Aeschylus Eumenides 1032

Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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

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Current edition Perseus

Εὐμενίδες (Greek) (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.)

Editions (11)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1032-1047 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 1032 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1032 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1032 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1032 focus
Βᾶθ' ὁδόν, ὦ βάτ (βᾶτ᾿ Τr) ἐν δόμῳ μεγάλαι φιλότιμοι
Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἄπαιδες, ὑπ'
εὔφρονι εὐθύφρονι (εὐθύφρι F) πομπᾷ
1030
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 1032 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1032 focus
βᾶτε δόμῳ, μεγάλαι φιλότιμοι
Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἄπαιδες,
ὑπ᾽ εὔφρονι πομπᾷ
1035
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1032 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1032 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 1032 focus
βᾶτε δόμῳ, μεγάλαι φιλότιμοι
985
Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἄπαιδες ὑπ᾿ εὔφρονι πομπᾷ,
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 1032 focus
βᾶτ᾽ ἐς ὁδόν, μεγάλαι φιλότιμοι
Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἄπαιδες, ὑπ᾽ εὐθύφρονι πομπᾶι
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.)) — 1032 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1032 focus
Depart home, ye mighty honoured virgin daughters of Night, with a friendly escort. (
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1032 focus
ces déesses en vous enveloppant dans des robes de pourpre 1 , et faites jaillir la clarté du feu, afin
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1032 focus
Remove then from this hallow'd fane,
Daughters of Night, remove your virgin train:
1170
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1032 focus
O de la Notte possenti onorate figliuole
intatte, a la vostra dimora movete,
1080
seguite dal sacro corteo.
E voi, cittadini, acclamate!
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1032 focus
Ite domum honorandæ
Noctis filiæ ſine liberis,
965
Cum prudente pompa.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1032 focus
Schreitet im festlich geordneten Zuge,
1035 hehre, jungfräuliche Töchter der Nacht.
Treue giebt euch das Geleit.
Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1032 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.) — 1032 focus
Chant.
With loyalty we lead you; proudly go,
Night's childless children, to your home below!
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.) — 1032 focus
Wandelt in's Haus, ihr Gewaltigen, Hehren,
Greise Töchter der Nacht, in des Zugs treuem Geleite!
Bürger, feiert in Andacht still!
Erste Gegenstrophe.
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.)

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 .

1033. βᾶτε δόμῳ , pass into your home, Epic use of the dat. local after verb of motion, e. g. πεδίῳ πέσε (11. 5. 82), κυνέῃ βάλε (7.187).

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-772-1

Προπομποί
:
προπομπός χορός
adscriptum in Flor. Chori nomen in M. Aug. Par. Ven. Ald. Turn. Nulla personae nota in Rob. βᾶτε δόμῳ Wellauerus.
βάτ' ἐν δόμωι
Μ.
βάτ᾽ ἐν δόμῳ
(vel
δόμῳ
) Aug. Par. G. Ven. Flor. Ald.
βᾶτ' ἐνδόμῳ
Rob.
βάτ᾽ ἐκ δόμων
Turn.

mvp-comment-773-1 Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἄπαιδες non dicuntur Furiae quod prole careant, quae Schutzii et O. Mülleri opinio fuit, sed intelliguntur grandaevae. Ita v. 72.

Νυκτὸς παλαιαὶ παῖδες
. Deinde ὑπ᾽ εὔφρονι πομπᾷ:
απευθύφρον πομπᾷ
Α.
ὑπ᾽ εὐθύφοι πομπᾷ
Flor. Ceteri
ὑπ᾽ εὐθύφρονι πομπᾷ
. Ludovicus Dindorfius in Stephani Thes. vol. III. p. 2503. scribendum coniecit
ὑπ' εύφρονι πομπα
. [ recepi.

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

mvp-comment-302-1 πρέπῃ] In order that the Erinyes, in their new character of Eumenides, may be known henceforth for causing circumstances favourable to the manly character of the citizens. The allusion is perhaps to v. 875.

mvp-comment-303-1 The concluding hymn, sung by escorts who with the goddess head the procession, is very corrupt. In the first verse ἐν δόμῳ should perhaps be δόμους, go to your abodes; in the second, the dactylic metre suggests the omission of Νυκτός. Ιη ν. 990 περίσεπται τύχα τε (τύχαι τε Med.) is hard to correct; perhaps θυσίαισιν ὑπαὶ πυρίσεπτοι. In 996 εἰσόπιν and ἴτων is Linwood's conjecture for ἐς τὸ πᾶν οἴκων. Let libations made by torchlight (i.e. libationbearers) follow behind.

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.) focus

mvp-comment-318-1 αἱ προπομποί.

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-538-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 322

mvp-comment-538-2 δόμῳ d. h. in eure künftige Behausung. Über den Dativ Krüger II § 46, 2, 4 . παῖδες ἄπαιδες, vgl. 69 Νυκτός παλαιαὶ παῖδες, Kinder der Nacht, aber keine Kinder mehr, sondern Greisinnen. Vgl. ἄπολιν πόλιν 460. Das Ephymnion unterbricht den Satz; denn das folgende γᾶς ὑπὸ κεύθεσιν κτέ. schliefst sich an βᾶτε πομπᾷ an.

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

βᾶτε δόμῳ , pass into your home, Epic use of the dat. local after verb of motion, e. g. πεδίῳ πέσε (11. 5. 82), κυνέῃ βάλε (7.187).