Aeschylus Eumenides 778

Ettore Romagnoli (Translator)

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O Febo Apollo, quale sarà l'esito ?

Eumenides. Aeschylus. Ettore Romagnoli (Translator). Bologna. 1922.

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Current edition Experimental

Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) (Italian) (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 778-891 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 778-891 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 778 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 778 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 778 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 778 focus
Ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι,
παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου.
780
Ἐγὼ δ' ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος,
ἐν γᾷ τᾷδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπεν-
θῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας
σταλαγμὸν χθονὶ ἄφορον χθονιαφόρον — ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
785
λειχὴν λιχὴν ἄφυλλος, ἄτεκνος, ὦ ἰὼ Δίκα (Δίκα) Δίκα,
πέδον ἐπισύμενος
βροτοφθόρους κηλίδας ἐν χώρᾳ βαλεῖ βαλεῖν.
Στενάζω στενάξω· τί ῥέξω ;
γένωμαι δυσοίστα πολίταις· γένωμαι· δύσοιστα πολίταις ἔπαθον
790
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 778 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 778 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου.
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος
ἐν γῇ τῇδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ
785
μεθεῖσα καρδίας σταλαγμὸν
χθονὶ ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
λειχὴν ἄφυλλος, ἄτεκνος,
ἰὼ δίκα, πέδον ἐπισύμενος
βροτοφθόρους κηλίδας ἐν χώρᾳ βαλεῖ.
790
στενάζω; τί ῥέξω;
γένωμαι δυσοίστα
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 778 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἴλεσθέ μου·
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος,
780
ἐν γᾶι τᾶιδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας,
σταλαγμὸν χθόνι⟨ον⟩ ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 778 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 778 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιούς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε, κἀκ χερῶν εἶλεσθέ μου.
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ὁ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος
750
ἐν γᾷ τᾷδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας,
σταλαγμὸν χθονὶ
ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ λιχὴν ἄφυλλος,
ἄτεκνος, ὦ δίκα, πέδον ἐπισύμενος,
755
βροτοφθόρους κηλίδας ἐν χώρᾳ βαλεῖ·
στενάζω; τί ῥέξω; γένωμαι
δυσοίστα πολίταις ἅπαθον;
ἰω, μεγάλα τοι, κόραι δυστυχεῖς
Νυκτὸς ἀτιμοπενθεῖς.
760
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 778 focus
ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιοὺς νόμους
καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εϊλεσθέ μου.
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος ἡ τάλαινα βαρύκοτος
780
ἐν γᾶι τᾶιδε, φεῦ,
ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίας
σταλαγμὸν χθονί
ἄφορον· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ
λειχὴν ἄφυλλος, ἄτεκνος,
785
ἰὼ Δίκα, πέδον ἐπισύμενος
βροτοφθόρους κηλίδας ἐν χώρᾶι βαλεῖ,
(στενάζω· τί ῥέξω; γένωμαι;) δύσοισθ᾽ (ἆς)
πολίταις ἔπαθον.
790
ἰὼ μεγάλα τοι κόραι δυστυχεῖς
Νυκτὸς ἀτιμοπενθεῖς.
Translations (9)
Eumenides Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 778-890 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 778 focus
1
O youthful gods, you have ridden down the ancient laws, and have snatched [him] from my hands. But I dis­ honoured, miserable, inflamed with rage, in this land, ah, ah! will pour forth, in return for my sorrow, a drop from my heart on the ground causing sterility, and from it a venom destroying leaves and children (
O Justice
!) rushing on the plain, shall cast mortal-destroying stains in the country. Shall I groan? what shall I do? what will become of me? I have suffered things intolerable to the citizens 2
. Ah! most wretched in truth 3
are the daughters of Night grieving for their disgrace.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 778 focus
jeunes dieux, vous piétinez les lois antiques, et vous m'arrachez ce que j'ai en mains. Soit!
l'infortunée qu'on humilie fera sentir à cette terre — ah! malheur! — ce que pèse son courroux. Mon venin, mon venin, cruellement me vengera. Chaque goutte qui en coulera de mon cœur coûtera cher à cette ville : une lèpre en sortira,
mortelle à la feuille, mortelle à l'enfant, qui, s'abattant sur votre sol — Vengeance! Vengeance! — infligera à ce pays plus d'une plaie meurtrière 1 . — Mais je gémis! com-
ment agir plutôt ? Soyons lourdes à cette cité. Ah! elles
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 778 focus
I burſt with rage. With cruel pride.
880
Theſe youthful Gods my flighted age deride.
And, the old laws diſdaining to obey,
Rend from my hands my prey.
Tortur'd with grief's corroding ſmart,
And taught diſgrace and ſcorn to know,
885
Diſtilling from my anguiſh'd heart
The peſtilential drop ſhall flow:
Where'er it falls, nor fruit around,
Nor leaf ſhall grace the blaſted ground;
Thro' the ſick air its baleful dews
890
A cauſtic venom ſhall diffuſe;
And breathing on this hated race
With deep rough ſcars the beauteous form
deface.
Vainly ſhall I heave my ſighs,
895
Or bid my angry vengeance riſe?
To inſults, which my boſom rend,
Vulgar ſpirits ſcorn to bend:
And ſhall thy daughters, aweful Night, in vain
Of their diſgrace complain?
900
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 778 focus
O dij iuuenes antiquas leges
Euertiſtis, & ex manibus cepiſtis me.
Ego uerò ignominioſa ſum miſera iracunda,
In hac terra, heu heu heu, luctuoſam
745
Mittens cordis lachrymam, heu.
Terræ intolerabile, Lichen ſine ſolijs carens liberis heu
Heu cauſa campum impellens,
Mortalium interfectrices maculas in regionem iactabit.
Lugeo. quid faciam? ſiam. intoleranda
750
A ciuibus paſsa ſum, heu admodum
Puellæ infelices noctis ignominioſæ.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 778 focus
Weh, ihr habt es zertreten,
es meinen Händen entwunden,
mein altes Recht,
ihr jungen Götter.
Ehrlos bin ich, doch Gift,
785 wehe, zum Lohn für die Schande,
Gift auf das Land,
meinem Herzen entquellend
das zeugt auf dem Boden
wuchernde Flechte.
Kein Blatt mehr sprieſst,
kein Same keimt,
kein Weib gebiert.
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.) — 778 focus
Woe on you, younger gods! the ancient right
Ye have o'erridden, rent it from my hands.
I am dishonoured of you, thrust to scorn!
But heavily my wrath
Shall on this land fling forth the drops that blast and burn,
900
Venom of vengeance, that shall work such scathe
As I have suffered; where that dew shall fall,
Shall leafless blight arise,
Wasting Earth's offspring,—Justice, hear my call!—
And thorough all the land in deadly wise
905
Shall scatter venom, to exude again
In pestilence on men.
What cry avails me now, what deed of blood,
Unto this land what dark despite?
Alack, alack, forlorn
910
Are we, a bitter injury have borne,
Alack, O sisters, O dishonoured brood
Of mother Night!
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.) — 778 focus
Geschlecht der neuen Götter, ha! Du tratst altes Recht
Tollkühn mit Füßen, und entwand'st es meiner Hand.
Und ich, beschimpft, ich Arme, schütte zornentbrannt
750
Auf dies Land, o Graun!
Schütte rachglühend hier Gift hinab aus meiner Brust;
Es strömt hin in's Land, vertilgt alle Saat;
Die Flur, o Rache!
Umſpinnt dürres Moos, von Laub nackt und Frucht,
755
Und streut des Todes Flecken durch die Gau'n umher.
Wir klagen? Was thun wir? Es höhnt uns das Volk aus.
Uns traf herbes Leid, o Graun! schweres Weh,
Der Nacht Töchter, uns, die schmachvoll gekränkten.
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

Notes on the current edition

Eumenides

1. Intanto, si è fatto lo spoglio dei voti. Atena lo verifica.

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-591-1 στενάζω; τί ῥέξω; γελῶμαι πολίταις. δύςοισθ' ἄπαθον.:

στενάξω; τί δέξω
Par. Aug. Deinde libri
γένωμαι δύςοιστα πολίταις ἔπαθον
, nisi quod in Aug. scriptum est
τί γε γένωμαι
, sed rursus expunctum
τί γε
, et supra scriptum
η
. Haec ex scholiis venerant: adnotatum enim est in M.
λείπει ὁ ἤ διαζευκτικός· ἢ τί γένωμαι
. Deinde
δύσποιστα
Ald. Intelligi potest
γένωμαι ;
si vi ex antecedente
τί ῥέξω
repetitur. Ita Euripides in Ione v. 1446.
τίν' αὐδὰν ἀΐσω, βοάσω;
Et Aeschylus in Choeph. v. 858. si recte ita scripsi,
πῶς ἔχει, κέκρανται δόμοις;
Sed vera videtur Tyrwhitti et Lachmanni emendatio
γελῶμαι
, apta ea inprimis iustae personarum distributioni. Itaque in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 101. haec ita scribenda putavi, ut sexta Furia diceret
γελῶμαι ;
septima
δύςοιστα πολίταις ἔπαθον
. Scholiastes
ὑπὸ τῶν πολιτῶν ἔπαθον· ἔμιξε τῷ θρήνῳ τὴν τιμωρίαν τεχνικῶς. εἰπὼν γάρ, δύςοιστα ἔπαθον, ἐπήγαγε πολίταις, ἵνα ᾖ πολίταις δύςοιστα ὄντα
. Neque subtili disputatione effecit Schoemannus, ut hoc non recte dictum videatur, passa sum quae civibus gravia erunt. Ipse Schoemannus ita fere Aeschylum scripsisse putavit,
στενάζω, τί δέξω; γελῶμαι πολίταις. δύςοιστ᾽ ἔπαθον, ἰώ, ἰώ μεγάλα τοι
etc. Sed alter horum versuum abhorret ab arte Aeschyl.
Γελῶμαι πολίταις
nunc verum esse puto: scripsisse autem videtur Aeschylus
στενάζω. — τί ῥέξω; τί ῥέξω; - γελῶμαι πολίταις. δύςοισθ' ἄπαθον. ἰὼ μεγάλα τοι etc.
Habent
ἰὼ μεγάλα τοι
(
τοὶ
Turn.) Μ. Ven. Flor. Turn.
μεγάλατοι
, quasi esset ab
ἄτη
, G. Ald. Rob.

mvp-comment-592-1 NA: Versus 783 - 809 desunt in Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-593-1 πίθεσθε:

πίθεσθε
M. Turn.
πείθεσθε
Aug. Ald. Rob.
πείθεσθαι
G.

mvp-comment-594-1 βαρυστόνως:

βαρυτόνους
, male lecta codicis G. scriptura, Ald.

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

mvp-comment-244-1 γένωμαι δυσοίστα] ‘Should I become intolerant to the citizens for what I have suffered?' The old reading was ἔπαθον, and the Schol. explained τί γένωμαι ; ὑπὸ τῶν πολιτῶν ἔπαθον, and ἔπαθον πολίταις δύσοιστα ὄντα. There are many examples of verbal adjectives in the feminine form.

mvp-comment-245-1 μεγάλα] i. e. δεινά.

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-300-1 λείπει ὁ ἢ διαζευκτικός· ἢ τί γένωμαι.

mvp-comment-301-1 ὑπὸ τῶν πολιτῶν ἔπαθον. ἔμζελιξε τῶι θρήνωι τὴν τιμωρίαν τεχνικῶς. εἰπὼν γὰρ „δύσοιστα ἔπαθον“ ἐπήγαγεν „πολίταις“, ἵνα ἦι πολίταις δύσοιστα ὄντα.

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-433-1 1

mvp-comment-433-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-433-3 Ich klage - was soll ich thun? Soll ich den Bewohnern der Stadt unerträglich werden? d. b. ich klage, ich will nicht blofs klagen, sondern handeln. δυσοίστα: zu Ag. 1527 .

mvp-comment-434-1 2

mvp-comment-434-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-434-3 μεγάλα δυστυχεῖς wie @ μέγ᾽ εὔδαιμον κόρη Prom. 674

, σε μνᾶς μέγα ματρός
Suppl. 147 . Der Plural wie Eur. Hek. 579
τῇ περίσσ᾽ εὐκαρδίῳ
. Vgl. Krüger 11 § 46, 6, 7 u. 8 . ἀτιμοπενθεῖς, mit Trauer erfüllt im Gefühle entehrt zu sein.

mvp-comment-435-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-435-2 Du hast keine Niederlage erlitten, sondern die gleiche Stimmenzahl von Seite der Richter erhalten, so dafs die Entehrung wegfällt. Aber Orestes mufste durch meine Stimme frei werden, weil u. s. w. ἀτιμίᾳ bezieht sich wie ἄτιμοι 827 zurück auf άτιμοπενθείς.

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

mvp-sidgwick-370-1-1 Wanting in V. Fl. Va. It is clear that it is not this refrain but the second repetition ( ll. 808-822

) that V. Fl. Fa. copied, as they follow M. G. in reading erroneously
ἀντιπαθῆ
l. 812 , and
ἐπεσσυμένος
l. 816 , whereas M. G. have the correct forms in the first refrain.

mvp-sidgwick-376-1-1 MSS. read:

στενάζω; τί ῥέξω;
γένωμαι· δύσοιστα
πολίταις ἔπαθον.
Perhaps the best emendation is γελῶμαι, I am mocked, a natural exclamation, as Antig. 838 οἴμοι γελῶμαι. [This is adopted by H. D. Hart, etc.]

mvp-sidgwick-376-2-1 δύσοιστα πολίταις ἔπαθον, Grievous to the city shall be my wrongs, i. e. the city shall pay for my ill-treatment. This is the Scholiast's explanation, and perhaps the best.