Aeschylus Eumenides 558

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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

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.) — 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
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 558 focus
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.
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 (9)
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.
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.

555. βιαίως , perforce, i. e. the storm shall compel him. καθήσειν, shall lower sail, i. e. shall be made humble and submissive; so ὑφέσθαι is used Ar. Ran. 1220 ὑφέσθαι μοι δοκεῖ, Soph. Εl. 335 πλεῖν ὑφειμένῃ δοκεῖ. [It is far better to make καθήσειν absolute, and make λαῖφος governed by λάβῃ, than with H. to write καθήσειν λαῖφος, ὅταν λάβῃ, κ.τ.λ. The metaphor is then more gradually and naturally introduced: the rhythm is more effective: and also the Schol. clearly takes καθήσειν by itself, for he explains it ταπεινωθήσεται. Such curtailments are common in technical expressions, e. g. in English, luff , put about, lower away.]

556. πόνος , trouble, a word suggestive from its mildness: he means the hurricane.

559. δυσπαλεῖ , taken by some as a verb (Pal. Verrall): but the adj. δυσπαλής is used by Pindar, while the verb is unknown. The sense is equally good, if we take it adj., and the run of the sentence more easy.

560. θερμῷ , headstrong, rash, as often in Greek.

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

mvp-comment-385-1 βιαίως:

βιαίῳ
vitium Ald. Turn. Cohaerent
καθήσειν λαίφος
. Male post
καθήσειν
interpungebatur.

mvp-comment-386-1 ὅταν: Libri

ὅτ᾽ ἄν
.

mvp-comment-387-1 οὐ δὲν ἐν μέσᾳ δυςπαλεῖ τε δίνᾳ:

οὐδὲν ἐν μέσῳ
M. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob. Turn., nisi quod
οὐδὲν μέσα
habent Ald. Rob.
οὐδὲν μέσσα
Farn. Ex Par.
οὐδὲν δ᾽ ἐν μέσα
Linwoodius affert.
οὐδὲν ἐν μέσῳ
scribendum vidit Abreschius. Deinde
δυςπαλεῖ τε δίνα
Turnebus. Libri
δυσπαλεῖται δίνα
. Sic etiam Rob. non
δυσπαλεῖ δέ
.

mvp-comment-388-1 γελᾷ δὲ δαίμων:

γέλᾳ δ᾽ ὁ δαίμων
Turn. ex lemmate scholii in ed. Rob. quod non habet M. Recte
γελᾷ δὲ δαίμων
ceteri omnes.

mvp-comment-389-1 θερμῷ:

θερμώ
Pauwius, et sic Farn. in quo
θερμουργῷ
adscriptum est.
θερμοεργῶν
Μ.
θερμοεργῷ
G. Par. Flor. Ald. Rob. Turn.
θυμοεργῷ
Ven.
θερμουργῷ
scripserat Victorius.

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

mvp-comment-175-1 καθήσειν] He will take down his sail when it is too late, and when the yard-arm is being broken by the gale.

mvp-comment-176-1 δυσπαλεῖ] aegre luctatur, he struggles hard in the middle of the whirling waves. Herod. VIII. 21

εἶχε πλοῖον κατῆρες ἑτοῖμον, εἰ παλήσειε ὁ ναυτικὸς στρατός.
ós. The adjective δυσπαλὴς occurs in Ap. Rhod. Iv. 52 .

mvp-comment-177-1 θερμῷ] rash. Theb. 599

ναύταισι θερμοῖς καὶ πανουργίᾳ τινί.
The Schol. explains it ἐπὶ τῷ ἀδίκως πάσχοντι, but perhaps he wrote ἐπὶ τῷ ἀδίκῳ ταῦτα πάσχοντι. – τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντα, who was too sure it would never come to this. Cf. οὔποτ ηὔχουν-μολεῖσθαι, Prom. 708 , οὐ γάρ ποτ' ηὔχουν, Ag. 489 .

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-218-1 ἀπὸ τῶν χειμαζομένων, τροπικῶς. ἀντὶ τοῦ ταπεινωθήσεται.

mvp-comment-219-1 ἀτυχία.

mvp-comment-220-1 τοὺς θεούς.

mvp-comment-221-1 γελᾶι, φησίν, ὁ δαίμων ἐπὶ τῶι ἀδίκωι (Stanley f. -ως) (κακῶς) (<κακά) Hartung) πάσχοντι, τὸν μηδέποτε προσδοκήσαντα τιμωρεῖσθαι ἰδὼν ἐν μέσηι τῆι δύηι ὑπεζευγμένον καὶ χαλινωθέντα· τοῦτο γὰρ δηλοῖ τὸ λέπαδνον.

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-306-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 291

mvp-comment-306-2 Der Gedanke „und in seiner Bedrängnis findet der Gottlose kein Erbarmen bei der Gottheit" wird der vorhergehenden Allegorie entsprechend gegeben.

mvp-comment-307-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 291

mvp-comment-307-2 γελᾷ κτέ: so wird die Vorstellung vom Neide der Gottheit, welche sich über den Untergang hohen Glückes freut, umgedeutet. θερμῷ (verwegen, frech) wie Sept. 590

ξυνεισβὰς πλοῖον εὐσεβὴς ἀνὴρ ναύταισι θερμοῖς
.

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

βιαίως , perforce, i. e. the storm shall compel him. καθήσειν, shall lower sail, i. e. shall be made humble and submissive; so ὑφέσθαι is used Ar. Ran. 1220 ὑφέσθαι μοι δοκεῖ, Soph. Εl. 335 πλεῖν ὑφειμένῃ δοκεῖ. [It is far better to make καθήσειν absolute, and make λαῖφος governed by λάβῃ, than with H. to write καθήσειν λαῖφος, ὅταν λάβῃ, κ.τ.λ. The metaphor is then more gradually and naturally introduced: the rhythm is more effective: and also the Schol. clearly takes καθήσειν by itself, for he explains it ταπεινωθήσεται. Such curtailments are common in technical expressions, e. g. in English, luff, put about, lower away.]

πόνος , trouble, a word suggestive from its mildness: he means the hurricane.

δυσπαλεῖ , taken by some as a verb (Pal. Verrall): but the adj. δυσπαλής is used by Pindar, while the verb is unknown. The sense is equally good, if we take it adj., and the run of the sentence more easy.

θερμῷ , headstrong, rash, as often in Greek.