Aeschylus Eumenides 916

Ettore Romagnoli (Translator)

Mi sarà grato vivere con Pallade;
né la città dispregio
cui Giove ed il gagliardo
965
Marte, dei Numi asil vollero, e fregio,
e all'are baluardo
di tutti i Numi Ellèni.
Per essa, con fatidici
benigni augurî imploro che della vita i beni
970
faccia il sol coi suoi vampi
impetuosi germinar dai campi.

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.) — 916-1020 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 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.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 916 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 916 focus
Δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
915
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ Παγκρατὴς Ἄρης τε
φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλά-
νων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων,
920
ᾷτ' ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς
ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
γαίας ἐξαμβρῦσαι -αμβρόσαι -αμυρόσαι,
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
925
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν,
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς Ἄρης τε
φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
920
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλά-
νων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων.
τᾷδ᾽ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς Ἄρης
τε φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων·
920
ἆιτ’ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς
ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
γαίας ἐξαμβρῦσαι
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
925
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 916 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν,
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς
880
῎Αρης τε φρούριον θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων·
ᾆτ᾿ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι,
θεσπίσασα πρευμενώς,
ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους
885
γαίας † ἐξαμβράσαι
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 916 focus
δέξομαι Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν,
στρ. α
τὰν καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ παγκρατὴς Ἄρης τε φρούριον
θεῶν νέμει,
ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων (θ᾽)·
920
ἆιτ᾽ ἐγὼ κατεύχομαι
θεσπίσασα πρευμενῶς ἐπισσύτους βίου τύχας
ὀνησίμους
γαίας ἐξαμβρύσειν
925
φαιδρὸν ἁλίου σέλας.
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.)) — 916-1020 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 916 focus
I will accept the fellowship of Pallas, nor will I despise a city whieli even all-powerful Jove and Mars regard as the defence of the gods, the delight of the deities of Greece, protecting their altars. For which I pray, prophesying benevolently, that the bright ray of the sun cause to spring 1 from the earth goods useful for life in abundance.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 916 focus
je veux vivre avec Pallas et ne point dédaigner la ville dont Zeus tout-puissant et Arès font par
leur présence le donjon des dieux, éclatant rempart des saints autels de la Grèce. Sur elle j'épands mes vœux en oracles propices. Que tous les bonheurs qui font une vie
prospère, de son sol,
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 916 focus
Goddeſs, here thy ſeat I ſhare,
Hoſtile to this town no more;
1045
Which the dreadful God of War,
And the Thund'rer's ſovereign pow'r,
Give the pride of Greece to riſe
Guardian of the rites divine,
Glory of the fav'ring ſkies,
1050
Give to watch o'er freedom's ſhrine.
I too breath the potent pray'r:
May the ſun's ambrofial ray,
Rolling o'er the fruitful year,
All its richeſt charms diſplay!
1055
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 916 focus
Suſcipio Palladis ædem, neq; ignominia afficiam
Quam & Iupiter præpotens, Marsq;
Cuſtodiam deorum incolit, liberatrice Græcorum,
Effigiem dæmonum, Cui ego precor
Vaticinans propitiæ obnoxias uitæ fortunas felices
865
Terræ fundere pulchrum ſolis iubar.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 916 focus
Ich nehm' es an,
kehre bei Athena ein,
verschmähe nicht die Pallasstadt,
die Götterburg; Zeus, der allgewaltige,
920 und Ares weilen gern in ihr.
Sie schirmt und schmückt Tempel und Altäre
den Göttern all' von Hellas.
Ihr hold gesinnt sprech' ich zukunftkundig
den Segenswunsch: mög' auf alle Zeiten
der Sonne froher Glanz
925 ihr aus der Erde Schofs hervor
locken gedeihliches Glück.
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.) — 916 focus
Lo, I accept it; at her very side
Doth Pallas bid me dwell:
1050
I will not wrong the city of her pride,
Which even Almighty Zeus and Ares hold
Heaven's earthly citadel,
Loved home of Grecian gods, the young, the old,
The sanctuary divine,
1055
The shield of every shrine!
For Athens I say forth a gracious prophecy,—
The glory of the sunlight and the skies
Shall bid from earth arise,
Warm wavelets of new life and glad prosperity.
1060
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.) — 916 focus
Nehm' ich denn neben Pallas meinen Siz,
Und verschmähe nicht die Stadt,
Die selbst Zeus, der Herr des Alls, und Ares
Als die Burg des Himmels liebt,
875
Als der Götter Hellas'
Tempelschirmend Ehrenbild!
Ihr verkünd' ich segnend nun,
Ihr verheiß' ich gnadenreich,
Daß fröhlichsprossend Lebensglück aus reichem Born
880
Aufsprudle vom Erdenschooß,
Den der Sonne Glanz erschließt.
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.)

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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.

939. χάριν , ‘boon,' blessing .

945. γόνος δ᾽ ἀεὶ πλουτόχθων , and ever may the earths rich produce .' The bold compound πλουτόχθων is very Aeschylean. The reference is not (as H. P.) to precious metals, of which Athena (whom the Chorus closely follows in their prayers) had made no mention, and to which γόνος would not be so suitable; but simply to the 'produce' in the ordinary sense.

945. δόσιν τίοι they clearly mean that out of their abundance they are to give thank-offerings to the bounteous gods.

947. ἑρμαίαν , for Hermes was the god of good luck (from Homer downwards, Ερμείας ἐφίλει καὶ κτῆσιν ὄπασσε Il. 14.491) : and a wind-fall or godsend was called ἕρμαιον.

950. ἐπικραίνει , brings to pass, vivid use of present, of a thing now promised.

953. διαπράσσουσιν ., intrans. plain and full is their accomplishment.

954. βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι , ‘a life dimmed with tears,' a beautifully vivid metaphor. δακρύων is gen. of respect after adj. ἀμβλωπόν.

956. ἀνδροκμής , lit. bringing weariness to men,' here a euphemism for 'deadly, is a favourite word of Aeschylus, being found with μόχθος (above 1. 248), and πέλεκυς (Cho. 889), and λοιγός (Suppl. 680) in the same sense as here.

960. κύρια , ‘the rightful power;' the gods they appeal to being such powers as Ζεὺς τέλειος, Ἥρα, ᾿Αφροδίτη. See above 1. 214.

962. μητροκασιγνῆται , ‘sisters by one mother,' because the Fates (like the Furies 1. 322) were daughters of Night (Hes. Theog. 217 καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο).

963. ὀρθονόμοι . [not ὀρθόνομοι from νόμος], the MSS. reading, from νέμω, assigning what is due.

964. ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous .

965. ὁμιλίαις , ‘visitations.'

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.

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-707-1 δυςαρέστους:

δυσαρέτους
Ald.

mvp-comment-708-1 κατανασσαμένη:

κατανασαμένη
Αld.

mvp-comment-709-1 ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου προςέπαισαν: Libri

ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου
. Multa mirabilia de his versibus prolata sunt. Non discedendum esse putavi ab ea sententia, quam in Opusc. VI. 2. Ρ. 109. seqq. exposui. Itaque scripsi
ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τέκτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου * προςέπαισαν. *
Excidisse enim aliquid, quo paroemiacus explebatur, antisystema docet. Aptum autem videtur
προςέπαισαν
. Sic dicuntur
πρόςπαια κακά
Ag. ν. 332. et
θολεροὶ δὲ λόγοι παίουσ' εἰκῇ στυγνῆς πρὸς κύμασιν ἀτης
Prom. v. 887. Neque tantum
κυρέω
, sed etiam antiquior verbi forma cum nomine vel participio iungi potest, ut in Soph. Oed. Col. v. 1159.
θύων ἔκυρον
. Sententiarum nexus hic est, hae enim deae omnia quae ad homines pertinent administrant: si quis autem non commisil delictum, is nescit unde affligatur: nam priorum peccata his eum tradunt, et tacitum exilium etiam magna sonantem (i. e. superbientem et de felicitate sua gloriantem) pessumdat.

mvp-comment-710-1 ἀπλακήματά νιν:

ἀπλακήματά νιν
Pauwius.
ἀμπλακήματά νιν
Μ. Par. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἁμαρτήματα
, omisso
νιν
, Ven. (sic Ven. teste Bekkero) Flor. et, ut videtur, Farn.

mvp-comment-711-1 σιγῶν δ᾽ ὄλεθρος: Libri

σιγῶν ὄλεθρος
, nisi quod
σιγὼν ὄλεθρος
est in Ald. Scribendum erat
σιγῶν δ᾽ ὄλεθρος
. Nam quod sequitur
και
non est et, sed etiam, omninoque qui poeticae dictionis naturam et vim norit, non dubitabit quin
δέ
addi post
σιγῶν
debeat.

mvp-comment-712-1 μέγα φωνοῦντ᾽:

μεγαφώνους τ'
G. Ald. unde Turn.
μεγαφώνους
, omisso τ'.

mvp-comment-713-1 πνέοι: Similiter Herodotus III. 65. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ποιεῦσι ὑμῖν γῆ τε καρπὸν ἐκφέροι καὶ γυναῖκές τε καὶ ποῖμναι τίκτοιεν, ἐοῦσι ἐς τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον ἐλευθέροισι. Aeschines in Ctesiph. §. 111. p. 502. καὶ ἐπεύχεται αὐτοῖς μήτε γῆν καρποὺς φέρειν, μήτε γυναῖκας τέκνα τίκτειν γονεῦσιν ἐοικότα, ἀλλὰ τέρατα, μήτε βοσκήματα κατὰ φύσιν γονὰς ποιεῖσθαι etc.

πλέοι
Ven. Flor.

mvp-comment-714-1 φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν, τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων:

φλογμός τ'
Flor. (ut Franzius ait) et Turn.
φλογμὸς
, omisso τ', Ven.
φλοιγμός
, sine τ', M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob.
φλοιγμὸς δ᾽
ex Par. a Faehsio et Linwoodio affertur. Deinde
τόπον
pro
τόπων
Rob. Putavi olim scribendum esse
φλογμοῖς ὀμματοστερής
, id ut cum
βλαβά
coniungeretur. Schoemanno
περῶν
in
πέραν
mutandum videtur, quae etiam Musgravii opinio fuit, atque sic scribendum,
φλογμός τ' όμματα-στερὴς φυτῶν μένοι πέραν ὅρου τόπων
, ut
τόπων
idem sit quod
τῶνδε τόπων
. Id fieri nequit. Nam si
γῆ
,
χθών
,
χώρα
nullo alio verbo addito de ea terra dicuntur, de qua sermo est, non continuo putandum est etiam
τόπους
ita dici posse. Verum esse videtur
φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν
, neque quicquam mutandum in iis quae libri ita scripta habent,
τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρων τόπων
. Ardor oculos sive germina plantarum perdens, ut ne terminum locorum suorum transgrediantur, nihil aliud est, ut Schützius vidit, quam ardor qui oculos plantarum impedit quominus progerminent et efflorescant. Intelligendum est autem
μὴ ἐφερπέτω
ex eo quod sequitur
μηδ' ἐφερπέτω
.

mvp-comment-715-1 αἰανὴς:

αλα νὴς
G.

mvp-comment-716-1 ἐφερπέτω:

ἐφέρπω
Ven.

mvp-comment-717-1 εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ:

εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν
M. Aug. G. Turn.
εὐσθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν
Ald.
εὐθυνοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν
Rob.
εὐθηνοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν
Ven. Flor. Farn. Recepi nunc Dobraei emendationem
εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ
.

mvp-comment-718-1 διπλοῖσιν Stanleius, et sic Ven. Flor.

διπλοῖς
M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. ἐμβρύοις:
ἐν βρύοις
ex M. affertur.

mvp-comment-719-1 τρέφοι libri. Deinde τεταγμένῳ:

τεταγμίω
Ald. Denique γόνος omnes praeter Turn. qui
γόνον
scripsit. Apparet duas syllabas excidisse. Olim putabam scribendum esse
μηλά τ' εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν — πρέποι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος δὲ γᾶς
etc. Nunc, recepta v. 931. Dobraei emendatione, scripsi
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος * δ᾽ ἀεὶ * πλουτόχθων
etc. Ita Musgravius et, ut videtur, Pearsonus.

mvp-comment-720-1 πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν:

πλουτόχθω νερμαίαν
Ald. Scholiastes ὁ καρπὸς ὁ ἐκ γῆς πλουτίζων. Intelliguntur metalla: erant enim, ut notum est, aeris fodinae in Colono, argenti in Thorico et nobiliores in Laurio monte. Has significat Aeschylus etiam in Persis v. 236.
ἀργύρου πηγή τις αὐτοῖς ἐστι, θησαυρὸς χθονός
.
τισι
G.

mvp-comment-721-1 τίοι: M. Aug. Turn. et haud dubie Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. sed in G. ultimae duae litterae punctis notatae et

or
supra scriptum.
τίσι
Rob.

mvp-comment-722-1 ἦ:

ἢ
Ven.

mvp-comment-723-1 οἷ' ἐπικραίνει recte Pauwius, et ita Ven. atque, ut videtur, Flor.

οἷα επικρανεῖ
M. G. Ald.
οἷ
(
οἷ
, Rob.)
ἐπικρανεῖ
Rob. Turn. et, ut puto, Aug. Idem vitium sublatum in Ag. v. 1300. γὰρ omittit Rob.

mvp-comment-724-1 Ἐρινὺς:

ἐρινὺς
M. Par. G. Rob.
ἐριννὺς
Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. Turn. παρά τ':
πάρα τ'
Αld.

mvp-comment-725-1 διαπράσσουσιν: M. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Ald. Rob.

διαπράσουσι
Flor.
διαπράσσουσι
Turn.

mvp-comment-726-1 τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων: Id est in Ald. Turn.

τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ κρύων
M. Par. G. Ven. Rob. et, ut Linwoodius ait, Flor. cui
τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων
Franzius tribuit.

mvp-comment-727-1 ἀνδροκμῆτας:

ανδροκμήτας
Farn.
ἀνδρομῆκτας
Ven.
ἀνδρομῆτας
Αld. ἀώρους:
dogovs
M. Aug. G. Ald. Turn.
dágos
Rob. idque ex Ven. Flor. affertur.

mvp-comment-728-1 νεανίδων trisyllabum est.

ἀντὶ μιᾶς
adscriptum in Farn.

mvp-comment-729-1 βιότους:

βιότου
Ven. Flor. Farn. Deinde κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες, θεαί τ᾽ ὦ Μοῖραι, ματροκασιγνῆται:
κύρι' ἔχοντες θεαὶ τῶν, μοῖραι
Μ. G. Ald.
θεαὶ τῶν μοῖραι
Rob.
θεαὶ, τῶν μοῖραι
Turn.
κύριες ἔχοντες θεαῖ τῶν, μοῖραι
Ven. Flor. Farn. Casaubonus et Stanleius
ἔχουσαι
. Alii
θεοί
. Scribendum puto
κύρι' ἔχοντες, θεαί τ' ὦ Μοῖραι
, ut Parcae dicantur Furiarum
ματροκασιγνῆται
, i. e.
και σιγνῆται ὁμομήτριοι
(ita enim hoc vocabulum hic explicandum esse videtur),
κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες
autem intelligantur dii qui matrimoniis praesunt, qui sunt praeter Venerem maxime commemorati v. 213. Iuppiter et Iuno. [Eodem modo Hermannus in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 115. Aliter in Annalium Vindobonensium vol. CXI. Ibi p. 265. repudiata, ut inutili et languida, Schoemanni coniectura,
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους δότε καίρι ἔχοντας
, verum esse iudicavit
κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες θεαί
, p. autem 251. seq. ita disputavit. Um die schwierigen worte zu erklären,
κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες θεαί, τῶν Μοῖραι ματροκασιγνήται
, stellt herr Schömann den ingeniosen gedanken auf, dass der dichter einer alten theogonie gefolgt sei, in welcher der ursprung aller dinge der Ocean war. In jenem systeme seien nun sicherlich die Mören töchter des Oceans gewesen, eben so wie Tyche, die nach Pindar bei dem Pausanias VII. 26, 8. eine der Mören sei, und bei dem Hesiodus unter den Oceaniden vorkomme. Eine der Oceaniden nun sei Eurynome; löchter dieser aber seien die Charitinnen; mithin deren mullerschwestern die Mören. Den worten des Aeschylus würde diese deutung allerdings angemessen sein, wenn ihr nur nicht andere bedenken entgegenständen. Aber erstens ist es eine blosse hypothese, dass die Mören töchter des Oceans seien; denn die Oceanide Tyche hat eine ganz andere bedeutung bei dem Hesiodus als bei dem Pindar, und ist mithin nicht dieselbe. Die pindarische, von der Pausanias sagt
ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν Πινδάρου τά τε ἄλλα πείθομαι τῇ ᾠδῇ καὶ Μοιρῶν τε εἶναι μίαν τὴν Τύχην καὶ ὑπὲρ τὰς ἀδελφάς τι ισχύειν
, beruht auf einem solchen mythus, wie der von Pausanias I. 19, 2. erwähnte ist,
τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμα σημαίνει τὴν Οὐρανίαν Αφροδίτην τῶν καλουμένων Μοιρῶν εἶναι πρεσβυτάτην
. Zweitens ist es nicht denkbar, dass, wenn die Charitinnen gemeint sein sollten, nicht nur ihr name nicht genannt, sondern sie auch nach einem wenig bekannten mythus bloss durch ihre mutterschwestern kenntlich gemacht wären. Drittens sind die auf jene worte folgenden prädicale, die herr Schömann in seiner übersetzung auf die Charitinnen bezogen hat, so wenig für diese charakterisierend, dass sie vielmehr auf die Mören passen, auf die sie auch der wortstellung nach' am natürlichsten bezogen werden. Fasst man daher, wie billig, das ins auge, was die worte ihrer bedeutung und stellung nach als das von selbst sich darbietende enthalten, so ist der sinn der: gebet dass den jungfrauen männer zu theil werden, ihr diesem amte vorstehenden göllinnen, deren mullerschwestern die Mören sind. Daraus ergiebt sich nun von selbst, dass diese göllinnen deswegen nicht mit namen genannt sind, weil verschiedene göllinnen gemeint werden, die der dichter nicht einzeln nennen wollte. Damit aber nicht an Aphrodite und Here gedacht werde, fasst er sie unter einer andern bestimmung zusammen, und bezeichnet sie durch ihre mutterschwestern. An die Charitinnen ist nun wohl allerdings zu denken, aber an diese nicht allein: denn sonst würden sie genannt sein. Also werden ihnen noch die Horen zugesellt werden müssen. Bei dem Hesiodus haben beide zum vater den Zeus, die mutter der Charitinnen aber ist (Theog. 907.) Eurynome, der Horen (901) Themis. Vermuthlich gab Aeschylus beiden dieselbe muller, sei es die Eurynome oder Themis, oder welche sonst, deren schwestern die Mören waren, die nach in die Theogonie eingeschobenen versen töchter der Themis sind. Aeschylus lässt uns darüber in ungewissheit.]

mvp-comment-730-1 ὀρθονόμοι:

ὀρθονόμοι
G. Ald. Turn.
ὀρθονόμοι
Rob. et, ut videtur, reliqui. Hoc a
νέμω
factum est, iusta distribuentes: illud a
νόμος
, et potest videri praeferendum esse.

mvp-comment-731-1 δόμῳ:

δαίμω
pro
δόμῳ
Bekkero teste Ven. et Linwoodio teste Flor. μετάκοινοι Turnebus.
μέγακοινοι
M. Par. Rob.
μεγάκοινοι
Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald.

mvp-comment-732-1 ἐπιβριθεῖς:

ἐπικριθεὶς
Par.
ἐπιβριθαῖς
, male lecto scripturae compendio quod in G. est, Ald.

mvp-comment-733-1 ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις:

ἐνδίκοις
Rob. Male olim iungebantur haec verba,
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις
, cum sequentibus.

mvp-comment-734-1 πάντα Canterus.

πάντα
M. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob.
πάντων
Farn. Turn. τιμιώταται:
τιμιώτατα
Rob.

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.

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

mvp-comment-284-1 βαρέων] Supply λαχέων from ἔλαχον. 'He who has not met with a hard lot in life (who has not gained wisdom by misfortune, Ag. 169 ) has yet to learn the great truth, that ancestral crime, as well as actual sins committed, are often the secret causes of woe. —προσέπαισαν is supplied on Hermann's conjecture.

mvp-comment-285-1 βλάβα] See on v. 254.

mvp-comment-286-1 τὸ μή] i. e. ὥστε μὴ, to prevent them from outgrowing the space allotted to each in planting. - αἰανὴς, either long-lasting,' or dismal. See on v. 394.

mvp-comment-287-1 εὐθενοῦντα] See v. 855. For ἄγαν Dobree proposed ya, Meineke Πάν.

mvp-comment-288-1 γόνος] A word is lost in the MSS., perhaps δ' ἀεὶ or δὲ γᾶς. The allusion may be, as in Pers. 236 , to the silver-mines at Laurium, from which a tithe for luck may have been paid to the treasury of the goddess.

mvp-comment-289-1 πόλεως φρούριον] Schol.

ὦ ᾿Αρεοπαγῖται.

mvp-comment-290-1 κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες] ye gods who have the power, viz. as presiding over marriage, " Ηρας τελείας καὶ Διὸς πιστώματα, sup. 205. -Μοῖραι, as daughters of Night, were sisters of the Furies by the mother's side. The MSS. give θεαὶ τῶν μοῖραι, corrected by Hermann.

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.

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-316-1 τὰ σπέρματα. παγῖται.

mvp-comment-317-1 ὁ καρπὸς ὁ ἐκ γῆς πλουτίζων.

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-491-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-491-2 πράσσω αὐτοῦ κατανασ σαμένη, erwirke ich dadurch, dafs ich sie hier Wohnung zu nehmen bestimmt babe. Den aktiven Aor. κατένασσα braucht in der Bedentung,,ansiedeln" Hesiod W. u. T. 166, Theog. 329, 620.

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mvp-comment-492-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-492-3 Denjenigen, der sich ihrer Huld nicht erfreut, treffen unversehens Schläge des Unglücks. χαροπός mit hell und freudig strahlendem Blicke.

mvp-comment-493-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-493-2 Vgl. Cho. 401 ff.

mvp-comment-494-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-494-2 σιγῶν als Gegensatz zu μέγα φωνοῦντα, um das κάλλος και κῶν ὕπουλον, die Ironie, mit welcher hinter dem laut prahlenden Glanze das Verderben lauert, zu bezeichnen. Ζυ μέγα φωνοῦντα ( μεγαλαυχοῦντα) vgl. μεγάλης γλώσ σης κόμπους Soph. Ant. 127 , μεγάλοι λόγοι ebd. 1349.

mvp-comment-495-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-495-2 ἐχθραῖς ὀργαῖς von den Erinyen übertragen.

mvp-comment-496-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315

mvp-comment-496-2 Dem Gedeihen der Olivenbäume verdankte Athen einen Hauptteil seines Wohlstandes. Soph. Oed. K. 700 ὃ τῇδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρα, γλαυκάς παιδοτρόφου φύλο λον ἐλαίας. Über den Einfuls' der Winde auf die Vegetation handelt Plin. N. Hist. XVIII c. 34 . Vgl. Hor. saec. 31 nutriant fetus et aquae salubres et Iovis aurae. carm.

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mvp-comment-497-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-497-2 ,,Meine Gunst und Wohlthat bezeichne ich damit" steht als Parenthese.

mvp-comment-498-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-498-2 φλογμός τε scil. μὴ πνέοι oder vielmehr γένοιτο. Der Brand, welcher die Pflanzen der Augen beraubt, so dafs sie nicht die Hülse sprengen und hervorkeimen. ὀμματοστερής: zu Cho. 252 . Über τὸ μὴ zu Ag. 1589 . Soph. Oed. T. 25 φθίνουσα μὲν κάλυξιν ἐγκάρ ποις χθονός.

mvp-comment-498-3 3

mvp-comment-499-1 4

mvp-comment-499-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-499-3 ἄκαρπος: wenn auch die Knospen sich zur Frucht entfalten, kann immer noch die Frucht verderben. alavýs wie 482. νόσος, der Meltau, Brand, robigo.

mvp-comment-500-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-500-2 Πᾶν als der Gott der Herden, Ovid. fast. II 271 Pana deum pecoris, Verg. Ecl. II 33 Pan curat ovis oviumque magistros. Vgl. Herod. III 65

καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ποιεῦσι ὑμῖν γῆ τε καρπὸν ἐκφέροι καὶ γυναϊκές τε καὶ ποῖμναι τίκτοιεν
und den bei Aeschin. 3, 111 gegen die Verletzer der amphiktyonischen Satzungen ausgesprochenen Fluch: μήτε γῆν καρποὺς φέρειν μήτε γυναῖ και τέκνα τίκτειν γονεῦσιν ἐοικότα, ἀλλὰ τέρατα, μήτε βοσκήματα κατὰ φύσιν γονὰς ποιεῖσθαι.

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mvp-comment-501-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-501-3 γόνος δὲ γᾶς πλουτόχθων (vgl. zu 37) weist hin auf die attiPers. 241 schen Silberbergwerke. ἀργύρου πηγή τις αὐτοῖς (den Athenern) ἐστι, θησαυρὸς χθονός, dazu Schol. ἐν Θορικῷ γάρ ἐστι μέταλλα καὶ ἐν Λαυρίῳ, Strabon III p. 147 οὐ γὰρ πλουσία μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑποπλουσία ἦν ἡ χώρα καὶ παρ' ἐκείνοις ὡς ἀληθῶς τὸν ὑποχθόνιον τόπον οὐχ ὁ "Αἵδης ἀλλ' ὁ Πλούτων ἑρμαίαν, weil diese Gabe der Götter erst glücklich gefunden werden muſs (,,weshalb auch unsere Bergleute einander Glück auf wünschen" Hermann). möge hohen Wert geben.

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mvp-comment-502-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-502-2 πόλεως φρούριον: Schol. ὦ Ἀρεοπαγῖται. κατοικεί. τίοι,

mvp-comment-503-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-503-2 μέγα γὰρ δύναται παρά τε: an die Stelle eines zweiten παρά τε tritt eine andere Wendung. Vgl. zu 861.

mvp-comment-504-1 7

mvp-comment-504-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-504-3 τοῖς ὑπὸ γαῖαν wie Eur. Hek. 149

θεοὺς τούς τ᾽ οὐρανίδας τούς θ᾽ ὑπὸ
γαϊαν, Alk. 895 φίλων τῶν ὑπὸ γαῖαν, Aeschin. 2, 41 τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον ἀνθρώπων.

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mvp-comment-505-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316

mvp-comment-505-3 φανερῶν in Gegensatz zu ὑπὸ γαῖαν s. v. a. τῶν ἐν φάει. τελέως ( διὰ τέλους, wie 321) διαπράσσουσιν, die Erinyen geben die endgültige Entscheidung ihres Schicksals.

mvp-comment-506-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317

mvp-comment-506-2 δακρύων hängt von άμβλω πόν ab, weil dieses s. v. a. πλήρη; ἀμβλωπόν ist vom thränenfeuchten und deshalb stumpfsichtigen Auge übertragen.

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mvp-comment-507-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 317

mvp-comment-507-3 ἀνδροκμῆτας ἀώρους τύχας, Fälle wo die Menschen vor der Zeit hinsterben. Suppl. 686

μηδέ τις ἀνδροκμὴς λοιγὸς ἐπελθέτω τάνδε πόλιν δαΐζων
, Eur. Hek. 425
ὦ τῆς ἀώρου θύγατερ ἀθλία τύχης
.

mvp-comment-508-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317

mvp-comment-508-2 νεανίδων dreisilbig, zu Ag. 1162.,,Gewährt gattenbeglücktes Dasein holdseliger Mägdlein, die ihr des Gewalt habt" d. h. Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite nach 214 f. θεαί τ' ὦ Μοῖραι: die Mören besiegeln den ehelichen Bund. Vgl. 217. ματροκασιγνῆται, hier nicht, Schwestern der Mutter", sondern ,,Schwestern von der gleichen Mutter". Auch die Mören waren Töchter der Nacht nach Hes. Theog. 217

και Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο νηλεοποίνους
. Sie heifsen Schwestern von mütterlicher Seite, weil sie keinen Vater haben: οὔτινι κοιμηθεῖσα θεὰ τέκε Νὺξ ἐρεβεννή ebd. 213.

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mvp-comment-509-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317

mvp-comment-509-2 ὀρθονόμοι, richtig verteilend. Dies wird in den folgenden drei Versen ausgeführt, ähnlich wie Suppl. 408

Ζεὺς ἑτερορρεπής, νέμων εἰκότως ἔλλερα μὲν κακοῖς, αἴσια δ᾽ ἐννόμοις
. Das Wort ὀρθονόμος kommt nur hier vor.

mvp-comment-510-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317

mvp-comment-510-2 ,,Jeglichem Hause billig und freundlich, jeglichem Sitze beschwerlich in gerechtem Besuche" d. h. die Schicksalsgöttinnen suchen jedes Haus und jeden Sitz auf in gerechtem Walten, freundlich oder feindlich. Ζη ἐπιβριθεῖς vgl. Suppl. 656

ὃν οὔτις ἂν δόμος ἔχων ἐπ᾿ ὀρόφων ἰαίνοιτο
.

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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.

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

κατανασσαμένη , middle, housing in my city. ll. 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.

mvp-sidgwick-430-2-1 We must take therefore some emendation like ἱλαρῶν (Weil.), χαροπῶν (Weck.), τῶνδ᾽ εὐμενέων (Hart.): of which I have preferred the former. βαρέων will perhaps have arisen from confusion of β- and ιλ-: or perhaps from a gloss. Another question arises about the metre. Hermann, followed by most edd. (Lachm. Franz. Pal. Hart. Merkel. Weil.), has assumed that Athena's anapaestic stanzas, which alternate with the lyrics, correspond. There are five such stanzas: the three middle ones (at ll. 949, 968, 988

) are all the same length: and the first and the last would be exactly equal, if after βιύτου we read some words like προσέπαισαν (H.). The practice is not uniform: thus in the κομμός in the Choephoroi the anapaestic alternating stanzas do not correspond, though roughly about the same length: on the other hand in Agamemnon (11. 1448-1577) the anapaests do correspond.

mvp-sidgwick-430-3-1 It is on the whole more probable that the latter is the case here: and I have accordingly adopted H.'s προσέπαισαν.

mvp-sidgwick-430-4-1 The sense then is, He who finds them not propitious is stricken with calamities he knows not whence: and μὴ ἱλαρῶν κύρσας is really a euphemism for offended.

mvp-sidgwick-431-1-1 Note the effective antithesis between the silence of the ruin and the loud boasts of the unfortunate man.

χάριν , boon, blessing.

mvp-sidgwick-433-1-1 Corrupt. Some of the commentators (H, Schütz. D. Pal.) try to translate it as it stands: 'Let a blight killing the germs of plants [come not near] to prevent them passing their bounds,' i. e. to prevent them growing: surely an impossible interpretation: a plant does not pass its bounds by growing. The general sense is plain, No blight come near; and perhaps we might accept Wecklein's very ingenious λοπῶν for τύπων: ‘... killing the buds of plants that they pass not the bounds of their husks.' But the sentence is still awkward, with no verb. The other emendations proposed are not convincing.

mvp-sidgwick-434-1-1 MSS. read εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν. Most edd. take Dobree's εὐθενοῦντα ya, but Meineke's suggestion Πᾶν is nearer to MSS. and rather more likely.

γόνος δ᾽ ἀεὶ πλουτόχθων , and ever may the earths rich produce .' The bold compound πλουτόχθων is very Aeschylean. The reference is not (as H. P.) to precious metals, of which Athena (whom the Chorus closely follows in their prayers) had made no mention, and to which γόνος would not be so suitable; but simply to the produce in the ordinary sense.

δόσιν τίοι they clearly mean that out of their abundance they are to give thank-offerings to the bounteous gods.

ἑρμαίαν , for Hermes was the god of good luck (from Homer downwards, Ερμείας ἐφίλει καὶ κτῆσιν ὄπασσε Il. 14.491) : and a wind-fall or godsend was called ἕρμαιον.

ἐπικραίνει , brings to pass, vivid use of present, of a thing now promised.

διαπράσσουσιν ., intrans. plain and full is their accomplishment.

βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι , a life dimmed with tears, a beautifully vivid metaphor. δακρύων is gen. of respect after adj. ἀμβλωπόν.

ἀνδροκμής , lit. bringing weariness to men,' here a euphemism for deadly, is a favourite word of Aeschylus, being found with μόχθος (above l. 248

), and
πέλεκυς
(Cho. 889
), and
λοιγός
(Suppl. 680
) in the same sense as here.

κύρια , the rightful power; the gods they appeal to being such powers as Ζεὺς τέλειος, Ἥρα, ᾿Αφροδίτη. See above l. 214

.

μητροκασιγνῆται , sisters by one mother, because the Fates (like the Furies l. 322

) were daughters of Night (Hes. Theog. 217 καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο).

ὀρθονόμοι . [not ὀρθόνομοι from νόμος], the MSS. reading, from νέμω, assigning what is due.

ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous.

ὁμιλίαις , visitations.

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

.