Aeschylus Eumenides 1025-1026.app-1025-1026-1

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Eumenides. Aeschylus. ed. Gottfried Hermann. Lipsiae. 1852.

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

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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.)

929. κατανασσαμένη , middle, housing in my city. 11. 932, 933. The MSS. read

ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων
οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου.
Now τούτων here must refer to the Furies, as αὗται above and τάσδε below: and consequently βαρέων must be wrong, as (1) it is the wrong gender: (2) even if we suppose (with D.) a fem. form βαρεῶν, it clearly is the wrong sense. What Aeschylus means to say is, He who incurs the wrath of the Furies meets with unexpected calamity: the sins of his fathers bring him into their power.

964. ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous .

1025. ὄμμα , idiomatic metaphor for delight, hope, comfort, somewhat as we say the flower, using a different metaphor. The eye is chosen as the most precious and beautiful : so ὄμμα γὰρ δύμων νομίζω δεσπότου παρουσίαν Pers. 169, σέβειν ὀμμάτων ὑπέρτερον 1 Theb. 530, ὀφθαλμὸς οἴκων Cho. 934, ὀφθαλμὸς Σικελίας Pind. Ol. 2 18, etc.

1026. Theseus , mythical king of Athens; Theseidae, common poetic name for Athenian.

1034. παῖδες ἄπαιδες , the MSS. reading, could hardly mean childless children, which seems pointless: it might mean evil children, like vᾶes ἄναες: but the real objection to any such word as ἄπαιδες is that here the words in which the Chorus are addressed are specially reverent and honourable. It is best to reject it and then we get rid also of τύχᾳ τε, meaningless and unmetrical, at the end of 1. 1037.

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

mvp-comment-767-1 Θησῇδος Wakefieldius et Porsonus.

Θησηίδος
M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Τurn.
Θρησηΐδος
Ven. Flor.

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-536-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 321

mvp-comment-536-2 uua: zu Cho. 933 .,,Denn als köstlichster Schmuck des ganzen Theseuslandes dürfte ihre edle Schar gelangen zu dem ihnen bestimmten Wohnsitze, wo sie, die nunmehr Eumeniden heifsen sollen, ehren werden Prozessionen von Männern, Kindern, Frauen und der Zug von Greisinnen mit Purpurkleidern festlich angethan." Dieses ungefähr mufs der Inhalt der ausgefallenen Verse gewesen sein nach der Hypothesis und nach Harpokr. unter Eumenides :

Αἰσχύλος ἐν Εὐμε νίσιν εἰπὼν τὰ περὶ τὴν κρίσιν τὴν Ὀρέστου φησὶν ὡς ἡ Ἀθηνᾷ πραΰνασα τὰς Ἐρινύας ὥστε μὴ χαλεπῶς ἔχειν [πρὸς τὸν Ὀρέστην] Εὐμενίδας ὠνόμασεν
. – Das durch den Potentialis ἐξίκοιτ᾽ ἄν angegezeigte Verhältnis bezieht sich auf ὄμμα: denn der köstlichste Schmuck des Landes dürfte die Schar sein, wenn sie hier Wohnung genommen hat."-Zu der Beziehung von παίδων πρεσβυτίδων vgl. 858. ἐνδυτῶν ἐσθήμασι wie Eur. Ion 224
σέμμασι γ᾽ ἐνδυτόν
. Über die Prozession, welche den Semnen in Athen veranstaltet wurde, Einl. S. 12.

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

ὄμμα , idiomatic metaphor for delight, hope, comfort, somewhat as we say the flower, using a different metaphor. The eye is chosen as the most precious and beautiful : so

ὄμμα γὰρ δύμων νομίζω δεσπότου παρουσίαν
Pers. 169 , σέβειν ὀμμάτων ὑπέρτερον 1 Theb. 530 ,
ὀφθαλμὸς οἴκων
Cho. 934 , ὀφθαλμὸς Σικελίας Pind. Ol. 2 18, etc.

Theseus , mythical king of Athens; Theseidae, common poetic name for Athenian.