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

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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.) — 892-915 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 848 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 848 focus
ὀργὰς ξυνοίσω σοι· γεραιτέρα γὰρ εἶ.
850
καίτοι μὲν σὺ κάρτ᾿ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα,
φρονεῖν δὲ κἀμοὶ Ζεὺς ἔδωκεν οὐ κακῶς.
ὑμεῖς δ᾽ ἐς ἀλλόφυλον ἐλθοῦσαι χθόνα
γῆς τῆσδ᾽ ἐρασθήσεσθε· προυννέπω τάδε.
οὑπιρρέων γὰρ τιμιώτερος χρόνος
855
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 848 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 848 focus
ὀργὰς ξυνοίσω σοι· γεραιτέρα γὰρ εἶ.
[καίτοι γε μὴν σὺ κάρτ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα,]
φρονεῖν δὲ κἀμοὶ Ζεὺς ἔδωκεν οὐ κακῶς.
ὑμεῖς δ᾽ ἐς ἀλλόφυλον ἐλθοῦσαι χθόνα
γῆς τῆσδ᾽ ἐρασθήσεσθε· προὐννέπω τάδε.
815
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 848 focus
ὀργὰς ξυνοίσω σοι· γεραιτέρα γὰρ εἶ.
καὶ τῶι μὲν εἶ σὺ κάρτ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα,
φρονεῖν δὲ κἀμοὶ Ζεὺς ἔδωκεν οὐ κακῶς.
850
ὑμεῖς δ᾽ ἐς ἀλλόφυλον ἐλθοῦσαι χθόνα
γῆς τῆσδ᾽ ἐρασθήσεσθε· προυννέπω τάδε.
οὑπιρρέων γὰρ τιμιώτερος χρόνος
ἔσται πολίταις τοῖσδε. καὶ σὺ τιμίαν
ἕδραν ἔχουσα πρὸς δόμοις Ἐρεχθέως
855
τεύξηι παρ᾽ ἀνδρῶν καὶ γυναικείων στόλων,
ὅσην παρ᾽ ἄλλων οὔποτ᾽ ἂν σχέθοις βροτῶν.
σὺ δ᾽ ἐν τόποισι τοῖς ἐμοῖσι μὴ βάληις
μήθ᾽ αἱματηρὰς θηγάνας σπλάγχνων βλάβας
νέων ἀοίνοις ἐμμανέσι θυμώμασιν,
860
μήτ᾽ ἐξελοῦσ᾽ ὡς καρδίαν ἀλεκτόρων
ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἀστοῖσιν ἱδρύσηις "Αρη
ἐμφύλιόν τε καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους θρασύν.
θυραῖος ἔστω πόλεμος, οὐ μόλις παρών,
ἐν ὧι τις ἔσται δεινὸς εὐκλείας ἔρως·
865
ἐνοικίου δ᾽ ὄρνιθος οὐ λέγω μάχην.
τοιαῦθ᾽ ἑλέσθαι σοι πάρεστιν ἐξ ἐμοῦ,
εὖ δρῶσαν, εὖ πάσχουσαν, εὖ τιμωμένην
χώρας μετασχεῖν τῆσδε θεοφιλεστάτης.
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.)) — 848 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 848 focus
I will bear with your passion; for you are older; and certainly indeed you are much more wise than I: but to me too Jove has given no small share of wisdom. But you having come into a land of strangers will be loved by this country: I foretell these things: for time as it rolls on will be more fraught with honour to these citizens. And you shall possess a seat at the abode of Erectheus, honoured by men and by the train of women, such as you never could obtain from other mortals. But do not you in my realms cast either bloody whetstones, a destruction to the entrails of youths, rendering them frantic with rage not excited by wine; nor rousing 1
them like the heart of cocks, among my citizens plant Mars both civil and bold against each other. Let there be a foreign war, not a present broil with difficulty, in which there shall be a violent love of glory; but I mention not the fight of the domestic bird. It is allowed you to choose such things from me, doing well, receiving well, well honoured, to share this god-loved country.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 848 focus
indulgente, car tu as l'âge pour toi. Mais, si tu en sais plus que moi sans
doute, à moi aussi Zeus a donné quelque sagesse. Si vous allez dans une autre contrée, vous regretterez ce pays. Écoutez mon oracle : le flot montant des jours fera grandir la gloire de ma ville, et toi, fixée sur son sol glorieux, à
côté de la demeure d'Érechtée 1 , tu verras des cortèges d'hommes et de femmes t'offrir ce qu'aucun autre peuple ne te saurait donner. Mais, de ton côté, en ces lieux que j'aime, ne pousse pas ces aiguillons sanglants qui ravagent
les jeunes poitrines, et, sans vin, les enivrent de folles fureurs. Ne va pas, comme on fait pour les coqs, attiser la colère au cœur de mes citoyens et mettre en eux cette soif de meurtre qui lance frères contre frères, en leur soufflant mutuelle audace. Vienne la guerre étrangère,
toujours à la portée de ceux qu'anime un fervent désir de vraie gloire : mais fi des combats entre oiseaux de la volière! Voilà donc ce qu'il t'est loisible de tenir ici
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 848 focus
Thine anger will I bear with, for thy years
Are more than mine, thy wiſdom more; tho' Jove
970
Hath with no niggard grace on me beſtow'd
A prudent ſenſe.
You yet are ſtrangers here;
But I foreſee, when once your feats are fix'd,
Theſe ſcenes will be delightful, and the flow
975
Of future years to the inhabitants
Roll more abundant honours.
Where Erechtheus
Raiſ'd high his regal ſtructures, thou ſhalt hold
Thy reſidence, receiving from the men,
980
And from the train of females, ſuch high honours
As mortals never paid thee.
Caſt not then
On theſe my realms the peſtilent bane, that fires
Beyond the rage of wine the frantic youth
985
To wild enfanguin'd ſlaughter:
in their hearts
Pour not the fury of the creſted cock
Exciting diſcord, broils, and civil war.
To foreign wars, when dangers threaten nigh,
990
Let glory lead their arms: domeſtic ſtrife
Is hateful to my ſoul:
bethink thee well,
Thou haſt thy choice, by courteſy to win
Returns of courteſy, and reverenc'd high
995
To ſhare this country grateful to the Gods.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 848 focus
Questo da me si tollera,
885
da me vetusta Diva! E, ahimè, di questa
terra, impunita la sozzura resta !
Spirerò la mia furia, la mia collera.
Ahimè, ahimè, sciagura,
quale tortura
890
penetra il fianco mio!
O Madre notte, il mio furore ascolta.
Gli onori a me dovuti, antica Diva,
invincibile frode or me ne priva.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 848 focus
Iras tibi conferam, nam ſenior es,
Tu & ſapientior me multò es,
Sapere mihi quoq; dedit Iupiter non malè.
Vos uerò in exteram terram uenientes
800
Terram hanc ut ametis prædico uobis.
Nam ſequens tempus præſtantius
Erit ciuibus his, & tu precioſam
Sedem habens in domo Erechthei,
Aſsequeris à uiris & mulieribus uestes,
805
Tantum ab alijs nunquam obtinebis mortalibus.
Tu uerò in his meis locis ne proijce,
Neq; ſanguinolentas cotes, uiſcerum detrimenta
Iuuenum, inſanas ira uino carente.
Neq; euertens cor tanquam Alectores
810
Meis ipſis ciuibus condas puellæ
Inteſtinamq; ad Græcos audaciam,
Externum ſit bellum, non uix præſens,
In quo aliquis erit amor gloriæ dignus.
Domeſticæ uerò auis non dico pugnam.
815
Talia tibi eligere licet ex me,
Benefacientem, bene affectam, bene honoratam,
Regionis huius dijs charæ participem eſse.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 848 focus
Dein Schelten trag' ich als der ält'ren dir nicht nach.
Du bist gewiſs in vielem auch die Weisere,
850 allein auch mir hat manches Wissen Zeus gegönnt,
und wendet ihr euch einem andern Volke zu,
ich sag's voraus, so kommt euch Sehnsucht nach Athen.
Denn in der Zukunft liegt des Ruhmes bester Teil
für meine Bürger. Wenn ihr euren Ehrensitz
855 nah bei Erechtheus' Hause habt, erhaltet ihr
von Männern und von Frauen was euch nirgendwo,
von keinem andern Menschenvolk geboten wird.
Den gift'gen Samen streuet nicht auf meine Flur,
der in der Jugend Busen keimend schweren Dunst
860 des Rausches zeugt, nicht Weines, sondern Blutes
Rausch.
Erhitzet nicht, wie man den Hahn zum Kampfe reizt,
die Herzen, daſs in meinem Staate nicht die Lust
an trotz'gem Hader und an Bürgerkrieg erwächst.
Der Krieg nach aufsen komme: der entbrennt von
selbst,
Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 848 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.) — 848 focus
Older art thou than I, and I will bear
With this thy fury. Know, although thou be
975
More wise in ancient wisdom, yet have I
From Zeus no scanted measure of the same.
Wherefore take heed unto this prophecy—
If to another land of alien men
Ye go, too late shall ye feel longing deep
980
For mine. The rolling tides of time bring round
A day of brighter glory for this town;
And thou, enshrined in honour by the halls
Where dwelt Erechtheus, shalt a worship win
From men and from the train of womankind,
985
Greater than any tribe elsewhere shall pay.
Cast thou not therefore on this soil of mine
Whetstones that sharpen souls to bloodshedding,
The burning goads of youthful hearts, made hot
With frenzy of the spirit, not of wine.
990
Nor pluck as 'twere the heart from cocks that strive,
To set it in the breast of citizens
Of mine, a war-god's spirit, keen for fight,
Made stern against their country and their kin.
The man who grievously doth lust for fame,
995
War, full, immitigable, let him wage
Against the stranger; but of kindred birds
I hold the challenge hateful. Such the boon
I proffer thee—within this land of lands,
Most loved of gods, with me to show and share
1000
Fair mercy, gratitude and grace as fair.
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.) — 848 focus
Den Zorn vergeb' ich dir; die ältre bist du ja,
Wiewohl du darum keineswegs die klügre bist.
Auch mir verlieh Kronion nicht unweisen Sinn.
Ihr aber werdet, ziehet ihr in fremdes Land,
810
Nach diesem Land euch sehnen, das verkünd' ich euch.
Denn stets an Ehren reicher wird die Folgezeit
Für meine Bürger werden; wenn du deinen Sik
Einnahmst, Erechtheus' Hause nah, wohl wirst du dann
Von Männern hochgefeiert und von Frauen sein,
815
Wie du von andern Menschen nie gefeiert wirst.
Drum wirf in meine Gauen nicht den blutigen
Weystein des Haders, der das Jünglingsherz bethört,
Aufregt zu trunkner Raserei die Nüchternen.
Entflamme nicht, wie grimmer Hähne Sinn, zur Wuth
820
Der Bürger Herzen, daß der Schlachtengott sie nicht
Im eignen Stammland unter sich zum Kampf empört.
Auswärts entbrenne, nicht am eignen Herd, der Krieg,
Wo Lust nach Heldenruhme groß sich offenbart;
Nach Hahnenkämpfen auf dem Hof verlang' ich nicht.
825
So schöne Gaben winken euch aus meiner Hand,
Wohlthuend, Wohlthat nehmend, wohl geschmückt mit Ruhm,
Antheil zu haben an dem gottgeliebten Land.
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.)

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Commentary

Commentary on Aeschylus: Eumenides (Aeschylus. Eumenides. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887.)

848. συμφέρω , here used in the rather unusual sense of endure, not resent: the English idiom (which in meaning exactly suits this place), I will bear with thy wrath, is only superficially similar. Somewhat like this use is πάντα συμφέρουσ᾽ Ἰάσονι Eur. Med. 13, συμφέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσι (‘comply') Soph. El. 1465, οὐδέποτ᾽ εὐφραν- θήσεται ἀνὴρ ἐὰν μὴ τῇ γυναικὶ συμφέρῃ ( agree) Ar. Lys. 166: the metaphor being [Verrall, Eur. Med. 1. c.] probably of a yoke-fellow pulling with, and not against, one.

851. ἐλθοῦσαι ., conditional, if you go.'

855. δόμοις Ερεχθέως , the Erechtheum or great temple of Erechtheus (famous mythical hero-king of Athens), stood on the Akropolis.

857. ὅσων , ‘such honour as.' Pauw's and Paley's emendation of ὅσην MSS., a reading which will not construe, and is due probably to an attempt to alter the awkward collocation of genitives. The gen. ὅσων is attracted to the case governed by τεύξει. 1. 86ο. ἀοίνοις ἐμμανεῖς θυμώμασιν, ‘raging with fury not of wine,' but implanted by the Eumenides. This highly Aeschylean phrase does not agree with νέων, as in sense it should but with characteristic boldness is transferred to θηγάνας αἱματηράς, 'the whetstones of bloodshed,' as he calls the frenzy of the Furies, by another bold and imaginative figure. ἀοίνοις is specially appropriate to the Furies, as they were goddesses who tasted no wine, 1. 107.

861. ἐξελοῦσα , which has been immensely emended, is no doubt right: the idea is simply as though taking out the heart from fighting cocks and planting it in the citizens , establish civil war, etc. (the cock being the pugnacious bird who will fight with his own kin, and so an emblem of civil strife): only the rapidity of Aeschylus's style makes him compress the two last clauses into one.

864. οὐ . μόλις παρών (lit. ' coming not stintedly'), no scanty store: i. e. for foreign warfare, let us have plenty of it : but not civil dissension. So οὐ μόλις ἀπώλεσας Ag. 1082.

869. θεοφιλεστάτης , see 1. 805.

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

mvp-comment-636-1 NA:

καίτοι γε μὴν σὺ κάρτ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφώτερα
Victorius, et sic Ven. Flor.
καί τοι μὲν σὺ κάρτ'
(
γάρ τ'
Αld.)
ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob.
καί τοι σὺ μὲν κάρτ᾽ εἰγ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
Turn. Vt recte procederet oratio, in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 107. scribendum putabam
καίτοι γε μὴν οὐ κάρτ᾿ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
. Sed non dici videtur
οὐ κάρτα
. Wieselero Aeschylus scripsisse videtur
καὶ τῷ μὲν εἶ σὺ κάρτ' ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
. Recte vero Bothius in prima editione et Paleius totum hunc versum removendum esse censuerunt.

mvp-comment-637-1 ἐς: Pro

ἐς
Aug. habet
ἐπ'
, ut in G. fuerat, in quo tamen
π
a prima manu in
ς
mutatum est.

mvp-comment-638-1 ἀλλόφυλον:

ἀλλόφυλλον
Rob.

mvp-comment-639-1 ἐλθοῦσαι:

ἐλθοῦσα
Flor. Rob.

mvp-comment-640-1 ἐρασθήσεσθε:

ἐρασθήσαθε
G.
ἐρασθήσεθε
Ald.

mvp-comment-641-1 προὐννέπω:

προυνέπω
Aug. Ald.

mvp-comment-642-1 ἐπιρρέων:

ὁ ὑπορρέων
Rob.

mvp-comment-643-1 NA: Locus ubi Furiae, praeter lucum illum cuius mentio fit in Oedipo Coloneo, Athenis colebantur, vicinus erat Areopago, ut multis demonstravit Meursius in Areop. c. 2. Erat autem medius inter Areopagum et arcem. Pausanias enim de fano Eumenidum explicans I. 28, 7. dicit

ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐντὸς τοῦ περιβόλου μνῆμα Οἰδίποδος
, ubi non murum quo Areopagus cinctus fuerit, ut Meursio visum est, sed eum qui templum Furiarum ambiebat, intelligendum esse ostendit Valerius Maximus V. 3. ipse quoque a Meursio memoratus, qui Oedipodis sepulcrum inter arcem et Areopagum fuisse scribit.

mvp-comment-644-1 τεύξει:

τεύξει
libri.

mvp-comment-645-1 στόλων:

στόλων
Par.
στόλον
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-646-1 NA:

ὅσην
, quod libri habent, in
ὅσ᾽ ἂν
mutandum esse coniecit H. L. Ahrens. Aut ita scribendum est, aut putandum ante hunc versum alium excidisse, in quo nomen erat ad quod referebatur
ὅσην
. Hoc posterius, quod etiam G. Dindorfius statuit, probabilius videtur. Itaque lacunae signa posui.

mvp-comment-647-1 βροτῶν:

βροτοῖς
Par.

mvp-comment-648-1 σχέθοις:

σχέθης
Αld.

mvp-comment-649-1 τοῖς ἐμοῖσι:

τῆς ἐμοῖσι
Rob.

mvp-comment-650-1 θηγάνας σπλάγχνων βλάβας νέων ἀοίνοις ἐμμανεῖς θυμώμασιν:

θηγάνων
teste Franzio Flor.
θηγγάνων
Ven. et Linwoodio teste Flor. Farn. Deinde
νέων ἀοίνοις
Μ.
νέων, ἀοίνοις
Turn.
νέων ἀοίνους
Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob. Denique
θυμώμασιν
Μ. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob.
θυμώμασι
Turn. Iungunt vulgo
σπλάγχνων νέων
, sed rectius
νέων θυμώμασιν
iunguntur.
Ἄοινα θυμώματα
sunt irae non ex vino natae et graviores ac magis diuturnae quam inebriatorum. Inepta est eorum sententia, qui rixas a Furiis iniectas propterea
ἄοινα θυμώματα
dici putant, quia earum sacrificia
ἄοινα
erant.

mvp-comment-651-1 ἐκλέγουσα: Libri

ἐξελοῦσ'
, praeter Aug. qui
ἐξελθοῦσ᾽
habet. In scholiorum editione Robortelliana scriptum est
Εξελθοῦσα.) διαπεράσασα. μάχιμον γὰρ τὸ ὄρνεον, τῶν τε ἄλλων ζώων τὸ συγγενὲς αἰδουμένων μόνος οὐ φείδεται
. Sed in M. neque lemma est, et scriptum
ἀναπτερώσασα
. Frustra
ἐξελοῦσα
tueri conatus est Wieselerus. Neque recte
ἐξέδουσ'
ego scripseram. Vera est haud dubie Musgravii emendatio,
ἐκζέουσ'
, atque ad hanc ipsam lectionem pertinet fortasse explicatio illa,
ἀναπτερώσασα
. Activum est
ἐκζεῖν
etiam in Sept. c. Th. v. 690.
ἐξέζεσαν γὰρ Οἰδίπου κατεύγματα
, fervefecerunt enim animi aestum dirae Oedipi. Eur. Cycl. v. 392.
καὶ χάλκεον λέβητ᾽ ἐπέζεσεν πυρί
. Conf. Lob. ad Ai. p. 92.

mvp-comment-652-1 ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἀστοῖσιν ἱδρύσῃς Ἄρη:

ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἀστοῖσιν
Victorius, et sic Ven. Flor.
ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖσιν ἀστοῖσιν
M. Par.
ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν
Aug. G. Ald. Rob.
ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς αὐτοῖσιν
Turn. Deinde
ἱδρύσῃς κάρα
, sed ultima littera in
η
mutata, Μ.
ἱδρύσῃ κάρη
Aug. Par.
ἱδρύσῃ κόρη
G. Ald. Turn.
ἱδρύσῃ βάρη
Rob.
ἱδρύσῃ κάρα
Ven. Flor. Farn. et sic Victorius.
ἱδρύσῃς Ἄρη
scribendum esse vidit Stephanus.

mvp-comment-653-1 ἀλλήλους:

Ἑλλήνους
G. Ald. unde
Ἕλληνας
Turn. Ceteri recte
ἀλλήλους
.

mvp-comment-654-1 οὐ μόλις παρών: Libri

οὐ μόλις παρών
. Scholiastae interpretatio est
οὐ μακράν
. Videtur
ἢ μόλις παρὼν
legisse. Certe ita scribendum puto: foris sit bellum, aut brevi spatio remotum, in quo magnus erit gloriae amor. Significatur autem pugna Marathonia. V. Opusc. VI. 2. p. 108.

mvp-comment-655-1 ἔσται:

ἔσταμ
.
ἔστι
Par. Ceteri recte
ἔσται
.

mvp-comment-656-1 οὐ λέγω: V. ad Pers. v. 757.

Οὐ λέγω
, dictam nolo. Ag. v. 938.
τὴν κάτω γὰρ οὐ λέγω
. Soph. Εl. ν. 1466.
ὦ Ζεῦ, δέδορκα φάσμα ἄνευ φθόνου μὲν οὐ πεπτωκός· εἰ δ᾽ ἔπεστι νέμεσις, οὐ λέγω
.

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

mvp-comment-257-1 καὶ τῷ μέν] Schol.

διὰ τὸν χρόνον.
‘And in that indeed you are much wiser than I, though even to me (viz. as the goddess of wisdom) Zeus has granted not to be without telligence.' The Med. has καὶ τοι μὲν σύ.

mvp-comment-258-1 The Schol., remarking λείπει ὁ καὶ, seems to have found ὑμεῖς without δέ. EUM.

mvp-comment-259-1 πρὸς δόμοις] The subterranean chapel of the Erinyes lay between the Areopagus and the Acropolis.

mvp-comment-260-1 ὅσων] The MS. has ὅσην.

mvp-comment-261-1 ἐμμανεῖς] Perhaps ἐμμανής, incited by rage not proceeding from wine (i.e. since νηφάλια μειλίγματα alone were offered to them, sup. 107), but from vexation at the defeat. -βλάβας, Schol.

τὰς ἀναλισκούσας τὰ νέα.
Cf. Pers. 667
νεολαία γὰρ ἤδη κατὰ πᾶσ᾽ ὄλωλε.

mvp-comment-262-1 ἐξελοῦσ'] is corrupt, and perhaps we should read ἐκζέουσ' with Musgrave, 'making their hearts to boil with rage like that of fighting-cocks. This well suits the scholium ἀναπτερώσασα. See Theb. 706 .

mvp-comment-263-1 οὐ μόλις παρών] “Let war be far from us, but let it come without stint (to him) in whom there shall be a strong love of glory' (not to us, who prefer peace). She adds, she will not speak of fighting-cocks, because the omen is a bad one. K. O. Müller thinks the poet meant to commend foreign conquest as an antidote to civil discord. In the former case, θυραῖος is a predicate, let war be far from you. Others understood by foreign war a war with Persia.

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-310-1 φέρουσα τὰς ἀντὶ τοῦ) μεγάλοι

mvp-comment-311-1 θηγάνας νέων:

mvp-comment-312-1 τῶν ἐνοικούντων πολιτῶν, ὁ ἐστιν

mvp-comment-313-1 ὁ Περσικός. οὐ μακράν. ὁμόφυλον πόλεμον.

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 .

mvp-comment-454-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-454-2 ξυνοίσω, nachgeben, zu gute halten. Eur. Med. 13

πάντα συμ φέρουσ᾽ Ἰάσονι,
Soph. El. 1465 συμ φέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσιν. Hom. Φ 439 ἄρχε· σὺ γὰρ γενεῆφι νεώτε ρος· οὐ γὰρ ἐμοί γε καλόν, ἐπεὶ πρότερος γενόμην καὶ πλείονα οἶδα.

mvp-comment-455-1 1

mvp-comment-455-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-455-3 προφερτέρα: durch das Alter zwar hast du einen Vorzug vor mir. Auf das Alter bezieht sich προφέρ τερος und προφέρτατος auch Soph. frg. 399 D. und Oed. K. 1513 .

mvp-comment-456-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-456-2 Ein Hinweis auf den Ruhm der Perserkriege.

mvp-comment-457-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-457-2 δόμοις Ερεχθέως von dem Erechtheion. Vgl zu. 836.

mvp-comment-458-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-458-2 An die Stelle von παρὰ γυναικῶν tritt das Adjektiv.

mvp-comment-459-1 2

mvp-comment-459-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-459-3 ὅσων wie Sept. 296

εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἵησιν Που σειδῶν ὁ γαιάοχος Τηθύος τε παῖδες
. Auch 577, Cho. 737 , Ag. 343 , 803, 965, Sept. 537 , Pers. 345 , Prom. 462 , 995, 1016 findet sich die Attraktion beim Relativ. Weit zahlreicher (50) sind die Fälle bei Sophokles.

mvp-comment-460-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-460-2 Die V. 860-868 unterbrechen den Zusammenhang. Die stark hervortretende politische Tendenz und der manierierte Stil kennzeichnen sie als Interpolation.

mvp-comment-461-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-461-2 μήθ' ist gestellt, als ob Ἄρη ἐμφύλιον als zweites Objekt zu βάλης folgen sollte; dafür tritt ein neues Verbum ein. Vgl. Prom. 185

καί μ᾽ οὔτε μελιγλώσσοις πειθούς ἐπαοιδαῖσιν θέλξει στερεάς τ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ἀπειλὲς πτήξας τόδ᾽ ἐγὼ καταμηνύσω. θηγάνη
, was schürft und aufreizt. Vgl. Prom. 327
τραχεῖς καὶ τεθηγμένους λόγους
, Sept. 702
τεθηγμένον τοί μ᾽ οὐκ ἀπαμ βλυνεῖς λόγῳ. σπλάγχνων
 wie Ag. 984 , Cho. 412 (das Innere, das Herz). Die blutige Fehdelust reifst jugendlichen Sinn mit sich fort. ἀοίνοις d. h. ohne betrunken zu sein handeln sie mit der leidenschaftlichen Raserei von Betrunkenen.

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mvp-comment-462-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-462-3 ἐκζέουσα (Schol. ἀναπτερώ σασα) transitiv wie Sept. 696

ἐξέζεσεν γὰρ Οἰδίπου κατεύγματα
(fervefecerunt enim animi aestum dirae Oedipi), Eur. Kykl. 392
καὶ χάλκεον λέβητ᾽ ἐπέζεσεν πυρί
. — ἐκζέουσα ὡς καρδίαν ἀλεκτόρων ist kurz gesagt für ἐκζέουσα καρδίαν ἀστῶν ὡς κ. ἀλ. Ζυ ἀλεκτόρων bemerkt der Schol. :
μάχιμον γὰρ τὸ ὄρνεον, τῶν τε ἄλλων ζῴων τὸ συγγενὲς αἰ δουμένων μόνος οὐ φείδεται
. Vgl. Pind. Ol. 12, 20 ἐνδομάχας ἅτ᾽ ἀλέκτωρ, Varro de re rust. III 9 sunt enim galli in certamine pertinaces.. et ad proeliandum inter se maxime idonei.

mvp-comment-463-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-463-2 Hom. I 63

ἀφρήτωρ ἀθέμι στος ἀνέστιος ἐστιν ἐκεῖνος ὃς που λέμου ἔραται ἐπιδημίου κρυόεντος
.

mvp-comment-464-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-464-2 οὐ μόλις: zu Ag. 1066 . οὐ μόλις παρών (,,er ist schon im Augenblick gegenwärtig") ist eine Nebenbemerkung, bei welcher nicht Athena, sondern der athenische Dichter oder besser gesagt Interpolator spricht (,, weg mit inneren Zerwürfnissen, da der Krieg gegen den äufseren Feind in bedrohlichster Nähe steht").

mvp-comment-465-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-465-2 οὐ λέγω, davon will ich nichts wissen (weg damit). Vgl. Soph. El. 1467 εἰ δ᾽ ἔπεστι νέμεσις, οὐ λέγω. Anders Ag. 862 , Cho. 987 .

mvp-comment-466-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-466-2 τοιαῦτα bezieht sich zunächst auf das Vorhergehende (856 -859), wird aber durch εὖ δρῶσαν θεοφιλεστάτης noch einmal näher bestimmt. Θεοφιλεστάτης: das gottgeliebteste Land, weil es die Götter am meisten ehrt. Vgl. Soph. Oed. K. 260 τας Αθήνας φασὶ θεοσεβεστάτας εἶναι, Thuk. I 41 , Demosth. 20, 90 .

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

συμφέρω , here used in the rather unusual sense of endure, not resent: the English idiom (which in meaning exactly suits this place), I will bear with thy wrath, is only superficially similar. Somewhat like this use is

πάντα συμφέρουσ᾽ Ἰάσονι
Eur. Med. 13 , συμφέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσι ( comply) Soph. El. 1465 , οὐδέποτ᾽ εὐφραν- θήσεται ἀνὴρ ἐὰν μὴ τῇ γυναικὶ συμφέρῃ ( agree) Ar. Lys. 166: the metaphor being [Verrall, Eur. Med. 1. c.] probably of a yoke-fellow pulling with, and not against, one.

mvp-sidgwick-399-1-1 I take Wieseler's excellent emendation καὶ τῷ μὲν εἶ συ, i. e. and by that (old age) you are far wiser, age and wisdom being naturally united. So the Scholiast explains the line διὰ τὸν χρόνον, i. e. wiser by lapse of time.

ἐλθοῦσαι ., conditional, if you go.'

δόμοις Ερεχθέως , the Erechtheum or great temple of Erechtheus (famous mythical hero-king of Athens), stood on the Akropolis.

ὅσων , such honour as. Pauw's and Paley's emendation of ὅσην MSS., a reading which will not construe, and is due probably to an attempt to alter the awkward collocation of genitives. The gen. ὅσων is attracted to the case governed by

τεύξει.
l. 86 ο. ἀοίνοις ἐμμανεῖς θυμώμασιν, raging with fury not of wine, but implanted by the Eumenides. This highly Aeschylean phrase does not agree with νέων, as in sense it should but with characteristic boldness is transferred to θηγάνας αἱματηράς, the whetstones of bloodshed, as he calls the frenzy of the Furies, by another bold and imaginative figure. ἀοίνοις is specially appropriate to the Furies, as they were goddesses who tasted no wine, l. 107
.

ἐξελοῦσα , which has been immensely emended, is no doubt right: the idea is simply as though taking out the heart from fighting cocks and planting it in the citizens , establish civil war, etc. (the cock being the pugnacious bird who will fight with his own kin, and so an emblem of civil strife): only the rapidity of Aeschylus's style makes him compress the two last clauses into one.

mvp-sidgwick-403-2-1 For the domestic broils of the cock see line 866: and Pindar, Ol. 12. 20 ἐνδομάχας ἀλέκτωρ.

οὐ . μόλις παρών (lit. coming not stintedly), no scanty store: i. e. for foreign warfare, let us have plenty of it : but not civil dissension. So

οὐ μόλις ἀπώλεσας
Ag. 1082 .

mvp-sidgwick-405-1-1 The sense is of home birds' battle I will have nought. οὐ λέγω, lit. I do not advise, or bid, is a μείωσις for I forbid. [The passage in Soph. El. 1466 which comm. quote is different.]

θεοφιλεστάτης , see l. 805

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