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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.) — 916-1020 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 916-1020 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 927 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 927 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 927 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 927 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 927 focus
τάδ᾽ ἐγὼ προφρόνως τοῖσδε πολίταις
πράσσω, μεγάλας καὶ δυσαρέστους
δαίμονας αὐτοῦ κατανασσαμένη.
930
πάντα γὰρ αὗται τὰ κατ᾽ ἀνθρώπους
ἔλαχον διέπειν.
ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων
οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου.
τὰ γὰρ ἐκ προτέρων ἀπλακήματά νιν
935
πρὸς τάσδ᾽ ἀπάγει· σιγῶν δ᾽ ὄλεθρος
καὶ μέγα φωνοῦντ᾽
ἐχθραῖς ὀργαῖς ἀμαθύνει.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 927 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 927 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 927 focus
τάδ᾽ ἐγὼ προφρόνως τοῖσδε πολίταις σύστ. α΄.
πράσσω, μεγάλας καὶ δυσαρέστους
δαίμονας αὐτοῦ κατανασσαμένη.
890
πάντα γὰρ αὗται τὰ κατ᾿ ἀνθρώπους
ἔλαχον διέπειν· ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας
βαρέων τούτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν
πληγαὶ βιότου * προσέπαισαν.
τὰ γὰρ ἐκ προτέρων ἀπλακήματά νιν
895
πρὸς τάσδ᾽ ἀπάγει, σιγῶν ὄλεθρος,
καὶ μέγα φωνοῦντ᾽
ἐχθραῖς ὀργαῖς ἀμαθύνει.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 927 focus
τάδ᾽ ἐγὼ προφρόνως τοῖσδε πολίταις
πράσσω, μεγάλας καὶ δυσαρέστους
δαίμονας αὐτοῦ κατανασσαμένη.
πάντα γὰρ αὗται τὰ κατ᾿ ἀνθρώπους
930
ἔλαχον διέπειν.
ὁ γε μὴν κύρσας βαρεῶν τούτων
οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν
πληγαὶ βιότου - -).
τὰ γὰρ ἐκ προτέρων ἀπλακήματά νιν
πρὸς τᾶσδ᾽ ἀπάγει, σιγῶν (δ᾽ ὄλεθρος
935
καὶ μέγα φωνοῦντ᾽
ἐχθραῖς ὀργαῖς ἀμαθύνει.
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.)) — 916-1020 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 927 focus
I willingly do these things for these my citizens, having settled in this place these mighty deities, and hard to be appeased: for they have obtained by lot to administer all things regarding men. But he who has not found them gentle, knows not whence come the ills of life: for the sins of his forefathers lead him away to these, and silent destruction with hostile wrath lays him low even while talking big.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 927 focus
jaillissent en foule à la clarté d'un soleil resplendissant 1 !
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 927 focus
For my lov'd city with a willing mind
This do I, ſeating here theſe aweful pow'rs e
That yield with much reluctance;
for o'er man
The Fates aſſign them a deſpotic ſway.
1060
And he, that feels their terrors, often knows not
Whence ſprings the vengeful wrath, whoſe iron
ſcourge
Embitters life:
for the fire's long-paſs'd crimes
1065
Draw to their chaſt'ning hand the ſuff'ring ſon;
And, 'midſt his thoughts of greatneſs, ſilent ruin
With ruthleſs hate purſues, and cruſhes him.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 927 focus
Lieta sono che ai miei cittadini
tanto ben procacciai: che qui restino
queste Dive possenti e implacabili.
975
Tutte quante le sorti fra gli uomini
spetta ad esse partir. Chi non mai
s'imbatté ne le Dive terribili,
della vita gli strazî non sa.
I delitti che gli avi compierono
980
te le spingono contro; e Rovina,
senza voce, mentre alto tu gridi,
con infesto furore ti stermina.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 927 focus
Hæc uerò ego promptè meis ciuibus
Faciam magnos & implacabiles
Dæmonas ipſa ſubigens.
Omnia ipſæ enim adminiſtrare ſortitæ ſum ſecundæ.
870
Ille uerò non aſsecutus hæc grauia
Non nouit unde plagæ uitæ ſunt.
Errata enim ex prioribus ipſum
Ad has deſerunt tacens pernicioſus,
Et clamosos
875
Inimicis iris conſumit.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 927 focus
Wohl gesorgt hab' ich für meine Bürger,
wenn ich hier ansiedle diese grofsen
schwierig zu gewinnenden Gewalten.
930 Ihnen ist das ganze Glück der Menschen
anvertraut, und wessen Seele niemals
lastend ihre Gegenwart empfunden,
ahnt nicht, was das Lebensglück zertrümmert.
Denn die Sünden seiner Väter treiben
935 ihn den Rächerinnen zu, und lautlos
kommt, so trotzig er auch lärmt, das Unheil,
und der grimme Groll zerschmettert ihn.
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.) — 927 focus
Behold, with gracious heart well pleased
I for my citizens do grant
Fulfilment of this covenant:
And here, their wrath at length appeased,
These mighty deities shall stay.
1065
For theirs it is by right to sway
The lot that rules our mortal day,
And he who hath not inly felt
Their stern decree, ere long on him,
Not knowing why and whence, the grim
1070
Life-crushing blow is dealt.
The father's sin upon the child
Descends, and sin is silent death,
And leads him on the downward path,
By stealth beguiled,
1075
Unto the Furies: though his state
On earth were high, and loud his boast,
Victim of silent ire and hate
He dwells among the Lost.
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.) — 927 focus
Den Segen gewähr' ich gnädig dem Volk,
Daß hier, ich im Land sie zu wohnen bewog,
Die gewaltige, schwerzuversöhnende Schaar.
885
Denn alles Geschick zu verwalten der Welt,
Fiel ihnen zum Loos. Doch wen ihr Groll
Schwerlastend ereilt, nicht weiß er, woher
Ihn trafen die Schläge des Lebens.
Denn die Sünde, vererbt von den Vätern, sie treibt
890
Ihn den Schrecklichen zu, und so laut er auch prahlt,
Stumm faßt ihn der Fluch,
Und zermalmt ihn feindlichen Grimmes.
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.)

838. παλαιόφρονα , of ancient wisdom, Aeschylean compound, applied Suppl. 593 to Zeus. κατά τε γᾶς is the best emendation. The indignity which the Furies complain of is being banished to this κευθμών, to dwell beneath the earth.

841. δâ . is Doric form of γῆ. So Ag. 1072 ὀτοτοῖ πόποι δᾶ.

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

mvp-comment-626-1 NA: Hoc carmen inter octo Furias distribui, sed paullo aliter atque in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 104. feceram.

mvp-comment-627-1 NA:

φεῦ
hic et v. 829. extra versuum numeros profertur.

mvp-comment-628-1 κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν ἀτίετον μῖσος: Libri

κατὰ γᾶν οἰκεῖν
. Sed infra v. 859. M. G. Rob.
κατά τε γᾶν
. Scripseram
κατά τε γᾶς οἰκεῖν
, neque effecit Wieselerus p.160. ut
κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν
verum esse censeam. Sed ita haec emendanda erant,
ἐμὲ παλαιόφρονα, κατά τε γᾶν οἰχνεῖν ἀτίετον μίσος.
Scriptum est
ἀτίετον φεῦ μῖσος
in G. Ald. Turn.
ἀτίετον φεῦ μᾶσος
in M. Aug. Rob.
ἀτίετον φεῦ μύσος
in Ven. Flor.
φεῦ
post
πνέω τοι μένος
v. 828. collocavi.

mvp-comment-629-1 πνέω τοι μένος:

πνέω τοι μένος
omissa in Aug.

mvp-comment-630-1 NA:

φεῦ
libri non hic, sed post
ἀτίετον
ν. 826. habent.

mvp-comment-631-1 οἰοῖ, δᾶ. φεῦ, φεῦ.:

ο? ο?
Μ. Rob.
οι οι
Ven. Flor.
οἱ οἱ
Aug. G. Ald. Turn. Deinde libri
δῶ
et semel
φεῦ
. Quintae Furiae tribui
οἰοῖ, δᾶ
, sextae
φεύ, φεῦ
.

mvp-comment-632-1 τίς μ' ὑποδύεται, τίς ὀδύνα πλευράς;:

τίς μ' ὑπόδεται
G. Deinde
πλευρὰς ὀδυνὰ
M. Aug. Turn.
πλευρᾶς ὀδύνα
G. Ald. Rob.
πλευρὰς ὀδύναι
Ven. Bekkero teste,
πλευρᾶς ὀδύναι
Flor. Ven. teste Frauzio. Scripsi, addito
τίς
post
ὑποδύεται
,
τίς μ' υποδύεται τίς ὀδύνα πλευράς;
Neque enim probandum est, quod Wieselerus coniecit,
τίς μ᾽ ὑποδύεται πλευράς, ὦ, δύα;

mvp-comment-633-1 θυμὸν ἄϊε, μᾶτερ: Haec quoque,

θυμὸν ἄτε, μᾶτερ
, dochmius sunt.

mvp-comment-634-1 ἀπὸ γάρ με τιμᾶν ἀμᾶν θεῶν δυςπάλαμοι παρ' οὐδὲν ἦραν δόλοι:

τιμῶν δαμαίων
M. G. Ald. Rob. sed in M.
α
ad utrumque
α
supra adscriptum est.
τιμὼν δημαίων
(sic) Aug. ad prioris vocabuli ultimam syllabam
ων
, ad secundi
αμ
supra adscripto.
τιμῶν δαμαίαν
Par.
τιμᾶν δαμέαν
Ven. Flor.
τιμᾶν δαμίαν
Turn. Scholiastarum sunt adnotationes ad hunc versum
τὴν δημοσίαν, ὑπὸ θεῶν δεδομένην
, ad sequentem
οἱ δόλοι γὰρ τῶν θεῶν ὡς οὐδὲν παρῆράν με τῶν δημοσίων τιμῶν
. Apparet eos et
τιμὰν δαμίαν
et
τιμᾶν δαμιᾶν
legisse: sed quo spectet illud
ὑπὸ θεῶν δεδομένην
, non perspicio. Fritzschius et Lud. Dindorfius in Stephani Thes. vol. II. p. 885. scribendum coniecerunt
τιμᾶν δαναιᾶν
, ut v. 386.
γέρας παλαιὸν
suum Furiae commemorant. Mihi
δαμαίων
ortum esse videtur ex
ἀμᾶν
. Puto enim Aeschylum scripsisse
θυμὸν ἄΐε, μᾶτερ Νύξ· ἀπὸ γάρ με τιμᾶν ἀμῶν θεῶν δυςπάλαμοι παρ' οὐδὲν ἦραν δόλοι.
Sic v. 226.
τιμὰς σὺ μὴ σύντεμνε τὰς ἐμὰς ψόγῳ
, ν. 411.
τιμάς γε μὲν δὴ τὰς ἐμὰς πεύσει τάχα
, et sine pronomine v. 739.
ἡμῖν γὰρ ἔρρειν, ἢ πρόσω τιμὰς νέμειν
.

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

mvp-comment-254-1 ἐμὲ κ.τ.λ.] The chorus are still dissatisfied, and dwell on the grievance of the old powers being superseded by the new. To think that I should suffer this, I the goddess of the ancient thought, and should dwell in the land like a guilty thing without the power of punishing the insult! Schol.

ἀνεκδίκητον, τιμωρεῖσθαι μὴ δυναμένην.

mvp-comment-255-1 Perhaps, to complete the dochmiac, τις ὀδύνα πλευράς ;

mvp-comment-256-1 δηναιᾶν] ancient, L. Dindorf for δαμαίων, which the Schol. explains by τῶν δημοσίων τιμῶν.-παρ οὐδὲν, supply θέμενοι, as in Ag. 221

παρ' οὐδὲν ἔθεντο.
For αἴρειν ἀπὸ cf. v. 340.

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-448-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-448-2 ἐμὲ παθεῖν: der beim absoluten Infin. des Ausrufs gewöhnlich stehende Artikel ( Krüger I $ 55, 1, 6 ) fehlt hier wie Soph. Ai. 410

ὦ δυστάλαινα, τοιάδ᾽ ἄνδρα χρήσι μον φωνεῖν
.

mvp-comment-449-1 1

mvp-comment-449-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-449-3 παλαιόφρονα, παλαιάν. Suppl. 601

γένους παλαιόφρων μέγας τέκτων. οἰχνεῖν, οἴχεσθαι
. Dieses epische Wort kommt auch bei Sophokles vor. ἀτίετον μύσος (scelus, Greuelwesen): vgl. στύγη 647, μίασμα καὶ . . στύγος Cho. 1026 .

mvp-comment-450-1 2

mvp-comment-450-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-450-3 δα wie Ag. 1056 . Der Schol. bemerkt: δᾶ: ὦ γῆ, Δωρικῶς, ὅθεν καὶ Δαμάτης und zu Prom. 589

ἄλευ᾽ ὦ δα: ὦ δᾶ, ὦ γῆ. οἱ γὰρ Δωριεῖς τὴν γῆν δῆν καὶ δᾶν φασιν καὶ τὸν γνόφον δνόφον
. H. L. Ahrens (Philol. XXIII S. 206) erklärt δᾶ als Vokativ von dᾶς Ζᾶς Ζεύς, der nur als Interjektion (,,ach Gott") gebraucht werde.

mvp-comment-450-4 3

mvp-comment-451-1 4

mvp-comment-451-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-451-3 μὲ πλευράς: zu 88.

mvp-comment-451-4 5

mvp-comment-452-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-452-2 ἀπὸ γάρ με τιμᾶν: nur an dieser einen Stelle treten bei Äschylos zwischen Präposition und Substantiv zwei Wörter, sonst nur δέ, τέ, seltener γέ, γάρ, μέν.

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

παλαιόφρονα , of ancient wisdom, Aeschylean compound, applied Suppl. 593 to Zeus. κατά τε γᾶς is the best emendation. The indignity which the Furies complain of is being banished to this κευθμών, to dwell beneath the earth.

mvp-sidgwick-394-1-1 In the MSS. φεῦ comes before μύσος, which breaks the dochmiac foot and is impossible, though the Scholiast seems to have read it there.

mvp-sidgwick-394-2-1 It does not much matter whether we put it before the line, or after, or suppress it. I follow Weil in reading it before.

δâ . is Doric form of γῆ. So Ag. 1072

ὀτοτοῖ πόποι δᾶ.

mvp-sidgwick-396-1-1 I adopt (with Franz, Lin. P. Weil, Weck.) L. Dindorf's brilliant conjecture τιμᾶν δαναιᾶν, ancient honours, for the meaningless δαμαίων of MSS. The gods unconquerable wiles have reft me from my ancient honours as of no account.'

ἀπό is separated from the verb αἴρω and draws near to the substantive, as in Epic: one of the forms of the so-called Tmesis. In prose it would be ἀπῆραν. The verb simply means carry off, take away.