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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.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 938 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 938 focus
Δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω,
φλογμοὺς φλογμὸς (-μός τ' Tr) φλοιγμὸς ὀμματοστερεῖς -ρὴς φυτῶν τὸ
μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ' ἄκαρπος αἰα-
940
νὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος
μῆλά τ' εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν (εὐθην- FVTr)
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος (δ' ἀεὶ)
πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν
945
δαιμόνων δόσιν τίοι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω,
940
φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν τὸ
μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰα-
νὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος,
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα Πᾶν
945
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος
δὲ γᾶς ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα —
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω —
φλογμοὺς ὀμματοστερεῖς φυτῶν
940
τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰανὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος·
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα Πάν
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
τρέφοι, χρόνωι ⟨τε τῶι⟩ τεταγμένωι γόνος
945
πλουτόχθων ἰκμαίαν
δαιμόνων δόσιν πίοι.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω,
900
φλογμός τ᾽ ὀμματοστερὴς
φυτῶν τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰανὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος·
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
905
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος * δ᾽ ἀεὶ
πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν
δαιμόνων δόσιν τίοι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω·
ἀντ. α
φλογμόν (τ᾿ ὀμματοστερή φυτῶν τὸ μὴ περᾶν
940
ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰανὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος,
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις τρέφοι χρόνωι τεταγμένωι 945
945
γόνον <τελεῖν·
πλουτόχθων (θ᾽) ἑρμαία
δαιμόνων δόσις τίοι.
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.) — 938 focus
And let not the tree-destroying blight breathe—I speak my kindness—and let [not there be] the scorching heat that blasts the buds of plants, preventing them from passing the bounds of their places; nor let the fruit-spoiling black disease creep on; and may this country rear at the appointed time flocks very plenteous with double increase: let the race of men that enjoys the riches of the earth, adore the gainful gift of the deities.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 938 focus
leur implacable courroux.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 938 focus
O'er their ſaplings ſpreading fair
May no chill wind noxious blow;
1070
Nor the dry and ſcorching air
Singe their freſh buds' opening glow.
For my ſake may no diſeaſe
Sicken o'er the blaſted year:
May their teeming flocks increaſe,
1075
And a double offspring bear.
'Gainſt the ſolemn feſtal day
Numerous may their herds ariſe;
Sportive o'er the rich fields play,
Gift of the propitious ſkies.
1080
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 938 focus
Che mai non soffi aura nociva agli alberi
sarà vigil mia cura,
985
nè a questo suol s'appressi,
le nuove gemme a struggere, l'arsura,
né a far vane le messi
feral morbo serpeggi,
anzi, con parti duplici
990
allegri a tempo debito Pan le floride greggi;
e le genti felici
lodino ognor dei Numi i benefici.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 938 focus
Arbori nocuum ne fiat detrimentum
Mea gratia dico.
Incendiumq; oculo priuans plantarum
Non tranſire fines locorum.
880
Neq; infructuoſus obſcuritatis
Morbus ſerpat, ouesq; fœcundæ admodum
Cum duobus fœtibus
Alant tempore conſtituto prolem.
Diues terra Lucratile dæmonum donum ponat.
885
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 938 focus
Es wehe nie böser Wind, der Bäume Feind
(so sag' ich, was mein Segen wirkt),
940 daſs gift'ger Brand, dran die Augen schrumpfen,
die Grenzen nimmer überzieht.
Noch komme je Seuche, Samen mordend;
die Erde spende Nahrung
den Herden stets; Zwillingslämmer werfe
945 das Mutterschaf jeden Lenz, und nimmer
versieg' im Felsengrunde
der Silberader schlummernder
plötzlich beglückender Schatz.
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.) — 938 focus
To my blessing now give ear.—
1080
Scorching blight nor singèd air 1
Never blast thine olives fair!
Drouth, that wasteth bud and plant,
Keep to thine own place. Avaunt,
Famine fell, and come not hither
1085
Stealthily to waste and wither!
Let the land, in season due,
Twice her waxing fruits renew;
Teem the kine in double measure;
Rich in new god-given treasure,
1090
Here let men the powers adore
For sudden gifts unhoped before!
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.) — 938 focus
Böser Hauch athme nie, der Bäume Feind!
(So verheiß' ich meine Huld,) -
895
Sonnenglut, der Pflanzen Auge sengend,
Bleibe fern des Landes Mark!
Nimmer schleiche graunvoll
Pest heran, der Früchte Tod!
Schafe, frohgedeihend, mag,
900
Zwillingslämmer um sie her,
Zu rechter Zeit die Erde stets erzieh'n; ihr Schooß
Sei stets durch Hermes' Huld
Goldner Gottesgaben voll!
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.)

845. ἀπό is separated from the verb aἴρw 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.

848. συμφέρω , here used in the rather unusual sense of endure, not resent: the English idiom (which in meaning exactly suits this place), I will bear with thy wrath, is only superficially similar. Somewhat like this use is πάντα συμφέρουσ᾽ Ἰάσονι Eur. Med. 13, συμφέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσι (‘comply') Soph. El. 1465, οὐδέποτ᾽ εὐφραν- θήσεται ἀνὴρ ἐὰν μὴ τῇ γυναικὶ συμφέρῃ ( agree) Ar. Lys. 166: the metaphor being [Verrall, Eur. Med. 1. c.] probably of a yoke-fellow pulling with, and not against, one.

851. ἐλθοῦσαι ., conditional, if you go.'

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

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
.

mvp-comment-635-1 δυςπάλαμοι ... δόλοι:

δυσπάλαλοι
G. Ald.
δόλοι
G. Ald. Rob.
δόλω
M. Aug. Par.
δόλω
Ven. Flor.
δόλῳ
Turn.

mvp-comment-636-1 NA:

καίτοι γε μὴν σὺ κάρτ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφώτερα
Victorius, et sic Ven. Flor.
καί τοι μὲν σὺ κάρτ'
(
γάρ τ'
Αld.)
ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob.
καί τοι σὺ μὲν κάρτ᾽ εἰγ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
Turn. Vt recte procederet oratio, in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 107. scribendum putabam
καίτοι γε μὴν οὐ κάρτ᾿ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
. Sed non dici videtur
οὐ κάρτα
. Wieselero Aeschylus scripsisse videtur
καὶ τῷ μὲν εἶ σὺ κάρτ' ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
. Recte vero Bothius in prima editione et Paleius totum hunc versum removendum esse censuerunt.

mvp-comment-637-1 ἐς: Pro

ἐς
Aug. habet
ἐπ'
, ut in G. fuerat, in quo tamen
π
a prima manu in
ς
mutatum est.

mvp-comment-638-1 ἀλλόφυλον:

ἀλλόφυλλον
Rob.

mvp-comment-639-1 ἐλθοῦσαι:

ἐλθοῦσα
Flor. Rob.

mvp-comment-640-1 ἐρασθήσεσθε:

ἐρασθήσαθε
G.
ἐρασθήσεθε
Ald.

mvp-comment-641-1 προὐννέπω:

προυνέπω
Aug. Ald.

mvp-comment-642-1 ἐπιρρέων:

ὁ ὑπορρέων
Rob.

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

mvp-comment-257-1 καὶ τῷ μέν] Schol.

διὰ τὸν χρόνον.
‘And in that indeed you are much wiser than I, though even to me (viz. as the goddess of wisdom) Zeus has granted not to be without telligence.' The Med. has καὶ τοι μὲν σύ.

mvp-comment-258-1 The Schol., remarking λείπει ὁ καὶ, seems to have found ὑμεῖς without δέ. EUM.

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-309-1 οἱ δόλοι γὰρ

mvp-comment-310-1 φέρουσα τὰς ἀντὶ τοῦ) μεγάλοι

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-453-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-453-2 δυσπάλαμοι δόλοι wie δύσδολοι δόλοι oder δυσπάλαμοι παλά μαι:,,unselige Arglist von Göttern hat mich von uralten Ehren weggehoben, so dafs ich gleich nichts bin." Es steht also παρ᾽ οὐδέν (213) wie ein proleptisches Prädikat.

mvp-comment-454-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-454-2 ξυνοίσω, nachgeben, zu gute halten. Eur. Med. 13

πάντα συμ φέρουσ᾽ Ἰάσονι,
Soph. El. 1465 συμ φέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσιν. Hom. Φ 439 ἄρχε· σὺ γὰρ γενεῆφι νεώτε ρος· οὐ γὰρ ἐμοί γε καλόν, ἐπεὶ πρότερος γενόμην καὶ πλείονα οἶδα.

mvp-comment-455-1 1

mvp-comment-455-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-455-3 προφερτέρα: durch das Alter zwar hast du einen Vorzug vor mir. Auf das Alter bezieht sich προφέρ τερος und προφέρτατος auch Soph. frg. 399 D. und Oed. K. 1513 .

mvp-comment-456-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-456-2 Ein Hinweis auf den Ruhm der Perserkriege.

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

συμφέρω , here used in the rather unusual sense of endure, not resent: the English idiom (which in meaning exactly suits this place), I will bear with thy wrath, is only superficially similar. Somewhat like this use is

πάντα συμφέρουσ᾽ Ἰάσονι
Eur. Med. 13 , συμφέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσι ( comply) Soph. El. 1465 , οὐδέποτ᾽ εὐφραν- θήσεται ἀνὴρ ἐὰν μὴ τῇ γυναικὶ συμφέρῃ ( agree) Ar. Lys. 166: the metaphor being [Verrall, Eur. Med. 1. c.] probably of a yoke-fellow pulling with, and not against, one.

mvp-sidgwick-399-1-1 I take Wieseler's excellent emendation καὶ τῷ μὲν εἶ συ, i. e. and by that (old age) you are far wiser, age and wisdom being naturally united. So the Scholiast explains the line διὰ τὸν χρόνον, i. e. wiser by lapse of time.

ἐλθοῦσαι ., conditional, if you go.'