Eumenides. Aeschylus. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1779.
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417. ἐν οἴκοις γῆς ὕπαι , not for τοῖς γῆς ὕπαι, but 'in our home, beneath the earth, both phrases going with verb κεκλήμεθα.
418. ἐπωνύμους , not in its usual sense called after; but simply 'the names men call you by.'
mvp-comment-298-1 πεύσει: Libri πεύσῃ.
mvp-comment-299-1 ἐσμεν ... αἰανῆς: ἐσμεν Farn. ἐς μὲν Ald. Deinde α'ανή M. G. Rob. αἰεινῆ Ald. αἰανή etiam scholiastes legit, qui sic interpretatur, σκοτεινά. ἢ θρηνητικὰ ἢ (sic M.) αλάζειν ποιοῦντα. Sed αἰανῆς Ven. Flor. Farn. Turn. Tzetzes ad Lycophr. v. 406. κατὰ δὲ Αἰσχύλον Ἐρινύες “Νυκτὸς αἰανῆς τέκνα.” Id praestat, ut in Sophoclis Ai. v. 672. νυκτὸς αἰανῆς κύκλος, ubi v. quae a Lobeckio et a me dicta sunt.
mvp-comment-300-1 Ἀραὶ ... ὑπαὶ κεκλήμεθα: ἀραὶ Canterus, et sic Ven. Flor. ἀρὰ M. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. ἐνοίκοις Αld. ὑπαὶ κεκλήμεθα Stanleius. Επαι κεκλήμεθα Victorius, et sic Franzio teste M. Flor. Ven. Sed ex Ven. Bekkerus ὑπαικεκλήμεθα attulit, idque habent G. Farn. Ald. υπεκεκλήμεθα Rob. ύλαι κεκλήμεθα Turn.
mvp-comment-301-1 κληδόνας τ᾽: κλύδονάς τ' Αld.
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αἰανῆ] ‘eternal.' The Schol. explains
σκοτεινά, which seems a confusion with
αἰανῆς. See
Soph. Aj. 672
νυκτὸς αἰανῆς (al.
αἰανὴς) κύκλος. In
Pers. 638
δύσθροα αἰανῆ βάγματα seems to mean doleful cries of alaî, and so in
ν. 922,
ἵετ' αἰανῆ πάνδυρτον δύσθροον αὐδάν. See also inf. 902.
Hesych.
αἰανόν· χαλεπὸν, αἰνόν. Inf. 542,
εἰς τὸν αἰανῆ χρόνον, and 642.
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Αραί] The imprecation of vengeance is the origin of this name. Cf.
Od. 11. 132
ἐπεὶ μήτηρ στυγερὰς ἀρήσετ᾽ Ἐρινῦς.
mvp-comment-216-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 280
mvp-comment-216-2 drittes Epeisodion. Athena erscheint und nachdem sie sich von der Chorführerin und Orestes den Sachverhalt hat darlegen lassen (gleichsam die ανάκρισις oder προδικασία), entschliefst sie sich den Fall durch einen neuen Gerichtshof entscheiden zu lassen. Nach 407 könnte man glauben, dafs Athena wie im Aias des Sophokles auf dem θεολογεῖον auftrete. Da sie aber am Schlusse dieser Scene abgeht, um sich in die Stadt zu begeben, und später (569) auf der gewöhnlichen Bühne auftritt (vgl. 738), so mufs man annehmen, dafs sie auch hier auf dem λογεῖον, nicht in der Höhe erscheint. Sie kommt von der linken Seite.
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mvp-comment-227-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 282
mvp-comment-227-2 Zu 69. graves filiae. αἰανῆ τέκνα,
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mvp-comment-228-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 282
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Ἀραί, Dirae, vgl.
Sept. 70
᾿Αρά τ' Ερινὺς πατρὸς ἡ μεγασθενής. γῆς ὑπαί: zu
Ag. 1276
.
mvp-comment-229-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 282
mvp-comment-229-2 κληδόνας ἐπωνύμους, τὰ ἐπώνυμα οἷς καλεῖσθε Schol.
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It is doubtful whether to read αἰανῆ (from αἰανής) or αἰανῆς (from αἰανός). M. G. and Schol. read here αἰανῆ (agreeing with τέκνα) and αἰανής is the ordinary form used elsewhere by Aeschylus,
αἰανῆ χρόνον
l. 572
,
αἰανὴς νόσος
ll. 479, 941
. On the other hand, Hesychius (Alexandrine grammarian and lexicographer, 4th century, A.D.) quotes a form αἰανός, usually read in
Soph. El. 506
ἔμολες αἰανή. In
Soph. Aias 672
there is the same doubt as here, whether to read νυκτὸς αἰανῆς κύκλος, or αἰανής. But both there and here it is rather more natural to have adj. agreeing with νυκτός: and here particularly: accordingly I take αἰανῆς, the reading of Fl. Fa. Ven.
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As to the meaning: the word certainly sometimes means
eternal (
αἰανῆ χρόνον
l. 572
,
αἰανῶς μένοι
l. 672
): but it also is used in the sense of
grievous,
terrible, (αἰανὴς κόρος, αἰανὲς κέντρον Pind., αἰανὲς δεῖπνον Archil.). Either sense will suit here: perhaps
eternal is the most impressive,
ἐν οἴκοις γῆς ὕπαι , not for τοῖς γῆς ὕπαι, but in our home, beneath the earth, both phrases going with verb κεκλήμεθα.
ἐπωνύμους , not in its usual sense called after; but simply the names men call you by.