Aeschylus Eumenides 558

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καλεῖ δ᾽ ἀκούοντας οὐ
δὲν ἐν μέσᾳ δυςπαλεῖ τε δίνᾳ·
γελᾷ δὲ δαίμων ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ θερμῷ,
τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντ' ἰδὼν ἀμαχάνοις δύαις
550
λαπαδνόν, οὐδ᾽ ὑπερθέοντ᾽ ἄκραν
δι' αἰῶνος δὲ τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον
ἕρματι προςβαλὼν δίκας
ὤλετ' άκλαυστος, αἴστος.

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

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Editions (11)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 566-777 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 566-777 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 558 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 558 focus
καλεῖ δ᾽ ἀκούοντας οὐδὲν ἐν μέσᾳ δυσπαλεῖ τε
δίνᾳ·
γελᾷ δὲ δαίμων ἐπ᾿ ἀνδρὶ θερμῷ,
560
τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντ᾿ ἰδὼν ἀμαχάνοις
δύαις λαπαδνὸν οὐδ᾽ ὑπερθέοντ᾽ ἄκραν·
δι' αἰῶνος δὲ τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον
ἕρματι προσβαλὼν δίκας ὤλετ᾽ ἄκλαυτος, ἀ-
στος.
565
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 558 focus
Καλεῖ δ' ἀκούοντας οὐδὲν (ἐν) οὐδέν· μέσᾳ
δυσπαλεῖ τε δυσπαλεῖται δίνᾳ·
555
γελᾷ δὲ δαίμων ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ θερμῷ θερμουργῷ θερμοεργῷ,
τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντ' ἰδὼν ἀμηχάνοις
δύαις λαπαδνὸν λέπαδνον οὐδ᾽ ὑπερθέοντ᾽ ἄκραν·
δι' αἰῶνος δὲ τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον
ἕρματι προσβαλὼν Δίκας
560
ὤλετ᾽ ἄκλαυτος ἄκλαυστος, ᾆστος ἄιστος.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 558 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 558 focus
καλεῖ δ᾽ ἀκούοντας οὐ-
δὲν ἐν μέσῳ δυσπαλεῖ τε δίνᾳ·
γελᾷ δὲ δαίμων ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ θερμῷ,
τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντ᾿ ἰδὼν ἀμηχάνοις
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 558 focus
καλεῖ δ᾽ ἀκούοντας οὐδὲν ⟨ἐν⟩ μέσαι
δυσπαλεῖ τε δίναι·
γελᾶι δὲ δαίμων ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ θερμῶι,
560
τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντ᾽ ἰδὼν ἀμηχάνοις
δύαις λαπαδνὸν οὐδ᾽ ὑπερθέοντ᾽ ἄκραν·
δι᾽ αἰῶνος δὲ τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον
ἕρματι προσβαλὼν Δίκας
ὤλετ᾽ ἄκλαυτος αἴστος.
565
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 558 focus
καλεῖ $\delta^{7}$ ἀκούοντας οὐδὲν (ἐν) μέσαι
δυσπαλεῖ τε δίναι·
γελᾶι δὲ δαίμων $\hat{\epsilon}\pi^{2}$ ἀνδρὶ θερμῶι,
τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντ᾿ ἰδὼν ἀμηχάνοις
560
δύαις λαπαδνὸν οὐδ᾽ ὑπερθέοντ᾽ ἄκραν·
$\delta\iota^{2}$ αἰῶνος δὲ τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον
ἕρματι προσβαλὼν δίκας ὤλετ᾽ ἄκλαυτος ἄιστος. =
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 558 focus
καλεῖ δ᾽ ἀκούοντας οὐδὲν, ἐν μέσᾳ ἀντ. δ΄.
δυσπαλεῖ τε δίνᾳ·
γελᾷ δὲ δαίμων ἐπ᾿ ἀνδρὶ θερμῷ,
530
τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντ᾿ ἰδὼν ἀμαχάνοις δύαις
λαπαδνὸν, οὐδ᾽ ὑπερθέοντ᾽ ἄκραν·
δι᾽ αἰῶνος δὲ, τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον
ἕρματι προσβαλὼν δίκας,
ὤλετ᾿ ἄκλαυστος, αἴστος.
535
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 558 focus
καλεῖ δ᾽ ἀκούοντας οὐ-
δὲν (ἐν) μέσᾶι δυσπαλεῖ τε δίνᾶι·
ἀντ. δ
γελᾶι δὲ δαίμων ἐπ᾿ ἀνδρὶ θερμῶι,
560
τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντ᾿ ἰδὼν ἀμαχάνοις
δύαις λαπαδνὸν οὐδ᾽ ὑπερθέοντ᾽ ἄκραν·
δι᾽ αἰῶνος δὲ τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον
έρματι προσβαλὼν δίκας ὤλετ᾿ ἄκλαυτος, αἶστος.
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.)) — 566-775 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 558 focus
And he invokes those who listen not, in the midst of an uncon- qucrable whirlpool; but the deity laughs at the bold man, beholding him, no longer boasting, bound in calamity from which is no escape, nor surmounting the summit: but having dashed his former prosperity on the rock of Justice, unwept, unknown, he is for ever lost.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 558 focus
en dépit de la Justice, un beau
jour, j'en réponds, se verra forcé d'amener sa voile, quand l'angoisse le saisira devant l'antenne qui se brise. Il appelle — sans qu'on l'écoute dans l'étreinte du
tourbillon irrésistible. Et le Ciel rit
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 558 focus
Wild with deſpair
610
He pours his pray'r,
Whirl'd in the giddy tempeſt round;
His blaſted pride
The Gods deride,
And all his daring hopes confound;
615
Smile, as they view him rack'd with pain
Bound in misfortune's iron chain;
As on the pointed rock they ſee him thrown,
To periſh there unpitied and alone.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 558 focus
il destinato giorno.
580
Dunque, rispetta chi luce ti diede;
e se giunge al tuo tetto
a rifugiarsi un ospite,
abbi di lui rispetto.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 558 focus
Vocat nihil audientes
Mediæ malæ ſorte.
Ridet dæmon hominem inconſideratum.
525
Hunc nunquam iactantem uidens impotentibus
Pœnis uinculum,
Neq; ſuper exiſtentem faſtigium
In uita priore felicitate anchoræ iuſticiæ proijciens.
Perijt imploratus perditus.
530
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 558 focus
und reiſst ihn fort. Da ruft er laut.
Doch taub sind ihm die Götter.
560 Die Hölle lacht des heiſsen Menschentrotzes,
der solches nimmer sich versah.
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.) — 558 focus
And call on Powers, that heed him nought, to save,
And vainly wrestle with the whirling wave.
Hot was his heart with pride—
645
I shall not fall, he cried.
But him with watching scorn
The god beholds, forlorn,
Tangled in toils of Fate beyond escape,
Hopeless of haven safe beyond the cape—
650
Till all his wealth and bliss of bygone day
Upon the reef of Rightful Doom is hurled,
And he is rapt away
Unwept, for ever, to the dead forgotten world.
[ Re-enter Athena, with twelve Athenian citizens.
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.) — 558 focus
Er ruft (kein Ohr hört ihn) aus dem Wirbelstrom,
Der ihn wild umflutet.
Es lacht ein Gott ob des Mannes Unmuth,
530
Sieht ihn in Müh'n ungeahnten schweren Kampfs
Ermatten, daß er nimmermehr die Höh'n gewinnt.
Da bricht sein altes Glück in Trümmer
Endlich am Fels des Rechts, er sinkt;
Keiner beklagt, vermißt ihn!
535
(Die Scene hat sich verwandelt, und zeigt den Areopagos. Eine Anzahl athenischer Edler, von Athene geführt, nimmt auf den Sitzen Platz, die längs der Scenenwand in einer Reihe stehen: vor ihnen steht auf der einen Seite ein Altar, auf der andern ein Tisch mit Stimmgefässen. In der Nähe des Altares steht Orestes. Athene tritt von der Mitte aus nach vorn.)
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.)

529. παντὶ μέσῳ , ever to the mean god gives success: a common Greek maxim: so Ag. 378 ἔστω δ᾽ ἀπήμαντον ὥστ᾽ ἀπαρκεῖν, ib. 466 τὸ δ᾽ ὑπερκόπως εὖ κλύειν βαρὺ κρίνω δ᾽ ἄφθονον ὄλβον, etc., the idea being that excess was dangerous: so Eur. Fr. 80 τὰ μείζω τῶν μέσων τίκτει νόσους.

546. ξενοτίμους δόμων ἐπιστροφάς , κ.τ.λ., literally, [ let him revere] guest-honouring visits of the house: a characteristically elaborated expression for hospitable welcome.

551. οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται , understatement such as is natural and common in Greek, shall not fail to prosper. 11. 553, 4. If the reading is right, the acc. τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ is governed by the verbal idea in παραιβάταν: The man who dares to resist and commits all manner of transgressions, swerving from Right: such accusatives after verbals are rather in the manner of Aeschylus : θυμοβόρου φρένα Ag. 103, πολλὰ συνίστορα ib. 1090, ἄπορα πόριμος Prom. 904, χοὰς προπομπός Cho. 23, ἀπότροπον ἄγος ib. 155. (So Schol.) Of the corrections proposed Pauw's is the best ... παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄγοντ᾽ ἄνευ (reading παρβάταν for καὶ παραιβάταν), bringing much confusion : but though the grammar is smoother, the sense is weaker.

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

mvp-comment-377-1 ξενοτίμους:

γε
post
ξενοτίμους
addit Farn.

mvp-comment-378-1 δωμάτων ἐπιστροφὰς:

δώματαν ἐπιστροφὰς
G.
δώματ' ἀνεπιστροφὰς
Ald. Ceteri
δωμάτων ἐπιστροφάς
, quorum verborum ordinem mutaverat Heathius. V. ad v. 527.

mvp-comment-379-1 αἰδόμενός τις ἔστω:

αιδούμενός τις ἔστω
Ven.

mvp-comment-380-1 ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ: Libri

ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ
. Recipienda erat Wieseleri emendatio,
ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ
.

mvp-comment-381-1 ὢν: omittit Farn.

mvp-comment-382-1 πανώλεθρος δ᾽:

πανόλεθρος
Ald. Rob. Post
πανώλεθρος
Pauwius
δ'
inseruit.

mvp-comment-383-1 παραβάταν:

φαμὶ περαιβάδων
M. G. Ald. Rob. In G. tamen prius
παραιβάδαν
scriptum fuerat.
φαμὶ περβάδαν
Ven. Farn.
φαμὶ παρβάδαν
Flor.
φαμὶ παραβάταν
Turn.
φαμε παραιβάδαν
Victorius. Scholiastes adscripsit παραβεβηκότα. Olim
φαμὶ παρβάταν
scripseram. Nunc melius visum est quod in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 84. proposui,
τὸν ἀντίτολμον δέ φαμι καὶ παραιβάταν
.

mvp-comment-384-1 τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας:

τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ δίκης
M. Rob. et sic Ven. Flor. nisi quod
δίκας
habent.
ἄνευ τινος
pro
ἄνευ
Farn.
τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτον ἄνευ δίκης
G. Ald. Turn. sed in G. scriptum prius fuerat
δίκας
. Pauwio scribendum videbatur
τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄγοντ᾽ ἄνευ δίκης
. Hoc si probandum esset, in antistrophico versu 551. scribi posset
λαπαδνόν, οὐδὲ κῦμ᾽ ὑπερθέοντ᾽ ἄκρον
. Sed non opus est ut
άγοντ'
addatur.
Τὸν ἀντίτολμον καὶ παραιβάταν τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
idem est ac si dixisset
τὸν οὕτω πολλὰ τολμήσαντα
.

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

mvp-comment-172-1 αἰδόμενος] This may stand alone as the predicate, for αἰδήμων, ‘let him show respect by honouring parents and guest,' or we may construe let him honour parents and show a due regard to hospitality, lit. 'to the guesthonouring management of his house. Compare δωμάτων ἐπιστροφὰς in Theb. 645 .

mvp-comment-173-1 ἐκών] The doctrine of voluntary justice, i.e. acting from a sense of right and not merely through fear of punishment, a very advanced principle of morality, was enunciated by Simonides quoted by Plato, Protag. p. 345 D . See also Resp. 11. p. 360 c

οὐδεὶς ἑκὼν δίκαιος ἀλλ᾽ ἀναγκαζόμενος.
Such a man, says the poet, will not be unblessed; wholly ruined he never can be, though he may meet with some reverses in life. We should read with real interest such expressions of faith in the reward of virtue; the doctrine is alike profound and sublime. He goes on to say that the sinner who recklessly confuses right with wrong will suffer a shipwreck in the end, and the gods will not bear him in his distress.

mvp-comment-174-1 τὸν ἀντίτολμον] Schol.

τὸν τὰ ἐναντία τοῖς εἰρημένοις τολμῶντα.
Cf. Ag. 366
ἀτολμήτως ἄρη πνεόντων.
 Here, perhaps, the adversary of justice is described. In the next verse ἄγοντα is added on the conjecture of Pauw. Construe βιαίως ἄγοντα, a metaphor, perhaps, from the forcible abduction of slaves or captives.

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-215-1 ὁ χωρὶς ἀνάγκης δίκαιος ὤν.

mvp-comment-216-1 τὸν τὰ ἐναντία τοῖς εἰρημένοις τολμῶντα. ἀντὶ τοῦ) τὸν ἄδικον. παραβεβηκότα.

mvp-comment-217-1 πάντοθεν συνηγμένα.

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-277-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 287

mvp-comment-277-2 zweites Stasimon: Der Umsturz der alten Satzungen durch den Sieg des Muttermörders müfste schreckliche Zügellosigkeit und sittliche Verwilderung zur Folge haben, da man für Mord und blu- tige Mifshandlungen keinen Rächer mehr zu fürchten hätte. Furcht mufs herrschen; ohne Furcht kann kein Recht bestehen. Keine Gewaltherrschaft, aber auch keine Gesetzlosigkeit! Das Richtige liegt in der Mitte. Diese rechte Mitte hängt zusammen mit Gesundheit des Geistes, während Gottlosigkeit des Sinnes Übermut und damit Zuchtlosigkeit oder Gewaltherrschaft erzeugt ( ὕβρις φυτεύει τύραννον Soph. Oed. T.873 ). Drum übe man Recht, ehre die Eltern und achte das Gastrecht. Wem diese Rechtlichkeit aus innerer Überzeugung hervorgeht, der wird nicht unbeglückt sein; jedenfalls wird er nie ganz zu Grunde gehen. Für den Frevler aber wird über kurz oder lang die Stunde der Demütigung kommen; dann wird niemand sein Flehen erhören; die Gottheit wird sich vielmehr seines Untergangs freuen und sein früherer Glanz wird für alle Zeit verschollen und vergessen sein.

mvp-comment-301-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 290

mvp-comment-301-2 ξενοτίμους proleptisch wie Soph. El. 242 γονέων ἐκτίμους ἴσχουσα πτέρυγας ὀξυτόνων γόων: man achte den Aufenthalt Fremder im Hause, indem man sie ehrt.

mvp-comment-301-3 1

mvp-comment-302-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 290

mvp-comment-302-2 Die Form αιδόμενος auch Suppl. 367 . τις wiederholt wie Suppl. 58

εἰ δὲ κυρεῖ τις .. δοξάσει τις ἀκούειν. ἔστω
: zu Cho. 136 .

mvp-comment-303-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 291

mvp-comment-303-2 ἀνάγκας ἄτερ verstärkt ἑκών wie in den Wendungen κατ' αἶσαν οὐδ᾽ ὑπὲρ αἶσαν, ἑκόντα κοὐκ ἄκοντα, βίᾳ τε κοὐχ ἑκών, πρὸς χάριν τε κου βίᾳ, γνῶτα κοὐκ ἄγνωτα, πολλάκις τε κοὐχ ἅπαξ, πάλαι κοὐ νεωστί, βαιοῦ κοὐχὶ μυρίου χρόνου u. a. Der Dichter schliefst damit die Scheinheiligkeit aus. Hor. epist. I 16 oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.

mvp-comment-304-1 2

mvp-comment-304-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 291

mvp-comment-304-3 τὸν ἀντίτολμον, τὸν τὰ ἐναν τία τοῖς εἰρημένοις τολμῶντα. Im Folgenden ist an die Stelle des eigentlichen Ausdrucks ohne weiteres das Gleichnis gesetzt und deshalb auch das gesetzlose Handeln des Frevlers mit dem vom Schiffer entlehnten Ausdruck ἄγοντα πολλὰ παντόφυρτα wie nachher (567) der Grund des Untergangs mit ἕρμα δίκης bezeichnet: ,,von dem, der gegen diese Gebote (542 ff.) frevelt, behaupte ich, dafs er ein Schiffer, der vieles mit sich führt, was er widerrechtlich von allen Seiten zusammengerafft hat, mit der Zeit gezwungen die Segel streichen wird, wenn Sturmesnot erfafst die zerschellenden Segelstangen" d. h. ,,der Frevler, der rücksichtslos seine Begierde befriedigt, wird schon noch einmal durch Not gedemütigt werden." βαρίβαν: Bekk. Anekd. p. 84, 10 Σοφοκλῆς ἐν Ποιμέσι βαρίβαν λέγει τὸν ναύτην. Βάρις (Schiff) kommt öfters in den Persern und Schutzfl. vor. Nach Herod. II 96 ist das Wort ägyptisch, vgl. Eur. Iph. A. 249 βαρβάρους βάριδας.

mvp-comment-305-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 291

mvp-comment-305-2 παντόφυρτα: Schol. πάντοθεν συνηγμένα. Diese Bedeutung erfordert jedenfalls der Sinn; wahrscheinlich ist deshalb, wie Meineke vermutet, παντόσυρτα zu schreiben. Vgl. Eur. frg. 423

κτᾶσθε πλοῦτον πάντοθεν θηρώμενοι σύμμικτα μὴ δίκαια καὶ δίκαι᾽ ὁμοῦ. καθή σειν,
die Segel einziehen und ins Schiff legen, vgl. Hom. ι 72 ἱστία δέ σφιν τριχθά τε καὶ τετραχθὰ διέσχισε ὃς ἀνέμοιο. καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐς νῆας κάθεμεν δείσαντες ὄλεθρον. Schol. ἀντὶ τοῦ ταπεινωθήσεται. Durch θραυομένας wird πόνος näher bestimmt.

mvp-comment-305-3 3

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

οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται , understatement such as is natural and common in Greek, shall not fail to prosper. ll. 553-554

. If the reading is right, the acc. τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ is governed by the verbal idea in παραιβάταν: The man who dares to resist and commits all manner of transgressions, swerving from Right: such accusatives after verbals are rather in the manner of Aeschylus :
θυμοβόρου φρένα
Ag. 103 ,
πολλὰ συνίστορα
ib. 1090 ,
ἄπορα πόριμος
Prom. 904 ,
χοὰς προπομπός
Cho. 23 ,
ἀπότροπον ἄγος
ib. 155 . (So Schol.) Of the corrections proposed Pauw's is the best ... παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄγοντ᾽ ἄνευ (reading παρβάταν for καὶ παραιβάταν), bringing much confusion : but though the grammar is smoother, the sense is weaker.