Eumenides. Aeschylus. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1849.
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929.
κατανασσαμένη
, middle,
housing in my city. 11. 932, 933. The MSS. read
Now τούτων here must refer to the Furies, as αὗται above and τάσδε below: and consequently βαρέων must be wrong, as (1) it is the wrong gender: (2) even if we suppose (with D.) a fem. form βαρεῶν, it clearly is the wrong sense. What Aeschylus means to say is,
He who incurs the wrath of the Furies meets with unexpected calamity: the sins of his fathers bring him into their power.
ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων
οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου.
964. ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous .
1034. παῖδες ἄπαιδες , the MSS. reading, could hardly mean childless children, which seems pointless: it might mean evil children, like vᾶes ἄναες: but the real objection to any such word as ἄπαιδες is that here the words in which the Chorus are addressed are specially reverent and honourable. It is best to reject it and then we get rid also of τύχᾳ τε, meaningless and unmetrical, at the end of 1. 1037.
1040. εὐθύφρονες , ‘righteously minded,' something like the Homeric αἴσιμα εἰδώς, which is also used of persons well disposed. [Of the suggested alterations Hartung's εὔφρονες ἀστοῖς is the best: but there is no need to alter.]
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ἵλαοι δὲ καὶ τῇδ᾽ εὔφρονες γᾷ: Libri
ἵλαοι δὲ καὶ εὐθύφρονες γα. Scribendum
ἵλασι δὲ καὶ τῇδ' εύφρονες γῇ.
εὐθύφρονες , righteously minded, something like the Homeric αἴσιμα εἰδώς, which is also used of persons well disposed. [Of the suggested alterations Hartung's εὔφρονες ἀστοῖς is the best: but there is no need to alter.]