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Eumenides. Aeschylus. ed. Friedrich Blass. Berlin. 1907.

Current edition Experimental

Kommentar zu den Eumeniden (OCR draft) (German) (German commentary on Aeschylus' Eumenides by Friedrich Blass, 1907.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 566-777 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 566-777 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 674 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 674 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 674 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 674 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 674 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 674 focus
ἤδη κελεύω τούσδ᾽ ἀπὸ γνώμης φέρειν
ψῆφον δικαίαν, ὡς ἅλις λελεγμένων.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 674 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 674 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 674 focus
ἤδη κελεύω τούσδ᾽ ἀπὸ γνώμης φέρειν
ψῆφον δικαίαν, ὡς ἅλις λελεγμένων.
645
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 674 focus
ἤδη κελεύσω τοῦσδ᾽ ἀπὸ γνώμης φέρειν
ψῆφον δικαίαν, ὡς ἅλις λελεγμένων.
675
Translations (10)
Eumenides Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 566-775 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 674 focus
Now I bid these according to their opinion pass a just sentence, as enough has been said.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 674 focus
inviter maintenant ces juges à por-
ter dans l'urne, suivant leur conscience, un suffrage équi- table ? Avez-vous tout dit ?
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 674 focus
The pleas are urg'd: theſe now I charge to give
Sentence, with ſtrict regard to truth and juſtice.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 674 focus
Giove, tu dici, ha piú riguardo ai padri ?
Ed egli in lacci il vecchio Crono avvinse.
680
Ché non esponi il fatto a questi giudici?
A udirlo, o testimonî, io vi sollecito.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 674 focus
Iam iubeo hos pro ſententia ferre
Calculum iuſtum, tanquam fatis dictorum.
640
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 674 focus
Habt ihr genug gesprochen? Darf die Richter ich
675 abstimmen lassen ehrlich und gewissenhaft?
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, The Furies — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 674 focus
Enough is said; I bid the judges now
With pure intent deliver just award.
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.) — 674 focus
Und nun gebiet' ich, Richter, fällt nach eurem Sinn
Gerechtes Urtheil; denn gesprochen ist genug.
645
English (Smyth; revised Bannon and Nagy, CHS) (OCR draft) Experimental (CHS Primary Sources revision of Herbert Weir Smyth’s translation by Cynthia Bannon and Gregory Nagy, with transliterated Greek terms tagged and aligned to the Smyth edition.)

No corresponding passage available

Commentary

Commentary on Aeschylus: Eumenides (Aeschylus. Eumenides. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887.)

674. ἀπὸ γνώμης , from his judgment (gen. of the source), i.e. according to his judgment. Somewhat similar are τλήμων οὖσ᾽ ἀπ᾿ εὐτόλμου φρενός Ag. 1302, ἀπὸ γλώσσης, ‘by word of mouth,' ἀπ᾿ ὄψεως, at sight.

678. τιθεῖσ' , ordering. Athena addresses Apollo and Orestes, but Apollo replies to the judges.

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

mvp-comment-483-1 χρόνου:

χρόνον
Aug.

mvp-comment-484-1 τάδ᾽ αἰανῶς μένοι:

τάδ' αἰανῶς
M. Aug. Ven. Flor. Turn. et e correctione G.
τὰ δὲ αἰῶνος
ante correctionem G.
τάδ' αἰῶνος
Ald. Rob. Deinde
μένει
, sed mutatum in
μένοι
, G.
ας
, Flor.

mvp-comment-485-1 τὰ πιστὰ:

τὰ πιστὰ
Ven. Flor Turn.
τ' ἄπιστα
M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob.

mvp-comment-486-1 κελεύω τούςδ᾽:

κελεύσω
sola Rob.
τάσδ'
Farn.
τούσδ'
, supra adscripto
τας
,

mvp-comment-487-1 ἀπὸ γνώμης: Euripides in Ione v. 1313.

δεινόν γε, θνητοῖς τοὺς νόμους ὡς οὐ καλῶς ἔθηκεν ὁ θεός, οὐδ᾽ ἀπὸ γνώμης σοφής
. Vnde Blomfieldius hic
δικαίας
scribendum esse suspicatur.

mvp-comment-488-1 ἄμομφος:

ἄμορφος
Ven. Ald. Sed G. ut ceteri
ἄμομφος
.

mvp-comment-489-1 ἠκούσαθ᾽ ὧν ἠκούσατ᾽:

ἤκουσαν᾽ ὧν ἤκούσατ'
sic G.
ἤκουσα θ' ὧν ἤκουσα τ'
Αld.
ἠκούσαθ᾽ ὡς ἠκούσατ'
Ven. (teste Bekkero Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-490-1 αἰδεῖσθε:

αἰδεῖσθε
Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Turn.
αἰδεῖσθαι
Rob. et ad ultimam syllabam supra adscripto
ε
M.

Commentary on the Eumenides (OCR draft) (Brief English notes on Aeschylus' Eumenides by F. A. Paley, 1885.) focus

mvp-comment-213-1 αἰανῶς] for all time. See on 394. In the next line construe τῶνδε τοὺς ἐπισπόρους, in the political sense, the descendants of the citizens here present. Schol.

ἀπογόνους.

mvp-comment-214-1 ἀπὸ γνώμης] according to their convictions. Schol.

ὃ δοκιμάζεται.

mvp-comment-215-1 The sense is, πῶς τιθῶ ὥστε πρὸς ὑμῶν ἄμομφος εἶναι; Properly, the deliberative subjunctive can only refer to some act, and in τί πάθω=τί πείσομαι the aorist has the epic meaning of a true future.

mvp-comment-216-1 After this verse Hermann inserts 674-6. The poet, perhaps, preferred to make a more direct antithesis between πρώτας δίκας and καὶ τὸ λοιπόν. ὅρκον] Cf. v. 467. Athena gives the same warning, inf. 680.

Selected scholia accompanying Blass's Eumenides (OCR draft) (The mixed Greek, Latin, and German scholia register printed with Friedrich Blass's 1907 edition, aligned to O. L. Smith's later recensional editions.) focus

mvp-comment-264-1 δι᾿ αἰῶνος.

mvp-comment-265-1 ἀπογόνους.

mvp-comment-266-1 ὃ δοκιμάζεται.

mvp-comment-267-1 τί τιθεῖσα μέμψιν παρ᾽ ὑμῶν οὐχ ὑπομενῶ; zu

Wecklein’s commentary on Eumenides (1888; German; OCR draft) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 251–322; HW42J8 and HXJHA8 OCR collated, with missing comparison pages 294–295 explicitly marked. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.) focus

mvp-comment-312-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 292

mvp-comment-312-2 viertes Epeisodion: Vor dem neu eingesetzten Gerichtshof, dem Athena als ἡγεμών und εἰσαγωγεύς vorsteht (583), bringen die Erinyen ihre Anklage vor, Apollon legt Zeugnis ab und tritt den Erinyen als Vertreter der Sache des Orestes, die zugleich seine eigene ist, entgegen. Darauf fällen die Areopagiten das Urteil. Athena tritt rechts auf. Ein Herold und ein Trompetenbläser schreiten voraus, Bürger von Athen folgen ihr. κήρυσσε scil. σίγα ( Eur. Phoen. 1224

σίγα κηρύξαι στρατῷ
). Der Schol. :
ὅρα πῶς τὰ νέων ἔθη ἀναχρονίζει. ἃ γὰρ νῦν γίνε ται, ταῦτα τὴν ᾿Αθηνῶν εἰσήγαγε λέγουσαν. ἐχρῶντο γὰρ τῇ σάλ πιγγι ἀνείργειν τὸ πλῆθος θέλοντες
. στρατόν: natürlich ist das Volk nur gedacht.

mvp-comment-367-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 298

mvp-comment-367-2 αἰανῶς (575) μένοι wie Suppl. 956

μένειν ἀραρότως
, Ag. 845
ἐμπέδως μένοι
. — τοὺς ἐπισπόρους τῶνδε, τῶν ἔπειτα, also die fernen Enkel.

mvp-comment-368-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 298

mvp-comment-368-2 ἀπὸ γνώμης (pach innerer Überzeugung) wie τἀπὸ καρδίας Eur. Iph. A. 475 . Gegensatz ἀπὸ γλώσσης Theogn. 63 ἀλλὰ δόκει μὲν πᾶσιν ἀπὸ γλώσσης φίλος εἶναι. Vgl. Aeschin. 1, 92 οὐ γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ λόγου μόνον οὐδὲ ἐκ τῶν μαρτυριῶν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐξ ὧν αὐτοὶ ἐξητάκασι καὶ συνίσασι, τὴν ψῆφον φέρουσι (die Areopagiten).

mvp-comment-369-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 298

mvp-comment-369-2 Nach diesem Verse treten die Richter zur Urne (zu Ag. 806 ). Da 12 Distichen, 6 der Chorführerin, 6 des Apollon folgen (679-725), so werden es 12 Areopagiten gewesen sein entsprechend der Zahl von 12 Göttern, welche nach anderer Sage über Ares oder über Orestes ( Eur. Or. 1650 , Demosth. 23, 66 ) auf dem Areshügel gerichtet haben sollen, und bei jeder Rede des Chors wird einer in den κάδος θανάτου, bei jedem Distichon des Apollon einer in den κάδος ἐλέου seinen Stimmstein gelegt haben.

mvp-comment-370-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 299

mvp-comment-370-2 ἡμῖν μέν (uns allerdings) mit Bezug auf ὡς ἄλις λελεγμένων.

mvp-comment-371-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 299

mvp-comment-371-2 μένω (harre) ἀκοῦσαι wie γενέσθαι μένω 735. Hom. Δ 247 ἡ μένετε Τρώας σχεδὸν ἐλθέμεν, wie μένειν öfter gebraucht ist.

mvp-comment-372-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 299

mvp-comment-372-2 πῶς τιθεῖσα ἄμομφος ω πρὸς ὑμῶν: welcher Art soli mein θεσμός sein, wenn ich mir nicht euren Tadel zuziehen will? Vgl. zu Cho. 14 u. 995. Der Gedanke, welcher die 684 folgende Verkündigung des couós einleitet, steht ganz unvermittelt und die Frage der Göttin wird von niemanden beantwortet. Weiteres zu 684.

mvp-comment-373-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 299

mvp-comment-373-2 ἠκούσαθ᾽ ὧν ἠκούσατε: Zu Cho. 776 . ἐν καρδίᾳ gehört zu αἰδεῖσθε.

Commentary (Arthur Sidgwick, 1887) (OCR draft) (Arthur Sidgwick's commentary on the Eumenides, aligned to the canonical Greek text.) focus

mvp-sidgwick-307-1-1 That their posterity should cherish this faithful bond:' the emphasis of this wish for permanence is really a political allusion. Not long before the date of the play (which is generally put at 458 B.C.) the Argives had become allied with Athens. The picture of Orestes the Argive, fleeing for refuge to Athens, had therefore a significance from a political point of view, which is of course only lightly touched, but is not lost sight of. See below l. 765

, and Introduction.

ἀπὸ γνώμης , from his judgment (gen. of the source), i.e. according to his judgment. Somewhat similar are

τλήμων οὖσ᾽ ἀπ᾿ εὐτόλμου φρενός
Ag. 1302 , ἀπὸ γλώσσης, by word of mouth, ἀπ᾿ ὄψεως, at sight.

mvp-sidgwick-309-1-1 The sense is improved by marking this line as interrogative. Athena first asks the Furies whether they are willing to have the voting, and then the other side, Apollo and Orestes. Both express satisfaction, and then she gives her final address and orders them to vote. κελεύω will then be subj. delib. Shall I now order? etc. It is a formal request to both sides to know if there is anything more to be said: no doubt a copy of the usual proceeding on the part of the presiding judge at an Areopagite trial.

τιθεῖσ' , ordering. Athena addresses Apollo and Orestes, but Apollo replies to the judges.