Aeschylus Eumenides 938

Gottfried Hermann (Editor)

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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.) — 916-1020 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 916-1020 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 938 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 938 focus
Δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω,
φλογμοὺς φλογμὸς (-μός τ' Tr) φλοιγμὸς ὀμματοστερεῖς -ρὴς φυτῶν τὸ
μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ' ἄκαρπος αἰα-
940
νὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος
μῆλά τ' εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν (εὐθην- FVTr)
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος (δ' ἀεὶ)
πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν
945
δαιμόνων δόσιν τίοι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω,
940
φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν τὸ
μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰα-
νὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος,
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα Πᾶν
945
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος
δὲ γᾶς ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα —
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω —
φλογμοὺς ὀμματοστερεῖς φυτῶν
940
τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰανὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος·
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα Πάν
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
τρέφοι, χρόνωι ⟨τε τῶι⟩ τεταγμένωι γόνος
945
πλουτόχθων ἰκμαίαν
δαιμόνων δόσιν πίοι.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω,
900
φλογμός τ᾽ ὀμματοστερὴς
φυτῶν τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰανὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος·
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
905
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος * δ᾽ ἀεὶ
πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν
δαιμόνων δόσιν τίοι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω·
ἀντ. α
φλογμόν (τ᾿ ὀμματοστερή φυτῶν τὸ μὴ περᾶν
940
ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰανὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος,
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις τρέφοι χρόνωι τεταγμένωι 945
945
γόνον <τελεῖν·
πλουτόχθων (θ᾽) ἑρμαία
δαιμόνων δόσις τίοι.
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.)) — 916-1020 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 938 focus
And let not the tree-destroying blight breathe—I speak my kindness—and let [not there be] the scorching heat that blasts the buds of plants, preventing them from passing the bounds of their places; nor let the fruit-spoiling black disease creep on; and may this country rear at the appointed time flocks very plenteous with double increase: let the race of men that enjoys the riches of the earth, adore the gainful gift of the deities.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 938 focus
leur implacable courroux.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 938 focus
O'er their ſaplings ſpreading fair
May no chill wind noxious blow;
1070
Nor the dry and ſcorching air
Singe their freſh buds' opening glow.
For my ſake may no diſeaſe
Sicken o'er the blaſted year:
May their teeming flocks increaſe,
1075
And a double offspring bear.
'Gainſt the ſolemn feſtal day
Numerous may their herds ariſe;
Sportive o'er the rich fields play,
Gift of the propitious ſkies.
1080
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 938 focus
Che mai non soffi aura nociva agli alberi
sarà vigil mia cura,
985
nè a questo suol s'appressi,
le nuove gemme a struggere, l'arsura,
né a far vane le messi
feral morbo serpeggi,
anzi, con parti duplici
990
allegri a tempo debito Pan le floride greggi;
e le genti felici
lodino ognor dei Numi i benefici.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 938 focus
Arbori nocuum ne fiat detrimentum
Mea gratia dico.
Incendiumq; oculo priuans plantarum
Non tranſire fines locorum.
880
Neq; infructuoſus obſcuritatis
Morbus ſerpat, ouesq; fœcundæ admodum
Cum duobus fœtibus
Alant tempore conſtituto prolem.
Diues terra Lucratile dæmonum donum ponat.
885
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 938 focus
Es wehe nie böser Wind, der Bäume Feind
(so sag' ich, was mein Segen wirkt),
940 daſs gift'ger Brand, dran die Augen schrumpfen,
die Grenzen nimmer überzieht.
Noch komme je Seuche, Samen mordend;
die Erde spende Nahrung
den Herden stets; Zwillingslämmer werfe
945 das Mutterschaf jeden Lenz, und nimmer
versieg' im Felsengrunde
der Silberader schlummernder
plötzlich beglückender Schatz.
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.) — 938 focus
To my blessing now give ear.—
1080
Scorching blight nor singèd air 1
Never blast thine olives fair!
Drouth, that wasteth bud and plant,
Keep to thine own place. Avaunt,
Famine fell, and come not hither
1085
Stealthily to waste and wither!
Let the land, in season due,
Twice her waxing fruits renew;
Teem the kine in double measure;
Rich in new god-given treasure,
1090
Here let men the powers adore
For sudden gifts unhoped before!
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.) — 938 focus
Böser Hauch athme nie, der Bäume Feind!
(So verheiß' ich meine Huld,) -
895
Sonnenglut, der Pflanzen Auge sengend,
Bleibe fern des Landes Mark!
Nimmer schleiche graunvoll
Pest heran, der Früchte Tod!
Schafe, frohgedeihend, mag,
900
Zwillingslämmer um sie her,
Zu rechter Zeit die Erde stets erzieh'n; ihr Schooß
Sei stets durch Hermes' Huld
Goldner Gottesgaben voll!
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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Notes on the current edition

Eumenides

1. Ἀντ. α'.

Commentary

Commentary on Aeschylus: Eumenides (Aeschylus. Eumenides. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887.)

924. ἐξαμβρῦσαι . (from ἐξαναβρύω used transitively) is Pauw's probable correction of the meaningless readings of MSS. It is adopted by H. Weil, Lin., Schütz. Well.

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 .

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-706-1 ἐξαμβρῦσαι: Hi duo versus omissi in Aug.

ἐξαμβρόσαι
M. G. Ald. Turn.
ἐξ ἀμβρόσαι
Rob.
ἐξαμϋρόσαι
Ven. Flor. Farn. Adscriptum
ἀντὶ μιᾶς
in Farn. Probabilis est Pauwii emendatio,
ἐξαμβοῦσαι
, quamquam non videtur inveniri aliud aoristi primi huius verbi exemplum. De activo
βρύειν
v. Lob. ad Αi. p. 93.

mvp-comment-707-1 δυςαρέστους:

δυσαρέτους
Ald.

mvp-comment-708-1 κατανασσαμένη:

κατανασαμένη
Αld.

mvp-comment-709-1 ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου προςέπαισαν: Libri

ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου
. Multa mirabilia de his versibus prolata sunt. Non discedendum esse putavi ab ea sententia, quam in Opusc. VI. 2. Ρ. 109. seqq. exposui. Itaque scripsi
ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τέκτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου * προςέπαισαν. *
Excidisse enim aliquid, quo paroemiacus explebatur, antisystema docet. Aptum autem videtur
προςέπαισαν
. Sic dicuntur
πρόςπαια κακά
Ag. ν. 332. et
θολεροὶ δὲ λόγοι παίουσ' εἰκῇ στυγνῆς πρὸς κύμασιν ἀτης
Prom. v. 887. Neque tantum
κυρέω
, sed etiam antiquior verbi forma cum nomine vel participio iungi potest, ut in Soph. Oed. Col. v. 1159.
θύων ἔκυρον
. Sententiarum nexus hic est, hae enim deae omnia quae ad homines pertinent administrant: si quis autem non commisil delictum, is nescit unde affligatur: nam priorum peccata his eum tradunt, et tacitum exilium etiam magna sonantem (i. e. superbientem et de felicitate sua gloriantem) pessumdat.

mvp-comment-710-1 ἀπλακήματά νιν:

ἀπλακήματά νιν
Pauwius.
ἀμπλακήματά νιν
Μ. Par. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἁμαρτήματα
, omisso
νιν
, Ven. (sic Ven. teste Bekkero) Flor. et, ut videtur, Farn.

mvp-comment-711-1 σιγῶν δ᾽ ὄλεθρος: Libri

σιγῶν ὄλεθρος
, nisi quod
σιγὼν ὄλεθρος
est in Ald. Scribendum erat
σιγῶν δ᾽ ὄλεθρος
. Nam quod sequitur
και
non est et, sed etiam, omninoque qui poeticae dictionis naturam et vim norit, non dubitabit quin
δέ
addi post
σιγῶν
debeat.

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

mvp-comment-283-1 τάδ' ἐγὼ κ.τ.λ.] This is what I do in kindly regard to my citizens, by causing these powerful and hardlyappeased deities to take up their abode here.' She means, this is my part in the transaction, viz. successfully employing my eloquence, sup. 845.

mvp-comment-284-1 βαρέων] Supply λαχέων from ἔλαχον. 'He who has not met with a hard lot in life (who has not gained wisdom by misfortune, Ag. 169 ) has yet to learn the great truth, that ancestral crime, as well as actual sins committed, are often the secret causes of woe. —προσέπαισαν is supplied on Hermann's conjecture.

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-491-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-491-2 πράσσω αὐτοῦ κατανασ σαμένη, erwirke ich dadurch, dafs ich sie hier Wohnung zu nehmen bestimmt babe. Den aktiven Aor. κατένασσα braucht in der Bedentung,,ansiedeln" Hesiod W. u. T. 166, Theog. 329, 620.

mvp-comment-492-1 1

mvp-comment-492-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-492-3 Denjenigen, der sich ihrer Huld nicht erfreut, treffen unversehens Schläge des Unglücks. χαροπός mit hell und freudig strahlendem Blicke.

mvp-comment-493-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-493-2 Vgl. Cho. 401 ff.

mvp-comment-494-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-494-2 σιγῶν als Gegensatz zu μέγα φωνοῦντα, um das κάλλος και κῶν ὕπουλον, die Ironie, mit welcher hinter dem laut prahlenden Glanze das Verderben lauert, zu bezeichnen. Ζυ μέγα φωνοῦντα ( μεγαλαυχοῦντα) vgl. μεγάλης γλώσ σης κόμπους Soph. Ant. 127 , μεγάλοι λόγοι ebd. 1349.

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

mvp-sidgwick-428-1-1 This prayer closely follows Athena's suggestion ll. 906-908

, 'that the bright sunshine make to blossom up from the earth the blessings of life in plenty.' ἐπισσύτους (lit. rushing on, used of the springs of tears, Ag. 887 , and of the throes of vain sorrow, Ag. 1150 ) corresponds to ἐπίρρυτον l. 907
.

κατανασσαμένη , middle, housing in my city. ll. 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.

mvp-sidgwick-430-2-1 We must take therefore some emendation like ἱλαρῶν (Weil.), χαροπῶν (Weck.), τῶνδ᾽ εὐμενέων (Hart.): of which I have preferred the former. βαρέων will perhaps have arisen from confusion of β- and ιλ-: or perhaps from a gloss. Another question arises about the metre. Hermann, followed by most edd. (Lachm. Franz. Pal. Hart. Merkel. Weil.), has assumed that Athena's anapaestic stanzas, which alternate with the lyrics, correspond. There are five such stanzas: the three middle ones (at ll. 949, 968, 988

) are all the same length: and the first and the last would be exactly equal, if after βιύτου we read some words like προσέπαισαν (H.). The practice is not uniform: thus in the κομμός in the Choephoroi the anapaestic alternating stanzas do not correspond, though roughly about the same length: on the other hand in Agamemnon (11. 1448-1577) the anapaests do correspond.

mvp-sidgwick-430-3-1 It is on the whole more probable that the latter is the case here: and I have accordingly adopted H.'s προσέπαισαν.

mvp-sidgwick-430-4-1 The sense then is, He who finds them not propitious is stricken with calamities he knows not whence: and μὴ ἱλαρῶν κύρσας is really a euphemism for offended.

mvp-sidgwick-431-1-1 Note the effective antithesis between the silence of the ruin and the loud boasts of the unfortunate man.