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Eumenides. Aeschylus. . 2026.

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Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) (Greek) (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1021-1031 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 1021-1031 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1021 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1021 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1021 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 1021 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1021 focus
αἰνῶ τε μύθους τῶνδε τῶν κατευγμάτων,
πέμψω τε φέγγει λαμπάδων σελασφόρων
εἰς τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κάτω χθονὸς τόπους
ξὺν προσπόλοισιν, αἵτε φρουροῦσιν βρέτας
1025
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1021 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1021 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 1021 focus
αἰνῶ τε μύθους τῶνδε τῶν κατευγμάτων,
πέμψω τε φέγγει λαμπάδων σελασφόρων
εἰς τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κάτω χθονὸς τόπους,
975
ξὺν προσπόλοισιν αἵτε φρουροῦσιν βρέτας
τοὐμὸν δικαίως. ὄμμα γὰρ πάσης χθονὸς
Θησῇδος ἐξίκοιτ᾽ ἂν, εὐκλεὴς λόχος
παίδων, γυναικῶν, καὶ στόλος πρεσβυτίδων
φοινικοβάπτοις ἐνδυτοῖς ἐσθήμασι.
980
τιμᾶτε, καὶ τὸ φέγγος ὁρμάσθω πυρὸς,
ὅπως ἂν εὔφρων ἥδ᾽ ὁμιλία χθονὸς
τὸ λοιπὸν εὐάνδροισι συμφοραῖς πρέπῃ.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 1021 focus
αἰνῶ τε μύθους τῶνδε τῶν κατευγμάτων
πέμψω τε φέγγει λαμπάδων σελασφόρων
ἐς τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κατὰ χθονὸς τόπους
ξὺμ προσπόλοισιν, αἵτε φρουροῦσιν βρέτας
τοὐμὸν δικαίως. ὄμμα γὰρ πάσης χθονὸς
1025
Θησῆιδος ἐξίκοιτ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεὴς λόχος
παίδων, γυναικῶν, καὶ στόλος πρεσβυτίδων.
φοινικοβάπτοις ἐνδυτοῖς ἐσθήμασι
τιμᾶτε, καὶ τὸ φέγγος ὁρμάσθω πυρός,
ὅπως ἂν εὔφρων ἦδ᾽ ὁμιλία χθονὸς
1030
τὸ λοιπὸν εὐάνδροισι συμφοραῖς πρέπηι.
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.)) — 1021-1030 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1021 focus
I approve the words of these your vows, and I will send the light of blazing torches to the infernal and nether regions, with ministers who guard my image justly. For let the eye of all the land of Theseus come forth, an illustrious band of youths, women, and a train of aged women; and clothed in purple-dyed garments honour 4
[these deities,] and let the light of the torches flash forth: that new fellowship received into your land hereafter, may show their good will by events that prosper men.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1021 focus
Déjà
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1021 focus
I like theſe votive meaſures; and will ſend
1155
The bright flames of theſe ſplendor-ſhedding
torches,
With thoſe that guard my hallow'd image here,
Attendant
Attendant on you to the dark abodes
1160
Beneath the earth. And let th' Athenian train,
The grace, the glory of the wide-ſtretch'd world,
Their manly youth, their virgins' roſeate bloom,
And their age-honour'd matrons, now advance,
Array'd in richeſt veſture darting round
1165
Its vermeil-tinctur'd radiance; let the torches
Blaze, that this ſable troop thro' future times
May ſhine conſpicuous for their friendly aid.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1021 focus
Di questi voti io godo, ed al fulgore
v'invierò di scintillanti fiaccole
sottesso il suolo, in sotterranei lochi,
e le ministre mie guida vi siano
1070
che santamente l'idol mio tutelano.
Compagna avrete un'onorata schiera,
del suolo di Teseo viva pupilla,
di fanciulle, di donne e di vegliarde,
tutte velate di purpurei manti.
1075
Movete! E il fuoco ed il baglior proceda,
sí che felice questa patria schiera
sempre per fausta sorte insigne vada.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1021 focus
Probo ſermones harum precationum,
Mittámq; lucem lampadum luciſtrorum,
Ad ſubterraneos locos,
955
Cum famulabus, quæ cuſtodient statua
Meam iuſtè. oculus omnis terræ
Theſeidis exeat. charum agmen,
Puerorum, mulierum & uetularum claſsis
Puniceo tinctis indutis uestimentis
960
Honorate & lux impetum faciat ignis,
Vt læta ſit congregatio terræ.
Reliquum bonorum uirorum utilitate ornetur.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1021 focus
Habt Dank für all' den Segen, den ihr uns verheiſst.
Jetzt will ich bei des Fackellichtes Flimmerschein
hinab euch zu den Schlüften in der Erde Schoſs
geleiten mit den Dienerinnen, die mein Bild
1025 zu warten haben. So ist's würdig; denn der Stolz
des ganzen Theseuslandes soll in unsern Zug
1027 eintreten, Frau'n und Mädchen aus erlauchtem Haus,
und würdevoller greiser Priesterinnen Schar.
Aus ihnen kür' ich eurer Höhle Hüterin,
die still und fromm der Hehren stille Weihen übt,
der Holden: hold geworden ist die Rächerin,
der Urnacht grimme Tochter, meinem Volk versöhnt,
drum geb' ich diesen Namen ihr für alle Zeit.
Nun laſst uns gehn, und wie wir das Versöhnungsfest
aus treuem Herzen heut begeh'n, so sei's hinfort
gefeiert zum Gedächtnis. Nie vergiſs, mein Volk,
was du den Holden schuldest. Lämmerblut und Trank
1028 weinloser Spenden bringst du dar und Purpurpracht
langwallender Gewande, und der Fackelglanz
1030 lod're dazu, auf daſs die holdgesinnte Schar
Athenas Bürger blühen lass' in Ewigkeit.
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.) — 1021 focus
Once more I praise the promise of your vows,
And now I bid the golden torches' glow
Pass down before you to the hidden depth
Of earth, by mine own sacred servants borne,
My loyal guards of statue and of shrine.
1180
Come forth, O flower of Theseus' Attic land,
O glorious band of children and of wives,
And ye, O train of matrons crowned with eld!
Deck you with festal robes of scarlet dye
In honour of this day: O gleaming torch,
1185
Lead onward, that these gracious powers of earth
Henceforth be seen to bless the life of men.
[ Athena leads the procession downwards into the Cave of the Furies, under Areopagus: as they go, the escort of women and children chant aloud.
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.) — 1021 focus
Ich danke dir für deines Segens holdes Wort,
Und will im hellen Strahlenglanz der Fackeln dich
975
Zum finstern Haus geleiten, nach der Erde Schooß,
Sammt meinen Dienerinnen, die in treuer Hut
Mein Bild bewahren. Trete denn hervor der Stolz
Des ganzen Theseuslandes, eine fromme Schaar
Von Kindern, Frauen, und ein Zug von Greisinnen!
980
Von purpurheller Festgewande Schmuck umhüllt,
Verehrt der Eumeniden Macht, dies sei hinfort
Ihr Name, - lichter Fackeln Glanz erhebe sich,
Daß diese Mitherrinnen eures Landes hold
Und gnädig fortan schaffen an der Männer Glück!
985
(Athene mit ihren Priesterinnen steigt in die Orchestra hinab. Ihr folgen die Richter, die den Zug der Eumeniden führen, und ein zahlreiches Gefolge von Athenern und Athenerinnen.)
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.)

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Commentary

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

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.'

916. Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν , i. e. to dwell with Pallas.

929. κατανασσαμένη , middle, housing in my city. 11. 932, 933. The MSS. read

ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων
οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου.
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.

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.

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

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-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. ,

mvp-comment-280-1 καὶ Ζεύς] the Almighty Zeus also (as well as his daughter Athena). The fortified area of the Acropolis is appropriately called φρούριον, the garrison of the gods, and the deities' darling abode. See Thuc. 11. 15, 5 .

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-483-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

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

mvp-comment-484-1 1

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 2

mvp-comment-487-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

mvp-comment-487-2 Kommos. Der Chor erfleht oder weissagt alles Gute (Wachstum und Gedeihen der Früchte und Herden Gesundheit des Volkes und bürgerliche Eintracht Wohlwollen und Segen der Götter) für Athen und wird darob von Athena belobt und geehrt. · ξυνοικίαν: zu 836.

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

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.

Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν , i. e. to dwell with Pallas.