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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.) — 778-891 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 778-891 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 808 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 808 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 808 focus
Ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι,
παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου·
810
ἐγὼ δ' ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος
ἐν γῇ τᾷδε, φεῦ, 1
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπεν-
θῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας
σταλαγμὸν χθονὶ
815
ἄφορον — ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 808 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 808 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 808 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου·
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος,
810
ἐν γᾶι τᾶιδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας,
σταλαγμὸν χθόνι⟨ον⟩ ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
λειχὴν ἄφυλλος ἄτεκνος, ὦ Δίκα ⟨Δίκα⟩,
815
πέδον ἐπισύμενος
βροτοφθόρους κηλῖδας ἐν χώραι βαλεῖ.
στενάζω· τί ῥέξω;
γελῶμαι· †δύσοιστα
πολίταις ἔπαθον
820
ἰὼ μεγάλατοι†
κόραι δυστυχεῖς
Νυχτὸς ἀτιμοπενθεῖς.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 808 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 808 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιούς νόμους
775
καθιππάσασθε, κἀκ χερῶν εἶλεσθέ μου.
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ὁ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος
ἐν γᾷ τᾷδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας,
σταλαγμὸν χθονὶ
780
ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ λιχὴν ἄφυλλος,
ἄτεκνος, ὦ δίκα, πέδον ἐπισύμενος,
βροτοφθόρους κηλίδας ἐν χώρᾳ βαλεῖ·
στενάζω; τί ῥέξω; γένωμαι
δυσοίστα πολίταις ἅπαθον;
785
ἰὼ, μεγάλα τοι, κόραι δυστυχεῖς
Νυκτὸς ἀτιμοπενθεῖς.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 808 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου.
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος
810
ἐν γᾶι τᾶιδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας
σταλαγμὸν χθονί
ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
λειχὴν ἄφυλλος, ἄτεκνος,
815
ἰὼ Δίκα, πέδον ἐπισύμενος
βροτοφθόρους κηλίδας ἐν χώρᾶι βαλεῖ,
(στενάζω· τί ῥέξω; γένωμαι;) δύσοισθ᾽ (ἆς)
πολίταις ἔπαθον.
820
ἰὼ μεγάλα τοι κόραι δυστυχεῖς
Νυκτὸς ἀτιμοπενθεῖς.
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.)) — 778-890 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 808 focus
O youthful gods, you have trampled on the ancient laws, and have snatched [him] from my hands. But I dis­ honoured, miserable, inflamed with rage, in this land, ah, ah will pour forth, in return for my sorrow, a drop from my heart on the ground causing sterility, and from it a venom destroy­ ing leaves and children (
O Justice
!) rushing on the plain, shall cast mortal-destroying stains in the country. Shall I groan? what shall I do? what will become of me? I have suffered things intolerable to the citizens. Ah! most wretched in truth are the daughters of Night grieving for their disgrace.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 808 focus
Ah! jeunes dieux, vous piétinez les lois antiques, et vous m'arrachez ce que j'ai en mains. Soit!
l'infortunée qu'on humilie fera sentir à cette terre — ah! malheur! — ce que pèse son courroux. Mon venin, mon venin, cruellement, me vengera. Chaque goutte qui en coulera de mon cœur coûtera cher à cette ville : une lèpre en sor-
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 808 focus
I burſt with rage. With cruel pride
920
Theſe youthful Gods my flighted age deride;
And, the old laws diſdaining to obey,
Rend from my hands my prey.
Tortur'd with grief's corroding ſmart,
And taught diſgrace and ſcorn to know,
925
Diſtilling from my anguiſh'd heart
The peſtilential drop ſhall flow;
Where'er it falls, nor fruit around
Nor leaf ſhall grace the blaſted ground;
Thro' the ſick air its baleful dews
930
A cauſtic venom ſhall diffuſe;
And breathing on this hated race
With deep rough ſcars the beauteous form deface.
Vainly ſhall I heave my ſighs,
Or bid my angry vengeance riſe?
935
To inſults, which my boſom rend,
Vulgar ſpirits ſcorn to bend;
And ſhall thy daughters, aweful Night, in vain
Of their diſgrace complain?
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 808 focus
Ahi, nuovi Iddei, sotto i pie' calpestate
le antiche leggi! Di man le mie prede
voi mi strappate! Ma, spoglia d'onore,
io sciagurata, nell'aspra mia doglia,
825
stillerò lo sterminio
sopra questo terreno,
dal furore dell'anima
sprizzando atro veleno.
Da questo una serpigine
830
che greggi strugga ed erba,
su le zolle spargendosi,
di letifere macchie la terra coprirà.
Che faccio? Verso lagrime?
Sarò con questi cittadini acerba ?
835
O della Notte misere
figlie, nessuno, onor prestato v'ha.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 808 focus
O dij iuuenes antiquas leges
Euertiſtis, & ex manibus cepiſtis me,
Ego uerò ignominioſa miſera iracunda
In hac terra, heu, heu, heu luctuosam
770
Emittens cordis guttam, terræ intolerabilem, ex qua
Lichen ſolijs carens & liberis.
Heu cauſa campum impellens,
Mortalium interfectrices maculas in regionem iactabit.
Lugeo, quid faciam, ſiam, intoleranda
775
A ciuibus paſsa ſum, ò admodum
Puellæ infelices noctis ignominioſæ.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 808 focus
Weh, ihr habt es zertreten,
es meinen Händen entwunden,
mein altes Recht,
ihr jungen Götter.
Ehrlos bin ich, doch Gift,
wehe, zum Lohn für die Schande,
Gift auf das Land,
meinem Herzen entquellend
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.) — 808 focus
Woe on you, younger gods! the ancient right
Ye have o'erridden, rent it from my hands.
I am dishonoured of you, thrust to scorn!
But heavily my wrath
935
Shall on his land fling forth the drops that blast and burn,
Venom of vengeance, that shall work such scathe
As I have suffered; where that dew shall fall,
Shall leafless blight arise,
Wasting Earth's offspring,—Justice, hear my call!—
940
And thorough all the land in deadly wise
Shall scatter venom, to exude again
In pestilence on men.
What cry avails me now, what deed of blood,
Unto this land, what dark despite?
945
Alack, alack, forlorn
Are we, a bitter injury have borne,
Alack, O sisters, O dishonoured brood
Of mother Night!
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.) — 808 focus
Geschlecht der neuen Götter, ha! Du tratst altes Recht
Tollkühn mit Füßen, und entwand'st es meiner Hand.
775
Und ich, beschimpft, ich Arme, schütte zornentbrannt
Auf dies Land, o Graun!
Schütte rachglühend hier Gift hinab aus meiner Brust;
Es strömt hin in's Land, vertilgt alle Saat;
Die Flur, o Nache!
780
Umspinnt dürres Moos, von Laub nackt und Frucht,
Und streut des Todes Flecken durch die Gau'n umher.
Wir klagen? Was thun wir? Es höhnt uns das Volk aus.
Uns traf herbes Leid, o Graun! schweres Weh,
Der Nacht Töchter, uns, die schmachvoll gekränkten.
785
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.)

797. ἀλλὰ ... γάρ , elliptical as usual, the ellipse easily supplied 'but (you lost) for there was witness,' etc.

799. ὡς , regular poetic use for ὥστε.

802. δαιμόνων σταλάγματα , if right, must mean immortal venom: the word δαιμόνων emphasising the supernatural and terrible power of the blighting drops. The word has been much emended, the best suggestion being Wakefield's πλευμόνων or λαιμάτων : for, as Hartung says, the expressions in this speech are largely determined by the Chorus, and the corresponding phrase is (1.784) καρδίας σταλαγμόν.

804. ὑπίσχομαι , promise, for the common form ὑπισχνοῦμαι, somewhat as οἴχομαι οἰχνέω, λήθω λανθάνω, φεύγω φυγγάνω, πεύθομαι πυνθάνομαι. [Heath, followed by Herm. Schöm., read ἐνδίκους : but the MSS. gen. is finer: Athens, as the Athenians were fond of boasting, was the ' righteous' land: so O. C. 1006 εἴ τις γῆ θεοὺς ἐπίσταται τιμαῖς σεβίζειν, ἥδε τοῦθ᾽ ὑπερφέρει. So again below 11. 869, 920.

805. κευθμῶνας , cavern, grot. There is a chasm or hole in the rock, with a dark spring of water, on the N. E. side of the Areiopagos. This is no doubt the place constantly referred to as the κευθμών or θάλαμοι (1. 1004) of the Eumenides: and explains the phrases κατὰ γᾶς σύμεναι (1. 1007), τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κατὰ χθονὸς τόπους (1. 1023), γᾶς ὑπὸ κεύθεσι (1. 1036). The clearest reference is Eurip. Elektr. 1270, where he speaks of the Eum., defeated in this trial of Orestes, as 'entering a chasm of the earth close by the hill itself:' δειναὶ μὲν οὖν θεαὶ τῷδ᾽ ἄχει πεπληγμέναι πάγον παρ᾿ αὐτὸν χάσμα δύσονται χθονός.

806. λιπαροθρόνοισι , ‘with shining seats' [not with oil as Müller, etc., for the regular libations to the Eumenides were honey and water, fully detailed in Soph. O. C. 470-481], but merely bright or splendid marble seats for the great goddesses.

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

mvp-comment-592-1 NA: Versus 783 - 809 desunt in Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-596-1 αὐτός θ' ὁ φήσας:

αὐτὸς δ᾽ ὁ θήσας
M. Par. Aug. G.
αὐτὸς θ᾽ ἡθήσας
Ald.
αὐτὸς ὁ θήσας
Rob.
αὐτὸς ἢ ὁ χρήσας
ex coniectura Turnebus. Quod Wieselerus protulit,
αὐτὸς ὁ θήξας
, mihi quoque aliquando in mentem venerat. Scribendum erat, ut in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 103. VI. p. 22. seq. dixi,
αὐτὸς δ᾽ ὁ φήσας
. Ita, vel
ὁ πείσας
, etiam Fritzschius. Videtur autem
φήσας
legisse scholiastes, cuius haec est ad praecedentem versum adnotatio,
ἔφασκε γὰρ ὁ Ἀπόλλων γνώμῃ Διὸς μαντεύεσθαι
.

mvp-comment-597-1 ὡς ταῦτ᾽:

ὡς δ᾽ αὐτ'
G.
ὡς ταῦτ᾽
Αld.

mvp-comment-598-1 ὑμεῖς δέ τοι γῇ τῇδε μὴ βαρὺν κότον σκήψητ', ἀφεῖσαι δαιόνων σταλαγμάτων βρωτῆρας αἰχμάς, σπερμάτων ἀνημέρους:

ὑμεῖς δέ τε τῆδε γῆι μὴ βαρὺν κότον
M. Par.
ὑμεῖς δέ τε τῇδε γῇ βαρὺν κότον
Aug. (ita Aug.) G. Ald. Rob.
ὑμεῖς δὲ τῇ γῇ τῇδε μὴ βαρὺν κότον
Turn. cuius coniecturam secuti sunt reliqui editores. Scripsisse potius videtur Aeschylus
ὑμεῖς δέ τοι γῇ τῇδε μὴ βαρὺν κότον
. Deinde libri
σκήψησθε
, nisi quod
σκήψασθε
Ald. Turn. Scribendum esse
σκήψητε
vidit Elmsleius ad Eur. Med. v. 93. Sed quae iam sequuntur,
μὴ θυμοῦσθε, μηδ' ἀκαρπίαν τεύχητ'
, ea gravissimam orationem tantopere enervant, ut ab Aeschylo addita esse non possint. Addidit vero interpres: continent enim et praecedentium et sequentium explicationem. Deinde libri (i. e. M. Par. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. nam Ven. Flor. Farn. per errorem commemorat Franzius)
ἀφεῖσαι δαιμόνων σταλάγματα βρωτῆρας
(
βρώτηρας
G. Ald.)
αἰχμάς
. In M. Par. G. adscriptum
γρ. στενάγματα
, quod in scholiorum editione Rob. rectius scriptum videtur
στάγματα
. Corruptum
δαιμόνων σταλάγματα
fuerunt qui concoquere possent. Wakefieldio scripsisse Aeschylus visus est
πλευμόνων σταλάγματα
, quod scribendum esset
πνευμόνων
. Melius
δαΐων
Pauwius, nisi quod
δαΐων σταλάγματα
hostiles stillas dici hic potuisse male putavit. Deinde Scaliger et Spanhemius ad Callim. h. Dianae v. 125. scribendum esse coniecerunt
αὐχμούς
, Musgravius
ἄχνας
. Rectissime se habet
αἰχμάς
, modo reliqua recte emendentur. Scribendum est autem
ἀφεῖσαι δαΐων σταλαγμάτων βρωτῆρας αἰχμάς
, ut deinde
σπερμάτων ἀνημέρους
coniungatur. Itaque scripsisse puto Aeschylum
ὑμεῖς δέ τοι γῇ τῇδε μὴ βαρὺν κότον σκήψητ', ἀφεῖσαι δαΐων σταλαγμάτων βρωτῆρας αἰχμάς, σπερμάτων ἀνημέρους.
Remoto isto languido additamento,
μὴ θυμοῦσθε, μηδ' ἀκαρπίαν τεύχητε
, tredecim versibus constat oratio Minervae, pariter atque post repetitum chori carmen v. 810. seqq.

mvp-comment-599-1 πανδίκως:

πάνδικος
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-600-1 ἐνδίκους:

ἐνδίκου
libri. Recte Heathius
ἐνδίκους
.

mvp-comment-601-1 ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάραις:

αἰσχάραις
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-602-1 ὑπ᾽ ἀστῶν:

ἀπ' ἀστῶν
Aug.

mvp-comment-603-1 NA: Chori nota omissa in G.

mvp-comment-604-1 NA: Huius et sequentium huius strophae versuum initia tantum scripta sunt in Aug. in cuius margine adiectum

ὅπερ καὶ πρότερον εἴρηκεν
.

mvp-comment-605-1 κἀκ χερῶν:

κἀκ χερῶν
Rob. Τurn.
καχερῶν
Μ.
κἀκχειρῶν
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-606-1 εἵλεσθέ μου:

εἵλετέ μου
G. Ald.

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

mvp-comment-247-1 ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ κ.τ.λ.] The sense is, ἀλλ' αὐτὸς ᾿Απόλλων ἀπέλυσεν Ορέστην αἰτίας. As the προφήτης of Ζεὺς (sup. 19) Apollo gave his testimony on supreme authority. - ὁ πείσας for ὁ θήσας is restored from v. 84, καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα κ.τ.λ.

mvp-comment-248-1 ὡς ἔχειν] here = ἵνα ἔχοι—the testimony was given that Orestes might be unharmed by the consequences of his crime. But it might also express the fact, ὥστε οὐκ ἔχει.

mvp-comment-249-1 δαιμόνων is corrupt. Perhaps (from v. 752) καρδίας, οι λαιμάτων ( Αr. Αν. 1562 ), or even δαίμονες, ‘as hostile powers.' - αἰχμάς, influences; the word seems used in reference to ἀφεῖσαι, from the throwing of darts.

mvp-comment-250-1 ἐνδίκου] made just by your residence among the citizens, and by the awe you inspire. The ancient rite of pouring oil (as the Hindus still pour ghee) on stones and altars is alluded to in λιπαροθρόνοις.

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-302-1 ἔφασκε γὰρ ὁ Ἀπόλλων γνώμηι Διὸς μαντεύεσθαι.

mvp-comment-303-1 τὰ σταλάγματα αἰχμαί εἰσι βιβρώσκουσαι τὰ σπέρματα.

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-436-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-436-2 Die emphatische Wiederholung von αὐτός wie frg. 481, 7 ὃ δ᾽ αὐτὸς ὑμνῶν, αὐτὸς ἐν θοίνη παρών, αὐτὸς τάδ᾽ εἰπὼν αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ κτανὼν τὸν παῖδα τὸν ἐμόν, Xenoph. Anab. III 2, 4 αὐτὸς ὀμό σας ἡμῖν, αὐτὸς δεξιὰς δούς, αὐτὸς ἐξαπατήσας συνέλαβε τους στρατη γούς. μαρτυρῶν ὡς ( ὥστε) ἔχειν (als Zeuge dafür eintrat, dafs dem Orestes als Thäter dessen nichts zuleide geschehen dürfe) wie 202 ἔχρησας ὥστε τὸν ξένον μητροκτονεῖν, Soph. Oed. K. 1350 δικαιῶν ὥστε, vgl. zu Ag. 1394 f.

mvp-comment-437-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-437-2 Die eingeklammerten Worte, in welchen Wieseler μήτε für te schreibt, scheinen nachträglich hinzugefügt zu sein, indem zuerst τῇδε γῇ τα μὴ θυμοῦσθε angemerkt wurde. Sonst müfste auch μὴ θυμούσθε dem μὴ βαρύν κότον σκήψησθε vorangehen. Für σκήψησθε würde man σκήψητε erwarten, wie Elmsley geschrieben hat.

mvp-comment-438-1 1

mvp-comment-438-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-438-3 Zerstörender Tropfen fressende Schärfe, der Saat verderblich. Uber βρωτῆρας αιχμάς κu Ag. 669 . Mit αιχμάς vgl. θηγάνας 861.

mvp-comment-439-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 308

mvp-comment-439-2 πανδίκως, mit voller Wahrheit, in allen Treuen. Vgl. 291, Cho. 677 . - ὑπίσχομαι, die epische Form.

mvp-comment-440-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 308

mvp-comment-440-2 Da κευθμών nur ἕδρα näher bestimmt, gehört der Gen. χθονός mehr zu ἕδρας und wie bei den Verben des Sitzens der Akk. des Orts stehen kann, so hat do α den objekt. Gen. χθονός bei sich.

mvp-comment-440-3 2

mvp-comment-441-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 308

mvp-comment-441-2 λιπαρο θρόνοισιν .. ἐσχάραις von den Opferherden, welche von dem Öl glänzen, das Andächtige darauf gielsen. Vgl. Lukian Alexandr. p. 238 τὰ δὲ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς πάνυ νοσῶν καὶ ἀλλόκοτα περὶ αὐ τῶν πεπιστευκὼς καὶ εἰ μόνον ἀλη λιμμένον που λίθον ἢ ἐστεφανωμέ νον θεάσαιτο, προσπίπτων εὐθὺς καὶ προσκυνῶν, Theophr. χαρ. π. δεισιδ. (c.17) καὶ τῶν λιπαρῶν λίθων τῶν ἐν ταῖς τριόδοις παριὼν ἐκ τῆς ληκύθου ἔλαιον καταχεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ γόνατα πεσὼν καὶ προσκυνήσας ἀπαλλάττεσθαι, Paus. X 24, 6

λίθος ἐστὶν οὐ μέγας τούτου καὶ ἔλαιον ὁσημέ ραι καταχέουσι καὶ κατὰ ἑορτὴν ἑκάστην ἔρια ἐπιτιθέασι τὰ ἀργά
. Vgl. auch Hom. γ 408 und das Fragment eines Lyrikers λιπαροθρόνους τ᾿ ἀδελφεὰς Δίκαν . . καὶ Εἰράναν bei Stob. Ekl. phys. I p. 174. Λιπαρός liebten die Athener als Beiwort von ᾿Αθῆναι. Die Altäre der Eumeniden erwähnen bei der Erzählung der Kylonischen Verschwörung Thuk. I 126 , Plut. Sol. 12 , Paus. VII 25, 2 .

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

mvp-sidgwick-370-1-1 Wanting in V. Fl. Va. It is clear that it is not this refrain but the second repetition ( ll. 808-822

) that V. Fl. Fa. copied, as they follow M. G. in reading erroneously
ἀντιπαθῆ
l. 812 , and
ἐπεσσυμένος
l. 816 , whereas M. G. have the correct forms in the first refrain.

ἀλλὰ ... γάρ , elliptical as usual, the ellipse easily supplied but (you lost) for there was witness, etc.

ὡς , regular poetic use for ὥστε.

mvp-sidgwick-380-1-1 The MSS. show signs of a confusion of order, and I take Weil's correction as the most natural restoration.

mvp-sidgwick-381-1-1 Athena soothes them, and persuades them not to execute the threats, ll. 780-782

.

δαιμόνων σταλάγματα , if right, must mean immortal venom: the word δαιμόνων emphasising the supernatural and terrible power of the blighting drops. The word has been much emended, the best suggestion being Wakefield's πλευμόνων or λαιμάτων : for, as Hartung says, the expressions in this speech are largely determined by the Chorus, and the corresponding phrase is ( l. 784

) καρδίας σταλαγμόν.

mvp-sidgwick-383-1-1 Corroding stings, devastating the seed; a fine characteristic line. It is best thus to make the gen. dependent on ἀνημέρους : the latter word meaning wild, waste, and here, by a common stretch of usage, applied not to the αἰχμάς but to their effects. For the masc. form βρωτήρας with fem. αἰχμάς compare

τύχη σωτήρ
Ag. 664 , Ο. Τ. 80 : see note on l. 186
.

ὑπίσχομαι , promise, for the common form ὑπισχνοῦμαι, somewhat as οἴχομαι οἰχνέω, λήθω λανθάνω, φεύγω φυγγάνω, πεύθομαι πυνθάνομαι. [Heath, followed by Herm. Schöm., read ἐνδίκους : but the MSS. gen. is finer: Athens, as the Athenians were fond of boasting, was the righteous land: so O. C. 1006

εἴ τις γῆ θεοὺς ἐπίσταται τιμαῖς σεβίζειν, ἥδε τοῦθ᾽ ὑπερφέρει.
So again below ll. 869, 920
.

κευθμῶνας , cavern, grot. There is a chasm or hole in the rock, with a dark spring of water, on the N. E. side of the Areiopagos. This is no doubt the place constantly referred to as the κευθμών or θάλαμοι ( l. 1004

) of the Eumenides: and explains the phrases κατὰ γᾶς σύμεναι ( l. 1007
), τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κατὰ χθονὸς τόπους ( l. 1023
), γᾶς ὑπὸ κεύθεσι ( l. 1036
). The clearest reference is Eurip. Elektr. 1270, where he speaks of the Eum., defeated in this trial of Orestes, as entering a chasm of the earth close by the hill itself: δειναὶ μὲν οὖν θεαὶ τῷδ᾽ ἄχει πεπληγμέναι πάγον παρ᾿ αὐτὸν χάσμα δύσονται χθονός.

λιπαροθρόνοισι , with shining seats [not with oil as Müller, etc., for the regular libations to the Eumenides were honey and water, fully detailed in Soph. O. C. 470-481 ], but merely bright or splendid marble seats for the great goddesses.