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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.) — 916-1020 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 968 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 968 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 968 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 968 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 968 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 968 focus
τάδε τοι χώρᾳ τἠμῇ προφρόνως
ἐπικραινομένων
970
γάνυμαι· στέργω δ᾽ ὄμματα Πειθοῦς,
ὅτι μοι γλῶσσαν καὶ στόμ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ
πρὸς τάσδ᾽ ἀγρίως ἀπανηναμένας·
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 968 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 968 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 968 focus
τάδε τοι χώρᾳ τῇ ᾿μῇ προφρόνως
ἐπικραινομένων γάνυμαι· στέργω δ᾽
ὄμματα Πειθοῦς, ὅτι μοι γλῶσσαν
καὶ στόμ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ πρὸς τάσδ᾽ ἀγρίως
930
ἀπανηναμένας·
ἀλλ᾽ ἐκράτησε Ζεὺς ἀγοραῖος·
νικᾷ δ᾽ ἀγαθῶν
ἔρις ἡμετέρα διὰ παντός.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 968 focus
τάδε τοι χώρᾶι τἠμῆι προφρόνως
ἐπικραινομένων
γάνυμαι· στέργω δ᾽ ὄμματα Πειθοῦς,
970
ὅτι μοι γλῶσσαν καὶ στόμ᾽ ἐπώπα
πρὸς τᾶσδ᾽ ἀγρίως ἀπανηναμένας·
ἀλλ᾽ ἐκράτησε Ζεὺς ἀγοραῖος,
νικᾶι δ᾽ ἀγαθῶν
ἔρις ἡμετέρα διὰ παντός.
975
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.)) — 968 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 968 focus
I rejoice therefore, [these goddesses] willingly accom­ plishing these things to my country; but I love the eyes of Persuasion, because she has watched over my tongue and mouth against these fiercely refusing. But Jove of the forum has conquered, and our strife to do good 3
prevails for ever.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 968 focus
dans toute maison, à toute heure y faites
sentir le poids de vos présences justicières, vous, de toutes les divinités les plus entourées de respect!
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 968 focus
This ready zeal accorded to my country
1100
Delights me; and with ardor muſt I love
Gentle perſuaſion, that hath tuned my voice
To move them from their ſtern and fierce reſolves.
The pleading voice of Jove hath here prevail'd;
And my warm efforts in the cauſe of mercy
1105
Extend their triumph thro' all future time.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 968 focus
Bene io godo che a questa mia terra
tali augurî si facciano, e venero
il tuo volto, Suada, che il labbro,
che la voce m'ornasti; e m'opposi
1015
di costoro al selvaggio rifiuto.
Or trionfo ebbe Giove, cui grata
è facondia: trionfo la causa
di Giustizia ebbe in tutto per me.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 968 focus
Hæc uerò ego promptè meis ciuibus
Perfectorum
Exulto, amo uerè oculos perſuaſionis,
905
Quando mihi linguam & os inſpiciunt
Ad has inciuilitèr renuentes.
Sed ſuperauit Iupiter forenſis, uincit bonos
Certamen nostrum ſemper.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 968 focus
Wie beglückt es mich, daſs sie so gnädig
meinem Lande diesen Segen spenden,
970 und ich preise Peithos' holden Zauber,
der mir Mund und Zunge mächtig machte,
um zu sänften ihres Weigerns Wildheit.
So hat Zeus, der Friedefürst des Wortes,
triumphiert. Im Wettkampf um das Gute
975 bleibt auf unsrer Seite stets das Glück.
Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 968 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.) — 968 focus
And I too, I with joy am fain,
Hearing thy voice this gift ordain
Unto my land. High thanks be thine,
1115
Persuasion, who with eyes divine
Into my tongue didst look thy strength,
To bend and to allay at length
Those who would not be comforted.
Zeus, king of parley, doth prevail,
1120
And ye and I will strive nor fail,
That good may stand in evil's stead,
And lasting bliss for bale.
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.) — 968 focus
Wie bin ich entzückt, daß ihr meinem Gebiet
Dies freundlich gewährt!
Wie preis' ich den Huldblick Peitho's dafür,
925
Die weise das Wort und den Mund mir gelenkt,
Zu gewinnen die streng abweisende Schaar!
Doch gesiegt hat Zeus, der Herrscher im Rath,
Und uns bleibt stets
In dem Kampf um das Gute der Siegspreis.
930
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 .

970. στέργω , I bless.

971. ἐπωπάω . is properly to look down on, watch, behold, descry: so Cho. 693, Eum. 275, but, like the commoner ἐποπτεύω, is used regularly of gods or supernatural powers, and gets the meaning 'to guard, guide, direct;' see note on 1. 220.

973. ἀγοραῖος , God of the gathering, was a name given to Zeus and other gods (Hermes, Ar. Eq. 297, Artemis and Athena, Paus. 3. 11. 9) as protectors of the city life of which the natural centre was the ἀγορά or 'gathering place' (Agam. 90). But as the ἀγορά was also the place for speech (ἀγορεύω, κατηγορέω, etc.) the name here implies god of speech.

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-735-1 γάνυμαι:

χάνομαι
G. Ald. ὄμματα:
ὄμματι
Ven. Flor.

mvp-comment-736-1 ἐπωπᾷ:

ἐποπτᾶ
Flor.
ἐποπτᾷ
Farn.
ἐποπτας
teste Bekkero Ven.

mvp-comment-737-1 ἀπανηναμένας:

ἀπονηναμένας
Ven. (sic Ven.) Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-738-1 ἐκράτησεν: Libri

ἐκράτησε
.

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

mvp-comment-291-1 ἐπωπᾷ] respicit, 'regards with favour. Cf. v. 845. —ἀλλὰ κ.τ.λ., 'however, it was Zeus the god of the agora (the patron of popular eloquence) who prevailed; and the contest between him and me, as to which benefits the citizens the more, prevails (over the evil caused by the Furies' anger), and shall prevail for all time.' By ἡμετέρα the united efforts of the Furies also, in their present mood, are perhaps meant.

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-511-1 1

mvp-comment-511-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 317

mvp-comment-511-3 τάδε zu γάνυμαι. ἐπικραινομένων scil. τούτων, vgl. ὀρ θουμένων 775, εὖ ξυντυχόντων Sept. 260

πελομένων καλῶς
Suppl. 129 , Krüger I § 47, 4, 3 . Manche Erklärer betrachten ἐπικραινομένων als Medium ( ἐπικρ. scil. αὐτῶν), so dafs τάδε von ἐπικρ. abhängt. στέργω, veneror. · ὄμματα Πειθοῦς: Soph. frg. 743
D. δεινὸν τὸ τῆς Πειθοῦς πρόσωπον
.

mvp-comment-512-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317

mvp-comment-512-2 στόμ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ πρὸς τάσδε, sie waltete über meinen Mund diesen gegenüber.

mvp-comment-513-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318

mvp-comment-513-2 ἀγοραῖος als Hort der beratenden Versammlungen und der dort den Ausschlag gebenden Wohlredenheit. Vgl. Suppl. 632 , Aristoph. 410

ἀγοραίου Διός
, 500 πράξειας κατὰ νοῦν τὸν ἐμὸν και σε φυλάττοι Ζεὺς ἀγοραίος, Hesych. ἀγοραίου Διὸς βωμὸς ᾿Αθήνησιν.

mvp-comment-514-1 2

mvp-comment-514-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318

mvp-comment-514-3 ἀγαθῶν ἔρις, Wetteifer im Guten, certamen utrum plus boni Minerva an Eumenides civitati conferant (Butler). Vgl. Herod. VIII 79

ἡμέας στασιάζειν χρεόν ἐστι ἔν τε τῷ ἄλλῳ καιρῷ καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐν τῷδε, περὶ τοῦ ὁκότερος ἡμέων πλέω ἀγαθὰ τὴν πατρίδα ἐργάσεται
und zu 904.

mvp-comment-514-4 3

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

στέργω , I bless.

ἐπωπάω . is properly to look down on, watch, behold, descry: so Cho. 693 , Eum. 275, but, like the commoner ἐποπτεύω, is used regularly of gods or supernatural powers, and gets the meaning to guard, guide, direct; see note on l. 220

.

ἀγοραῖος , God of the gathering, was a name given to Zeus and other gods (Hermes, Ar. Eq. 297, Artemis and Athena, Paus. 3. 11. 9) as protectors of the city life of which the natural centre was the ἀγορά or gathering place ( Agam. 90 ). But as the ἀγορά was also the place for speech (ἀγορεύω, κατηγορέω, etc.) the name here implies god of speech.

mvp-sidgwick-449-1-1 And our strife for blessings is victorious for ever.' 'We have before had an ἔρις κακή, a hostile strife: henceforward it will be an ἔρις ἀγαθῶν, a friendly rivalry to do good: and the victory, νίκη, shall be with both; we shall always succeed.'