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

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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.) — 892-915 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 892-915 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 916 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 916 focus
Δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
915
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ Παγκρατὴς Ἄρης τε
φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλά-
νων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων,
920
ᾷτ' ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς
ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
γαίας ἐξαμβρῦσαι -αμβρόσαι -αμυρόσαι,
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
925
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν,
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς Ἄρης τε
φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
920
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλά-
νων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων.
τᾷδ᾽ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς Ἄρης
τε φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων·
920
ἆιτ’ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς
ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
γαίας ἐξαμβρῦσαι
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
925
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν,
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς
880
῎Αρης τε φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων·
ᾆτ᾿ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι,
θεσπίσασα πρευμενώς,
ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
885
γαίας † ἐξαμβράσαι
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν,
στρ. α
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς Ἄρης τε φρούριον
θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων (θ᾽)·
920
ἆιτ᾽ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας
ὀνησίμους
γαίας ἐξαμβρύσειν
925
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
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.)) — 892-915 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 916 focus
I will accept the fellowship of Pallas, nor will I despise a city whieli even all-powerful Jove and Mars regard as the defence of the gods, the delight of the deities of Greece, protecting their altars. For which I pray, prophesying benevolently, that the bright ray of the sun cause to spring 1
from the earth goods useful for life in abundance.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 916 focus
je veux vivre avec Pallas et ne point dédaigner la ville dont Zeus tout-puissant et Arès font par
leur présence le donjon des dieux, éclatant rempart des saints autels de la Grèce. Sur elle j'épands mes vœux en oracles propices. Que tous les bonheurs qui font une vie
prospère, de son sol,
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 916 focus
Goddeſs, here thy ſeat I ſhare,
Hoſtile to this town no more;
1045
Which the dreadful God of War,
And the Thund'rer's ſovereign pow'r,
Give the pride of Greece to riſe
Guardian of the rites divine,
Glory of the fav'ring ſkies,
1050
Give to watch o'er freedom's ſhrine.
I too breath the potent pray'r:
May the ſun's ambrofial ray,
Rolling o'er the fruitful year,
All its richeſt charms diſplay!
1055
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 916 focus
Mi sarà grato vivere con Pallade;
né la città dispregio
cui Giove ed il gagliardo
965
Marte, dei Numi asil vollero, e fregio,
e all'are baluardo
di tutti i Numi Ellèni.
Per essa, con fatidici
benigni augurî imploro che della vita i beni
970
faccia il sol coi suoi vampi
impetuosi germinar dai campi.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 916 focus
Suſcipio Palladis ædem, neq; ignominia afficiam
Quam & Iupiter præpotens, Marsq;
Cuſtodiam deorum incolit, liberatrice Græcorum,
Effigiem dæmonum, Cui ego precor
Vaticinans propitiæ obnoxias uitæ fortunas felices
865
Terræ fundere pulchrum ſolis iubar.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 916 focus
Ich nehm' es an,
kehre bei Athena ein,
verschmähe nicht die Pallasstadt,
die Götterburg; Zeus, der allgewaltige,
920 und Ares weilen gern in ihr.
Sie schirmt und schmückt Tempel und Altäre
den Göttern all' von Hellas.
Ihr hold gesinnt sprech' ich zukunftkundig
den Segenswunsch: mög' auf alle Zeiten
der Sonne froher Glanz
925 ihr aus der Erde Schofs hervor
locken gedeihliches Glück.
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.) — 916 focus
Lo, I accept it; at her very side
Doth Pallas bid me dwell:
1050
I will not wrong the city of her pride,
Which even Almighty Zeus and Ares hold
Heaven's earthly citadel,
Loved home of Grecian gods, the young, the old,
The sanctuary divine,
1055
The shield of every shrine!
For Athens I say forth a gracious prophecy,—
The glory of the sunlight and the skies
Shall bid from earth arise,
Warm wavelets of new life and glad prosperity.
1060
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.) — 916 focus
Nehm' ich denn neben Pallas meinen Siz,
Und verschmähe nicht die Stadt,
Die selbst Zeus, der Herr des Alls, und Ares
Als die Burg des Himmels liebt,
875
Als der Götter Hellas'
Tempelschirmend Ehrenbild!
Ihr verkünd' ich segnend nun,
Ihr verheiß' ich gnadenreich,
Daß fröhlichsprossend Lebensglück aus reichem Born
880
Aufsprudle vom Erdenschooß,
Den der Sonne Glanz erschließt.
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.)

903. ἐπίσκοπα , such as look to, hath regard to no dishonourable victory; a vivid word for befit. The word is similarly used Cho. 126 εὐχὰς πατρῴων δωμάτων ἐπισκόπους, Aias 976 ἄτης τῆσδ᾽ ἐπίσκοπον μέλος.

907. ἐπίρρυτον , abundantly, predicative adj.

912. ἀπένθητον , predicative.

913. σοὔστι , the regular crasis for σοὶ ἐστί. τῶν ἀρειφάτων . . . πόλιν, and in the glorious strife of war I shall not suffer but that my city shall be honoured among men as victorious.

913. ἀγώνων is gen. of respect, put provisionally at the beginning and depending ultimately on ἀστύνικον.

913. τιμᾶν , active according to Greek idiom: they say, I shall not allow but that [people] shall honour my city: we say, 'I shall not allow my city to be unhonoured.'

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

mvp-comment-689-1 νείκης: Post

ὁποῖα
puncto distinguunt G. Ald. Rob. Notam interrogationis in quibusdam libris haberi quum dicit Stephanus, has ipsas editiones videtur intelligere. Deinde libri
νίκης
. Frustra fuerunt qui id defendere conati sunt. Scribendum erat, ut in adnotatione ad Soph. Ai. v. 976. dixi,
νείκης
. Opta quae bonae contentionis, non, qualis ante tua fuerat rixa, malae provida sint.
Ἐπίσκοπα
enim idem est quod
ἐπιμελητικά
, ut in Sophoclis versu,
βοῶντος ἄτης τῆςδ᾽ ἐπίσκοπον ἔπος
. Vocabulo
νείκη
usus est Aeschylus Ag. v. 1338. et, ut videtur, Choeph. v. 593.

mvp-comment-690-1 βοτῶν: Libri

βροτῶν
. Emendavit Stanleius. Expressi videntur ex hoc loco versus esse, quos propterea Ennio adscribimus, apud Ciceronem Tusc. Q. I. 28. quorum mentio etiam fit de or. III. 38.
suo non intermillal tempore caelum nitescere, arbores frondescere, viles laetificae pampinis pubescere, rami baccarum ubertate incurviscere, segetes largiri fruges, florere omnia, fontes scalere, herbis prata convestirier.

mvp-comment-691-1 εὐθενοῦντα:

εὐθενοῦντα
Turn.
εὐθενοῦντας
M. G. Ald.
εὐθινοῦντας
Rob.
εὐστενοῦντας
Aug.
εὐστενοῦντα
Ven. Flor. et
σε
supra adscripto Farn.

mvp-comment-692-1 σωτηρίαν: Accusativus

σωτηρίαν
refertur, ut omnia in his versibus, ad id quod v. 889. chorus dixerat.

mvp-comment-693-1 δυςσεβούντων:

τῶν
omittunt Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-694-1 ἐκφορωτέρα:

ἐκφοροτέρα
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-695-1 NA: Hunc et sequentem versum choro tribuunt Ven. Flor. Farn. Rob.

mvp-comment-696-1 φιτυποίμενος:

φιτυποίμενος
Lobeckius Paralip. p. 195.
φιτυποιμένος
G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Turn.
φιτυ ποιμένος
M. Aug. Rob. et in Aug. quidem super
ι
duo puncta (:) apposita sunt, quibus etiam alibi incerta scriptura indicatur. Asteriscum eodem fine adiecit in extremo versu Rob.

mvp-comment-697-1 τοιαῦτα σοὔστι: Hic rursus

θ.
praefixum in Ven. Flor. Farn. Rob. Chori nota in G. Ald.
τοιαῦτα σοὔστι
Porsonus.
τοιαῦτα σοῦ 'στι
Μ. Aug. Ven. Flor.
τοιαῦτα σούστι
Rob.
τοιαῦτασ᾽ οὗτοι
G.
τοιαῦτας οὗτοι
Αld.
τοιαῦτα σ᾽ οὗτοι
Turn.

mvp-comment-698-1 πρεπτῶν:

πρεπτὸν
Ven. et, ut videtur, Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-699-1 ἀγώνων:

ἀγώνων
Ald.

mvp-comment-700-1 οὐκ:

κοὐκ
pro
οὐκ
Ven.
οὐ
in fine versus omittunt Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-701-1 τήνδ᾽ ἀστύνικον:

τὴν ἀστόνικον
G. Ald. Turn.

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

mvp-comment-275-1 βοτῶν] Stanley for βροτῶν. See Suppl. 670 seqq.

mvp-comment-276-1 σωτηρίαν] See v. 631.

mvp-comment-277-1 ἐκφορωτέρα] The meaning seems to be, μᾶλλον ἔκφορος, - may you more than ever get rid of the impious. The metaphor, as it appears from what follows, is from removing rubbish from plantations. The superlative έπιφορώτατος occurs Cho. 798 .

mvp-comment-278-1 ἀπένθητον] spared from mourning. Cf. Agam. 868 .

mvp-comment-279-1 ἀγώνων] The term may include both contests at the great games (at which some Athenian had perhaps been lately successful), and the contests of war, in which Athens, under the patronage of the War-goddess, would prove to be ever superior. The first epithet seems to have an active sense, 'war-slaying, though the Homeric ἀρηίφατος means slain in war. ,

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-428-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 306

mvp-comment-428-2 Kommos, Aussöhnung der gekränkten und tief ergrimmten Erinyen durch die begütigenden Worte der Athena. Der Chor singt zwei Strophen, die er als Antistrophen wiederholt. Jeder Strophe und Antistrophe folgen 13 Verse der Athena, wornach die Partie mit 12 Versen Stichomythie und 12 Versen einer ῥῆσις der Athena abgeschlossen wird. Vgl. zu Ag. 1435 .

mvp-comment-481-1 1

mvp-comment-481-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 313

mvp-comment-481-3 Was auf einen nicht unedlen Streit, wie der bisherige gewesen ist, was auf einen Wettstreit im Guten ( ἀγαθῶν ἔρις 976) abzielt." Soph. Oed. T. 879 tò nalõs δ᾽ ἔχον πόλει πάλαισμα μήποτε λύσαι θεὸν αὐτοῦμαι, wie Hesiod. W. u. T. 24 von der κακὴ ἔρις die ἀγαθὴ ἔρις unterscheidet, den edlen Wettstreit in Kunst und Arbeit. ἐπίσκοπα νείκης wie Soph. Ai. 976

ἄτης τῆσδ᾽ ἐπίσκοπον
(Schol. ἐστοχασμένον) μέλος. Aus

mvp-comment-482-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 313

mvp-comment-482-2 Und dieses wünsche sowohl von der Erde her (d. h. dafs es von der Erde her zu teil werde)" u. s. w. Für „,und von den Winden her tritt ein eigener Satz ἀήματα ἀνέμων ἐπιστείχειν ein. dieser Stelle leitet Hermann das bei Cicero Tusc. I 28 erhaltene Fragment eines römischen Dichters (also wohl der Eumen. des Ennius) ab: Caelum nitescere (non intermittit suo tempore geht im Text voraus), arbores frondescere, Vites laetificae pampinis pubescere, Rami bacarum ubertate incurvescere, Se- getes largiri fruges, florere omnia, Fontes scatere, herbis prata convestirier.

mvp-comment-482-3 2

mvp-comment-483-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

mvp-comment-483-2 σωτηρίαν scil. ἐφύμνησον.

mvp-comment-484-1 3

mvp-comment-484-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

mvp-comment-484-3 Der Gottlosen Saat aber möge ausgejätet werden.

mvp-comment-485-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

mvp-comment-485-2 τὸ τῶν δικαίων γένος ἀπέν θητον τῶνδε, ungetrübt und ungestört von diesen (den Gottlosen). Man erwartet aber einen Ausdruck, der von der Gärtnerei entlehnt ist: vielleicht hat es ἀπανθιστὸν γάνος geheifsen d. i. ,die Zier der Gerechten von diesen weggepflückt" für diese aus dem prangenden Beet der Gerechten ausgepflückt." Vgl. Hom. η 128 πρασιαι .. ἐπηετανὸν γανόωσαι.

mvp-comment-486-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

mvp-comment-486-2 τῶν ἀρειφάτων ἀγώνων von kriegerischen blutigen Kämpfen. Bei Homer sind ἀρηίφατοι solche, die in der Schlacht getötet werden. Vgl. ἀρείφατοι φόνοι Eur. Suppl. 603 , auch ἀρείφατον λῆμα Aesch. frg. 146 D. πρεπτῶν, in denen man sich auszeichnen kann (bei Homer μάχῃ ἐνὶ κυδιανείρῃ). Wenn es auch Plat. Prot. 323 A ἅπαντος ἀνδρὸς ἀνέχονται heifst, so ist immerhin in der Redensart ἀνέχεσθαί τί τινος der Gen. von τ, nicht von ἀνέχεσθαι abhängig: ,,von den kriegerischen ruhmreichen Kämpfen werde ich es mir nicht gefallen lassen, dafs sie nicht diese Stadt als siegreich ehren." ἀστύνίκον: zu 37.

mvp-comment-486-3 4

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

ἐπίσκοπα , such as look to, hath regard to no dishonourable victory; a vivid word for befit. The word is similarly used Cho. 126

εὐχὰς πατρῴων δωμάτων ἐπισκόπους,
Aias 976
ἄτης τῆσδ᾽ ἐπίσκοπον μέλος.

mvp-sidgwick-419-2-1 The νίκη is explained by ll. 864-866

: he means victory over foes, not in civil broils: and the next line extends it to all sort of prosperity.

mvp-sidgwick-420-1-1 'Ay, and that from earth, and watery sea, and heaven [all be blest], and gentle gales with fair sunshine blowing may pass o'er the land.' The rapidity in this fine and poetic passage again rather obscures the grammar, though not the sense: the fact is, he was going to say '[and pray] that from earth, sea, sky, and winds [all may prosper]:' but the clause about the winds is specially developed, and the sentence ends differently from what was intended.

ἐπίρρυτον , abundantly, predicative adj.

mvp-sidgwick-422-1-1 But the impious be more ready to weed out; the metaphor of ἔκφορος, carrying away, is probably from gardening, as the next line explains.

ἀπένθητον , predicative.

σοὔστι , the regular crasis for σοὶ ἐστί. τῶν ἀρειφάτων . . . πόλιν, and in the glorious strife of war I shall not suffer but that my city shall be honoured among men as victorious.

ἀγώνων is gen. of respect, put provisionally at the beginning and depending ultimately on ἀστύνικον.

τιμᾶν , active according to Greek idiom: they say, I shall not allow but that [people] shall honour my city: we say, I shall not allow my city to be unhonoured.