Eumenides. Aeschylus. ed. F. A. Paley. Cambridge. 1885.
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Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 143-177 focus
Χορός
ἰοὺ ἰοὺ πόπαξ. ἐπάθομεν, φίλαι,—
ἦ πολλὰ δὴ παθοῦσα καὶ μάτην ἐγώ,—
ἐπάθομεν πάθος δυσαχές, ὦ πόποι,
145
ἄφερτον κακόν.
ἐξ ἀρκύων πέπτωκεν οἴχεταί θ᾽
1
ὁ θήρ—
ὕπνῳ κρατηθεῖσ᾽ ἄγραν ὤλεσα.
149
Χορός
ἰὼ παῖ Διός, ἐπίκλοπος πέλει,—
νέος δὲ γραίας δαίμονας καθιππάσω,—
150
τὸν ἱκέταν σέβων, ἄθεον ἄνδρα καὶ
τοκεῦσιν πικρόν,
τὸν μητραλοίαν δ᾽ ἐξέκλεψας ὢν θεός.—
τί τῶνδ᾽ ἐρεῖ τις δικαίως ἔχειν;
155
Χορός
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ὄνειδος ἐξ ὀνειράτων μολὸν
155
ἔτυψεν δίκαν διφρηλάτου
μεσολαβεῖ κέντρῳ
ὑπὸ φρένας, ὑπὸ λοβόν.—
πάρεστι μαστίκτορος δαΐου δαμίου
160
βαρὺ τὸ περίβαρυ κρύος ἔχειν.
162
Χορός
τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοί,
κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον
2
φονολιβῆ
3
θρόνον
περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα.—
165
πάρεστι γᾶς ὀμφαλὸν προσδρακεῖν αἱμάτων
βλοσυρὸν ἀρόμενον
4
ἄγος ἔχειν.
169
Χορός
ἐφεστίῳ δὲ μάντις ὢν
5
μιάσματι
παρὰ νόμον
8
θεῶν βρότεα μὲν τίων,
παλαιγενεῖς δὲ Μοίρας φθίσας.
174
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 143-177 focus
Χορός
ἰοὺ ἰοὺ πύπαξ. ἐπάθομεν, φίλαι,—
ἦ πολλὰ δὴ παθοῦσα καὶ μάτην ἐγώ,—
ἐπάθομεν πάθος δυσαχές, ὦ πόποι,
145
ἄφερτον κακόν·
ἐξ ἀρκύων πέπτωκεν οἴχεταί θʼ ὁ θήρ.—
ὕπνῳ κρατηθεῖσʼ ἄγραν ὤλεσα.
Χορός
ἰὼ παῖ Διός, ἐπίκλοπος πέλῃ,—
νέος δὲ γραίας δαίμονας καθιππάσω,—
150
τὸν ἱκέταν σέβων, ἄθεον ἄνδρα καὶ
τοκεῦσιν πικρόν·
τὸν μητραλοίαν δʼ ἐξέκλεψας ὢν θεός.—
τί τῶνδʼ ἐρεῖ τις δικαίως ἔχειν;
Χορός
ἐμοὶ δʼ ὄνειδος ἐξ ὀνειράτων μολὸν
155
ἔτυψεν δίκαν διφρηλάτου
μεσολαβεῖ κέντρῳ
ὑπὸ φρένας, ὑπὸ λοβόν.—
πάρεστι μαστίκτορος δαΐου δαμίου
160
βαρὺ τὸ περίβαρυ κρύος ἔχειν.
Χορός
τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοί,
κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον
φονολιβῆ θρόνον
περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα.—
165
πάρεστι γᾶς ὀμφαλὸν προσδρακεῖν αἱμάτων
βλοσυρὸν ἀρόμενον ἄγος ἔχειν.
Χορός
ἐφεστίῳ δὲ μάντις ὢν μιάσματι
μυχὸν ἐχράνατʼ αὐτόσσυτος, αὐτόκλητος,
170
παρὰ νόμον θεῶν βρότεα μὲν τίων,
παλαιγενεῖς δὲ μοίρας φθίσας.
Χορός
κἀμοί γε λυπρός, καὶ τὸν οὐκ ἐκλύσεται,
ὑπό τε γᾶν φυγὼν οὔ ποτʼ ἐλευθεροῦται.
175
ποτιτρόπαιος ὢν δʼ ἕτερον ἐν κάρᾳ
μιάστορʼ ἐκ γένους πάσεται.
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 162 focus
Χορὸς Εὐμενίδων
τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοὶ
κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον, φονολιβῆ
θρόνον
περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα, πάρεστι γᾶς ὀμφαλόν.
160
πρὸς δρακεῖν αἱμάτων. βλοσυρὸν αἰρόμενον ἄ-
γος ἔχειν.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 162 focus
τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοὶ
κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον
φονολιβῆ θρόμβον
περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα.
165
πάρεστι γᾶς ὀμφαλὸν προσδρακεῖν [αἱμάτων]
βλοσυρὸν ἀρόμενον ἄγος ἔχειν.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 162 focus
τοιαῦτα ὁρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοί,
κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον,
165
Χοροῦ ΙΒ
φονολιβῆ θρόμβον
περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα.
Χοροῦ ΙΓ
πάρεστι γᾶς ὀμφαλὸν προςδρακεῖν αἱμάτων
βλοσυρὸν ἀρόμενον ἄγος ἔχειν.
Χοροῦ ΙΔ
στρ. γ΄.
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 162 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 162 focus
ΧΟ.
τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοί,
ἀντ. β΄.
κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον
φονολιβῆ θρόνον
περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα—
165
πάρεστι γᾶς ὀμφαλὸν προσδρακεῖν αἱμάτων
βλοσυρὸν
ἀρόμενον ἄγος ἔχειν.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 162 focus
Τοιαῦτα ὁρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοὶ
κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον
φονολιβῆ θρόνον
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 162 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 162 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 162 focus
τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοὶ,
κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον·
φονολιβή θρόμβον
περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα-
πάρεστι γᾶς ὀμφαλὸν προσδρακεῖν αἱμάτων
160
βλοσυρὸν ἀρόμενον ἄγος ἔχειν,
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 162 focus
τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοί
κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον
ἀντ. β
φονολιβή θρόνον
περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα.
165
πάρεστι γᾶς ὀμφαλὸν προσδρακεῖν αἱμάτων
βλοσυρὸν ἀρόμενον ἅγος ἔχειν.
στρ. γ
Translations (11)
Eumenides Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 143-175 focus
Chorus
Oh, oh! Alas! We have suffered, friends.
Indeed I have suffered much and all in vain.
We have suffered very painfully, oh! an unbearable evil. The beast has escaped from our nets and is gone.
Overcome by sleep, I have lost my prey.
145
Indeed I have suffered much and all in vain.
Overcome by sleep, I have lost my prey.
Chorus
Oh! Child of Zeus, you have become a thief—
you, a youth, have ridden down old divinities—by showing respect to your suppliant, a godless man and cruel to a parent; although you are a god, you have stolen away a man that killed his mother.
What is there here that anyone shall call just?
150
What is there here that anyone shall call just?
Chorus
Reproach, coming to me in a dream, struck me like a charioteer with goad held tight, under my heart, under my vitals.
155
I can feel the cruel, the very cruel chill of the executioner’s destroying scourge.
160
Chorus
They do such things, the younger gods, who rule, wholly beyond justice, a throne dripping blood,
about its foot, about its head.
I can see the center-stone of the earth defiled with a terrible pollution of blood.
165
I can see the center-stone of the earth defiled with a terrible pollution of blood.
Chorus
Although he is a prophet, he has stained his sanctuary
with pollution at its hearth, at his own urging, at his own bidding; against the law of the gods, he has honored mortal things and caused the ancient allotments to decay.
170
Chorus
And he brings distress to me too, but he shall not win his release;
even if he escapes beneath the earth, he is never set free. A suppliant, he will acquire another avenger from his family.
1
175
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 162 focus
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 162 focus
Voilà donc les façons de ces jeunes dieux, qui veulent régner sur le monde sans souci de la Justice. Ah! le trône
ensanglanté
2
! au pied, à la cime, oui, je le vois, l'Ombilic du monde, chargé de la souillure terrifiante d'un meurtre.
Le foyer de
ensanglanté 2 ! au pied, à la cime, oui, je le vois, l'Ombilic du monde, chargé de la souillure terrifiante d'un meurtre.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 162 focus
See all defil'd with gore thy throne,
There fate the murd'rer dropping blood.
Yet theſe pollutions are thy own;
From thee the call, the impulſe flow'd:
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Such grace, deſpis'd th' age-honour'd Fates',
Your new unhallow'd ſhrines awaits.
CHORUS
awaking.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 162 focus
SEMICORO I
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 162 focus
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 162 focus
Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 160 focus
Chorus
ANTISTROPHE I.
In ancient crypts remote from light,
Victims await you and the hallowed rite.
990
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.) — 162 focus
Shame on the younger gods who tread down right,
Sitting on thrones of might!
185
Woe on the altar of earth's central fane!
Clotted on step and shrine,
Behold, the guilt of blood, the ghastly stain!
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.) — 162 focus
Das ist der jüngern Götter Art, so schalten sie,
Gewalt übend allem Recht zum Hohn.
Ein bluttriefend Mal,
Blutig um Fuß und Haupt,
Ich seh' es, steht dort der Erdnabel; denn blut'ge Schuld,
160
Ruchlose, nahm er schüßend auf.
1
Dritte Strophe.
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
Commentary
Commentary on Aeschylus: Eumenides (Aeschylus. Eumenides. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887.)
154. τῶνδε , your acts, insulting the old goddesses, and protecting the impious suppliant.
169. μάντις ὤν , i. e. ‘though a seer,' and thus the last who should have allowed pollution.
174. τόν , Orestes: for Epic form cp. 137, 357.
Critical apparatus to Eumenides (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Eumenides.) focus
mvp-comment-112-1 ἐρεῖ τις: ἐρᾶ Flor. τις Farn. Ald. τὶς Rob.
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-84-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 262
mvp-comment-84-2 Parodos (vgl. zu 1). Die Chorführerin erwacht und weckt die nächste Erinye, welche wieder eine andere anstöfst u. s. f. Dann stellen sie sich zu Halbchören zusammen.
mvp-comment-92-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 263
mvp-comment-92-2
Cho. 337
Commentary (Arthur Sidgwick, 1887) (OCR draft) (Arthur Sidgwick's commentary on the Eumenides, aligned to the canonical Greek text.) focus
τῶνδε , your acts, insulting the old goddesses, and protecting the impious suppliant.