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Eumenides. Aeschylus. Gottfried Hermann (Editor). Lipsiae. 1852.

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Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) (Greek) (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1021-1031 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 1021-1031 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 1021 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1021 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1021 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 1021 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1021 focus
αἰνῶ τε μύθους τῶνδε τῶν κατευγμάτων,
πέμψω τε φέγγει λαμπάδων σελασφόρων
εἰς τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κάτω χθονὸς τόπους
ξὺν προσπόλοισιν, αἵτε φρουροῦσιν βρέτας
1025
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1021 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1021 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 1021 focus
αἰνῶ τε μύθους τῶνδε τῶν κατευγμάτων,
πέμψω τε φέγγει λαμπάδων σελασφόρων
εἰς τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κάτω χθονὸς τόπους,
975
ξὺν προσπόλοισιν αἵτε φρουροῦσιν βρέτας
τοὐμὸν δικαίως. ὄμμα γὰρ πάσης χθονὸς
Θησῇδος ἐξίκοιτ᾽ ἂν, εὐκλεὴς λόχος
παίδων, γυναικῶν, καὶ στόλος πρεσβυτίδων
φοινικοβάπτοις ἐνδυτοῖς ἐσθήμασι.
980
τιμᾶτε, καὶ τὸ φέγγος ὁρμάσθω πυρὸς,
ὅπως ἂν εὔφρων ἥδ᾽ ὁμιλία χθονὸς
τὸ λοιπὸν εὐάνδροισι συμφοραῖς πρέπῃ.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 1021 focus
αἰνῶ τε μύθους τῶνδε τῶν κατευγμάτων
πέμψω τε φέγγει λαμπάδων σελασφόρων
ἐς τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κατὰ χθονὸς τόπους
ξὺμ προσπόλοισιν, αἵτε φρουροῦσιν βρέτας
τοὐμὸν δικαίως. ὄμμα γὰρ πάσης χθονὸς
1025
Θησῆιδος ἐξίκοιτ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεὴς λόχος
παίδων, γυναικῶν, καὶ στόλος πρεσβυτίδων.
φοινικοβάπτοις ἐνδυτοῖς ἐσθήμασι
τιμᾶτε, καὶ τὸ φέγγος ὁρμάσθω πυρός,
ὅπως ἂν εὔφρων ἦδ᾽ ὁμιλία χθονὸς
1030
τὸ λοιπὸν εὐάνδροισι συμφοραῖς πρέπηι.
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.)) — 1021-1030 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1021 focus
I approve the words of these your vows, and I will send the light of blazing torches to the infernal and nether regions, with ministers who guard my image justly. For let the eye of all the land of Theseus come forth, an illustrious band of youths, women, and a train of aged women; and clothed in purple-dyed garments honour 4
[these deities,] and let the light of the torches flash forth: that new fellowship received into your land hereafter, may show their good will by events that prosper men.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1021 focus
Déjà
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1021 focus
I like theſe votive meaſures; and will ſend
1155
The bright flames of theſe ſplendor-ſhedding
torches,
With thoſe that guard my hallow'd image here,
Attendant
Attendant on you to the dark abodes
1160
Beneath the earth. And let th' Athenian train,
The grace, the glory of the wide-ſtretch'd world,
Their manly youth, their virgins' roſeate bloom,
And their age-honour'd matrons, now advance,
Array'd in richeſt veſture darting round
1165
Its vermeil-tinctur'd radiance; let the torches
Blaze, that this ſable troop thro' future times
May ſhine conſpicuous for their friendly aid.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1021 focus
Di questi voti io godo, ed al fulgore
v'invierò di scintillanti fiaccole
sottesso il suolo, in sotterranei lochi,
e le ministre mie guida vi siano
1070
che santamente l'idol mio tutelano.
Compagna avrete un'onorata schiera,
del suolo di Teseo viva pupilla,
di fanciulle, di donne e di vegliarde,
tutte velate di purpurei manti.
1075
Movete! E il fuoco ed il baglior proceda,
sí che felice questa patria schiera
sempre per fausta sorte insigne vada.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1021 focus
Probo ſermones harum precationum,
Mittámq; lucem lampadum luciſtrorum,
Ad ſubterraneos locos,
955
Cum famulabus, quæ cuſtodient statua
Meam iuſtè. oculus omnis terræ
Theſeidis exeat. charum agmen,
Puerorum, mulierum & uetularum claſsis
Puniceo tinctis indutis uestimentis
960
Honorate & lux impetum faciat ignis,
Vt læta ſit congregatio terræ.
Reliquum bonorum uirorum utilitate ornetur.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1021 focus
Habt Dank für all' den Segen, den ihr uns verheiſst.
Jetzt will ich bei des Fackellichtes Flimmerschein
hinab euch zu den Schlüften in der Erde Schoſs
geleiten mit den Dienerinnen, die mein Bild
1025 zu warten haben. So ist's würdig; denn der Stolz
des ganzen Theseuslandes soll in unsern Zug
1027 eintreten, Frau'n und Mädchen aus erlauchtem Haus,
und würdevoller greiser Priesterinnen Schar.
Aus ihnen kür' ich eurer Höhle Hüterin,
die still und fromm der Hehren stille Weihen übt,
der Holden: hold geworden ist die Rächerin,
der Urnacht grimme Tochter, meinem Volk versöhnt,
drum geb' ich diesen Namen ihr für alle Zeit.
Nun laſst uns gehn, und wie wir das Versöhnungsfest
aus treuem Herzen heut begeh'n, so sei's hinfort
gefeiert zum Gedächtnis. Nie vergiſs, mein Volk,
was du den Holden schuldest. Lämmerblut und Trank
1028 weinloser Spenden bringst du dar und Purpurpracht
langwallender Gewande, und der Fackelglanz
1030 lod're dazu, auf daſs die holdgesinnte Schar
Athenas Bürger blühen lass' in Ewigkeit.
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.) — 1021 focus
Once more I praise the promise of your vows,
And now I bid the golden torches' glow
Pass down before you to the hidden depth
Of earth, by mine own sacred servants borne,
My loyal guards of statue and of shrine.
1180
Come forth, O flower of Theseus' Attic land,
O glorious band of children and of wives,
And ye, O train of matrons crowned with eld!
Deck you with festal robes of scarlet dye
In honour of this day: O gleaming torch,
1185
Lead onward, that these gracious powers of earth
Henceforth be seen to bless the life of men.
[ Athena leads the procession downwards into the Cave of the Furies, under Areopagus: as they go, the escort of women and children chant aloud.
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.) — 1021 focus
Ich danke dir für deines Segens holdes Wort,
Und will im hellen Strahlenglanz der Fackeln dich
975
Zum finstern Haus geleiten, nach der Erde Schooß,
Sammt meinen Dienerinnen, die in treuer Hut
Mein Bild bewahren. Trete denn hervor der Stolz
Des ganzen Theseuslandes, eine fromme Schaar
Von Kindern, Frauen, und ein Zug von Greisinnen!
980
Von purpurheller Festgewande Schmuck umhüllt,
Verehrt der Eumeniden Macht, dies sei hinfort
Ihr Name, - lichter Fackeln Glanz erhebe sich,
Daß diese Mitherrinnen eures Landes hold
Und gnädig fortan schaffen an der Männer Glück!
985
(Athene mit ihren Priesterinnen steigt in die Orchestra hinab. Ihr folgen die Richter, die den Zug der Eumeniden führen, und ein zahlreiches Gefolge von Athenern und Athenerinnen.)
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 .

1006. ὑπό . of accompaniment, with, a special idiom either gen. or dat.: καταθάψομεν οὐχ ὑπὸ κλαυθμῶν Ag. 1554, κηρύκων ὕπο Suppl. 238, μαρτύρων ὕπο ib. 934, ὑπὸ πομπαῖς Pers. 58, and below 1. 1034.

1008. κατέχειν , check : the genitives χώρας and πόλεως are best taken as possessives after the substantival neuter adjectives τὸ ἀτηρόν and τὸ κερδαλέον.

1010. πολισσοῦχοι , see note on 1. 775.

1011. μετοίκοις , ‘newcomers;' the μέτοικοι at Athens being the resident aliens, the word is admirably fit for the Eumenides who were foes, but are newly settled at Athens as friendly powers. Κραναός: the word means rocky and was a favourite name of Athens, Κραναὰ πόλις or Κρανααί, from Pindar's time down (Ol. 7. 151): here it denotes a mythical king or founder, naturally derived from the common title.

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-754-1 χαίρετε χἠμεῖς:

χαίρετε δ' ὑμεῖς
Ven. Flor. Farn. προτέραν:
ποτέραν
Ven. Flor. δ᾽ ἐμὲ Porsonus. Libri
δέ με
.

mvp-comment-755-1 Post ἀποδείξουσαν vulgo interpungitur.

mvp-comment-756-1 προπομπῶν Bentleius in Resp. ad Boylium p. 79.

πρόπομπον
M. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob. Τurn.
προπομπών
scripsit Victorius. Non praeit in pompa Minerva, ut Müllero visum est, sed
προτέρα στείχει
, i. e. abit de scena ante pompam. Ideo
χαίρετε
dicit. V. Opusc. VI. 2. p. 121. Sed paene non dubito quin inserta v. 987. post
φῶς
copula ita haec scribenda sint,
χαίρετε χἐμεῖς (προτέραν δ' ἐμὲ χρὴ στείχειν θαλάμους ἀποδείξουσαν), πρὸς φῶς θὰ ἱερὸν τῶνδε προπομπῶν ἴτε, καὶ σφαγίων
etc.

mvp-comment-757-1 ὑπὸ σεμνῶν:

ὑποσεμνῶν
G.

mvp-comment-758-1 σύμεναι:

σύμμεναι
G. Ald.
δύμεναι
Turn. ἀτηρὸν Bentleius. Libri
ἀτήριον
.

mvp-comment-759-1 ὑμεῖς δ᾽ Turn.

ἡμεῖς δ'
M. Par. G. Flor. Rob. Ald. et, ut Franzius ait, Ven.

mvp-comment-760-1 μετοίκοις Turn.

μέτοικοι
M. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob.

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

mvp-comment-300-1 προτέραν στείχειν] Athena now announces her intention of heading a procession of citizens to escort the Furies with lighted torches to their shrine under the Areopagus. She repeats this at v. 976, as the procession begins to move. Compare Pers. ult. πέμψω τοί σε δυσθρόοις γόοις. There is probably an allusion to the citizens in holiday attire attending the Panathenaic πομπή.

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-487-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

mvp-comment-487-2 Kommos. Der Chor erfleht oder weissagt alles Gute (Wachstum und Gedeihen der Früchte und Herden Gesundheit des Volkes und bürgerliche Eintracht Wohlwollen und Segen der Götter) für Athen und wird darob von Athena belobt und geehrt. · ξυνοικίαν: zu 836.

mvp-comment-526-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319

mvp-comment-526-2 Vgl. 1024, 1037, Paus. I 28, 6

πλησίον δὲ (τοῦ ᾿Αρείου πάγου) ἱερὸν θεῶν ἐστιν ἃς καλοῦσιν ᾿Αθηναῖοι Σεμνάς, Ἡσίοδος δὲ Ἐρινῆς ἐν Θεογονία,
Schol. zu Thuk. I 126
τῶν σεμνῶν θεῶν, τῶν Ἐρινύων, κατ᾿ ἀντίφρασιν· ἃς μετὰ τὸν Ὀρέ στην οἱ Αθηναῖοι πλησίον τοῦ ᾿Αρείου πάγου ἱδρύσαντο
, Eur. El. 1270 δειναὶ μὲν οὖν θεαὶ τῷδ᾽ ἄχει πεπληγ μέναι πάγον παρ' αὐτὸν χάσμα δύσονται χθονός, σεμνὸν βροτοῖσιν εὐσεβὲς χρηστήριον. Aus dieser Stelle und aus Valer. Max. V 3, 3 Oedipodis ossa . . inter ipsum Areopagum et excelsis praesidiis Minervae arcem honore arae decorata verglichen mit Paus. I 28, 7 ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐντὸς τοῦ περιβόλου μνῆμα Οἰδίποδος ergiebt sich, dafs das Eumenidenheiligtum in der Ein- sattelung zwischen Akropolis und Areopag und zwar hart an dem letzteren lag und dafs sich eine Erdspalte, vermutlich das ἄδυτον des Heiligtums, dabei befand. Die Fläche, auf der sich jetzt die Ruinen der Kirche des heil. Dionysius befinden, liegt erheblich höher als die Agora und die Terrasse, auf welcher die Kapelle des heil. Athanasius steht. Der Areopag bildet dort, bevor er in einer nach Osten vorspringenden Ecke abschliefst, eine knieförmige Krümmung. Die nach Westen blickende Wand ist senkrecht bearbeitet, südlich stehen Reste von den Mauern der Kirche. Zwischen diesen und der kompakten Felsmasse liegen gewaltige Felsblöcke wild durcheinander, unter denen jetzt, durch äppige Schlingpflanzen verkleidet, sich eine tiefe Felsspalte öffnet; im innersten Winkel der letzteren quillt Wasser (Köhler Hermes VI S. 101). αϊδε

mvp-comment-527-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 320

mvp-comment-527-2 πρὸς φῶς wie 247 πρὸς alua, eigentlich „hinblickend auf“. Vgl. Cho. 903 , Prom. 1032 . προπομποί: der Nebenchor ( παραχορήγημα) der Tempeldienerinnen (1025), welche Fackeln tragen, muls kurz zuvor aus dem Tempel getreten sein.

mvp-comment-528-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 320

mvp-comment-528-2 Pers. 225

αὐτοῦ τάδε σὸν πόσιν Δαρεῖον ἐσθλά σοι πέμπειν τέκνῳ τε γῆς ἔνερθεν ἐς φάος, τἄμπαλιν δὲ τῶνδε γαίᾳ κάτοχα μαυροῦσθαι σκότω
. Die Infin. κατέχειν und πέμπειν stehen imperativisch.

mvp-comment-529-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 320

mvp-comment-529-2 vµɛis, zu den Areopagiten. παῖδες Κραναοῦ: Kranaos, der Heros eponymos der Kranaer, wurde als ein alter König von Attika betrachtet (marm. Par. ep. 6. 7. 8, Apollod. III 14, 5 , Strabon IX p. 397 , Paus. I 2, 6 ). Herod. VIII 44

᾿Αθηναῖοι ἐπὶ Πελασγῶν ἐχόντων τὴν νῦν Ελλάδα καλεομένην ἦσαν Πελασγοί, ὀνομαζόμενοι Κραναοί
. Vgl. Pind. Ol. VII 82 κρανααῖς ἐν Ἀθάναις, Aristoph. Ach. 75 ὦ Κραναὰ πόλις, Lys. 480 τὴν Κραναάν, Vö. 123 μείζω τῶν Κραναῶν ζητεῖς πόλιν; Man bezieht wohl mit Recht das Epitheton κραναή auf die felsigen Hügel, auf denen die ersten Bewohner des Landes (die Pelasger) sich ansiedelten, die deshalb den Namen Κραναοί erhielten. Vgl. Wachsmuth, Stadt Athen im Alt. I S. 429 ff.

mvp-comment-530-1 1

mvp-comment-530-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 320

mvp-comment-530-3 Guter Sinn zu guten Thaten. Vgl. Aristoph. Frö. 1530 tỷ δὲ πόλει (scil. δότε) μεγάλων ἀγα θῶν ἀγαθὰς ἐπινοίας und dazu die vorhergehenden Worte des Pluton προπέμπετε τοῖσιν τούτου τοῦτον μέλεσιν καὶ μολπαῖσιν κελαδοῦντες.

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

ὑπό . of accompaniment, with, a special idiom either gen. or dat.:

καταθάψομεν οὐχ ὑπὸ κλαυθμῶν
Ag. 1554 ,
κηρύκων ὕπο
Suppl. 238 ,
μαρτύρων ὕπο
ib. 934 ,
ὑπὸ πομπαῖς
Pers. 58 , and below l. 1034
.

mvp-sidgwick-459-1-1 See note on l. 805

.

κατέχειν , check : the genitives χώρας and πόλεως are best taken as possessives after the substantival neuter adjectives τὸ ἀτηρόν and τὸ κερδαλέον.

πολισσοῦχοι , see note on l. 775

.

μετοίκοις , newcomers; the μέτοικοι at Athens being the resident aliens, the word is admirably fit for the Eumenides who were foes, but are newly settled at Athens as friendly powers. Κραναός: the word means rocky and was a favourite name of Athens, Κραναὰ πόλις or Κρανααί, from Pindar's time down (Ol. 7. 151): here it denotes a mythical king or founder, naturally derived from the common title.