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Eumenides. Aeschylus. . 2026.

Current edition Experimental

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.) — 490-565 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 490-565 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 499 focus
οὐδὲ γὰρ βροτοσκόπων
μαινάδων τῶνδ᾽ ἐφέρψει κότος τις ἐργμάτων·
500
πάντ' ἐφήσω μόρον.
πεύσεται δ᾽ ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν προφωνῶν τὰ τῶν
πέλας κακὰ
λῆξιν ὑπόδοσίν τε μόχθων,
505
ἄκεά τ᾽ οὐ βέβαια τλάμων μάταν παρηγορεῖ.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 499 focus
οὐδὲ γὰρ βροτοσκόπων
μαινάδων τῶνδ᾽ ἐφέρ-
ψει κότος τις ἐργμάτων·
πάντ᾽ ἐφήσω μόρον.
495
πεύσεται δ᾽ ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν, προφω-
νῶν τὰ τῶν πέλας κακά,
λῆξιν ὑπόδυσίν τε μόχθων
ἄκεα δ᾽ οὐ βέβαια πλά-
μων μάταν παρηγορεῖ.
500
1
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 499 focus
Οὐδὲ οὔτε γὰρ βροτοσκόπων
μαινάδων τῶνδ' ἐφέρ-
500
ψει κότος τις ἐργμάτων·
πάντ' ἐφήσω μόρον·
πεύσεται δ' ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν προφω-
νῶν τὰ τῶν πέλας κακὰ
λῆξιν ὑπόδοσιν -δησίν -δυσίν τε μόχθων,
505
ἄκεά τ' οὐ βέβαια ἄκετ᾽ οὐ βέβαια ἄκεστ᾽ ἀβέβαια ἄκεστ᾽ οὐ βέβαια ἄκεστα | οὐ βέβαια· τλάμων τλάμων δέ τις
μάταν παρηγορεῖ.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 499 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 499 focus
οὔτε γὰρ βροτοσκόπους
μαινάδας τῶνδ᾽ ἐφέρ-
ψει κότος τις ἐργμάτων·
πάντ᾽ ἐφήσω μόρον.
505
πεύσεται δ᾽ ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν, προφω-
νῶν τὰ τῶν πέλας κακά,
λῆξιν ὑπόδοσιν τε μόχθων
ἄκεά τ᾽ οὐ βέβαια τλά-
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 499 focus
οὔτε γὰρ βροτοσκόπων
μαινάδων τῶνδ’ ἐφέρ-
500
ψει κότος τις ἐργμάτων·
πάντ᾽ ἐφήσω μόρον·
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 499 focus
οὐδὲ γὰρ βροτοσκόπων
μαινάδων τῶνδ᾽ ἐφέρ-
ψει κότος τις ἐργμάτων·
500
πάντ᾽ ἐφήσω μόρον.
πεύσεται δ᾽ ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν, προφω-
νῶν τὰ τῶν πέλας κακά,
λῆξιν ὑπόδοσίν τε μόχθων·
ἄκεά τ᾽ οὐ βέβαια τλάμων [δέ τις] μάταν παρηγορεῖ.
505
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 499 focus
οὔτε γὰρ βροτοσκόπων
μαινάδων τῶνδ᾽ ἐφέρψει κότος τις ἐργμάτων,
πάντ᾽ ἐφήσω μόρον,
πεύσεται δ᾽ ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν, προφωνῶν τὰ τῶν πέλας κακὰ,
480
λῆξιν ὑπόδοσίν τε μόχθων·
ἄκεά τ᾽ οὐ βέβαια τλάμων [δέ τις] μάταν παρηγορεῖ.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 499 focus
οὐδὲ γὰρ βροτοσκόπων
ἀντ. α
πάντ᾽ ἐφήσω μόρον.
μαινάδων τῶνδ᾽ ἐφέρψει κότος τις ἐργμάτων·
πεύσεται δ᾽ ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν προφωνῶν ἃ τῶν
πέλας κακά,
λῆξιν ὑπόδυσίν τε μόχθων
505
ἄκεά τ᾽ οὐ βέβαι᾽, ἃ τλάμων μάταν παρηγορεῖ.
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.)) — 490-565 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 499 focus
For neither will any wrath of us men-regarding Maenads creep on because of evil deeds: I will leave 1
all death unpunished, and one will ask from another, declaring the evil deeds of his kindred a cessation, and remission from ills no longer certain 2
: but the wretch in vain will console himself.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 499 focus
parce que les Furies qui surveillaient les mortels
auront cessé, elles aussi, de mettre aucun courroux en marche contre de tels crimes. Au meurtre sous toutes ses formes, de ce jour, je lâche la bride. Les hommes iront alors se deman- der l'un à l'autre — chacun ayant à la bouche le récit des
maux d'autrui — où donc trouver une fin, une trêve à telles misères, et ne pourront, les malheureux, que se conseiller vainement des remèdes
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 499 focus
I ſmile at all this lawleſs force;
Nor ſhall our dreaded pow'r
In vengeance viſit impious mortals more:
No: let deſtruction take her deſtin'd courſe,
ANTISTROPHE I.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 499 focus
ad ogni eccesso trascorre immune.
Di vere piaghe dai figli aperte
540
la doglia incombe già sui parenti.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 499 focus
Omne fatum dixiſti. intelliget uerò alius aliunde,
Aduocans mala propinquorum,
Quies, ſolutioq; laborum non amplius firma,
480
Miſeros aliquis fruſtra conſolabitur
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 499 focus
Folgt dem Streich doch von uns
keine Rache, die wir rasend
ahndeten der Menschen Thun.
Merken wird
jeder allerorten,
wenn er zählt
rings der andern Leiden:
505 unsere Arbeit ruht und feiert,
und vergebens hofft er Hilfe,
sein Vertrau'n auf Rettung trügt.
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.) — 499 focus
No more the wrath, that erst on murder fell
From us, the Queens of Hell,
Shall fall, no more our watching gaze impend—
Death shall smite unrestrained.
Henceforth shall one unto another cry
590
Lo, they are stricken, lo, they fall and die
Around me! and that other answers him,
O thou that lookest that thy woes should cease,
Behold, with dark increase
They throng and press upon thee; yea, and dim
595
Is all the cure, and every comfort vain!
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.) — 499 focus
Denn dem Frevler schleicht hinfort
475
Unser Groll, Menschenschuld
Spähend, nicht mehr grimmig nach;
Jeden Mord lass ich frei.
Mancher dann, dem ein Andrer übelthat,
Jammert hier und dort und forscht
480
Nach des Leides Ziel und Heilung;
Hülfe beut sich nirgendwo;
Trösten kann der Arme nicht.
Zweite 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

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

460. ποικίλοις , crafty.

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

mvp-comment-325-1 ἔφθιν᾽ οὗτος: ἔφθιθ᾽ οὗτος Par. ἔφθιθ᾽ οὕτως M. G. Ald. Rob. ἔφθηθ' οὗτος Ven. Flor. Farn. οὗτος ἔφθιτ' a Turnebo illatum erat.

mvp-comment-326-1 ἀγρεύμασιν: ἀγρεύμασιν M. G. Par. Ven. Farn. Ald. Rob. ἀγρεύμασι Flor. Turn.

mvp-comment-327-1 κρύψασ', ἃ λουτρῶν ἐξεμαρτύρει φόνον: κρύψασα λουτρών M. G. Ald. Rob. Τurn. λουτρών etiam scholiastes legit, qui haec ita, sed perperam, interpretatur, ἐκήρυττε τὸν διὰ τῆς ἐπιχύσεως τῶν λουτρῶν γενόμενον αὐτῷ φόνον. λέγεται γὰρ μετὰ τὸ φονεῦσαι γυμνὸν ἐξαγαγεῖν καὶ δεῖξαι τοῖς πολίταις. κρύψασα λουτρὸν δ᾽ Ven. Flor. κρύψασα λούτρον δ' Farn. λουτρών, coniecturam, ut videtur, commemoravit Stephanus. In Opusc. IV. p. 339. haec ita emendanda esse dixi, αλλά νιν κελαινόφρων ἐμὴ μήτηρ κατέκτα ποικίλοις ἀγρεύμασιν ä κρύψασ', ἃ λουτρῶν ἐξεμαρτύρει φόνον. Ita scribendum esse viderat etiam Musgravius. Subtili disputatione Schoemannus demonstrare studuit non ita scripsisse Aeschylum, sed κρύψασα· λουτρών δ᾽ ἐξεμαρτύρει φόνον. In idem incidit Franzius. Mihi aliter iudicandum videri dixi in Annal. Vindob. vol. CXI. p. 262. Neque enim recte dici potuit artificiosis retibus eum contegens: balneum autem letabatur caedem: balneum enim neque caedem neque insidias testari poterat, sed vestis tantum illa ampla, sanguine Agamemnonis maculata, ut in Choeph. v. 1005. dictum est μαρτυρεῖ δέ μοι φάρος τόδ᾽, ὡς ἔβαψεν Αιγίσθου ξίφος. Neque vero si dicitur artificiosis eum relibus contegens, quae caedem in balneo perpetratam testabantur, in balneo facta caedes tamquam nota res commemoratur, quae Schoemanni opinio est, sed adiicitur tantum in balneo caedem Agamemnonis esse perpetratam.

mvp-comment-328-1 πρὸ τοῦ: προτοῦ Farn.

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

mvp-comment-144-1 ἐξεμαρτύρει] See Agam. 1167 Cho. 967, 998 , where the blood-stained garment was exhibited in illustration of the murder. Pollux (VIII. 36) defines ἐκμαρτυρία, ῾Ὅταν τις παρὰ τοῦ ἰδόντος ἀκούσας λέγῃ.

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-174-1 δολιόφρων.

mvp-comment-175-1 τῶι πέπλωι.

mvp-comment-176-1 ἐκήρυττε τὸν διὰ τῆς ἐπιχύ σεως τῶν λουτρῶν γενόμενον αὐτῶι φόνον. λέγεται γὰρ μετὰ τὸ φονεῦσαι γυμνὸν ἐξαγαγεῖν καὶ δεῖξαι τοῖς πολίταις.

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-216-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 280

mvp-comment-216-2 drittes Epeisodion. Athena erscheint und nachdem sie sich von der Chorführerin und Orestes den Sachverhalt hat darlegen lassen (gleichsam die ανάκρισις oder προδικασία), entschliefst sie sich den Fall durch einen neuen Gerichtshof entscheiden zu lassen. Nach 407 könnte man glauben, dafs Athena wie im Aias des Sophokles auf dem θεολογεῖον auftrete. Da sie aber am Schlusse dieser Scene abgeht, um sich in die Stadt zu begeben, und später (569) auf der gewöhnlichen Bühne auftritt (vgl. 738), so mufs man annehmen, dafs sie auch hier auf dem λογεῖον, nicht in der Höhe erscheint. Sie kommt von der linken Seite.

mvp-comment-216-3 1

mvp-comment-256-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 285

mvp-comment-256-2 ποικίλοις (bunt), vgl. τοῦ ποικίλματος Cho. 1011 . ἀγρεύ μασιν: Cho. 490 f.

mvp-comment-257-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 285

mvp-comment-257-2 ,,Das Gewand legte Zeugnis ab von dem Mord im Bade", weil es mit Blut gefärbt war. Cho. 1008 .

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

ποικίλοις , crafty.

mvp-sidgwick-222-1-1 That bare witness to the murder in the bath: for Klytaimnestra had cast the robe about Agamemnon like a net (ἄγρευμα) in the bath and stabbed him and Orestes ( Choeph. 980 ) had held up the bloody robe before the Chorus as a proof and reminder of her deed.