Aeschylus Eumenides 916

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.) — 916-1020 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 916 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 916 focus
Δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
915
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ Παγκρατὴς Ἄρης τε
φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλά-
νων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων,
920
ᾷτ' ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς
ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
γαίας ἐξαμβρῦσαι -αμβρόσαι -αμυρόσαι,
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
925
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν,
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς Ἄρης τε
φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
920
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλά-
νων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων.
τᾷδ᾽ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς Ἄρης
τε φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων·
920
ἆιτ’ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς
ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
γαίας ἐξαμβρῦσαι
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
925
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν,
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς
880
῎Αρης τε φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων·
ᾆτ᾿ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι,
θεσπίσασα πρευμενώς,
ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
885
γαίας † ἐξαμβράσαι
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν,
στρ. α
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς Ἄρης τε φρούριον
θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων (θ᾽)·
920
ἆιτ᾽ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας
ὀνησίμους
γαίας ἐξαμβρύσειν
925
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
Translations (10)
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 916 focus
I will accept the fellowship of Pallas, nor will I despise a city whieli even all-powerful Jove and Mars regard as the defence of the gods, the delight of the deities of Greece, protecting their altars. For which I pray, prophesying benevolently, that the bright ray of the sun cause to spring 1
from the earth goods useful for life in abundance.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 916 focus
je veux vivre avec Pallas et ne point dédaigner la ville dont Zeus tout-puissant et Arès font par
leur présence le donjon des dieux, éclatant rempart des saints autels de la Grèce. Sur elle j'épands mes vœux en oracles propices. Que tous les bonheurs qui font une vie
prospère, de son sol,
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 916 focus
Goddeſs, here thy ſeat I ſhare,
Hoſtile to this town no more;
1045
Which the dreadful God of War,
And the Thund'rer's ſovereign pow'r,
Give the pride of Greece to riſe
Guardian of the rites divine,
Glory of the fav'ring ſkies,
1050
Give to watch o'er freedom's ſhrine.
I too breath the potent pray'r:
May the ſun's ambrofial ray,
Rolling o'er the fruitful year,
All its richeſt charms diſplay!
1055
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 916 focus
Mi sarà grato vivere con Pallade;
né la città dispregio
cui Giove ed il gagliardo
965
Marte, dei Numi asil vollero, e fregio,
e all'are baluardo
di tutti i Numi Ellèni.
Per essa, con fatidici
benigni augurî imploro che della vita i beni
970
faccia il sol coi suoi vampi
impetuosi germinar dai campi.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 916 focus
Suſcipio Palladis ædem, neq; ignominia afficiam
Quam & Iupiter præpotens, Marsq;
Cuſtodiam deorum incolit, liberatrice Græcorum,
Effigiem dæmonum, Cui ego precor
Vaticinans propitiæ obnoxias uitæ fortunas felices
865
Terræ fundere pulchrum ſolis iubar.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 916 focus
Ich nehm' es an,
kehre bei Athena ein,
verschmähe nicht die Pallasstadt,
die Götterburg; Zeus, der allgewaltige,
920 und Ares weilen gern in ihr.
Sie schirmt und schmückt Tempel und Altäre
den Göttern all' von Hellas.
Ihr hold gesinnt sprech' ich zukunftkundig
den Segenswunsch: mög' auf alle Zeiten
der Sonne froher Glanz
925 ihr aus der Erde Schofs hervor
locken gedeihliches Glück.
Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 916 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.) — 916 focus
Lo, I accept it; at her very side
Doth Pallas bid me dwell:
1050
I will not wrong the city of her pride,
Which even Almighty Zeus and Ares hold
Heaven's earthly citadel,
Loved home of Grecian gods, the young, the old,
The sanctuary divine,
1055
The shield of every shrine!
For Athens I say forth a gracious prophecy,—
The glory of the sunlight and the skies
Shall bid from earth arise,
Warm wavelets of new life and glad prosperity.
1060
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.) — 916 focus
Nehm' ich denn neben Pallas meinen Siz,
Und verschmähe nicht die Stadt,
Die selbst Zeus, der Herr des Alls, und Ares
Als die Burg des Himmels liebt,
875
Als der Götter Hellas'
Tempelschirmend Ehrenbild!
Ihr verkünd' ich segnend nun,
Ihr verheiß' ich gnadenreich,
Daß fröhlichsprossend Lebensglück aus reichem Born
880
Aufsprudle vom Erdenschooß,
Den der Sonne Glanz erschließt.
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.)

916. Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν , i. e. to dwell with Pallas.

918. ῎Αρης . is specially mentioned, no doubt because of the Areiopagos, the scene of the latter half of the play.

924. ἐξαμβρῦσαι . (from ἐξαναβρύω used transitively) is Pauw's probable correction of the meaningless readings of MSS. It is adopted by H. Weil, Lin., Schütz. Well.

929. κατανασσαμένη , middle, housing in my city. 11. 932, 933. The MSS. read

ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων
οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου.
Now τούτων here must refer to the Furies, as αὗται above and τάσδε below: and consequently βαρέων must be wrong, as (1) it is the wrong gender: (2) even if we suppose (with D.) a fem. form βαρεῶν, it clearly is the wrong sense. What Aeschylus means to say is, He who incurs the wrath of the Furies meets with unexpected calamity: the sins of his fathers bring him into their power.

964. ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous .

1034. παῖδες ἄπαιδες , the MSS. reading, could hardly mean childless children, which seems pointless: it might mean evil children, like vᾶes ἄναες: but the real objection to any such word as ἄπαιδες is that here the words in which the Chorus are addressed are specially reverent and honourable. It is best to reject it and then we get rid also of τύχᾳ τε, meaningless and unmetrical, at the end of 1. 1037.

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

mvp-comment-702-1 νέμει:

νόμοι
Rob.
νόμον
Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-703-1 ῥυσίβωμον:

ουσίβολον
G. Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-704-1 ᾧ τ᾽:

ᾧ
Turn.
μ'
M.
αἵ
G.
αἵ τ'
Aug. Rob.
αἵ τ'
Ald.
αἵτ'
, ut videtur, Ven. Flor.
αἷς
Farn.

mvp-comment-705-1 ἐπισσύτους ... ὀνησίμους:

ἐπισεύτους
G. Ald. unde
ἐπιτεύκτους
fecit Turn.
βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. et, ut Franzius ait, Flor. ex quo Linwoodius
βίους τύχας
affert.
βίους ὀνησίμους
, omisso
τύχας
, Ven. Farn. Adscriptum in Ven. Flor.
καὶ τοῦτο
(
τοῦτο
Flor.)
περισσὸν
(
περισσῶς
Flor.)
πρὸς τὸ κῶλον τῆς ἀντιστροφῆς
.

mvp-comment-706-1 ἐξαμβρῦσαι: Hi duo versus omissi in Aug.

ἐξαμβρόσαι
M. G. Ald. Turn.
ἐξ ἀμβρόσαι
Rob.
ἐξαμϋρόσαι
Ven. Flor. Farn. Adscriptum
ἀντὶ μιᾶς
in Farn. Probabilis est Pauwii emendatio,
ἐξαμβοῦσαι
, quamquam non videtur inveniri aliud aoristi primi huius verbi exemplum. De activo
βρύειν
v. Lob. ad Αi. p. 93.

Commentary on the Eumenides (OCR draft) (Brief English notes on Aeschylus' Eumenides by F. A. Paley, 1885.) focus

mvp-comment-280-1 καὶ Ζεύς] the Almighty Zeus also (as well as his daughter Athena). The fortified area of the Acropolis is appropriately called φρούριον, the garrison of the gods, and the deities' darling abode. See Thuc. 11. 15, 5 .

mvp-comment-281-1 πρευμενώς] They are now well-wishers,' Εύμενίδες.

mvp-comment-282-1 ἐξαμβράσαι, from ἐκβράσσω, οι ἐκβράζω, to cause to spring forth, is Prof. Scholefield's correction of ἐξαμβρόσαι. Such an aorist however has no early authority in its favour, and the true reading is very uncertain. See Veitch, Gr. Verbs, p. 142.

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-487-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

mvp-comment-487-2 Kommos. Der Chor erfleht oder weissagt alles Gute (Wachstum und Gedeihen der Früchte und Herden Gesundheit des Volkes und bürgerliche Eintracht Wohlwollen und Segen der Götter) für Athen und wird darob von Athena belobt und geehrt. · ξυνοικίαν: zu 836.

mvp-comment-488-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

mvp-comment-488-2 καὶ entspricht nicht dem folgenden τέ, sondern heifst,,auch, sogar".

mvp-comment-489-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314

mvp-comment-489-2 φρούριον θεῶν, insofern sie ein die Altäre der Götter schützendes Kleinod der Hellenen" ist. Diesen Ruhm hat sich Athen eigentlich erst durch die Perserkriege erworben, weil nach der Vorstellung der Griechen die Perser es auf die Altäre und Tempel der griechischen Götter abgesehen hatten. Vgl. Pers. 811 f. , Herod. VII 109 .

mvp-comment-490-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-490-2 άτε κι ἐξαμβοῦσαι: ihr möge der Sonne glänzender Strahl aus der Erde reichen Segen des Lebensunterhalts hervorquellen lassen. ἐπίσσυτος ist gebraucht wie ἐπίρρυτος 908, wenn nicht nach Meinekes Vermutung ἐπιρρύτους zu schreiben ist. Unter βίου .. ὀνησίμους sind, wie das Folgende zeigt, gesegnete Ernten und reichliche Erträgnisse des Bodens zu verstehen; es steht also ẞiov im Sinne von βιότου wie frg. 41 D. μήλων τε βοσκὰς καὶ βίον Δημήτριον. — ἐξαναβρῦσαι transitiv wie auch βρύω gebraucht wird. Vgl. Lobeck zu Soph. Ai. p. 932 .

Commentary (Arthur Sidgwick, 1887) (OCR draft) (Arthur Sidgwick's commentary on the Eumenides, aligned to the canonical Greek text.) focus

Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν , i. e. to dwell with Pallas.

῎Αρης . is specially mentioned, no doubt because of the Areiopagos, the scene of the latter half of the play.

mvp-sidgwick-427-1-1 There is a fine boldness about the expressions which Aeschylus uses for Athens, 'the fortress of the gods..., the glory of the Powers of Greece, the saviour of their altars;' an imaginative rendering of the favourite idea of the piety' of Athens ll. 805, 869

.

mvp-sidgwick-428-1-1 This prayer closely follows Athena's suggestion ll. 906-908

, 'that the bright sunshine make to blossom up from the earth the blessings of life in plenty.' ἐπισσύτους (lit. rushing on, used of the springs of tears, Ag. 887 , and of the throes of vain sorrow, Ag. 1150 ) corresponds to ἐπίρρυτον l. 907
.

ἐξαμβρῦσαι . (from ἐξαναβρύω used transitively) is Pauw's probable correction of the meaningless readings of MSS. It is adopted by H. Weil, Lin., Schütz. Well.