Aeschylus Eumenides 550

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

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For whoso uncompelled doth follow what is just,
He ne'er shall be unblest;
Yea, never to the gulf of doom
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That man shall come.
But he whose will is set against the gods,
Who treads beyond the law with foot impure,
Till, o'er the wreck of right, confusion broods,—
Know that for him, though now he sail secure,
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The day of storm shall be; then shall he strive and fail
Down from the shivered yard to furl the sail,

Eumenides. Aeschylus. Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) (English) (Aeschylus, The Furies — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.)

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.) — 550 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 550 focus
ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ δίκαιος ὢν οὐκ ἄνολβος
550
ἔσται,
πανώλεθρος δ' οὔποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο.
τὸν ἀντίτολμου δέ φαμι παρβάταν
τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄγοντ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
βιαίως ξὺν χρόνῳ καθήσειν
555
λαῖφος, ὅταν λάβῃ πόνος θραυομένας κεραίας.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 550 focus
ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ
δίκαιος ὢν οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται,
540
πανώλεθρος δ᾽ οὐ ποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο.
τὸν ἀντίτολμον δέ φαμι καὶ παραβάταν
τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
βιαίως ξὺν χρόνῳ καθήσειν
λαῖφος, ὅταν λάβῃ πόνος
545
θραυομένας κεραίας.
1
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 550 focus
Ἑκὼν δ' ἐκ τῶνδ' ἀνάγκας ἄτερ δίκαιος ὢν
οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται,
πανώλεθρος (δ') οὔποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο·
τὸν ἀντίτολμον δέ φαμι παρβάδαν περαιβάδαν περβάδαν
τὰ πολλ' (ἄγοντ)α παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ ἄνευ τινὸς δίκας
550
βιαίως ξὺν χρόνῳ καθήσειν
λαῖφος 1 , ὅταν λάβῃ πόνος
θραυομένας κεραίας.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 550 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 550 focus
ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ
δίκαιος ὢν οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται
πανώλεθρος δ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο.
555
τὸν ἀντίτολμον δὲ φαμὶ περαιβάδαν
τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
βιαίως ξὺν χρόνῳ καθήσειν
λαῖφος ὅταν λάβῃ πόνος
θραυομένας κεραίας.
560
4
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 550 focus
ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ δίκαιος ὤν
550
οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται·
πανώλεθρος ⟨δ’⟩ οὔποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο.
τὸν ἀντίτολμον δέ φαμι, παρβάδαν
τὰ πόλλ᾽ ⟨ἄγοντ⟩α παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
βιαίως, ξὺν χρόνωι καθήσειν
555
λαῖφος, ὅταν λάβηι πόνος,
θραυομένας χεραίας.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 550 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 550 focus
ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ δίκαιος ὢν
520
οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται·
πανώλεθρος δ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο·
τὸν ἀντίτολμον δὲ φαμὶ * καὶ παραιβάταν
τὰ πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
βιαίως ξὺν χρόνῳ καθήσειν
525
λαῖφος, ὅταν λάβῃ πόνος,
θραυομένας κεραίας.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 550 focus
ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ
550
στρ. δ 550
δίκαιος ὢν οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται,
πανώλεθρος δ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο.
τὸν ἀντίτολμον δέ φαμι παρβάταν,
(ἄγον〉τα πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας
βιαίως, ξὺν χρόνωι καθήσειν
555
λαῖφος, ὅταν λάβηι πόνος θραυομένας κεραίας.
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.) — 550 focus
He who is willingly just without neces­ sity shall not be unhappy; utterly destroyed, at least, he can never be. But I declare that the transgressor who dares things contrary, will throw all things into confusion without justice, land shall perish] by violence in time, when trouble has seized his sails, the sail-yard being broken.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 550 focus
dû aux parents, et honore bien les hôtes qui entrent dans ta demeure 1 .
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 550 focus
Let each with awe profound
A parent's honour'd name obey:
Each to thy milder voice, humanity,
Attentive homage pay,
When for the ſtranger thou art found
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Pleading thy ſtrains of pious potency.
He, that to virtue's heav'nly pow'r
Unforc'd his willing ſoul ſhall bow,
Nor ruin's tyrant rage ſhall know,
Nor keen affliction's tort'ring hour.
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But he, that dares her ſacred laws deſpiſe,
Trampling on juſtice to amaſs his prey,
Appall'd ſhall hear the ruſhing whirlwinds riſe,
And tremble at the ſtorms that ſwell the ſea.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 550 focus
Sempre a te ripeto: « Próstrati
all'altare di Giustizia.
Né calpestarlo, per lucro che vegga, con piede sacrilego:
ché pronta la pena t'aspetta,
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 550 focus
Ex quibus ſine necesſitate,
515
Iuſtus exiſtens non infelix erit.
Pernicioſus nunquam erit.
Audacem uiciſsim dico tranſgreſsionem.
Sæpè omnino conſuſum ſine iuſticia,
Cum uiolento tempore conſtitueret,
520
Integumentum cum acceperit labor
Laceratas antennas.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 550 focus
Wer also lebt, so weit nicht Zwang
den Willen hemmt, dem Rechte treu,
wird Segen nicht entbehren,
und ganz unselig kann er niemals werden.
Doch wer des Rechtes Schranken bricht,
nichts schonend, alles wagend,
die Ordnung unterwühlend,
dem sag' ich es voraus, er wird's erfahren:
555 sein Segel muſs er reffen,
wenn ihm der Sturm die Rae zerbricht.
Mühselig wird die Fahrt.
Die Flut der Brandung ihn erfafst
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.) — 550 focus
Wer, so gesinnt, ohne Zwang unsträflich lebt,
520
Bleibt nicht ungesegnet,
Und nimmermehr stürzt er ganz in Unheil.
Doch wer in tollkühnem Troy die Schranken sprengt,
Und Alles wild umrüttelt ohne Fug und Recht,
Er muß wohl einst die Segel einzieh'n,
525
Wann sie des Sturms Gewalt erfaßt,
Dröhnend die Rahen splittern.
Vierte 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.)

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Commentary

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

638. ταύτην , Klytaimnestra.

640. προτιμᾷ , most regards: i. e. counts it of more importance, as a more heinous sin, to slay him.

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

mvp-comment-410-1 NA: Hi versus desunt in Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-444-1 ἄμεινον ... δροίτῃ περῶντι λουτρά:

ἄμεινον
recte G. Ald.
ἀμείνον'
sic M.
ἀμείνον'
Rob. Turn. Hoc dicit, rebus plerisque bene gestis. Deinde v. 624.
δροίτῃ
M. G. Ald.
δροίτῃ
Par. Aug. Rob. Turn.
Δροίτῃ
, ut Robortellus in corrigendis scribi iussit, Victorius. V. ad Ag. v. 1506. Deinde
κἀπὶ τέρμασι
G. sed mutatum ab eadem manu in
κἀπὶ τέρματι
, ut Aug. Rob. habent.
κἀπιτέρματι
Ald. Turn. Non recte Schoemannus, ut antea G. Bernhardy in Syntaxi p. 83.
δροίτῃ
masculinum esse putat, comparans Soph. Ant. v. 904.
καίτοι σ᾽ ἐγὼ τίμησα τοῖς φρονοῦσιν εὖ
. Non potest dubitari quin
εὔφροσιν
cum
δεδεγμένη
sit coniungendum. Mihi olim
εὐφρόσιν
dictum esse videbatur ut
μειλιχίοισιν, κερτομίοισιν
, ut esset blandis verbis:
καί
autem in
κἀπί
eo modo post participium positum esse putabam, de quo dictum est ad Ag. v. 97. Linwoodius scripsit
δροίτης περῶντι λουτρά
, et post haec verba huiusmodi aliquid excidisse putavit,
συνθέτοις λόγοις θέλγει φρένας κλέπτουσα
. Immo recte intellexit Dindorfius post v. 622. lacunam esse indicandam. In eo versu qui excidit, nisi plures fuerunt, substantivum fuisse videtur, ad quod
εὔφροσιν
pertinebat, et hic fere sententiarum nexus,
adstitit, ferrum celans, operam datura (exeunti e labro, δροίτῃς περῶντι λουτρά)
. Itaque sic scripsi
ἀπὸ στρατείας γάρ νιν ἠμποληκότα τὰ πλεῖστ᾽ ἄμεινον εὔφροσιν δεδεγμένη ... δροίτῃς περῶντι λουτρά, κἀπὶ τέρματι
etc.

mvp-comment-445-1 περεσκήνωσεν:

περἐσκήνωσεν
Μ. G. Rob.
παρεσκήνωσεν
Aug. (sic Aug.) Ald.
παρεσκήνησεν
Turn.
περεσκήνωσεν
agnoscit scholiastes, qui haec adscripsit
πρὸς τὴν συναλοιφὴν τῆς περί καὶ τὴν συζυγίαν τοῦ ῥήματος
. V. ad Ag. v. 1106.

mvp-comment-446-1 πεδήσασ':

πεδήσας
Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-447-1 οὗτος:

οὗτος
Μ. G. Aug. Rob.
οὕτως
Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-448-1 δ᾽: addidit Pauwius.

mvp-comment-449-1 δηχθῇ:

ὡς περ
Rob.
δειχθῇ
M. Rob. sed in M.
η
in
η
mutatum est.

mvp-comment-450-1 ἔδησε:

ἔδεισε
Μ. sed
ει
in
η
mutatum est.

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

mvp-comment-202-1 ταύτην] This is not rightly used, since in the legal sense it should mean the defendant. Moreover, δὲ is wanting after the μέν. Hence Pauw proposed τοιαύτην δ', Weist, τὴν δ᾽ αὖ τοιαύτην.

mvp-comment-203-1 ὅσπερ] Perhaps ᾧ προστέτακται, since ὅσπερ is not the same as os.

mvp-comment-204-1 ταῦτα τούτοις] Viz. τὸ προτιμᾶν τῷ δῆσαι Κρ. 'They do not wish to find fault with Zeus, but to refute Apollo. Schol.

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-253-1 πυέλωι', τῆι ὡς σορῶι αὐτῶι γενομένηι. παρὰ τὴν δρῦν· ξύλιναι γὰρ αὗται. τῶν λουτρῶν δῆλον ὅτι.

mvp-comment-254-1 παρεσκήνησεν. πρὸς (d. i. τὸ Χ πρὸς, Weckl.) τὴν συναλοιφὴν (-λιφὴν Μ) τῆς περί καὶ τὴν συζυγίαν τοῦ ῥήματος. ἀτραχήλωι.

mvp-comment-255-1 τὴν Κλυταιμήστραν. οἱ δικασταί.

mvp-comment-256-1 ὡς λέγεις σύ (Paley für οὖν), πατέρα προτιμᾶι μητρὸς ὁ Ζεύς.

mvp-comment-257-1 οὐ τὸν Δία προέθετο κακῶς εἰπεῖν, ἀλλὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα ὡς ψευσάμενον βούλετοι ἐλέγξαι.

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-312-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 292

mvp-comment-312-2 viertes Epeisodion: Vor dem neu eingesetzten Gerichtshof, dem Athena als ἡγεμών und εἰσαγωγεύς vorsteht (583), bringen die Erinyen ihre Anklage vor, Apollon legt Zeugnis ab und tritt den Erinyen als Vertreter der Sache des Orestes, die zugleich seine eigene ist, entgegen. Darauf fällen die Areopagiten das Urteil. Athena tritt rechts auf. Ein Herold und ein Trompetenbläser schreiten voraus, Bürger von Athen folgen ihr. κήρυσσε scil. σίγα ( Eur. Phoen. 1224

σίγα κηρύξαι στρατῷ
). Der Schol. :
ὅρα πῶς τὰ νέων ἔθη ἀναχρονίζει. ἃ γὰρ νῦν γίνε ται, ταῦτα τὴν ᾿Αθηνῶν εἰσήγαγε λέγουσαν. ἐχρῶντο γὰρ τῇ σάλ πιγγι ἀνείργειν τὸ πλῆθος θέλοντες
. στρατόν: natürlich ist das Volk nur gedacht.

mvp-comment-350-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 296

mvp-comment-350-2 περεσκήνωσεν: zu Ag. 1144 . ἀτέρμονι wie Ag. 1381

ἄπειρον ἀμφίβληστρον
.

mvp-comment-351-1 1

mvp-comment-351-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 296

mvp-comment-351-3 δηχθῇ: Hom. E 493 ὣς φάτο Σαρπηδών, δάκε δὲ φρένας Ἕκτορι μύθος, Soph. Phil. 1358

οὐ γάρ με τἄλγος τῶν παρελθόντων δάκνει
u. ϋ.

mvp-comment-352-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 296

mvp-comment-352-2 Schol. :

οὐ τὸν Δία προέθετο κακῶς εἰπεῖν, ἀλλὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα ὡς ψευσάμενον βούλεται ἐλέγξαι
.

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

mvp-sidgwick-290-1-1 A passage of well-known difficulty. The MSS. reading (with slight corrections, see critical notes) is substantially the following:

ἀπὸ στρατείας γάρ νιν ἠμποληκότα
τὰ πλεῖστ᾽ ἄμεινον εὔφροσιν δεδεγμένη
δροίτῃ περῶντι λουτρὰ κἀπὶ τέρματι
φᾶρος παρεσκήνωσεν, ἐν δ᾽ ἀτέρμονι
κόπτει πεδήσασ᾽ ἄνδρα δαιδάλῳ πέπλῳ·
which it is possible to translate, as follows:
For him from the wars (returning) having dealt
In most things prosperously, she welcomed with kindly words,
And over the bath, as he stepped from the water, and on the edge,
She threw a cloak for covering, and entangling her lord
In a broidered robe inextricable, she smote him...
 This makes good sense, and is in substance no doubt what the poet meant. But several things are at least suspicious: ἠμποληκότα τὰ πλεῖστ᾽ ἄμειvov is a harsh phrase, even if we justify the rather flat τὰ πλεῖστα and the comparative ἄμειvov by supposing an intentional understatement: εὔφροσιν without substantive is very harsh, and is hardly supported by the Homeric κερτομίοισιν and μειλιχίοισιν which are special idioms: δροίτῃ governed by παρεσκήνωσε, and λουτρά separate from it, is clumsy: κἀπὶ τέρματι is not smooth, and is suspiciously like ἀτέρμονι in the line below: finally most of the MSS. and Schol. read περεσκήνωσεν, for περιεσ-, unexampled in Attic. Corruption is almost certain: but as sense can be made, and no suggestions are really satisfactory¹, it is best to leave it.

ταύτην , Klytaimnestra.

προτιμᾷ , most regards: i. e. counts it of more importance, as a more heinous sin, to slay him.