Aeschylus Eumenides 976

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.) — 1021-1031 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 976 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 976 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 976 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 976 focus
Τὰν δ' ἄπληστον κακῶν
μήποτ' ἐν πόλει στάσιν
τᾷδ' ἐπεύχομαι βρέμειν
μηδὲ πιοῦσα κόνις μέλαν αἷμα πολιτῶν
975
δι' ὀργὰν ποινὰς -νᾶς
ἀντιφόνους ἄτας
ἁρπαλίσαι πόλεως
χάρματα δ' ἀντιδιδοῖεν
κοινοφιλεῖ κοινωφελεῖ (κοινοφ- forsan M3) διανοίᾳ,
980
καὶ στυγεῖν μιᾷ φρενί·
πολλῶν γὰρ τόδ' ἐν βροτοῖς ἄκος.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 976 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 976 focus
τὴν δ᾽ ἄπληστον κακῶν
μήποτ᾽ ἐν πόλει στάσιν
τᾷδ᾽ ἐπεύχομαι βρέμειν.
μηδὲ πιοῦσα κόνις
980
μέλαν αἷμα πολιτῶν
δι᾿ ὀργὰν ποινὰς
ἀντιφόνους ἄτας
ἁρπαλίσαι πόλεως.
χάρματα δ᾽ ἀντιδιδοῖεν
985
κοινοφιλεῖ διανοίᾳ,
καὶ στυγεῖν μιᾷ φρενί.
πολλῶν γὰρ τόδ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς ἄκος.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 976 focus
τὰν δ’ ἄπληστον κακῶν μήποτ’ ἐν πόλει στάσιν
975
τᾶιδ᾽ ἐπεύχομαι βρέμειν,
μηδὲ πιοῦσα κόνις μέλαν αἷμα πολιτᾶν
δι’ ὀργὰν ποινὰς
ἀντιφόνους, ἄτας
ἁρπαλίσαι πόλεως·
980
χάρματα δ’ ἀντιδιδοῖεν
κοινοφιλεῖ διανοίαι,
καὶ στυγεῖν μιᾶι φρενί·
πολλῶν γὰρ τόδ’ ἐν βροτοῖς ἄκος.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 976 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 976 focus
τὰν δ᾽ ἄπληστον κακῶν μήποτ᾽ ἐν πόλει στάσιν
935
τᾷδ᾽ ἐπεύχομαι βρέμειν·
μηδὲ πιοῦσα κόνις μέλαν αἷμα πολιτᾶν
δι᾽ ὀργὰν ποινᾶς ἀντιφόνους ἄτας
ἁρπαλίσαι πόλεως.
χάρματα δ᾽ ἀντιδιδοῖεν
940
κοινοφιλεῖ διανοίᾳ,
καὶ στυγεῖν μιᾷ φρενί·
πολλῶν γὰρ τόδ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς ἄκος.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 976 focus
τὰν δ᾽ ἄπληστον κακῶν μήποτ᾽ ἐν πόλει στάσιν
ἀντ. β
τᾶιδ᾽ ἐπεύχομαι βρέμειν.
μηδὲ πιοῦσα κόνις μέλαν αἷμα πολιτᾶν
980
ὀργᾶι ποινὰς ἀντιφόνους (τ᾿ ἄτας
ἁρπαλίσαι πόλεως.
χάρματα δ᾽ ἀντιδιδοῖεν
κοινοφιλεῖ διανοίᾶι,
985
καὶ στυγεῖν μιᾶι φρενί.
πολλῶν γὰρ τόδ᾽ ἐμ βροτοῖς ἄκος.
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.)) — 976 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 976 focus
And I pray that sedition, insatiate of ills, may never roar in this city: nor that the dust having drunk the black blood of the citizens, bear away from the city the curse of slaughter for slaughter, through the rage for vengeance 1
. But may they render to each other in turn joyful offices with thoughts for common weal, and hate with one mind: for this is a remedy for many things among mortals.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 976 focus
dont les regards guidaient mes lèvres et ma langue en face de leurs farouches refus 1 . Le dieu de la parole, Zeus,
l'a emporté, et mon obstination bienfaisante triomphe pour l'éternité.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 976 focus
Ne'er may diſcord's hideous pow'r
Here unſated ſtalk its round:
Slaughter ne'er with kindred gore
Madly drench the thirty ground;
1110
Whilſt revenge in barb'rous pride
Shakes the ſtreets with thund'ring tread,
Blood for blood demands, and wide
Joys the mutual rage to ſpread.
But to union's ſoft command
1115
May their minds harmonious move;
Leagu'd in war, a friendly band;
Tuned in peace to ſocial love.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 976 focus
Né mai su questa terra
1020
frema civile guerra,
che mai di mali è sazia.
Né d'atro sangue cittadin s'abbeveri
la polvere, onde poi furia nemica
sitisca nuova strage
1025
a vendicar l'antica.
Ma li stringa d'unanimi
affetti una compage,
d'unanimi odî: ai mali
farmaco sommo è questo pei mortali.
1030
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 976 focus
Hanc uerò inexpletam malorum
910
Nunquam optarem huic urbi ſeditionem ciuium
Neq; bibens puluis
Nigrum ſanguinem ciuium,
Per iram pœnas
Cruenta detrimenta
915
Vrbis libenter ſuſcipiat,
Gaudia contrà dent
Communi utilitate ſtudente mente,
Et odio proſequi una mente.
Multorum enim hoc est remedium inter mortales.
920
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 976 focus
Es brause nie
Bürgerzwist, aller Übel Ursprung,
durch diese Stadt: das wünsch' ich noch.
980 Doch wenn der Staub schwarzes Bürgerblut
einmal getrunken hat,
fordr' es in Rachedurst
keiner Vergeltungsthat
blutige Schuld.
Einträcht'gen Sinns
Lieb' um Liebe tauschend,
985 einträchtig auch im Hafs:
so kann ein Volk manchen Sturm besteh'n.
Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 976 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.) — 976 focus
And nevermore these walls within
Shall echo fierce sedition's din,
1125
Unslaked with blood and crime;
The thirsty dust shall nevermore
Suck up the darkly streaming gore
Of civic broils, shed out in wrath
And vengeance, crying death for death!
1130
But man with man and state with state
Shall vow The pledge of common hate
And common friendship, that for man
Hath oft made blessing out of ban,
Be ours unto all time. 1
1135
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.) — 976 focus
Daß, des Bluts niemals satt, Bürgeraufruhr nimmermehr
Brausend ziehe durch das Land,
Nimmer der Staub mit dem Blute der Bürger sich tränke,
Und im Zorne der Rache
Gräßlicher Wechselmord
935
Gierig verschlinge die Stadt!
Freude nur mögen sie traulich
Tauschen in liebender Eintracht,
Auch im Hassen Eines Sinns!
Vielfach wehrt ja dies der Erde Noth.
940
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 .

981. ποινᾶς ἀντιφόνους ἄτας , the murderous woes of vengeance, the woes of murderous requital; a very Aeschylean phrase, and more natural on the whole than the Med. reading ποινάς, which would make ἄτας gen.: for in any case it is certainly right to take these three words together. [H. P. and others take δι᾽ ὀργὰν ποινᾶς, 'from desire of vengeance,' weaker meaning and more strained usage.]

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-739-1 τὰν δ᾽ ἄπληστον:

τὴν δ᾽ ἄπληστον
Aug. Rob.
τάνδ' ἄπληστον
Μ. Ven. Flor.
τὴν δ᾽ ἄπλειστον
G. in quo ante correctionem
τῶν δ'
fuerat.
τόν δ' ἄπλειστον
Αld.
τήνδ' άπληστον
Turn.

mvp-comment-740-1 μήποτ':

μήτ'
pro
μήποτ'
Rob.

mvp-comment-741-1 τῇδ᾽:

τῇδ'
Rob. ἐπεύχομαι:
ἀπεύχομαι
Par.
ἐπαύχομαι
Rob. Pro verbo
βρέμειν
in ed. Turn. per errorem e fine sequentis versus repetitum est
πολιτῶν
.

mvp-comment-742-1 μηδὲ πιοῦσα κόνις Rob. Turn. et, ut videtur, M.

μὴ δ' ἐπιοῦσα
Aug. Farn. et Bekkero teste Ven.
μὴ δ᾽ ἐπιθῦσα κόνις
G.
μὴ δ' ἐπὶ θυσακόνις
Ald. Deinde πολιτᾶν:
πολιτῶν
M. Aug. Rob. et ex correctione G.
πολίτων
G. ante correctionem et Ald. Turn.
πολιητῶν
Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-743-1 ποινᾶς Pauwius, et sic Ven. Flor. Farn.

ποινὰς
M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. Deinde ἀντιφόνους:
ἀντιφώνους
Ven. Flor. Farn. Intellige
δι' ὀργὴν τῆς ποινῆς ἁρπαλίσαι ἀντιφόνους ἄτας πόλεως
.

mvp-comment-744-1 ἀντιδιδοῖεν: M. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Rob.

ἀντιδοῖεν
Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-745-1 κοινοφιλεῖ: Iam olim scripsi

κοινοφιλεῖ
, quam emendationem sequens versus confirmat.
κοινωφελεῖ
Aug. Ven. Flor. Rob. Turn. et, ut Franzius ait, Μ.
κοινοφελεῖ
G. Ald. idque alii ex M. afferunt.

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

mvp-comment-292-1 κόνις] The Earth is meant, which on the pantheistic theology, exacted penalties for blood ( ποινὰς) by causing retributive murders. Perhaps πόλεως is best taken in its natural order, eagerly to seize from the city, like a debt due but yet unpaid.

mvp-comment-293-1 ἆρα κ.τ.λ.] Are they not becoming wise, and do they not find a good course for the expression of their wishes? We might somewhat improve the sense by reading ἀγαθὴν for ἀγαθῆς. The citizens are called on to attest the goodness of the goddesses in their benign wishes for blessings on the state. By φοβερὰ πρόσωπα the masks must be meant which made them look like Gorgons, sup. 49.

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-515-1 1

mvp-comment-515-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318

mvp-comment-515-3 βρέμειν von dem Lärm und Toben des Aufruhrs.

mvp-comment-516-1 2

mvp-comment-516-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318

mvp-comment-516-3 ἐχθραν ist ergänzt nach 938.

mvp-comment-517-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318

mvp-comment-517-2 Das vergossene Blut fordert mit Ungeduld von der Stadt Blut zum Entgelt d. h. die eine Partei, deren Blut vergossen worden ist, sucht alsbald wieder die andere zu überwältigen. Die Form ἁρπαλίσαι wie Suppl. 668

κενώσαι
, 670 αἱματίσαι. Vgl. Anhang zu 621. - ἀντιφόνους ἄτας wie ἀντικτόνοις ποιναῖσι 467.

mvp-comment-518-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318

mvp-comment-518-2 ,,Sie mögen Freude mit Freude erwidern in bürgerlichem Gemeinsinn." In etwas anderem Sinne regiert αντιδιδοῖεν den Infin. στυγείν: sie mögen tauschen den Hafs, so dafs sie einig sind im Hassen (wie im Lieben).

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

ποινᾶς ἀντιφόνους ἄτας , the murderous woes of vengeance, the woes of murderous requital; a very Aeschylean phrase, and more natural on the whole than the Med. reading ποινάς, which would make ἄτας gen.: for in any case it is certainly right to take these three words together. [H. P. and others take δι᾽ ὀργὰν ποινᾶς, from desire of vengeance, weaker meaning and more strained usage.]

mvp-sidgwick-451-1-1 'And may they give joy for joy, with one heart of love, and to hate with one soul.' An imaginative way of saying, 'May they live in happiness that comes from harmony, having the same friends and foes.' The latter phrase is the well-known Greek formula in making alliances.

mvp-sidgwick-452-1-1 MSS. read φρονοῦσιν and εὑρίσκει, no sense. I have adopted the original suggestion of Hermann, accepted by D. Weil. φρονοῦσα and εὑρίσκεις. Dost thou then wisely find the path of good words? i. e. Are you then come to a better mind, blessing instead of cursing?'

mvp-sidgwick-452-2-1 The first two lines are addressed to the Furies: the two next are a reflection and then she turns to the citizens.