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dans l'anarchie que sous le despotisme 1 . Partout triomphe la mesure: c'est le privilège que lui ont octroyé les dieux, le seul qui restreigne leur
pouvoir capricieux 2 . Et n'est-il pas à propos de le répéter ici? s'il est avéré que la démesure est fille de l'impiété 3 ,

Eumenides. Aeschylus. Paul Mazon (Editor). Paris. 1920-1925.

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Current edition Experimental

LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) (fra) (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 490-565 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 490-565 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 526 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 526 focus
μήτ᾽ ἀνάρχετον βίον
μήτε δεσποτούμενον
αἰνέσῃς. παντὶ μέσῳ τὸ κράτος θεὸς ὤπασεν,
ἄλλ᾽ ἄλλᾳ δ᾽ ἐφορεύει.
530
ξύμμετρον δ᾽ ἔπος λέγω,
δυσσεβίας μὲν ὕβρις τέκος ὡς ἐτύμως·
ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιείας
535
φρενῶν ὁ πᾶσιν φίλος
καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 526 focus
μήτ' ἀνάρχετον βίον
μήτε δεσποτούμενον
520
αἰνέσῃς.
παντὶ μέσῳ τὸ κράτος θεὸς ὤπασεν, ἀλλ᾽
ἄλλα δ᾽ ἐφορεύει.
ξύμμετρον δ᾽ ἔπος λέγω,
δυςσεβίας μὲν ὕβρις τέκος ὡς ἐτύμως·
525
ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιείας
αὖ φρενῶν ὁ πάμφιλος
καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 526 focus
Μήτ' ἀνάρχετον ἄναρκτον ἀνάρκητον ἀνάρκετον βίον
μήτε δεσποτούμενον -μενόν γ'
αἰνέσῃς·
παντὶ ἅπαντι μέσῳ τὸ κράτος θεὸς
ὤπασεν, ἄλλ᾽ ἄλλᾳ δ' ἄλλα | ἄλλαι δ' (ἄλλα δι' forsan M1) ἄλλα δ' ἄλλα δ' ἐφορεύει.
530
Ξύμμετρον δ' ἔπος λέγω·
δυσσεβίας -βείας μὲν ὕβρις τέκος
ὡς ἐτύμως, ἐκ δ' ὑγιεί-
ας φρενῶν ὁ πάμφιλος πᾶσι φίλος
καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.
535
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 526 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 526 focus
μήτ' ἄναρκτον βίον
μήτε δεσποτούμενον
530
αἰνέσης.
παντὶ μέσῳ τὸ κράτος
θεὸς ὤπασεν, ἄλλ᾽
ἄλλα δ᾽ ἐφορεύει.
ξύμμετρον δ᾽ ἔπος λέγω·
535
δυσσεβίας μὲν ὕβρις
τέκος ὡς ἐτύμως,
ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιείας
φρενῶν ὁ πᾶσι φίλος καὶ
πολύευκτος ὄλβος.
540
3
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 526 focus
μήτ᾽ ἄναρκτον βίον
μήτε δεσποτούμενον
αἰνέσηις·
παντὶ μέσωι τὸ κράτος θεὸς ὥπασεν,
ἄλλ᾽ ἄλλαι δ᾽ ἐφορεύει.
530
ξύμμετρον δ᾽ ἔπος λέγω·
δυσσεβίας μὲν ὕβρις τέκος ὡς ἐτύμως,
ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιείας
φρενῶν ὁ πᾶσιν φίλος
καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.
535
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 526 focus
μήτ᾽ ἄναρκτον βίον
μήτε δεσποτούμενον
525
αἰνέσηις.
παντὶ μέσωι τὸ κράτος θεὸς ὤπασεν, ἄλλ᾽ ἄλ-
λαι δ᾽ ἐφορεύει.
Σύμμετρον $\delta^{\circ}$ ἔπος λέγω,
δυσσεβίας μὲν ὕβρις τέκος ὡς ἐτύμως·
530
ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιείας
φρενῶν ὁ πᾶσιν φίλος καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος. –
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 526 focus
μήτ᾿ ἀνάρχετον βίον
μήτε δεσποτούμενον
αἰνέσῃς.
παντὶ μέσῳ τὸ κράτος θεὸς ὤπασεν·
ἄλλ᾽ ἄλλᾳ δ᾽ ἐφορεύει.
ξύμμετρον δ᾽ ἔπος λέγω,
505
δυσσεβίας μὲν ὕβρις τέκος ὡς ἐτύμως·
ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιείας
φρενῶν ὁ πᾶσιν φίλος
καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 526 focus
μήτ᾿ ἀνάρχετον βίον
μήτε δεσποτούμενον
στρ. γ
αἰνέσῃς.
παντὶ μέσωι τὸ κράτος θεὸς ὤπασεν, ἄλλ᾽ ἄλλᾶι
530
δ᾽ ἐφορεύει.
ξύμμετρον δ᾽ ἔπος λέγω,
δυσσεβίας μὲν ὕβρις τέκος ὡς ἐτύμως·
ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιείας
535
φρενῶν ὁ πᾶσιν φίλος
καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.
Translations (9)
Eumenides Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 490-565 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 526 focus
Praise neither a life free from rule, nor lorded over; to every mean the god affords power, but other things he differently regards. But I speak a fitting word; insolence is the child of impiety, most assuredly; but from sanity of mind tomes prosperity dear to all and much sought.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 526 focus
Shall he, the wretch that ſcorns controul,
580
And ſpurns each ſacred law,
Or he that drags his chain with ſervile awe,
Feel the ſweet peace that calms the virtuous ſoul?
ANTISTROPHE 2.
Placed in the midſt does ſtrength reſide.
With an indignant frown
585
On each extreme the Gods look down;
Injuſtice is the child of impious pride.
But all the joys, that life can know,
From temper'd wiſdom flow.
To juſtice chief thy ſoul incline,
590
And bow with reverence at her hallow'd ſhrine.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 526 focus
Niuno ormai, se la sciagura
lo percuota, osi levare
piú le supplici parole:
560
O Giustizia,
e voi, troni dell'Erinni!
Leverà presto tal gemito
qualche padre, qualche madre
tormentata, poi che il tempio
565
di Giustizia crolla già.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 526 focus
Neq; liberam uitam,
Neq; ſubditam laudabis.
Omni quidem tali robur
500
Deus præbet, alia
Alia præbent, temperatum uerò uerbum dico.
Imprietatis uerò contumelia natus tanquam uerè,
Ex ſanitate mentis omnibus uerò amica eſt
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 526 focus
Weder unumschränkter Freiheit
noch dem Joch der Herrscherwillkür
gieb den Preis.
Alles hat bei Gott den Vorzug, was die rechte Mitte
hält.
530 Wie verschieden er uns führe, dieser Spruch trifft
immer zu.
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.) — 526 focus
Praise not, O man, the life beyond control,
Nor that which bows unto a tyrant's sway.
Know that the middle way
615
Is dearest unto God, and they, thereon who wend,
They shall achieve the end;
But they who wander or to left or right
Are sinners in his sight.
Take to thy heart this one, this soothfast word—
620
Of wantonness impiety is sire;
Only from calm control and sanity unstirred
Cometh true weal, the goal of every man's desire.
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.) — 526 focus
Nicht ein Leben schrankenlos,
500
Noch gedrückt von Zwanges Joch,
Lobe dir!
Immer die Mitte ja krönen die Himmlischen;
Andres ordnen sie anders.
Hört von mir ein treffend Wort:
505
Götterverachtung erzeugt sich den frevelnden Muth;
Aus der Gesundheit
Der Seele keimt allgeliebt,
Sehnlich erfleht, der Segen.
Dritte Gegenstrophe.
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. Cf. 696-697.
2. Cf. Agam. 378. — Entendez que les dieux eux-mêmes ont limité leur puissance en posant ce principe que, partout et toujours, triompherait la mesure.
3. Cf. Agam. 369-80.

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.

531. ξύμμετρον . seems best taken as timely, fitting: a rather fanciful way of saying wise. [Others take it in accord with this, i.e. with the doctrine of moderation: which is a possible meaning and may be defended: only the main point of all this chorus is the need of repressing crime and licence, and the doctrine of moderation is rather a digression.]

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

mvp-comment-366-1 ἀλλ᾽ ἄλλα δ᾽ ἐφορεύει: Deinde error Aldinae,

μέτῳ τὸ κράτος
, fecit ut Turnebus daret
μὲν ὅτῳ τὸ κράτος
. Deinde
ἄλλα ἄλλαι δ' ἐφορεύει
Μ.
ἄλλα ἄλλα δ᾽ ἐφορεύει
Ven. Flor. Farn.
ἄλλα ἄλλα δ᾽ ἐφορεύει
Rob.
ἄλλα ἄλλα διεφορεύει
G. deleto accentu gravi, qui in
άλλα
ad ultimam syllabam adscriptus fuerat.
άλλα ἄλλα διεφορεύει
Ald. Turn. Scribendum esse
ἀλλ᾽ ἄλλα δ᾽ ἐφορεύει
Wellauerus vidit. Hoc dicit poeta, omni medio deus primatum concessit: alia enim aliter gubernat, i. e. alia aliis rebus pro suo arbitrio attribuit. Scholiastes quid in mente habuerit, non ausim dicere. Verba eius haec sunt,
ἄλλα ἄλλως ἐφορᾷ ὁ Θεός· ἔσθ' ὅπη δέους
. Abreschius et Heathius scripsisse eum putaverunt
ἔσθ' ὅπη δέος
, idque ad v. 510. rettulerunt.

mvp-comment-367-1 δυςσεβίας:

δυςσεβίας
Porsonus, et sic Farn. in quo ιωνικόν adscriptum est.
δισσεβείας
Rob. Ceteri
δυσσεβείας
.

mvp-comment-368-1 ὑγιείας:

ὑγείας
Rob.

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

mvp-comment-168-1 ἄλλ᾿ ἄλλᾳ] 'But other things (viz. whatever is in extreme) he regards differently, or with disfavour. The more ordinary meaning of the phrase, like alia aliter, is here inapplicable.

mvp-comment-169-1 ξύμμετρον] concise, Schol.

σύντομον.
He sums up in a brief maxim the doctrine given at length in Ag. 732 seqq. This is a warning not to overthrow time-honoured institutions, like the court of the Areopagus.

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-209-1 ἄλλα ἄλλως ἐφορᾶι ὁ θεός. ἔσθ᾽ ὅπη(ι) δέους (zu 516, Weckl.).

mvp-comment-210-1 σύντομον.

mvp-comment-211-1 ὕβριν γεννῶσα. οἱ γὰρ ἀρξάμενοι τοῦ θείου καταφρονεῖν ὑβρίζουσι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους.

mvp-comment-212-1 ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιείας φρενῶν: ἐκ τοῦ ὀρθὰς ἔχειν φρένας. νόσον δὲ φρενῶν τὴν δυσσέβειάν φησιν, ὑγίειαν δὲ ἐξ ἧς ἂν εἴη τιμή· ἐξ ἐκείνης δὲ ὕβρις.

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-293-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 290

mvp-comment-293-2 μέσον, die Mitte zwischen zwei Extremen, das rechte Mafs ( μέτριον). Vgl. zu Ag. 413 , Theogn. 335 μηδὲν ἄγαν σπεύδειν· πάντων μέσ᾽ ἄριστα, Pind. Pyth. ΧΙ 53 τῶν γὰρ ἂμ πόλιν εὑρίσκων τὰ μέσσα μάσσονι σὺν ὄλβῳ τεθαλότα μέμφομ' αἶσαν τυραννίδων, Eur. Med. 125

τῶν γὰρ μετρίων πρῶτα μὲν εἰπεῖν τοὔνομα νικᾷ χρῆσθαί τε μακρῷ λῷστα βροτοῖσιν
. — ἄλλ᾽ ἄλλα δ᾽ ἐφορεύει dient nur zur Hebung des Hauptgedankens wie 653 τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα πάντ᾽ ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω στρέφων τίθησιν κτέ. Der Mitte verleiht Gott gewifs immer den Vorzug, während er sonst das eine auf diese, das andere auf jene Weise ansieht, d. h. steht das günstige Urteil der Gottheit über irgend etwas fest, so ist dieses die rechte Mitte. Vgl. auch zu Ag. 413 und über die Stellung von dé ebd. 744.

mvp-comment-294-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 290

mvp-comment-294-2 In Ubereinstimmung damit steht der Satz, den ich ausspreche.

mvp-comment-295-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 290

mvp-comment-295-2 Der gleiche Gedanke wie Ag. 755 ff.

τέκος
wie τέκνον Cho. 645
τεκνοῦσθαι, τίκτει
 Ag. 751, 756.

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

ἐφορεύει , directs.

ξύμμετρον . seems best taken as timely, fitting: a rather fanciful way of saying wise. [Others take it in accord with this, i.e. with the doctrine of moderation: which is a possible meaning and may be defended: only the main point of all this chorus is the need of repressing crime and licence, and the doctrine of moderation is rather a digression.]

mvp-sidgwick-252-1-1 This notion, that crime leads to new crime, is familiar from the Agamemnon:

τὸ δυσσεβές γὰρ ἔργον μετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει
l. 759 ,
ὕβρις παλαιὰ νεάζουσαν ὕβριν τίκτει
l. 763 .