Aeschylus Eumenides 870

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.) — 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.) — 870 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 870 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 870 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 870 focus
Ἐμὲ παθεῖν τάδε, φεῦ,
870
ἐμὲ παλαιόφρονα κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν
ἀτίετον, φεῦ, μύσος 1 ·
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 870 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 870 focus
ἐμὲ παθεῖν τάδε, φεῦ,
ἐμὲ παλαιόφρονα, κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν
ἀτίετον, φεῦ, μύσος.
πνέω τοι μένος ἅπαντά τε κότον.
875
οἱ οἱ δᾶ, φεῦ.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 870 focus
ἐμὲ παθεῖν τάδε, φεῦ,
870
ἐμὲ παλαιόφρονα, κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν
⟨ἵν’⟩ ἀτίετον, φεῦ, μύσος.
πνέω τοι μένος
ἅπαντά τε κότον.
οἰοῖ δᾶ φεῦ·
875
τίς μ᾽ ὑποδύεται πλευρὰς ὀδύνα;
⟨ . . . ⟩ ἄϊε μᾶτερ Νύξ·
ἀπό με γὰρ τιμᾶν δαναιᾶν θεῶν
δυσπάλαμοι παρ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦραν δόλοι.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 870 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 870 focus
ἐμὲ παθεῖν τάδε, φεῦ,
ἐμὲ παλαιόφρονα, κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν
ἀτίετον, φεῦ, μύσος.
835
πνέω τοι μένος ἅπαντά τε κότον.
οἱ οἱ, δᾶ, φεῦ.
†τίς μ᾿ ὑποδύεται πλευρὰς ὀδύνα;
θυμὸν ἄϊε, μᾶτερ
Νύξ· ἀπὸ γάρ με τιμᾶν
840
δαναιᾶν θεῶν
δυσπάλαμοι παρ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦραν δόλοι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 870 focus
ἐμὲ παθεῖν τάδε, φεῦ,
870
ἐμὲ παλαιόφρονα, κατά τε γᾶς οἰχνεῖν,
ἀτίετον, φεῦ, μύσος.
πνέω τοι μένος ἅπαντά τε κότον.
οἰοῖ δᾶ, φεῦ.
τίς μ᾽ ὑποδύεται πλευράς, (τίς) ὀδύνα
875
θυμόν; ἄἱε, μᾶτερ
Νύξ· ἀπὸ γάρ με τιμᾶν δαναιᾶν θεῶν
δυσπάλαμοι παρ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦραν δόλοι.
880
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.)) — 870 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 870 focus
That I should have suffered these things! alas! that I wretched should dwell on earth! alas! a dishonourable pollu­ tion! Therefore I breathe forth my rage, and all my wrath. Oh! oh! Earth! alas! what anguish pierces my sides! hear my rage, mother Night! for the crafty wiles of the gods have deprived me of my public honours as if of no account.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 870 focus
de ma main : bénédictions à répandre, bénédictions à recevoir, bénie et adorée du pays pieux entre tous dont tu deviendras citoyenne. 1
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 870 focus
Shall I brook this? Shall I then deign
In this curs'd land to ſpend my ſlighted age,
And my loſt honours mourn in vain?
No: be each vengeful thought inflam'd with
1000
rage.
Ah me, the keen, the mad'ning ſmart!
Deep, deep it cuts, it rends my heart.
Hear, aweful night, my raving paſſion hear!
Theſe Gods, with a malignant ſmile,
1005
Ah me! my baffled pow'r beguile,
And from my brows the public honours tear.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 870 focus
resti la guerra oltre le porte, ed ivi
terribile di gloria amore avvampi.
Queste le offerte ch'io ti faccio. Beni
915
largire e averne, onori aver, partecipe
di questo sacro suol diletto ai Numi.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 870 focus
Hæc pati me, heu heu me uerſuta ſub terra habitare
Inhonoratam, heu heu odium
820
Spiro furorem omnino, & iram.
Heu heu terra, heu quis mihi ſubit
Latera dolor, animum ſpira mater
Nox, nam me ab honoribus domatam, deorum fraudulenti
Cæperunt dolo præter cauſam.
825
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 870 focus
Mir das!
Ha, mir,
mir, der alten,
der Macht der Urzeit!
Drunten ins Dunkel ducken
875 soll ich mich, ehrlos Scheusal.
Wut schnaub' ich, wehe,
Grimm und Groll.
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Was wollen die Schmerzen?
Die Flamme der Wut
880 verbrennt mir das Herz.
Mutter, vernimm mich,
Mutter Nacht:
mein Recht,
mein Urrecht haben die Ränke
der jungen Götter verworfen,
vernichtet.
Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 870 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.) — 870 focus
I, I dishonoured in this earth to dwell,—
Ancient of days and wisdom! I breathe forth
Poison and breath of frenzied ire. O Earth,
Woe, woe for thee, for me!
1005
From side to side what pains be these that thrill?
Hearken, O mother Night, my wrath, mine agony!
Whom from mine ancient rights the gods have thrust,
And brought me to the dust—
Woe, woe is me!—with craft invincible.
1010
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.) — 870 focus
Weh! Daß mich solches traf!
Daß ich Urgewalt, beschimpft, allverhaßt,
830
Unter die Erde muß!
Von Zorn wallt die Brust, von Grimm ohne Maß.
Ach, ach! Weh, weh!
Ha, welch wilder Schmerz mir die Seele durchbohrt!
Vernimm, Mutter Nacht,
Den Groll! Göttertrug, unüberwindlich, hat
835
Das uralte Recht um Nichts uns geraubt.
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-657-1 κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν:

κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν
Μ. G. Rob.
κατὰ γῶν οἰκεῖν
Aug. Ven. Flor. Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-658-1 ἀτίετον μῖσος:

ἀτίετον φεῦ μίσος
G. Ald. Turn.
ἀτ. φ. μῦσος
M. Rob.
ἀτ. φ. μύσος
Aug. Ven.
ἀτ. φ. μύσος
Flor.

mvp-comment-659-1 NA:

φεῦ
hic libri non habent.

mvp-comment-660-1 οἰοῖ, δᾶ. φεῦ, φεῦ:

οἱ οἱ δᾶ φεῦ
M. Rob.
οἱ οἱ δῶ φεῦ
Aug. G. Ald. Turn.
ο οι δῶ φεῦ
Ven. Flor.

mvp-comment-661-1 ὑποδύεται ... πλευράς:

ὑπὸ δύεται
Rob. Alterum
τίς
non habent libri. Omnes hic
πλευρὰς ὀδύνα
.

mvp-comment-662-1 τιμᾶν ἀμᾶν θεῶν:

τιμᾶν δαμίαν
M. Aug. Ald. Rob. Turn.
τιμὰν δαμίαν
G.
τιμᾶν δαμέαν
Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-663-1 δόλοι:

δόλω
, ut videtur, M.
δόλοι
Aug. Rob.
δήλοι
G. Ald.
δόλον
Ven. Flor.
δόλῳ
Turn.

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

mvp-comment-264-1 πρὸς νεωτέρας] Cf. v. 775. The goddesses must not think they are slighted by Athena and her citizens, or banished from the land, when they have an abode offered them in it with all honour. Stay, says Athena, if you will listen to my advice. But if you do not choose to stay, it would be unjust to cause mischief to this country, since the option rests with yourself ( ἔξεστι γὰρ, ν. 850). Schol.

εἰ δὲ μὴ πείθῃ, ἴσθι (1. ἴθι) μὴ βλάψασα πόλιν.

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 .