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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.) — 778-891 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 778-891 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 793 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 793 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 793 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 793 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 793 focus
ἐμοὶ πίθεσθε μὴ βαρυτόνως φέρειν.
οὐ γὰρ νενίκησθ', ἀλλ᾿ ἰσόψηφος δίκη
ἐξῆλθ᾽ ἀληθῶς, οὐκ ἀτιμίᾳ σέθεν.
ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ Διὸς γὰρ λαμπρὰ μαρτύρια παρῆν,
800
αὐτός θ᾽ ὁ χρήσας αὐτὸς ἦν ὁ μαρτυρῶν,
ὡς ταῦτ᾽ Ὀρέστην δρῶντα μὴ βλάβας ἔχειν.
ὑμεῖς δέ τε τῇδε γῇ βαρὺν κότον
σκήψητε, μὴ θυμοῦσθε, μηδ᾽ ἀκαρπίαν
τεύξητ᾽ ἀφεῖσαι δαιμόνων σταλάγματα,
805
βρωτῆρας αἰχμὰς σπερμάτων ἀνημέρους.
ἐγὼ γὰρ ὑμῖν πανδίκως ὑπίσχομαι
ἕδρας τε καὶ κευθμῶνας ἐνδίκου χθονὸς
λιπαροθρόνοισιν ἡμένας ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάραις
ἕξειν, ὑπ᾽ ἀστῶν τῶνδε τιμαλφουμένας.
810
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 793 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 793 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 793 focus
ἐμοὶ πίθεσθε μὴ βαρυστόνως φέρειν·
οὐ γὰρ νενίκησθ᾽, ἀλλ᾿ ἰσόψηφος δίκη
ἐξῆλθ᾽ ἀληθῶς, οὐκ ἀτιμίᾳ σέθεν.
ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ Διὸς γὰρ λαμπρὰ μαρτύρια παρῆν,
αὐτός θ᾽ ὁ φήσας αὐτὸς ἦν ὁ μαρτυρῶν,
765
ὡς ταῦτ᾽ Ὀρέστην δρῶντα μὴ βλάβας ἔχειν.
ὑμεῖς δέ τοι γῇ τῇδε μὴ βαρὺν κότον
σκήψητε, [μὴ θυμοῦσθε, μηδ᾽ ἀκαρπίαν
τεύχητ᾽,] ἀφεῖσαι + δαιμόνων σταλάγματα,
βρωτῆρας αἰχμὰς σπερμάτων ἀνημέρους·
770
ἐγὼ γὰρ ὑμῖν πανδίκως ὑπίσχομαι
ἕδρας τε καὶ κευθμῶνας ἐνδίκου χθονὸς
λιπαροθρόνοισιν ἡμένας ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάραις
ἕξειν, ὑπ᾿ ἀστῶν τῶνδε τιμαλφουμένας.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 793 focus
ἐμοὶ πίθεσθε μὴ βαρυστόνως φέρειν.
οὐ γὰρ νενίκησθ᾽, ἀλλ᾿ ἰσόψηφος δίκη
795
ἐξῆλθ᾽ ἀληθῶς, οὐκ ἀτιμίᾶι σέθεν.
ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ Διὸς γὰρ λαμπρὰ μαρτύρια παρῆν,
αὐτός θ᾽ ὁ χρήσας αὐτὸς ἦν ὁ μαρτυρῶν,
ὡς ταῦτ᾽ Ὀρέστην δρῶντα μὴ βλάβας ἔχειν.
ὑμεῖς δὲ τῆι γῆι τῆιδε μὴ θυμοῦσθε, μὴ
800
βαρὺν κότον σκήψητε, μηδ᾽ ἀκαρπίαν
τεύξητ᾽, ἀφεῖσαι δαιμόνων σταλάγματα,
βρωτῆρας αἰχμὰς σπερμάτων ἀνημέρους.
ἐγὼ γὰρ ὑμῖν πανδίκως ὑπίσχομαι
ἕδρας τε καὶ κευθμῶνας ἐνδίκου χθονὸς
805
λιπαροθρόνοισιν ἡμένας ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάραις
ἕξειν ὑπ᾽ ἀστῶν τῶνδε τιμαλφουμένας.
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.)) — 778-890 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 793 focus
Be persuaded by me, so as not to bear it hardly: for you have not been conquered, but the cause in truth fell out with equal votes, not for your disgrace. Besides clear testi­ monies from Jove were present, and he who gave the oracle, he himself bore witness, that Orestes having done these things should not suffer ill. But do not you let fall your heavy wrath on this land, be not enraged, nor cause sterility, sending forth drops from your lungs, dire darts consuming the seed. For I most justly promise to you, that you, seated at the shining hearths, shall possess temples and shrines in a just land, honoured by these citizens.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 793 focus
épargnez-vous de lourds san-
glots. Vous n'êtes pas des vaincues : un arrêt indécis, seul, est sorti de l'urne, pour satisfaire la vérité, non pour vous humilier. D'éclatants témoignages étaient là, émanés de Zeus 1 , et celui-là même nous les apportait, qui avait prédit à Oreste que de tels actes n'encouraient nul châti-
ment. Vous voulez, sur ce pays, cracher un pesant cour- roux : réfléchissez, ne vous emportez pas; ne rendez pas ce sol stérile, en laissant dégoutter de vos lèvres divines une écume sauvage, rongeuse de tous germes. Moi, je vous
offre sans réserve le séjour, l'asile qui vous conviennent en ce pays et où, sur le trône de vos autels luisants 2 , vous siégerez environnées du respect de ces citoyens.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 793 focus
Let my entreaties move you; bear not this
With ſuch deep anger; for no conqueſt here
Wounds your inſulted honour:
from the urn
The lots came equal, ſo diſpos'd by truth,
905
To thee no inſult off'ring;
and from Jove
Flow'd ſplendid ſigns: he gave the oracle,
He added his high teſt, that for the deed
Oreſtes ſhou'd not ſuffer.
910
Breath not then
Your heavy vengeance on this land; reſtrain
Your indignation; o'er theſe ſick'ning fields
Drop not your peſtilential dews, nor blaſt
Their glitt'ring verdure, and their ſpringing ſeeds.
915
And here I pledge my faith, this grateful land
Shall willingly receive you, raiſe your ſeats
High at their blazing hearths, and, with deep awe
Impreſt, pay reverend honours to your pow'r.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 793 focus
Assoluto quest'uomo è nella causa:
ché ugual risulta il numero dei voti.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 793 focus
Mihi confidite non grauiter ferre.
Non enim uiciſtis, ſed cauſa æqualia habet ſuffragia,
Exiuit uerè, tu non ignominia affecta es,
755
Sed ex Ioue maniſesta testimonia aderant,
Ipſeq; uolens ipſe erat testis,
Vt Oreſtes hæc faciens non haberet detrimentum.
Vos uerò huic terræ ne grauem iram
Proijcite, ne iraſcamini, neq; infrugiferam
760
Faciatis, dimittite dæmonum guttas,
Mortales potestates ſeminis feras.
Ego uerò uobis omnino iuſtè polliceor,
Sedes & latebras iuſtæ terræ.
In pinguibus focis ſedentes
765
Eſse à ciuibus iſtis honoratas.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 793 focus
Ich bitt' euch, nehmet nicht mit Groll das Urteil hin.
795 Ihr habt ja nicht verloren, Stimmengleichheit nur
hat sich ergeben, ohne Falsch, und nicht um euch
zu kränken, sondern weil der Schluſs des Zeus
ganz klar bezeugt war: Zeugnis gab derselbe Gott,
der dem Orestes selber die Straflosigkeit
geweissagt hatte für die That, zu der er trieb.
800 Und ihr wollt Zornesgeifer spei'n auf dieses Land?
Bedenkt euch; laſst das Wüten. Das unmilde Naſs,
das Miſswachs zeugend jedes Samens Keimen tilgt,
müſst ihr verhalten, eurer Galle Bitternis.
Ich biet' euch treu und ehrlich Sitz und Unterschlupf
805 im Schofse meines Landes. Meine Bürgerschaft
schmückt euch des vollsten Opfertisches Ehrenmahl.
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.) — 793 focus
Nay, bow ye to my words, chafe not nor moan:
Ye are not worsted nor disgraced; behold,
915
With balanced vote the cause had issue fair,
Nor in the end did aught dishonour thee.
But thus the will of Zeus shone clearly forth,
And his own prophet-god avouched the same,
Orestes slew: his slaying is atoned.
920
Therefore I pray you, not upon this land
Shoot forth the dart of vengeance; be appeased,
Nor blast the land with blight, nor loose thereon
Drops of eternal venom, direful darts
Wasting and marring nature's seed of growth.
925
For I, the queen of Athens' sacred right,
Do pledge to you a holy sanctuary
Deep in the heart of this my land, made just
By your indwelling presence, while ye sit
Hard by your sacred shrines that gleam with oil
930
Of sacrifice, and by this folk adored.
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.) — 793 focus
Folgt meinem Rath, ertragt es ohne schweren Groll!
760
Nicht überwunden seid ihr: gleiche Stimmenzahl
Entschied gerecht den Handel, ohne Schmach für euch.
Ein leuchtend Zeugniß sandte ja Zeus selbst an uns,
Und der die That geboten, er bezeugte selbst,
Nicht büßen dürf' Orestes, der die That gethan.
765
So schüttet ihr auch eures Grolles Schwere nicht
Auf dieses Land aus, zürnet nicht, tilgt nicht die Frucht
Der Felder, Gifthauch strömend aus ergrimmter Brust,
Der grausam, scharfer Schneide gleich, die Saaten frißt.
Denn ich gelob' euch heilig, daß ein Tempel euch,
770
Ein Heiligthum an rechter Stätte werden soll,
Wo ihr an Opferherden thront in Strahlenglanz,
Von dieses Landes Bürgern hochverherrlichet.
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.)

719. μὴ τυχούσα , of course conditional: if I do not...

720. ὁμιλήσω , will haunt, will visit.

724. ἔπεισας . Euripides says (Alk. 12) that Apollo cheated (δολώσας) the Fates; and (1. 728) Aeschylus tells us it was by making them drunk. The crude barbarism of the tale points to its great age.

725. σέβοντ' , pious. Euripides (Alk. 10) calls Admetos similarly ὅσιος ἀνήρ.

726. τύχοι . The common use is to employ the opt. in past general conditions, the subjunctive where the verb, as here (έστι understood with δίκαιον), is primary. But it is a special idiom to employ the optative in maxims and other statements of a universal character, where the verb is to apply to all time: or to put it otherwise where the idea of time is absent. Thus Soph. O. T. 315 ἄνδρα δ᾽ ὠφελεῖν ἀφ᾽ ὧν ἔχοι τε καὶ δύναιτο κάλλιστος πόνων, ib. 979 εἰκῆ κράτιστον ζῇν ὅπως δύναιτό τις. So Ant. 666, Trach. 93, Ai. 521, 1344. So Thuc. 1. 120 σωφρόνων ἐστιν εἰ μὴ ἀδικοῖντο ἡσυχάζειν.

727. διανομάς , ordinances: the MSS. have δαίμονas, but the Scholiast on Alkestis 12 quotes the line with διανομάς; and this certain emendation was thence made by Cobet. δαίμονας was suggested by θεάς in the next line.

729. σύ . τοι is scornfully repeated. οὐκ ἔχουσα τῆς δίκης τέλος, 'failing to win thy cause' is the general sense. τέλος literally means the decision, as in 1. 243; and having the decision' means winning it.

730. ἐμεῖ . is future.

731. καθιππάζει , characteristic vigorous figure, override, i. e. overbear.

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

mvp-comment-521-1 ἀλλ᾽ ἔν τε:

ἀλλ᾽ ἔκ τε
Aug.

mvp-comment-522-1 τοιαῦτα δράσας καὶ Φέρητος ἐν δόμοις Μοίρας ἔπεισας ἀφθίτους θεῖναι βροτούς. σύ τοι παλαιὰς διανομὰς καταφθίσας οἴνῳ παρηπάτησας ἀρχαίας θεάς.: Scholion ad Eur. Alc. v. 12. ex codice Vaticano 909. a Cobetio editum

Αἰσχύλος Εὐμενίσι τοιαῦτ᾽ ἔδρασας καὶ Φέρητος ἐν δόμοις· ἔπεισας ἀφθίτους εἶναι βροτούς. οὕτω παλαιὰς διανομὰς καταφθένας οἴνῳ παρηπάτησας ἀρχαίας θεάς.

mvp-comment-523-1 τοιαῦτα δράσας: Libri et scholiastes Euripidis

τοιαῦτ᾽ ἔδρασας
. Scribendum
τοιαῦτα δράσας
. Vidit hoc etiam Wiesederus.

mvp-comment-524-1 θεῖναι:

θ' εἶναι
Ald.
εἶναι
schol. Eur.

mvp-comment-525-1 οὔκουν:

οὐκοῦν
Aug. Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-526-1 τὸν σέβοντ᾽:

τὸ σέβοντ᾽
Ven.

mvp-comment-527-1 χὤτε:

χ' ώτε
Victorius, et sic vel
χώτε
, ut videtur, M. Aug. Ven. Flor. Farn.
χώς τε
G. Ald.
χώςτε
Turn.
χ' ὡς
, omisso
τε
, Rob.

mvp-comment-528-1 παλαιὰς διανομὰς καταφθίσας:

οὕτω
scholiastes Euripidis. Deinde libri
παλαιὰς δαίμονας
, nisi quod Rob.
παλαιὰς δάμονας
habet.
παλαιὰν διανομήν
e libro manu scripto restituendum dixit G. Dindorfius in Diurnis antiq. a. 1836. p. 13. Nimirum codicem scholiorum Euripideorum Vaticanum intellexit, ex quo
παλαιὰς διανομὰς
Cobetius protulit. Idem codex
καταφθίνας
.

mvp-comment-529-1 οἴνῳ:

οίνῳ
libri et scholiastes Euripidis. Apud Euripidem in Alc. v. 10. Apollo haec dicit,
ὁσίου γὰρ ἀνδρὸς ὅσιος ὢν ἐτύγχανον, παιδὸς Φέρητος, ὃν θανεῖν ἐρρυσάμην, Μοίρας δολώσας· ᾔνεσαν δέ μοι θεαὶ Αδμητον Αιδην τὸν παραυτίκ' ἐκφυγεῖν, ἄλλον διαλλάξαντα τοῖς κάτω νεκρόν.
Et Orcus ibidem v. 31.
οὐκ ἤρκεσέ σοι μόρον Αδμήτου διακωλῦσαι, Μοίρας δολίῳ σφήλαντι τέχνῃ;

mvp-comment-530-1 NA: Ad priorem locum codex Florentinus hoc habet scholion, quod Aug. Matthiae primus edidit,

οἴκῳ γὰρ ταύτας, φασί, τῶν λογισμῶν ἀπαγαγὼν ἐξητήσατο Αδμητον, οὕτω μέντοι ὥςτε ἀντιδοῦναι ἑαυτοῖ ἕτερον τῷ Αιδῃ
. Stanleius in Aeschyli versu
ὕπνῳ
scribendum putabat.

mvp-comment-531-1 NA: Personae notam, quam G. habet, omittit Ald.

mvp-comment-532-1 ἰὸν: Libri

ἰὸν
vel
ἰών
.

mvp-comment-533-1 ἐχθροῖσιν:

ἐχθροῖσιν
Victorius, et sic Ven.
ἐχθροῖσι
M. G. Aug. Flor. Ald. Rob. Turn.

mvp-comment-534-1 καθιππάζει:

καθιππάζῃι
Μ. Ceteri
καθιππάζῃ
vel
καθιππάζῃ
.

mvp-comment-535-1 πρεσβύτιν:

πρεσβύτιν
Ven.
πρεσβῦτιν
pravo accentu Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.

mvp-comment-536-1 ἐπήκοος:

ἐπήκους
Rob.

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

mvp-comment-225-1 λέγεις] You talk (i.e. argue); but I tell you that I, if I fail to get justice, will come again to haunt this land in anger. Sup. 455

καὶ μὴ τυχοῦσαι πράγματος νικηφόρου.
Eur. Phoen. 490
ἃ μὴ κυρήσας τῆς δίκης πειράσομαι δρᾶν.
 Schol.
ἐπ᾿ ἀπειλὰς τρέπονται, ἀφεῖσαι τὴν δικαιολογίαν.

mvp-comment-226-1 ἀφθίτους θεῖναι] ‘to cause them never to die;’ see Eur. Alcest. 12

ᾔνεσαν δέ μοι θεαὶ ῎Αδμητον "Αιδην τὴν παραυτίκ᾽ ἐκφυγεῖν κ.τ.λ.

mvp-comment-227-1 δίκαιον] Supply ἦν. 'Was it not right to do a favour to a worshipper, especially when he stood in need of aid at the time? The optative is used, as sup. 588, because the event is regarded from a subjective point of view - supposing he wanted it.

mvp-comment-228-1 σύ τοι κ.τ.λ.] You know that you made away with the ancient awards (of the Fates) and deceived by wine those venerable deities. Some legend is alluded to, mentioned by the Schol. on Alcest, 33

Μοίρας δολίῳ σφήλαντα τέχνῃ
. Eur. ibid.

mvp-comment-229-1 σύ τοι] Cf. 725. This replies to the taunt in the preceding distich. You, no doubt, when you have failed in the suit, will at once spit your venom, but it shall not harm your enemies.' The Schol. understood by τὸν lòv their anger, τὴν ὀργὴν, but the material venom is meant by which blights and rust (inf. 898) were supposed to be caused in trees and plants. plants.

mvp-comment-230-1 καθιππάζει] Since you try to ride over me, I wait to hear the decision, as not having made up my mind (till the result is known) to be angry with the city.

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-276-1 ἐπ᾿ ἀπειλὰς τρέπονται ἀφεῖσαι τὴν δικαιολογίαν. Ιξίονα.

mvp-comment-277-1 ἐκβαλεῖς (ἐκβάλλεις Μ) τὴν ὀργὴν οὐδὲν δυναμένην (Paley für -νη) βλάψαι τοὺς ἐχθρούς.

mvp-comment-278-1 κατατρέχεις.

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-312-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 292

mvp-comment-312-2 viertes Epeisodion: Vor dem neu eingesetzten Gerichtshof, dem Athena als ἡγεμών und εἰσαγωγεύς vorsteht (583), bringen die Erinyen ihre Anklage vor, Apollon legt Zeugnis ab und tritt den Erinyen als Vertreter der Sache des Orestes, die zugleich seine eigene ist, entgegen. Darauf fällen die Areopagiten das Urteil. Athena tritt rechts auf. Ein Herold und ein Trompetenbläser schreiten voraus, Bürger von Athen folgen ihr. κήρυσσε scil. σίγα ( Eur. Phoen. 1224

σίγα κηρύξαι στρατῷ
). Der Schol. :
ὅρα πῶς τὰ νέων ἔθη ἀναχρονίζει. ἃ γὰρ νῦν γίνε ται, ταῦτα τὴν ᾿Αθηνῶν εἰσήγαγε λέγουσαν. ἐχρῶντο γὰρ τῇ σάλ πιγγι ἀνείργειν τὸ πλῆθος θέλοντες
. στρατόν: natürlich ist das Volk nur gedacht.

mvp-comment-395-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 301

mvp-comment-395-2 τοιαῦτα, nämlich was nicht deines Amtes ist ( οὐ λαχών 718). Μοίρας ἔπεισας: das gewöhnliche Asyndeton bei der Erläuterung. βροτούς, den Admetos, Sohn des Pheres, König von Pherä in Thessalien. Eur. Alk. 10

ὁσίου γὰρ ἀνδρὸς ὅσιος ὢν ἐτύγχανον, παιδὸς
Φέρητος, ὃν θανεῖν ἐρρυσάμην, Μοίρας δολώσας· ἤνεσαν δέ μοι θεαὶ Ἄδμητον ᾅδην τὸν παραυτίκ' ἐκφυγεῖν, ἄλλον διαλλάξαντα τοῖς κάτω νεκρόν. Vgl. Hom. Β 766 . Die Sage war im Hesiodischen Ka τάλογος ausführlich erzählt (Schol. zu Eur. Alk. 1 ).

mvp-comment-396-1 1

mvp-comment-396-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 302

mvp-comment-396-3 τὸν σέβοντα: Admetos war ehrerbietig gegen Apollon, als dieser ihm dienen musste. Zeus hatte nämlich den Asklepios, den Sohn des Apollon, mit dem Blitze getötet ( Ag. 1007 ). Im Zorn darüber erschlug Apollon die Kyklopen, die Verfertiger der Blitze, und mufste zur Strafe bei einem sterblichen Manne um Lohn dienen. Eur. Alk. 3 ff.

τύχοι
: der Optativ, weil der Satz eine allgemeine Vorstellung ausdrückt nach einem Infinitiv. Vgl. Krüger I § 54, 14, 4 .

mvp-comment-397-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 302

mvp-comment-397-2 διανομάς: zu 718. οἴνῳ: vgl. Eur. Alk. 32

οὐκ ἤρκεσέ σοι μόρον Αδμήτου διακωλύσαι, Μοίρας δολίῳ σφήλαντι τέχνη
; sowie die zu 726 a. St. und das Schol. :
οἴνῳ γὰρ ταύτας, φασί, τῶν λογισμῶν ἀπαγαγὼν ἐξῃτήσατο Ἄδμητον, οὕτω μέντοι ὥστε ἀντιδοῦναι ἑαυτοῦ ἕτερον τῷ "Αἵδῃ.

mvp-comment-397-3 2

mvp-comment-398-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 302

mvp-comment-398-2 ἐμῇ (fut.) τὸν ἰν: 481.

mvp-comment-399-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 302

mvp-comment-399-2 λέγεις: bei dir ist es blofse Rede; ich aber werde thatsächlich u. s. w.

mvp-comment-400-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 302

mvp-comment-400-2 v,,,unter", nicht,, in den Augen“, weil ἄτιμος rechtlos (ohne Anrecht auf einen Platz irgendwo) bedeutet.

mvp-comment-401-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 302

mvp-comment-401-2 ἐπεὶ κτἑ.: „Da du . ., SO will ich zunächst sehen, ob auch diese so denken." καθιππάζῃ wie 150. γενέσθαι μένω: zu 680.

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

μὴ τυχούσα , of course conditional: if I do not...

ὁμιλήσω , will haunt, will visit.

mvp-sidgwick-335-1-1 Pheres was father of Admetos: and the reference is to the famous and beautiful story of Alkestis, in Euripides' version as follows:-Apollo having served in the house of Admetos, by order of Zeus, and being well treated, repaid his debt by begging off Admetos' life from the Fates, on condition of his finding a substitute. After trying all his friends he found none but Alkestis, his wife, ready to die for him. See l. 172

, note.

ἔπεισας . Euripides says (Alk. 12) that Apollo cheated (δολώσας) the Fates; and ( l. 728

) Aeschylus tells us it was by making them drunk. The crude barbarism of the tale points to its great age.

σέβοντ' , pious. Euripides (Alk. 10) calls Admetos similarly ὅσιος ἀνήρ.

τύχοι . The common use is to employ the opt. in past general conditions, the subjunctive where the verb, as here (έστι understood with δίκαιον), is primary. But it is a special idiom to employ the optative in maxims and other statements of a universal character, where the verb is to apply to all time: or to put it otherwise where the idea of time is absent. Thus Soph. O. T. 315

ἄνδρα δ᾽ ὠφελεῖν ἀφ᾽ ὧν ἔχοι τε καὶ δύναιτο κάλλιστος πόνων,
ib. 979
εἰκῆ κράτιστον ζῇν ὅπως δύναιτό τις.
 So Ant. 666 , Trach. 93 , Ai. 521, 1344 . So Thuc. 1. 120 σωφρόνων ἐστιν εἰ μὴ ἀδικοῖντο ἡσυχάζειν.

διανομάς , ordinances: the MSS. have δαίμονas, but the Scholiast on Alkestis 12 quotes the line with διανομάς; and this certain emendation was thence made by Cobet. δαίμονας was suggested by θεάς in the next line.

σύ . τοι is scornfully repeated. οὐκ ἔχουσα τῆς δίκης τέλος, failing to win thy cause is the general sense. τέλος literally means the decision, as in l. 243

; and having the decision' means winning it.

ἐμεῖ . is future.

καθιππάζει , characteristic vigorous figure, override, i. e. overbear.