Aeschylus Eumenides 823

Ioannes Sanravius (Translator)

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Non estis inhonorate, neq; ſuperbè admodum
Dea mortalium statuetis maculatam terram.
At ego confiſa ſum Ioui, & quid oportet dicere.
780
Et clauſtra noui domorum ſola dearum
In quo fulmen eſt ſignatum.
Sed illius nihil oportet. tu uerò à me persuasa
Ne ſtultam linguam proijcias in terram,
Fructum ferentem, omnia non pulchrè agentes.
785
Sopor fluctus nigri, amarus furor,
Tanqnam grauis & cohabitator ſim mihi.
Multæ huius regionis primitiæ frugum
Sacrificabit, ante liberos & nuptias finem
Habens, ſemper hunc laudabis ſermonem.
790

Eumenides. Aeschylus. Ioannes Sanravius (Translator). Basileae. 1555.

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Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) (Latin) (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.)

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Editions (12)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 778-891 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 778-891 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 823 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 823 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 823 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 823 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 823 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 823 focus
οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἄτιμοι, μηδ᾽ ὑπερθύμως ἄγαν
θεαὶ βροτῶν στήσητε δύσκολον χθόνα.
κἀγὼ πέποιθα Ζηνί, καὶ τί δεῖ λέγειν;
καὶ κλῇδας οἶδα δώματος μόνη θεῶν
830
ἐν ᾧ κεραυνός ἐστιν ἐσφραγισμένος·
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν αὐτοῦ δεῖ· σὺ δ᾽ εὐπιθὴς ἐμοὶ
γλώσσης ματαίας μὴ ἐκβάλῃς ἐπὶ χθόνα
καρπὸν φέροντα πάντα μὴ πράσσειν καλῶς.
κοίμα κελαινοῦ κύματος πικρὸν μένος,
835
ὡς σεμνότιμος καὶ ξυνοικήτωρ ἐμοί·
πολλῆς δὲ χώρας τῆσδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἀκροθίνια
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 823 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 823 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 823 focus
οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἄτιμοι, μηδ᾽ ὑπερθύμως ἄγαν
θεαὶ βροτῶν στήσητε δύσκηλον χθόνα.
κἀγὼ πέποιθα Ζηνὶ, καὶ τί δεῖ λέγειν ;
790
καὶ κλῇδας οἶδα δωμάτων μόνη θεῶν,
ἐν ᾧ κεραυνός ἐστιν ἐσφραγισμένος·
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν αὐτοῦ δεῖ· σὺ δ᾽ εὐπειθὴς ἐμοὶ
γλώσσης ματαίας μὴ ἐκβάλῃς ἐπὶ χθόνα
καρπὸν, φέροντα πάντα μὴ πράσσειν καλῶς.
795
κοίμα κελαινοῦ κύματος πικρὸν μένος,
ὡς σεμνότιμος καὶ ξυνοικήτωρ ἐμοί.
πολλῆς δὲ χώρας τῆσδ᾽ ἔτ᾿ ἀκροθίνια,
θύη πρὸ παίδων καὶ γαμηλίου τέλους,
ἔχουσ᾽ ἐς αἰεὶ τόνδ᾽ ἐπαινέσεις λόγον.
800
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 823 focus
οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἄτιμοι, μηδ᾽ ὑπερθύμως ἄγαν
θεαὶ βροτῶν κτίσητε δύσκηλον χθόνα.
825
κἀγὼ πέποιθα Ζηνί, καὶ τί δεῖ λέγειν;
καὶ κλῆιδας οἶδα δώματος μόνη θεῶν,
ἐν ὧι κεραυνός ἐστιν ἐσφραγισμένος·
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν αὐτοῦ δεῖ· σὺ δ᾽ εὐπειθὴς ἐμοὶ
γλώσσης ματαίας μὴ ᾿κβαλοῦσ᾽ ἔπη, χθονὶ
830
καρπὸν φέροντα πάντα μὴ πράσσειν καλῶς,
κοίμα κελαινοῦ κύματος πικρὸν μένος,
ὡς σεμνότιμος καὶ ξυνοικήτωρ ἐμοί·
πολλῆς δὲ χώρας τῆσδ᾽ ἔτ᾿ ἀκροθίνια
θύη πρὸ παίδων καὶ γαμηλίου τέλους
835
ἔχουσ᾽ ἐς αἰεὶ τόνδ᾽ ἐπαινέσεις λόγον.
Translations (9)
Eumenides Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 778-890 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 823 focus
You are not dishonoured, nor, through your excessive wrath, do you goddesses make the land of mortals incurable. I too have trust in Jove,—and what need to say any thing of that? And I alone 1
of gods know the keys of the abodes in which the thunder is sealed up: but there is no need of this. But persuaded by me, do not cast forth upon the ground the fruit of a froward tongue, causing all things to turn out ill. Lull the bitter rage of the black billow, as venerated and a dweller with me: and hereafter having for ever the first-fruits of the sacrifices of this ample realm, for children and the rites of marriage, you will praise these my words.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 823 focus
humiliées; dans l'excès de
votre colère, ne vous en prenez pas, déesses, à des hommes; ne rendez pas la terre sourde à leurs appels. Moi, je m'assure en Zeus, et — faut-il le dire? — seule entre les dieux, je sais ouvrir la chambre où la foudre dort scellée 1 . Mais ici point n'en est besoin. Va, crois-moi; que ta
bouche furieuse ne lance pas sur ce sol des mots dont le seul fruit serait pour tout la mort! Endors la fougue amère de ce noir flux de haine; reçois ta part d'honneurs et viens vivre avec moi. En ce vaste pays, désormais toutes les prémices, offrandes de naissance et offrandes d'hymen, te seront réservées, et tu ne cesseras de louer
mon conseil. 2
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 823 focus
No, you are not diſgraced; nor let your wrath,
940
Immortal as you are, to mortal man
Spread deſolation o'er the earth.
I too
Prevail with Jove. And wherefore ſhou'd I ſay
Of all the Gods I only know the keys g
945
That ope thoſe ſolid doors, within whoſe vaults
His thunders ſleep? Of theſe there is no need.
By me perſuaded let thy haſty tongue
Forbear thoſe threats, from which no fruit can
flow,
950
But ruin to the earth:
compoſe that rage,
Whoſe ſwelling tide o'erflows all bounds, with me
In the ſame manſion, and with equal honours
Rever'd, enjoying thro' theſe ample realms
955
The prime oblations, victims doom'd to bleed
For bleſſings on the birth, or nuptial hour,
That thou ſhalt thank me for this friendly counſel.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 823 focus
non lo rendete, non struggete i germi
col morso edace dell'infeste bave.
Ed io con certa fede a voi prometto
che in questa terra di giustizia avrete
850
riposte sedi, e onor dai cittadini,
presso l'are sedendo, in troni fulgidi.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 823 focus
Ihr seid nicht ehrlos. Euer wilder Götterzorn
825 darf nicht den Frieden trüben dieser Menschenstadt.
Auch ich hab' einen Beistand, Zeus. Ich mag davon
nicht reden, doch als einz'ge der Olympischen
weiſs zur Rüstkammer ich den Schlüssel, wo verwahrt
die Donnerkeile liegen. Doch ich habe sie
nicht nötig. Fügsam meiner Mahnung wirst du nicht
830 haſskranken Mundes Geifer spritzen, dessen Frucht
Unsegen ist für alle. Glätte nur den Schwall
hochwogender Erregung. Reich an Ehren sollst
du neben mir, der Landesherrin dieser Burg,
den Sitz erhalten, all' die Opfer, die das Volk
835 für seinen Nachwuchs darbringt und sein Eheglück,
in Ewigkeit genieſsend, so du auf mich hörst.
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.) — 823 focus
Dishonoured are ye not; turn not, I pray,
950
As goddesses your swelling wrath on men,
Nor make the friendly earth despiteful to them.
I too have Zeus for champion—tis enough—
I only of all goddesses do know
To ope the chamber where his thunderbolts
955
Lie stored and sealed; but here is no such need.
Nay, be appeased, nor cast upon the ground
The malice of thy tongue, to blast the world;
Calm thou thy bitter wrath's black inward surge,
For high shall be thine honour, set beside me
960
For ever in this land, whose fertile lap
Shall pour its teeming firstfruits unto you,
Gifts for fair childbirth and for wedlock's crown:
Thus honoured, praise my spoken pledge for aye.
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.) — 823 focus
Niemand beschimpft euch; nicht in schwerem Grimme denn,
Göttinnen, schafft der Menschen Land zur Wildniß um!
Auf Zeus vertrau' ich - was bedarf's der Rede noch? -
Nur ich von allen Göttern weiß die Schlüssel ja
Zum Hause, wo sein Wetterstrahl verschlossen ruht.
790
Doch dessen braucht's nicht; folge du nur meinem Rath,
Und frevlen Mundes böse Saat, aus welcher nur
Unheil emporkeimt, streue nicht auf dieses Land.
Der schwarzen Woge bittern Zorn besänftige,
Du, die bei mir in hohen Ehren thronen soll!
795
Einst, wenn du dieses weiten Landes Erstlinge
Als Opfer um der Kinder, um der Ehen Glück
Empfängst auf immer, lobst du mich für diesen Rath.
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.)

779. εἵλεσθέ , i. e. you have stolen him, Orestes my prey.

781. ἐν γᾷ τᾷδε , upon this land : it seems from 1. 800 as if it was meant to be taken here with βαρύκοτος, falling on this land with grievous wrath. The ἐv is the Epic use with verbs of motion like ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ὀρούσας: cf. πίτνων ἐν δώμασι Cho. 36, φέρουσ᾽ ἐν ἡμῖν Ag. 1450, and again below ἐν χώρᾳ βαλεῖ 1. 787.

782. ἀντιπενθῆ , woe for woe. So the gloss in the Med. rightly explains, ὁμοῖα δρῶντα οἷς πέπονθα.

796. ἀληθῶς , ‘truly:' i. e. there was no fraud or evil intent, but the honest decision.

797. ἀλλὰ ... γάρ , elliptical as usual, the ellipse easily supplied 'but (you lost) for there was witness,' etc.

799. ὡς , regular poetic use for ὥστε.

802. δαιμόνων σταλάγματα , if right, must mean immortal venom: the word δαιμόνων emphasising the supernatural and terrible power of the blighting drops. The word has been much emended, the best suggestion being Wakefield's πλευμόνων or λαιμάτων : for, as Hartung says, the expressions in this speech are largely determined by the Chorus, and the corresponding phrase is (1.784) καρδίας σταλαγμόν.

804. ὑπίσχομαι , promise, for the common form ὑπισχνοῦμαι, somewhat as οἴχομαι οἰχνέω, λήθω λανθάνω, φεύγω φυγγάνω, πεύθομαι πυνθάνομαι. [Heath, followed by Herm. Schöm., read ἐνδίκους : but the MSS. gen. is finer: Athens, as the Athenians were fond of boasting, was the ' righteous' land: so O. C. 1006 εἴ τις γῆ θεοὺς ἐπίσταται τιμαῖς σεβίζειν, ἥδε τοῦθ᾽ ὑπερφέρει. So again below 11. 869, 920.

805. κευθμῶνας , cavern, grot. There is a chasm or hole in the rock, with a dark spring of water, on the N. E. side of the Areiopagos. This is no doubt the place constantly referred to as the κευθμών or θάλαμοι (1. 1004) of the Eumenides: and explains the phrases κατὰ γᾶς σύμεναι (1. 1007), τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κατὰ χθονὸς τόπους (1. 1023), γᾶς ὑπὸ κεύθεσι (1. 1036). The clearest reference is Eurip. Elektr. 1270, where he speaks of the Eum., defeated in this trial of Orestes, as 'entering a chasm of the earth close by the hill itself:' δειναὶ μὲν οὖν θεαὶ τῷδ᾽ ἄχει πεπληγμέναι πάγον παρ᾿ αὐτὸν χάσμα δύσονται χθονός.

806. λιπαροθρόνοισι , ‘with shining seats' [not with oil as Müller, etc., for the regular libations to the Eumenides were honey and water, fully detailed in Soph. O. C. 470-481], but merely bright or splendid marble seats for the great goddesses.

825. δύσκηλον , lit. ‘hard to charm:' i.e. past cure, as Schol. δυσθεράπευτον.

838. παλαιόφρονα , of ancient wisdom, Aeschylean compound, applied Suppl. 593 to Zeus. κατά τε γᾶς is the best emendation. The indignity which the Furies complain of is being banished to this κευθμών, to dwell beneath the earth.

841. δâ . is Doric form of γῆ. So Ag. 1072 ὀτοτοῖ πόποι δᾶ.

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

mvp-comment-581-1 NA: Hoc carmen chori inter octo Furias distribuendum esse indicavi in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 101. seqq. Versus autem 780. 781. nunc aliter scripsi.

mvp-comment-582-1 κἀκ χερῶν:

κακχειρῶν
Αld.

mvp-comment-583-1 ἰὸν τὸν ἀντιπενθῆ:

τὸν τὸν ἀντιπενθῆ
M. Aug. G.
ἰοὺ τοὺ ἀντιπενθῆ
Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἐὸν τὸν ἀντιπαθῆ
Ven. Flor.
Τον ῖον
ex Farn. affertur,
ἀντιπαθή
ex Par. Scholiastes
ἀντιπενθῆ
interpretatur
ἰσοπενθῆ, ὅμοια δρῶντα οἷς πέπονθα
. Non dubito quin iungendum sit
ἀντιπενθῆ καρδίας
.

mvp-comment-584-1 καρδίας:

καρδία
Ven. Flor.
καρδίᾳ
Farn. Ceteri recte
καρδίας
.

mvp-comment-585-1 σταλαγμὸν χθόνιον ἄφορον:

χθονιαφόρον
M. Aug. Ven. Flor. Rob.
χθονια φόρον
G.
χθόνια φόρον
Ald.
χθονὶ ἄφορον
Turn. Scholiastes
τὸν εἰς τὴν γῆν φερόμενον
. Ei scholio in ed. Rob. hoc lemma praefixum est,
χθονίᾳ φθορᾷ
. Non habet hoc lemma M. Scribendum putavi
σταλαγμὸν χθόνιον ἄφορον
.

mvp-comment-586-1 λειχὴν: Libri

λιχήν
.

mvp-comment-587-1 ἄφυλλος:

ἄφιλος
ante correctionem G.

mvp-comment-588-1 ὦ δίκα, δίκα: Tum libri

ἰὼ
et semel
δίκα
. Scripsi
ὦ δίκα, δίκα
.

mvp-comment-589-1 ἐπισύμενος:

ἐπισύμενος
, ut olim scripsi, M. Aug. Hoc fuerat etiam in G. sed
υ
in
ε
mutatum et
ο
supra scriptum, ut nunc
ἐπιεσόμενος
sit.
ἐπεσύμενος
Rob.
ἐπέσσυμος
Ald.
ἐπεσσύμενος
Ven. Flor.
ἐπεσσυμένος
Farn. Turn.

mvp-comment-590-1 κηλῖδας:

κλίδας
Rob.

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

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

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

mvp-comment-593-1 πίθεσθε:

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

mvp-comment-594-1 βαρυστόνως:

βαρυτόνους
, male lecta codicis G. scriptura, Ald.

mvp-comment-595-1 ἀτιμίᾳ:

ἀτιμίας
G. Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-596-1 αὐτός θ' ὁ φήσας:

αὐτὸς δ᾽ ὁ θήσας
M. Par. Aug. G.
αὐτὸς θ᾽ ἡθήσας
Ald.
αὐτὸς ὁ θήσας
Rob.
αὐτὸς ἢ ὁ χρήσας
ex coniectura Turnebus. Quod Wieselerus protulit,
αὐτὸς ὁ θήξας
, mihi quoque aliquando in mentem venerat. Scribendum erat, ut in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 103. VI. p. 22. seq. dixi,
αὐτὸς δ᾽ ὁ φήσας
. Ita, vel
ὁ πείσας
, etiam Fritzschius. Videtur autem
φήσας
legisse scholiastes, cuius haec est ad praecedentem versum adnotatio,
ἔφασκε γὰρ ὁ Ἀπόλλων γνώμῃ Διὸς μαντεύεσθαι
.

mvp-comment-597-1 ὡς ταῦτ᾽:

ὡς δ᾽ αὐτ'
G.
ὡς ταῦτ᾽
Αld.

mvp-comment-598-1 ὑμεῖς δέ τοι γῇ τῇδε μὴ βαρὺν κότον σκήψητ', ἀφεῖσαι δαιόνων σταλαγμάτων βρωτῆρας αἰχμάς, σπερμάτων ἀνημέρους:

ὑμεῖς δέ τε τῆδε γῆι μὴ βαρὺν κότον
M. Par.
ὑμεῖς δέ τε τῇδε γῇ βαρὺν κότον
Aug. (ita Aug.) G. Ald. Rob.
ὑμεῖς δὲ τῇ γῇ τῇδε μὴ βαρὺν κότον
Turn. cuius coniecturam secuti sunt reliqui editores. Scripsisse potius videtur Aeschylus
ὑμεῖς δέ τοι γῇ τῇδε μὴ βαρὺν κότον
. Deinde libri
σκήψησθε
, nisi quod
σκήψασθε
Ald. Turn. Scribendum esse
σκήψητε
vidit Elmsleius ad Eur. Med. v. 93. Sed quae iam sequuntur,
μὴ θυμοῦσθε, μηδ' ἀκαρπίαν τεύχητ'
, ea gravissimam orationem tantopere enervant, ut ab Aeschylo addita esse non possint. Addidit vero interpres: continent enim et praecedentium et sequentium explicationem. Deinde libri (i. e. M. Par. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. nam Ven. Flor. Farn. per errorem commemorat Franzius)
ἀφεῖσαι δαιμόνων σταλάγματα βρωτῆρας
(
βρώτηρας
G. Ald.)
αἰχμάς
. In M. Par. G. adscriptum
γρ. στενάγματα
, quod in scholiorum editione Rob. rectius scriptum videtur
στάγματα
. Corruptum
δαιμόνων σταλάγματα
fuerunt qui concoquere possent. Wakefieldio scripsisse Aeschylus visus est
πλευμόνων σταλάγματα
, quod scribendum esset
πνευμόνων
. Melius
δαΐων
Pauwius, nisi quod
δαΐων σταλάγματα
hostiles stillas dici hic potuisse male putavit. Deinde Scaliger et Spanhemius ad Callim. h. Dianae v. 125. scribendum esse coniecerunt
αὐχμούς
, Musgravius
ἄχνας
. Rectissime se habet
αἰχμάς
, modo reliqua recte emendentur. Scribendum est autem
ἀφεῖσαι δαΐων σταλαγμάτων βρωτῆρας αἰχμάς
, ut deinde
σπερμάτων ἀνημέρους
coniungatur. Itaque scripsisse puto Aeschylum
ὑμεῖς δέ τοι γῇ τῇδε μὴ βαρὺν κότον σκήψητ', ἀφεῖσαι δαΐων σταλαγμάτων βρωτῆρας αἰχμάς, σπερμάτων ἀνημέρους.
Remoto isto languido additamento,
μὴ θυμοῦσθε, μηδ' ἀκαρπίαν τεύχητε
, tredecim versibus constat oratio Minervae, pariter atque post repetitum chori carmen v. 810. seqq.

mvp-comment-599-1 πανδίκως:

πάνδικος
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-600-1 ἐνδίκους:

ἐνδίκου
libri. Recte Heathius
ἐνδίκους
.

mvp-comment-601-1 ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάραις:

αἰσχάραις
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-602-1 ὑπ᾽ ἀστῶν:

ἀπ' ἀστῶν
Aug.

mvp-comment-603-1 NA: Chori nota omissa in G.

mvp-comment-604-1 NA: Huius et sequentium huius strophae versuum initia tantum scripta sunt in Aug. in cuius margine adiectum

ὅπερ καὶ πρότερον εἴρηκεν
.

mvp-comment-605-1 κἀκ χερῶν:

κἀκ χερῶν
Rob. Τurn.
καχερῶν
Μ.
κἀκχειρῶν
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-606-1 εἵλεσθέ μου:

εἵλετέ μου
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-607-1 ἰὸν τὸν ἀντιπενθῆ:

Τὸν τὸν
Μ. Par. G. et in Aug. quoque id initium versus est.
Ιου ιου
Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἀντιπενθῆ
Turn.
ἀντιπαθῆ
M. Par. G. Ald. Rob.

mvp-comment-608-1 καρδίας:

καρδίαν
Turn.

mvp-comment-609-1 σταλαγμὸν χθόνιον ἄφορον:

χθονιαφόρον
Μ. G. Rob.
χθόνια φόρον
Ald.
χθονὶ ἄφορον
Turn.

mvp-comment-610-1 λειχὴν: Libri

λιχήν
.

mvp-comment-611-1 ὦ δίκα, δίκα: et deinde

i
et semel
δίκα
.

mvp-comment-612-1 ἐπισύμενος:

ἐπεσσύμενος
Μ. G. Rob.
ἐπεσσύμος
Ald.
ἐπεσσυμένος
Turn.

mvp-comment-613-1 βαλεῖ:

βαλεῖ
Turn. Ceteri
βαλεῖν
. Scholiastes
λείπει ἐμποιήσω
.

mvp-comment-614-1 γελῶμαι πολίταις: Omnes ut supra, etiam Aug.

γένωμαι
.

mvp-comment-615-1 δυςτυχεῖς:

δυστυχαῖς
Ald.

mvp-comment-616-1 NA: Hinc rursus pergunt Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-617-1 στήσητε:

στήσηται
, sed
αι
deinde in
ε
mutato, G. Dictum est
στήσητε
ut a Sophocle Oed. Col. v. 1041.
πρὶν ἄν σε τῶν σῶν κύριον στήσω τέκνων
.

mvp-comment-618-1 δώματος: Libri

δωμάτων
. Propterea v. 814. Triclinius et Schutzius
ἐν οἷς
scripserunt. Abuteretur doctrina, si quis
δωμάτων – ἐν ᾧ
iis tueri vellet, quae Apollonius habet de Syntaxi III. 4. p. 200. Apparet enim scribendum esse
δώματος
, ut Casaubonus vel alius quis intellexit. Nimirum non in pluribus, sed in uno conclavi fulmen conclusum fuisse credibile est. De Minerva fulminatrice v. Heynium in excursu ad Virg. Aen. I. 42.

mvp-comment-619-1 ἐν ᾧ:

ἐν οἷς
Farn.

mvp-comment-620-1 εὐπιθὴς: Libri

εὐπειθής
, nisi quod Ald.
ἐπειθής
habet. Scripsi
εὐπιθής
.

mvp-comment-621-1 κοίμα κελαινοῦ κύματος: Hic versus quum in G. omissus esset, eo atramento, quo scholia scripta sunt, suo loco insertus est, adscripto

στίχος
in margine.
κοίμα κελαινοῦ κύματος
M. Aug. G. Turn.
κοίματος κελαινοῦ, κύματος
Ald. quum Asulanus inferiorem partem litterae
ο
in verbo
καρπόν
, quae in G. super
α
in
κοίμα
est, pro compendio syllabae
τος
accepisset.
κύμα κελαινοῦ κύματος
Rob.
καὶ κῦμα κελαινοῦ κύματος
Ven. (sic Ven.) Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-622-1 τῆςδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἀκροθίνια:

τῆςδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἀκροθίνια
, ut olim, scripsi.
τῆσδέτ' ἀκροθίνια
M. Ven. Flor.
τῆς δετ᾽ ἀκροθίνια
G. Ald.
τῆς δὲ τ᾿ ἀκροθίνια
Rob.
τῆςδε τἀκροθίνια
Turn.

mvp-comment-623-1 θύη πρὸ παίδων:

θύη· πρὸ παίδων
M. G. Flor. Ald.
θύη, προπαίδων
Rob.
θύη πρὸ παίδων
Ven.
θύῃ, προπαίδων
Aug.
θύῃ, πρὸ παίδων
Turn.

mvp-comment-624-1 τέλους:

τέλος
G. Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-625-1 ἐς ἀεὶ:

ἐς ἀεὶ
Rob.
αἰεὶ
, omisso
ἐς
, Aug. Ceteri
ἐς αἰεί
.

mvp-comment-626-1 NA: Hoc carmen inter octo Furias distribui, sed paullo aliter atque in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 104. feceram.

mvp-comment-627-1 NA:

φεῦ
hic et v. 829. extra versuum numeros profertur.

mvp-comment-628-1 κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν ἀτίετον μῖσος: Libri

κατὰ γᾶν οἰκεῖν
. Sed infra v. 859. M. G. Rob.
κατά τε γᾶν
. Scripseram
κατά τε γᾶς οἰκεῖν
, neque effecit Wieselerus p.160. ut
κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν
verum esse censeam. Sed ita haec emendanda erant,
ἐμὲ παλαιόφρονα, κατά τε γᾶν οἰχνεῖν ἀτίετον μίσος.
Scriptum est
ἀτίετον φεῦ μῖσος
in G. Ald. Turn.
ἀτίετον φεῦ μᾶσος
in M. Aug. Rob.
ἀτίετον φεῦ μύσος
in Ven. Flor.
φεῦ
post
πνέω τοι μένος
v. 828. collocavi.

mvp-comment-629-1 πνέω τοι μένος:

πνέω τοι μένος
omissa in Aug.

mvp-comment-630-1 NA:

φεῦ
libri non hic, sed post
ἀτίετον
ν. 826. habent.

mvp-comment-631-1 οἰοῖ, δᾶ. φεῦ, φεῦ.:

ο? ο?
Μ. Rob.
οι οι
Ven. Flor.
οἱ οἱ
Aug. G. Ald. Turn. Deinde libri
δῶ
et semel
φεῦ
. Quintae Furiae tribui
οἰοῖ, δᾶ
, sextae
φεύ, φεῦ
.

mvp-comment-632-1 τίς μ' ὑποδύεται, τίς ὀδύνα πλευράς;:

τίς μ' ὑπόδεται
G. Deinde
πλευρὰς ὀδυνὰ
M. Aug. Turn.
πλευρᾶς ὀδύνα
G. Ald. Rob.
πλευρὰς ὀδύναι
Ven. Bekkero teste,
πλευρᾶς ὀδύναι
Flor. Ven. teste Frauzio. Scripsi, addito
τίς
post
ὑποδύεται
,
τίς μ' υποδύεται τίς ὀδύνα πλευράς;
Neque enim probandum est, quod Wieselerus coniecit,
τίς μ᾽ ὑποδύεται πλευράς, ὦ, δύα;

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

mvp-comment-243-1 μεθεῖσα] Instead of saying μεθήσω, she intended to say βλάβην οἴσω at v. 757, but the language is abrupt through excitement, what shall I do to them?' &c. Any patch of blight is called λιχὴν (our word lichen), and it was thought to be caused by blood-drops from the Erinyes. Hesych.

κηλίδες· μολυσμοί.

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

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

mvp-comment-246-1 οὐκ ἀτιμίᾳ] This is an answer to the complaint ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄτιμος, v. 750. It is repeated in 788, οὐκ ἔστ' ἄτιμοι.

mvp-comment-247-1 ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ κ.τ.λ.] The sense is, ἀλλ' αὐτὸς ᾿Απόλλων ἀπέλυσεν Ορέστην αἰτίας. As the προφήτης of Ζεὺς (sup. 19) Apollo gave his testimony on supreme authority. - ὁ πείσας for ὁ θήσας is restored from v. 84, καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ᾽ ἔπεισα κ.τ.λ.

mvp-comment-248-1 ὡς ἔχειν] here = ἵνα ἔχοι—the testimony was given that Orestes might be unharmed by the consequences of his crime. But it might also express the fact, ὥστε οὐκ ἔχει.

mvp-comment-249-1 δαιμόνων is corrupt. Perhaps (from v. 752) καρδίας, οι λαιμάτων ( Αr. Αν. 1562 ), or even δαίμονες, ‘as hostile powers.' - αἰχμάς, influences; the word seems used in reference to ἀφεῖσαι, from the throwing of darts.

mvp-comment-250-1 ἐνδίκου] made just by your residence among the citizens, and by the awe you inspire. The ancient rite of pouring oil (as the Hindus still pour ghee) on stones and altars is alluded to in λιπαροθρόνοις.

mvp-comment-251-1 τί δεῖ λέγειν] The meaning is, but I need not invoke the aid of Zeus in forcing you to yield, since I would rather appeal to you as the goddess of wisdom and eloquence.'

mvp-comment-252-1 ὡς σεμνότιμος] Schol.

λείπει ἐσομένη.

mvp-comment-253-1 πρὸ παίδων] for children, a rather rare use of the preposition, as inf. 858, πρὸ παντὸς χρόνου, ‘for all time. Schol.

ὡς προτέλεια θυόντων ᾿Αθήνῃσι ταῖς Ερινύσι.

mvp-comment-254-1 ἐμὲ κ.τ.λ.] The chorus are still dissatisfied, and dwell on the grievance of the old powers being superseded by the new. To think that I should suffer this, I the goddess of the ancient thought, and should dwell in the land like a guilty thing without the power of punishing the insult! Schol.

ἀνεκδίκητον, τιμωρεῖσθαι μὴ δυναμένην.

mvp-comment-255-1 Perhaps, to complete the dochmiac, τις ὀδύνα πλευράς ;

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-295-1 ἰσοπενθῆ, ὅμοια δρῶντα οἷς πέπονθα.

mvp-comment-296-1 μεθεῖσα: ἀντὶ τοῦ) μεθήσω, μετοχὴ ἀντὶ ῥήματος· ὡς τὸ „καρπῶι βριθομένη" (Homer 307) ἀντὶ τοῦ βρίθεται. σταλαγμὸν δὲ τὴν κατὰ βραχύ φθοράν.

mvp-comment-297-1 τὸν εἰς τὴν γῆν φερόμενον.

mvp-comment-298-1 ψίλωσις. ἄκαρπος.

mvp-comment-299-1 τοῦτο διὰ μέσου ὀλοφυρόμεναι ἀναφωνοῦσιν. ὁ λ(ελιχήν.

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

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

mvp-comment-302-1 ἔφασκε γὰρ ὁ Ἀπόλλων γνώμηι Διὸς μαντεύεσθαι.

mvp-comment-303-1 τὰ σταλάγματα αἰχμαί εἰσι βιβρώσκουσαι τὰ σπέρματα.

mvp-comment-304-1 ὡς

mvp-comment-305-1 δυσθεράπευτον.

mvp-comment-306-1 τὸν πάντα ποιοῦντα κακῶς πράττειν.

mvp-comment-307-1 κοίμιζε. τὸν θυμόν.

mvp-comment-308-1 λείπει ἐσομένη. προτέλεια θυόντων Ἀθήνηισι ταῖς Ἐρινύσι. τέλος δὲ ὁ γάμος. δίκητον, τιμωρεῖσθαι μὴ δυναμένην. τὸ δὲ φεῦ διὰ μέσου ἀναφωνεῖ.

Wecklein’s commentary on Eumenides (1888; German; OCR draft) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 251–322; HW42J8 and HXJHA8 OCR collated, with missing comparison pages 294–295 explicitly marked. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.) focus

mvp-comment-428-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 306

mvp-comment-428-2 Kommos, Aussöhnung der gekränkten und tief ergrimmten Erinyen durch die begütigenden Worte der Athena. Der Chor singt zwei Strophen, die er als Antistrophen wiederholt. Jeder Strophe und Antistrophe folgen 13 Verse der Athena, wornach die Partie mit 12 Versen Stichomythie und 12 Versen einer ῥῆσις der Athena abgeschlossen wird. Vgl. zu Ag. 1435 .

mvp-comment-429-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 306

mvp-comment-429-2 Ζη εἵλεσθε fehlt das Objekt, etwa τὸν μητροφόντην, τὸν γένους μιάστορα. Vgl. 325 f.

mvp-comment-430-1 1

mvp-comment-430-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 306

mvp-comment-430-3 Ich werde auf dieses Land Verderben träufeln lassen, indem ich Trauer für Trauer erweckendes Gift, Gift aus meinem Herzen loslasse. Mit σταλάξω φθοράν vgl. Cho. 1056 . Doch ist die Lesart unsicher. S. Anhang.

mvp-comment-431-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-431-2 ἄφυλλος ἄτεκνος, d. h. wo der syv sich über die Bäume ausbreitet, da wächst kein Blatt und gedeiht keine Frucht. Vgl. zu Ag. 248 .

mvp-comment-432-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-432-2 βροτοφθόρους κηλίδας ist gesagt mit Bezug auf den λειχήν als menschliche Krankheit, vgl. Cho. 280

σαρκῶν ἐπαμβατήρας ἀγρίαις γνάθοις λειχῆνας ἐξέσθον τας ἀρχαίαν φύσιν
.

mvp-comment-433-1 2

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

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

mvp-comment-434-1 3

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

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

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

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

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

mvp-comment-436-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-436-2 Die emphatische Wiederholung von αὐτός wie frg. 481, 7 ὃ δ᾽ αὐτὸς ὑμνῶν, αὐτὸς ἐν θοίνη παρών, αὐτὸς τάδ᾽ εἰπὼν αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ κτανὼν τὸν παῖδα τὸν ἐμόν, Xenoph. Anab. III 2, 4 αὐτὸς ὀμό σας ἡμῖν, αὐτὸς δεξιὰς δούς, αὐτὸς ἐξαπατήσας συνέλαβε τους στρατη γούς. μαρτυρῶν ὡς ( ὥστε) ἔχειν (als Zeuge dafür eintrat, dafs dem Orestes als Thäter dessen nichts zuleide geschehen dürfe) wie 202 ἔχρησας ὥστε τὸν ξένον μητροκτονεῖν, Soph. Oed. K. 1350 δικαιῶν ὥστε, vgl. zu Ag. 1394 f.

mvp-comment-437-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-437-2 Die eingeklammerten Worte, in welchen Wieseler μήτε für te schreibt, scheinen nachträglich hinzugefügt zu sein, indem zuerst τῇδε γῇ τα μὴ θυμοῦσθε angemerkt wurde. Sonst müfste auch μὴ θυμούσθε dem μὴ βαρύν κότον σκήψησθε vorangehen. Für σκήψησθε würde man σκήψητε erwarten, wie Elmsley geschrieben hat.

mvp-comment-438-1 4

mvp-comment-438-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 307

mvp-comment-438-3 Zerstörender Tropfen fressende Schärfe, der Saat verderblich. Uber βρωτῆρας αιχμάς κu Ag. 669 . Mit αιχμάς vgl. θηγάνας 861.

mvp-comment-439-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 308

mvp-comment-439-2 πανδίκως, mit voller Wahrheit, in allen Treuen. Vgl. 291, Cho. 677 . - ὑπίσχομαι, die epische Form.

mvp-comment-440-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 308

mvp-comment-440-2 Da κευθμών nur ἕδρα näher bestimmt, gehört der Gen. χθονός mehr zu ἕδρας und wie bei den Verben des Sitzens der Akk. des Orts stehen kann, so hat do α den objekt. Gen. χθονός bei sich.

mvp-comment-440-3 5

mvp-comment-441-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 308

mvp-comment-441-2 λιπαρο θρόνοισιν .. ἐσχάραις von den Opferherden, welche von dem Öl glänzen, das Andächtige darauf gielsen. Vgl. Lukian Alexandr. p. 238 τὰ δὲ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς πάνυ νοσῶν καὶ ἀλλόκοτα περὶ αὐ τῶν πεπιστευκὼς καὶ εἰ μόνον ἀλη λιμμένον που λίθον ἢ ἐστεφανωμέ νον θεάσαιτο, προσπίπτων εὐθὺς καὶ προσκυνῶν, Theophr. χαρ. π. δεισιδ. (c.17) καὶ τῶν λιπαρῶν λίθων τῶν ἐν ταῖς τριόδοις παριὼν ἐκ τῆς ληκύθου ἔλαιον καταχεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ γόνατα πεσὼν καὶ προσκυνήσας ἀπαλλάττεσθαι, Paus. X 24, 6

λίθος ἐστὶν οὐ μέγας τούτου καὶ ἔλαιον ὁσημέ ραι καταχέουσι καὶ κατὰ ἑορτὴν ἑκάστην ἔρια ἐπιτιθέασι τὰ ἀργά
. Vgl. auch Hom. γ 408 und das Fragment eines Lyrikers λιπαροθρόνους τ᾿ ἀδελφεὰς Δίκαν . . καὶ Εἰράναν bei Stob. Ekl. phys. I p. 174. Λιπαρός liebten die Athener als Beiwort von ᾿Αθῆναι. Die Altäre der Eumeniden erwähnen bei der Erzählung der Kylonischen Verschwörung Thuk. I 126 , Plut. Sol. 12 , Paus. VII 25, 2 .

mvp-comment-442-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 308

mvp-comment-442-2 Erhebet in nicht allzu leidenschaftlicher Weise als Göttinnen um Menschen solchen Groll, dafs der unverschlossene Mund Geifer βροτῶν fallen läfst. Vgl. 183 f. στήσητε χόλον wie Soph. Oed. Τ. 699 ὅτου ποτὲ μῆνιν τοσήνδε πράγμα τος στήσας ἔχεις, Hom. N333

ἵστατο νεῖκος, τ
11 ἔριν στήσαντες. Mit ὑπερθύμως στήσητε χόλον vgl. auch Ag.226 ὀργᾶν περιοργώς. Das Wort δύσκημος ist nur bekannt aus einer unverständlichen Glosse des Hesych. δύσκημον· ἄφρανα δυσοιώνιστον, worin ἄφρανα in ἀφρὸν verbessert auf unsere Stelle hinweist, und kommt von κημός (Mundbinde), vgl. Schol. zu Aristoph. Ri. 1147
Αἰσχύλος ἐν Λυκούργῳ ἀλληγορικῶς τοὺς δεσμούς κημοὺς εἴρηκε διὰ τούτων „καὶ τούσδε κημοὺς στόματος,
 entspricht also den Wörtern ἀχάλινος, δυσχαλίνωτος. Nach Athen. XII p. 548 C trug man beim Kneten des Teiges einen κημός.

mvp-comment-442-3 6

mvp-comment-443-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 309

mvp-comment-443-2 Auch ich könnte drohen; denn Zeus würde auf meine Bitte euch mit dem Wetterstrahle treffen und ich könnte sogar selbst den Blitz schleudern. Mit καὶ .. λέγειν giebt man an, dafs man et was nicht zu sagen braucht oder nicht sagen mag. Vgl. Ag. 603 , Plat. Symp. p.217 0 συνεγυμνάζετο οὖν μοι καὶ προσεπάλαιε πολλάκις οὐδενὸς παρόντος· καὶ τί δεῖ λέγειν; οὐδὲν γάρ μοι πλέον ἦν. Die Worte beziehen sich auf das Folgende, wie wenn es hiefse καὶ καὶ τί δεῖ λέγειν κλῇδας οἶδα. Vgl. zu Cho. 572 .

mvp-comment-443-3 7

mvp-comment-444-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 309

mvp-comment-444-2 μόνη θεῶν: Eur. Tro. 80

ἐμοὶ
(Athena spricht) δὲ δώσειν φησὶ (scil. Ζεὺς) πῦρ κεραύνιον, βάλλειν Ἀχαιοὺς ναῦς τε πιμπράναι πυρί, Quint. Smyrn. XIV 444 ὦ τέκος ἔντεα πάντα, τά μοι πάρος ἐτεκτήναντο Κύκλωπες, δώσω ἐελδομένῃ, Verg. Aen. I 42 ipsa (Minerva) Iovis rapidum iaculata e nubibus ignem disiecitque rates evertitque aequora ventis.

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mvp-comment-445-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 309

mvp-comment-445-3 γλώσσης ματαίας wie Ag. 1662 , Prom. 345

γλώσση ματαία
(frech, frivol). — χθονὶ καρπὸν φέροντα (welche dem Lande die Frucht, den Erfolg bringen) ist ähnlich gesagt wie τοιαῦτ᾽ ἐπηύρου τοῦ φιλανθρώπου τρόπου Prom. 28 .

mvp-comment-446-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 309

mvp-comment-446-2 Consopias quaeso atrae bilis in te effervescentis acerbam vim (Schütz). ὡς: „,in Gedanken an die hohen Ehren, die du in meiner Nachbarschaft geniefsen sollst." Die Altäre der Erinyen am Areopag waren der Akropolis, dem Wohnsitz der Athena, benachbart, vgl. 857, 917 und zu 1005.

mvp-comment-447-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 309

mvp-comment-447-2 πολλῆς χώρας, von dem weiten Lande. Vgl. Sept. 476

ἅλω δὲ πολλήν, ἀσπίδος κύκλον λέγω
. et steht hier wie besonders häufig bei Drohungen (,,du wirst schon noch"). θύη, als Opfer für Kin dersegen und die Weihe der Ehe. Schol. :
ὡς προτέλεια θυόντων Ἀθή νῃσι ταῖς Ἐρινύσι. τέλος δὲ ὁ γάμος
. Vgl. zu 214.

mvp-comment-448-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-448-2 ἐμὲ παθεῖν: der beim absoluten Infin. des Ausrufs gewöhnlich stehende Artikel ( Krüger I $ 55, 1, 6 ) fehlt hier wie Soph. Ai. 410

ὦ δυστάλαινα, τοιάδ᾽ ἄνδρα χρήσι μον φωνεῖν
.

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mvp-comment-449-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-449-3 παλαιόφρονα, παλαιάν. Suppl. 601

γένους παλαιόφρων μέγας τέκτων. οἰχνεῖν, οἴχεσθαι
. Dieses epische Wort kommt auch bei Sophokles vor. ἀτίετον μύσος (scelus, Greuelwesen): vgl. στύγη 647, μίασμα καὶ . . στύγος Cho. 1026 .

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mvp-comment-450-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-450-3 δα wie Ag. 1056 . Der Schol. bemerkt: δᾶ: ὦ γῆ, Δωρικῶς, ὅθεν καὶ Δαμάτης und zu Prom. 589

ἄλευ᾽ ὦ δα: ὦ δᾶ, ὦ γῆ. οἱ γὰρ Δωριεῖς τὴν γῆν δῆν καὶ δᾶν φασιν καὶ τὸν γνόφον δνόφον
. H. L. Ahrens (Philol. XXIII S. 206) erklärt δᾶ als Vokativ von dᾶς Ζᾶς Ζεύς, der nur als Interjektion (,,ach Gott") gebraucht werde.

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mvp-comment-451-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-451-3 μὲ πλευράς: zu 88.

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

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

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

εἵλεσθέ , i. e. you have stolen him, Orestes my prey.

ἐν γᾷ τᾷδε , upon this land : it seems from l. 800

as if it was meant to be taken here with βαρύκοτος, falling on this land with grievous wrath. The ἐv is the Epic use with verbs of motion like ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ὀρούσας: cf.
πίτνων ἐν δώμασι
Cho. 36 ,
φέρουσ᾽ ἐν ἡμῖν
Ag. 1450 , and again below ἐν χώρᾳ βαλεῖ l. 787
.

ἀντιπενθῆ , woe for woe. So the gloss in the Med. rightly explains, ὁμοῖα δρῶντα οἷς πέπονθα.

mvp-sidgwick-374-1-1 The participle μεθεῖσα has no verb: the verb, as happens occasionally in these long broken sentences, is deferred and finally appears in a different form l. 789

.

mvp-sidgwick-375-1-1 A leafless childless blight-ah! justice!-speeding o'er the land shall scatter on the ground the deadly plague-spots.

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

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

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

ἀληθῶς , truly: i. e. there was no fraud or evil intent, but the honest decision.

ἀλλὰ ... γάρ , elliptical as usual, the ellipse easily supplied but (you lost) for there was witness, etc.

ὡς , regular poetic use for ὥστε.

mvp-sidgwick-380-1-1 The MSS. show signs of a confusion of order, and I take Weil's correction as the most natural restoration.

mvp-sidgwick-381-1-1 Athena soothes them, and persuades them not to execute the threats, ll. 780-782

.

δαιμόνων σταλάγματα , if right, must mean immortal venom: the word δαιμόνων emphasising the supernatural and terrible power of the blighting drops. The word has been much emended, the best suggestion being Wakefield's πλευμόνων or λαιμάτων : for, as Hartung says, the expressions in this speech are largely determined by the Chorus, and the corresponding phrase is ( l. 784

) καρδίας σταλαγμόν.

mvp-sidgwick-383-1-1 Corroding stings, devastating the seed; a fine characteristic line. It is best thus to make the gen. dependent on ἀνημέρους : the latter word meaning wild, waste, and here, by a common stretch of usage, applied not to the αἰχμάς but to their effects. For the masc. form βρωτήρας with fem. αἰχμάς compare

τύχη σωτήρ
Ag. 664 , Ο. Τ. 80 : see note on l. 186
.

ὑπίσχομαι , promise, for the common form ὑπισχνοῦμαι, somewhat as οἴχομαι οἰχνέω, λήθω λανθάνω, φεύγω φυγγάνω, πεύθομαι πυνθάνομαι. [Heath, followed by Herm. Schöm., read ἐνδίκους : but the MSS. gen. is finer: Athens, as the Athenians were fond of boasting, was the righteous land: so O. C. 1006

εἴ τις γῆ θεοὺς ἐπίσταται τιμαῖς σεβίζειν, ἥδε τοῦθ᾽ ὑπερφέρει.
So again below ll. 869, 920
.

κευθμῶνας , cavern, grot. There is a chasm or hole in the rock, with a dark spring of water, on the N. E. side of the Areiopagos. This is no doubt the place constantly referred to as the κευθμών or θάλαμοι ( l. 1004

) of the Eumenides: and explains the phrases κατὰ γᾶς σύμεναι ( l. 1007
), τοὺς ἔνερθε καὶ κατὰ χθονὸς τόπους ( l. 1023
), γᾶς ὑπὸ κεύθεσι ( l. 1036
). The clearest reference is Eurip. Elektr. 1270, where he speaks of the Eum., defeated in this trial of Orestes, as entering a chasm of the earth close by the hill itself: δειναὶ μὲν οὖν θεαὶ τῷδ᾽ ἄχει πεπληγμέναι πάγον παρ᾿ αὐτὸν χάσμα δύσονται χθονός.

λιπαροθρόνοισι , with shining seats [not with oil as Müller, etc., for the regular libations to the Eumenides were honey and water, fully detailed in Soph. O. C. 470-481 ], but merely bright or splendid marble seats for the great goddesses.

δύσκηλον , lit. hard to charm: i.e. past cure, as Schol. δυσθεράπευτον.

mvp-sidgwick-388-1-1 The Chorus had called on justice: Athena replies I too have trust in Zeus: though her appeal is rather to threat of force.

mvp-sidgwick-389-1-1 MSS. give εὐπειθής here and Ag. 274 , Cho. 259 , etc. The form seems the regular one, and there is no need to alter to εὐπιθής.

mvp-sidgwick-390-1-1 The MS. reading will hardly stand. I adopt (with Weckl.) Burges' correction: Utter not words which bring the land this fruit, that in all things she fare ill.

mvp-sidgwick-391-1-1 The black billows bitter violence; a splendidly imaginative phrase for the fury of the Eumenides.

mvp-sidgwick-392-1-1 The προτέλεια or marriage offerings made by the bride's family were offered to various gods, Hera, Artemis, the Fates, and here the Furies, no doubt to propitiate: and we gather that similar offerings were made at birth of children. πρό, is for.

παλαιόφρονα , of ancient wisdom, Aeschylean compound, applied Suppl. 593 to Zeus. κατά τε γᾶς is the best emendation. The indignity which the Furies complain of is being banished to this κευθμών, to dwell beneath the earth.

mvp-sidgwick-394-1-1 In the MSS. φεῦ comes before μύσος, which breaks the dochmiac foot and is impossible, though the Scholiast seems to have read it there.

mvp-sidgwick-394-2-1 It does not much matter whether we put it before the line, or after, or suppress it. I follow Weil in reading it before.

δâ . is Doric form of γῆ. So Ag. 1072

ὀτοτοῖ πόποι δᾶ.