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βουκολούμενος] Brooding over. Schol.

περιέπων.

Cf. Ag. 652

έβουκολοῦμεν φροντίσιν νέον πάθος.

For προκάμνειν, to give in too soon, cf. Herc. F. 119

μὴ προκάμητε πόδα βαρύ τε κώλον.

Thuc. 11. 39

περιγίγνεται ἡμῖν τοῖς μέλλουσιν ἀλγεινοῖς μὴ προκάμνειν.

Eumenides. Aeschylus. ed. F. A. Paley. Cambridge. 1885.

Current edition Experimental

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.

Editions (12)

Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 143-177 focus

str. 1

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

ant. 1

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

str. 2

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

ant. 2

Χορός

τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοί,

κρατοῦντες τὸ πᾶν δίκας πλέον²

φονολιβῆ³ θρόνον

περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα.—
165

πάρεστι γᾶς ὀμφαλὸν προσδρακεῖν αἱμάτων

βλοσυρὸν ἀρόμενον⁴ ἄγος ἔχειν.

169

str. 3

Χορός

ἐφεστίῳ δὲ μάντις ὢν⁵ μιάσματι

μυχὸν⁶ ἔχρανας⁷ αὐτόσσυτος, αὐτόκλητος,
170

παρὰ νόμον⁸ θεῶν βρότεα μὲν τίων,

παλαιγενεῖς δὲ Μοίρας φθίσας.

174

ant. 3

Χορός

κἀμοί γε⁹ λυπρός, καὶ τὸν οὐκ ἐκλύσεται,

ὑπό τε γᾶν φυγὼν¹⁰ οὔ ποτ᾽ ἐλευθεροῦται.
175

ποτιτρόπαιος ὢν δ᾽¹¹ ἕτερον ἐν κάρᾳ

μιάστορ᾽ ἐγγενῆ¹² πάσεται.¹³

178

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.

149

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;

155

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.

162

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.

169

Χορός

ἐφεστίῳ δὲ μάντις ὢν μιάσματι

μυχὸν ἐχράνατʼ αὐτόσσυτος, αὐτόκλητος,
170

παρὰ νόμον θεῶν βρότεα μὲν τίων,

παλαιγενεῖς δὲ μοίρας φθίσας.

174

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.) — 64 focus

Ἀπόλλων

οὔτοι προδώσω, διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ

ἐγγὺς παρεστὼς, καὶ πρόσω δ' ἀποστατῶν.
65

ἐχθροῖς τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾷς

ὕπνῳ. πεπῦσαι δ' αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,

γραῖαι, παλαιαὶ, παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μίγνυται

θεῶν τις, οὐδ' ἄνθρωπος, οὐδέ θὴρ ποτέ,
70

κακῶν δ' ἕκατι κἀγένοντ' ἐπὶ κακόν,

σκότον νέμονται. τάρταρον θ' ὑπὸ χθονὸς,

μίσημα τ' ἀνδρῶν, καὶ θεῶν ὀλυμπίων,

ὅμως δὲ φεῦγε μὴ δὲ μαλθακὸς γένῃ.

ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι' ἠπείρου μακρᾶς
75

βεβῶντ' ἀεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα,

ὑπέρ τε πόντον, καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις,

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον. μολὼν δὲ παλλάδος ποτὶ πόλιν,

ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας,
80

κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες, μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,

ὥστ' εἰς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶν δ' ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων,

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ' ἔπεισα μητρῷον δέμας,

Ὀρέστης

ἄναξ ἄπολλον· οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ 'δικεῖν,
85

l iii

ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ

Ὀρέστης

ἐπεὶ δ' ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ μελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν, ὦ φθέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Ἀπόλλων

μέμνησο μὴ φόβος σε νικάτω φρένας,

σὺ δ' αὐτάδελφον αἷμα, καὶ κοινοῦ πατρὸς

ἑρμῆ φύλασσε. κάρτα δ' ὢν ἐπώνυμος,
90

πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν

ἱκέτην, σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ' ἐκ νόμων σέβας,

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπῳ τύχῃ.

Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 64 focus

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ.

οὔτοι προδώσω· διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ

ἐγγὺς παρεστὼς καὶ πρόσω δ᾽ ἀποστατῶν
65

ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾶς·

ὕπνῳ πεσοῦσαι δ᾽ αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,

Νυκτὸς παλαιαὶ παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μίγνυται

θεῶν τις οὐδ᾽ ἄνθρωπος οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε·
70

κακῶν δ᾽ ἕκατι κἀγένοντ᾽, ἐπεὶ κακὸν

σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονὸς,

μισήματ᾿ ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.

ὅμως δὲ φεῦγε μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένῃ.

ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι' ἠπείρου μακρᾶς
75

[βεβῶτ᾽ ἀν᾿ ἀεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα]

ὑπέρ τε πόντον καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις.

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον· μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν

ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας.
80

κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,

ὥστ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων.

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα μητρῷον δέμας.

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ.

ἄναξ ῎Απολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μἀδικεῖν·
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μἀμελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

ΑΠ.

μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σὲ νικάτω φρένας.

σὺ δ᾽, αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρὸς,

Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε· κάρτα δ᾽ ἂν ἐπώνυμος
90

πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν

ἱκέτην. σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ᾽ ἐκ νόμων σέβας,

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπῳ τύχη.

Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 64 focus

Ἀπόλλων

οὔτοι προδώσω· διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ,

ἐγγὺς παρεστώς, καὶ πρόσω γ᾽ ἀποστατῶν,

ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾷς·

ὕπνῳ πεσοῦσαι δ' αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,
70

γραῖαι, παλαιαὶ παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μίγνυται

θεῶν τις, οὐδ᾽ ἄνθρωπος, οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε·

κακῶν δ᾽ ἕκατι κἀγένοντ', ἐπεὶ κακὸν

σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θ' ὑπὸ χθονός,
75

μισήματ᾽ ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.

ὅμως δὲ φεῦγε, μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένῃ·

ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι' ἠπείρου μακρᾶς

βιβῶντ᾽ ἀν' ἀεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα,

ὑπέρ τε πόντον καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις.
80

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον· μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν

ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας·

κἀκεῖ, δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες, μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,
85

ὥςτ' ἐς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων.

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα μητρῷον δέμας.

Ὀρέστης

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν·

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε.

Ὀρέστης

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.
90

Ἀπόλλων

μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σὲ νικάτω φρένας.

σὺ δ᾽, αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρός,

Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε, κάρτα δ᾽ ὢν ἐπώνυμος

πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν

ἱκέτην. σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ᾽ ἐκνόμων σέβας,
95

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπῳ τύχῃ.

ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 64 focus

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ

Οὔτοι προδώσω· διὰ τέλους δέ σοι δὲ σοὶ φύλαξ

ἐγγὺς παρεστώς, καὶ πρόσω δ' ἀποστατῶν,
65

ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

Καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾷς·

ὕπνῳ ὁρᾷς ὕπνῳ· πεσοῦσαι δ' αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,

γραῖαι παλαιαὶ παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μείγνυται μέγνω μίγν-

θεῶν τις οὐδ᾽ ἄνθρωπος οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε·
70

κακῶν δ' ἕκατι κἀγένοντ', ἐπεὶ κακόν

σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θ' ὑπὸ χθονός,

μισήματ' ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.

Ὅμως δὲ φεύγε μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένῃ·

ἐλῶσι ελ- γάρ σε καὶ δι' ἠπείρου μακρᾶς,
75

βιβῶντ' βεβῶντ' βεβόντ' ἀν᾿ ἂν αἰεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα,

ὑπέρ τε πόντον πόντου καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις·

ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ

[ΑΠ.]

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον, μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν

ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας·
80

κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,

ὥστ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων·

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ' ἔπεισα μητρῷον δέμας.

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ

Ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν μὴ δικεῖν (eraso ε)·
85

ἐπεὶ δ' ἐπίστα, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μὴ μελεῖν μάθε,

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

ΑΠ.

Μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σε νικάτω φρένας.

Σὺ δ', αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρός,

Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε· κάρτα δ' ὢν ἐπώνυμος
90

πομπαῖος ἴσθι πομπαῖος· ἴσθι τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμόν

ἱκέτην· σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ' ἐκνόμων σέβας

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπῳ τύχῃ.

Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 64 focus

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ.

οὔτοι προδώσω· διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ

ἐγγὺς παρεστώς, καὶ πρόσω δ᾽ ἀποστατῶν
65

ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾷς·

ὕπνῳ πεσοῦσαι δ᾽ αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,

γραῖαι, παλαιαὶ παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μίγνυται

θεῶν τις, οὐδ᾽ ἄνθρωπος, οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε·
70

κακῶν δ᾽ ἕκατι κἀγένοντ᾽· ἐπεὶ κακὸν

σκότον νέμονται, Τάρταρόν θ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονός,

μισήματ᾿ ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.

ὅμως δὲ φεύγε, μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένῃ.

ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι' ἠπείρου μακρᾶς
75
¹

βιβῶντ᾽ ἀν᾿ ἀεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα,

ὑπέρ τε πόντον καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις.

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον· μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν

ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας·
80

κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,

ὥστ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων.

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα μητρῷον δέμας.

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ.

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ᾿δικεῖν
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ᾿μελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

ΑΠ.

μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σε νικάτω φρένας.

σὺ δ᾽, αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρός,

Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε, κάρτα δ᾽ ὢν ἐπώνυμος,
90

πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν

ἱκέτην. σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ᾽ ἐκνόμων σέβας,

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπῳ τύχῃ.

Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 64 focus

οὔτοι προδώσω· διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ

ἐγγὺς παρεστὼς καὶ πρόσω δ᾽ ἀποστατῶν
65

ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾷς

ὕπνῳ, πεσοῦσαι δ᾽ αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,

γραῖαι παλαιαὶ παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μίγνυται

θεῶν τις οὐδ᾽ ἄνθρωπος οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε.
70

κακῶν δ᾽ ἕκατι κἀγένοντ', ἐπεὶ κακὸν

σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρον θ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονός,

μισήματ᾽ ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.

ὅμως δὲ φεῦγε μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένῃ.

¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷

ἀνατεὶ ἀνατὶ πόνον πόνον πόνων δέ σοι δὲ σοὶ πεσοῦσαι πεσοῦσα πεσοῦσαι fort. παρεῖνται. γραῖαι Νυκτὸς παλαιαὶ

Ἀπόλλων.

ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι᾿ ἠπείρου μακρᾶς
75

βεβῶντ᾽ ἂν αἰεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα

ὑπέρ τε πόντον καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις.

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον· μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν

ΐζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας.
80

κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,

ὥστ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων.

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα μητρῷον δέμας.

Ὀρέστης.

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν·
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Ἀπόλλων.

μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σε νικάτω φρένας.

σὺ δ᾽, αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρός,

Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε, κάρτα δ' ὢν ἐπώνυμος
90

πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν

ἱκέτην. σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ᾽ ἐκνόμων σέβας

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπῳ τύχῃ.

Κλυταιμήστρας εἴδωλον.

Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 64 focus

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ

οὔτοι προδώσω, διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ

ἐγγὺς παρεστώς, καὶ πρόσω δ᾽ ἀποστατῶν,
65

ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾶις —

ὕπνωι πεσοῦσαι δ᾽ αἱ κατάπτυστοι, κόραι

¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵¹⁶

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ

γραῖαι, παλαιαὶ παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μείγνυται

θεῶν τις οὐδ᾽ ἄνθρωπος οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε·
70

κακῶν δ᾽ ἕκατι κἀγένοντ᾽, ἐπεὶ κακὸν

σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονός,

μισήματ᾽ ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων —

ὅμως δὲ φεῦγε, μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένηι.

ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι᾽ ἠπείρου μακρᾶς
75

βιβῶντ᾽ ἀν᾽ αἰεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα

ὑπέρ τε πόντον καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις.

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον, μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν

ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας·
80

κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν

ὥστ᾽ εἰς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων·

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα μητρῶιον δέμας.

μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σε νικάτω φρένας.

σὺ δ᾽, αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρός,

Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε· κάρτα δ᾽ ὢν ἐπώνυμος
90

πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν

ἱκέτην· σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ᾽ ἐκνόμων σέβας

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπωι τύχηι.

¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹²⁰²¹²²²³²⁴²⁵²⁶²⁷

Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 64 focus

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ

οὔτοι προδώσω· διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ

ἐγγὺς παρεστώς, καὶ πρόσω δ᾽ ἀποστατῶν
65

ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾶις,

ὕπνωι πεσοῦσαι δ᾽ αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,

Apparatus Criticus

λήνει λίνει² λόχος λέχος ἤδη ἤδη³ εἶδον φερούσας rapientes, cf. ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν βδελύκτροποι βδελύτροποι πλατοῖσι πλαστοῖσι corr. Elmsley λίβα λίβα Burges et Σ a Triclinio servatum βίαν (ὁ) supplevi φῦλον φύλλον.... τῆς ἥτις αἷα ἥ τι γαῖα πόνον πόνων corr. Arnaldus, Σ τὸν (τό corr. Herm.) τῆς ἀνατροφῆς verum tenebat τἀντεῦθεν τάνθ. μὲn οὖν τ. πέπων γρ. πρέπων ⁴

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ

γραῖαι παλαιόπαιδες, αἷς οὐ μείγνυται

θεῶν τις οὐδ᾽ ἄνθρωπος οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε.
70

κακῶν δ᾽ ἕκατι κἀγένοντ᾽, ἐπεὶ κακόν

σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονός,

μισήματ᾽ ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.

ὅμως δὲ φεῦγε μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένηι.

ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι᾽ ἠπείρου μακρᾶς
75

βιβῶντ᾽ ἀν᾿ αἰεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα,

ὑπέρ τε πόντον καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις.

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον· μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν

ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας.
80

κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,

ὥστ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων.

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα μητρῶιον δέμας.

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν,
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίσται, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὐ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

ΑΠ.

μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σε νικάτω φρένας.

σὺ δ᾽, αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρός,

Ἑρμῆ φύλασσε, κάρτα δ᾽ ὧν ἐπώνυμος
90

πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμόν

ἱκέτην. σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ᾽ ἐκνόμων σέβας

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπωι τύχηι.

Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 64 focus

οὔτοι προδώσω· διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ

ἐγγὺς παρεστὼς, καὶ πρόσω δ᾽ ἀποστατῶν,
65

ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾷς·

† ὕπνῳ πεσοῦσαι δ᾽ αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,

γραῖαι, παλαιαὶ παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μίγνυται

θεῶν τις, οὐδ᾽ ἄνθρωπος, οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε·
70

κακῶν δ᾽ ἕκατι κἀγένοντ᾽· ἐπεὶ κακὸν

σκότον νέμονται, Τάρταρόν θ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονὸς,

μισήματ᾿ ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων,

ὅμως δὲ φεύγε, μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένῃ.

ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι' ἠπείρου μακρᾶς
75

βιβῶντ᾽ ἀν᾿ ἀεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα,

ὑπέρ τε πόντον καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις.

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον· μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν

ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας·
80

κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,

ὥστ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων.

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα μητρῷον δέμας.

Ὀρέστης

ἄναξ "Απολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν·
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὐ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Ἀπόλλων

μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σε νικάτω φρένας.

σὺ δ᾽, αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρὸς,

Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε, κάρτα δ᾽ ἂν ἐπώνυμος,
90

πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν

ἱκέτην. σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ᾽ ἐκνόμων σέβας,

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπῳ τύχῃ.

Κλυταιμνήστρας εἴδωλον

Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 64 focus

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν·
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾶι, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε·

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Ἀπόλλων

οὔτοι προδώσω· διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ

ἐγγὺς παρεστώς, καὶ πρόσω δ᾽ ἀποστατῶν,
65

ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.

καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τᾶσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾶις·

ὕπνωι πεσοῦσαι δ᾽ αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,

Νυκτὸς παλαιαὶ παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μείγνυται

θεῶν τις οὐδ᾽ ἄνθρωπος οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε·
70

κακῶν δ᾽ ἕκατι κἀγένοντ᾽, ἐπεὶ κακὸν

σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονός,

μισήματ᾿ ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.

ὅμως δὲ φεῦγε μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένηι.

ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι᾽ ἠπείρου μακρᾶς,
75

βιβῶντ᾽ ἀν᾿ αἰεί τινα πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα,

ὑπέρ τε πόντον καὶ περιρρύτας πόλεις.

καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος

πόνον· μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν

ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας.
80

κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους

μύθους ἔχοντες, μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,

ὥστ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων.

καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα μητρῶιον δέμας.

μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σε νικάτω φρένας.

σὺ δ᾽, αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρός,

Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε· κάρτα δ᾽ ὧν ἐπώνυμος
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πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν

ἱκέτην. σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ᾽ ἐκνόμων σέβας,

ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπωι τύχηι.

Κλυταιμήστρα

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

149

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

155

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

162

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

169

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

174

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.) — 64 focus

By no means will I forsake you: but till the end standing near you as a guardian, even though far off, to your enemies I will not be gentle. And now you behold these mad ones caught; but the abhorred virgins, aged chil dren have fallen in sleep , whom neither one of the gods, nor man, nor beast, at any time embraces; but for the sake of evils they were born; since they inhabit evil darkness, and Tartarus beneath the earth, things hated by men and Olym pian gods. But nevertheless fly, nor be softened in spirit; for they will pursue with impunity you even through the long continent as you proceed along the land trod in your wander ings, and over the deep, and the sea-girt cities. And be not wearied, driven herd-like through this toil: but coming to the city of Pallas sit down having taken in your arms the ancient image; and there, having judges of these things and soothing words, we will find means, so as completely to deliver you from these toils: for truly I persuaded you to slay your mother.

ORESTES

King Apollo thou knowest indeed to be just, and since thou knowest this, learn also not to be unmindful, but your power is an assurance that you will do things well.

APOLLO

Remember, let not fear overcome you in mind. And do you, my brother, of a common father's blood, Mercury, guard him; and, being very rightly named, be a conductor, taking care of this my suppliant. Jove reveres excessively 6

this [thine] office, coming to mortals with well-conducting fortune. [ Exit ORESTES, conducted by HERMES. The Ghost of CLYTEMNESTRA ascends 1

.]

GHOST OF CLYTEMNESTRA

LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 64 focus

même les maisons d'autrui.

Elle s'éloigne par la droite. La porte du temple s'ouvre : on aperçoit Oreste accroupi près de l'Ombilic. Apollon est debout près de lui. Les Érinyes dorment sur des sièges.

APOLLON.

Non, je ne te trahirai pas; sans relâche,
veillant sur toi, à tes côtés comme de loin, je ne serai pas tendre à tes ennemis. Déjà tu vois ici domptées ces furieuses. Les voilà, vaincues par le sommeil, les vierges mau- dites, les vieilles filles d'un antique passé, que jamais
n'approche dieu, homme ni bête. Nées pour le mal, elles ont en partage l'Ombre, où se plaît le mal, et le Tartare souterrain, exécrées et des hommes et des dieux de l'Olympe. Fuis pourtant, ne te relâche pas. Elles vont te pour-
suivre à travers tout un continent, te chassant tour à tour de chaque terre ouverte à tes pas vagabonds, puis par delà

LES EUMÉNIDES

[APOLLON]

la mer et les cités des îles. Mais ne te lasse pas de paître ainsi ta peine, avant d'avoir atteint la cité de Pallas. Alors
tombe à genoux, étreins l'antique image, et là, avec des juges, des mots apaisants, je saurai trouver le moyen de te délivrer à jamais de tes peines. N'est-ce pas moi qui t'ai décidé à percer le sein d'une mère ?

ORESTE.

Sire Apollon, tu sais être juste : dès lors, apprends aussi à être vigilant, et ta puissance est garante de tes bienfaits.

APOLLON.

Ne l'oublie pas, la peur ne doit pas abattre ton âme. Et toi, frère, en qui coule le sang de notre père,
Hermès, veille sur lui. (Hermès apparaît.) Justifie ton nom, sois le Guide qui conduira mon suppliant. Tu le sais, Zeus pratique lui-même ce respect des proscrits qui va porter aux mortels le secours d'un guide propice ¹.

Apollon disparaît. Hermès et Oreste sortent du temple et s'éloignent par la gauche. L'Ombre de Clytemnestre se montre brusquement au milieu du temple.

L'OMBRE DE CLYTEMNESTRE.

Dormez donc à votre aise : ah!

The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 64 focus

No: I will not forſake thee: to the end

My guardian care ſhall favour and aſſiſt thee

Preſent, or diſtant far: but to thy foes

I know not mercy.

See this griefly troop,

Sleep has oppreſs'd them, and their baffled rage

Shall fail, grim-viſag'd hags, grown old

In loath'd virginity: nor God, nor man
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Approach'd their bed, nor ſavage of the wilds;

For they were born for mischiefs, and their haunts

In dreary darkneſs 'midſt the yawning gulfs

Of Tartarus beneath, by men abhorr'd,

And by th' Olympian Gods.
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Fly then, nor yield

To weak diſtruſt: they, be thou fure, will follow

With unremitting chace thy flying ſteps

Wide wand'ring o'er the firm terrene, and o'er

The humid ſea, and wave-furrounded towns.
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But faint thou not, ſink not beneath thy toils;

Fly to the city of Minerva, take

Thy ſuppliant ſeat, with reverence in thy arms

Graſp

APOLLO.

Graſp her time-honour'd image. Holding there
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Concordant counſels, lenient of these ills,

We shall not want the means to heal thy pains,

And ratify thy peace: for at my bidding

Thy ſword is purple with thy mother's blood.

ORESTES.

'Tis not unknown to thee, royal Apollo,
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That I have done no deed of baſe injustice:

This known, forſake not, ſlight not my juſt cauſe:

Strong is thy pow'r, and faithful to defend.

APOLLO.

Remember: let not fear unman thy mind.

And thou, my brother, by our ties of blood,
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Our common parent, I adjure thee, Mercury,

Protect him: rightly if the name of guide

Be thine, be thou his guide; defend my ſuppliant;

For Jove with reverence looks on mortal man,

That awefully reveres our guiding pow'r,
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To

To the FURIES ſleeping.

The GHOST of CLYTEMNESTRA.

Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 64 focus

lo non ti tradirò. Presso o lontano,

t'assisterò sino alla fine, e mite

mai non sarò per gl'inimici tuoi.

Vedi che queste Furie infine ho colte:

giaccion nel sonno le odïose vergini,

le antiche figlie della notte, a cui

non dei Superi alcuno e non degli uomini

né fiera alcuna mescesi.

Ministre

qui di ruina vennero: ché pure

sotto la terra, in ruinosa tenebra,

han dimora, nel Tartaro; e degli uomini

le aborrisce la stirpe e degli Olimpî.

Ma pur, tu fuggi, e non fiaccarti: ch'esse
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t'inseguiranno; o sia che tu per vasti

piani sospinga l'errabondo piede,

o su le popolose isole e il pelago :

né sostener questa fatica stanco

te renda.

E giunto alla città di Pàllade,

posa, e l'antico simulacro abbraccia.

Quivi saranno giudici e ragioni

per farli miti; e spedïenti avrò

che te per sempre dagli affanni sciolgano:

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ché io t'indussi a uccidere tua madre.

ORESTE

O sire Apollo, essere giusto sai.

Poi che sai questo, sappi anche esser memore.

La potenza d'oprare è in te ben salda.

APOLLO

Ricorda! Né terror ti vinca l'anima.
105

Ermete, e tu ch'ài padre il padre mio,

come, o fratello, il nome tuo pur suona,

sii custode, sii guida a questo supplice

mio, sii pastore.

Giove stesso onora,
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quando la sorte ad essi arride, i supplici.

CLITENNESTRA

Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 64 focus

Non certè prodā, ad finem uſq;

uerò tibi custos ero

Propè aſtans, & procul abſens

A tuis inimicis, & non ero impotens.

Et nunc uides captas has ſurtis
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Somno cadentes uerò ſpuentes puellæ,

Vetulæ, ſenes puellæ, quibus non miſcetur

Deorum aliquis, neq;

homo, neq; fera unquam.

Malorum uerò gratia ſunt, & in malo
75

Tenebras inhabitant & tartarum ſub terra.

Inuiſæ hominibus & dijs cælestibus.

Tamen fuge, neq; mollis esto,

Perſequentur te per longam Epirum

Aſcendentem ſine detrimento erraticam terram.
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Et ſupra Pontum, mariq; clauſas urbes.

Et ne defatigeris hunc mitigans

Laborem, migrans uerò ad urbem Palladis,

Sede antiquum apprehendens ulmis ſimulacrum.

Et illic iudices, & horum blandos
85

Sermones habentes, machinas inueniemus,

Vt omnino libereris ab his laboribus.

Nam te interficere perſuaſi maternum corpus.

Ore.

O rex Apollo, nosti enim non iniuria afficere,

Verùm enimuerò ſcias, & diſce non cunctari.
90

Robur uerò tuum facere idoneum.

Apo.

Recordare ne tibi metus uincat mentem.

Tu uerò fraternum ſanguinem, & communi patris

Mercuri custodi, admodum exiſtens eiufdem nominis,

Deductor esto. Hunc uerò regens meum
95

Supplicem colit ſanè Iupiter cultum ex legibus,

Impellentem mortalibus bona duce fortuna.

Cly. Idolum

Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 64 focus

Ich will dich nicht verlassen. Mag ich nahe dir

65 zur Seite weilen oder fern: stets wart' ich dein

und gebe niemals schwächlich deinen Feinden nach.

Apollon.

Vom Schlaf gefesselt siehst du dort die Rasenden.

Da sind sie hingesunken, ekelhaft Gezücht,

der Urwelt greise Kinder. Gott und Mensch und Tier

70 verabscheu'n ihren Umgang. Nur zu Henkerdienst

sind sie geboren; hausen auch im Tartaros,

in unterird'scher Finsternis Abscheulichkeit,

den Menschen und den Himmelsgöttern gleich verhaſst.

Doch musst du fliehen, unermüdlich, ohne Rast,

75 denn jagen werden sie dich jedes Weges, den

der flücht'ge Fuſs sich durch des Festlands Weiten hin

und über's Meer zu flutumrauschten Inseln sucht.

Durch dieser Hetzjagd Qualen darfst du nicht zu früh

dich mürbe machen lassen. Erst wenn du Athen

erreicht hast, darfst du halten. Pallas' altes Bild

80 umklammre mit den Armen, sitz' in seinem Schutz.

Da giebt es Richter. Und mit der Verteidigung

wirksamen Worten dich vertretend mach' ich dort

von dieser Not und Fährde dich endgiltig frei.

Ich schulde dir's, denn ich befahl den Muttermord.

Orestes aus dem Tempel tretend; den Zweig lässt er zurück, das Schwert hat er eingesteckt.

Orestes.

85 Herr, deine Weisheit weiſs das Rechte. Da du's weiſst,

so lern', Apollon, auch das Rechte bald zu thun.

Dein ist die Macht zu helfen, wo du es versprichst.

Apollon.

Bewahre dir den Glauben. Lass' dir von der Furcht

nicht die Besinnung rauben. Bruder Hermes, du

hab' Acht auf ihn. Zeus' Söhne sind wir beide ja,

90 so pflege deines Amtes als der Wanderer

Behüter, dessen wartend, der in meinen Schutz

gestellt ist. Wenn von dir geleitet fremdem Haus

der ausgestofs'ne Flüchtling naht, so segnet Zeus

den Eingang ihm, des Gastrechts und Erbarmens Herr.

Hermes, der, als ihn Apollon anredet, plötzlich erschienen ist, geleitet Orestes zur Seite ab. Apollon verschwindet. Pause. Der Schatten der Klytaimestra steigt aus dem Boden vor den schlafenden Erinyen auf.

Klytaimestra.

Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 78 focus

ORESTES

This hand, my drawn sword wielding, smote her neck.

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.) — 64 focus

Lo, I desert thee never: to the end,

Hard at thy side as now, or sundered far,

I am thy guard, and to thine enemies

Implacably oppose me: look on them,
85

These greedy fiends, beneath my craft subdued!

See, they are fallen on sleep, these beldames old,

Unto whose grim and wizened maidenhood

Nor god nor man nor beast can e'er draw near.

Yea, evil were they born, for evil's doom,
90

Evil the dark abyss of Tartarus

Wherein they dwell, and they themselves the hate

Of men on earth, and of Olympian gods.

But thou, flee far and with unfaltering speed;

For they shall hunt thee through the mainland wide
95

Where'er throughout the tract of travelled earth

Thy foot may roam, and o'er and o'er the seas

And island homes of men. Faint not nor fail,

Too soon and timidly within thy breast

Shepherding thoughts forlorn of this thy toil;
100

But unto Pallas' city go, and there

Crouch at her shrine, and in thine arms enfold

Her ancient image: there we well shall find

Meet judges for this cause and suasive pleas,

Skilled to contrive for thee deliverance
105

From all this woe. Be such my pledge to thee,

For by my hest thou didst thy mother slay.

Orestes.

O king Apollo, since right well thou know'st

What justice bids, have heed, fulfil the same,—

Thy strength is all-sufficient to achieve.
110

Apollo.

Have thou too heed, nor let thy fear prevail

Above thy will. And do thou guard him, Hermes,

Whose blood is brother unto mine, whose sire

The same high God. Men call thee guide and guard,

Guide therefore thou and guard my suppliant;
115

For Zeus himself reveres the outlaw's right,

Boon of fair escort, upon man conferred.

[ Exeunt Apollo, Hermes, and Orestes. The Ghost of Clytemnestra rises.

Ghost of Clytemnestra.

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.) — 64 focus

Nie werd' ich dich verlassen; nein, ich stehe stets

Zur Seite dir als Hüter, auch entfernt von dir,¹
65

Und werde deinen Feinden nie befreundet sein.

So siehst du jetzt gefangen dort die Nasenden;

Vom Schlaf gebunden ruhen sie, die scheußlichen

Jungfraun, die greisen Mädchen, die kein Gott umarmt,

Und denen liebend weder Mensch noch Thier sich naht.
70

Zu finstern Thaten wurden sie; denn finstre Nacht,

Der Tartaros tief unten, ist ihr Aufenthalt;

Sie sind ein Gräul den Menschen, wie den Himmlischen.

Doch fliehe nur vor ihnen, darfst nicht lässig sein.

Denn über Festlands Weiten treibt dich diese Schaar
75

In ruheloser Irre durch die Erde hin,

Und über Meer und meerumrauschtes Inselland.

Auf dieser Mühen banger Fahrt ermatte nicht

Zu frühe! Wenn du hingelangst in Pallas' Burg,

So size nieder und umschling' ihr altes Bild.
80

Dort werden wir die Richter über solche Schuld,

Das Wort der Sühne finden und erspäh'n die Bahn,

Die deiner Mühen aller dich erledige.

Denn auch zum Muttermorde trieb ich selbst dich an.

Orestes.

O Fürst Apollon, dir gefällt das Rechte nur;
85

In solchem Sinn denn zeige dich um mich besorgt.

Denn daß du's wohl vollendest, bürgt mir deine Macht.

Apollon.

Vertraue, laß dich keine Furcht bewältigen !

Doch du, geliebter Bruder, Eines Vaters Blut,

Hermes, behüt' ihn! Werde, was dein Name sagt,
90

Sein Führer, und geleite mir, ein treuer Hirt,

Den Schüßling! Ehrt Zeus selber doch dein Ehrenamt,

Das wohlgeleitend Segen schafft den Sterblichen.

(Orestes geht ab; Apollon verschwindet im Hintergrunde. Aus der stygischen Pforte schwebt der Schatten Klytämnestra's herauf, und wendet sich zu den schlafenden Erinnhen.)

Klytämnestra.

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

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.)

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ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ Ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν μὴ δικεῖν (eraso ε)· 85 ἐπεὶ δ' ἐπίστα, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μὴ μελεῖν μάθε, σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ. ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ᾿δικεῖν 85 ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ᾿μελεῖν μάθε. σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Ὀρέστης. ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν· 85 ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε. σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Κλυταιμήστρας εἴδωλον.

Apparatus Criticus

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν, 85 ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίσται, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε. σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὐ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Ὀρέστης ἄναξ "Απολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν· 85 ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε. σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὐ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Κλυταιμνήστρας εἴδωλον

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν· 85 ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾶι, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε· σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Κλυταιμήστρα

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

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

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

ORESTES King Apollo thou knowest indeed to be just, and since thou knowest this, learn also not to be unmindful, but your power is an assurance that you will do things well.

GHOST OF CLYTEMNESTRA

ORESTE. Sire Apollon, tu sais être juste : dès lors, apprends aussi à être vigilant, et ta puissance est garante de tes bienfaits.

L'OMBRE DE CLYTEMNESTRE. Dormez donc à votre aise : ah!

APOLLO. Graſp her time-honour'd image. Holding there 105 Concordant counſels, lenient of these ills, We shall not want the means to heal thy pains, And ratify thy peace: for at my bidding Thy ſword is purple with thy mother's blood.

ORESTES. 'Tis not unknown to thee, royal Apollo, 110 That I have done no deed of baſe injustice: This known, forſake not, ſlight not my juſt cauſe: Strong is thy pow'r, and faithful to defend.

The GHOST of CLYTEMNESTRA.

Ma pur, tu fuggi, e non fiaccarti: ch'esse 90

ORESTE O sire Apollo, essere giusto sai. Poi che sai questo, sappi anche esser memore. La potenza d'oprare è in te ben salda.

APOLLO Ricorda! Né terror ti vinca l'anima. 105 Ermete, e tu ch'ài padre il padre mio, come, o fratello, il nome tuo pur suona, sii custode, sii guida a questo supplice mio, sii pastore. Giove stesso onora, 110 quando la sorte ad essi arride, i supplici.

CLITENNESTRA

Ore. O rex Apollo, nosti enim non iniuria afficere, Verùm enimuerò ſcias, & diſce non cunctari. 90 Robur uerò tuum facere idoneum.

Apo. Recordare ne tibi metus uincat mentem. Tu uerò fraternum ſanguinem, & communi patris Mercuri custodi, admodum exiſtens eiufdem nominis, Deductor esto. Hunc uerò regens meum 95 Supplicem colit ſanè Iupiter cultum ex legibus, Impellentem mortalibus bona duce fortuna.

Cly. Idolum

Orestes. 85 Herr, deine Weisheit weiſs das Rechte. Da du's weiſst, so lern', Apollon, auch das Rechte bald zu thun. Dein ist die Macht zu helfen, wo du es versprichst.

Klytaimestra.

ORESTES This hand, my drawn sword wielding, smote her neck.

Orestes. O king Apollo, since right well thou know'st What justice bids, have heed, fulfil the same,— Thy strength is all-sufficient to achieve. 110

Ghost of Clytemnestra.

Orestes. O Fürst Apollon, dir gefällt das Rechte nur; 85 In solchem Sinn denn zeige dich um mich besorgt. Denn daß du's wohl vollendest, bürgt mir deine Macht.

Klytämnestra.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

Χορός

ἐφεστίῳ δὲ μάντις ὢν⁵ μιάσματι

μυχὸν⁶ ἔχρανας⁷ αὐτόσσυτος, αὐτόκλητος,
170

παρὰ νόμον⁸ θεῶν βρότεα μὲν τίων,

παλαιγενεῖς δὲ Μοίρας φθίσας.

174

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.

Ὀρέστης

ἄναξ ἄπολλον· οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ 'δικεῖν,
85

Ὀρέστης

ἐπεὶ δ' ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ μελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν, ὦ φθέγγυον τὸ σόν.

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ.

ἄναξ ῎Απολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μἀδικεῖν·
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μἀμελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Ὀρέστης

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν·

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε.

Ὀρέστης

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.
90

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ

Ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν μὴ δικεῖν (eraso ε)·
85

ἐπεὶ δ' ἐπίστα, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μὴ μελεῖν μάθε,

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ.

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ᾿δικεῖν
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ᾿μελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Ὀρέστης.

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν·
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν,
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίσται, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὐ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

Ὀρέστης

ἄναξ "Απολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν·
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε.

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὐ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν·
85

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπίστᾶι, καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε·

σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εὖ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.

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

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

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

ORESTES

King Apollo thou knowest indeed to be just, and since thou knowest this, learn also not to be unmindful, but your power is an assurance that you will do things well.

ORESTE.

Sire Apollon, tu sais être juste : dès lors, apprends aussi à être vigilant, et ta puissance est garante de tes bienfaits.

L'OMBRE DE CLYTEMNESTRE.

Dormez donc à votre aise : ah!

APOLLO.

Graſp her time-honour'd image. Holding there
105

Concordant counſels, lenient of these ills,

We shall not want the means to heal thy pains,

And ratify thy peace: for at my bidding

Thy ſword is purple with thy mother's blood.

ORESTES.

'Tis not unknown to thee, royal Apollo,
110

That I have done no deed of baſe injustice:

This known, forſake not, ſlight not my juſt cauſe:

Strong is thy pow'r, and faithful to defend.

Ma pur, tu fuggi, e non fiaccarti: ch'esse
90

ORESTE

O sire Apollo, essere giusto sai.

Poi che sai questo, sappi anche esser memore.

La potenza d'oprare è in te ben salda.

APOLLO

Ricorda! Né terror ti vinca l'anima.
105

Ermete, e tu ch'ài padre il padre mio,

come, o fratello, il nome tuo pur suona,

sii custode, sii guida a questo supplice

mio, sii pastore.

Giove stesso onora,
110

quando la sorte ad essi arride, i supplici.

Ore.

O rex Apollo, nosti enim non iniuria afficere,

Verùm enimuerò ſcias, & diſce non cunctari.
90

Robur uerò tuum facere idoneum.

Apo.

Recordare ne tibi metus uincat mentem.

Tu uerò fraternum ſanguinem, & communi patris

Mercuri custodi, admodum exiſtens eiufdem nominis,

Deductor esto. Hunc uerò regens meum
95

Supplicem colit ſanè Iupiter cultum ex legibus,

Impellentem mortalibus bona duce fortuna.

Orestes.

85 Herr, deine Weisheit weiſs das Rechte. Da du's weiſst,

so lern', Apollon, auch das Rechte bald zu thun.

Dein ist die Macht zu helfen, wo du es versprichst.

ORESTES

This hand, my drawn sword wielding, smote her neck.

Orestes.

O king Apollo, since right well thou know'st

What justice bids, have heed, fulfil the same,—

Thy strength is all-sufficient to achieve.
110

Orestes.

O Fürst Apollon, dir gefällt das Rechte nur;
85

In solchem Sinn denn zeige dich um mich besorgt.

Denn daß du's wohl vollendest, bürgt mir deine Macht.