Aeschylus Eumenides 372a

Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator)

For suddenly leaping from above, I bring down the strength of my foot with heavy fall, limbs that cause the swift 2 to trip, an intolerable calamity.

Eumenides. Aeschylus. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1849.

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The Eumenides (OCR draft) (English) (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 397-489 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 397-489 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 372 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 372 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 372 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 372 focus
Μάλα γὰρ οὖν ἁλομένα άλλο- άλω-
ἀνέκαθεν ἄγκαθεν βαρυπεσῆ
καταφέρω ποδὸς ἀκμάν,
σφαλερά (τοῖς) τανυδρόμοις
370
κῶλα, δύσφορον ἄταν.
1 (Μάλα γὰρ οὖν ἁλομένα
ἀνέκαθεν βαρυπεσῆ
καταφέρω ποδὸς ἀκμάν,
σφαλερὰ τοῖς τανυδρόμοις
κῶλα, δύσφορον ἄταν.)
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 372 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 372 focus
μάλα γὰρ οὖν ἁλομένα
ἀνέκαθεν βαρυπεσῆ
375
καταφέρω ποδὸς ἀκμάν,
σφαλερὰ τανυδρόμοις
κῶλα, δύσφορον ἄταν.
3
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 372 focus
μάλα γὰρ οὖν ἁλομένα
ἀνέκαθεν βαρυπετῆ
καταφέρω ποδὸς ἀκμάν —
σφαλερὰ ⟨καὶ⟩ τανυδρόμοις
375
κῶλα — δύσφορον ἄταν.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 372 focus
μάλα γὰρ οὖν ἁλομένα
ἀνέκαθεν βαρυπεσῆ
καταφέρω ποδὸς ἀκμάν·
σφαλερὰ (γὰρ) τανυδρόμοις
375
κῶλα· δύσφορον ἄταν.
〈μάλα γὰρ οὖν ἁλομένα
ἀνέκαθεν βαρυπεσῆ
καταφέρω ποδὸς ἀκμάν·
σφαλερὰ γὰρ τανυδρόμοις
κῶλα· δύσφορον ἄταν.)
385
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 372 focus
μάλα γὰρ οὖν ἁλομένα
345
ἀνέκαθεν βαρυπεσή
καταφέρω ποδὸς ἀκμὰν,
σφαλερὰ * καὶ τανυδρόμοις
κῶλα, δύσφορον ἄταν.
350
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 372 focus
μάλα γὰρ οὖν ἁλομένα
ἀνέκαθεν βαρυπεσή
καταφέρω ποδὸς ἀκμάν,
σφαλερὰ (καὶ〉 τανυδρόμοις
375
κῶλα, δύσφορον ἄταν.
Translations (9)
Eumenides Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 397-485 focus
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 372 focus
alors,
et fugitifs de chanceler sous le faix pesant du malheur 1 ...
Il tombe et ne s'en doute pas, dans le délire qui le perd: telle
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 372 focus
Near him, as he flies, I bound,
415
And when, with guilt oppreſt,
His weary ſteps wou'd reſt,
Spurn him headlong to the ground.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 372 focus
Con un gran lancio dall'alto io piombo,
e l'orma somma del mio pie' gravo
405
sopra i fuggiaschi, gravo a sterminio
le membra, e infliggo la trista sorte.
Questa è la nostra legge,
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 372 focus
Saltationibus ſanguinolentis pedis.
Admodum uerò capta ex ulnis grauium
Fero pedis uehementiam.
Inbecillia longis curſibus
Manet enim, potentes uerò
365
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 372 focus
Wir jagten so lange, wir sprangen so weit;
die Knie sind steif; plump und schwer
schlägt auf der Tritt:
so schlägt die Rache zu Boden.
Wir jagten so lange, wir sprangen so weit,
die Knie sind steif, plump und schwer
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.) — 372 focus
Therefore the more I leap upon my prey;
Upon their head I bound;
My foot is hard; as one that trips a runner
435
I cast them to the ground;
Yea, to the depth of doom intolerable;
1
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.) — 372 focus
Aus den Höh'n stürm' ich denn
Mächtigen Schwungs, sebe den Fuß
345
Schweren Falls auf den Feind;
Schnellen Laufs, gleitet er,
Stürzt in schweres Verderben.
Dritte Strophe.
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

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

mvp-comment-137-1 ὑπὸ ῥάχιν: ὑπὸ ράχιν Μ. Ald. Rob. ὑποβάχιν G. ὑπόρραχιν Ven. Flor. Farn. υποβράχιν Turn. ug' G. Ald. Rob.

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-104-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 265

mvp-comment-104-2 erstes Epeisodion. Apollon tritt wieder hervor und jagt nachher die Erinyen aus seinem Tempel: der Chor tritt also auf die Bühne heraus und Apollon folgt ihnen. Damit wird die zu 63 erwähnte Maschinerie zurückgedreht.

mvp-comment-109-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 266

mvp-comment-109-2 ὑπὸ ῥάχιν ist in der Handschrift vielleicht mit Recht ὑπόρραχιν geschrieben. Wenigstens entspricht dieses der Aussprache.