Eumenides. Aeschylus. ed. F. A. Paley. Cambridge. 1885.
Commentary on the Eumenides (OCR draft) (English) (Brief English notes on Aeschylus' Eumenides by F. A. Paley, 1885.)
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
No corresponding passage available
293. Τρίτων was in the stories of Athena a Libyan lake from which she was supposed to have sprung; afterwards identified with the large salt lake in the south of Tunis.
mvp-comment-211-1 κατηρεφῆ: zatŋoeg лóda si scripsit Aeschylus, non videtur aliud significare potuisse quam pedem nube amictum, ut hoc dixerit, sive palam incedens, sive latens opem fert amicis, oppositumque sit ỏo òv nóða Tidéra, i. e. recto pede in campo stare, inter ipsos quibus praesidio est. Comparari quodammodo potest quod Sophocles dixit in Oed. R. v. 419. βλέποντα νῦν μὲν ὄρθ᾽, ἔπειτα δὲ σκότον. V. Opusc. VI. 2. p. 56. seqq. VII. p. 4. seq. Dubitari tamen potest an non scripserit Aeschylus xaτηorqй. Et videri potest aliud legisse scholiastes qui haec ita interpretatus est, καταβάλλει γὰρ ἡ ὀρθοῖ, quod scholion non invenitur in M. G. sed Triclinii esse videtur. Burgesius zaraqεon, similiterque Fritzschius (Zweiter anhang zu O. Müllers Eumeniden p. 39.) zaτηfεoñ scribendum esse censuit, ut intelligeretur Minerva aut stans inter eos quibus praesidio est, aut deorsum ex aere delata. Neque caret haec con-. iectura probabilitate.
mvp-comment-101-1 ὀρθὸν κ.τ.λ.] The description refers to ancient statues of the goddess in a standing or sitting posture. - φίλοις, in allusion perhaps to the aid afforded by Athens to the EUM. Libyan king Inaros. See Thuc. 1. 104, 109 . The Schol. remarks that the address well suits Orestes who himself requires a staunch protectress.
mvp-comment-161-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 272
mvp-comment-161-2 zweites Epeisodion. Orestes ruft Athena zu Hilfe. Die Chorführerin weist jeden Beistand zurück.
mvp-comment-173-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 274
mvp-comment-173-2
τίθησιν . . πόδα erklärt man
,,aufrecht schreitet oder sitzt" (vgl.
Hom.
p 158
ἥμενος ἢ ἕρπων), weil der sitzenden Göttin die Füfse mit dem Gewande bedeckt sind. Aber eine solche Erklärung von
κατηρεφῆ ist mindestens weit hergeholt. In der Deutung von Dutheil „visible ou invisible" und Hermann: sive palam incedens sive latens (
Hom. E 186
νεφέλῃ εἰλυμένος ὤμους) opem fert amicis, worin
κατηρεφής der durch eine Wolke verhüllte
Fufs sein soll,
lässt sich
ỏodóv schwer verstehen. Es scheint vielmehr
ὀρθὸν πόδα den hohen, gleichsam steilen Fufs (vgl.
ὀρθόπους
Soph. Ant. 985
) der hochgeschürzten Göttin zu bezeichnen, wie sich
κατηρεφῆ auf das lange Gewand bezieht.
mvp-sidgwick-150-1-1
Whether with upright step or covered foot: whether standing as in the ordinary statues or
covering her feet, i.e. sitting.
Pal. quotes Strabo (13. 1) as saying
In many of the ancient images of Athena she is represented as sitting.
mvp-sidgwick-150-2-1 This seems the best interpretation of an obscure passage.
mvp-sidgwick-150-3-1 Weil suggests the allusion is to the Athenian war in Egypt, in support of the Libyan chieftain Inaros, who had rebelled against Persia; a large Athenian fleet was sent out in 460, two years before this play. This explains φίλοις ἀρήγουσ᾽.