574. ὧν ἔχεις αὐτὸς κράτει , rule thou thine own domain, like the proverbial τὴν σαυτοῦ πάτει, i. e. mind your own business.

579. σύνδικος is an advocate. Apollo says he will be Orestes' advocate, as he is responsible for the murder.

581. κυροῦν , usually to confirm, here in the rather unusual sense of to settle, as below again 1. 639.

591. γε μέντοι , as usual, adversative, however.

593. πρὸς τοῦ , ‘by whom,' common variation in poetry for ὑπό. So we find ἐκ, ἀπό, παρά, with gen. of agent. See 100.

599. πέπεισθι , exceptional reduplicated aorist imperative with intransitive meaning: trust now in the dead. The form somewhat resembles the Epic κέκλυθι, τέτλαθι, and κέκραχθι (Ach. 335); but has the heavier stem-form.

611. ὥσπερ ἐστίν , i. e. as done it is.

615. θεσμόν , ordinance, means here (as in 1. 484) the court of Areiopagos; and so the Scholiast explains it. It is therefore in apposition to ὑμᾶς.

618. μή . generic, with the indef. opt. κελεύσαι: nothing which Zeus bade not, nothing save what Zeus bade.

620. πιφαύσκω , I bid : nearly all the words of speaking can be so used, λέγω, εἶπον, etc. The displacement of the δέ is common.

620. ὔμμε , Aeolic form of ὑμᾶς found several times in Homer. So ἄμμι (ἡμῖν) Theb. 156, ὔμμε Antig. 846, both however in lyric passages.

624. πράξαντα , prop. exacting, a favourite word of Aeschylus, often for avenging: ἀτίμωσιν πρασσομένα, avenging the dishonour, Ag. 705, χερὶ πράκτορι ib. 111. See Eum. 319.

628. ὥστε , Epic, common in Trag. for ὡς.

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ ὅπως ἂν εὖ καταγνωσθῇ δίκη:

Μ. (sic M. teste Franzio Par. G. Ald. Ven. Flor. Rob. Turn. In fine versus Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob. Turn. Μ. G. Olim scripsi , ὅπως, ut intelligeretur Orestes. Atque ita, aut , scribendum putabam etiam in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 86. seq. Nunc probabilius mihi visum est scripsisse Aeschylum etc. Ad pertinet adnotatio scholiastae . Videtur autem post v. 560. versus excidisse: quare lacunae signa posui. Puto enim huiusmodi fuisse Aeschyli orationem,

mvp-comment-401-1 μέτεστι πράγματος:

Flor.

mvp-comment-402-1 ἔστι γὰρ νόμῳ ἱκέτης ὅδ᾽ ἀνὴρ καὶ δόμων ἐφέστιος ἐμῶν: Hoc versu incipit codex Augustanus. Libri

. Olim scripsi, quod Schutzius recepit. Eandem coniecturam protulit Elmsleius ad Med. v. 155. Possit videri alterum , quod in sequente versu est, commutandum esse cum vel , et coniecit scribendum esse H. L. Ahrens. Sed multo praestat scribere . Viderunt hoc Erfurdtius et Burgesius. Sophocles Oed. Col. v. 548. . V. Opusc. VI. 2. p. 87. seq.

mvp-comment-403-1 ἀνὴρ:

ex Farn. affertur. Ceteri . Correxit Porsonus.

mvp-comment-404-1 ἐφέστιος:

Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. Μ. Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-405-1 ξυνδικήσων:

Aug.

mvp-comment-406-1 αἰτίαν δ᾽ ἔχω:

Turn.

mvp-comment-407-1 τοῦ φόνου:

Turn. M. G. Par. Aug. Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob.

mvp-comment-408-1 ὅπως τ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ:

Μ. Ceteri . Porsonus . Scribendum erat , et comma delendum, quod post haec verba positum erat. Prom. v. 376. .

mvp-comment-409-1 κύρωσον:

M. G. Aug. Ven. Farn. Ald. Rob. Flor. Turn.

mvp-comment-410-1 NA: Hi versus desunt in Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-411-1 ἐξ ἀρχῆς:

Μ.

mvp-comment-412-1 πολλαὶ μέν ἐσμεν, λέξομεν δὲ συντόμως: Scholiastes

. V. Opusc. II. p. 132. VI. 2. p. 127. seqq. Eumenidum nomen hic et deinceps praefixum in G. Ald. Turn. xo. in Rob. In Μ. v. 575. 587. 591. 595. , v. 577. 582. 588. 592. 596. praefixum, reliquis locis personae mutatio lineola indicata est. Rob. G. Ald.

mvp-comment-413-1 ἐν μέρει τιθείς:

, sed adscripto in margine , Par.

mvp-comment-414-1 κατέκτονας:

Elmsleius ad Med. v. 774. Rob. Ceteri .

mvp-comment-415-1 παλαισμάτων:

Rob. Scholiastes . V. Victorii Var. lect. XXI. 2. Salmasii Exerc. Plin. p. 206. Spanh. ad Iul. p. 262. Wyttenb. ad Iul. p. 214. ed. Lips. Lobeckium Aglaoph. p. 353. seq.

mvp-comment-416-1 λέγω:

M. Par. Aug. Rob. G. Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-417-1 δέρην:

Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-418-1 πρὸς τοῦ δ᾽:

Μ. G. Rob. Αld. Turn. Non mutandum putavi , etsi nemini non veniet in mentem .

mvp-comment-419-1 βουλεύμασιν:

M. G. Par. Aug. Ald. Rob. Turn.

mvp-comment-420-1 ἀεὶ:

Μ. G. Aug. Ald. Rob. Turn. Dubitari potest an scripserit Aeschylus .

mvp-comment-421-1 ἀλλ᾽:

Turn. sine accentu Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Par.

mvp-comment-422-1 καμοίγ᾽ ἀρωγοὺς ἐκ τάφου πέμψει πατήρ: Libri

. Scaliger , quod Abreschius et Schützius scholiastam viderunt habuisse. Eius haec est adnotatio, (scribendum , οὕτω . Legit igitur scholiastes, et recte, .

mvp-comment-423-1 πέπεισθι:

M. Aug. Ald. Rob. G. Par. Turn. quae nihil est nisi coniectura Turnebi, offendentis ad antiquam et veram scripturam. Est enim imperativus ea lege formatus, qua .

mvp-comment-424-1 μιασμάτοιν:

Elmsleius ad Med. v. 798. Libri . V. ad Ag. v. 1344.

mvp-comment-425-1 ἀνδροκτονοῦσα πατέρ᾽ ἐμὸν κατέκτανεν: Stephanus putabat frigidum et ineptum esse

, quod deberi librario oculis ad v. 595. aberranti. Quare scribi volebat . Eadem Arnaldi coniectura est, rectius scribentis, p. 258. Nihil mutandum est. Ad illud, , respondet , rationem reddens cur occiderit. Non solum enim maritum interfecit, quae non erat Oresti iusta occidendi caussa, sed etiam patrem: ob id demum a filio eam puniri aequum erat. Intellexit hoc Pauwius.

mvp-comment-426-1 τί γάρ; σὺ μὲν ζῇς, ἣ δ᾽ ἐλευθέρα φόνῳ:

M. Aug. Rob. G. Ald. Turn. Deinde G. Denique libri . Necessaria est Schützii emendatio, . Inepte Wellauerus citat Valcken. ad Hippol. v. 1450. Scripsi Quid id ad rem? tu vivis, illa autem libera a persecutione nostra, quia occisa est.

mvp-comment-427-1 πῶς γάρ σ᾽ ἔθρεψεν: Libri

, nisi quod Ald. habet. Robortellus in corrigendis (sic). Nihil omnino mutandum est.

mvp-comment-428-1 ἀπεύχει: Libri

.

mvp-comment-429-1 αἷμα φίλτατον:

Turn. Μ. G. Aug. Ald. Rob.

mvp-comment-430-1 ὡςπερ ἐστὶν:

Αld.

mvp-comment-431-1 δοκεῖ, τόδ' αἷμα κρῖνον: Recte G. Ald. Rob. post

interpungunt. Post Turnebus.

mvp-comment-432-1 δικαίως:

M. Aug. Rob. G. Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-433-1 μάντις ὢν δ᾽:

emendatio est Canteri. Libri . Turnebus omisit. Ennius Eumenidibus apud Nonium in v. expedibo p. 505. .

mvp-comment-434-1 ὃ μὴ κελεύσαι: Libri

. Robortellus in corrigendis . Porsonus , quum Stanleius vel coniecisset. Non recte olim scripsi . Scribendum erat .

mvp-comment-435-1 τὸ μὲν δίκαιον τοῦθ': Pro librorum lectione,

, olim dederam . Id ut potuerit dici, non est eo tamen opus. Post nulla interpunctio in M. Rob. Plene interpunctum in G. Ald. Turn. Male scholiastes .

mvp-comment-436-1 βουλῇ:

Turn. Vict. et sic fortasse M. G. Ald. et sic in corrigendis Rob. in cuius textu est. legit scholiastes ille, cuius verba modo attuli, alius, cuius haec est adnotatio, .

mvp-comment-437-1 ἐπισπέσθαι:

G. Ald. Turn. Rob. sed in corrigendis scribi iubetur, atque ita recte Victorius et reliqui.

mvp-comment-438-1 ὤπασεν:

in mutavit Burgesius, non male. Deinde libri .

mvp-comment-439-1 θανεῖν: Male Auratus et Musgravius

scribendum esse putaverunt.

mvp-comment-440-1 σκήπτροισι:

Rob.

mvp-comment-441-1 τιμαλφούμενον: Ad

scholiastes haec adnotavit, . Vsus est hoc verbo Aeschylus Ag. v. 889. Eum. v. 15. 796. et adiectivo in Epigonis, fragm. 57.

mvp-comment-442-1 ἀκούσει: Libri

.

mvp-comment-443-1 νιν:

Porsonus. Libri .

mvp-comment-444-1 ἄμεινον ... δροίτῃ περῶντι λουτρά:

recte G. Ald. sic M. Rob. Turn. Hoc dicit, rebus plerisque bene gestis. Deinde v. 624. M. G. Ald. Par. Aug. Rob. Turn. , ut Robortellus in corrigendis scribi iussit, Victorius. V. ad Ag. v. 1506. Deinde G. sed mutatum ab eadem manu in , ut Aug. Rob. habent. Ald. Turn. Non recte Schoemannus, ut antea G. Bernhardy in Syntaxi p. 83. masculinum esse putat, comparans Soph. Ant. v. 904. . Non potest dubitari quin cum sit coniungendum. Mihi olim dictum esse videbatur ut , ut esset blandis verbis: autem in eo modo post participium positum esse putabam, de quo dictum est ad Ag. v. 97. Linwoodius scripsit , et post haec verba huiusmodi aliquid excidisse putavit, . Immo recte intellexit Dindorfius post v. 622. lacunam esse indicandam. In eo versu qui excidit, nisi plures fuerunt, substantivum fuisse videtur, ad quod pertinebat, et hic fere sententiarum nexus, . Itaque sic scripsi etc.

mvp-comment-445-1 περεσκήνωσεν:

Μ. G. Rob. Aug. (sic Aug.) Ald. Turn. agnoscit scholiastes, qui haec adscripsit . V. ad Ag. v. 1106.

mvp-comment-446-1 πεδήσασ':

Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-181-1 αἰανῆ] See on v. 394. Schol.

mvp-comment-182-1 καὶ τόνδε] And the defendant too, that the cause may be rightly decided. There is difficulty in the verse, since the Schol. read τῶνδ', which he explains τῶν ᾿Αρεοπαγιτῶν, and καταγνῶναι δίκην, for δικάζειν, is unusual without a genitive of the person condemned, καταγνῶναι θάνατόν τινος, &c. Generally, οὗτος is used for the defendant.'

mvp-comment-183-1 ἄναξ ῎Απολλον] Schol.

‘It is not for you to interfere here,' is the purport of the address.

mvp-comment-184-1 The repetition of δόμων is clearly wrong. Perhaps ἔστι γὰρ νόμῳ ἱκέτης (G. Burges and Hermann). καθάρσιος, cf. 63, 427.

mvp-comment-185-1 καὶ ξυνδικήσων] ‘and to be his advocate in person,' - for, he adds, 'I am responsible for the murder of this man's mother,' i. e. Orestes lays it on me as having persuaded him to it, sup. 84.

mvp-comment-186-1 The Med. has κύρωσον. We might read κυρῶσαι, οι ὅπως τ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ. But ὁ κυρώσων seems at least as likely, for Apollo may inquire who intends to act as εἰσαγωγεὺς in the trial, i.e. to approve and sanction the opening of the case. When the goddess godd replies εἰσάγω δὲ τὴν δίκην, bidding the Furies to speak first because the prosecutor should open the case, she virtually takes on herself the office in question.

mvp-comment-187-1 πρῶτον] The first question is one of fact; the second, of the mode, the third, of the motive (author or ad. viser). These are the τρία παλαίσματα, the three crucial questions which must be satisfactorily answered, three throws constituting a defeat in wrestling. --κατέκτονας, a rare form of transitive perfect; this passage is noticed as unique in tragedy by Veitch, Gr. V. p. 395 . There were four forms of transitive aorist, ἔκτεινα, ἔκτανον, ἔκταν, and ἔκανον, the last of which may be referred to καίνω ( Cho. 872 ).

mvp-comment-188-1 ὅπως] The Schol. takes this to mean, ‘how it was that you killed her,' i.e. why, and he thinks that Orestes misunderstands the question ( πλανᾶται), which is accordingly repeated at v. 563.

mvp-comment-189-1 ἐξηγεῖτο] Do you mean to say that the prophetgod himself declared to you (as the interpreter of the divine will) that you should kill your mother?

mvp-comment-190-1 τάχα] Schol.

This is a rare sense without ἂv, and perhaps the meaning is you will soon tell a different tale.

mvp-comment-191-1 νεκροῖσι] This is said in contempt, i nunc, fide mortuis; Agamemnon, as a king in Hades, being a δαίμων of power to aid. -πέπεισθι, an epic reduplicated form like κέκλυθι, κέκραχθι, Ar. Ach. 335 . Veitch, Greek Verbs, p. 518 , thinks πέπισθι οι πέποισθι would be more analogical.

mvp-comment-192-1 προσβολάς] The addition of one crime to another, the union of two, viz. the killing of a husband and the wrong done to me by the killing of my father. Schol.

He thinks there is irony in the reply; make the judges understand that, for I do not; μὴ ἡμάς δίδασκε, ἀλλὰ τοὺς δικαστάς.

mvp-comment-193-1 The MSS. have τοιγὰρ and φόνῳ, but the Schol. read τί γάρ; and the dative (the correction of Schutz) seems required by the sense. Well! you are alive (and can be pursued); she is free from pursuit by her death.- Then you should have pursued her while yet alive, and before I slew her.- We did not do that, because she had killed a husband, who is not a blood relation. See v. 202. Schol.

proceedings do you

mvp-comment-194-1 ἀπεύχει] Do you disown?

mvp-comment-195-1 ἤδη] At this point of the bear witness for me, and declare for me whether I killed her with justice on my side.' The fact, he adds, being admitted, the question of right alone remains. - δικαίως, supply πεπράχθαι from δρᾶσαι.

mvp-comment-196-1 ὁ μὴ κελεύσαι] quod non jussisset. Schol.

mvp-comment-197-1 πατρός] As Zeus was the real adviser of the deed, I tell you not to thwart or gainsay his counsel.

mvp-comment-198-1 Again there is irony in the rejoinder of the chorus. 'Let us understand you clearly. According to you, who delivered the oracle, it was Zeus who was the real author of it; you were but his mouth-piece. So then Zeus tells sons to avenge their fathers and not to care about their mothers at all. Apollo is rather in a fix, and replies that Clytemnestra's crime was greatly aggravated by killing a king and a warrior with every circumstance of treachery and ignominy.

mvp-comment-199-1 ὥστ᾽᾽ Αμαζόνος] ‘As if he had been slain in war by some Amazon.' Amazons in the Homer of Aeschylus, now preserved in the epics of Q. Smyrnaeus Bk. 1 . The genitive is used as in Ag. 1353

Ashishe been in war

mvp-comment-200-1 ἠμποληκότα] ‘When he had returned from the expedition with the greatest success, lit. after having made the greatest profits (or, more profits than losses) in the trade of war. For the metaphor cf. Theb. 540 , ἐλθὼν δ ἔοικεν οὐ καπηλεύσειν μάχην.— ἅμ' αἴνοις, ‘with praises.' The editor's correction of ἄμείνον' (so MS. Med.), which is unintelligible. Cf. Ag. 890

mvp-comment-201-1 It is better to construe δεδεγμένη δροίτῃ, after receiving him with (or in) a bath. See on ν. 453. –περῶντι, as he was passing out of the bath and just at the end of it. In this case δροίτη must mean the bath-room. But ἐπὶ τέρματι may mean that she threw the garment, like a tentcover, completely over the bath to the very end of it, so as to leave him no escape. - The reading of the Med. and the Schol. is περεσκήνωσεν, as if περισκηνοῦν were meant, to inclose as in a tent. But we should thus expect φάρει, with a mantle.' It is likely that the poet had in mind some well-known painting of the event.

mvp-comment-225-1 διηνεκή, παρὰ τὸ αἰεί.

mvp-comment-226-1 τῶν Ἀρεοπαγιτῶν. (über der Seite, die V. 597 ff. enthält) ἐν παραχορηγήματι (Ddf. für περιχωρήματι) αὐτῶι εἰσιν οἱ Ἀρεοπαγίται μηδαμοῦ διαλεγόμενοι.

mvp-comment-227-1 ὧν ἐκληρώθης, δηλονότι μαντειῶν. παραφανέντος δ᾽ Ἀπόλλωνος ταῦτά φησιν.

mvp-comment-228-1 μαρτυρήσων ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐναγής· ἐκάθηρα γὰρ αὐτόν. δικοι λέγονται οἷς ἴσον μέτεστιν ἐν τῆι δίκηι τῆς αἰτίας.

mvp-comment-229-1 τῶν Ἐρινύων. ἅρα τὸ δικαστήριον.

mvp-comment-230-1 ὁ κατηγορῶν.

mvp-comment-231-1 τοῦτο οὐ πρὸς τὰς τρεῖς, ὀλλὰ πρὸς τὸν χορόν· ιε΄ γὰρ ἦσαν.

mvp-comment-232-1 ῥητορικῶς πυνθάνονται. εἰ μὲν ὁμολογοίη, ὑπεύθυνος ἔσται· εἰ δ᾽ ἀρνοῖτο, ἐλεγχθήσεται. καὶ Ἀχιλλεὺς πρὸς τοὺς πρέσβεις· „τι δὲ λαὸν ἀνήγαγεν ἐνθάδ᾽ ἀγείρας Ατρείδης“; διὰ γυναῖκα (Homer I 338 f.).

mvp-comment-233-1 ἓν πέπτωκας (Weil für ἐμπ.). ἡ μεταφορὰ δὲ ἐστιν ἀπὸ τῶν παλαιόντων, οἳ ἐπὶ τοῖς τρισὶ πτώμασιν ὁρίζουσι τὴν ἧτταν.

mvp-comment-234-1 πλανᾶται. αἱ μὲν γὰρ τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ φόνου πυνθάνονται, ὁ δὲ πρὸς τὸ πῶς“ „ξίφει" φησίν· ὡς τὸ μὴ δι᾿ ἐμὴν ἰότητα“ (Hom. O 42).

mvp-comment-235-1 τὸ ἀεὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἕως τάττουσιν Ἀττικοὶ πολλάκις. δεῦρο μέν μοι τόνδ᾽ αἰεὶ τείνει λόγον“ (Adesp. 148 N.). ἕως δεῦρο. τὴν πρᾶξιν.

mvp-comment-236-1 ἀν(τὶ) τοῦ ἴσως.

mvp-comment-237-1 ὡς ὑμᾶς (Herm. f. ὑμῖν) ἔπεμψεν ἡ μήτηρ, οὕτω βοηθοὺς κἀμοὶ πέμψει ὁ πατήρ.

mvp-comment-238-1 συντυχίας.

mvp-comment-239-1 πανούργως φασί, μὴ ἡμᾶς δίδασκε, ἀλλὰ τοὺς δικαστάς.

mvp-comment-240-1 ἐμὲ κἀκεῖνον ἠδίκησεν.

mvp-comment-241-1 πῶς οὖν λέγεις ὅτι ἠδίκησέ με; πῶς δὲ Ἀγαμέμνονα, ὅπου ἀπέθανεν δι᾽ αὐτόν (Linwood f. αὐτὴν)

mvp-comment-242-1 οὐκ εἰ τέθνηκεν, τούτου αἰτία εἶ σύ, (ἣ) ζῶσαν (Steph. u. a.; Μ πῶς ἂν) (οὐκ) ἐδίωκες· ὥστε οὐδὲ ἀποθανοῦσα διὰ τὴν σὴν αἰτίαν ἀπέθανεν.

mvp-comment-243-1 ἐγὼ οὖν ὅμαιμός εἰμι τῆι μητρί

mvp-comment-244-1 ἀπαρνῆι.

mvp-comment-245-1 ὡς ἀπορῶν τῆς ἀποκρίσεως. ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἦλθεν εἰς τὴν διάκρισιν τοῦ δικαίως ἢ μὴ ἀνηιρηκέναι τὴν μητέρα, ἐπὶ τὸν συμβουλεύσαντα θεὸν καταφεύγει. τραγικὸν οὖν καὶ πρέπον (Vict. f. τρέπον)· ὁμοειδές τε τὸ (αὐτὸν) πάντα λέγειν.

mvp-comment-246-1 τὸν Ἀρεοπαγιτικόν.

mvp-comment-247-1 ὥστε ἐμοὶ μὲν Ζείς, ἐγὼ δὲ τούτωι προσέταξα. οὐκ ἄνευ Διὸς οὖν τὸ γενόμενον.

mvp-comment-248-1 ἀντὶ τοῦ μάθε ὦ βουλή.

mvp-comment-249-1 κελεύω δὲ ὑμᾶς πεισθῆναι τῆι βουλῆι τοῦ Διός.

mvp-comment-250-1 ἐκδικήσαντα.

mvp-comment-251-1 συνεχὲς τὸ ὄνομα παρ᾽ Αἰσχύλωι, διὸ σκώπτει αὐτὸν Ἐπίχαρμος.

mvp-comment-252-1 βελτίονα πλεῖστα ηὐτυχηκότα ἀπὸ στρατείας.

mvp-comment-253-1 πυέλωι', τῆι ὡς σορῶι αὐτῶι γενομένηι. παρὰ τὴν δρῦν· ξύλιναι γὰρ αὗται. τῶν λουτρῶν δῆλον ὅτι.

mvp-comment-254-1 παρεσκήνησεν. πρὸς (d. i. τὸ Χ πρὸς, Weckl.) τὴν συναλοιφὴν (-λιφὴν Μ) τῆς περί καὶ τὴν συζυγίαν τοῦ ῥήματος. ἀτραχήλωι.

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

). 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-315-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 292

mvp-comment-315-2 αἰανή, διηνεκή Schol., verschieden von dem 419, 482 vorkommenden αἰανής. Vgl. αἰανῶς 675. Auch in einer Inschrift von Korkyra, welche Bruchstücke von Trimetern enthält (N. Rhein. Mus. Bd. 18, 1863 S. 554), findet sich sis τὸν αἰανῆ χρόνον.

mvp-comment-316-1 ¹

mvp-comment-316-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 293

mvp-comment-316-3 τούσδε, die Areopagiten. διαγνωσθῇ wie 712. Nach diesem Vers erwartet man einen Heroldsruf wie σίγα πᾶς ἔστω λεώς ( Eur. Hek. 532 ), einen Trompetenstofs, dann von Seite der Athena die Verkündigung des θεσμός d. h. die Stiftung des Blutgerichts (vgl. 617) mit der Bestimmung, dafs es auf dem " Ἄρειος πάγος seinen Sitz haben soll. Dieser Teil fehlt und dafür ist an ungeeigneter Stelle die Partie 684-713 mit dem einleitenden V. 681 interpoliert worden. Dem ursprünglichen Deouós könnten sehr gut die V. 684 f. und 707-709 angehört haben.

mvp-comment-317-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 293

mvp-comment-317-2 Apollon erscheint (von der linken Seite) und wird von den Erinyen (dem Koryphaios) mit heftigen Worten empfangen. — ὧν ἔχεις αὐτὸς (für dich allein, ungestort von anderen) κράτει (mafse dir nicht Fremdes an), eine Mahnung ähnlich wie τὰ σαυτοῦ πρᾶττε. Theokr. XV 90 πασάμενος ἐπίτασσε, Soph. Oed. K. 839 μὴ ἐπίτασσ᾽ μὴ κρατεῖς. ΟΙ α

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mvp-comment-318-3 καὶ μαρτυρήσων καὶ ξυνδικήσων (582).

mvp-comment-319-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 293

mvp-comment-319-2 δόμων ἐμῶν ἐφέστιος d. i. er hat sich in den Schutz meines Tempels begeben.

mvp-comment-320-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 293

mvp-comment-320-2 Schol. σύνδικοι λέγονται οἷς ἴσον μέτεστιν ἐν τῇ δίκῃ τῆς αἰτίας. Daher αὐτός. Eur. El. 1266 Λοξίας γὰρ αἰτίαν εἰς αὑτὸν οἴσει, μητέρος χρήσας φόνον.

mvp-comment-321-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 293

mvp-comment-321-2 εἰσάγειν wird gesagt von dem Vorstand des Gerichtshofs, wenn er nach der ἀνάκρισις (zu 400) die Sache den Richtern vorlegt. Demosth. 21, 47

.. δίκην d. i. entscheide endgültig die Sache nach bestem Wissen. Vgl. 642.

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mvp-comment-322-2 ὑμῶν, zu den Erinyen. ἐξ ἀρχῆς, vgl. Lys. 12, 3 πειράσομαι ὑμᾶς ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὡς ἂν δύνωμαι δι' ἐλαχίστων διδάξαι.

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mvp-comment-323-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 293

mvp-comment-323-2 Es sind unser zwar viele, aber jede wird sich kurz fassen." Daraus geht hervor, dafs die einzelnen Mitglieder des Chors sprechen, und so ergeben sich hier wie Ag. 1347-70 zwölf Chorpersonen.

mvp-comment-324-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 293

mvp-comment-324-2 D. i. ἀμείβου τιθεὶς ἐν μέρει ἔπος πρὸς ἔπος.

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mvp-comment-325-3 D. i. mit diesem Zugeständ- nis ist deine Sache schon fast verloren. Schol. ἡ μεταφορὰ δέ ἐστιν ἀπὸ τῶν παλαιόντων, οἳ ἐπὶ τοῖς τρισὶ πτώμασιν ὁρίζουσι τὴν ἧτταν. Vgl. zu Ag. 181 , Hom. Ψ 733 και νύ κε τὸ τρίτον αὖτις ἀναΐξαντε πάλαιον κτέ, Soph. frg. 678

; Plat. Phaedr. p. 256

Β τῶν τριῶν παλαισμάτων τῶν ὡς ἀληθῶς Ὀλυμπιακῶν ἓν νενικήκασιν

, Anthol. ΙΙ 1, 11 ἀνστὰς δ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισιν ἀνέκραγεν· οὐχὶ τρί᾽ ἐστίν· ἓν κείμαι, λοιπὸν τἄλλα μέ τις βαλέτω.

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mvp-comment-326-3 οὐ κειμένῳ πω, οὔπω κει μένῳ. Vgl. Prom. 527 .

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mvp-comment-327-4 Der Text kann kaum in OrdMan erwartet ξιφουλ nung sein. κὸν χεῖρα πρὸς δέρῃ βαλών oder ξιφουλκῷ προσβολή (Hinschlagen) δέρην τεμών. Das letztere ist wahrscheinlicher.

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mvp-comment-328-4 δεῦρο αἰεί (huc usque) wie Eur. Phoen. 1209

1663 δεῦρ᾽ ἀεὶ διήνυσε, Med. 670

ἄπαις γὰρ δεῦρ᾽ ἀεὶ τείνεις βίον

, Aristoph. Lys. 1135

δεῦρ᾽ ἀεὶ περαίνεται. τὴν τύχην

, dafs es so gekommen ist. φομαι: zu 1020. οὐ μέμ-

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mvp-comment-329-4 πέπισθι: diese Form findet sich nur hier. Vgl. ἐπέπιθμεν, οἶδα ἴσθι, δέδοικα δέδιχθι.

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mvp-comment-330-3 προσβολάς, Flecken von den μιάσματα, die an sie hingekommen. Vgl. Ag. 401 .

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mvp-comment-331-3 Schol. :

.

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mvp-comment-332-3 In Agamemnon hat sie sowohl ihren Gatten als meinen Vater getätet ( ἐμὲ κἀκεῖνον ἠδίκησεν).

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mvp-comment-333-3 Zum Lohn dafür hat sie, während du noch lebst, deine Schuld also noch nicht durch Tod gebüfst hast, durch ihr blutiges Ende ihre Schuld gesühnt. σὺ μὲν ζῆς ist dem Gedanken nach untergeordnet.

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mvp-comment-334-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 294

mvp-comment-334-3 Wie ich, lebte auch sie einmal, war also auch ihre Schuld ungesühnt. Warum hast du es mit ihr nicht so gehalten wie mit mir? Dir verdankt man es nicht, dafs ihre Schuld gesühnt ist. Vgl. 219 ff.

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mvp-comment-335-3 Vgl. 212.

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mvp-comment-336-3 ἐντὸς ζώνης: Cho.990

.

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mvp-comment-337-3 ἐξηγοῦ κτέ. steht als Erläuterung zu μαρτύρησον. Man darf also nicht mit O. Müller (Eumen. S.162.) aus ἐξηγοῦ schliefsen, dafs der Dichter dem Apollon das Amt eines ἐξηγητής ( τῶν πατρίων, τῶν ἱερῶν καὶ ὁσίων) gegeben habe.

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mvp-comment-338-4 δοκῶ scil. δρᾶσαι. Vgl. 471. δρᾶσαι τόδ' αἷμα wie Eur. Or. 406

, 284 εἴργασται δ᾽ ἐμοὶ μητρώον αἷμα, 1139 κακῆς γυναικὸς αἷμ᾽ ἐπράξαμεν.

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mvp-comment-339-4 λέγω .. δικαίως: aufgefordert zu sagen, ob mit Recht oder Unrecht, erkläre ich: mit Recht. Vgl. Enn. Eum. frg. III Id ego aecum fecisse expedibo atque eloquar. τόνδε .. Θεσμόν: der Rat ist die grofse Stiftung der Göttin. - Als Seher bin ich untrüglich. Vgl. Cho. 557

. Diese Beteuerung vertritt gleichsam den Zeugeneid.

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mvp-comment-340-4 Also stammt auch der Bescheid, den ich dem Orestes gegeben habe, von Zeus.

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mvp-comment-341-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 295

mvp-comment-341-3 τὸ δίκαιον τοῦτο, diese Erklärung, dafs es δικαίως geschehen, diese Rechtfertigung. Ζη μαθεῖν gehört auch πιφαύσκω ὄμμε. - Über die Stellung von δέ zu Ag. 744 . Die epische ( Hom. Λ 781 κελεύων ὄμμ᾽ ἅμ᾽ ἕπεσθαι) und lyrische Form vuus findet sich auch Soph. Ant. 846 in einer melischen Partie. Vgl. ἄμμι Sept. 141 .

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mvp-comment-342-3 Nach dem Gesetz, auf welches ihr beeidigt seid, müfst ihr ihn als Mörder verurteilen; der Umstand aber, dafs er in meinem Auftrag d. h. im Auftrage des Zeus gehandelt hat, nimmt alle moralische Schuld von ihm.

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mvp-comment-343-3 ὡς λέγεις σύ, wie du sagen willst d. i. wenn ich deine Worte recht verstehe.

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mvp-comment-344-3 Der Spruch konnte nur lauten τὸν πατρὸς φόνον πρᾶξαι. Mit πράξαντα . . νέμειν hebt sie das Widerrechtliche hervor. μητρὸς τιμὰς νέμειν wie Soph. Trach. 56 εἰ πατρὸς νέμοι τιν᾽ ὤραν.

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mvp-comment-345-3 ἄνδρα . . θανεῖν: das durch ταὐτόν ἐστι geforderte καὶ γυναῖκα ergänzt sich von selbst.

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mvp-comment-346-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 295

mvp-comment-346-3 διοσδότοις σκήπτροισι nach Hom. B 100 ff.

mvp-comment-347-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 296

mvp-comment-347-2 Cho. 344 f. Nicht auf ehrenvolle Weise wurde er durch ein Weib getötet, etwa in der Schlacht durch die Pfeile einer Amazone, sondern auf ganz niederträchtige Art, die du vernehmen sollst.

mvp-comment-348-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 296

mvp-comment-348-2 ἐφήμενοι διαιρεῖν: zu 491.

mvp-comment-349-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 296

mvp-comment-349-2 Hesych. ἐμπολῇ· περιέρ χεται, πραγματεύεται. Soph. Ai. 978

; (s. v. a. πέπραγας). Schol. πλεῖστα ηὐτυχηκότα, rebus plerisque bene gestis (Stanley). Vgl. Anbang. – Zu εὔφροσιν vermifst man ein Substantiv wie λόγοις (gemeint ist die Begrüfsung Ag. 846 f.), zu δροίτῃ περῶντι λουτρά fehlt das Verbum. Es könnte etwa geheifsen haben: λόγοις ὀρέξουσ᾽ ὠλένην ἐχρίμπτετο, so dafs δροίτῃ von ἐχρίμπτετο (sie stand an der Badewanne), περῶντι λουτρά von ὀρέξουσ᾽ ὠλένην (scheinbar um ihm den Arm zu reichen, wenn er aus dem Bade stiege) abhängig wäre. ἐπὶ τέρματι, am Ende.

mvp-comment-350-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 296

mvp-comment-350-2 περεσκήνωσεν: zu Ag. 1144 . ἀτέρμονι wie Ag. 1381

.

mvp-sidgwick-266-1-1 The MSS. read τόνδ' or τῶνδ': the pronoun must be plural, for it must mean the Areopagitae (as Schol. explains it): to take it singular for Orestes makes no real sense with the rest of the line. The gen. is the difficulty, and perhaps points to a lost line as H. Weil. think: but on the whole it is best to read τούσδ' and to suppose τῶνδ' a blunder possibly due to καταγνωσθῇ, which in another sense ( to decide against) often takes gen.

ὧν ἔχεις αὐτὸς κράτει , rule thou thine own domain, like the proverbial τὴν σαυτοῦ πάτει, i. e. mind your own business.

mvp-sidgwick-268-1-1 MSS. end the line δόμων, which with δόμων next line is intolerable. I take νόμῳ, correction of Erf. and Burgess, and approved by H.

σύνδικος is an advocate. Apollo says he will be Orestes' advocate, as he is responsible for the murder.

κυροῦν , usually to confirm, here in the rather unusual sense of to settle, as below again l. 639

.

mvp-sidgwick-271-1-1 This is already one of the three wrestling-falls, alluding to the custom of deciding the wrestling combat by three falls: when a man was defeated thrice, he was beaten. So

Eur. Or. 434 , and the word

τριακτήρ

Ag. 171 for a conqueror, lit. one who throws thrice.

γε μέντοι , as usual, adversative, however.

mvp-sidgwick-273-1-1 No need to alter λέγω (Μ. P. A.) into λέξω. The vivid present is natural enough.

πρὸς τοῦ , by whom, common variation in poetry for ὑπό. So we find ἐκ, ἀπό, παρά, with gen. of agent. See 100.

mvp-sidgwick-275-1-1 The γε, as usual, assenting and adding a further point: ay, and till now I do not complain of my lot: i. e. not literally that he had not suffered, but that Apollo had helped him.

πέπεισθι , exceptional reduplicated aorist imperative with intransitive meaning: trust now in the dead. The form somewhat resembles the Epic κέκλυθι, τέτλαθι, and κέκραχθι (Ach. 335); but has the heavier stem-form.

mvp-sidgwick-276-2-1 The Chorus speak of course with bitter irony.

mvp-sidgwick-277-1-1 Schol. takes προσβολάς as the meeting of two pollutions, but there is no need to take it as different from its ordinary meaning, a putting or rubbing or striking of one thing against another: the pollutions strike her, not each other. So it is used, Ag. 391 , of rubbing metal against a touchstone: Cho. 283 of attacks of Furies-

mvp-sidgwick-278-1-1 The δέ-clause contains the real predicate as often; the μὲν-clause points the antithesis: Therefore while thou livest [unpurged] she is free by her death.

mvp-sidgwick-279-1-1 An extreme instance of the sharp distinction felt ( l. 212

) by the Greeks between murdering a blood-relation and an outsider. The wife not being a blood-relation was, according to the doctrine of the Eumenides here put forward, not liable to their pursuit for slaying her husband. The doctrine however fluctuates: in Cho. 923-4 Klyt. tries to deter Orestes by the threat that her Furies (ἐγκότους κύνας) will pursue him if he slays her, but he replies τὰς τοῦ πατρὸς δὲ πῶς φύγω παρεὶς τάδε; and in Sophokles, Elektra 112, the daughter prays the dread divine Erinyes to avenge her father's murder; and the Chorus (490) prophesy that with the tramp of many feet, and the might of many hands, the brazen῏footed Erinyes shall come.

mvp-sidgwick-280-1-1 The bearing of this question is explained below l. 660

, when Apollo lays down the principle that the real parent is the father.

ὥσπερ ἐστίν , i. e. as done it is.

θεσμόν , ordinance, means here (as in l. 484

) the court of Areiopagos; and so the Scholiast explains it. It is therefore in apposition to ὑμᾶς.

μή . generic, with the indef. opt. κελεύσαι: nothing which Zeus bade not, nothing save what Zeus bade.

πιφαύσκω , I bid : nearly all the words of speaking can be so used, λέγω, εἶπον, etc. The displacement of the δέ is common.

ὔμμε , Aeolic form of ὑμᾶς found several times in Homer. So

Theb. 156 ,

ὔμμε

Antig. 846 , both however in lyric passages.

mvp-sidgwick-284-3-1 [There is no need of alterations, as Hartung thinks.]

mvp-sidgwick-285-1-1 i.e. follow Zeus' will [even if you think it unjust]: for no oath [such as you swore, l. 489

, to do justice] is stronger than Zeus.

πράξαντα , prop. exacting, a favourite word of Aeschylus, often for avenging: ἀτίμωσιν πρασσομένα, avenging the dishonour, Ag. 705 ,

ib. 111 . See Eum. 319.

mvp-sidgwick-287-1-1 Here and l. 657

Apollo acts in the character of the ἐξηγητής or expounder of the law, usually consulted about ancient or sacred customs. See Introd. p. 16.

mvp-sidgwick-288-1-1 Schol. tells us that Epicharmos (comic poet 540-450, who knew Aeschylus and lived with him some time at the court of Hiero) criticised him for his fondness for this word τιμαλφεῖν.

ὥστε , Epic, common in Trag. for ὡς.

mvp-sidgwick-290-1-1 A passage of well-known difficulty. The MSS. reading (with slight corrections, see critical notes) is substantially the following:

which it is possible to translate, as follows:

For him from the wars (returning) having dealt

In most things prosperously, she welcomed with kindly words,

And over the bath, as he stepped from the water, and on the edge,

She threw a cloak for covering, and entangling her lord

In a broidered robe inextricable, she smote him...

This makes good sense, and is in substance no doubt what the poet meant. But several things are at least suspicious: ἠμποληκότα τὰ πλεῖστ᾽ ἄμειvov is a harsh phrase, even if we justify the rather flat τὰ πλεῖστα and the comparative ἄμειvov by supposing an intentional understatement: εὔφροσιν without substantive is very harsh, and is hardly supported by the Homeric κερτομίοισιν and μειλιχίοισιν which are special idioms: δροίτῃ governed by παρεσκήνωσε, and λουτρά separate from it, is clumsy: κἀπὶ τέρματι is not smooth, and is suspiciously like ἀτέρμονι in the line below: finally most of the MSS. and Schol. read περεσκήνωσεν, for περιεσ-, unexampled in Attic. Corruption is almost certain: but as sense can be made, and no suggestions are really satisfactory¹, it is best to leave it.