessi ondeggiare: anzi mi fosse
chiaro se fu da un odïoso capo
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reciso, ed io lungi da me lo scagli;
o se fraterno, a comun lutto, a fregio
di questa tomba, a onor del padre, resti.
Ora i Numi invochiamo, essi che vedono
da che tempeste, a guisa di nocchieri,
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siamo aggirate: e se ci attende il porto,
da picciol seme nascerà gran tronco.
Or che mi scorgi, tu non mi conosci;
e prima, nel veder solo una ciocca
delle chiome fraterne, eri esaltata,
e ti sembrava di vedermi, e andavi
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investigando le mie tracce. Accosta
qui, donde fu reciso, questo ricciolo
simile alle tue chiome, e osserva. Guarda
questo tessuto: la trama dei pettini,
le forme vedi delle fiere: è opera
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della tua mano! Frenati! La gioia
non turbi la tua mente! Sai che quelli
che amar piú ci dovrebbero, ci aborrono!
O salvatori dei paterni lari,
tacete, o figli, ché non v'oda alcuno,
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e, mal frenando la sua lingua, tutto
non ripeta ai padroni.
Ah!, ch'io li vegga
d'una vampa sparir fra i picei guizzi!
Somme Parche, deh!, fate che l'esito,
col soccorso di Giove, pervenga
alla mèta cui segna Giustizia.
Reclamando Giustizia i suoi debiti,
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alto grida: «All'ingiuria nemica
sia compenso l'ingiuria nemica:
alla piaga mortale, riscatto
sia la piaga mortale. Chi offese
patisca! È antichissimo detto! ».
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Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 84 focus
Famulæ mulieres, ædium miniſtræ
Postquam adestis mihi huius supplicationis
Ductrices, estote conſultricesq; de his.
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Diceres enim, si haberes his sublimius,
Pudore affecta tibi aram tanquam ſepulchrũ patris
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Dicam: iubes enim ex mente uerbum.
Mittite lachrymas reſonantes pernicioſas
Pereunti domino.
Ob liberationem horum malorum, bonorum
Fugiendumq; dolorem execratum
Effuſis inferijs, audi uerò me. audi
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Cultum ô domine ex obſcura mente,
Heu, heu, heu.
Heu quis haſta potens
Vir dissolutor domorum Scytha hæc
Manibus flexa tela quatiens Mars,
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Et uibras enſes manubria habentes ferè interficientes.
Habet quidem iam terripota libamina pater.
Caduceatrix maxima corũ quæ ſum supra, & infrà
Huius noui sermonis participes eſtole.
Siue habuit uocem, prudentem nuncij inſtar,
Vt duplex cura exiſlens ne imaginarer.
Sed manifeſtam hanc cæſariem eijce,
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Siquidem ab hoſtis capite eſt detonſa.
Alioqui cognatus exiſtens luxiſſet mecum,
Effigiem huius ſepulchri, & honorem patris.
Sed ſcientes deos inuocamus.
In talibus tempeſtatibus nautarum inſtar
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Agitamur, fiue oportet ſalutem aſſequi,
Sitq; magnus ramus pueri ſeminis.
Attamen uestigia secundum prabent ſignum
Pedum, fimilia meis fimilibus.
Etenim duæ funt hic pedum deſcriptiones,
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Ipſius & illius, uenientis alicuius
Calcanei, tendonumq; ſubſcriptiones menſuratæ,
In hoc conueniunt cum uestigijs meis.
Adeſt uerò dolor, & mentium corruptio.
Me ipſum quidem uidens, diffidis,
Pupillamq; uidens, mõsti pili
Excitata es, & uideris uidere me.
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Speculans in uestigijs meis,
Caput fratris eiufdem menſuræ cum tuo.
Speculare sectione apponens cæſariem crinis.
En texturam opus tuæ manus,
Spathæ ictus, ferarumq; deſcriptionem,
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Non quidem inus, gaudio ne percelle mentes.
Amicos enim nostros tristes eſse animaduerti.
O'liberi, ô seruatores domus patris
Tacete, ne aliquis intelligat, ô nati.
Linguæ causa omnia nunciauerit hæc
Imperantibus, quos uiderem ego aliquando
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Mortuos, in galla picea flamma.
Sed ô magnæ Parcæ contingat ex Ioue
Huic mori.
Huic ius descendat.
Contrà enim inimicam linguam inimica
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Lingua fiat, debitum
Agens iuſticæ magnum clamat.
Pro plaga uerò cruenta cruentam
Plagam pendat, patranti contingere
Hæc antiquus sermo clamat.
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Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 84 focus
Ihr Mägde, wie in unserm Haus ihr willig schafft,
wie ihr auf diesem Bittgang mir Geleiter wart,
so ratet mir auch hierin: welchen Segenswunsch
sag' ich dazu, wenn ich die Spenden auf das Grab
ausschütte? Womit sprech' ich meinen Vater an?
90 Sag' ich 'dem treuen Gatten schickt das treue Weib
dies Opfer' - das die Mutter schickt? Das wag' ich
nicht
und finde keine Worte: denn es ist das Grab
des Vaters, dem die Totenspende rinnen soll.
Darf ich die Formel brauchen, die die Sitte heischt
95 'mit Gleichem mög' er denen, die den Grabesschmuck
gesandt, vergelten' - mit dem Gleichen, Weh für Weh?
Ist's besser ganz zu schweigen? Schmählich war
sein Tod,
so schütt' ich schmählich ihm die Spenden in den
Staub,
werf hinter mich die Schalen, abgewandten Blicks,
und gehe - Schmutzgewässer, das Besudelung
von einem Haus gewaschen, giefst man also weg.
100 In dieser Überlegung, bitte, steht mir bei;
des gleichen Hasses Bande machen uns verwandt.
Und berget nichts in eurem Busen, denn ihr braucht
niemand zu fürchten: steh' er unter Herrenfaust,
leb' er in Freiheit, jedes harret sein Geschick.
105 Nun sagt ihr's wohl, so ihr mir Bess'res raten könnt.
Gleich dem Altar verehr' ich deines Vaters Grab
und sage dir gehorsam, was das Herz mir rät.
Lafst rinnen die Zähren,
zerrinnen im Staub.
Staub ward der Herr,
ihm rinne die Zähre,
sein Grab ist uns Zuflucht
in Freud und Leid.
Wir weinen und beten, den Zauber
der Grabesspenden zu brechen.
Erhör' uns, Herr,
erhabner Fürst,
hindurch durch die Nacht,
die die Seele dir deckt,
erhör' uns.
Wehe! wehe! wehe!
Ach, kommt denn keiner
das Haus zu erlösen?
Fäll' er die Lanze,
160 spann' er zum Schusse
skythischen Bogen,
pack' er des Schwertes
Knauf im Gefechte
Brust an Brust.
Die Spende für den Vater sog der Boden ein,
166 doch steht mir nun in einer neuen Sorge bei.
Ach,
195 ach hättest du nur eine Stimme, Lockenhaar,
daſs nicht der Zweifel meinen Busen schütterte,
ich fester Hand dich von mir würfe, wenn das Haupt
mir feindlich wäre, dem das Eisen dich entrifs,
doch wärst du mir befreundet, klagten wir vereint
200 zu Vaters Ehren, zu des Vaters Trauerschmuck.
Indess die Götter kennen ja des Zweifels Sturm,
der meines Herzens Schifflein hin und wider wirft,
und ist Erlösung uns beschieden, wächst geschwind
aus kleinstem Samenkorne höchsten Segens Baum.
Kleingläub'ge, jetzt, wo ich leibhaftig vor dir steh',
mifskennst du mich, und als du meine Locke sahst,
227 das Traueropfer, das ich für den Vater schnitt,
da stand ich ganz vor der entzückten Seele dir.
230 Sieh doch nur her: die Locke pafst an diesen Schnitt,
sieh auch den Mantel: deine Hände woben ihn,
hier diesen Leu hat deine Nadel eingestickt.
Ihr teuren Kinder, für den väterlichen Herd
265 die Rettungshoffnung, schweiget, sonst belauscht man
uns.
Bedenkt, wie leicht wird alles von geschäft'gem Mund
den Herrn verraten o daſs ich's erst sähe, wie
der Scheiterhaufen unter ihren Leichen schwelt.
Und ihr Lenker der Geschicke droben,
führt zu solchem Ausgang diese Sache,
dafs das Recht am Ziel befriedigt stehe.
'Wo die Zunge schlug mit argem Worte,
310 räche sich mit argem Wort die Zunge',
laut verkündet Dike, nimm dein Recht.
Und wer Todeswunde schlug, empfahe
Todeswunde, was er that, das leid' er:
'Blut um Blut'. Es ist ein alter Spruch.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 84 focus
Chorus
Our prayers, in concert, to the shades descend;
Give ear, and rising to the day
Against our foes join thou the fray.
ORESTES
ANTISTROPHE IX.
Ares shall cope with Ares,-Right with Right.
ELECTRA
Ye gods, give righteous judgment in the fight.
Chorus
Hearing your prayers, I tremble: hid in night,
Tarries from Eld the doom of Fate;
Invoked it cometh, sure, though late.
ORESTES and ELECTRA
STROPHE X.
Oh curse that in our house doth reign!
Discordant Atè's murd'rous blow!
460 Alas intolerable pain!
Alas for cureless woe!
Chorus
ANTISTROPHE X.
No foreign aid can bring relief;
No! from yourselves the cure must flow.
'Tis blood must staunch your household grief.
So chant the gods below.
Chorus-Leader
Hear, blessed powers;
Beneath the earth our orisons attend!
And with aspèct benign,
471 476
Succour and conquest to the children send!
ORESTES
470 My Father, in no kingly fashion slain,
To me, thy suppliant, grant to sway thy house.
ELECTRA
I too, my Father, need thy gracious aid,
To flee, when wrought is base Ægisthos' doom,
ORESTES
So mortal men to thee shall dedicate
The solemn banquet;-else, unhonoured thou,
When grateful reek rich off'rings to the dead.
ELECTRA
Nuptial libations of my heritage
I too will bring from the paternal home,
And chief in honour will this tomb adorn.
ORESTES
O Earth, my sire upsend to watch the fray.
480
ELECTRA
O Proserpine, grant beautiful success!
ORESTES
Think, Father, of the bath that reaved thy life.
ELECTRA
Think of the net in which they tangled thee.
ORESTES
In shackles, not of brass, wast thou ensnared.
ELECTRA
Basely enveloped in the treacherous folds.
ORESTES
Art thou not roused by these reproaches, Sire?
ELECTRA
Dost thou not lift erect thine honoured head?
ORESTES
Either send Justice, ally to thy friends,
Or give them in like grasp thy foes to hold,
490
If thou, o'erthrown, wouldst victor be in turn.
ELECTRA
And hearken, Father, this my last appeal;
Behold thy fledglings nestled on thy tomb;
Pity thy progeny of either sex,
Nor Pelops' remnant seed exterminate;
For in their life thou livest, even in death.
For children are as voices that prolong
The dead man's fame; like corks they float the net,
The flaxen line upbearing from the deep.
Thyself art saved, if thou dost grant our prayer.
500
Chorus
Unblamed in sooth have ye your speech prolonged,
Due to his tomb and unlamented fate.
But since to action now thy soul is braced,
To work forthwith! and in the god confide.
ORESTES
So be it! yet not out of course I ask
What mean these off'rings? By what motive swayed,
Seeks she too late to med'cine cureless bale?
For to the dead, who heeds it not, she sends
A sorry tribute ;—I divine it not!
510
Her crime o'ertops the gift;—for should we pour
Earth's treasures to atone for one man's blood,
Vain were the toil;-so runs the ancient saw.
But if thou knowest answer to my prayer.
Chorus
That can I, son, for I was there ;-by dreams,
And troublous terrors of the night appalled,
The godless woman sent these sacred rites.
ORESTES
Heard ye the dream, and truly can rehearse?
Chorus
She, as herself relates, a dragon bare.
ORESTES
And what the scope, the issue, of the dream?
Chorus
In swathing-clothes she moored it as a child.
520
ORESTES
What nurture might the new-born horror crave?
Chorus
She, in her dream, herself held forth the breast.
ORESTES
How by the pest the nipple then unscathed?
Chorus
With nurture-milk it sucked the clotted blood.
ORESTES
Not vain the dream but by her husband sent;-
Chorus
In terorr shrieked she, waking up from sleep,
And many torches, in the darkness quenched,
Gleamed through the palace in our mistress' aid;
Libations to the tomb forthwith she sends
Devising for her woe a sovereign cure.
530
ORESTES
I to this earth and to my father's tomb
Pray that this dream be consummate in me.
And as I read it, sooth, it tallies well.
For if the snake, quitting the self-same womb,
Was girded straightway with my swathing-clothes,
And, gaping round the breast that nourished me,
Sucked with my nurture-milk the clotted blood,
While she in terror, at the portent shrieked ;—
Needs must it be, that she who reared the pest
A forceful death must die. I, dragon-like,
540
Myself shall slay her, as this dream declares.—
As augur of these portents thee I choose.
Chorus
So let it be! But now direct thy friends,
These how to act, or those aloof to bide.
ORESTES
Hear then, in brief;— Sister, go thou within;
But you I counsel to conceal my plans.
For as with guile an honoured man they slew,
Themselves with guile shall be entrapped, and die
In the same toils, foretold by Loxias,
Apollo Lord, no faithless seer of yore.—
550
For I, equipped for travel, with this man,
With Pylades, will reach the outer gate;
I as a stranger;-he as ransom-friend ;-
Familiar both with the Parnassian speech,
The tongue of Phocis we will imitate.
And if no friendly warder, on the plea
That by dire evils is the house possessed,
Will give us entrance, we without will bide,
Until some passer guess our plight, and say,
"If that Ægisthos knoweth, being at home,
560
Why 'gainst the suppliant doth he shut the door?"
If, passing then the threshold of the gates,
Him I discover on my father's seat,-
Or should he meet me face to face, and set
His eyes on me, ere he can speak the word,
"Whence is this stranger?"—I will lay him dead,
Spitting his body round my nimble steel.
The Fury thus, of gore insatiate,
Shall blood untempered quaff, third, crowning draught.
[To ELECTRA.]
Go thou,-keep watchful guard within the house,
570
That all, well ordered, fitly may combine.
[To the Chorus.]
To you a tongue of wisdom I commend,
To speak in season, or from speech refrain.-
[To PYLADES.]
And for the rest let this man look to it,
When in the strife of swords this arm hath won.
Chorus
STROPHE I.
Full many a horror drear
And ghastly, Earth doth rear;-
With direful monsters teems encircling Ocean;
Meteors, with threatening sheen,
580
Hang heaven and earth between ;—
The tempest's wrath still raves with wild commotion;
These, and dire wingèd things, and things that crawl,
Thou mayst describe them all.
ANTISTROPHE I.
But man's audacious might
What words can paint aright,
Or woman's daring spirit who may tell?
Her passion's frenzied throes,
Co-mates of mortal woes?
For love unlovely, when its evil spell
590
'Mong brutes or men the feebler sex befools,
Conjugial bands o'errules.
STROPHE II.
Let him confirm the truth I sing,
594
Whose thoughts soar not on Folly's wing,
Knowing full well what Thestios' daughter planned * ;—
Her fiery plot, child-murdering;
Wretched, who burnt her son's coeval brand.
Born with him when he cried
First from the mother's womb;-
Like-aged with him it died,
600
When dawned his day of doom.
ANTISTROPHE II. 602
Needs must we loathe another dame,
The bloody Scylla, known to fame, *
Who lured by Minos' gifts of fine-wrought gold,
Neck-gear from Crete,-devoid of shame,
Nisos her sire, a friend to foemen, sold.
Deep-breathing, free from care,
In slumber while he lay,
Ruthless she cut th' immortal hair :
610
And Hermes seized his prey.
STROPHE III. 612
But since these direful woes have burst,
†Untimely, into song:-
Be the foul wedlock too accursed,
That doth this palace wrong.—
And cursed be the plot that snared
(By woman's brain devised,)
The armed chief who foemen scared,
Whom faithful lieges prized.
Dear is to me the unstained hearth, and dear
In woman's hand the unaudacious spear.
ANTISTROPHE III.
But first of woes in every clime,
620
The Lemnian is deplored ;— *
And still the most detested crime
As Lemnian is abhorred.
623
Branded with infamy by men,
The impious disappear;
For whom the righteous gods condemn,
No mortal dares revere.—
The lore which thus we chant in choral strain,
Say ye, doth Reason at her bar arraign?
STROPHE IV.
Right through the lungs doth Justice' hand
Drive home the bitter steel;
630
†For all must perish who withstand
631
Her mandates, and with reckless heel,
Trample high Jove's command.
ANTISTROPHE IV.
Firm based is Justice; Fate of yore
Forged weapon for the blow;
Deep-souled Erinys doth restore
Th' avenger to his home, and, lo!
639 646
He pays the bloody score.
ORESTES
[Knocking at the gate.]
Boy, hear the knocking, at the outer gate;-
640
Who is within? Hola! Again I call.-
For the third time I crave a parley here,
If that Ægisthos heeds the stranger's rights.
Attendant
Well, well, I hear. Who art thou, friend, and whence?
ORESTES
Me to the rulers of this house announce,
For unto them, bearer of news, I come.
Haste, for Night's dusky car rolls on apace,
And time it is for weary traveller
Anchor to drop in hospitable home.
Let one in trust, a woman bearing rule,
650
Come forth; yet more decorous were a man.
For when by bashfulness the tongue is swayed
Darkened is speech ;—boldly man speaks to man,
And tells his message forth without reserve.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Speak, strangers, what your need? for here is found
Whate'er beseemeth royal halls like these ;—
Warm baths, the easeful couch that charmeth toil,
And fair regard from justice-beaming eyes.
But if your mission here doth counsel crave,
660
'Tis men's concern:-we will inform them straight.
ORESTES
From Phocis I, a Daulian, stranger here.-
What time my home I left, for Argos bound,
Starting on foot, with baggage self-equipped,
A man to me unknown, as I to him,
Met me, inquired my route and told me his.
Strophios, the Phocian, as in talk I learned.
"Stranger," he said, "since Argos is thy goal,
Say to the parents,”—strictly mark my words,——
"Dead is Orestes;-grave it on thy mind;-
670
Whether the counsel of his friends prevail
To bring him home, or give him sepulture,
Alien for aye;-bear thou their mandates back;
For now the brazen urn doth shroud from sight
The ashes of the hero duly wept."
Such words I heard, and tell thee;—if to those
Who here bear rule I speak, kin to the dead,
I know not;-but 'tis meet his sire should know.
ELECTRA
Woe's me! Then are we utterly undone!
O household Fury, hard to grapple with,
680
Alas how many, seemingly secure,
Thy ruthless arrow hitteth from afar,
While wretched me thou hast stript bare of friends.
And now, Orestes, who, by lucky chance,
His foot from ruin's slough had well-nigh freed,
Cancels by death our cherished hope, sole cure
Of the ill revelry that reigneth here.
ORESTES
With hosts so richly dowered I fain had sought
Acquaintance and kind cheer, as messenger
690
Bearing more welcome tidings; for what bond
More friendly than of stranger to his hosts?
Yet not to consummate to friends a charge
So weighty deemed I an impiety,
After assent and pledges of good-will.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Worthy regard not less shalt thou receive;
Nor have the less fair welcome to this house.
Another all the same had brought thy news.
But time it is that strangers who have spent
The day in travel should their strength recruit.
700
[To an Attendant.]
To the men's chambers usher him as guest,
His escort too, and fellow-traveller.
There be they tended as befits this house.
Do ye my will as who must give account.
Ourselves will to the rulers of this house
Impart the tidings, and not poor in friends,
We will take counsel touching this mischance.
ORESTES
O Earth, my sire upsend to watch the fray.
480
ELECTRA
O Proserpine, grant beautiful success!
ORESTES
Think, Father, of the bath that reaved thy life.
ELECTRA
Think of the net in which they tangled thee.
ORESTES
In shackles, not of brass, wast thou ensnared.
ELECTRA
Basely enveloped in the treacherous folds.
ORESTES
Art thou not roused by these reproaches, Sire?
ELECTRA
Dost thou not lift erect thine honoured head?
ORESTES
Either send Justice, ally to thy friends,
Or give them in like grasp thy foes to hold,
490
If thou, o'erthrown, wouldst victor be in turn.
ELECTRA
And hearken, Father, this my last appeal;
Behold thy fledglings nestled on thy tomb;
Pity thy progeny of either sex,
Nor Pelops' remnant seed exterminate;
For in their life thou livest, even in death.
For children are as voices that prolong
The dead man's fame; like corks they float the net,
The flaxen line upbearing from the deep.
Thyself art saved, if thou dost grant our prayer.
500
Chorus
Unblamed in sooth have ye your speech prolonged,
Due to his tomb and unlamented fate.
But since to action now thy soul is braced,
To work forthwith! and in the god confide.
ORESTES
So be it! yet not out of course I ask
What mean these off'rings? By what motive swayed,
Seeks she too late to med'cine cureless bale?
For to the dead, who heeds it not, she sends
A sorry tribute ;—I divine it not!
510
Her crime o'ertops the gift;—for should we pour
Earth's treasures to atone for one man's blood,
Vain were the toil;-so runs the ancient saw.
But if thou knowest answer to my prayer.
Chorus
That can I, son, for I was there ;-by dreams,
And troublous terrors of the night appalled,
The godless woman sent these sacred rites.
ORESTES
Heard ye the dream, and truly can rehearse?
Chorus
She, as herself relates, a dragon bare.
ORESTES
And what the scope, the issue, of the dream?
Chorus
In swathing-clothes she moored it as a child.
520
ORESTES
What nurture might the new-born horror crave?
Chorus
She, in her dream, herself held forth the breast.
ORESTES
How by the pest the nipple then unscathed?
Chorus
With nurture-milk it sucked the clotted blood.
ORESTES
Not vain the dream but by her husband sent;-
Chorus
In terorr shrieked she, waking up from sleep,
And many torches, in the darkness quenched,
Gleamed through the palace in our mistress' aid;
Libations to the tomb forthwith she sends
Devising for her woe a sovereign cure.
530
ORESTES
I to this earth and to my father's tomb
Pray that this dream be consummate in me.
And as I read it, sooth, it tallies well.
For if the snake, quitting the self-same womb,
Was girded straightway with my swathing-clothes,
And, gaping round the breast that nourished me,
Sucked with my nurture-milk the clotted blood,
While she in terror, at the portent shrieked ;—
Needs must it be, that she who reared the pest
A forceful death must die. I, dragon-like,
540
Myself shall slay her, as this dream declares.—
As augur of these portents thee I choose.
Chorus
So let it be! But now direct thy friends,
These how to act, or those aloof to bide.
ORESTES
Hear then, in brief;— Sister, go thou within;
But you I counsel to conceal my plans.
For as with guile an honoured man they slew,
Themselves with guile shall be entrapped, and die
In the same toils, foretold by Loxias,
Apollo Lord, no faithless seer of yore.—
550
For I, equipped for travel, with this man,
With Pylades, will reach the outer gate;
I as a stranger;-he as ransom-friend ;-
Familiar both with the Parnassian speech,
The tongue of Phocis we will imitate.
And if no friendly warder, on the plea
That by dire evils is the house possessed,
Will give us entrance, we without will bide,
Until some passer guess our plight, and say,
"If that Ægisthos knoweth, being at home,
560
Why 'gainst the suppliant doth he shut the door?"
If, passing then the threshold of the gates,
Him I discover on my father's seat,-
Or should he meet me face to face, and set
His eyes on me, ere he can speak the word,
"Whence is this stranger?"—I will lay him dead,
Spitting his body round my nimble steel.
The Fury thus, of gore insatiate,
Shall blood untempered quaff, third, crowning draught.
[To ELECTRA.]
Go thou,-keep watchful guard within the house,
570
That all, well ordered, fitly may combine.
[To the Chorus.]
To you a tongue of wisdom I commend,
To speak in season, or from speech refrain.-
[To PYLADES.]
And for the rest let this man look to it,
When in the strife of swords this arm hath won.
Chorus
STROPHE I.
Full many a horror drear
And ghastly, Earth doth rear;-
With direful monsters teems encircling Ocean;
Meteors, with threatening sheen,
580
Hang heaven and earth between ;—
The tempest's wrath still raves with wild commotion;
These, and dire wingèd things, and things that crawl,
Thou mayst describe them all.
ANTISTROPHE I.
But man's audacious might
What words can paint aright,
Or woman's daring spirit who may tell?
Her passion's frenzied throes,
Co-mates of mortal woes?
For love unlovely, when its evil spell
590
'Mong brutes or men the feebler sex befools,
Conjugial bands o'errules.
STROPHE II.
Let him confirm the truth I sing,
Whose thoughts soar not on Folly's wing,
Knowing full well what Thestios' daughter planned * ;—
Her fiery plot, child-murdering;
Wretched, who burnt her son's coeval brand.
Born with him when he cried
First from the mother's womb;-
Like-aged with him it died,
600
When dawned his day of doom.
ANTISTROPHE II.
Needs must we loathe another dame,
The bloody Scylla, known to fame, *
Who lured by Minos' gifts of fine-wrought gold,
Neck-gear from Crete,-devoid of shame,
Nisos her sire, a friend to foemen, sold.
Deep-breathing, free from care,
In slumber while he lay,
Ruthless she cut th' immortal hair :
610
And Hermes seized his prey.
STROPHE III.
But since these direful woes have burst,
†Untimely, into song:-
Be the foul wedlock too accursed,
That doth this palace wrong.—
And cursed be the plot that snared
(By woman's brain devised,)
The armed chief who foemen scared,
Whom faithful lieges prized.
Dear is to me the unstained hearth, and dear
In woman's hand the unaudacious spear.
ANTISTROPHE III.
But first of woes in every clime,
620
The Lemnian is deplored ;— *
And still the most detested crime
As Lemnian is abhorred.
Branded with infamy by men,
The impious disappear;
For whom the righteous gods condemn,
No mortal dares revere.—
The lore which thus we chant in choral strain,
Say ye, doth Reason at her bar arraign?
STROPHE IV.
Right through the lungs doth Justice' hand
Drive home the bitter steel;
630
†For all must perish who withstand
Her mandates, and with reckless heel,
Trample high Jove's command.
ANTISTROPHE IV.
Firm based is Justice; Fate of yore
Forged weapon for the blow;
Deep-souled Erinys doth restore
Th' avenger to his home, and, lo!
He pays the bloody score.
ORESTES
[Knocking at the gate.]
Boy, hear the knocking, at the outer gate;-
640
Who is within? Hola! Again I call.-
For the third time I crave a parley here,
If that Ægisthos heeds the stranger's rights.
Attendant
Well, well, I hear. Who art thou, friend, and whence?
ORESTES
Me to the rulers of this house announce,
For unto them, bearer of news, I come.
Haste, for Night's dusky car rolls on apace,
And time it is for weary traveller
Anchor to drop in hospitable home.
Let one in trust, a woman bearing rule,
650
Come forth; yet more decorous were a man.
For when by bashfulness the tongue is swayed
Darkened is speech ;—boldly man speaks to man,
And tells his message forth without reserve.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Speak, strangers, what your need? for here is found
Whate'er beseemeth royal halls like these ;—
Warm baths, the easeful couch that charmeth toil,
And fair regard from justice-beaming eyes.
But if your mission here doth counsel crave,
660
'Tis men's concern:-we will inform them straight.
ORESTES
From Phocis I, a Daulian, stranger here.-
What time my home I left, for Argos bound,
Starting on foot, with baggage self-equipped,
A man to me unknown, as I to him,
Met me, inquired my route and told me his.
Strophios, the Phocian, as in talk I learned.
"Stranger," he said, "since Argos is thy goal,
Say to the parents,”—strictly mark my words,——
"Dead is Orestes;-grave it on thy mind;-
670
Whether the counsel of his friends prevail
To bring him home, or give him sepulture,
Alien for aye;-bear thou their mandates back;
For now the brazen urn doth shroud from sight
The ashes of the hero duly wept."
Such words I heard, and tell thee;—if to those
Who here bear rule I speak, kin to the dead,
I know not;-but 'tis meet his sire should know.
ELECTRA
Woe's me! Then are we utterly undone!
O household Fury, hard to grapple with,
680
Alas how many, seemingly secure,
Thy ruthless arrow hitteth from afar,
While wretched me thou hast stript bare of friends.
And now, Orestes, who, by lucky chance,
His foot from ruin's slough had well-nigh freed,
Cancels by death our cherished hope, sole cure
Of the ill revelry that reigneth here.
ORESTES
With hosts so richly dowered I fain had sought
Acquaintance and kind cheer, as messenger
690
Bearing more welcome tidings; for what bond
More friendly than of stranger to his hosts?
Yet not to consummate to friends a charge
So weighty deemed I an impiety,
After assent and pledges of good-will.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Worthy regard not less shalt thou receive;
Nor have the less fair welcome to this house.
Another all the same had brought thy news.
But time it is that strangers who have spent
The day in travel should their strength recruit.
700
[To an Attendant.]
To the men's chambers usher him as guest,
His escort too, and fellow-traveller.
There be they tended as befits this house.
Do ye my will as who must give account.
Ourselves will to the rulers of this house
Impart the tidings, and not poor in friends,
We will take counsel touching this mischance.
Chorus
Dear handmaidens! Sisters dear!
When, oh when, full voiced and clear,
Shall we, for Orestes' sake,
Loud the joyous Paan wake?
Hallowed Earth! Oh shrine revered!
Funeral barrow high upreared,
710
O'er the naval hero-king,
Now give ear, deliv'rance bring!
Strikes the hour;-persuasive Guile
Enters now the lists. The while
Hermes leads to watch the fight
Of murd'rous swords and subtle wile,
†Erinys, brood of Night.
Chorus-Leader
This stranger, as it seems, is causing bale,
For I behold Orestes' nurse in tears;
Where wendest thou, Kilissa, past the gates?
720
730
Sorrow, I trow, unbidden goes with thee.
Nurse
My mistress bade me summon with all speed
Ægisthos to the strangers, that he may
More clearly learn, as man from man, this tale
Newly announced. Before the menial train,
She, at the tidings by these strangers brought,
'Neath mournful eyes a lurking smile hath veiled,
Exulting in events joyous for her,
But to this house with direst issue fraught;—
But he no doubt will in his soul rejoice,
Hearing the tale. Alas! unhappy me!
730
How did the ancient troubles, hard to bear,
Whose blended horror darkened Atreus' house,
With anguish pierce my heart! But ne'er before,
Have I a sorrow like to this endured.
All other ills I patiently have borne,
But dear Orestes, darling of my soul,
Whom from his mother's womb I fondly reared,
Whose piercing summons waked me up at night,
And for whose sake full many a fruitless toil
I bore ungrudging;-for like lamb unweaned,
740
The witless infant we perforce must rear
According to its mood;-how otherwise!
For while in swathing-clothes no voice it hath,
When pressed by hunger, thirst, or nature's call,
But wilful is each tender organ's play.
Such wants presaging, ay, and oft deceived,
As cleanser of his swaddling bands, I ween,
Fuller and nurse had common duty there.
I thus installed in double handicraft,
The young Orestes for his father reared.
750
Oh wretched me to hear that he is dead;
But now I go, the spoiler of this house
To seek ;-right gladly will he learn the tale.
Chorus
And how equipped doth she then bid him come?
Nurse
How? Speak again that I may clearly know.
Chorus
Whether with body-guards, or all alone?
Nurse
Spear-bearing followers she bids him bring.
Chorus
Bear not this message to our hateful lord.
But with all speed do thou with cheerful mien
Bid him approach, that fearless he may hear;
For crooked word the messenger makes straight.
760
Nurse
How! art thou sound in mind with news so sad?
Chorus
But haply Zeus a change-wind may vouchsafe.
Nurse
Nay, with Orestes vanished all our hopes.
Chorus
Not yet! Dull prophet might interpret here.
Nurse
What! knowest aught beyond what hath been told?
Chorus
Go, bear thy message. Do as we enjoin,
What the gods purpose, that will they effect.
Nurse
Be it, I go and will obey thy words,
Fair be the issue by the gift of Heaven!
Chorus
STROPHE I.
Sire of Olympian gods, thy suppliant calls!
770
Oh waft propitious Fortune to these halls!
Dispensing justice with omniscient might,
†Bless thou my longing sight!
This boon I crave! Guard him, great Zeus, and save!
STROPHE II.
Him, in these halls ancestral, place
Before his foeman ;-bring them face to face!
Him if thou lift to greatness, Power divine,
Requital double, triple, shall be thine.
ANTISTROPHE I.
Of him whom thou didst love behold the son
780
Orphaned, a colt harnessed in sorrow's trace;
†Set thou a limit to his toilsome race!
Grant him his course to run,
With steps firm planted, and well-ordered pace!
STROPHE III.
You too, frequenting the recess
†Of wealth-rejoicing homes, I now address;
789
Hear, ye consentient Gods! Through bloody deed
Retributive, wash out the gore,
790
Dread heirloom from those slain of yore.
Let murder in this palace cease to breed,
When paid the bloody score!
MESODE. 794
Thou tenant of the cave,-great Spirit,
Give to the hero to inherit
His halls ancestral;-may his eyes,
Fearless and bright,
Peer freely forth from sorrow's veilèd night.
ANTISTROPHE III.
†May Maia's son, well-versed in guile,
800
Upon the righteous cause propitious smile!
800
Dark words and subtle speaking, he by night
Men's eyes o'ercloudeth, nor by day
More manifest his secret way.
Yet many a deed, in darkness veiled awhile,
By him is brought to light.
STROPHE IV. 806
The work achieved, we'll chant the glorious ode;
Our woman's strain,
Propitious, with the mourners' stringed refrain,
Shall ransom this abode.
†Then shall we own the sway of righteous laws,
810
While Atè from our friends her curse withdraws.
ANTISTROPHE II. 811
When the fierce business must be done,
When in thine ear she whimpers forth, "My Son;"
Steeling thy heart, recall thy slaughtered sire,
†And cónsummate unblamed the vengeance dire.
ANTISTROPHE IV.
With heart of Perseus steadfast in thy breast,
For the dear love
819
Of friends below the earth, and friends above,
†Complete the sacrifice;—
820
Within the house plant thou grim Death,-dire guest,-
827 831
And let the murderer forfeit murder's price.
ÆGISTHOS
Not uninvoked I come, but hither called;-
For strangers, as I learn, are here arrived,
Bearers of news, unwelcome to our ears,-
Orestes' death, which, charged upon this house,
From former wound still ulcerate and sore,
To me a burden were, dripping with fear.
But say, these tidings must I hold for true,
830
Or rumours deem them, coined by women's fears,
That aimless cleave the air, and aimless die?
Knowest thou aught that may my mind assure?
Chorus
We have but heard: go thou thyself within.
Question these strangers ;—second-hand reports
Avail not as to hear the tale oneself.
ÆGISTHOS
Fain would I see the messenger and learn
Whether himself was present at the death,
Or if from blind report this tale he heard;
A wakeful mind he will not soon deceive.
Chorus
Zeus, great Zeus, how frame my cry
840
Thine aid to win?
How, invoking thee on high,
My strain begin?
For anon with murderous blow,
Either shall the gory blade
Atreus' royal house o'erthrow,—
Prone in dust for ever laid,—
Or in Freedom's sacred name,
Kindling fire and holy light,
850
Shall the rightful heir reclaim
†Wealth and crown,-his twofold right.
Sole against the tyrant pair,
To such deadly grapple hies
Agamemnon's godlike heir;-
None to follow if he dies! *
Crown, oh crown, the great emprize!
ÆGISTHOS
[Behind the scene.]
Alas, woe's me! Alas!
Chorus
Hark! Hark! again!
How is't? What's wrought within?
Stand we aloof while Slaughter does her work,
Lest we as partners in the deed appear:
860
For now achieved the issue is of strife.
Servant
[Rushing out of the palace.]
Oh woe! oh grievous woe! our master's slain;
Yet once again, and for the third time, woe.
Ægisthos is no more. With utmost speed
[He knocks at the door of the women's palace.]
With crowbars from the hinges heave the doors;
The women's rooms unclose ;-strength need we here,
Not for the slain; what booteth aid to him?
Alas! alas! what, shout I to the deaf,
Or clamour vainly in dull sleepers' ears?
What doeth Clytemnestra? Where is she?
870
Her neck it seems toucheth the razor's edge;
Herself, ere long shall perish, justly slain.
CLYTEMNESTRA
[Enters hurriedly, unattended.]
What is't? What tumult raise ye in the house?
Servant
The dead, I tell you, now the living slays.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Alas! of these dark words the sense I catch;
Through guile we perish, as through guile we slew.
A deadly axe reach hither ;—
[Exit Servant.]
We shall see
Whether I'm vanquished here, or vanquisher;
For to this crisis hath the evil come.
ORESTES
Thee too I seek,-that caitiff hath his due.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Alas! beloved Ægisthos, art thou dead?
ORESTES
Dost love this man? With him, in the same tomb,
880
Then shalt thou lie ;-still faithful found in death.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Hold! hold! my son ;-Revere, my child, this breast
From which, a sleeping infant, thou full oft,
With toothless gums, thy nurture-milk hast sucked.
ORESTES
Speak, Pylades;-Through filial reverence,
Shall I forbear to shed a mother's blood?
PYLADES
The Pythian oracles, still unfulfilled,
Where are they, and thine own firm-plighted vows?
Choose all for foemen rather than the gods.
ORESTES
Thou hast prevailed; wisely thou promptest me;
[To CLYTEMNESTRA.]
So follow;-by his side I thee would slay.
890
In life thou didst exalt him o'er my sire;
Since him thou lovest, sleep with him in death;
Whom thou wast bound to love thou didst abhor.
CLYTEMNESTRA
I nourished thee;-with thee I would grow old.
ORESTES
Thou, slayer of my father, dwell with me!
CLYTEMNESTRA
Fate was, my child, accomplice in these woes.
ORESTES
And Fate doth now no less thy death ordain.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Dost thou not reverence thy mother's curse?
ORESTES
My mother, thou didst cast me forth for woe.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Not outcast wast thou in a friendly house.
900
ORESTES
Sold doubly was I, scion of free sire.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Where then the price for which I bartered thee?
ORESTES
It shameth me, in sooth, to charge thee home.
CLYTEMNESTRA
But tell with mine the errors of thy sire.
ORESTES
Sitting at home blame not abroad who toils.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Wretched we women severed from our mates.
ORESTES
The husband's toil supports the wife at home.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Thy mother, O my child, art nerved to slay?
ORESTES
Thyself art guilty of thy death, not I.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Take heed, beware thy mother's vengeful hounds.
910
ORESTES
Those of my sire how 'scape if thee I spare?
CLYTEMNESTRA
Living, vain moanings to a tomb I pour.
ORESTES
Ay, for my father's fate doth work thy doom.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Ah me! this man the snake I bare and reared.
ORESTES
True prophet was thy dream-engendered fear.
Him thou didst slay whom thou shouldst not have slain.
So doom unseemly suffer in thy turn.
Chorus
F'en of this pair I weep the twofold woe.
But since Orestes hath the bloody height
Achieved of dire revenge, one hope remains,
920
Not quenched the eye of Atreus' royal house.
STROPHE I.
As fell at last on Priam's guilty race
The late avenging Fate ;-
A twofold lion now, a twofold Mars
Treads Atreus' halls elate.
Sent from the Pythian shrine
By oracle divine,
Conquest doth now the fugitive await.
STROPHE II.
Hail jubilant the house redeemed from bale!
930
The godless pair no more
Shall waste its gathered store.
Hail, joyous riddance, hail!
ANTISTROPHE I.
Requital, guileful power, in stratagem
935
Dark-veiled who takes delight,
Daughter of Zeus,-Justice yclept by men,
Pointing their aim aright,—
†Doth, with firm hand, the knife
Unsheath for mortal strife;
While 'gainst her foes she breathes destruction's blight.
STROPHE III.
†For Loxias, the king,
940
Who in Parnassian cavern holds his seat,
942
Doth vengeance hither bring,
Guilelessly guileful; lame, yet sure her feet.
Weighty the saying; Zeus, although divine,
No consort is of guilt; needs must we pay
946 942a
Homage to His heaven-ruling sway.
Clearly the light doth shine!
ANTISTROPHE II.
tReft was I of the sun whose sudden ray
Did with new joy illume
950
These halls, long sunk in gloom;
It gleamed,—then died away.
ANTISTROPHE III. 953
†Anon, the cheering light,
New kindled, in this house shall shine once more,
What time, with lustral rite,
From the polluted hearth is purged the gore,
And Atè put to flight. With form benign,
Fortune, long time an alien, comes to claim
961
Her home, redeemed from shame.
966 972 973 1007 1010 1018 1021 1051 1065
Clearly the light doth shine!
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, The Libation-Bearers — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 84 focus
Handmaidens, orderers of the palace-halls,
Since at my side ye come, a suppliant train,
Companions of this offering, counsel me
As best befits the time: for I, who pour
Upon the grave these streams funereal,
105
With what fair word can I invoke my sire?
Shall I aver Behold, I bear these gifts
From well-loved wife unto her well-loved lord,
When 'tis from her, my mother, that they come?
I dare not say it: of all words I fail
110
Wherewith to consecrate unto my sire
These sacrificial honours on his grave.
Or shall I speak this word, as mortals use—
Give back, to those who send these coronals,
Full recompense—of ills for acts malign?
115
Or shall I pour this draught for Earth to drink,
Sans word or reverence, as my sire was slain,
And homeward pass with unreverted eyes,
Casting the bowl away, as one who flings
The household cleansings to the common road?
120
Be art and part, O friends, in this my doubt,
Even as ye are in that one common hate
Whereby we live attended: fear ye not
The wrath of any man, nor hide your word
Within your breast: the day of death and doom
125
Awaits alike the freeman and the slave.
Speak, then, if aught thou know'st to aid us more.
Thou biddest; I will speak my soul's thought out,
Revering as a shrine thy father's grave.
Woe, woe, woe!
Let the teardrop fall, plashing on the ground
Where our lord lies low:
Fall and cleanse away the cursed libation's stain,
Shed on this grave-mound,
185
Fenced wherein together, gifts of good or bane
From the dead are found.
Lord of Argos, hearken!
Though around thee darken
Mist of death and hell, arise and hear!
190
Hearken and awaken to our cry of woe!
Who with might of spear
Shall our home deliver?
Who like Ares bend until it quiver,
Bend the northern bow?
195
Who with hand upon the hilt himself will thrust with glaive,
Thrust and slay and save?
Lo! the earth drinks them, to my sire they pass—
Learn ye with me of this thing new and strange.
Ah well-a-day, that this dumb hair had voice
To glad mine ears, as might a messenger,
Bidding me sway no more 'twixt fear and hope,
Clearly commanding, Cast me hence away,
Clipped was I from some head thou lovest not;
235
Or, I am kin to thee, and here, as thou,
I come to weep and deck our father's grave.
Aid me, ye gods! for well indeed ye know
How in the gale and counter-gale of doubt,
Like to the seaman's bark, we whirl and stray.
240
But, if God will our life, how strong shall spring,
From seed how small, the new tree of our home!—
Lo ye, a second sign—these footsteps, look,—
Like to my own, a corresponsive print;
And look, another footmark,—this his own,
245
And that the foot of one who walked with him.
Mark, how the heel and tendons' print combine,
Measured exact, with mine coincident!
Alas, for doubt and anguish rack my mind.
My very face thou see'st and know'st me not,
And yet but now, when thou didst see the lock
Shorn for my father's grave, and when thy quest
265
Was eager on the footprints I had made,
Even I, thy brother, shaped and sized as thou,
Fluttered thy spirit, as at sight of me!
Lay now this ringlet whence 'twas shorn, and judge,
And look upon this robe, thine own hands' work,
270
The shuttle-prints, the creature wrought thereon—
Refrain thyself, nor prudence lose in joy,
For well I wot, our kin are less than kind.
O children, saviours of your father's home,
Beware ye of your words, lest one should hear
310
And bear them, for the tongue hath lust to tell,
Unto our masters—whom God grant to me
In pitchy reek of fun'ral flame to see!
Mighty Fates, on you we call!
Bid the will of Zeus ordain
Power to those, to whom again
Justice turns with hand and aid!
365
Grievous was the prayer one made—
Grievous let the answer fall!
Where the mighty doom is set,
Justice claims aloud her debt.
Who in blood hath dipped the steel,
370
Deep in blood her meed shall feel!
List an immemorial word—
Whosoe'er shall take the sword
Shall perish by the sword.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 84 focus
Ihr Mägde, die ihr Alles wohl bestellt im Haus,
Ihr seid mit mir gekommen, dieses Opferzugs
Geleiterinnen, also gebt mir euren Rath.
Die frommen Spenden auf das Grab verströmend hier, 1
90
Wie soll ich ziemend reden? Wie zum Vater fleh'n?
Sagt, nenn' ich's eine Gabe, die das theure Weib
Dem theuren Mann, die meine Mutter ihm bestimmt?
Dazu gebricht mir aller Muth, mir fehlt das Wort,
Verström' ich diese Spenden auf des Vaters Grab.
95
Oder soll ich sagen, wie's Gebrauch der Menschen ist,
Vergelten mög' er jenen, die den Kranz ihm weih'n,
Mit einer Gabe, die der Bösen würdig sei?
Oder soll ich schweigend, schmählich, wie mein Vater selbst
Umkam, den Trank ausgießen, den die Erde trinkt,
100
Und flich'n, wie Einer, der von Gräueln sich gesühnt,
Rückwärts die Schale werfend, abgewandten Blicks?
In diesen Zweifeln rathet mir, geliebte Frau'n.
Denn uns verfolgt ja gleicher Haß in diesem Haus.
Verschließt es nicht im Herzen, irgendwie besorgt.
105
Denn sein verhängtes Schicksal trifft den Freien ja,
Wie jenen, der von fremdem Arm bewältigt ward.
So redet, wenn ihr bessern Nath als diesen wißt.
Ich rede, (du gebeutst ja,) wie's vom Herzen kommt;
Denn als Altar verehr' ich deines Vaters Grab.
110
Weint mit Schluchzen die schwindende Thräne
Ihm, der schwand, unserm Herrn,
Indeß die fromme Spende strömt,
Die sühnend Heil und Segen schafft,
160
Und abwehrt den Fluch! Vernimm unser Fleh'n,
Hör' es, o Herr, das Fleh'n aus der umwölkten Brust!
Des Vatergrabes Erde trank die Spende nun.
Jetzt hört das neue Wunder, das sich hier begab !
170
Ach!
O daß sie sprechen könnte, klar, dem Boten gleich;
Dann würd' ich nicht von Zweifeln hinundhergewogt!
200
Mit offnem Abscheu würs' ich weg die Locke hier,
Wofern sie abgeschnitten war von Feindeshaupt,
Und, stammte sie vom Bruder, dann wehklagte sie
Mit mir, zum Preis dem Vater, als des Grabes Schmuck!
Wohlan, die Götter rufen wir, sie wissen ja,
205
In welchen Sturmeswirbeln wir, Meerschiffern gleich,
Umtreiben! Dennoch, sollen wir gerettet sein,
Dann sproßt aus kleinem Samen auch ein großer Stamm.
(Sie steigt hastig die Stufen des Grabhügels hinab.)
Doch nun ein zweites Zeichen, seht die Tritte da
Von gleichen Füßen, ähnlich ganz den meinigen !
210
Denn zweier Füße Spuren find' ich eingedrückt,
Des Bruders hier und eines Fahrtgenossen dort.
Und mess' ich Sohlen und der Fersen Niß genau,
So passen seine Tritte ganz in meinen Fuß.
Wie faßt mich Angst, Irrsal umwölkte meinen Geist!
215
(Orestes und Pylades treten aus ihrem Hinterhalte hervor.)
Nun siehst du doch mich selber, und erkennst mich nicht.
Erst als du hier des Trauerhaares Locke sahst,
230
Und spähend maßest meiner Tritte Spur, da flog
Dein Herz vor Freude, weil du glaubtest mich zu seh'n.
Hier lag die Locke (prüfe nur den Schnitt des Haars -)
Am Haupt des Bruders, welches ganz dem deinen gleicht:
Betrachte dies Gewebe, deiner Hände Werk,
235
Des Weberschiffchens Marken, hier der Thiere Bild! -
(da Elektra sich sehr betroffen zeigt)
Halt ein, im Freudentaumel sei nicht außer dir!
Ich weiß, die nächsten Freunde sind uns bitterfeind.
O Kinder, eures Vaterhauses Retter ihr,
Seid still, damit euch keines Lauschers Ohr vernimmt,
Und vielgeschwäßig alles dies den Herrschern dort
270
Verkündet! Könnt' ich diese doch einst enden seh'n
Im pechgetränkten Qualmgewölk der Flammenglut !
gewaltige Schicksalsmächte, mit Zeus
310
Vollendet es so,
Wie das Recht mitwandelnd den Pfad zeigt!
„Für feindliches Wort sei feindliches Wort
Vollgültiger Lohn!" ruft Dike, die Schuld
Einfordernd, mit mächtiger Stimme.
315
„Für blutigen Mord sei blutiger Mord
Als Buße gesezt! Wer frevelte, büßt!"
So sagen die Sprüche der Väter.
Erste Strophe.

Commentary

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

83-85. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-60

ὡς νόμος βροτοῖς, ἔσθλ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσιν τάδε στέφη, δόσιν γε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν; Libri
ὡς νόμος βροτοῖς ἔστ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσι τάδε στέφη δόσιν τε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν
. In his
πέμπουσιν
emendate scripsit Victorius. Elmsleio in addendis ad Eur. Heracl. v. 387. scribendum videbatur
ὡς νόμος βροτοῖς, ἔσθλ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσιν τάδε στέφη, δόσιν τε τῶν καλῶν ἐπαξίαν;
Et
ἔσθλ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι
verum videtur: sed deinde scribendum est
δόσιν γε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν
. Vidit hoc etiam Stanleius in curis secundis,
δόσιν γε
scribendum esse. Ad
τῶν κακῶν
scholiastes haec adnotavit παρ' ὑπόνοιαν.
ἔδει γὰρ τῶν καλῶν εἰπεῖν
.

87. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-61

χύσιν
λύσιν
Ald. quum in G.
χ
sic scriptum sit, ut negligenter intuenti
λ
videri possit.
87

88. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-62

καθάρμαθ' ὥς τις
καθάρμαθ᾽ ὥς τις
Turn. et, ut videtur, M.
κάθαρμαθ', ὥς τις
Rob.
κάθαρμα θ' ὥςτις
G.
κάθαρμα θ' ὅς τις
Ald. ἐκπέμψας Deinde
ἐκπέμψαις
G.
ἐκ πέμψαις
Ald. πάλιν δικοῦσα
Πάλιν
ad
δικοῦσα
pertinere animadvertit Turnebus, qui
πάλιν - | δικοῦσα
dedit. Scholiastes
στείχω πάλιν
coniunxit.
88

89. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-63

ὄμμασιν
ὄμμασι
solus Turn.
89

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τῆσδ'
τῆς δ'
divisim Ald. ἔστε
ἐστὲ
Rob. Ceteri recte
ἔστε
.
90

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NA In libris hi versus hoc ordine leguntur
λέγοις ἄν, εἴ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἔχοις ὑπέρτερον. ΧΟ. αἰδουμένῃ σοί, βωμὸν ὡς, τύμβον πατρὸς λέξω, κελεύεις γάρ, τὸν ἐκ φρενὸς λόγον. ΗΛ. λέγοις ἄν, ὥςπερ ἠδέσω τάφον πατρός. ΧΟ. φθέγγου χέουσα σεμνὰ τοῖσιν εὐφροσιν.
Varietas lectionis haec est. In secundo versu
αἰδουμένη σοι
Ald. Rob. Deinde
βωμὸν
vitiose Ald. Tum
ὡς
G. Ald. Rob. In tertio versu
τὸν
omittit Rob. In quarto
ἠδέσω
vitium Aldinae. In quinto
εὔφροσιν
Turn. Ceteri
εὐφρόσιν
. Sed haec non una ratione corrupta esse vix opus est ut doceamus. Primum horum versuum Schützius, quum prius alia tentasset, in secunda editione ut spurium uncis inclusit, non indicans cur id fecerit. Illud certum est, hoc loco, quo hic versus in libris omnibus legitur, eum ab Aeschylo collocari non potuisse. Nam ne quid de eo dicam, quod quum Electra ante ubique plurali numero usa esset, singularis subito illatus aliquid duri habet, maxime haec duo sede sua exire hunc versum iubent, unum, quod ista iam saepius dictorum repetitio valde ieiuna est, alterum, quod orationes, qualis haec est Electrae, quum generali sententia concluduntur, ea ipsa sententia finiri solent. Et quis est qui non sentiat quam praeclare Electra orationem hoc dicto conclusisset,
μὴ κεύθετ᾽ ἔνδον καρδίας φόβῳ τινός. τὸ μόρσιμον γὰρ τόν τ' ἐλεύθερον μένει καὶ τὸν πρὸς ἄλλης δεσποτούμενον χερός.
Quibus verbis quis credat tam inutilem pannum adsui potuisse, qualis hic est,
λέγοις ἄν, εἴ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἔχεις ὑπέρτερον.
Nam
ἄν
certe scribendum erat, id quod Iacobsii ad Anthol. Pal. p. 581. monitu fecit Blomfieldius. Sed maiora etiam vitia sunt in tribus sequentibus versibus. Nam cur tandem chorus de sua erga Agamemnonem pietate hic loquitur, ubi non de ea re sermo est, utrum chorus Agamemnonem colat necne, sed quo pacto Electra pie sacra debeat peragere? Turpissimus vero versus est is qui sequitur,
λέγοις ἄν, ὥςπερ ᾐδέσω τάφον πατρός.
Eum Schützius sic est interpretatus, dicas velim pro ea quam profiteris erga patris sepulcrum reverentia. Sumamus hanc esse huius versus sententiam, quam verba tamen, quae omni sensu carent, non admittunt: quid aliud Electra quam traducere videbitur chori pietatem, quippe ibi a choro iactatam, a se commemoratam, ubi longe alia dicenda erant? Haec si recte disputata sunt, planum est et ordinem versuum perturbatum et aliis eos vitiis inquinatos esse. Itaque primum illum versum,
λέγοις ἄν, εἴ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἔχοις ὑπέρτερον
, quum a librario ad simile alius versus initium oculis aberrante omissus esset, postea alieno loco additum, et praeterea depravatum esse existimo. Videor autem mihi quod dignum Aeschylo esset effecisse ita his versibus conformatis omnibusque choro redditis,
ΧΟ. αἰδουμένῃ σοὶ βωμὸν ὡς τύμβον πατρὸς λέξω, κελεύεις γάρ, τὸν ἐκ φρενὸς λόγον. λόγους ἂν οἷςπερ ᾐδέσω τάφον πατρὸς στέγοις ἄν, εἴ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἔχεις ὑπέρτερον· φθέγγου χέουσα σεμνὰ τοῖσιν εὐφροσιν.
Quod scripsi
λόγους ἂν οἷςπερ ἠδέσω τάφον πατρός
, conferenda sunt quae de collocatione particulae
ἂν
dixi in libro de ea particula IV. cap. 7. In eo versu, qui intercidit,
χοάς
vel simile vocabulum fuit.

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αὑτήν
αὐτὴν
Ald. Sed G. cum reliquis
αὑτήν
. V. ad Soph. Trach. v. 451. χὥςτις Deinde
χὥςτις
M.
χὥςτις
G.
χ' ὡς τις
Ald. Rob.
χ' ὥς τις
Turn.
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τἄρ'
τ' ἄρ'
M. (sic M.) G. Ald. Rob.
γ' ἄρ'
Turn. Vict. Inde Porsonus
γ' ἆρ'
. Scribendum potius
τἄρ'
. Ita Dindorfius. Deinde fortasse scribendum est
ἐπεύξωμαι
, ut v. 78. dictum est
κατεύξωμαι
. Idem coniecit Dobraeus Adv. II. p. 26.
103
ZZZZ

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τίν'
τίν'
est ecquem.
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κεἰ
κεἰ
G. Ald. Rob. Turn. idque Schützius et Porsonus restituerunt.
κ' εἰ
M. sed ut ante rasuram
καὶ εἰ
fuerit.
καὶ
, omisso
εἰ
, Vict. Cant. Stanl.
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ἁπλωστί Libri
ἁπλῶς τι
. Scribendum putavi
ἁπλωστί
. V. ad Suppl. v. 447.
112

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μού 'στιν
καὶ ταῦτα μούστιν
M. G.
καὶ ταῦτα μοῦστιν
Ald. Turn.
καὶ ταῦτα μοῦστιν
Rob.
εὐσεφ
, vitium Aldinae.
113

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πῶς δ' οὔ
πῶς δ᾽ οὔ;
scripserunt Stanleius, Schützius, Porsonus, alii.
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NA Hunc versum, quem libri post versum 159. habent, hic reposui, certa, ut mihi videtur, emendatione. V. Opusc. II. p. 79. Libri
μεγίστη
. Emendavit Stanleius.
115

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ἄρηξον, Ἑρμῆ χθόνιε Libri
Ἑρμῆ χθόνιε κηρύξας ἐμοί
. Lacunae signum in fine versus posuit Robortellus, post
χθόνιε
Canterus, in initio versus Stanleius. Suppletur aptissime
ἄρηξον
. V. Opusc. VII. p. 50. Non recte Nauckius in Philologo II. p. 149. scribendum esse putavit
ἐριούνι᾽ Ἑρμῆ χθόνιε, κηρύξας ἐμοί
. Nam quod apud Aristophanem in Ranis Aeschylus dicit,
οὐ δήτ' ἐκεῖνον, ἀλλὰ τὸν ἐριούνιον Ἑρμῆν χθόνιον προςεῖπε
, minime parodia est huius loci, sed aperte hoc tantum Aeschylus docet,
χθονίου
nomine se in initio Choephororum
τὸν ἐριούνιον
significasse.
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αἱμάτων
πατρῴων δ᾽ ὀμμάτων
M.
δ᾽ ὀμμάτων πατρῴων
G. Ald.
πατρῴων δ᾽ ὀμμάτων
Rob. Vict.
πατρῴων ὀμμάτων
Turn.
πατρώων δωμάτων
Schützius ex coniectura Stanleii. Requiritur
πατρῴων αἱμάτων
. Vidit hoc etiam H. L. Ahrens.
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ἣ
ᾗ τὰ πάντα
vitium Aldinae.
κατὰ παντὰ
, omisso
ἣ
, Rob. Hoc dicit, tellurem, quae omnia gignit et, ubi maturuerunt fruges, rursus earum semen recipit.
119

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κἀγὼ ... φίλον τ' Ὀρέστην ... φίλον τ' Ὀρέστην φῶς ἀνάξομεν δόμοις Libri
κἀγώ
. Manifestum est scribi debere
κἀγώ
, quod pertinet ad praecedentia:
κλύειν εὐχάς, ἃ
(pro
ἃς
)
ἐγὼ λέγω
. Deinde
χέρνιβας βροτοῖς
M. Rob.
χέρνιβας βοτοῖς
G. Ald. Turn. Ad ultimum vocabulum in M. G.
γρ. νεκροῖς
supra adscriptum est, interpretatio exquisitioris vocabuli. Tenui quod olim in Observationibus criticis scribendum esse dixi,
χέρνιβας φθιτοῖς
. Pers. v. 218.
δεύτερον δὲ χρὴ χοὰς γῇ τε καὶ φθιτοῖς χέασθαι
, et v. 518.
ἔπειτα γῇ τε καὶ φθιτοῖς δωρήματα ἥξω λαβοῦσα πέλανον ἐξ οἴκων ἐμῶν
. Quae sequuntur, vulgo ita leguntur,
λέγω, καλοῦσα πατέρ', ἐποίκτειρόν τ' ἐμέ, φίλον τ' Ὀρέστην, πῶς ἀνάξομεν δόμοις.
In Ald. scriptum est
πάτερ
, in Rob.
πάτερ
vocativo casu,
πατέρ'
in ceteris. Deinde
ἐποίκτειρον τ᾽ ἔμε
Ald. Rob.
ἐποίκτειρόν τ' ἐμὲ
Turn. Vict. et, ut videtur, M.
ἐποικτείροντἔμε
G. Ad
πῶς
scholiastes adnotavit
ἀντὶ τοῦ ὅπως
, et
βασιλεύσομεν
ad
ἀνάξομεν
, inepte. Non possunt probari coniecturae, quae de his versibus a me ipso olim aut ab aliis prolatae sunt. Exciderunt aliquot versus, quum librarius ab uno versu, cuius hoc erat initium,
φίλον τ' Ὀρέστην
, ad idem alius versus initium aberrasset. Scripsi igitur
κἀγὼ χέουσα τάσδε χέρνιβας φθιτοῖς λέγω, καλοῦσα πατέρ', ἐποικτείροντ᾽ ἐμὲ φίλον τ' Ὀρέστην ... φίλον τ' Ὀρέστην φῶς ἀνάξομεν δόμοις.
Iubeo patrem, mei carique Orestis misertum, (providere ut vincamus) carumque Orestem aliquo modo in domum reducamus.

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πεπραμένοι Libri
πεπραγμένοι
. Scholiastes
νενικημένοι, κατηγωνισμένοι
. Emendavit Casaubonus. ἀλώμεθα Deinde
ἀλώμεθα
Vict. et, ut videtur, M.
ἀλώμεθα
G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
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φεύγων
φεύγων
Rob. Turn.
φεύγειν
M. G. Ald. codex Robortelli.
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πόνοισι
πόνοισι
Rob.
πόνοισιν
M. G. Ald. Turn. χλίουσιν Deinde
χλίουσι
Ald. Turn. μέγα Denique
μέγα
Turn.
μέτα
M. Ald. Rob.
μετα
sine accentu G.
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NA
καὶ σὺ κλῦθί μου
et mox
σωφρονεστέραν
vitia Aldinae.
132

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σοῦ Libri
λέγω φανῆναί σου πάτερ τιμάορον
. Scholiastes
τοῖς δ᾽ ἐχθροῖς σου λέγω σε φανῆναι τιμωρόν
. Porsonus ante
πάτερ
obelum apposuit. Cantero scribendum videbatur
φανῆναί σ᾽, ὦ πάτερ
.
Σέ
recepit Blomfieldius. Recte vero libri, nisi quod praestat fortasse
φαvῆναι σοῦ
.
136

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ἀντικατθανεῖν δίκῃ Libri
ἀντικατθανεῖν δίκην
. In M. adscriptum
γρ. ἀντικατακτανεῖν
. Idem
ἀντικατακτανεῖν
supra scriptum in G. commemoratumque ex scholiis a Turnebo. Recte Scaliger
ἀντικακτανεῖν δίκῃ
.
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καλῆς
ἐν μέπω
vitium Ald. Deinde libri
τῆς κακῆς ἀρᾶς
. Emendaverunt Schützius et Blomfieldius.
138

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κείνοις
κείνους
Rob.
139

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τῶνδ'
τῶν
Rob. Turn.
τῶν
, supra adscripto
δ᾽
, M.
τῶν δ᾽
G. Ald.
140

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ἐξαυδωμένας
ἐξαυδομένας
G. Ald.
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καναχὲς
κἀναχὲς
G. Ald.
145

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ὀλομένῳ
ὀλυμένῳ
Ald. In G. ambiguum est utrum
ὀλυμένῳ
scriptum sit, an, ut in ceteris,
ὀλομένῳ
.
146

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δεσπότᾳ πρὸς ἕρμα γᾶς τόδε κεδνῶν, κακῶν δ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἄγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν· κλῦε δέ μοι, σέβας, κλύ᾽, ὦ δέσποτ᾽, ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός.
δέσποτα
vitium Ald. Deinde libri
πρὸς ἔρυμα τόδε κακῶν κεδνῶν τ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἄλγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν
. In G. Ald.
χοᾶν
scriptum est. Nisi aperte haec antistrophica essent, prorsus incerta fluctuaret emendatio. Primo
ἔρυμα
Stanleius tumulum interpretatur, eodemque modo
τὸν τάφον
adscriptum est in M. G. Sed id dicendum fuisse
ἕρμα
ad Soph. Ant. v. 841. significavi. Scribendum videtur
πρὸς ἕρμα γᾶς τόδε κεδνόν
. Deinde librorum scripturam
ἄλγος
in
ἄγος
mutavit Victorius. Scholiastae enim haec est adnotatio,
τὸ ἑξῆς· ἐκκεχυμένων χοᾶν πρὸς ἔρυμα τόδε ἵετε δάκρυ ἄγος ἀπεύχετον (τὸ δάκρυ γὰρ ἀπευκτὸν ἄγος εἶπεν) ἀπότροπον τῶν ἡμετέρων κακῶν καὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τῶν ἐχθρῶν.
Receperunt
ἄγος
omnes post Victorium editores. Sed requiritur potius
ἅγος
. Hesychius
ἅγος, ἅγνισμα θυσίας. Σοφοκλῆς Φαίδρᾳ
. Scribendum erat
κακῶν δ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἅγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν
. Deinde libri
κλύε δέ μοι κλύε. σεβάς, ὦ δέσποτα ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός
, nisi quod
ἀμαυρᾶς
est in G. Ald.
κλύε
emendato accentu Porsonus,
σέβας ὦ δέσποτα
Turnebus. Mutato verborum ordine dochmiorum numerus restituendus erat. Itaque sic hanc stropham scripsi,
ἵετε δάκρυ καναχὲς ὀλόμενον ὀλομένῳ δεσπότᾳ πρὸς ἕρμα γᾶς τόδε κεδνόν· κακῶν δ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἅγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν· κλῦε δέ μοι σέβας, κλύ᾽, ὦ δέσποτ᾽, ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός.
Míttite lacrimam stridulam miseram misero domino ad sacrum huncce tumulum: malorum autem averruncam consecrationem effusarum inferiarum abominor: audi vero mihi reverentiam (i. e. preces), audi, domine, ex tenebroso corde.

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ὀτοτοτοτοτοτοῖ, ὀτοτοτοτοῖ, ἰώ, Libri
ὀτοτοτοτοτοτοτοῖ ἰώ
. Mutavi haec sic ut strophici versus postulabant.

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Σκυθικά τ' ἐν χερὶ παλίντονα ἐν ἔργῳ βέλη 'πιπάλλων Ἄρης σχέδιά τ' αὐτόκωπα νωμῶν ξίφη;
Σκυθικά
(
η
ς supra scriptum videtur)
τ' ἐν χεροῖν
M.
Σκυθικὰ τ᾿ ἐν χεροῖν
Rob.
Σκύθης τάτ᾽ ἐν χεροίν
G. Ald. Turn. Deinde libri
παλίντον' ἐν ἔργῳ βέλη 'πιπάλλων Ἄρης σχέδιά τ' αὐτόκωπα νωμῶν βέλη
, nisi quod
ἔνεργα βέλη
habet Turn. in G. autem
ἐν ἔργῳ βέλει
antea scriptum fuerat, sed ultima syllaba et correcta est et supra scriptum
η
. Praeterea
πιπάλλων
G. Ald. Fortasse ex hoc loco Hesychius
πιπάλων, κραδαίνων, πάλλων
, habet. In M. adscriptum in margine
ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ, ἐν τῷ βάλλειν
, et in altera margine
σὺν ἔργῳ πάλλων, ὅ ἐστι μὴ μόνον φέρων, ἀλλὰ καὶ πράττων
. Deinde ad v. 158. in M. adscriptum
γρ. ἕτοιμα
, quod in G. omisso
γρ
. scriptum supra
αὐτόκωπα
. In repetito
βέλη
iure haeserunt critici. Recte Pauwius
νωμῶν ξίφη
, ex scholio, quod in M. G. ad
αὐτόκωπα
adscriptum est,
τὰ ἀφ' ἑαυτῶν ἔχοντα τὴν λαβὴν ξίφη. σχέδια δὲ ἐκ τοῦ σχεδὸn φονεύοντα καὶ οὐ πόρρωθεν ὥςπερ τὰ βέλη
. Scribendum est
Σκυθικά τε χερὶ παλίντονα ἐν ἔργῳ βέλη πιπάλλων Ἄρης σχέδιά τ᾽ αὐτόκωπα νωμῶν ξίφη;
Hei hei, quis hastipotens vir liberator aedium Scythicaque manu recurva in opere arma quassans Mars et comminus manubriata vibrans tela?

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γαπότους
γαπότους
Turnebus.
ἀπότου
M. G. Ald.
εὐπότους
Rob. Hanc orationem Electrae tribuit Turnebus: choro continuant M. G. Ald. Rob. Post hunc versum in libris hic legitur
κήρυξ μεγίστη
(sic)
τῶν ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω
. Adscriptum in M. G.
ὡς ἐν μέσῳ ἱδρυμένων
. Robortellus et hunc versum et versus 158. 159. 160. asteriscis notavit, de qua re in adnotatione ante v. 160. interposita ita scribit, "Locus hic omnino mancus est, et ideo signavimus. haec videntur verba esse Electrae.
νέου δὲ μύθου
.” Versum, qui non suo loco legebatur, supra collocavi ante v. 116.
159

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ὀρχεῖται Hinc usque ad v. 176. G. Ald. personarum vices invertunt. In M. lineolae singulis versibus praefixae sunt.
ἂν, ὀρχεῖται
Turn.
ἀνορχεῖται
M. G. Ald. Rob.
161

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τομαῖον
τόμαιον
G.
162

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ἐστὶ
τόδ᾽ ἐπὶ
Ald.
164

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παλαιὰ
καρδία
G.
165

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κείραιτό νιν Speciosa magis quam vera est Dobraei in Adv. II. p. 27. coniectura,
πλὴν ἑνός
. Nam sic statim chorus quaerere debebat
μῶν οὖν Ὀρέστου κρύβδα δῶρον ᾖ τόδε;
Separatim
πλὴν ἐμοῦ
et quasi obiter pronuntiandum est.
κείρετό νιν
, supra scripto ab alia manu
νιν
, M.
κείρετό νιν
G. Ald. Rob.
κείραιτό νιν
Turn. V. ad Soph. Αi. v. 1222.
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ἐχθροὶ
ἐχθροῖς
, errorem Aldinae, repetit Turn.
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αὐτοῖσιν ἡμῖν
αὐτοῖσιν ἡμῖν
M. G. Ald. Rob. Quod quum egregie conveniat indoli Graecae linguae, non debebat a Turnebo in
αὐταῖσιν ἡμῶν
mutari. Ridet haec Euripides in Electra v. 520. seqq. Aristophanes Nub. v. 530.
νῦν οὖν, Ἠλέκτραν κατ᾽ ἐκείνην, ἡδ᾽ ἡ κωμῳδία ζητοῦσ᾽ ἦλθ᾽, ἦν που 'πιτύχῃ θεαταῖς οὕτω σοφοῖς. γνώσεται γάρ, ἤνπερ ἴδῃ, τἀδελφοῦ τὸν βόστρυχον
, ubi scholiastae Aeschyli Choephoros memorant.
170

171. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-101

ἦν
κρύβδα
G. Ald. Quod libri habent
ἦν
mutavit Scholefieldius. Fr. Frankius in comm.I. de particulis negantibus linguae Graecae p. 19.
ἦ
scribendum putavit. Euripides Iph. Αul. v. 321.
μῶν τρέσας οὐκ ἀνακαλύψεις βλέφαρον, Ἀτρέως γεγώς;
171

174. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-102

χαίτην
ἔπεμψεν καὶ τὴν
M. G. Ald. Rob.
ἔπεμψε καὶ τὴν
Turn. Emendate
ἔπεμψε χαίτην
Vict. πατρί In fine versus
πατρὸς
M. G. Ald. Rob. Emendavit Turnebus.
174

175. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-103

αὖ
οὐχ
G. Ald. Turn.
οὐκ
, supra ab alia manu
χ
adscripto M.
οὐκ
Rob. Idem
ἦσσον
. Ald.
ἥσσον
. Ceteri
ἧσσον
. Deinde libri
εὖ δάκρυτά μοι
. Recte Emperius
αὖ δάκρυτά μοι
. Aliud est enim, quod infra v. 673. legitur,
ἀνδρὸς εὖ κεκλαυμένου
.
175

176. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-104

ψαύσει In G. Ald. quum praecedens versus Electrae tribuatur, huic chori nota adscripta est.
ψαύσει
, supra adscripto ab alia manu
η
, M.
ψαύσει
Turn.
ψαύσῃ
G. Ald. Rob.
176

177. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-105

προςέστη ... καρδίᾳ Transtulit hinc quaedam in Electram Sophocles a v. 902.
προσέστη
M. Rob.
πρόσεστι
G. Turn.
προςέπι
Ald. Deinde libri
καρδίας
. Scholiastes
κίνησις τῆς χολῆς τῆς κατ' αὐτόν
(
αὐτήν
Blomfieldius). Scribendum est, ut Stanleius sive potius Scaliger vidit,
καρδίᾳ
.
177

178. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-106

ἐπαίσθην
ἐπαίσθην
Canterus.
ἐπαίθην
M. G. Ald. Rob. In M. G. ad hunc versum adscriptum est hoc scholion,
ὡς βέλει ἐκρούσθην ἐξ ἐναντίας τιτρώσκοντι
. Ei scholio in editione Robortelliana lemma praefixum est, quod M. G. non habent,
ἐπώσθην
. Id receperunt Turn. Vict. διανταίῳ Deinde
διαλαίῳ
codex Robortelli, quod Robortellus probare se dicit: edidit tamen e Sophiani emendatione
διανταίῳ
. Et habent
διανταίῳ
M. et ceteri.
178

179. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-107

δίψιοι Schützius
διψίων
. Quod libri habent,
δίψιοι
, scholiastes in eandem sententiam interpretatur,
πρώην ἄγευστοι. ὡς δίψιον Ἄργος, τὸ ποτὲ ἄνυδρον
. Si Electra sibi, ut malis adsuetae, lacrimas exaruisse diceret, pluribus verbis uteretur. Verior est igitur alia interpretatio, quae in M. G. illud scholion antecedit,
ποθειναί μοι
. Nam
δίψιοι
sunt plenae desiderii. Desideraverat Electra Orestem.
179

180. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-108

ἄφρακτοι
ἄφρακτοι
M. G. Ald. Rob.
ἄφραστοι
ex ed. Turn. propagatum. δυςχίμου
δυσχύμου
Turn. πλημμυρίδος
πλημμυρίδος
, sed altero
μ
supra adscripto, M.
180

181. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-109

ἐλπίσω
ἐλπίζω
Ald. ut habuerat G. in quo
ζ
in
σ
mutatum est, sed sic ut etiamnum leviter intuenti
ζ
videri possit.
181

183-185. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-110

NA
κατανοῦσ᾽
error Ald. Deinde libri
ἐκείρατο ἐμὴ δὲ μήτηρ
, nisi quod
ἐμή
habet G.
ἐμῇ
Ald. Porsonus
ἐμή γε μήτηρ
. Defendit vulgatum Elmsleius ad Eur. Med. v. 940. Perstiti in ea sententia, quam in adnotatione ad versum illum Medeae (Opusc. III. p. 225. seq.) professus sum, excidisse videri ante haec verba,
ἐμὴ δὲ μήτηρ
, versum hac ferme sententia,
ἡ τοῦ μὲν αἰσχυντῆρος Αἰγίσθου δάμαρ
.

186. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-111

πεπαμένη
πεπαμένη
Ald.
186

187. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-112

σαίνομαι
ἐγὼ δὲ πῶς
, ut in interrogatione, scribendum putarunt Schützius et Blomfieldius. Recte scholiastes
λείπει, οὐκ ἔχω
. Electra cogitabunda secum hoc dicere instituit,
ὅπως μὲν αἰνέσω, εἶναι τόδ᾽ ἀγλάϊσμα Ὀρέστου, οὐκ ἔχω· σαίνομαι δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἐλπίδος
. Illud autem
οὐκ ἔχω
omissum est similiter atque in Luciani Dial. mort. I. 2. p. 332.
ἀλλ᾽ ἀπαγγελῶ ταῦτα, ὦ Διόγενες· ὅπως δὲ εἰδῶ μάλιστα ὁποῖος τις ἐστι τὴν ὄψιν
. Simili ellipsi explicandum est Terentii illud
hoc quid sit
in Andria I. 2, 20. In
σαίνομαι
priores tres litterae in M. ab alia manu in litura scriptae.
σαίνομαι
Ald.
187

191. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-113

εἴθ'
εἴθ'
Ald. ἔμφρον' Deinde
εὔφρον'
Ald. Ceteri
εὔφρον'
. Auratus recte
ἔμφρον'
.
191

192. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-114

κινυσσόμην
μὴ κηνυσσόμην
M. G. Ald. Rob.
μὴ κινυσσόμην
Turn. Coronidem addiderunt Schützius et Porsonus. Corruptam scripturam ita interpretatur scholiastes
ἐφανταζόμην. κήνυμα
(ita M. G.)
γὰρ τὸ εἴδωλον
. Hesychius
κηνυσσόμην, εἴδωλον ἐγενόμην
. Photius
κήνυγμα, σκιὰ καὶ εἴδωλον
. Hesychius
κήνυγμα, τὸ κενὸn τοῦ σώματος, οἷον σκιὰ καὶ εἴδωλον, φάντασμα ἀσθενὲς καὶ ἀχρεῖον
. V. Aesch. Prom. v. 157.
192

193. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-115

ἀλλ᾽ ἦν σαφηνῆ ... ἀποπτύσαι Libri
ἀλλ᾽ εὖ σαφηνή
. Schol.
εὖ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀκριβῶς
. Schützius
ἀλλ᾽ ἢ σάφ' ἦν μοι
. Porsonus Adv. p. 159.
ἀλλ' εὖ σάφ' ἤδη
et cum Rob.
ἀποπτύξαι
. Recepi
ἀλλ᾽ ἦν σαφηνῆ
, coniecturam Erfurdtii ad Soph. Ai. p. 626. Deinde
ἀποπτύσαι
in M. ita scriptum, ut etiam
ἀποπρύσαι
(non
ἀποπρίσαι
) legi possit.
ἀπόπτυσα
G. sed cum interpretatione
μισῆσαι
, quae etiam in M. adscripta est.
ἀπέπτυσα
Ald.
ἀποπτύξαι
Rob.
ἀποπτύσαι
ex scholiis Turn.
193

194. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-116

εἴπερ γ'
εἴπερ γ' ἀπ' ἐχθροῦ
M. Rob. (sic Rob.)
εἴπερ ἀπ᾿ ἐχθροῦ
G. Turn.
εἴπερ ἀπεχθροῦ
Ald.
194

195. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-117

εἶτα Libri
ἢ ξυγγενὴs ὢν εἶχε συμπενθεῖν ἐμοί
. Schützius in proximo versu
τιμὴν
edidit, quae etiam Porti aliorumque coniectura fuit. Non hoc, sed
εἶχε
mutandum erat. Inepti illi qui
εἶχε
pro
ἐδύνατο
dictum putant.
Ἔχω συμπενθεῖν
non potest dici nisi ab eo qui materiam habet lugendi: ubi de facultate sermo est, necessario
δύνασθαι
dicendum est. Scripsisse videtur Aeschylus
ἢ ξυγγενὴς ὤν, εἶτα συμπενθεῖν ἐμοὶ ἄγαλμα τύμβου τοῦδε καὶ τιμὴν πατρός.
Recte, si sensum spectes, ad ultimum versum scholiastes adnotavit
λείπει ἡ εἰς
. Sic igitur bene procedunt hi versus,
εἴθ᾽ εἶχε φωνὴν ἔμφρον᾽ ἀγγέλου δίκην, ὅπως δίφροντις οὖσα μὴ κινυσσόμην, ἀλλ᾽ ἦν σαφηνῆ τόνδ᾽ ἀποπτύσαι πλόκον, εἴπερ γ᾽ ἀπ' ἐχθροῦ κρατὸς ἦν τετμημένος, ἢ ξυγγενὴς ὤν, εἶτα συμπενθεῖν ἐμοὶ ἄγαλμα τύμβου τοῦδε καὶ τιμὴν πατρός.
Utinam perspicuam vocem nuntii instar haberet, quone anceps animi penderem, sed aperte hunc cincinnum abominarer, si ab inimico capite esset, aut, si esset cognatus, tum mecum doleret in huius tumuli ornamentum et honorem patris.
195

197-200. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-118

NA Hos quattuor versus, qui vulgo Electrae continuantur, choro tribuendos esse censui.

198. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-119

δίκῃ
οἵοισιν
G. Ald. In fine versus
δίκηι
, sed
ι
ab alia manu in litura scripto, M.
δίκῃ
G.
δίκην
Ald. Rob. Turn.
198

201. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-120

NA Ridet haec Euripides El. v. 532. seqq.
201

202. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-121

ποδῶν ὁμοῖοι
ποδῶν δ᾽ ὁμοῖοι
M. G. Ald. Rob. Deletum
δ'
a Turnebo.
202

203. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-122

τώδε περιγραφή
τάδε
G. Ald.
περιγραφὰ
G.
πέρι γραφὰ
Ald.
203

205. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-123

NA
τενόντων δ'
Ald.
τενόντων τ'
, ut ceteri, G. Quum neque nexus in hoc loco esse et quaedam male iterata Schützio viderentur, versus 202. 203. 205. ut spurios uncis inclusit. Immo tantum abest ut quicquam sit eiiciendum, ut dolendum sit quod unus pluresve versus exciderunt. Nam quum duorum vestigia cerni dicat Electra, altera Orestis, altera comitis cuiuspiam, quis dubitabit, praesertim quum etiam ad orationis integritatem aliquid desideretur, quin alterius istorum vestigia suis dissimilia, alterius similia esse dixerit? Itaque ante v. 205. lacunae signa posui.
205

206. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-124

θ'
θ'
solus Rob.
206

208. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-125

NA In M. huic versui et a v. 210. singulis huius stichomythiae versibus lineola praefixa est, excepto v. 215. cui
ΗΛ.
praefixum. G. Ald. v. 208-214. tribuunt choro. Rob. choro v. 208. 209. 211. 213. Electrae v. 210. 212. 214. Turn. Oresti v. 208-211. 213. Electrae v. 212. 214. Vict. choro v. 208. 209. 211. Electrae v. 210. 212. 214. Veram personarum notationem Canterus restituit.
208

210. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-126

τί νῦν
τί νῦν
M. Rob.
τί νυν
Turn.
τοίνυν
G. Ald.
210

211. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-127

ὧνπερ
ὃν περ
Rob. ἐξηύχου Deinde
ἐξηύχου
Rob. Turn.
ἐξηύχου
sic M. G.
ἐξήυχου
Ald.
211

212. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-128

καλουμένῃ
καλουμένη
G. Ald. Rob.
212

213. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-129

ἐκπαγλουμένην
ἐκπαγλουμένην
Rob. Turn.
ἐκπαγλουμένης
M. (sic M.) G. Ald.
213

215. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-130

μάτευ'
μάτευ'
G. Ald. Turn.
μάστευ'
Rob. et fortasse M.
215

217. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-131

αὐτὸς καθ' αὑτοῦ τἄρα μηχανορραφῶ Libri
κατ' αὐτόν
. Scribendum erat
καθ' αὑτόν
. Viderunt hoc Bothius et Wellauerus. Deinde
τἄρα μηχανορραφῶ
M. G. et additis spiritibus Ald. et codex Robortelli.
τ' ἄρα μ.
Rob.
γ' ἄρα μ.
Turn. Scribendum erat
τἄρα μ
.
217

218. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-132

τοῖς
τοῖς
Rob.
218

219. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-133

κἀν τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἄρ'
καὐτοῖς
pro
κἀν τοῖς
Rob. Deinde
ἐμοῖς ἄρ'
Turn. idque restituit Porsonus.
ἐμοῖς γὰρ
M. G. Ald. Rob.
ἐμοῖς οὖν
, omisso
ἄρ'
, Vict. ἔν γε Deinde
ἔν γε
vitium Aldinae. τοῖσι σοῖς Denique
τοῖσι σοῖς
Rob. Turn.
τοῖς σοῖς
G. Ald. et codex Robortelli. Nescio an hoc sit in M.
219

220. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-134

ὡς ὄντ᾽ Ὀρέστην γάρ σ' ἐγὼ προςεννέπω;
ὡς ὄντ᾽ Ὀρέστην τάδ᾽ ἐγὼ σε προὐννέπω
M. Rob. Eodem modo G. Ald. nisi quod
προὐννέπω
habent.
τάδ᾽ ἐγώ σε προὐννέπω
Turn.
τάδε ἐγὼ σε προὐννέπω
Vict.
ταῦτ᾽ ἐγώ σε προὐννέπω
Porsonus. Ineptum hic
προὐννέπειν
, quod est praedicere, edicere, iubere, proloqui. Itaque quo verbo opus esset intellexerunt Arnaldus et, ut Blomfieldius dicit, Auratus: sed quod scribendum putarunt
τάδε σ' ἐγὼ προςεννέπω
, probatum illud Schützio, Blomfieldio, aliis, propter numeros ab Aeschylea tragoedia alienos non potest admitti. Quam ob rem scripsi
ὡς ὄντ᾽ Ὀρέστην γάρ σ' ἐγὼ προςεννέπω;
Γάρ
admirantis est, ut apud Euripidem in Or. v. 484.
κείνου γὰρ ὅδε πέφυκε, τοιοῦτος γεγώς;
220

221-226. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-135

αὐτόν με νῦν ὁρῶσα δυςμαθεῖς· σὺ δὲ κουρὰν ἰδοῦσα τήνδε κηδείου τριχὸς ἰχνοσκοποῦσά τ᾽ ἐν στίβοισι τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἀνεπτερώθης κἀδόκεις ὁρᾶν ἐμέ. σκέψαι τομῇ προςθεῖσα βόστρυχον τριχὸς σαυτῆς ἀδελφοῦ, συμμέτρου τῷ σῷ κάρᾳ.
αὐτὸν μὲν νῦν
M. Ald. Rob.
αὐτὸν μὲν οὖν
Turn. et hoc fuerat etiam in G. sed librarius ex
οὖν
fecit
νῦν
. Deinde
ὁρῶσα δυςμαθεῖς ἐμὲ
M. Rob. Turn.
ὁρῶ, δυςμαθεῖς ἐμὲ
G. Ald. Schützius
αὐτόν με νῦν ὁρῶσα δυςμαθεῖς ἐμέ
. Eo non perficitur emendatio. Mox v. 222. libri
κουρὰν δὲ ἰδοῦσα
, praeter Rob. qui
κουρὰν τ᾿ ἰδοῦσα
edidit. Leguntur autem hi versus 222-226. in M. G. Ald. Turn. Vict. Cant. Stanl. hoc ordine,
κουρὰν δ' — ἀνεπτερώθης - ἰχνοσκοποῦσα τ' - σαυτῆς ἀδελφοῦ - σκέψαι
. In ed. Rob.
κουρὰν τ᾿ — ἰχνοσκοποῦσα τ' — σαυτῆς ἀδελφοῦ — ἀνεπτερώθης - σκέψαι
. In Porsoniana auctore Heathio
κουρὰν δ' - σαυτῆς ἀδελφοῦ — ἰχνοσκοποῦσά τ' — ἀνεπτερώθης σκέψαι
. In Schützianis et priore Bothiana
κουρὰν δ᾽ — ἰχνοσκοποῦσά τ' — ἀνεπτερώθης - σαυτῆς δ᾽ ἀδελφοῦ σκέψαι
. Ordo is, qui est in plerisque libris veteribus, nemini probabitur; nec magis qui est in ed. Rob. Sed in eo ordine, quem Heathius commendavit, non est idonea caussa cur hic versus,
σαυτῆς ἀδελφοῦ συμμέτρου τῷ σῷ κάρᾳ
, eo loco positus sit, quo ille eum collocavit. Fratris enim tam gravis descriptio male quadrat in eam narrationem, qua Orestes Electram quodammodo reprehendit, quod ignoti hominis cincinno et vestigiis plus quam sibi ipsi vivo et praesenti crediderit. Quod quum recte sensisset Schützius, aliam ille et sane meliorem viam ingressus est, sed minime tamen veram. Neque enim sat gravis est transitus a priore ad alteram sententiam, et opus erat scripturae mutatione, quum
δέ
post
σαυτῆς
adiecerit. Quo ordine hi versus collocandi essent vidit in altera editione Bothius. Sed emendandi erant duo primi huius orationis versus. Itaque scripsi
αὐτόν με νῦν ὁρῶσα δυςμαθεῖς· σὺ δὲ κουρὰν ἰδοῦσα τήνδε κηδείου τριχὸς ἰχνοσκοποῦσά τ' ἐν στίβοισι τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἀνεπτερώθης κἀδόκεις ὁρᾶν ἐμέ. σκέψαι τομῇ προςθεῖσα βόστρυχον τριχὸς σαυτῆς ἀδελφοῦ, συμμέτρου τῷ σῷ κάρᾳ.

225. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-136

σκέψαι
σκέψαιτο μὴ
M. G. Ald.
σκέψαι τὸ μὴ
Rob. Emendavit Turnebus.
225

227. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-137

ἰδοὺ
ἰδοὺ
Abreschius.
ἰδοὺ
libri. χερός
χειρός
vitium Ald.
227

228. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-138

θήρειον
εἰς δὲ
M. G. Ald. Rob.
ἠδὲ
ex coniectura Turn. Deinde
θηρίον
M. G. Ald. codex Robortelli.
θηρίου
Rob.
θηρίων
Turn. Scribendum erat
θήρειον
. Viderunt hoc etiam Bambergerus et Dindorfius. Neque vero
εἴς τε
cum Bambergero aut
ἠδὲ
cum Turnebo aut
ἓν δὲ
cum Pauwio et Schützio scribendum putavi, sed versum excidisse significavi, in quo
βλέψασα
vel simile verbum erat. Undecim erant Orestae versus, ut mox undecim sunt Electrae.
228

230. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-139

γενοῦ
γενοῦ
Rob.
γένοῦ
M.
μενοῦ
G. Ald.
μὲν οὖν
Turn. in folio improbato,
μὲν οὐ
in recuso. χαρᾷ Deinde G. ut omnes
χαρᾷ
, sed e correctione, quum antea fuerit
χάριν
. μὴ 'κπλαγῇς Tum
μὴ 'κπλαγῇ
M. Ald.
μὴ καλαγιῇ
G.
μὴ 'κπλαγῇ
Rob.
μὴ 'κπλαγῇς
Turn.
230

231. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-140

οἶδα νῷν
οἶδα νῷν
Rob. Turn.
οἶδα νῷν
, sed
ω
ab alia manu in litura scripto, M.
οἴδωνῶν
G. Ald. Robortellus in indice emendationum veterem scripturam hanc dicit,
οἶσανῶν ὄντας φίλους
, Sophianum autem emendasse
οἶδα νῷν ὄντας φίλους
. Apparet bis eum
φίλους
pro
πικρούς
scripsisse: in textu enim, ut ceteri omnes, habet
ὄντας πικρούς
.
231

233. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-141

σωτηρίου Non recte Schützius
σωτήριος
. V. ad Soph. El. v. 846.
233

234. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-142

ἀνακτήσει Libri
ἀνακτήσῃ
.
234

235. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-143

ὄμμα Libri
ὄμμα
. Valckenarius ad Phoen. v. 415. p. 153.
ὄνομα
scribendum esse vidit. Porsonus ad Or. v. 1080. non mutandum censebat
ὄμμα
. V. quae disputavi ad Hecubae v. 433. p. 58. ed. sec.
235

237. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-144

πατέρα τε
πατέρος τε
Turn. quod scribendum esset
πατρός τε
. Recte vero M. G. Ald. Rob.
πατέρα τε
. Pergendum erat
καὶ μητέρα καὶ ἀδελφὴν καὶ ἀδελφόν
: sed in horum commemoratione mutatur constructio. ἐς σέ μοι Deinde
ἐς σέ μοι
M. litteris
σσ
in litura scriptis similibusque
π
litterae idem
ἐς σέ μοι
ab alia manu in margine adscriptum est.
237

240. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-145

πιστὸς In G. ante correctionem
πιστὸς τ'
erat.
240

241-242. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-146

μόνον Κράτος τε καὶ Δίκη ... συγγένοιτό σοι
μόνος
M. G. Ald. Rob.
μόνον
Turn. qui his duobus versibus Orestae orationem incepit. Quod ut faceret permovisse eum videtur quod in libris scriptum est
συγγένοιτό μοι
. Recte vero Schützius auctore Stanleio scripsit
συγγένοιτό σοι
. Quod libri habent,
μόνος
, ferri potest coniunctum cum
ἐμοὶ σέβας φέρων
, si cum Bambergero
Κράτος δὲ καὶ Δίκη
scribitur. Praestat autem
μόνον Κράτος τε καὶ Δίκη – συγγένοιτό σοι
.

243. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-147

πραγμάτων Hic Orestae personam adnotarunt Robortellus et Canterus. In M. G. Ald. Vict. versus 232-260. Electrae sunt.
πραγμάτων
Rob. Turn.
πρηγμάτων
M. G. Ald. quod ortum esse videtur ex eo quod ad
πραγμάτων
supra adscriptum fuerat
η
, quo non
πρηγμάτων
, sed
πημάτων
indicaretur.
243

244. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-148

ἰδοῦ δὲ
ἰδοῦ δὲ
G. Vict.
ἰδοὺ δὲ
M. Rob.
ἰδὼν δὲ
Ald.
ἰδὼν δὲ
Turn. γένναν εὖνιν αἰετοῦ Deinde
γένναν, νιν αἰετοῦ
sic M.
γέννα νιν αἴετοῦ
e correctione, quum antea fuisset
ἀπαιτοῦ
, G.
γέννα νιν αἰςτοῦ
Ald.
γέννα νῦν αἰετοῦ
Rob.
γένναν εὖνιν αἰετοῦ
praeclara emendatione Turnebus.
244

245. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-149

σπειράμασιν
σπειράμασιν
G. Ald.
σπιράμασιν
M. Rob.
σπειράμασι
Turn.
245

246. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-150

ἀπορφανισμένους
ἀπορφανισμένους
M. Turn.
ἀπορφανισμένους
G. Ald. Rob.
246

247. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-151

ἐντελὴς Libri
ἐντελής
. Id ad
γένναν
refertur. Eleganter tamen Pauwius et Schützius
ἐντελεῖς
.
247

248. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-152

θήραν πατρῴαν
θήρα πατρώα
sic M.
θῆρα πατρώα
, acuto accentu in
πατρώα
e circumflexo facto, G.
θήρα πατρώα
Ald. Scholiastes
οὐκ ἔστι γέννα ἐντελὴς ὥςτε τὴν πατρώαν θῆραν προςάγειν τῇ καλιᾷ
. Itaque
θῆραν πατρώαν
Rob.
θήραν πατρώαν
Turn. Ineptum est reique de qua sermo est repugnat quod a Blomfieldio coniectum probat Dindorfius,
πατρῴοις
. προςφέρειν Deinde
προφέρειν
G. Ald.
248

249. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-153

λέγω
λέγω
Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἐγὼ
M. G.
249

251. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-154

ἔχοντε
ἔχοντε
M. Rob. Turn.
ἔχοντες
G. Ald.
251

252-260. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-155

NA Hos novem versus Electrae tribui, ut Orestes novem versus habuerat.

252. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-156

σε Quamquam nihil est in hoc versu quod iure reprehendi possit, dubitari tamen potest an scripserit Aeschylus
τοῦ σε τιμῶντος μέγα
.
252

253. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-157

ἀποφθείρας In
ἀποφθείρας
M. diphthongum
ει
ab alia manu ex
ι
factam habet.
253

254. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-158

εὔθοινον
εὔθοινον
G. Rob.
εὔθυνον
, ad alteram syllabam
οι
supra adscripto, M.
εὔθυνον
Ald. Turn. Scholiastes
εὔθυνον διὰ τοῦ υ τὸ δίκαιον σημαίνει, διὰ δὲ τῆς οι καλὴν εὐωχίαν ἔχον γέρας, παρὰ τὸ θοίνην
(sic M.)
254

256. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-159

εὐπιθῆ
ἔχοις
vitium Aldinae: unde
ἔχοις
Turn.
εὐπιθῆ
recte Blomfieldius.
ἐπείθη
M. Ceteri
εὐπειθῆ
.
256

258. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-160

ἤμασιν
ἐνήμασιν
M. G.
ἐπήμασιν
Ald.
ἐνήμασι
codex Robortelli.
ἐν ἡμασιν
Rob.
ἐν ἤμασι
Turn.
258

259. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-161

αἴρειας
δ᾽ ἂν αἴρειας
Turnebus.
δαναρίας
M. G. Ald. Rob.
259

260. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-162

κάρτα
κάρτα
omittit Rob.
260

261. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-163

NA Choro haec tribuit Rob. Linea praefixa in M. Orestae persona adnotata in G. Ald. item in Turn. in folio recuso, quum in improbato omissa esset personae nota.
261

263. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-164

ἀπαγγείλῃ
ἀπαγγείλῃ
G. (in quo ante correctionem fuerat
ἀπαγγείλει
) et Turn.
ἀπαγγείλῃ
M. Ald.
ἐπαγγείλῃ
Rob. Porsonus scripsit
ἀπαγγελεῖ
, quo non opus est.
263

264. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-165

ἴδοιμ'
ἴδοιμ'
G. Ald. Turn.
ἴδοιμι
M. Rob.
264

266. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-166

οὔτοι Personae nota omissa est in G. Ald. Turn. et, ut in hac tragoedia plerumque factum, in M.
ΟΡ.
adscripsit Rob.
οὔτοι
Turnebus.
οὔτι
M. G. Ald. Rob.
266

268. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-167

κἀξορθιάζων
κἀξορθιάζων
Turn.
κἀξουριάζων
M. G. Ald.
κἀξορθριάζων
Rob.
268

269. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-168

ὑφ᾽ ἧπαρ θερμὸν
ὑφ' ἧπαρ θερμὸn
Rob. et, ut videtur, M.
ὑφ᾽ ἧς παρθμὸν
G. Ald. Turn.
269

271. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-169

λέγων In
λέγων
primam litteram in litura habet G.
271

272. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-170

ἀποχρημάτοισι
ἀπόχρηματοῖσι
M.
ἀποχρηματοῖσι
G.
ἀποχρηματοῖσι
Ald.
ἀποχρῆμα τοῖσι
Turn. Vict.
ἀπώχρημα τοῖσι
codex Robortelli.
ἀχρημάτοισι
Rob. ex emendatione Sophiani.
ἀποχρημάτοισι
Schützius et Porsonus. Hoc dicit, ut Schützius intellexit, occidere me iussit Apollo occisores patris, bonorum iactura exasperatum. Eodem modo v. 298.
χρημάτων ἀχηνία
commemoratur.
272

275. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-171

μηνύματα Libri
μειλίγματα
. Scholiastes
τῶν ἐχθρῶν μειλίγματα. αἱ κολάσεις γὰρ τῶν ἀδικούντων μειλίγματά εἰσι τῶν ἀδικηθέντων, εἰ τοὺς μὲν γὰρ πολίτας λιμώξειν ἐκ γῆς ἔφασκε πρὸς ἀφοσίωσιν Ἀγαμέμνονος, ὡς μὴ ἐκδικήσαντας, ἡμᾶς δὲ σωματικῶς φθαρῆναι
. Rectissime Lobeckius ad Αi. v. 757. p. 340.
μηνύματα
.
275

276. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-172

τὰς δ' αἰνῶν νόσους
τὰς δὲ νωνόσσους
prius in M. scriptum erat: id eadem, ut videtur, manus in
τὰς δὲ τῶν νόσους
mutavit.
τὰς δὲ νῶν, νόσους
Rob.
τὰς δε νῶν νόσους
G. Ald.
τάςδε νῶν νόσους
Turn. Scholiastae explicationem ad v. 275. attuli. Non recte olim
νῶν
in
τῶν
mutandum esse putavi. Scribendum erat
τὰς δ᾽ αἰνῶν νόσους
. Ita in Agamemnone v. 97.
τούτων λέξασ᾽ ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν καὶ θέμις αἰνεῖν
, et v. 1449.
ἢ μέγα δώμασι τοῖς δ᾽ αἵμονα καὶ βαρύμηνιν αἰνεῖς, φεῦ φεῦ, κακὸν αἶνον ἀτηρᾶς τύχας ἀκορέστου
. In incerta fabula fr. 305.
γένος μὲν αἰνεῖν ἐκμαθὼν ἐπίσταμαι Αἰθιοπίδος γῆς
.
276

277. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-173

ἐπαμβατῆρας
ἐπαμβατήρας
M. Ceteri
ἐπαμβατῆρας
. Auratus
ἐπεμβατῆρας
.
277

278. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-174

λειχῆνας
λειχῆνας
Blomfieldius. Libri
λιχῆνας
.
278

279. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-175

ἐπαντέλλειν Hunc versum afferunt Etym. M. p. 530, 51. Etym. Gud. p. 338. Zonaras p. 1236. Celsus V. 28, 19.
Vitiligo quoque, quamvis per se nullum periculum affert, tamen et foeda est et ex malo corporis habitu fit. Eius tres species sunt. Ἀλφὸς vocatur ubi color albus est, fere subasper et non continuus, ut quaedam quasi guttae dispersae esse videantur: interdum etiam latius et cum quibusdam intermissionibus serpit. Μέλας colore ab hoc differt, quia niger est et umbrae similis: cetera eadem sunt. Λευκή habet quiddam simile alpho, sed magis albida est et altius descendit, in eaque albi pili sunt et lanugini similes. Omnia haec serpunt, sed in aliis celerius, in aliis tardius. Alphos et melas in quibusdam variis temporibus et oriuntur et desinunt: leuce quem occupavit non facile dimittit.
ἐπαντέλλειν
Rob. Turn. et grammatici.
ἐπαντέλλει
M. G. Ald.
279

280. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-176

ἐφώνει Libri
ἄλλας τε φωνεῖ
. Emendavit Stanleius sive potius Auratus. Ἐρινύων Deinde
Ἐρινύων
M. Ald. Rob.
Ἐριννύων
erat in G. sed alterum
ν
erasum est.
Ἐριννύων
Turn.
280

281. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-177

πατρῴων Rob. e mala coniectura sua
ματρῴων
. Codex eius, ut ceteri libri,
πατρῴων
. Post hunc versum in libris hic legitur,
ὁρῶντα λαμπρὸν ἐν σκότῳ νωμῶντ᾽ ὀφρύν.
Ad quem versum scholiastes haec adscripsit,
τὸν ἐν σκότῳ νῦν κινοῦντα τὴν ὀφρὺν λαμπρῶς ἡμᾶς ἐπεξιέναι ἔλεγεν
. Suspiceris ante hunc versum, i. e. post
τελουμένας
, aliquid excidisse. Et videbatur Dobraeo Adv. II. p. 27. eiusmodi versus interiisse,
τοιαῦτα πέμψειν εἶπε τὸν κατὰ χθονός
. Sed videtur potius hic versus,
ὁρῶντα λαμπρὸn ἐν σκότῳ νωμῶντ᾽ ὀφρύν
, post v. 284. collocandus esse. Idem suspicatus est Blomfieldius.
281

283. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-178

προςτροπαίων
προτροπαίων
G. Ald.
283

285. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-179

NA Legebatur hic versus post v. 281.
285

286. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-180

διώκεται
διώκεσθαι
M. G. Ald.
διώκεται
Rob. Turn.
διωκάθει
Porsonus, refragante Elmsleio ad Med. p. 113.
Διώκεται
, quod verum videtur, passivum esse putat Blomfieldius. Potest fortasse activa significatione dictum esse. Od. XVII. 8.
ὅς τ᾽ ἐλθὼν Ὀδυσῆ διώκετο οἷο δόμοιο
.
286

287. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-181

πλάστιγγι Etym. M. p. 674, 20.
πλάστιγξ, ἡ μάστιξ, ἀπὸ τοῦ πλήσσειν, παρ' Αἰσχύλῳ.
287

288. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-182

κρατῆρος μέρος
κρατερὸς μέρος
M. G. Aldinae.
κρατερὸς μέρους
codex Robortelli. Hinc Rob. dedit
κρατῆρος μέρους
. Turn.
κρατῆρος μέρος
.
288

289. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-183

λιβός
λιβός
Turn.
λίβος
M. G. Ald. Rob. Non opus est ut cum Abreschio
λίβους
scribatur. Accusativo
λίβα
usus est Aeschylus Eum. v. 56. fragm. 56. 70. V. Lob. Paralip. p. 113. seq. et 542.
289

290. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-184

NA Post
πατρός
asteriscum posuit Robortellus, quo aut vitium aut lacunam significaret.
290

291. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-185

συλλύειν Libri
μῆνιν δέχεσθαι οὔτε συλλύειν τινά
. In M. G. Ald. post
δέχεσθαι
punctum est, in Turn. comma. In G.
σ
in
συλλύειν
in litura scriptum. Schützius
μῆνιν· δέχεσθαι δ᾽ οὔτε συλλούειν τινά
, partim ex mea, partim ex Heathii coniectura, cui soloecum
συλλούειν
debetur, quod ne ad sententiam quidem satis aptum est. Interpungendum esse post
μῆνιν
, et
δέ
post
δέχεσθαι
inserendum vidit etiam Elmsleius ad Soph. Oed. R. v. 817. Is
συλλύειν
interpretatus est
συγκαταλύειν
, una deversari, eodemque modo, Dobraeo Adv. II. p. 27. teste, Porsonus. Eadem fortasse erat scholiastae explicatio, si recte Bothius quod scriptum est,
συγκλύειν, συνοικεῖν
, ita emendavit,
συγκαταλύειν, συνοικεῖν
. Sed scripsit fortasse scholiastes
συμπλεῖν, συνοικεῖν
. Certe
συλλύειν
esse videtur una solvere navem. Apte comparavit Bothius illud Horatii carm. III. 2, 26.
vetabo, qui Cereris sacrum vulgarit arcanae, sub isdem sit trabibus fragilemve mecum solvat phaselon
. Euripides in Orionis Antholognomico p. 56,
ὅςτις δὲ τῷ φύσαντι μὴ τιμᾶν θέλῃ, μή μοι γένοιτο μήτε συνθέτης θεοῖς, μήτ' ἐν θαλάσσῃ κοινόπλουν στέλλοι σκάφος
, ubi Schneidewinus p. 95. praeter alia haec Aeschyli in Sept. c. Theb. v. 583. attulit,
ἢ γὰρ ξυνειςβὰς πλοῖον εὐσεβὴς ἀνὴρ ναύταισι θερμοῖς καὶ πανουργίᾳ τινὶ ὄλωλεν ἀνδρῶν σὺν θεοπτύστῳ γένει
.
291

294. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-186

χρησμοῖς
χρισμοῖς
Rob. ἆρα
ἆρα
Stanleius. Libri
ἄρα
.
294

295. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-187

κεἰ μὴ πέποιθα Libri
κεἰ μὴ πέποιθα
, nisi quod in M.
κ' εἰ
scriptum est, cum rasura post
κ
, ut
καὶ εἰ
scriptum fuisse appareat. Schützius in tertia editione non recte meam coniecturam secutus scripsit
κεἰ μὴ πεποίθῃ
. Nihil mutandum est. Euripides Andr. v. 635.
ὃς κλαίοντά σε καὶ τὴν ἐν οἴκοις σὴν καταστήσει κόρην, καὶ τρὶς νόθος πέφυκε
. ἔστ' ἐργαστέον Deinde
ἔστ' ἐργαστέον
M. Rob.
ἔστεργαστέον
G.
ἐργαστέον
Ald.
ἐξεργαστέον
Turn.
295

296. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-188

συμπίτνουσιν
συμπίτνουσιν
Turn. Ceteri
συμπίπτουσιν
.
296

298. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-189

καὶ πρὸς πιέζει
καὶ πρὸς πιέζει
Abreschius. Libri
καὶ προσπιέζει
.
298

300. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-190

εὐδόξῳ Rob. e Sophiani coniectura dedit
ἀδόξῳ
pro lectione codicis
εὐδόξῳ
, quae est in omnibus reliquis libris.
300

302. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-191

εἴσεται
Εἴσεται
dictum est significatione passiva. Nisi
εἴσομαι
Aeschylus scripsit.
302

303. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-192

Μοῖραι Chori notam non habent M. G. Ald.
μοῖραι
, sed
αι
ab alia manu supra adscripto, M.
303
ZZZ

305. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-193

ᾗ: ἦ vitium Ald.
305

308. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-194

Δίκη μέγ᾽ ἀϋτεῖ: δίκη μέγ' ἀϋτεῖ Turn. δίκηαμέγαυτί, priore a lineola transfixo, in margine autem adscripto οἶμαι μέγ' ἀντεῖ, Μ. δίκης μέγ᾽ ἀντεῖ G. Ald. δίκην μέγαντι Rob.
308

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ὦ πάτερ αἰνόπατερ: Ορ. praefixum in M. Turn. Personae notam non habent G. Ald. Rob. Primam stropham eiusque antistropham Canterus indicavit. Totum carmen usque ad v. 469. in strophas atque antistrophas distinctum exhibui in Observationibus criticis in Aeschylum et Euripidem. Ibi quum nihil dixissem de ratione qua ista stropharum coniunctio facta est, Schützius, qui ordinem et aequabilitatem in ea descriptione invenire non posset, insigni audacia strophas alio ordine collocavit: quo factum est, ut, quum ordinem restituere vellet, eum everteret. Non animadvertit enim anapaestos quoque, qui sunt in hoc carmine, esse antistrophicos. Haec est autem carminis, quod quattuor continet stropharum systemata, descriptio. I. a'. ß. a'. y'. S'. f'. d'. µeowdós. e'. 5'. é'. y'. 5'. 5'. 5'. II. 7'. 9'. 9′. 7. III. ¿. ¿. 1. ια'. ια'. ὦ μᾶτερ αἰνόματερ solus Rob.
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ἄν, ἕκαθεν: Recte libri ἂν ἕκαθεν, nisi quod in M. ἂνκαθεν scriptum est. Falsus olim sum, quum τύχοιμ' ἄγκαθεν οὐρίσας scribendum putarem. Neque enim v omitti potest. Emendandus potius erat versus antistrophicus. Iungendum autem est, ut Blomfieldius vidit, οὐρίσας φάος. Errant scholiastae: μακρόθεν ουριοδρομήσας εἰς τὸν σὸν τάφον· ὁ ἐστιν ἀπὸ Φωκίδος ἐλθών. ἄλλως· πόρρωθέν σου ἀφοριζόμενος· σὺ μὲν γὰρ ἐν σκότῳ, ἐγὼ δὲ ἐν τῷ φωτί· ἐναντίον μὲν τὸ φῶς τῷ σκότω. τοῦτ᾽ ἔστι, πολὺ τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν ζώντων καὶ τεθνεώτων. ὅμως δὲ τοῖς προσθοδόμοις Ἀτρείδαις ὁ γόος εὐκλεὴς ὁμοίως χάριτες κέκληνται.
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εὔφρονα, Verständiges, gut Gedachtes.

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τοῦτο τοὔπος, diese Bitte.

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στέφη hier von den Spenden. Vgl. Soph. Εl. 53 πατρὸς τύμβον . . λοιβαῖσι πρῶτον καὶ καρατόμοις χλι δαῖς στέψαντες. Die Menschen verstehen gewöhnlich unter ἴσα Gutes, hier aber werden κακά daraus (Schol. παρ᾽ ὑπόνοιαν· ἔδει γὰρ τῶν καλῶν εἰπεῖν). Diese Pointe wird durch yè gehoben.

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ἀτίμως, so dafs die Spende dem Toten nicht Ehre, sondern Unehre bringt und ihn gegen die Spenderin erbittert. ώσπερ οὖν wie 887.

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καθάρμαθ'. . πάλιν (retro) δικοῦσα (hinter mich werfend) .. ὄμ μασιν: τοῦτο πρὸς τὸ παρ' Αθηναίοις ἔθος, ὅτι καθαίροντες οἰκίαν ὀστρακίνῳ θυματηρίῳ ῥίψαντες ἐν ταῖς τριόδοις ἀμεταστρεπτεὶ ἀνεχώρουν. Vgl. Theokr. 24, 93 συλλέξασα κόνιν πυρὸς ἀμφιπόλων τις ῥιψάτω εὖ μάλα πᾶσαν ὑπὲρ ποταμοῖο φέ ρουσα ῥωγάδος ἐκ πέτρας ὑπερούριον, ἂψ δὲ νέεσθαι ἄστρεπτος, Verg. Ecl. VIII 101 rivoque fluenti transque caput iace; nec respexeris, Ovid Fast. V 437 ff. Auch in Deutschland findet sich die Sitte, dafs man Unglück bedeutende Dinge hinter sich über das Haus weg wirft, ohne umzuschauen.

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μεταίτιαι wie 872 ἀναίτιαι. Blomfield setzt an beiden Stellen die gebräuchliche Form. Aber vgl. 909 παραιτία, Soph. Trach. 447
τῇ μεταιτία
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νομίζομεν, vgl. βίον νομίζων 1001.

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Schol. ἀντὶ τοῦ οὐδὲν πείσεσθε παρὰ τὸ μόρσιμον.

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Der unnütze und in den Worten εἴ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἔχεις ὑπέρτερον (si quid novisti rectius istis Hor. epist. I 6, 67) hier unpassende Vers scheint von Schütz mit Recht als Interpolation bezeichnet worden zu sein. Vgl. auch 107.

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Dicas velim pro ea quam profiteris erga patris sepulcrum reverentia (Schütz). Vgl. Soph. Oed. T. 205
ὥσπερ μ
' ἀραῖον ἔλαβες, ὧδ', ἄναξ, ἐρῶ.

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κεδνά: vgl. Eur. Or. 1138 κέδν᾿ ἀρώμενοι τυχεῖν.

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αὐτήν (dich selbst): zu Ag. 827 .

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σοὶ τἄρα d. i. du gehöret zu denen, welche den Agisthos hassen. Der furchtsame Chor (vgl. 872) bestätigt es nicht direkt:,,das lege dir in Gedanken nach eigenem Wissen zurecht".

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τῇδε στάσει: Schol. τῇ συ στάσει ἡμῶν. Vgl. Ag. 1105 , Cho. 456 , Eum. 311 .

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ὅμως gestellt wie Pers. 298
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εὖ τοῦτο, scil. ἔλεξας.

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τοῖς αἰτίοις wird mit αὐτοῖς 118 wieder aufgenommen.

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ἐλθεῖν: aus dem vorhergehenden τί φῶ; ergänzt sich εἰπέ (bete, wünsche).

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δικαστὴν ἢ δικηφόρον: κριτὴν ἢ τιμωρόν Schol. Es bedarf des Richters nicht, weil die Schuld offenkundig ist.

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Schlichtweg etwa so dich ausdrückend" u. s. w. Meineke vermutet ἁπλῶς πιφαύσκουσ'.

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εὐσεβῆ θεῶν πάρα, so dafs kein νεμεσᾶν von Seite der Götter eintritt.

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πῶς δ᾽ οὐκ εὐσεβές ἐστι παρὰ θεῶν, τὸν ἐχθρὸν ἀνταμεί βεσθαι κακοῖς. Vgl. Archiloch. frg. 65 ἓν δ᾽ ἐπίσταμαι μέγα τὸν κακῶς τι δρῶντα δεινοῖς ἀνταμείβεσθαι κακοῖς uud zu Eur. Med. 809.

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ἄρηξον, welches in der Handschrift fehlt, ist von Klausen er- gänzt. κηρύξας ἐμοί, indem du für mich laut ihnen zurufst, dafs .. sollen. Vgl. Soph. Εl. 1066 ὦ χθο νία βροτοῖσι Φάμα, κατά μοι βόασον οἰκτρὰν ἔπα τοῖς ἔνερθ' Ατρεί δαις κτέ.

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ἐπισκόπους: zu 1.

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κῦμα ( κύημα Schol.) λαμβάνει, von dem Samen befruchtet wird. Ebenso Eum. 662 .

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χέρνιβας, λοιβάς, χοάς, λουτρά. Vgl. Soph. Εl. 84 πατρὸς χέοντες λουτρά.

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πεισμ᾽ ἄναψον: knüpfe für unser irrendes Schifflein (132) ein Haltseil an im Hause. Vgl. Eur. Med. 770 ἐκ τοῦδ᾽ ἀναψόμεσθα πρυμνήτην κάλων, Herc. 478 ὡς ἀνημμένοι κάλως πρυμνησίοισι βίον ἔχοιτ᾽ εὐδαίμονα, Anthol. XII 159 ἐν σοὶ τἀμά, Μυΐσκε, πρυμνήσι” ἀνῆπται, Julian Caes. p. 54 πείσμα καὶ ὅρμον ζῶντι σαυτῷ παρασκευάζων, Heliod. Aeth. VÍI p. 351 πᾶν πείσμα διέρρηκται, πᾶσα ἐλπίδος ἄγκυρα παντοίως ἀνέσπασται.

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πεπραμένοι, übers Meer verkauft. Vgl. 253. Da Elektra wie eine Sklavin gehalten ist (135), fühlt sie ihr Los dem des Orestes gleich.

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ἀντίδουλος wie ἀντίπαις Eum. 38 .

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φεύγων ἐστίν, das s. g. σχῆμα Χαλκιδικόν, vgl. 238, Eum. 549
προτίων καὶ αἰδόμενος ἔστω
.

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πόνος von dem durch Arbeit Erworbenen, wie Pers. 753
πολὺς πλούτου πόνος
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σὺν τύχῃ τινί (mit solchem Glücke wie ich es im Sinne habe), vgl. Sept. 459
σὺν τύχῃ δέ τῳ
, Soph. Αi. 853 σὺν τάχει τινί, Oed. T. 80
ἐν τύχῃ γέ τῳ
.

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Der Akk. σωφρονεστέραν .. εὐσεβεστέραν schliefst sich an den Infin. an. Doch vgl. Anhang. Ansprechend vermutet F. W. Schmidt σωφρονεστέραν τρόπους, da πολύ matt und unpassend ist.

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τιμωρόν σου, einer der dich rächt.

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Wenn δίκην richtig ist, mufs es als Apposition zum Inhalt des Satzes betrachtet werden. Vgl. Krüger I 57, 10, 10. Man erwartet ἀνταμύνασθαι oder ἀντιτίσασθαι δίκην, wobei δίκην Akk. des inneren Objekts und τιμάορον Subjekt wäre. Weil denkt an den Ausfall eines Verses: δίκην | τίνοντας ὧν ἔδρασαν ἀξίαν κακῶν.

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Die gute Bitte geht voraus und folgt nach; die schlimme, welche den Mördern ( κείνοις) gilt, steht in der Mitte. Die fromme Beterin kann nicht mit schlimmen Worten enden.

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Pers. 225
ἐσθλά σοι πέμπειν τέκνῳ τε γῆς ἔνερθεν ἐς φάος
.

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ἐπανθίζειν: Schol. στέφειν ὡς ἄνθεσιν, scil. χοάς. Vgl. Pers. 622
ἀλλ᾽
, ὦ φίλοι, χοαῖσι ταῖσδε νερτέρων ὕμνους ἐπευφημεῖτε.

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Schol. ὅτι (d. i. σημείωσαι ὅτι ἐπ᾽ ἀποθανόντος παιᾶνα εἶπεν κακῶς. καὶ Εὐριπίδης (Alk. 424) παιᾶνα τῷ κάτωθεν ασπόνδῳ θεῷ. Vgl. Soph. Οed. Τ. 5 ὁμοῦ δὲ παιάνων τε καὶ στεναγμάτων und Ag. 650 .

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Dieses (nach der Überlieferung wenigstens) nicht antistrophische Lied, dessen Mafs Dochmien untermischt mit Kretikern und Jamben bilden, wird, wie es scheint, von dem Koryphaios allein oder von dem Koryphaios als Halbchorführer und (von 158 an) von dem anderen Halbchorführer vorgetragen, während die übrigen Choreuten den Gesang mit dem Ausdruck des Schmerzes begleiten.

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Schol. καναχηδὸν δακρύετε von dem Rieseln der Thränen. Vgl. Eur. Hipp. 1464 πολλῶν δακρύων ἔσται πίτυλος.

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μελόμενον (angelegen, lieb): Eur. Iph. Τ. 182 μοῦσαν νέκυσι με λομέναν, Phoen. 1302 Ζαχὰν μελομέναν νεκροῖς.

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πρὸς (an) τόδ᾽ ἔρυμα gehört zu κεχυμένων. ἔρυμα: τὸν τάφον Schol. Der Grabhügel ist ein Schutz und Schirm ( Eum. 704 , Suppl. 87 ), der Schlimmes abwehrt und des Guten Sühne herbeifleht. κακῶν ἀπότροπον wie 42. -Wegen ἐπεύχετον mit dem Objekt ἄγος zu Ag. 1075 . Doch ist die Lesart unsicher. Vgl. Anhang.

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σέβας (Gegenstand der Ver - ehrung) μοι wie Eur. Iph. Α. 633 ὦ σέβας ἐμοὶ μέγιστον, Αγαμέμνων ἄναξ. Vgl. Ag. 520 . κλύε (nämlich die Klagen) ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρε νός (welche kommen umdunkelter Seele). aus gramVgl. Ag. 551 .

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Ein Ares (ein Rächer, der Blut vergierst, zu Ag. 1511 f. ), welcher thatkräftig sowohl von dem Bogen als von dem Schwerte Gebrauch macht. Σκυθικά παλίν τονα βέλη: nach einem Bruchstück des Agathon bei Athen. X p. 454 d Σκυθικῷ τε τόξῳ τὸ τρίτον (der dritte Buchstabe des Namens Θησεύς) ἦν προσεμφερές war der skythische Bogen einem nicht unähnlich, weil dessen Enden stark aufwärts gebogen waren. παλίντονα τόξα auch Hom. Θ 266, Herod. VII 69, Soph. Trach. 511 . σχέδια αὐτόκωπα βέλη, die Waffe für den Nahkampf, die man gleich am eigenen Griff fafst, nicht erst durch andere Mittel, wie den Pfeil durch den Bogen, in Bewegung setzt. Zu αὐτόκωπα vgl. Hesych. αὐτόλαβον· ἑαυτοῦ λαβὴν ἔχον.

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Aristot. Poet. c. 16 p. 1455ª 4 τετάρτη δὲ (scil. ἀναγνώρισις) ἡ ἐκ συλλογισμοῦ, οἷον ἐν Χοηφόροις, ὅτι ὅμοιός τις ἐλήλυθεν, ὅμοιος δὲ οὐ δεὶς ἀλλ᾽ ἢ ὁ Ὀρέστης, οὗτος ἄρα ἐλήλυθεν.

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ὀρχεῖται: ebenso wird 1022 F. das Herzklopfen als ein Tanz des Herzens, der das Spiel der Furcht begleitet, bezeichnet.

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εὐξύμβολον . . δοξάσαι, vgl. Prom. 792
οὐ γὰρ ῥητὸν αὐδᾶσθαι τόδε
, Aristoph. V. 1713 οὐ φατὸν λέγειν.

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Suppl. 365
σὺ δὲ παρ᾽ ὀψιγόνου μάθε γεραροφρονῶν
.

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ὅστις κείραιτο: zu Ag. 625 . Elektra will den Gedanken des Chors auf Orestes lenken: „Ich allein könnte die Locke geweiht haben und thatsächlich gleicht die Locke meinen Haaren; da ich es nicht gethan habe, wie ihr wilst, muls man an Orestes denken.“ Vgl. Soph. Εl. 907 ἐξεπίσταμαι (Chrysothemis, welche die Locke gefunden hat, spricht) μή του τόδ' ἀγλάισμα πλὴν κείνου μολεῖν. τῷ γὰρ προσήκει πλήν γ᾽ ἐμοῦ καὶ σοῦ τόδε κἀγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἔδρασα, τοῦτ᾽ ἐπίσταμαι οὐδ᾽ αὖ σύ κτέ. und dazu Schol. τὸ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς ὄψεως τοῦ βοστρύχου κινεῖσθαι ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν γελοῖον· πιθανῶς οὖν ἐπάγει, ὅτι οὐδενὶ ἄλλῳ ἢ τῷ πάνυ συνημ μένῳ κατὰ γένος τὰ τοιαῦτα προσήκει.

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ὅδε, ὁ πλόκαμος. ρος hier s. v. a. ὅμοιος. ὁμόπτε

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αὐτοῖσιν (Krüger I 43, 1, 3) ἡμῖν mit der bei Ausdrücken der Gleichheit geläufigen Brachylogie. Vgl. Hom. P 51 κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι. Die Kritik, welche Euripides El. 527 an diesem Erkennungsmittel übt: χαίτης πῶς συνοίσεται πλόκος, ὃ μὲν παλαίστραις ἀνδρὸς εὐγενοῦς τραφείς, ὃ δὲ κτενισμοῖς θῆλυς; ἀλλ᾽ ἀμήχανον. πολλοῖς δ᾽ ἂν εὕροις βοστρύχους ὁμοπτέρους καὶ μὴ γεγῶσιν αἵματος ταὐτοῦ, γέρον, ist zwar an und für sich gerechtfertigt, läfst aber die Naivetät der Äschyleischen Poesie aufser acht.

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μῶν .. ᾖ wie μὴ ᾖ (Krüger I 54, 8, 13), am Ende ist es u. s. w. μῶν οὖν wie Eur. Androm. 82 u. a.

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ἔπεμψε, welches im Gegensatz zu μολείν steht, ist zu betonen. κουρίμην χάριν πατρός (als Liebesgabe von abgeschnittenen Haaren für den Vater) wie 4tos εὐκταίαν χάριν Ag. 1386 .

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προσέστη καρδίαν : zu Ag. 825 . men.

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δίψιοι σταγόνες von den ,heifsen" Thränen. ἄφρακτοι: der Thränenstrom ist nicht zu hem δυσχίμου πλημμυρίδος: der unaufhaltsam hervorbrechende Thränenstrom erinnert an eine stürmisch bewegte Flut. Eur. Alk. 184 πᾶν δὲ δέμνιον ὀφθαλμοτέγκτῳ δεύεται πλημμυρίδι.

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νιν, scil. πλόκαμον.

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ὠμόν
, οὔτι παρθένων ἐπώνυμου, φρόνημα, Soph. Εl. 1194 μήτηρ καλεῖται· μητρὶ δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἐξισοῖ.

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ἄντικρυς (ins Gesicht, entschieden): Hom. Η 362 ἄντικρυ δ' ἀπόφημι.

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ἀγλάϊσμα (Grabesschmuck): vgl. Soph. Εl. 908 καὶ νῦν θ᾽ ὁμοίως καὶ τότ᾽ ἐξεπίσταμαι μή του τόδ᾽ ἀγλάϊσμα πλὴν κείνου μολεῖν.

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Elektra hat οὐκ ἔχω im Sinne, verschweigt aber das ungünstige Wort.

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εἶχε, scil. ὁ πλόκαμος.

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ἐκινυσσόμην (hin- und herschwankte), vgl. Krüger 1 54, 8, 8.

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εὖ σάφα wie Pers. 786
εὖ γὰρ σαφῶς τόδ᾽ ἴστε
. Vgl. zu Ag. 1395 und Eum. 520 . ή: das zweite Glied wird anders gewendet, so dafs die Abhängigkeit von Der (kon σάφ᾽ ἦν wegfällt. sekutive) Infin. ἀποπτύσαι hängt von εὖ σάφ' ἦν in dem Sinne eine sichere Entscheidung gegeben wäre" ab.

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ἄγαλμα τιμήν ist Apposition zum Inhalt des Satzes ( συμπενθεῖν). Vgl. 509 und zu Ag. 235 f.

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Euripides ( El. 534 ) kritisiert auch dieses Erkennungsmittel: πῶς δ᾽ ἂν γένοιτ' ἂν ἐν κραταιλέῳ πέδῳ γαίας ποδῶν ἔκμακτρον; εἰ δ᾽ ἔστιν τόδε, δυοῖν ἀδελφοῖν ποὺς ἂν οὐ γένοιτ᾽ ἴσος, ἀνδρός τε καὶ γυναικός, ἀλλ᾽ ἄρσην κρατεῖ.

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Dieser Vers ist vor 209 unnütz. Ohnedies ist o μolo und auch ποδῶν überfüssig.

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πτέρναι . . ὑπογραφαί (Fersen und Umrisse der Fufssohlen) ist Apposition zu στίβοι (Angabe der Teile). Und μετρούμεναι schliefst sich an die Apposition statt an στίβοι an. In

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δὶς καταφθορά von der peinlichen Ungewissheit. Gegensatz dazu steht εἰδότας 200, zu dem jedoch auch der Satz οἵοισιν .. στροβούμεθα gehört. - σμικροῦ . . πυθμήν: an die Stelle des eigentlichen Ausdrucks tritt ohne weiteres das Gleichnis. Vgl. die schöne Wendung 246 ff.

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τὰ λοιπὰ (Akk., zu 707) τυγχάνειν καλῶς, τοῖς . . ἐπαγγέλ λούσα (den Göttern Bitterfüllung anmeldend d. h. den Göttern dankbar ankündigend, dafs die Bitten in Erfüllung gehen, und damit sich zur Darbringung der gelobten Opfer verpflichtend). Was du erflehst, erfüllt sich bereits; danke den Göttern dafür und bitte nur, dafs auch weiterhin dir alles nach Wunsch gehe." Vgl. 217.

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τίνος γὰρ ἤδη ἐπέτυχον ὑπὸ θεῶν ὅτι εἶπες τὰ λοιπά"; Schol. τί κυρῶ: zu 707. ἕκατι δαιμόνων, um der Götter willen, quod ad deos attinet.

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ὧνπερ ( εἰς ὄψιν ἥκειν).

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Zu dem Gebrauch von συνειδέναι (um die That oder den Zustand eines anderen wissen) vgl. Xen. Anab. VII 6, 18 σύνοιδέ μοι εἰ ἐπιορκῶ, Plat. Phaed. p. 92 D ἐγὼ τοῖς διὰ τῶν εἰκότων τὰς ἀποδείξεις ποιουμένοις λόγοις ξύνοιδα οὖσιν ἀλαζόσιν.

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ἐκπαγλουμένην: ἐκπάγλως θαυμάζουσαν Schol., viel Aufhebens, grofses Wesen machend. σύνοιδα ist hier wie οἶδα bebandelt. Vgl. Krüger § 56, 7, 6.

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πρός, in Hinsicht auf.

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κατ᾿ αὐτοῦ: zu Ag. 827 .

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ἐν κακοῖσι γελᾶν s. v. a. και κοῖσιν ἐγγελᾶν. Vgl. Soph. Αnt. 551 γέλωτ᾽ ἐν σοὶ γελῶ und zu Ag. 1612 .

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Soph. Εl. 1200 ΗΛ. μόνος βροτῶν νυν ἴσθ᾽ ἐποικτείρας ποτέ. ΟΡ. μόνος γὰρ ἥκω τοῖς ἴσοις ἀλγῶν κακοῖς.

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102
Soll ich annehmen, daſs du mit solchen Äufserungen dich als Orestes ausgeben willst?"

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αὐτὸν ἐμὲ ὁρῶσα.

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ἀναπτεροῦσθαι wie φόβος μ᾿ ἀναπτεροῖ Εur. Suppl. 89 , ἀνε πτερῶσθαι καὶ πεποτῆσθαι τὰς φρένας Aristoph. Vö. 1445, ἀνεπτάμαν Soph. Αi. 693, πέτῃ Eur. Bakch. 332 durch Freude, Furcht oder Hoffnung in die höchste Aufregung und Spannung versetzt werden, so dafs man alle Fassung verliert. Die Fassung wieder gewinnen καταστῆναι Pers. 298
λέξον καταστάς

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Orestes sagt:,,Uberzeuge dich, dafs von dieser Stelle meines Hauptes die Locke abgeschnitten ist, die du bereits als Locke deines Bruders wegen der Ähnlichkeit mit deinen Haaren anerkannt hast." τομή die Stelle des Haares, wo die Locke abgeschnitten ist. Vgl. Hom. Α 235 σκήπτρον, τὸ μὲν οὔ ποτε φύλλα καὶ ὄζους φύσει, ἐπεὶ δὴ πρῶτα τομὴν ἐν ὄρεσσι λέλοιπεν.

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ἰδοῦ δέ wie σκέψαι μὲν σκέψαι δέ, zu 372. Gegen den Witz des Euripides ( El. 541 ) οὐκ οἶσθ᾽, Ορέστης ἡνίκ᾽ ἐκπίπτει χθο- νός, νέαν μ' ἔτ᾽ οὖσαν; εἰ δὲ κἄκρεκον πέπλους, πῶς ἂν τότ᾽ ὢν παῖς ταὐτὰ νῦν ἔχοι φάρη, εἰ μὴ ξυναύξοινθ᾽ οἱ πέπλοι τῷ σώματι; bemerkt der Schol.: οὐ πάντως ἐν τῷ νῦν χιτῶνι, ἀλλ᾿ εἰκὸς αὐτὸν ἔξωθεν ἔχειν παιδικὸν σπάργανον.

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σπάθη: Hesych. σπάθημα· πύκνωμα, ἀπὸ τῶν ταῖς σπάθαις κατακρουόντων τὰ ὕφη. θήρειον γραφήν: solche Buntstickerei kennt schon Hom. τ 228 ἐν προτέροισι πόδεσσι κύων ἔχε ποικίλον ἑλλόν, ἀσπαίροντα λάων. Vgl. Eur. Iph. Τ. 814, Ion 1146 ff., Hek. 470 f., Poll. VII 55 ὁ δὲ κατάστικτος χιτών ἐστιν ὁ ἔχων ζῷα ἢ ἄνθη ἐνυφασμένα. καὶ ζῷωτὸς δὲ χιτὼν ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ ζωδιωτός.

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Vgl. Herod. I 119 idov dè οὔτε ἐξεπλάγη ἐντός τε ἑωυτοῦ γίνεται, Hom. χ 411 ἐν θυμῷ, γρηῦ, χαῖρε καὶ ἴσχεο μηδ' ὀλόλυξε. Orestes kommt einem heftigen Ausbruch freudiger Überraschung zuvor. Damit vermeidet der Dichter die Notwendigkeit, starke Farben aufzutragen.

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Soph. Αi. 1004 ὦ δυσθέατον ὄμμα (so ruft Teukros beim Anblick des toten Bruders). μοίρας, partes, Rollen.

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ὁ δέ ἀντὶ τοῦ γάρ Schol. Vgl. zu Ag. 437 . Die Stelle enthält eine Nachahmung von Hom. Z 429 Εκτωρ, ἀτὰρ σύ μοι ἐσσὶ πατὴρ καὶ πότνια μήτηρ ἠδὲ κασίγνητος, σὺ δέ μοι θαλερὸς παρακοίτης. Ζυ ἔστ᾽ ἀναγκαίως ἔχον vgl. 692, Aristoph. Frie. 334 μοι ' στ᾿ ἀναγκαίως ἔχον, Antiphan. com. frg. 53, 3 ὁδόν, ἣν πᾶσιν ἐλθεῖν ἔστ' ἀναγκαίως ἔχον, Eur. Suppl. 527
τί τούτων ἐστὶν οὐ καλῶς ἔχον
.

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Statt des einfachen μητέρα ( προσαυδῶν) folgt eine neue Wendung.

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της ὁμοσπόρου scil. στέργηθρον ἐς σέ μοι ῥέπει.

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πιστὸς . . ἦσθα, weil du dich entschlossest zu meiner Erlösung hieherzukommen.

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Beweinte (d. h. unter Thränen ersehnte) Hoffnung. δακρυτός als fem.: zu Ag. 598 . σπέρματος ist als relat. Gen. von σωτήριος abhängig. Vgl. πόνων θελκτήριος 666, λυμαντήριον οἴκων 760, δειμάτων λυτήριον 816, auch δέσμιον σέθεν Eum. 306 . Krüger II 47, 26, 7. Durch σπέρματος σωτήριος wird bezeichnet, dafs sich die Hoffnung auf Erhaltung des Geschlechts bezieht.

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ἀλκῇ πεποιθώς: Suppl. 355
ἀλκᾷ πίσυνος
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μόνον, vgl. οἷον Ag. 136 , μόνον θεοὶ σῴζοιεν Soph. Phil. 528 . σὺν τῷ τρίτῳ: er wird an drit- ter Stelle genannt als Ζεὺς σωτήρ. Eum. 761
Παλλάδος καὶ Λοξίου ἕκατι καὶ τοῦ πάντα κραίνοντος τρίτου σωτῆρος
 und zu Ag. 257 f.

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Hier (vgl. 203) wird zuerst das Gleichnis ohne Vermittlung gegeben, diese aber 251 mit οὕτω δὲ καὶ nachgebracht. Vgl. Ag. 76 u. 334. αἰετοῦ πατρός, des alten Adlers. πατρός steht in Gegensatz zu γένναν, erinnert aber gleich an die Beziehung des Gleichnisses.

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Mit πλεκταῖσι καὶ σπειράμασιν vgl. σπείραις πολυπλόκοις Eur. Med. 481. In betreff der Feindschaft des Adlers und des Drachen vgl. Hom. M 200 ff., Aristot. Tiergesch. [ Χ 1 ἔστι δὲ ἀετὸς καὶ δράκων που λέμια· τροφὴν γὰρ ποιεῖται τοὺς ὄφεις ὁ ἀετός.

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τοὺς δέ, als ob παῖδας statt γένναν vorherginge. ἐν-

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νῆστις: zu Ag. 203 . τελεῖς, ausgewachsen, függe ( ὥστε προσφέρειν). θήραν πατρῴαν, was der alte Adler für die Jungen fing.- σκηνήμασιν: τῇ καλιᾷ Schol.

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πατροστερή passivisch wie βιοστερῆ Soph. Oed. Κ. 747, κρατὶ ὀμματοστερεί ebd. 1260, dagegen hat ἀργυροστερή unten 1000 aktive Bedeutung wie ὀμματοστερής Eum. 941 . γόνος, proles.

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Vgl. zu 132.

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καὶ: und nicht blofs Mitleid, sondern auch das eigene Interesse mufs dich bestimmen uns zu helfen. Sept. 76
γένεσθε δ
' ἀλκή· ξυνὰ δ᾽ ἐλπίζω λέγειν· πόλις γὰρ εὐ πράσσουσα δαίμονας τίει.

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ὁμοίας, die ebenso reichlich spendet. εὔθοινον wie θοίναις Prom. 546 von Opfermahlzeiten gesagt ist. Zum Gedanken Hom. A 40 ἢ εἰ δή ποτέ τοι κατὰ πίονα μηρί ἔκης ταύρων ἠδ᾽ αἰγῶν, τόδε μοι κρήηνον ἐέλδωρ.

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out ε .. outɛ: zu Ag. 76 . Doch hat man nicht den gleichen Fall wie etwa Eur. frg. 194 ἐγὼ γὰρ οὔτε ναυτίλον φιλῶ τολμῶντα λίαν οὔτε προστάτην χθονός, weil hier eine Beziehung auf das vorhergehende Gleichnis vorliegt. σήματ᾽ εὐπιθῆ: der Adler ( αἰετὸς ὑψιπέτης) ist der wichtigste Weissagevogel. Hom. Θ 247 αὐτίκα δ᾽ αἰετὸν ἧκε, τελειότατον πετεηνῶν, Μ 201, Ν 822, Ω 292 αἴτει δ᾽ οἰωνὸν ταχὺν ἄγγελον, ὅς τε οἱ αὐτῷ φίλτατος οἰωνῶν, καί εὖ κράτος ἐστὶ μέγιστον, 315, β΄ 146, ο 161, ν 243 — αὐανθείς· ξηρανθείς Hesych.

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ἀρήξει: ἐπιμελήσεται τῶν βωμῶν Schol. In anderem Sinne πόλει τ᾿ ἀρήγειν καὶ θεῶν ἐγχωρίων βωμοῖσι Sept. 14 . — βουθύτοις ἤμασιν: zu Ag. 1592 .

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κόμιζε: ἐπιμελείας ἀξίου Hesych. Hom. Z 490 τέ᾽ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε, ο 113 ὣς ἐμὲ κεῖνος ἐνδυ κέως ἐκόμιζε. Das Objekt zu κόμιζε ergiebt sich aus dem folgenden Satze ( δόμον).

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ὦ τέκνα nach ὦ παῖδες als Ausdruck zärtlicher Bitte. Vgl. 895.

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γλώσσης χάριν s. v. a. γλώσση χαριζόμενος (nur um zu reden, aus Schwatzhaftigkeit, μὴ δυνάμενος ἐχεμυθεῖν Schol.), vgl. Hes. W. und Τ. 709 μηδὲ ψεύδεσθαι γλώσ σης χάριν, Soph. Ant. 371
τόλμας χάριν
, Eur. Οr. 1514 γλώσσῃ χαρίζῃ, τἄνδον οὐχ οὕτω φρονῶν. Porson setzt απαγγελεί wegen πεύσεται. Aber durch den Konj. ἀπαγγείλη wird die Befürchtung dessen ausgedrückt. Eur.

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οὓς ἴδοιμ᾽ ἐγώ ποτε: Med. 163 ὅν ποτ᾽ ἐγὼ νύμφαν τ᾿ ἐσίδοιμ᾽ αὐτοῖς μελάθροις διακναιομένους, scherzhaft Aristoph. Ach. 1156 ὃν ἔτ᾽ ἐπίδοιμι τευθίδος δεόμενον.

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137
ἐν κηκίδι πισσήρει, im Qualm des Fichtenbarzes, weil der Scheiterhaufen aus dem Holz der Pechfchte ( πεύκη) errichtet wurde.

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οἴτοι προδώσει ( με) wie οὔ τοι προδώσω ( σε) Eum. 64 . σθενής wie Eum. 61
Λοξία μεγασθενεῖ
. μεγα-

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ἐξορθιάζων: ἀνατεταμένα βοῶν Schol.

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Vgl. Eum. 469 f. , Attius Epigonis frg. VI R. qui nisi genitorem ulso (s. v. a. ultus fuero), nullum meis dat finem miseriis. ὑφ᾽ ἧπαρ, „ins Herz. Soph. Ant. 1315
παίσασ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ἧπαρ αὐτόχειρ αυτήν
, Ag. 440 , 783. θερμόν steht proleptisch. Soph. Ant. 88
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις
.

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μέτειμι: zu Ag. 1666 . - τοῦ πατρὸς τοὺς αἰτίους, eine kurze, immerhin verständliche Ausdrucksweise. Doch möchte man του φόνου τοὺς αἰτίους, wie Heimsöth, oder τοὺς παλαμναίους πατρός oder τοῦ πατρὸς μιαιφόνους, wie Stadtmüller vermutet hat, erwarten.

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τρόπον τὸν αὐτόν: 887 δόλοις ὀλούμεθ᾿ ὥσπερ οὖν ἐκτείναμεν, 554 1.

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Die Partie 274-295, welche durch eigentümliche und starke Färbung des Ausdrucks auffällt und mit 1030 f. οὐκ ἐρῶ τὴν ζημίαν· τόξῳ γὰρ οὔτις πημάτων προσίζεταιnicht in Einklang steht, scheint Dindorf mit Recht als spätere Einlage bezeichnet zu haben. ἀποχρημάτοισι . ταυρούμενον (scil. ἐμέ erklären Pauw, Hermann, Dindorf u. a.,,in Entrüstung wegen des mir entzogenen väterlichen Erbes". Aber der Gegensatz, der in den folgenden Worten αὐτὸν τῇ φίλῃ ψυχῇ liegt, weist auf folgenden Sinn hin:,,durch Strafen, die nicht mit Geld, sondern mit dem eigenen lieben Leben zu büfsen sind, wild gemacht, aufgeregt", so dafs ζημίαις sich auf die Drohungen des Apollon bezieht. Mit ταυρούμενον vgl. Eur. Med. 92 ἤδη γὰρ εἶδον ὄμμα νιν ταυρουμένην, 188 τοκάδος δέργμα λεαίνης ἀποταυροῦται δμωσίν (diese Beziehung auf den Blick ist natürlicher).

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αὐτόν με τίσειν τάδε (scil. τὸ μὴ μετιέναι τὸν τοῦ πατρὸς φό νον) τῇ φίλῃ ψυχῇ (abhängig von τίσειν, büfsen mit) steht, wie gesagt, in Gegensatz zu ἀποχρημάτ τοισι. ἔχοντα κτἑ., d. i. indem über mich viel Unheil komme".

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146
„,Den Groll der gekränkten Abgeschiedenen aus der Erde den Angehörigen in Aussicht stellend." βλαστάνειν νόσους: vgl. Ag. 753
βλαστάνειν οἰζύν
.

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λειχήνας σαρκῶν ἐπαμβατῆρας (Aussatz der sich über den Leib verbreitet), ἀγρίαις γνάθοις ( Prom. 384
ποταμοὶ πυρὸς δάπτοντες ἀγρίαις γνάθοις
 . . γύας) ἐξέ σθοντας (die Form ἔσθειν auch Ag. 1597 ) ἀρχαίαν (die ursprüngliche, τὴν ὑγιᾶ καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆς οὖσαν ἡμῖν Schol.) φύσιν ist Apposition zu νόσους. Ζυ λειχήνας vgl. Εum. 788 f., zu ἀρχαίαν Plat. Gorg.518 D προσαπολοῦσιν αὐτῶν καὶ τὰς ἀρχαίας σάρκας.

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κόρσας, τρίχας Schol., Poll. II 32, Etym. M. p. 530, 51, Etym. Gud. p. 338. Vgl. Cels. V 28, 19 vitiligo (Flechte) quoque quamvis per se nullum periculum affert, tamen et foeda est et ex malo corporis habitu fit. Eius tres species sunt. Αλφος . Μέλας . . Λευκὴ habet quiddam simile alpho, sed magis albida est et altius descendit, in eaque albi pili sunt et lanugini similes. Omnia haec serpunt, sed in aliis celerius, in aliis tardius. - ἐπαντέλλειν wie ἀντέλλουσα θρίξ Sept. 522 .

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προσβολάς (aggressiones), vgl. Aristoph. Frie. 59 ὅτου ποτ' ἐστὶ δαιμόνων ἡ προσβολή.

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ἐκ προστροπαίων αἱμάτων d. i. aus dem Grolle der Gemordeten, die nach Rache verlangen.

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Wenn der Vers dieser Partie ursprünglich angehört, so mufs, wie Dobree vermutet hat, vorher etwas ausgefallen sein (z. Β. τοιαῦτα πέμψειν εἶπε τὸν κάτω νεκρόν, der obwohl er seine Augenbrauen in der Dunkelheit bewege, doch hell sehe).

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Die Rede wird hier direkt, 290 wieder indirekt.

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Der Vers scheint aus einer Erklärung zu 283 entstanden zu sein. Vgl. Anhang.

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λύσσα und μάταιος φόβος geben eine Erklärung zu τὸ .. βέλος, wenn sie auch nicht appositionell stehen. μάταιος, weil nur geträumt. ἐκ νυκτῶν, nächtlicher Weile, wie Hom. μ 286 ἐκ νυκτῶν δ᾽ ἄνεμοι χαλεποί, Theogn. 460, Eur. Rhes. 13 τίνες ἐκ νυκτῶν τὰς ἡμετέρας κοίτας πλάθουσι;

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158
κινεί, ταράσσει wie Sept. 60
χωρεῖ κονίει
, 169 αὔειν λακάζειν, Pers. 429
ἔπαιον ἐρράχιζον
, 466 παίουσι κρεοκοποῦσι. Der zweite Ausdruck ergänzt und verstärkt den ersten. Der bei κινεῖ ταράσσει als Objekt gedachte Schuldige ist Subjekt zu διώκεται. πόλεως s. v. a. ἐκ πόλεως.

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τοῖς τοιούτοις allgemein, obwohl der Singular vorhergeht ( διώκεται). Nachher (294 und schon 292) folgt wieder der Sing. mit besonderer Beziehung auf Orestes. οὔτε . . οὐ: zu Ag. 501 . μέρος μετασχεῖν wie Ag. 512 . εἶναι, licere. φιλοσπόνδου λιβός d. i. an der Libation, welche der Kreis der φίλοι darbringt. Zu Ag. 1020 und Soph. Oed. Τ. 238 μήτ' εἰσδέ χεσθαι μήτε προσφωνεῖν τινα, μήτ' ἐν θεῶν εὐχαῖσι μηδὲ θύμασι κοι νὸν ποεῖσθαι μήτε χέρνιβας νέμειν, ὠθεῖν δ᾽ ἀπ᾿ οἴκων πάντας. Nach Demosth. XX 158 bestimmte ein Gesetz des Drakon χερνίβων εἴργεσθαι τὸν ἀνδροφόνον, σπονδῶν, κρατήρων, ἱερῶν, ἀγορᾶς.

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ἀπείργειν, nämlich τὸν τοιοὗτον oder μέ, wie πατρός zeigt.

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δέχεσθαι οὐδὲ συλλύειν S. ν. a. οὔτε δέχεσθαι οὔτε συλλύειν: zu Ag. 537 . συλλύειν: συγκαταλύειν, συνοικεῖν Schol., una deversari. Eine andere Bedeutung dürfte hier kaum am Platze sein. Die Bedeutung wenigstens, die das Wort Soph. Αi. 1317 εἰ μὴ ξυνάψων, ἀλλὰ συλλύσων πάρει hat, ist hier nicht brauchbar. Stanley erklärt es: pacisci, transigere, Blomfield: operam praestare in scelere expiando, Heruna solvere navem, indem er Eur. frg. 848 ὅστις δὲ τῷ φύ σαντε μὴ τιμᾶν θέλῃ, μὴ ' μοὶ γένοιτο μήτε συνθύτης θεοῖς μήτ᾽ ἐν θαλάσσῃ κοινόπλουν στέλλοι σκάφος und Hor. carm. III 2,26 vetabo, qui Cereris sacrum volgarit arcanae, sub isdem sit trabibus fragilemque mecum solvat phaselon vergleicht.

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ταριχευθέντα, exsiccatum, ein ebenso eigentümlicher Ausdruck wie παμφθάρτω. mann:

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ἆρα für ἄρα (füglich) wie 434.

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εἰς ἕν (in unum) wie Eur. Phoen. 462 εἰς ἓν συνελθών.

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καὶ πρός wie Prom. 73
και πιθωύξω γε πρός
, 961 πρὸς δέ.

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τὸ μὴ τε πέλειν schliefst sich wieder wie ἐφετμαί und πένθος appositionell an ἵμεροι an: der Wunsch dafs nicht seien." δυοῖν γυναικοῖν: Ag. 1625 .

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τάχ᾽ εἴσεται wie Ag. 1649
γνώση τάχα
, Sept. 646
τάχ᾽ εἰσόμεσθα ταπίσημ᾽ ὅποι τελεῖ
, Eur. Iph. Α. 970 τάχ᾽ εἴσεται σίδηρος, Herakleid.269 πειρώμενος δὴ τοῦτό γ᾽ αὐτίκ᾽ εἴσομαι. Wenn er aber sich gegen den Vorwurf der θήλεια φρήν wehrt, wird er's bald erfahren." Es ist nicht nötig εἴσεται (mit Pauw und Hermann) passivisch zu nehmen oder εἴσομαι zu schreiben. Vgl. Demosth. VIII § 40 κακόνους μέν ἐστι .. τοῖς μάλιστ᾽ οἰομένοις αὐτῷ χαρίζεσθαι· εἰ δὲ μή (d. i. wenn sie es mir nicht glauben), σκεψάσθωσαν κτέ.

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Kommos, welcher den Rächer weckt (vgl. 326 f.) und die Motive der Handlung entwickelt zur Ermutigung und Stärkung des Orestes (510 ἐπειδὴ δρᾶν κατώρθωσαι φρενί). Derselbe wird durch eine anapästische Partie des Koryphaios eingeleitet und durch eine solche geschlossen und besteht aufserdem aus vier Teilen. Die erste Partie (314-421) zerfällt durch ein anapästisches System des Koryphaios (371-378) in zwei symmetrische Teile, deren Mitte wieder anapästische Systeme des Chorführers einnehmen, die sich entsprechen (339 - 343 = 399 - 403), während zu beiden Seiten eine Strophe des Orestes und eine Antistrophe der Elektra stehen, die auf der einen Seite durch eine Strophe, auf der anderen durch eine Antistrophe des Chors getrennt werden. Die Form des Ganzen ist also folgende: Or. Cho. El. Kor. Or. Cho, El. Kor. Or. Cho. El. Kor. Or. Cho. El.

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ἀλλά häufig am Anfang von Gebeten wie im Lat. at, 474, 538, 1061, Pers. 631 , 643, Soph. Oed. K. 421 , Eur. Med. 759, 1389. Μοίραι, Διόθεν (durch die Fügung von Zeus, Eur. Οr. 355 θεόθεν πράξας ἅπερ ηὔχου): Zeus bringt das ewige Gesetz, welches die Mören vertreten, zur Ausführung, vgl. Eum. 1046
Ζεὺς ὁ πανόπτας οὕτω Μοϊρά τε συγκατέβα
. Über den absolut. Inūn. τελευτᾶν (exitum habeat) zu Ag. 150 .

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Qua via iustitia procedit contra Agamemnonis occisores in favorem Orestis (Butler).

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τελεῖν „leisten, zollen“ unterscheidet sich von τελεῖν „voll- enden". Vgl. Curtius griech. Etymol. unter W. τελ. - Der Zwischensatz,,Dike treibt mit lautem Rufe das Geschuldete ein" bezieht sich auf den ganzen Gedanken Wort für Wort, Schlag für Schlag was s. v. a. ,wie Wort für Wort, so Schlag für Schlag". Das alte ius talionis,,Aug' um Auge, Zahn um Zahn". Ag. 1431
τύμμα τύμματι τίσαι
.

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τινέτω, ὁ φονεύσας (Schol.) oder ὁ δράσας, was sich leicht aus dem Zusammenhang ergänzt. δράσαντι: der Dativ unter dem Einfufs von φωνεί. δράσαντι παθεῖν, vgl. Hes. frg. 217 Gottl. εἴ κε πάθοι τά κ᾽ ἔρεξε, δίκη κ᾿ ἰθεῖα γένοιτο, Pind. Nem. IV 32 ῥέζοντά τι καὶ παθεῖν ἔοικεν, Aesch. frg. 282 δράσαντι γάρ τοι καὶ παθεῖν ὀφείλεται, Ag. 381 . — τριγέρων ( κα Ag. 749 ) wie τριπάχυντος Ag. 1477 , τρίπαλαι Aristoph. Ri. 1152. · τάδε: zu Ag. 1333 .

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αἰνοπαθές (von Hartung hergestellt für αἰνόπατερ): δεινὰ παθών Schol. Welches Wort oder welche Handlung kann ich glücklich ans Ziel zu dir ins Grab bringen? Wie das Reich des Lichtes geschieden ist von dem Reiche der Finsternis, so sind Gunsterweisungen, die in einem kräftigen Seufzer bestehen, verschlossen für die Atriden, die früheren Herren des Hauses (d. i. sie können nicht zu Agamemnon dringen). Zum Gedanken vgl. Aristoph. Fr. 1175 τεθνηκόσιν γὰρ ἔλεγεν, ὦ μοχθηρὲ σύ, οἷς οὐδὲ τρὶς λέγοντες ἐξικνούμεθα. τύχοιμ ἄν, dürfte es mir gelingen. Vgl. zu Ag. 1200 . ἕκαθεν οὐρίσας: Eur. Or. 1241 εἴπερ γὰρ εἴσω γῆς ἀκοντίζουσ᾽ ἀραί, κλύει. εὐναί wie Soph. Εl. 436 εὐνὴν πατρός. χάριτες γόος: χάριτας δὲ νεκρῶν πάντες φασὶ τὸν γόον Schol. (Paley schreibt φασὶ πάντες, indem er darin den Vers eines Komikers sieht). Eur. Hel. 176 χάριτας ἵν᾽ ἐπὶ δάκρυσι παρ᾽ ἐμέθεν ὑπὸ μέλαθρα νύχια παιᾶνας νέκυσι μελομένους λάβῃ. ὁμοίως steht an der gleichen Stelle der Antistrophe. προσθοδόμοις: τοῖς πρότερον ἐσχηκόσι δόμον Schol.