Aeschylus Eumenides 938

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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.

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

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ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) (Greek) (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.)

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
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 938 focus
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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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.

939. χάριν , ‘boon,' blessing .

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.

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-712-1 μέγα φωνοῦντ᾽:

μεγαφώνους τ'
G. Ald. unde Turn.
μεγαφώνους
, omisso τ'.

mvp-comment-713-1 πνέοι: Similiter Herodotus III. 65. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ποιεῦσι ὑμῖν γῆ τε καρπὸν ἐκφέροι καὶ γυναῖκές τε καὶ ποῖμναι τίκτοιεν, ἐοῦσι ἐς τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον ἐλευθέροισι. Aeschines in Ctesiph. §. 111. p. 502. καὶ ἐπεύχεται αὐτοῖς μήτε γῆν καρποὺς φέρειν, μήτε γυναῖκας τέκνα τίκτειν γονεῦσιν ἐοικότα, ἀλλὰ τέρατα, μήτε βοσκήματα κατὰ φύσιν γονὰς ποιεῖσθαι etc.

πλέοι
Ven. Flor.

mvp-comment-714-1 φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν, τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων:

φλογμός τ'
Flor. (ut Franzius ait) et Turn.
φλογμὸς
, omisso τ', Ven.
φλοιγμός
, sine τ', M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob.
φλοιγμὸς δ᾽
ex Par. a Faehsio et Linwoodio affertur. Deinde
τόπον
pro
τόπων
Rob. Putavi olim scribendum esse
φλογμοῖς ὀμματοστερής
, id ut cum
βλαβά
coniungeretur. Schoemanno
περῶν
in
πέραν
mutandum videtur, quae etiam Musgravii opinio fuit, atque sic scribendum,
φλογμός τ' όμματα-στερὴς φυτῶν μένοι πέραν ὅρου τόπων
, ut
τόπων
idem sit quod
τῶνδε τόπων
. Id fieri nequit. Nam si
γῆ
,
χθών
,
χώρα
nullo alio verbo addito de ea terra dicuntur, de qua sermo est, non continuo putandum est etiam
τόπους
ita dici posse. Verum esse videtur
φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν
, neque quicquam mutandum in iis quae libri ita scripta habent,
τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρων τόπων
. Ardor oculos sive germina plantarum perdens, ut ne terminum locorum suorum transgrediantur, nihil aliud est, ut Schützius vidit, quam ardor qui oculos plantarum impedit quominus progerminent et efflorescant. Intelligendum est autem
μὴ ἐφερπέτω
ex eo quod sequitur
μηδ' ἐφερπέτω
.

mvp-comment-715-1 αἰανὴς:

αλα νὴς
G.

mvp-comment-716-1 ἐφερπέτω:

ἐφέρπω
Ven.

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.

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

mvp-comment-285-1 βλάβα] See on v. 254.

mvp-comment-286-1 τὸ μή] i. e. ὥστε μὴ, to prevent them from outgrowing the space allotted to each in planting. - αἰανὴς, either long-lasting,' or dismal. See on v. 394.

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.

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.

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-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.

mvp-comment-495-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-495-2 ἐχθραῖς ὀργαῖς von den Erinyen übertragen.

mvp-comment-496-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-496-2 Dem Gedeihen der Olivenbäume verdankte Athen einen Hauptteil seines Wohlstandes. Soph. Oed. K. 700 ὃ τῇδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρα, γλαυκάς παιδοτρόφου φύλο λον ἐλαίας. Über den Einfuls' der Winde auf die Vegetation handelt Plin. N. Hist. XVIII c. 34 . Vgl. Hor. saec. 31 nutriant fetus et aquae salubres et Iovis aurae. carm.

mvp-comment-496-3 1

mvp-comment-497-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-497-2 ,,Meine Gunst und Wohlthat bezeichne ich damit" steht als Parenthese.

mvp-comment-498-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-498-2 φλογμός τε scil. μὴ πνέοι oder vielmehr γένοιτο. Der Brand, welcher die Pflanzen der Augen beraubt, so dafs sie nicht die Hülse sprengen und hervorkeimen. ὀμματοστερής: zu Cho. 252 . Über τὸ μὴ zu Ag. 1589 . Soph. Oed. T. 25 φθίνουσα μὲν κάλυξιν ἐγκάρ ποις χθονός.

mvp-comment-498-3 2

mvp-comment-499-1 3

mvp-comment-499-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-499-3 ἄκαρπος: wenn auch die Knospen sich zur Frucht entfalten, kann immer noch die Frucht verderben. alavýs wie 482. νόσος, der Meltau, Brand, robigo.

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 4

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 5

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

χάριν , boon, blessing.

mvp-sidgwick-433-1-1 Corrupt. Some of the commentators (H, Schütz. D. Pal.) try to translate it as it stands: 'Let a blight killing the germs of plants [come not near] to prevent them passing their bounds,' i. e. to prevent them growing: surely an impossible interpretation: a plant does not pass its bounds by growing. The general sense is plain, No blight come near; and perhaps we might accept Wecklein's very ingenious λοπῶν for τύπων: ‘... killing the buds of plants that they pass not the bounds of their husks.' But the sentence is still awkward, with no verb. The other emendations proposed are not convincing.

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.