Aeschylus Eumenides 956

Gottfried Hermann (Editor)

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

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Current edition Experimental

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.) — 956 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 956 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 956 focus
᾿Ανδροκμῆτας δ' ἀώ-
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 956 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 956 focus
ἀνδροκμῆτας δ᾽ ἀώ-
ρους ἀπεννέπω τύχας,
νεανίδων τ᾽ ἐπηράτων
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους
960
δότε, κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες,
θεαί τ᾽ ὦ Μοῖραι
ματροκασιγνῆται,
δαίμονες ὀρθονόμοι,
παντὶ δόμῳ μετάκοινοι,
965
παντὶ χρόνῳ δ᾽ ἐπιβριθεῖς
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις,
πάντα τιμιώταται θεῶν.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 956 focus
ἀνδροκμῆτας δ᾽ ἀώρους ἀπεννέπω τύχας,
νεανίδων τ’ ἐπηράτων
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους δότε κύρι’ ἔχοντες
θεαί τ’ ὦ Μοῖραι
ματροκασιγνῆται,
960
δαίμονες ὀρθονόμοι,
παντὶ δόμωι μετάκοινοι,
παντὶ χρόνωι δ᾽ ἐπιβριθεῖς
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις,
πάνται τιμιώταται θεῶν.
965
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 956 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 956 focus
ἀνδροκμῆτας δ᾽ ἀώρους ἀπεννέπω τύχας, στρ. β΄.
νεανίδων τ᾽ ἐπηράτων
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους δότε, κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες,
θεαί †τ᾽ ὦ Μοῖραι ματροκασιγνήται,
920
δαίμονες ὀρθονόμοι,
παντὶ δόμῳ μετάκοινοι,
παντὶ χρόνῳ δ᾽ ἐπιβριθεῖς
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις,
παντᾶ τιμιώταται θεῶν.
925
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 956 focus
ἀνδροκμῆτας δ᾽ ἀώρους ἀπεννέπω τύχας,
στρ. β
νεανίδων τ᾽ ἐπηράτων
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους δότε, κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες,
960
θεαί τ᾽ ὦ Μοῖραι ματροκασιγνήται,
δαίμονες ὀρθονόμοι,
παντὶ δόμωι μετάκοινοι,
παντὶ χρόνωι δ᾽ ἐπιβριθεῖς
965
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις,
παντᾶι τιμιώταται θεῶν.
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.) — 956 focus
And I deprecate youth-destroying untimely events; and do ye 2
grant wedded lives to lovely maids, ye supreme ruling goddesses, and fates, sisters born of the same mother as we, deities of strict laws, common to every house, and in all time heavy in your just visitations in all things the most honoured of the gods.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 956 focus
La puissance est grande de l'auguste Érinys, auprès des Immortels comme auprès des dieux infernaux; et, pour les hommes, ce sont elles qui, clairement et pleinement, aux uns donnent les chansons,
aux autres une vie embuée de larmes.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 956 focus
May no harſh untimely doom
Sweep the manly youth away;
May the virgins' ripening bloom
1090
Crown with love the bridal day.
You, that to the Fates allied
Claim this juſt and ample pow'r;
You, that o'er each houſe preſide,
Sovereign rulers of each hour;
1095
Goddeſſes, with holy dread
Whoſe high ſtate mankind revere,
Here your ſofteſt influence ſhed,
Here extend your guardian care.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 956 focus
E depreco le sorti
d'intempestive morti.
O Dive, che degli uomini
leggete il fato, o Moire, a quest'amabile
gioventú date la vita propizia,
1005
o Dive nostre suore,
Dive della Giustizia,
d'ogni casa partecipi,
vigili a tutte l'ore,
o severa adunanza
1010
che sopra ogni altro Iddio godi onoranza!
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 956 focus
Viri factas uerò intempeſtiuas dico fortunas,
Iuuenum optabilium
Fælicem uitam
895
Date, dominium habentes
Deæ, quarum Parcæ
Sorores ex matre ſunt.
Dæmones rectilegi
Omni domo communes,
900
Omni tempore uerò incumbentes
Iuſtis conſortijs omnium deorum hono:ratiſsimi.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 956 focus
Es raffe nie Pest des Volks
frische Kraft dahin.
Mein Bann verbeut's. Und ihr, gleich uns
der Nacht Geschlecht, Schwestern, Schicksalsfrau'n,
960 führet dem lieblichen
Mädchen den Freier zu,
segnet den Ehestand,
krönet sein Glück.
Die machtvoll ihr jedem gebt das Seine,
euch huldigt jedes Haus;
965 zu jeder Zeit wirkt ihr, gut und groſs.
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.) — 956 focus
And far away I ban thee and remove,
Untimely death of youths too soon brought low!
And to each maid, O gods, when time is come for love,
1105
Grant ye a warrior's heart, a wedded life to know.
Ye too, O Fates! children of mother Night
Whose children too are we, O goddesses
Of just award, of all by sacred right
Queens, who in time and in eternity
1110
Do rule, a present power for righteousness,
Honoured beyond all Gods, hear ye and grant my cry!
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.) — 956 focus
Manneskraft welke nicht, eh die Blüthe reift zur Frucht!
Holder Mädchen Blume schenkt
Bräutliches Glück und ein Loos, durch Freuden gesegnet,
915
Ihr Erinnen, ihr Moiren,
Töchter der Nacht wie wir,
Göttliche Ordner des Rechts,
Jeglichen Hauses gedenkend,
Jeglichen Tages dem Wandel
920
Frommer Menschen zugeneigt,
Allzeit hochverehrte Göttinnen!
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.)

No corresponding passage available

Notes on the current edition

Eumenides

1. στρ. β'.

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.

945. γόνος δ᾽ ἀεὶ πλουτόχθων , and ever may the earths rich produce .' The bold compound πλουτόχθων is very Aeschylean. The reference is not (as H. P.) to precious metals, of which Athena (whom the Chorus closely follows in their prayers) had made no mention, and to which γόνος would not be so suitable; but simply to the 'produce' in the ordinary sense.

945. δόσιν τίοι they clearly mean that out of their abundance they are to give thank-offerings to the bounteous gods.

947. ἑρμαίαν , for Hermes was the god of good luck (from Homer downwards, Ερμείας ἐφίλει καὶ κτῆσιν ὄπασσε Il. 14.491) : and a wind-fall or godsend was called ἕρμαιον.

950. ἐπικραίνει , brings to pass, vivid use of present, of a thing now promised.

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-717-1 εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ:

εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν
M. Aug. G. Turn.
εὐσθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν
Ald.
εὐθυνοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν
Rob.
εὐθηνοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν
Ven. Flor. Farn. Recepi nunc Dobraei emendationem
εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ
.

mvp-comment-718-1 διπλοῖσιν Stanleius, et sic Ven. Flor.

διπλοῖς
M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. ἐμβρύοις:
ἐν βρύοις
ex M. affertur.

mvp-comment-719-1 τρέφοι libri. Deinde τεταγμένῳ:

τεταγμίω
Ald. Denique γόνος omnes praeter Turn. qui
γόνον
scripsit. Apparet duas syllabas excidisse. Olim putabam scribendum esse
μηλά τ' εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν — πρέποι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος δὲ γᾶς
etc. Nunc, recepta v. 931. Dobraei emendatione, scripsi
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος * δ᾽ ἀεὶ * πλουτόχθων
etc. Ita Musgravius et, ut videtur, Pearsonus.

mvp-comment-720-1 πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν:

πλουτόχθω νερμαίαν
Ald. Scholiastes ὁ καρπὸς ὁ ἐκ γῆς πλουτίζων. Intelliguntur metalla: erant enim, ut notum est, aeris fodinae in Colono, argenti in Thorico et nobiliores in Laurio monte. Has significat Aeschylus etiam in Persis v. 236.
ἀργύρου πηγή τις αὐτοῖς ἐστι, θησαυρὸς χθονός
.
τισι
G.

mvp-comment-721-1 τίοι: M. Aug. Turn. et haud dubie Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. sed in G. ultimae duae litterae punctis notatae et

or
supra scriptum.
τίσι
Rob.

mvp-comment-722-1 ἦ:

ἢ
Ven.

mvp-comment-723-1 οἷ' ἐπικραίνει recte Pauwius, et ita Ven. atque, ut videtur, Flor.

οἷα επικρανεῖ
M. G. Ald.
οἷ
(
οἷ
, Rob.)
ἐπικρανεῖ
Rob. Turn. et, ut puto, Aug. Idem vitium sublatum in Ag. v. 1300. γὰρ omittit Rob.

mvp-comment-724-1 Ἐρινὺς:

ἐρινὺς
M. Par. G. Rob.
ἐριννὺς
Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. Turn. παρά τ':
πάρα τ'
Αld.

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

mvp-comment-287-1 εὐθενοῦντα] See v. 855. For ἄγαν Dobree proposed ya, Meineke Πάν.

mvp-comment-288-1 γόνος] A word is lost in the MSS., perhaps δ' ἀεὶ or δὲ γᾶς. The allusion may be, as in Pers. 236 , to the silver-mines at Laurium, from which a tithe for luck may have been paid to the treasury of the goddess.

mvp-comment-289-1 πόλεως φρούριον] Schol.

ὦ ᾿Αρεοπαγῖται.

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-316-1 τὰ σπέρματα. παγῖται.

mvp-comment-317-1 ὁ καρπὸς ὁ ἐκ γῆς πλουτίζων.

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-500-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-500-2 Πᾶν als der Gott der Herden, Ovid. fast. II 271 Pana deum pecoris, Verg. Ecl. II 33 Pan curat ovis oviumque magistros. Vgl. Herod. III 65

καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ποιεῦσι ὑμῖν γῆ τε καρπὸν ἐκφέροι καὶ γυναϊκές τε καὶ ποῖμναι τίκτοιεν
und den bei Aeschin. 3, 111 gegen die Verletzer der amphiktyonischen Satzungen ausgesprochenen Fluch: μήτε γῆν καρποὺς φέρειν μήτε γυναῖ και τέκνα τίκτειν γονεῦσιν ἐοικότα, ἀλλὰ τέρατα, μήτε βοσκήματα κατὰ φύσιν γονὰς ποιεῖσθαι.

mvp-comment-501-1 1

mvp-comment-501-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-501-3 γόνος δὲ γᾶς πλουτόχθων (vgl. zu 37) weist hin auf die attiPers. 241 schen Silberbergwerke. ἀργύρου πηγή τις αὐτοῖς (den Athenern) ἐστι, θησαυρὸς χθονός, dazu Schol. ἐν Θορικῷ γάρ ἐστι μέταλλα καὶ ἐν Λαυρίῳ, Strabon III p. 147 οὐ γὰρ πλουσία μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑποπλουσία ἦν ἡ χώρα καὶ παρ' ἐκείνοις ὡς ἀληθῶς τὸν ὑποχθόνιον τόπον οὐχ ὁ "Αἵδης ἀλλ' ὁ Πλούτων ἑρμαίαν, weil diese Gabe der Götter erst glücklich gefunden werden muſs (,,weshalb auch unsere Bergleute einander Glück auf wünschen" Hermann). möge hohen Wert geben.

mvp-comment-501-4 2

mvp-comment-502-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-502-2 πόλεως φρούριον: Schol. ὦ Ἀρεοπαγῖται. κατοικεί. τίοι,

mvp-comment-503-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-503-2 μέγα γὰρ δύναται παρά τε: an die Stelle eines zweiten παρά τε tritt eine andere Wendung. Vgl. zu 861.

mvp-comment-504-1 3

mvp-comment-504-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-504-3 τοῖς ὑπὸ γαῖαν wie Eur. Hek. 149

θεοὺς τούς τ᾽ οὐρανίδας τούς θ᾽ ὑπὸ
γαϊαν, Alk. 895 φίλων τῶν ὑπὸ γαῖαν, Aeschin. 2, 41 τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον ἀνθρώπων.

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

mvp-sidgwick-434-1-1 MSS. read εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν. Most edd. take Dobree's εὐθενοῦντα ya, but Meineke's suggestion Πᾶν is nearer to MSS. and rather more likely.

γόνος δ᾽ ἀεὶ πλουτόχθων , and ever may the earths rich produce .' The bold compound πλουτόχθων is very Aeschylean. The reference is not (as H. P.) to precious metals, of which Athena (whom the Chorus closely follows in their prayers) had made no mention, and to which γόνος would not be so suitable; but simply to the produce in the ordinary sense.

δόσιν τίοι they clearly mean that out of their abundance they are to give thank-offerings to the bounteous gods.

ἑρμαίαν , for Hermes was the god of good luck (from Homer downwards, Ερμείας ἐφίλει καὶ κτῆσιν ὄπασσε Il. 14.491) : and a wind-fall or godsend was called ἕρμαιον.

ἐπικραίνει , brings to pass, vivid use of present, of a thing now promised.