Aeschylus Eumenides 938

Ettore Romagnoli (Translator)

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Che mai non soffi aura nociva agli alberi
sarà vigil mia cura,
985
nè a questo suol s'appressi,
le nuove gemme a struggere, l'arsura,
né a far vane le messi
feral morbo serpeggi,
anzi, con parti duplici
990
allegri a tempo debito Pan le floride greggi;
e le genti felici
lodino ognor dei Numi i benefici.

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

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Funding provided by Schmidt Sciences.

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.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 938 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 938 focus
Δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω,
φλογμοὺς φλογμὸς (-μός τ' Tr) φλοιγμὸς ὀμματοστερεῖς -ρὴς φυτῶν τὸ
μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ' ἄκαρπος αἰα-
940
νὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος
μῆλά τ' εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν (εὐθην- FVTr)
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος (δ' ἀεὶ)
πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν
945
δαιμόνων δόσιν τίοι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω,
940
φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν τὸ
μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰα-
νὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος,
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα Πᾶν
945
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος
δὲ γᾶς ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα —
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω —
φλογμοὺς ὀμματοστερεῖς φυτῶν
940
τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰανὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος·
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα Πάν
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
τρέφοι, χρόνωι ⟨τε τῶι⟩ τεταγμένωι γόνος
945
πλουτόχθων ἰκμαίαν
δαιμόνων δόσιν πίοι.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 938 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω,
900
φλογμός τ᾽ ὀμματοστερὴς
φυτῶν τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰανὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος·
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις
905
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος * δ᾽ ἀεὶ
πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν
δαιμόνων δόσιν τίοι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 938 focus
δενδροπήμων δὲ μὴ πνέοι βλάβα,
τὰν ἐμὰν χάριν λέγω·
ἀντ. α
φλογμόν (τ᾿ ὀμματοστερή φυτῶν τὸ μὴ περᾶν
940
ὅρον τόπων,
μηδ᾽ ἄκαρπος αἰανὴς ἐφερπέτω νόσος,
μῆλά τ᾽ εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ
ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοις τρέφοι χρόνωι τεταγμένωι 945
945
γόνον <τελεῖν·
πλουτόχθων (θ᾽) ἑρμαία
δαιμόνων δόσις τίοι.
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.) — 938 focus
And let not the tree-destroying blight breathe—I speak my kindness—and let [not there be] the scorching heat that blasts the buds of plants, preventing them from passing the bounds of their places; nor let the fruit-spoiling black disease creep on; and may this country rear at the appointed time flocks very plenteous with double increase: let the race of men that enjoys the riches of the earth, adore the gainful gift of the deities.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 938 focus
leur implacable courroux.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 938 focus
O'er their ſaplings ſpreading fair
May no chill wind noxious blow;
1070
Nor the dry and ſcorching air
Singe their freſh buds' opening glow.
For my ſake may no diſeaſe
Sicken o'er the blaſted year:
May their teeming flocks increaſe,
1075
And a double offspring bear.
'Gainſt the ſolemn feſtal day
Numerous may their herds ariſe;
Sportive o'er the rich fields play,
Gift of the propitious ſkies.
1080
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 938 focus
Arbori nocuum ne fiat detrimentum
Mea gratia dico.
Incendiumq; oculo priuans plantarum
Non tranſire fines locorum.
880
Neq; infructuoſus obſcuritatis
Morbus ſerpat, ouesq; fœcundæ admodum
Cum duobus fœtibus
Alant tempore conſtituto prolem.
Diues terra Lucratile dæmonum donum ponat.
885
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 938 focus
Es wehe nie böser Wind, der Bäume Feind
(so sag' ich, was mein Segen wirkt),
940 daſs gift'ger Brand, dran die Augen schrumpfen,
die Grenzen nimmer überzieht.
Noch komme je Seuche, Samen mordend;
die Erde spende Nahrung
den Herden stets; Zwillingslämmer werfe
945 das Mutterschaf jeden Lenz, und nimmer
versieg' im Felsengrunde
der Silberader schlummernder
plötzlich beglückender Schatz.
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.) — 938 focus
To my blessing now give ear.—
1080
Scorching blight nor singèd air 1
Never blast thine olives fair!
Drouth, that wasteth bud and plant,
Keep to thine own place. Avaunt,
Famine fell, and come not hither
1085
Stealthily to waste and wither!
Let the land, in season due,
Twice her waxing fruits renew;
Teem the kine in double measure;
Rich in new god-given treasure,
1090
Here let men the powers adore
For sudden gifts unhoped before!
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.) — 938 focus
Böser Hauch athme nie, der Bäume Feind!
(So verheiß' ich meine Huld,) -
895
Sonnenglut, der Pflanzen Auge sengend,
Bleibe fern des Landes Mark!
Nimmer schleiche graunvoll
Pest heran, der Früchte Tod!
Schafe, frohgedeihend, mag,
900
Zwillingslämmer um sie her,
Zu rechter Zeit die Erde stets erzieh'n; ihr Schooß
Sei stets durch Hermes' Huld
Goldner Gottesgaben voll!
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.

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.

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.

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.]

992. εὔφρονas , kindly, a reference to their name Εὐμενίδες.

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-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.

mvp-comment-738-1 ἐκράτησεν: Libri

ἐκράτησε
.

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.

mvp-comment-746-1 ἆρα Flor. Farn. et Bekkero teste Ven.

ἄρα
ceteri. Deinde φρονοῦσιν Μ. (sic M.) G. Ald.
φρονοῦσι
Aug. Flor. Turn.
φρονούσης
Ven. Rob. In versu sequente libri omnes (nam sie etiam M.)
εὑρίσκει
. Robortellus ex sua coniectura
εὑρίσκεις
dedit. Porsonus ex Pauwi coniectura εὑρίσκειν edidit, non addita interpunctione, quae post
ευρίσκει
erat. Ego olim scripseram
ἆρα φρονοῦσα γλώσσης ἀγαθῆς ὁδὸν εὑρίσκεις;
Sed servandum potius est
φρονοῦσιν
et adscito
εὑρίσκειν
continuanda oratio ita ut post
πολίταις
signum interrogationis ponatur. Num, si sapiunt, his civibus magnum ab his horribilibus vultibus lucrum video bonae linguae viam invenire? h. e. nonne utile erit bene his Furiis dicere?

mvp-comment-747-1 εὔφρονας εὔφρονες Turn.

εὐφρόνας εύφρονες
Aug. Ven. Flor.
εὐφράνας εύφρονες
M. Par.
εὔφρανας εύφρονες
G. Ald.
εὐφρόνως εὔφρονες
Rob. Deinde ἀεὶ M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob.
ἀλεί
Ven. Flor. Farn. Turn.

mvp-comment-748-1 καὶ γῆν καὶ πόλιν ὀρθοδίκαιοι: Libri

καὶ γῆν καὶ πόλιν
. Deinde
ὀρθοδίκαιοι
Aug. Ceteri
ὀρθοδίκαιον
. Denique πάντως scribendum esse Bothius vidit, et habet hoc Ven. Ceteri
πάντες
, quod inutile est et languet. Scripsi
καὶ γῆ καὶ πόλις ὀρθοδίκαιοι πρέψετε πάντως διάγοντες.

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

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.

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.

mvp-comment-294-1 εὔφρονας εὔφρονες] with mutual goodwill.

mvp-comment-295-1 πρέψετε seems here, as in Ag. 1299 , to be transitive, you will make conspicuous, cause to be admired by all.

mvp-comment-296-1 ἐν αἰσιμίαισι] In possession of the blessings of wealth.

mvp-comment-297-1 ἴκταρ Διός] There appears to have been a statue of Ζεὺς Πολιεὺς on the southern summit of the Acropolis, overlooking the theatre.

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-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.

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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.

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.

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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 7

mvp-comment-515-1 8

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

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

mvp-comment-516-1 9

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).

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mvp-comment-519-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318

mvp-comment-519-3 ,,Nicht wahr? Verständige (Gutgesinnte) finden den Weg zu guten Worten?“ d. h. da bestätigt sich wieder einmal der Satz, dafs es zur guten Rede nur guter Gesinnung bedarf. ἆρα wie Soph. El. 614 ἆρά σοι δοκεῖ χωρεῖν ἂν εἰς πᾶν ἔργον αἰσχύνης ἄτερ; Oed. Τ. 822 ἆρ᾽ ἔφυν κακός;

mvp-comment-520-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318

mvp-comment-520-2 τῶνδε ist Gen. zu αίδε.

mvp-comment-521-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319

mvp-comment-521-2 Wenn ihr diese hoch ehret ( μέγα wie 12), werdet ihr glänzend dastehen als solche, die Land und Stadt recht und gerecht durchaus erhalten. Isokr. 3, 41 τὰς πόλεις ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ πειρᾶσθαι διάγειν.

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

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

.

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.'

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.

εὔφρονas , kindly, a reference to their name Εὐμενίδες.

mvp-sidgwick-454-1-1 Taking πάντως, the reading of Ven., for the flat πάντες, there is no need to alter further.

mvp-sidgwick-454-2-1 Guiding your land and city in all righteousness, ye shall be glorious. ὀρθοδίκαιον is predicative. The use of διάγειν is a little strange: but it is not a great extension of its ordinary usage with βιότον, αἰῶνα, etc. We may compare χρόνος διηγέ μ' Soph. Εl. 789, διῆγεν ὑμᾶς ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς κατὰ βίον Dem. 255. 11: and particularly πόλεις ἐν ὑμονοίᾳ διάγειν Isocr. 35 Β. [Paley takes πρέπω active: but it is very common and always intrans. in Aeschylus.]