Aeschylus Eumenides 808

Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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Eumenides. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1926.

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Eumenides (English) (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Editions (12)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 778-891 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 808 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 808 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 808 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 808 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 808 focus
Ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι,
παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου·
810
ἐγὼ δ' ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος
ἐν γῇ τᾷδε, φεῦ, 1
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπεν-
θῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας
σταλαγμὸν χθονὶ
815
ἄφορον — ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 808 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 808 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 808 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου·
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος,
810
ἐν γᾶι τᾶιδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας,
σταλαγμὸν χθόνι⟨ον⟩ ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
λειχὴν ἄφυλλος ἄτεκνος, ὦ Δίκα ⟨Δίκα⟩,
815
πέδον ἐπισύμενος
βροτοφθόρους κηλῖδας ἐν χώραι βαλεῖ.
στενάζω· τί ῥέξω;
γελῶμαι· †δύσοιστα
πολίταις ἔπαθον
820
ἰὼ μεγάλατοι†
κόραι δυστυχεῖς
Νυχτὸς ἀτιμοπενθεῖς.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 808 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 808 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιούς νόμους
775
καθιππάσασθε, κἀκ χερῶν εἶλεσθέ μου.
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ὁ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος
ἐν γᾷ τᾷδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας,
σταλαγμὸν χθονὶ
780
ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ λιχὴν ἄφυλλος,
ἄτεκνος, ὦ δίκα, πέδον ἐπισύμενος,
βροτοφθόρους κηλίδας ἐν χώρᾳ βαλεῖ·
στενάζω; τί ῥέξω; γένωμαι
δυσοίστα πολίταις ἅπαθον;
785
ἰὼ, μεγάλα τοι, κόραι δυστυχεῖς
Νυκτὸς ἀτιμοπενθεῖς.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 808 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου.
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος
810
ἐν γᾶι τᾶιδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας
σταλαγμὸν χθονί
ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
λειχὴν ἄφυλλος, ἄτεκνος,
815
ἰὼ Δίκα, πέδον ἐπισύμενος
βροτοφθόρους κηλίδας ἐν χώρᾶι βαλεῖ,
(στενάζω· τί ῥέξω; γένωμαι;) δύσοισθ᾽ (ἆς)
πολίταις ἔπαθον.
820
ἰὼ μεγάλα τοι κόραι δυστυχεῖς
Νυκτὸς ἀτιμοπενθεῖς.
Translations (10)
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 808 focus
O youthful gods, you have trampled on the ancient laws, and have snatched [him] from my hands. But I dis­ honoured, miserable, inflamed with rage, in this land, ah, ah will pour forth, in return for my sorrow, a drop from my heart on the ground causing sterility, and from it a venom destroy­ ing leaves and children (
O Justice
!) rushing on the plain, shall cast mortal-destroying stains in the country. Shall I groan? what shall I do? what will become of me? I have suffered things intolerable to the citizens. Ah! most wretched in truth are the daughters of Night grieving for their disgrace.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 808 focus
Ah! jeunes dieux, vous piétinez les lois antiques, et vous m'arrachez ce que j'ai en mains. Soit!
l'infortunée qu'on humilie fera sentir à cette terre — ah! malheur! — ce que pèse son courroux. Mon venin, mon venin, cruellement, me vengera. Chaque goutte qui en coulera de mon cœur coûtera cher à cette ville : une lèpre en sor-
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 808 focus
I burſt with rage. With cruel pride
920
Theſe youthful Gods my flighted age deride;
And, the old laws diſdaining to obey,
Rend from my hands my prey.
Tortur'd with grief's corroding ſmart,
And taught diſgrace and ſcorn to know,
925
Diſtilling from my anguiſh'd heart
The peſtilential drop ſhall flow;
Where'er it falls, nor fruit around
Nor leaf ſhall grace the blaſted ground;
Thro' the ſick air its baleful dews
930
A cauſtic venom ſhall diffuſe;
And breathing on this hated race
With deep rough ſcars the beauteous form deface.
Vainly ſhall I heave my ſighs,
Or bid my angry vengeance riſe?
935
To inſults, which my boſom rend,
Vulgar ſpirits ſcorn to bend;
And ſhall thy daughters, aweful Night, in vain
Of their diſgrace complain?
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 808 focus
Ahi, nuovi Iddei, sotto i pie' calpestate
le antiche leggi! Di man le mie prede
voi mi strappate! Ma, spoglia d'onore,
io sciagurata, nell'aspra mia doglia,
825
stillerò lo sterminio
sopra questo terreno,
dal furore dell'anima
sprizzando atro veleno.
Da questo una serpigine
830
che greggi strugga ed erba,
su le zolle spargendosi,
di letifere macchie la terra coprirà.
Che faccio? Verso lagrime?
Sarò con questi cittadini acerba ?
835
O della Notte misere
figlie, nessuno, onor prestato v'ha.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 808 focus
O dij iuuenes antiquas leges
Euertiſtis, & ex manibus cepiſtis me,
Ego uerò ignominioſa miſera iracunda
In hac terra, heu, heu, heu luctuosam
770
Emittens cordis guttam, terræ intolerabilem, ex qua
Lichen ſolijs carens & liberis.
Heu cauſa campum impellens,
Mortalium interfectrices maculas in regionem iactabit.
Lugeo, quid faciam, ſiam, intoleranda
775
A ciuibus paſsa ſum, ò admodum
Puellæ infelices noctis ignominioſæ.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 808 focus
Weh, ihr habt es zertreten,
es meinen Händen entwunden,
mein altes Recht,
ihr jungen Götter.
Ehrlos bin ich, doch Gift,
wehe, zum Lohn für die Schande,
Gift auf das Land,
meinem Herzen entquellend
Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 808 focus
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.) — 808 focus
Woe on you, younger gods! the ancient right
Ye have o'erridden, rent it from my hands.
I am dishonoured of you, thrust to scorn!
But heavily my wrath
935
Shall on his land fling forth the drops that blast and burn,
Venom of vengeance, that shall work such scathe
As I have suffered; where that dew shall fall,
Shall leafless blight arise,
Wasting Earth's offspring,—Justice, hear my call!—
940
And thorough all the land in deadly wise
Shall scatter venom, to exude again
In pestilence on men.
What cry avails me now, what deed of blood,
Unto this land, what dark despite?
945
Alack, alack, forlorn
Are we, a bitter injury have borne,
Alack, O sisters, O dishonoured brood
Of mother Night!
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.) — 808 focus
Geschlecht der neuen Götter, ha! Du tratst altes Recht
Tollkühn mit Füßen, und entwand'st es meiner Hand.
775
Und ich, beschimpft, ich Arme, schütte zornentbrannt
Auf dies Land, o Graun!
Schütte rachglühend hier Gift hinab aus meiner Brust;
Es strömt hin in's Land, vertilgt alle Saat;
Die Flur, o Nache!
780
Umspinnt dürres Moos, von Laub nackt und Frucht,
Und streut des Todes Flecken durch die Gau'n umher.
Wir klagen? Was thun wir? Es höhnt uns das Volk aus.
Uns traf herbes Leid, o Graun! schweres Weh,
Der Nacht Töchter, uns, die schmachvoll gekränkten.
785
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

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

mvp-comment-592-1 NA: Versus 783 - 809 desunt in Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-603-1 NA: Chori nota omissa in G.

mvp-comment-604-1 NA: Huius et sequentium huius strophae versuum initia tantum scripta sunt in Aug. in cuius margine adiectum

ὅπερ καὶ πρότερον εἴρηκεν
.

mvp-comment-605-1 κἀκ χερῶν:

κἀκ χερῶν
Rob. Τurn.
καχερῶν
Μ.
κἀκχειρῶν
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-606-1 εἵλεσθέ μου:

εἵλετέ μου
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-607-1 ἰὸν τὸν ἀντιπενθῆ:

Τὸν τὸν
Μ. Par. G. et in Aug. quoque id initium versus est.
Ιου ιου
Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἀντιπενθῆ
Turn.
ἀντιπαθῆ
M. Par. G. Ald. Rob.

mvp-comment-608-1 καρδίας:

καρδίαν
Turn.

mvp-comment-609-1 σταλαγμὸν χθόνιον ἄφορον:

χθονιαφόρον
Μ. G. Rob.
χθόνια φόρον
Ald.
χθονὶ ἄφορον
Turn.

mvp-comment-610-1 λειχὴν: Libri

λιχήν
.

mvp-comment-611-1 ὦ δίκα, δίκα: et deinde

i
et semel
δίκα
.

mvp-comment-612-1 ἐπισύμενος:

ἐπεσσύμενος
Μ. G. Rob.
ἐπεσσύμος
Ald.
ἐπεσσυμένος
Turn.

mvp-comment-613-1 βαλεῖ:

βαλεῖ
Turn. Ceteri
βαλεῖν
. Scholiastes
λείπει ἐμποιήσω
.

mvp-comment-614-1 γελῶμαι πολίταις: Omnes ut supra, etiam Aug.

γένωμαι
.

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-428-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 306

mvp-comment-428-2 Kommos, Aussöhnung der gekränkten und tief ergrimmten Erinyen durch die begütigenden Worte der Athena. Der Chor singt zwei Strophen, die er als Antistrophen wiederholt. Jeder Strophe und Antistrophe folgen 13 Verse der Athena, wornach die Partie mit 12 Versen Stichomythie und 12 Versen einer ῥῆσις der Athena abgeschlossen wird. Vgl. zu Ag. 1435 .