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.)
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mvp-comment-410-1 NA: Hi versus desunt in Ven. Flor. Farn.
mvp-comment-443-1
νιν:
νιν Porsonus. Libri
μιν.
mvp-comment-200-1
ἠμποληκότα] ‘When he had returned from the expedition with the greatest success,
lit. after having made the greatest profits (or, more profits than losses) in the trade of war. For the metaphor cf.
Theb. 540
,
ἐλθὼν δ
ἔοικεν οὐ καπηλεύσειν μάχην.—
ἅμ' αἴνοις, ‘with praises.' The editor's correction of
ἄμείνον' (so MS. Med.), which is unintelligible. Cf.
Ag. 890
ἀλλ' ἐναισίμως αἰνεῖν, παρ᾿ ἄλλων χρὴ τόδ' ἔρχεσθαι γέρας.
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-349-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 296
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Hesych.
ἐμπολῇ·
περιέρ χεται,
πραγματεύεται.
Soph. Ai. 978
ἆρ᾽ ἠμπόληκας;
(s. v. a.
πέπραγας). Schol.
πλεῖστα ηὐτυχηκότα, rebus plerisque bene gestis (Stanley). Vgl.
Anbang. – Zu
εὔφροσιν vermifst man ein Substantiv wie
λόγοις (gemeint ist die Begrüfsung
Ag. 846
f.), zu
δροίτῃ περῶντι λουτρά fehlt das Verbum. Es könnte etwa geheifsen haben:
λόγοις ὀρέξουσ᾽
ὠλένην
ἐχρίμπτετο, so dafs
δροίτῃ
von
ἐχρίμπτετο (sie stand an der Badewanne),
περῶντι λουτρά
von
ὀρέξουσ᾽
ὠλένην (scheinbar um ihm den Arm zu reichen, wenn er aus dem Bade stiege) abhängig wäre.
ἐπὶ τέρματι, am
Ende.
mvp-sidgwick-290-1-1
A passage of well-known difficulty. The MSS. reading (with slight corrections, see critical notes) is substantially the following:
which it is possible to translate, as follows:
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·
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.
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...