Aeschylus Eumenides 956

Ettore Romagnoli (Translator)

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E depreco le sorti
d'intempestive morti.
O Dive, che degli uomini
leggete il fato, o Moire, a quest'amabile
gioventú date la vita propizia,
1005
o Dive nostre suore,
Dive della Giustizia,
d'ogni casa partecipi,
vigili a tutte l'ore,
o severa adunanza
1010
che sopra ogni altro Iddio godi onoranza!

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.) — 956 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 956 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 956 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 956 focus
᾿Ανδροκμῆτας δ' ἀώ-
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 956 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 956 focus
ἀνδροκμῆτας δ᾽ ἀώ-
ρους ἀπεννέπω τύχας,
νεανίδων τ᾽ ἐπηράτων
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους
960
δότε, κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες,
θεαί τ᾽ ὦ Μοῖραι
ματροκασιγνῆται,
δαίμονες ὀρθονόμοι,
παντὶ δόμῳ μετάκοινοι,
965
παντὶ χρόνῳ δ᾽ ἐπιβριθεῖς
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις,
πάντα τιμιώταται θεῶν.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 956 focus
ἀνδροκμῆτας δ᾽ ἀώρους ἀπεννέπω τύχας,
νεανίδων τ’ ἐπηράτων
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους δότε κύρι’ ἔχοντες
θεαί τ’ ὦ Μοῖραι
ματροκασιγνῆται,
960
δαίμονες ὀρθονόμοι,
παντὶ δόμωι μετάκοινοι,
παντὶ χρόνωι δ᾽ ἐπιβριθεῖς
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις,
πάνται τιμιώταται θεῶν.
965
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 956 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 956 focus
ἀνδροκμῆτας δ᾽ ἀώρους ἀπεννέπω τύχας, στρ. β΄.
νεανίδων τ᾽ ἐπηράτων
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους δότε, κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες,
θεαί †τ᾽ ὦ Μοῖραι ματροκασιγνήται,
920
δαίμονες ὀρθονόμοι,
παντὶ δόμῳ μετάκοινοι,
παντὶ χρόνῳ δ᾽ ἐπιβριθεῖς
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις,
παντᾶ τιμιώταται θεῶν.
925
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 956 focus
ἀνδροκμῆτας δ᾽ ἀώρους ἀπεννέπω τύχας,
στρ. β
νεανίδων τ᾽ ἐπηράτων
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους δότε, κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες,
960
θεαί τ᾽ ὦ Μοῖραι ματροκασιγνήται,
δαίμονες ὀρθονόμοι,
παντὶ δόμωι μετάκοινοι,
παντὶ χρόνωι δ᾽ ἐπιβριθεῖς
965
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις,
παντᾶι τιμιώταται θεῶν.
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.) — 956 focus
And I deprecate youth-destroying untimely events; and do ye 2
grant wedded lives to lovely maids, ye supreme ruling goddesses, and fates, sisters born of the same mother as we, deities of strict laws, common to every house, and in all time heavy in your just visitations in all things the most honoured of the gods.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 956 focus
La puissance est grande de l'auguste Érinys, auprès des Immortels comme auprès des dieux infernaux; et, pour les hommes, ce sont elles qui, clairement et pleinement, aux uns donnent les chansons,
aux autres une vie embuée de larmes.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 956 focus
May no harſh untimely doom
Sweep the manly youth away;
May the virgins' ripening bloom
1090
Crown with love the bridal day.
You, that to the Fates allied
Claim this juſt and ample pow'r;
You, that o'er each houſe preſide,
Sovereign rulers of each hour;
1095
Goddeſſes, with holy dread
Whoſe high ſtate mankind revere,
Here your ſofteſt influence ſhed,
Here extend your guardian care.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 956 focus
Viri factas uerò intempeſtiuas dico fortunas,
Iuuenum optabilium
Fælicem uitam
895
Date, dominium habentes
Deæ, quarum Parcæ
Sorores ex matre ſunt.
Dæmones rectilegi
Omni domo communes,
900
Omni tempore uerò incumbentes
Iuſtis conſortijs omnium deorum hono:ratiſsimi.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 956 focus
Es raffe nie Pest des Volks
frische Kraft dahin.
Mein Bann verbeut's. Und ihr, gleich uns
der Nacht Geschlecht, Schwestern, Schicksalsfrau'n,
960 führet dem lieblichen
Mädchen den Freier zu,
segnet den Ehestand,
krönet sein Glück.
Die machtvoll ihr jedem gebt das Seine,
euch huldigt jedes Haus;
965 zu jeder Zeit wirkt ihr, gut und groſs.
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.) — 956 focus
And far away I ban thee and remove,
Untimely death of youths too soon brought low!
And to each maid, O gods, when time is come for love,
1105
Grant ye a warrior's heart, a wedded life to know.
Ye too, O Fates! children of mother Night
Whose children too are we, O goddesses
Of just award, of all by sacred right
Queens, who in time and in eternity
1110
Do rule, a present power for righteousness,
Honoured beyond all Gods, hear ye and grant my cry!
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.) — 956 focus
Manneskraft welke nicht, eh die Blüthe reift zur Frucht!
Holder Mädchen Blume schenkt
Bräutliches Glück und ein Loos, durch Freuden gesegnet,
915
Ihr Erinnen, ihr Moiren,
Töchter der Nacht wie wir,
Göttliche Ordner des Rechts,
Jeglichen Hauses gedenkend,
Jeglichen Tages dem Wandel
920
Frommer Menschen zugeneigt,
Allzeit hochverehrte Göttinnen!
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.

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

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.

996. αἰσιμίαισι , ‘blessings,' from αἴσιμος, ‘right,' meet, good, lit. that which is one's share or lot, from aloa (strong form from ἴσος).

1006. ὑπό . of accompaniment, with, a special idiom either gen. or dat.: καταθάψομεν οὐχ ὑπὸ κλαυθμῶν Ag. 1554, κηρύκων ὕπο Suppl. 238, μαρτύρων ὕπο ib. 934, ὑπὸ πομπαῖς Pers. 58, and below 1. 1034.

1008. κατέχειν , check : the genitives χώρας and πόλεως are best taken as possessives after the substantival neuter adjectives τὸ ἀτηρόν and τὸ κερδαλέον.

1010. πολισσοῦχοι , see note on 1. 775.

1011. μετοίκοις , ‘newcomers;' the μέτοικοι at Athens being the resident aliens, the word is admirably fit for the Eumenides who were foes, but are newly settled at Athens as friendly powers. Κραναός: the word means rocky and was a favourite name of Athens, Κραναὰ πόλις or Κρανααί, from Pindar's time down (Ol. 7. 151): here it denotes a mythical king or founder, naturally derived from the common title.

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-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.

mvp-comment-749-1 χαίρετε, χαίρετ' Turnebus. Ceteri

χαίρετε
omittunt. Deinde ἐν αἰσιμίαισι Schutzius in secunda editione, male tamen
πλούτου
omittens.
ἐν αἰσιμίαισιν
ex Farn. affertur.
ἐν αἰσιμίαις
M. Par. Ven. Flor. Rob. In corrigendis Rob. pro
αισιμίαις
iubet
ἀζημίαις
scribi.
ἐραισιμίαις
pro
ἐν αἰσιμίαις
Aug. G. Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-750-1 ἀστικὸς M. G. Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob. Turn. Sic etiam e correctione Aug. quum antea scriptum fuisset

ἀστικός
, ut in ed. Vict. Erotianus p. 190.
ἔκταρ, ἐγγύς, παρὰ τοῖς Ἀττικοῖς, ὡς καὶ Αἰσχύλος ἐν Εὐμενίσι φησί “χαίρει Ἀττικὸς λεὼς ἔκταρ ἥμενοι Διός.”

mvp-comment-751-1 ἵκταρ G.

ἴκτ᾽ ἀρ
Ald.
εκταρ
Rob. Intelligenda sunt haec verba de praestantia et virtute. Plato in Philebo p. 16. C.
οἱ παλαιοί, κρείττονες ἡμῶν καὶ ἐγγυτέρω θεῶν οἰκοῦντες
, et de re p. III. γ. 388. Β.
Πρίαμον ἐγγὺς θεῶν γεγονότα
. Ipse Aeschylus in Nioba (fr. 169.)
οἱ θεῶν ἀγχίσποροι, οἱ Ζηνὸς ἐγγύς, ὧν καὶ Ἰδαῖον πάγον Διὸς πατρῴου βωμός ἐστ᾽ ἐν αἰθέρι,

mvp-comment-752-1 παρθένου φίλας φίλοι, σωφρονοῦντες ἐν χρόνῳ:

παρθένου
Rob. Turn.
παρθένους
M. Aug. G. Flor. Ald.
παρθένοις
Farn. et Bekkero teste Ven. Deinde
φίλαις φίλοι
Aug. Ceteri
φίλας φίλοι
. Denique libri
σωφρονοῦντες ἐν χρόνῳ
. Hoc vero admodum ineptum est. Scribendum est
παρθένου φίλας φίλοις εὐφρονοῦντες ἐν χρόνῳ.
Nobis Minervae amicis benevolentes deinceps: ut dixeral Minerva
τάδε γὰρ εἴφρονας εὔφρονες ἀεὶ μέγα τιμῶντες καὶ γῆ καὶ πόλις ὀρθοδίκαιοι πρέψετε πάντως διάγοντες.

mvp-comment-753-1 δ᾽ omittunt G. Ald. Turn. ὑπὸ πτεροῖς:

ὑποπτεροῖς
G. Αl.

mvp-comment-754-1 χαίρετε χἠμεῖς:

χαίρετε δ' ὑμεῖς
Ven. Flor. Farn. προτέραν:
ποτέραν
Ven. Flor. δ᾽ ἐμὲ Porsonus. Libri
δέ με
.

mvp-comment-755-1 Post ἀποδείξουσαν vulgo interpungitur.

mvp-comment-756-1 προπομπῶν Bentleius in Resp. ad Boylium p. 79.

πρόπομπον
M. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob. Τurn.
προπομπών
scripsit Victorius. Non praeit in pompa Minerva, ut Müllero visum est, sed
προτέρα στείχει
, i. e. abit de scena ante pompam. Ideo
χαίρετε
dicit. V. Opusc. VI. 2. p. 121. Sed paene non dubito quin inserta v. 987. post
φῶς
copula ita haec scribenda sint,
χαίρετε χἐμεῖς (προτέραν δ' ἐμὲ χρὴ στείχειν θαλάμους ἀποδείξουσαν), πρὸς φῶς θὰ ἱερὸν τῶνδε προπομπῶν ἴτε, καὶ σφαγίων
etc.

mvp-comment-757-1 ὑπὸ σεμνῶν:

ὑποσεμνῶν
G.

mvp-comment-758-1 σύμεναι:

σύμμεναι
G. Ald.
δύμεναι
Turn. ἀτηρὸν Bentleius. Libri
ἀτήριον
.

mvp-comment-759-1 ὑμεῖς δ᾽ Turn.

ἡμεῖς δ'
M. Par. G. Flor. Rob. Ald. et, ut Franzius ait, Ven.

mvp-comment-760-1 μετοίκοις Turn.

μέτοικοι
M. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob.

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

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.

mvp-comment-298-1 σωφρονοῦντες] The notion seems to be, that now at length, when the cultus of the Erinyes, i.e. the law of Conscience, is established among the citizens, they will be wiser than before.

mvp-comment-299-1 ὑπὸ πτεροῖς] This refers to a winged statue of Pallas Νίκη, made by Phidias about two years before the acting of the play.

mvp-comment-300-1 προτέραν στείχειν] Athena now announces her intention of heading a procession of citizens to escort the Furies with lighted torches to their shrine under the Areopagus. She repeats this at v. 976, as the procession begins to move. Compare Pers. ult. πέμψω τοί σε δυσθρόοις γόοις. There is probably an allusion to the citizens in holiday attire attending the Panathenaic πομπή.

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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

mvp-comment-522-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319

mvp-comment-522-2 αἰσιμίαι (nur hier) s. v. a. εὐτυχίαι, Segen.

mvp-comment-523-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319

mvp-comment-523-2 ἔκταρ ἥμενοι Διός versteht Hermann de praestantia et virtute, indem er Plat. Phil. p. 16 C οἱ παλαιοὶ κρείττονες ἡμῶν καὶ ἐγγυτέρω θεῶν οἰκοῦντες, Staat III p. 368B Πρίαμον ἐγγὺς θεῶν γεγονότα, Aesch. frg. 155

D. οἱ θεῶν ἀγχίσποροι, οἱ Ζηνὸς ἐγγύς, ὧν κατ' Ἰδαῖον πάγον Διὸς πατρῴου βωμός ἐστ᾽ ἐν αἰθέρι κοὔπω σφιν ἐξίτηλον αἷμα δαιμόνων
vergleicht. Aber solches kann von Heroen, nicht von den athenischen Bürgern ausgesagt werden. Ικταρ ist wie πέλας etwa in πέλας βωμοῦ gebraucht und man hat an eine heilige Stätte des Zeus zu denken, etwa an den Bezirk, welcher durch die in einen Felsen des s. g. Nymphenhügels eingegrabene Inschrift ὅρος Διός angezeigt wird, oder an das Ὀλυμπιείον südöstlich von der Akropolis, wo eine uralte Verehrung des Zeus bestanden hat (marm. Par. Epoch. 4 Z. 7, Paus. I 18, 8 ). Am nächsten aber liegt der Kult des Zeus auf der Burg selbst, wo Altäre des Zevs Πολιεύς ( Paus. I 24, 4 ) und des Ζεὺς Ὕπατος sich befanden, von denen der letztere vor dem Eingang des Erechtheion stand (ebd. 26, 5) und als uralt bezeugt wird (ebd. VIII

mvp-comment-524-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319

mvp-comment-524-2 παρθένου genügt, weil Athena vor ihnen steht. Für ἐν χρόνῳ vermutet Weil ἔμφρονος.

mvp-comment-525-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319

mvp-comment-525-2 ὑπὸ πτεροις, weil die Athener unter der der Pallas heiligen Burg wohnen, vgl. Eur. Herakl 10 τὰ κείνου τέκν᾽ ἔχων ὑπὸ πτεροῖς.

mvp-comment-526-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319

mvp-comment-526-2 Vgl. 1024, 1037, Paus. I 28, 6

πλησίον δὲ (τοῦ ᾿Αρείου πάγου) ἱερὸν θεῶν ἐστιν ἃς καλοῦσιν ᾿Αθηναῖοι Σεμνάς, Ἡσίοδος δὲ Ἐρινῆς ἐν Θεογονία,
Schol. zu Thuk. I 126
τῶν σεμνῶν θεῶν, τῶν Ἐρινύων, κατ᾿ ἀντίφρασιν· ἃς μετὰ τὸν Ὀρέ στην οἱ Αθηναῖοι πλησίον τοῦ ᾿Αρείου πάγου ἱδρύσαντο
, Eur. El. 1270 δειναὶ μὲν οὖν θεαὶ τῷδ᾽ ἄχει πεπληγ μέναι πάγον παρ' αὐτὸν χάσμα δύσονται χθονός, σεμνὸν βροτοῖσιν εὐσεβὲς χρηστήριον. Aus dieser Stelle und aus Valer. Max. V 3, 3 Oedipodis ossa . . inter ipsum Areopagum et excelsis praesidiis Minervae arcem honore arae decorata verglichen mit Paus. I 28, 7 ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐντὸς τοῦ περιβόλου μνῆμα Οἰδίποδος ergiebt sich, dafs das Eumenidenheiligtum in der Ein- sattelung zwischen Akropolis und Areopag und zwar hart an dem letzteren lag und dafs sich eine Erdspalte, vermutlich das ἄδυτον des Heiligtums, dabei befand. Die Fläche, auf der sich jetzt die Ruinen der Kirche des heil. Dionysius befinden, liegt erheblich höher als die Agora und die Terrasse, auf welcher die Kapelle des heil. Athanasius steht. Der Areopag bildet dort, bevor er in einer nach Osten vorspringenden Ecke abschliefst, eine knieförmige Krümmung. Die nach Westen blickende Wand ist senkrecht bearbeitet, südlich stehen Reste von den Mauern der Kirche. Zwischen diesen und der kompakten Felsmasse liegen gewaltige Felsblöcke wild durcheinander, unter denen jetzt, durch äppige Schlingpflanzen verkleidet, sich eine tiefe Felsspalte öffnet; im innersten Winkel der letzteren quillt Wasser (Köhler Hermes VI S. 101). αϊδε

mvp-comment-527-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 320

mvp-comment-527-2 πρὸς φῶς wie 247 πρὸς alua, eigentlich „hinblickend auf“. Vgl. Cho. 903 , Prom. 1032 . προπομποί: der Nebenchor ( παραχορήγημα) der Tempeldienerinnen (1025), welche Fackeln tragen, muls kurz zuvor aus dem Tempel getreten sein.

mvp-comment-528-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 320

mvp-comment-528-2 Pers. 225

αὐτοῦ τάδε σὸν πόσιν Δαρεῖον ἐσθλά σοι πέμπειν τέκνῳ τε γῆς ἔνερθεν ἐς φάος, τἄμπαλιν δὲ τῶνδε γαίᾳ κάτοχα μαυροῦσθαι σκότω
. Die Infin. κατέχειν und πέμπειν stehen imperativisch.

mvp-comment-529-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 320

mvp-comment-529-2 vµɛis, zu den Areopagiten. παῖδες Κραναοῦ: Kranaos, der Heros eponymos der Kranaer, wurde als ein alter König von Attika betrachtet (marm. Par. ep. 6. 7. 8, Apollod. III 14, 5 , Strabon IX p. 397 , Paus. I 2, 6 ). Herod. VIII 44

᾿Αθηναῖοι ἐπὶ Πελασγῶν ἐχόντων τὴν νῦν Ελλάδα καλεομένην ἦσαν Πελασγοί, ὀνομαζόμενοι Κραναοί
. Vgl. Pind. Ol. VII 82 κρανααῖς ἐν Ἀθάναις, Aristoph. Ach. 75 ὦ Κραναὰ πόλις, Lys. 480 τὴν Κραναάν, Vö. 123 μείζω τῶν Κραναῶν ζητεῖς πόλιν; Man bezieht wohl mit Recht das Epitheton κραναή auf die felsigen Hügel, auf denen die ersten Bewohner des Landes (die Pelasger) sich ansiedelten, die deshalb den Namen Κραναοί erhielten. Vgl. Wachsmuth, Stadt Athen im Alt. I S. 429 ff.

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

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

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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.]

αἰσιμίαισι , blessings, from αἴσιμος, right, meet, good, lit. that which is one's share or lot, from aloa (strong form from ἴσος).

mvp-sidgwick-456-1-1 Seated near to Zeus; fine and simple metaphor for the righteous people specially under divine protection. Hermann quotes Aesch. Niobe, frag. 146

οἱ θεῶν ἀγχίσποροι οἱ Ζηνὸς ἐγγύς
of the halfdivine heroes: and Plat. Phileb. 16 C οἱ παλαιοί, κρείττονες ἡμῶν καὶ ἐγγυτέρω θεῶν οἰκοῦντες.

mvp-sidgwick-457-1-1 Wise at last, i. e. having made your peace with us. This is the simplest interpretation, and there is no ground for suspecting the reading. 6

ὑπό . of accompaniment, with, a special idiom either gen. or dat.:

καταθάψομεν οὐχ ὑπὸ κλαυθμῶν
Ag. 1554 ,
κηρύκων ὕπο
Suppl. 238 ,
μαρτύρων ὕπο
ib. 934 ,
ὑπὸ πομπαῖς
Pers. 58 , and below l. 1034
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mvp-sidgwick-459-1-1 See note on l. 805

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κατέχειν , check : the genitives χώρας and πόλεως are best taken as possessives after the substantival neuter adjectives τὸ ἀτηρόν and τὸ κερδαλέον.

πολισσοῦχοι , see note on l. 775

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μετοίκοις , newcomers; the μέτοικοι at Athens being the resident aliens, the word is admirably fit for the Eumenides who were foes, but are newly settled at Athens as friendly powers. Κραναός: the word means rocky and was a favourite name of Athens, Κραναὰ πόλις or Κρανααί, from Pindar's time down (Ol. 7. 151): here it denotes a mythical king or founder, naturally derived from the common title.