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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.) — 949 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 949 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 949 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 949 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 949 focus
ἦ τάδ᾽ ἀκούετε, πόλεως φρούριον,
950
οἷς ἐπικραίνει; μέγα γὰρ δύναται
πότνι᾽ Ἐρινὺς παρά τ᾿ ἀθανάτοις
τοῖς θ᾽ ὑπὸ γαῖαν, περί τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων
φανερῶς τελέως διαπράσσουσιν
τοῖς μὲν ἀοιδάς, τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων
955
βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 949 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 949 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 949 focus
ἢ τάδ᾽ ἀκούετε, πόλεως φρούριον,
οἷ᾽ ἐπικραίνει; μέγα γὰρ δύναται
910
πότνι᾿ Ἐρινὺς παρά τ᾿ ἀθανάτοις
τοῖς θ᾽ ὑπὸ γαῖαν, περί τ᾿ ἀνθρώπων
φανερῶς τελέως διαπράσσουσιν,
τοῖς μὲν ἀοιδὰς, τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων
915
βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 949 focus
ἢ τάδ᾽ ἀκούεις, πόλεως φρούριον,
οἷ᾽ ἐπικραίνει;
μέγα γὰρ δύναται πότνι᾽ Ἐρινὺς
950
παρά τ᾿ ἀθανάτοις τοῖς θ᾽ ὑπὸ γαῖαν,
περί τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων φανερῶς τελέως
διαπράσσουσιν, τοῖς μὲν ἀοιδάς,
τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων
βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι.
955
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.) — 949 focus
Do you hear these things, guardians of the city, what she accomplishes? for the awful Erinnys has great power both with the immortals, and with those beneath the earth, and with respect to men they manifestly and powerfully bring about to some indeed the song, but to others on the contrary affording a life dimmed with tears.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 949 focus
le produit du trésor que ce sol vous a révélé jamais ne cesse de faire honneur au don des dieux 1 !
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 949 focus
Hear this, ye guardians of the ſtate, and know
Her word ſhall be accompliſh'd; for the Gods
That tread the ſpangled ſkies, and thoſe that hold
In the dark realms beneath their ſolemn thrones,
Revere her aweful pow'r; and her high ſtrains
1085
To mortal man in accents dread pronounce
Bleſſings to ſome, to ſome a life of woes.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 949 focus
O d'Atena presidio, o voi giudici,
questi voti ora udite? Ben grande
995
presso i Dèmoni inferni è la possa
de l'Erinni; e palese è fra gli uomini
ciò che valgano: a questi concedono
gioie e canti: di lagrime a quelli
fosca e torbida rendon la vita.
1000
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 949 focus
Hæc audite, urbis præſidium,
Qualia perficiet, multum potest enim
Veneranda Erinnys apud inmortales
Subterraneos, de hominibus
Maniſeſtè perfectè faciunt,
890
His quidem cantilenas, illis uerò lacrymarum
Vitam cæcam præbentes.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 949 focus
Höret ihr, Athens beruf'ne Wächter,
950 was Erinys uns verspricht, die hehre?
Bei den Sel'gen und den Unterird'schen
hat sie grofs Gewicht, und klar bewährt sie
ihres Willens zielessich're Wirkung
an den Menschen, hier in Jubelliedern,
955 dort in trüber Trauer Thränenblick.
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.) — 949 focus
O hearken, warders of the wall
That guards mine Athens, what a dower
Is unto her ordained and given!
1095
For mighty is the Furies' power,
And deep-revered in courts of heaven
And realms of hell; and clear to all
They weave thy doom, mortality!
And some in joy and peace shall sing;
1100
But unto other some they bring
Sad life and tear-dimmed eye.
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.) — 949 focus
Habt ihr es gehört, Schirmherren der Stadt,
905
Welch Glück sie verleih'n?
Denn Großes vermag der Erinnyen Wort
Bei den Göttern der Höh'n und im Reiche der Nacht;
Sie schalten mit Allmacht, offen und klar,
In der Menschen Geschick, dem frohen Gesang
910
Und dem Andern ein Loos
Voll düsterer Zähren bereitend.
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.)

855. δόμοις Ερεχθέως , the Erechtheum or great temple of Erechtheus (famous mythical hero-king of Athens), stood on the Akropolis.

857. ὅσων , ‘such honour as.' Pauw's and Paley's emendation of ὅσην MSS., a reading which will not construe, and is due probably to an attempt to alter the awkward collocation of genitives. The gen. ὅσων is attracted to the case governed by τεύξει. 1. 86ο. ἀοίνοις ἐμμανεῖς θυμώμασιν, ‘raging with fury not of wine,' but implanted by the Eumenides. This highly Aeschylean phrase does not agree with νέων, as in sense it should but with characteristic boldness is transferred to θηγάνας αἱματηράς, 'the whetstones of bloodshed,' as he calls the frenzy of the Furies, by another bold and imaginative figure. ἀοίνοις is specially appropriate to the Furies, as they were goddesses who tasted no wine, 1. 107.

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

mvp-comment-643-1 NA: Locus ubi Furiae, praeter lucum illum cuius mentio fit in Oedipo Coloneo, Athenis colebantur, vicinus erat Areopago, ut multis demonstravit Meursius in Areop. c. 2. Erat autem medius inter Areopagum et arcem. Pausanias enim de fano Eumenidum explicans I. 28, 7. dicit

ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐντὸς τοῦ περιβόλου μνῆμα Οἰδίποδος
, ubi non murum quo Areopagus cinctus fuerit, ut Meursio visum est, sed eum qui templum Furiarum ambiebat, intelligendum esse ostendit Valerius Maximus V. 3. ipse quoque a Meursio memoratus, qui Oedipodis sepulcrum inter arcem et Areopagum fuisse scribit.

mvp-comment-644-1 τεύξει:

τεύξει
libri.

mvp-comment-645-1 στόλων:

στόλων
Par.
στόλον
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-646-1 NA:

ὅσην
, quod libri habent, in
ὅσ᾽ ἂν
mutandum esse coniecit H. L. Ahrens. Aut ita scribendum est, aut putandum ante hunc versum alium excidisse, in quo nomen erat ad quod referebatur
ὅσην
. Hoc posterius, quod etiam G. Dindorfius statuit, probabilius videtur. Itaque lacunae signa posui.

mvp-comment-647-1 βροτῶν:

βροτοῖς
Par.

mvp-comment-648-1 σχέθοις:

σχέθης
Αld.

mvp-comment-649-1 τοῖς ἐμοῖσι:

τῆς ἐμοῖσι
Rob.

mvp-comment-650-1 θηγάνας σπλάγχνων βλάβας νέων ἀοίνοις ἐμμανεῖς θυμώμασιν:

θηγάνων
teste Franzio Flor.
θηγγάνων
Ven. et Linwoodio teste Flor. Farn. Deinde
νέων ἀοίνοις
Μ.
νέων, ἀοίνοις
Turn.
νέων ἀοίνους
Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob. Denique
θυμώμασιν
Μ. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob.
θυμώμασι
Turn. Iungunt vulgo
σπλάγχνων νέων
, sed rectius
νέων θυμώμασιν
iunguntur.
Ἄοινα θυμώματα
sunt irae non ex vino natae et graviores ac magis diuturnae quam inebriatorum. Inepta est eorum sententia, qui rixas a Furiis iniectas propterea
ἄοινα θυμώματα
dici putant, quia earum sacrificia
ἄοινα
erant.

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

mvp-comment-259-1 πρὸς δόμοις] The subterranean chapel of the Erinyes lay between the Areopagus and the Acropolis.

mvp-comment-260-1 ὅσων] The MS. has ὅσην.

mvp-comment-261-1 ἐμμανεῖς] Perhaps ἐμμανής, incited by rage not proceeding from wine (i.e. since νηφάλια μειλίγματα alone were offered to them, sup. 107), but from vexation at the defeat. -βλάβας, Schol.

τὰς ἀναλισκούσας τὰ νέα.
Cf. Pers. 667
νεολαία γὰρ ἤδη κατὰ πᾶσ᾽ ὄλωλε.

mvp-comment-262-1 ἐξελοῦσ'] is corrupt, and perhaps we should read ἐκζέουσ' with Musgrave, 'making their hearts to boil with rage like that of fighting-cocks. This well suits the scholium ἀναπτερώσασα. See Theb. 706 .

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-311-1 θηγάνας νέων:

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-457-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-457-2 δόμοις Ερεχθέως von dem Erechtheion. Vgl zu. 836.

mvp-comment-458-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-458-2 An die Stelle von παρὰ γυναικῶν tritt das Adjektiv.

mvp-comment-459-1 1

mvp-comment-459-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-459-3 ὅσων wie Sept. 296

εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἵησιν Που σειδῶν ὁ γαιάοχος Τηθύος τε παῖδες
. Auch 577, Cho. 737 , Ag. 343 , 803, 965, Sept. 537 , Pers. 345 , Prom. 462 , 995, 1016 findet sich die Attraktion beim Relativ. Weit zahlreicher (50) sind die Fälle bei Sophokles.

mvp-comment-460-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-460-2 Die V. 860-868 unterbrechen den Zusammenhang. Die stark hervortretende politische Tendenz und der manierierte Stil kennzeichnen sie als Interpolation.

mvp-comment-461-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-461-2 μήθ' ist gestellt, als ob Ἄρη ἐμφύλιον als zweites Objekt zu βάλης folgen sollte; dafür tritt ein neues Verbum ein. Vgl. Prom. 185

καί μ᾽ οὔτε μελιγλώσσοις πειθούς ἐπαοιδαῖσιν θέλξει στερεάς τ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ἀπειλὲς πτήξας τόδ᾽ ἐγὼ καταμηνύσω. θηγάνη
, was schürft und aufreizt. Vgl. Prom. 327
τραχεῖς καὶ τεθηγμένους λόγους
, Sept. 702
τεθηγμένον τοί μ᾽ οὐκ ἀπαμ βλυνεῖς λόγῳ. σπλάγχνων
 wie Ag. 984 , Cho. 412 (das Innere, das Herz). Die blutige Fehdelust reifst jugendlichen Sinn mit sich fort. ἀοίνοις d. h. ohne betrunken zu sein handeln sie mit der leidenschaftlichen Raserei von Betrunkenen.

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

δόμοις Ερεχθέως , the Erechtheum or great temple of Erechtheus (famous mythical hero-king of Athens), stood on the Akropolis.

ὅσων , such honour as. Pauw's and Paley's emendation of ὅσην MSS., a reading which will not construe, and is due probably to an attempt to alter the awkward collocation of genitives. The gen. ὅσων is attracted to the case governed by

τεύξει.
l. 86 ο. ἀοίνοις ἐμμανεῖς θυμώμασιν, raging with fury not of wine, but implanted by the Eumenides. This highly Aeschylean phrase does not agree with νέων, as in sense it should but with characteristic boldness is transferred to θηγάνας αἱματηράς, the whetstones of bloodshed, as he calls the frenzy of the Furies, by another bold and imaginative figure. ἀοίνοις is specially appropriate to the Furies, as they were goddesses who tasted no wine, l. 107
.