Aeschylus Eumenides 848

Ioannes Sanravius (Translator)

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Iras tibi conferam, nam ſenior es,
Tu & ſapientior me multò es,
Sapere mihi quoq; dedit Iupiter non malè.
Vos uerò in exteram terram uenientes
800
Terram hanc ut ametis prædico uobis.
Nam ſequens tempus præſtantius
Erit ciuibus his, & tu precioſam
Sedem habens in domo Erechthei,
Aſsequeris à uiris & mulieribus uestes,
805
Tantum ab alijs nunquam obtinebis mortalibus.
Tu uerò in his meis locis ne proijce,
Neq; ſanguinolentas cotes, uiſcerum detrimenta
Iuuenum, inſanas ira uino carente.
Neq; euertens cor tanquam Alectores
810
Meis ipſis ciuibus condas puellæ
Inteſtinamq; ad Græcos audaciam,
Externum ſit bellum, non uix præſens,
In quo aliquis erit amor gloriæ dignus.
Domeſticæ uerò auis non dico pugnam.
815
Talia tibi eligere licet ex me,
Benefacientem, bene affectam, bene honoratam,
Regionis huius dijs charæ participem eſse.

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.) — 892-915 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 892-915 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 848 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 848 focus
ὀργὰς ξυνοίσω σοι· γεραιτέρα γὰρ εἶ.
850
καίτοι μὲν σὺ κάρτ᾿ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα,
φρονεῖν δὲ κἀμοὶ Ζεὺς ἔδωκεν οὐ κακῶς.
ὑμεῖς δ᾽ ἐς ἀλλόφυλον ἐλθοῦσαι χθόνα
γῆς τῆσδ᾽ ἐρασθήσεσθε· προυννέπω τάδε.
οὑπιρρέων γὰρ τιμιώτερος χρόνος
855
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 848 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 848 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 848 focus
ὀργὰς ξυνοίσω σοι· γεραιτέρα γὰρ εἶ.
[καίτοι γε μὴν σὺ κάρτ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα,]
φρονεῖν δὲ κἀμοὶ Ζεὺς ἔδωκεν οὐ κακῶς.
ὑμεῖς δ᾽ ἐς ἀλλόφυλον ἐλθοῦσαι χθόνα
γῆς τῆσδ᾽ ἐρασθήσεσθε· προὐννέπω τάδε.
815
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 848 focus
ὀργὰς ξυνοίσω σοι· γεραιτέρα γὰρ εἶ.
καὶ τῶι μὲν εἶ σὺ κάρτ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα,
φρονεῖν δὲ κἀμοὶ Ζεὺς ἔδωκεν οὐ κακῶς.
850
ὑμεῖς δ᾽ ἐς ἀλλόφυλον ἐλθοῦσαι χθόνα
γῆς τῆσδ᾽ ἐρασθήσεσθε· προυννέπω τάδε.
οὑπιρρέων γὰρ τιμιώτερος χρόνος
ἔσται πολίταις τοῖσδε. καὶ σὺ τιμίαν
ἕδραν ἔχουσα πρὸς δόμοις Ἐρεχθέως
855
τεύξηι παρ᾽ ἀνδρῶν καὶ γυναικείων στόλων,
ὅσην παρ᾽ ἄλλων οὔποτ᾽ ἂν σχέθοις βροτῶν.
σὺ δ᾽ ἐν τόποισι τοῖς ἐμοῖσι μὴ βάληις
μήθ᾽ αἱματηρὰς θηγάνας σπλάγχνων βλάβας
νέων ἀοίνοις ἐμμανέσι θυμώμασιν,
860
μήτ᾽ ἐξελοῦσ᾽ ὡς καρδίαν ἀλεκτόρων
ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἀστοῖσιν ἱδρύσηις "Αρη
ἐμφύλιόν τε καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους θρασύν.
θυραῖος ἔστω πόλεμος, οὐ μόλις παρών,
ἐν ὧι τις ἔσται δεινὸς εὐκλείας ἔρως·
865
ἐνοικίου δ᾽ ὄρνιθος οὐ λέγω μάχην.
τοιαῦθ᾽ ἑλέσθαι σοι πάρεστιν ἐξ ἐμοῦ,
εὖ δρῶσαν, εὖ πάσχουσαν, εὖ τιμωμένην
χώρας μετασχεῖν τῆσδε θεοφιλεστάτης.
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.)) — 892-915 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 848 focus
I will bear with your passion; for you are older; and certainly indeed you are much more wise than I: but to me too Jove has given no small share of wisdom. But you having come into a land of strangers will be loved by this country: I foretell these things: for time as it rolls on will be more fraught with honour to these citizens. And you shall possess a seat at the abode of Erectheus, honoured by men and by the train of women, such as you never could obtain from other mortals. But do not you in my realms cast either bloody whetstones, a destruction to the entrails of youths, rendering them frantic with rage not excited by wine; nor rousing 1
them like the heart of cocks, among my citizens plant Mars both civil and bold against each other. Let there be a foreign war, not a present broil with difficulty, in which there shall be a violent love of glory; but I mention not the fight of the domestic bird. It is allowed you to choose such things from me, doing well, receiving well, well honoured, to share this god-loved country.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 848 focus
indulgente, car tu as l'âge pour toi. Mais, si tu en sais plus que moi sans
doute, à moi aussi Zeus a donné quelque sagesse. Si vous allez dans une autre contrée, vous regretterez ce pays. Écoutez mon oracle : le flot montant des jours fera grandir la gloire de ma ville, et toi, fixée sur son sol glorieux, à
côté de la demeure d'Érechtée 1 , tu verras des cortèges d'hommes et de femmes t'offrir ce qu'aucun autre peuple ne te saurait donner. Mais, de ton côté, en ces lieux que j'aime, ne pousse pas ces aiguillons sanglants qui ravagent
les jeunes poitrines, et, sans vin, les enivrent de folles fureurs. Ne va pas, comme on fait pour les coqs, attiser la colère au cœur de mes citoyens et mettre en eux cette soif de meurtre qui lance frères contre frères, en leur soufflant mutuelle audace. Vienne la guerre étrangère,
toujours à la portée de ceux qu'anime un fervent désir de vraie gloire : mais fi des combats entre oiseaux de la volière! Voilà donc ce qu'il t'est loisible de tenir ici
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 848 focus
Thine anger will I bear with, for thy years
Are more than mine, thy wiſdom more; tho' Jove
970
Hath with no niggard grace on me beſtow'd
A prudent ſenſe.
You yet are ſtrangers here;
But I foreſee, when once your feats are fix'd,
Theſe ſcenes will be delightful, and the flow
975
Of future years to the inhabitants
Roll more abundant honours.
Where Erechtheus
Raiſ'd high his regal ſtructures, thou ſhalt hold
Thy reſidence, receiving from the men,
980
And from the train of females, ſuch high honours
As mortals never paid thee.
Caſt not then
On theſe my realms the peſtilent bane, that fires
Beyond the rage of wine the frantic youth
985
To wild enfanguin'd ſlaughter:
in their hearts
Pour not the fury of the creſted cock
Exciting diſcord, broils, and civil war.
To foreign wars, when dangers threaten nigh,
990
Let glory lead their arms: domeſtic ſtrife
Is hateful to my ſoul:
bethink thee well,
Thou haſt thy choice, by courteſy to win
Returns of courteſy, and reverenc'd high
995
To ſhare this country grateful to the Gods.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 848 focus
Questo da me si tollera,
885
da me vetusta Diva! E, ahimè, di questa
terra, impunita la sozzura resta !
Spirerò la mia furia, la mia collera.
Ahimè, ahimè, sciagura,
quale tortura
890
penetra il fianco mio!
O Madre notte, il mio furore ascolta.
Gli onori a me dovuti, antica Diva,
invincibile frode or me ne priva.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 848 focus
Dein Schelten trag' ich als der ält'ren dir nicht nach.
Du bist gewiſs in vielem auch die Weisere,
850 allein auch mir hat manches Wissen Zeus gegönnt,
und wendet ihr euch einem andern Volke zu,
ich sag's voraus, so kommt euch Sehnsucht nach Athen.
Denn in der Zukunft liegt des Ruhmes bester Teil
für meine Bürger. Wenn ihr euren Ehrensitz
855 nah bei Erechtheus' Hause habt, erhaltet ihr
von Männern und von Frauen was euch nirgendwo,
von keinem andern Menschenvolk geboten wird.
Den gift'gen Samen streuet nicht auf meine Flur,
der in der Jugend Busen keimend schweren Dunst
860 des Rausches zeugt, nicht Weines, sondern Blutes
Rausch.
Erhitzet nicht, wie man den Hahn zum Kampfe reizt,
die Herzen, daſs in meinem Staate nicht die Lust
an trotz'gem Hader und an Bürgerkrieg erwächst.
Der Krieg nach aufsen komme: der entbrennt von
selbst,
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.) — 848 focus
Older art thou than I, and I will bear
With this thy fury. Know, although thou be
975
More wise in ancient wisdom, yet have I
From Zeus no scanted measure of the same.
Wherefore take heed unto this prophecy—
If to another land of alien men
Ye go, too late shall ye feel longing deep
980
For mine. The rolling tides of time bring round
A day of brighter glory for this town;
And thou, enshrined in honour by the halls
Where dwelt Erechtheus, shalt a worship win
From men and from the train of womankind,
985
Greater than any tribe elsewhere shall pay.
Cast thou not therefore on this soil of mine
Whetstones that sharpen souls to bloodshedding,
The burning goads of youthful hearts, made hot
With frenzy of the spirit, not of wine.
990
Nor pluck as 'twere the heart from cocks that strive,
To set it in the breast of citizens
Of mine, a war-god's spirit, keen for fight,
Made stern against their country and their kin.
The man who grievously doth lust for fame,
995
War, full, immitigable, let him wage
Against the stranger; but of kindred birds
I hold the challenge hateful. Such the boon
I proffer thee—within this land of lands,
Most loved of gods, with me to show and share
1000
Fair mercy, gratitude and grace as fair.
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.) — 848 focus
Den Zorn vergeb' ich dir; die ältre bist du ja,
Wiewohl du darum keineswegs die klügre bist.
Auch mir verlieh Kronion nicht unweisen Sinn.
Ihr aber werdet, ziehet ihr in fremdes Land,
810
Nach diesem Land euch sehnen, das verkünd' ich euch.
Denn stets an Ehren reicher wird die Folgezeit
Für meine Bürger werden; wenn du deinen Sik
Einnahmst, Erechtheus' Hause nah, wohl wirst du dann
Von Männern hochgefeiert und von Frauen sein,
815
Wie du von andern Menschen nie gefeiert wirst.
Drum wirf in meine Gauen nicht den blutigen
Weystein des Haders, der das Jünglingsherz bethört,
Aufregt zu trunkner Raserei die Nüchternen.
Entflamme nicht, wie grimmer Hähne Sinn, zur Wuth
820
Der Bürger Herzen, daß der Schlachtengott sie nicht
Im eignen Stammland unter sich zum Kampf empört.
Auswärts entbrenne, nicht am eignen Herd, der Krieg,
Wo Lust nach Heldenruhme groß sich offenbart;
Nach Hahnenkämpfen auf dem Hof verlang' ich nicht.
825
So schöne Gaben winken euch aus meiner Hand,
Wohlthuend, Wohlthat nehmend, wohl geschmückt mit Ruhm,
Antheil zu haben an dem gottgeliebten Land.
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.)

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.

845. ἀπό is separated from the verb aἴρw and draws near to the substantive, as in Epic: one of the forms of the so-called Tmesis. In prose it would be ἀπῆραν. The verb simply means carry off, take away.

848. συμφέρω , here used in the rather unusual sense of endure, not resent: the English idiom (which in meaning exactly suits this place), I will bear with thy wrath, is only superficially similar. Somewhat like this use is πάντα συμφέρουσ᾽ Ἰάσονι Eur. Med. 13, συμφέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσι (‘comply') Soph. El. 1465, οὐδέποτ᾽ εὐφραν- θήσεται ἀνὴρ ἐὰν μὴ τῇ γυναικὶ συμφέρῃ ( agree) Ar. Lys. 166: the metaphor being [Verrall, Eur. Med. 1. c.] probably of a yoke-fellow pulling with, and not against, one.

851. ἐλθοῦσαι ., conditional, if you go.'

855. δόμοις Ερεχθέως , the Erechtheum or great temple of Erechtheus (famous mythical hero-king of Athens), stood on the Akropolis.

857. ὅσων , ‘such honour as.' Pauw's and Paley's emendation of ὅσην MSS., a reading which will not construe, and is due probably to an attempt to alter the awkward collocation of genitives. The gen. ὅσων is attracted to the case governed by τεύξει. 1. 86ο. ἀοίνοις ἐμμανεῖς θυμώμασιν, ‘raging with fury not of wine,' but implanted by the Eumenides. This highly Aeschylean phrase does not agree with νέων, as in sense it should but with characteristic boldness is transferred to θηγάνας αἱματηράς, 'the whetstones of bloodshed,' as he calls the frenzy of the Furies, by another bold and imaginative figure. ἀοίνοις is specially appropriate to the Furies, as they were goddesses who tasted no wine, 1. 107.

861. ἐξελοῦσα , which has been immensely emended, is no doubt right: the idea is simply as though taking out the heart from fighting cocks and planting it in the citizens , establish civil war, etc. (the cock being the pugnacious bird who will fight with his own kin, and so an emblem of civil strife): only the rapidity of Aeschylus's style makes him compress the two last clauses into one.

864. οὐ . μόλις παρών (lit. ' coming not stintedly'), no scanty store: i. e. for foreign warfare, let us have plenty of it : but not civil dissension. So οὐ μόλις ἀπώλεσας Ag. 1082.

869. θεοφιλεστάτης , see 1. 805.

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

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

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;

mvp-comment-633-1 θυμὸν ἄϊε, μᾶτερ: Haec quoque,

θυμὸν ἄτε, μᾶτερ
, dochmius sunt.

mvp-comment-634-1 ἀπὸ γάρ με τιμᾶν ἀμᾶν θεῶν δυςπάλαμοι παρ' οὐδὲν ἦραν δόλοι:

τιμῶν δαμαίων
M. G. Ald. Rob. sed in M.
α
ad utrumque
α
supra adscriptum est.
τιμὼν δημαίων
(sic) Aug. ad prioris vocabuli ultimam syllabam
ων
, ad secundi
αμ
supra adscripto.
τιμῶν δαμαίαν
Par.
τιμᾶν δαμέαν
Ven. Flor.
τιμᾶν δαμίαν
Turn. Scholiastarum sunt adnotationes ad hunc versum
τὴν δημοσίαν, ὑπὸ θεῶν δεδομένην
, ad sequentem
οἱ δόλοι γὰρ τῶν θεῶν ὡς οὐδὲν παρῆράν με τῶν δημοσίων τιμῶν
. Apparet eos et
τιμὰν δαμίαν
et
τιμᾶν δαμιᾶν
legisse: sed quo spectet illud
ὑπὸ θεῶν δεδομένην
, non perspicio. Fritzschius et Lud. Dindorfius in Stephani Thes. vol. II. p. 885. scribendum coniecerunt
τιμᾶν δαναιᾶν
, ut v. 386.
γέρας παλαιὸν
suum Furiae commemorant. Mihi
δαμαίων
ortum esse videtur ex
ἀμᾶν
. Puto enim Aeschylum scripsisse
θυμὸν ἄΐε, μᾶτερ Νύξ· ἀπὸ γάρ με τιμᾶν ἀμῶν θεῶν δυςπάλαμοι παρ' οὐδὲν ἦραν δόλοι.
Sic v. 226.
τιμὰς σὺ μὴ σύντεμνε τὰς ἐμὰς ψόγῳ
, ν. 411.
τιμάς γε μὲν δὴ τὰς ἐμὰς πεύσει τάχα
, et sine pronomine v. 739.
ἡμῖν γὰρ ἔρρειν, ἢ πρόσω τιμὰς νέμειν
.

mvp-comment-635-1 δυςπάλαμοι ... δόλοι:

δυσπάλαλοι
G. Ald.
δόλοι
G. Ald. Rob.
δόλω
M. Aug. Par.
δόλω
Ven. Flor.
δόλῳ
Turn.

mvp-comment-636-1 NA:

καίτοι γε μὴν σὺ κάρτ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφώτερα
Victorius, et sic Ven. Flor.
καί τοι μὲν σὺ κάρτ'
(
γάρ τ'
Αld.)
ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob.
καί τοι σὺ μὲν κάρτ᾽ εἰγ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
Turn. Vt recte procederet oratio, in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 107. scribendum putabam
καίτοι γε μὴν οὐ κάρτ᾿ ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
. Sed non dici videtur
οὐ κάρτα
. Wieselero Aeschylus scripsisse videtur
καὶ τῷ μὲν εἶ σὺ κάρτ' ἐμοῦ σοφωτέρα
. Recte vero Bothius in prima editione et Paleius totum hunc versum removendum esse censuerunt.

mvp-comment-637-1 ἐς: Pro

ἐς
Aug. habet
ἐπ'
, ut in G. fuerat, in quo tamen
π
a prima manu in
ς
mutatum est.

mvp-comment-638-1 ἀλλόφυλον:

ἀλλόφυλλον
Rob.

mvp-comment-639-1 ἐλθοῦσαι:

ἐλθοῦσα
Flor. Rob.

mvp-comment-640-1 ἐρασθήσεσθε:

ἐρασθήσαθε
G.
ἐρασθήσεθε
Ald.

mvp-comment-641-1 προὐννέπω:

προυνέπω
Aug. Ald.

mvp-comment-642-1 ἐπιρρέων:

ὁ ὑπορρέων
Rob.

mvp-comment-643-1 NA: Locus ubi Furiae, praeter lucum illum cuius mentio fit in Oedipo Coloneo, Athenis colebantur, vicinus erat Areopago, ut multis demonstravit Meursius in Areop. c. 2. Erat autem medius inter Areopagum et arcem. Pausanias enim de fano Eumenidum explicans I. 28, 7. dicit

ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐντὸς τοῦ περιβόλου μνῆμα Οἰδίποδος
, ubi non murum quo Areopagus cinctus fuerit, ut Meursio visum est, sed eum qui templum Furiarum ambiebat, intelligendum esse ostendit Valerius Maximus V. 3. ipse quoque a Meursio memoratus, qui Oedipodis sepulcrum inter arcem et Areopagum fuisse scribit.

mvp-comment-644-1 τεύξει:

τεύξει
libri.

mvp-comment-645-1 στόλων:

στόλων
Par.
στόλον
G. Ald.

mvp-comment-646-1 NA:

ὅσην
, quod libri habent, in
ὅσ᾽ ἂν
mutandum esse coniecit H. L. Ahrens. Aut ita scribendum est, aut putandum ante hunc versum alium excidisse, in quo nomen erat ad quod referebatur
ὅσην
. Hoc posterius, quod etiam G. Dindorfius statuit, probabilius videtur. Itaque lacunae signa posui.

mvp-comment-647-1 βροτῶν:

βροτοῖς
Par.

mvp-comment-648-1 σχέθοις:

σχέθης
Αld.

mvp-comment-649-1 τοῖς ἐμοῖσι:

τῆς ἐμοῖσι
Rob.

mvp-comment-650-1 θηγάνας σπλάγχνων βλάβας νέων ἀοίνοις ἐμμανεῖς θυμώμασιν:

θηγάνων
teste Franzio Flor.
θηγγάνων
Ven. et Linwoodio teste Flor. Farn. Deinde
νέων ἀοίνοις
Μ.
νέων, ἀοίνοις
Turn.
νέων ἀοίνους
Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob. Denique
θυμώμασιν
Μ. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob.
θυμώμασι
Turn. Iungunt vulgo
σπλάγχνων νέων
, sed rectius
νέων θυμώμασιν
iunguntur.
Ἄοινα θυμώματα
sunt irae non ex vino natae et graviores ac magis diuturnae quam inebriatorum. Inepta est eorum sententia, qui rixas a Furiis iniectas propterea
ἄοινα θυμώματα
dici putant, quia earum sacrificia
ἄοινα
erant.

mvp-comment-651-1 ἐκλέγουσα: Libri

ἐξελοῦσ'
, praeter Aug. qui
ἐξελθοῦσ᾽
habet. In scholiorum editione Robortelliana scriptum est
Εξελθοῦσα.) διαπεράσασα. μάχιμον γὰρ τὸ ὄρνεον, τῶν τε ἄλλων ζώων τὸ συγγενὲς αἰδουμένων μόνος οὐ φείδεται
. Sed in M. neque lemma est, et scriptum
ἀναπτερώσασα
. Frustra
ἐξελοῦσα
tueri conatus est Wieselerus. Neque recte
ἐξέδουσ'
ego scripseram. Vera est haud dubie Musgravii emendatio,
ἐκζέουσ'
, atque ad hanc ipsam lectionem pertinet fortasse explicatio illa,
ἀναπτερώσασα
. Activum est
ἐκζεῖν
etiam in Sept. c. Th. v. 690.
ἐξέζεσαν γὰρ Οἰδίπου κατεύγματα
, fervefecerunt enim animi aestum dirae Oedipi. Eur. Cycl. v. 392.
καὶ χάλκεον λέβητ᾽ ἐπέζεσεν πυρί
. Conf. Lob. ad Ai. p. 92.

mvp-comment-652-1 ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἀστοῖσιν ἱδρύσῃς Ἄρη:

ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἀστοῖσιν
Victorius, et sic Ven. Flor.
ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖσιν ἀστοῖσιν
M. Par.
ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν
Aug. G. Ald. Rob.
ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς αὐτοῖσιν
Turn. Deinde
ἱδρύσῃς κάρα
, sed ultima littera in
η
mutata, Μ.
ἱδρύσῃ κάρη
Aug. Par.
ἱδρύσῃ κόρη
G. Ald. Turn.
ἱδρύσῃ βάρη
Rob.
ἱδρύσῃ κάρα
Ven. Flor. Farn. et sic Victorius.
ἱδρύσῃς Ἄρη
scribendum esse vidit Stephanus.

mvp-comment-653-1 ἀλλήλους:

Ἑλλήνους
G. Ald. unde
Ἕλληνας
Turn. Ceteri recte
ἀλλήλους
.

mvp-comment-654-1 οὐ μόλις παρών: Libri

οὐ μόλις παρών
. Scholiastae interpretatio est
οὐ μακράν
. Videtur
ἢ μόλις παρὼν
legisse. Certe ita scribendum puto: foris sit bellum, aut brevi spatio remotum, in quo magnus erit gloriae amor. Significatur autem pugna Marathonia. V. Opusc. VI. 2. p. 108.

mvp-comment-655-1 ἔσται:

ἔσταμ
.
ἔστι
Par. Ceteri recte
ἔσται
.

mvp-comment-656-1 οὐ λέγω: V. ad Pers. v. 757.

Οὐ λέγω
, dictam nolo. Ag. v. 938.
τὴν κάτω γὰρ οὐ λέγω
. Soph. Εl. ν. 1466.
ὦ Ζεῦ, δέδορκα φάσμα ἄνευ φθόνου μὲν οὐ πεπτωκός· εἰ δ᾽ ἔπεστι νέμεσις, οὐ λέγω
.

mvp-comment-657-1 κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν:

κατά τε γᾶν οἰκεῖν
Μ. G. Rob.
κατὰ γῶν οἰκεῖν
Aug. Ven. Flor. Ald. Turn.

mvp-comment-658-1 ἀτίετον μῖσος:

ἀτίετον φεῦ μίσος
G. Ald. Turn.
ἀτ. φ. μῦσος
M. Rob.
ἀτ. φ. μύσος
Aug. Ven.
ἀτ. φ. μύσος
Flor.

mvp-comment-659-1 NA:

φεῦ
hic libri non habent.

mvp-comment-660-1 οἰοῖ, δᾶ. φεῦ, φεῦ:

οἱ οἱ δᾶ φεῦ
M. Rob.
οἱ οἱ δῶ φεῦ
Aug. G. Ald. Turn.
ο οι δῶ φεῦ
Ven. Flor.

mvp-comment-661-1 ὑποδύεται ... πλευράς:

ὑπὸ δύεται
Rob. Alterum
τίς
non habent libri. Omnes hic
πλευρὰς ὀδύνα
.

mvp-comment-662-1 τιμᾶν ἀμᾶν θεῶν:

τιμᾶν δαμίαν
M. Aug. Ald. Rob. Turn.
τιμὰν δαμίαν
G.
τιμᾶν δαμέαν
Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-663-1 δόλοι:

δόλω
, ut videtur, M.
δόλοι
Aug. Rob.
δήλοι
G. Ald.
δόλον
Ven. Flor.
δόλῳ
Turn.

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

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 ;

mvp-comment-256-1 δηναιᾶν] ancient, L. Dindorf for δαμαίων, which the Schol. explains by τῶν δημοσίων τιμῶν.-παρ οὐδὲν, supply θέμενοι, as in Ag. 221

παρ' οὐδὲν ἔθεντο.
For αἴρειν ἀπὸ cf. v. 340.

mvp-comment-257-1 καὶ τῷ μέν] Schol.

διὰ τὸν χρόνον.
‘And in that indeed you are much wiser than I, though even to me (viz. as the goddess of wisdom) Zeus has granted not to be without telligence.' The Med. has καὶ τοι μὲν σύ.

mvp-comment-258-1 The Schol., remarking λείπει ὁ καὶ, seems to have found ὑμεῖς without δέ. EUM.

mvp-comment-259-1 πρὸς δόμοις] The subterranean chapel of the Erinyes lay between the Areopagus and the Acropolis.

mvp-comment-260-1 ὅσων] The MS. has ὅσην.

mvp-comment-261-1 ἐμμανεῖς] Perhaps ἐμμανής, incited by rage not proceeding from wine (i.e. since νηφάλια μειλίγματα alone were offered to them, sup. 107), but from vexation at the defeat. -βλάβας, Schol.

τὰς ἀναλισκούσας τὰ νέα.
Cf. Pers. 667
νεολαία γὰρ ἤδη κατὰ πᾶσ᾽ ὄλωλε.

mvp-comment-262-1 ἐξελοῦσ'] is corrupt, and perhaps we should read ἐκζέουσ' with Musgrave, 'making their hearts to boil with rage like that of fighting-cocks. This well suits the scholium ἀναπτερώσασα. See Theb. 706 .

mvp-comment-263-1 οὐ μόλις παρών] “Let war be far from us, but let it come without stint (to him) in whom there shall be a strong love of glory' (not to us, who prefer peace). She adds, she will not speak of fighting-cocks, because the omen is a bad one. K. O. Müller thinks the poet meant to commend foreign conquest as an antidote to civil discord. In the former case, θυραῖος is a predicate, let war be far from you. Others understood by foreign war a war with Persia.

mvp-comment-264-1 πρὸς νεωτέρας] Cf. v. 775. The goddesses must not think they are slighted by Athena and her citizens, or banished from the land, when they have an abode offered them in it with all honour. Stay, says Athena, if you will listen to my advice. But if you do not choose to stay, it would be unjust to cause mischief to this country, since the option rests with yourself ( ἔξεστι γὰρ, ν. 850). Schol.

εἰ δὲ μὴ πείθῃ, ἴσθι (1. ἴθι) μὴ βλάψασα πόλιν.

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-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.

mvp-comment-309-1 οἱ δόλοι γὰρ

mvp-comment-310-1 φέρουσα τὰς ἀντὶ τοῦ) μεγάλοι

mvp-comment-311-1 θηγάνας νέων:

mvp-comment-312-1 τῶν ἐνοικούντων πολιτῶν, ὁ ἐστιν

mvp-comment-313-1 ὁ Περσικός. οὐ μακράν. ὁμόφυλον πόλεμον.

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-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.

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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-451-1 9

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

mvp-comment-451-3 μὲ πλευράς: zu 88.

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mvp-comment-452-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-452-2 ἀπὸ γάρ με τιμᾶν: nur an dieser einen Stelle treten bei Äschylos zwischen Präposition und Substantiv zwei Wörter, sonst nur δέ, τέ, seltener γέ, γάρ, μέν.

mvp-comment-453-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-453-2 δυσπάλαμοι δόλοι wie δύσδολοι δόλοι oder δυσπάλαμοι παλά μαι:,,unselige Arglist von Göttern hat mich von uralten Ehren weggehoben, so dafs ich gleich nichts bin." Es steht also παρ᾽ οὐδέν (213) wie ein proleptisches Prädikat.

mvp-comment-454-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-454-2 ξυνοίσω, nachgeben, zu gute halten. Eur. Med. 13

πάντα συμ φέρουσ᾽ Ἰάσονι,
Soph. El. 1465 συμ φέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσιν. Hom. Φ 439 ἄρχε· σὺ γὰρ γενεῆφι νεώτε ρος· οὐ γὰρ ἐμοί γε καλόν, ἐπεὶ πρότερος γενόμην καὶ πλείονα οἶδα.

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mvp-comment-455-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-455-3 προφερτέρα: durch das Alter zwar hast du einen Vorzug vor mir. Auf das Alter bezieht sich προφέρ τερος und προφέρτατος auch Soph. frg. 399 D. und Oed. K. 1513 .

mvp-comment-456-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-456-2 Ein Hinweis auf den Ruhm der Perserkriege.

mvp-comment-457-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-457-2 δόμοις Ερεχθέως von dem Erechtheion. Vgl zu. 836.

mvp-comment-458-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 310

mvp-comment-458-2 An die Stelle von παρὰ γυναικῶν tritt das Adjektiv.

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mvp-comment-459-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-459-3 ὅσων wie Sept. 296

εὐτραφέστατον πωμάτων ὅσων ἵησιν Που σειδῶν ὁ γαιάοχος Τηθύος τε παῖδες
. Auch 577, Cho. 737 , Ag. 343 , 803, 965, Sept. 537 , Pers. 345 , Prom. 462 , 995, 1016 findet sich die Attraktion beim Relativ. Weit zahlreicher (50) sind die Fälle bei Sophokles.

mvp-comment-460-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-460-2 Die V. 860-868 unterbrechen den Zusammenhang. Die stark hervortretende politische Tendenz und der manierierte Stil kennzeichnen sie als Interpolation.

mvp-comment-461-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-461-2 μήθ' ist gestellt, als ob Ἄρη ἐμφύλιον als zweites Objekt zu βάλης folgen sollte; dafür tritt ein neues Verbum ein. Vgl. Prom. 185

καί μ᾽ οὔτε μελιγλώσσοις πειθούς ἐπαοιδαῖσιν θέλξει στερεάς τ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ἀπειλὲς πτήξας τόδ᾽ ἐγὼ καταμηνύσω. θηγάνη
, was schürft und aufreizt. Vgl. Prom. 327
τραχεῖς καὶ τεθηγμένους λόγους
, Sept. 702
τεθηγμένον τοί μ᾽ οὐκ ἀπαμ βλυνεῖς λόγῳ. σπλάγχνων
 wie Ag. 984 , Cho. 412 (das Innere, das Herz). Die blutige Fehdelust reifst jugendlichen Sinn mit sich fort. ἀοίνοις d. h. ohne betrunken zu sein handeln sie mit der leidenschaftlichen Raserei von Betrunkenen.

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mvp-comment-462-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-462-3 ἐκζέουσα (Schol. ἀναπτερώ σασα) transitiv wie Sept. 696

ἐξέζεσεν γὰρ Οἰδίπου κατεύγματα
(fervefecerunt enim animi aestum dirae Oedipi), Eur. Kykl. 392
καὶ χάλκεον λέβητ᾽ ἐπέζεσεν πυρί
. — ἐκζέουσα ὡς καρδίαν ἀλεκτόρων ist kurz gesagt für ἐκζέουσα καρδίαν ἀστῶν ὡς κ. ἀλ. Ζυ ἀλεκτόρων bemerkt der Schol. :
μάχιμον γὰρ τὸ ὄρνεον, τῶν τε ἄλλων ζῴων τὸ συγγενὲς αἰ δουμένων μόνος οὐ φείδεται
. Vgl. Pind. Ol. 12, 20 ἐνδομάχας ἅτ᾽ ἀλέκτωρ, Varro de re rust. III 9 sunt enim galli in certamine pertinaces.. et ad proeliandum inter se maxime idonei.

mvp-comment-463-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-463-2 Hom. I 63

ἀφρήτωρ ἀθέμι στος ἀνέστιος ἐστιν ἐκεῖνος ὃς που λέμου ἔραται ἐπιδημίου κρυόεντος
.

mvp-comment-464-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-464-2 οὐ μόλις: zu Ag. 1066 . οὐ μόλις παρών (,,er ist schon im Augenblick gegenwärtig") ist eine Nebenbemerkung, bei welcher nicht Athena, sondern der athenische Dichter oder besser gesagt Interpolator spricht (,, weg mit inneren Zerwürfnissen, da der Krieg gegen den äufseren Feind in bedrohlichster Nähe steht").

mvp-comment-465-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-465-2 οὐ λέγω, davon will ich nichts wissen (weg damit). Vgl. Soph. El. 1467 εἰ δ᾽ ἔπεστι νέμεσις, οὐ λέγω. Anders Ag. 862 , Cho. 987 .

mvp-comment-466-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 311

mvp-comment-466-2 τοιαῦτα bezieht sich zunächst auf das Vorhergehende (856 -859), wird aber durch εὖ δρῶσαν θεοφιλεστάτης noch einmal näher bestimmt. Θεοφιλεστάτης: das gottgeliebteste Land, weil es die Götter am meisten ehrt. Vgl. Soph. Oed. K. 260 τας Αθήνας φασὶ θεοσεβεστάτας εἶναι, Thuk. I 41 , Demosth. 20, 90 .

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.

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.

mvp-sidgwick-396-1-1 I adopt (with Franz, Lin. P. Weil, Weck.) L. Dindorf's brilliant conjecture τιμᾶν δαναιᾶν, ancient honours, for the meaningless δαμαίων of MSS. The gods unconquerable wiles have reft me from my ancient honours as of no account.'

ἀπό is separated from the verb αἴρω and draws near to the substantive, as in Epic: one of the forms of the so-called Tmesis. In prose it would be ἀπῆραν. The verb simply means carry off, take away.

συμφέρω , here used in the rather unusual sense of endure, not resent: the English idiom (which in meaning exactly suits this place), I will bear with thy wrath, is only superficially similar. Somewhat like this use is

πάντα συμφέρουσ᾽ Ἰάσονι
Eur. Med. 13 , συμφέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσι ( comply) Soph. El. 1465 , οὐδέποτ᾽ εὐφραν- θήσεται ἀνὴρ ἐὰν μὴ τῇ γυναικὶ συμφέρῃ ( agree) Ar. Lys. 166: the metaphor being [Verrall, Eur. Med. 1. c.] probably of a yoke-fellow pulling with, and not against, one.

mvp-sidgwick-399-1-1 I take Wieseler's excellent emendation καὶ τῷ μὲν εἶ συ, i. e. and by that (old age) you are far wiser, age and wisdom being naturally united. So the Scholiast explains the line διὰ τὸν χρόνον, i. e. wiser by lapse of time.

ἐλθοῦσαι ., conditional, if you go.'

δόμοις Ερεχθέως , the Erechtheum or great temple of Erechtheus (famous mythical hero-king of Athens), stood on the Akropolis.

ὅσων , such honour as. Pauw's and Paley's emendation of ὅσην MSS., a reading which will not construe, and is due probably to an attempt to alter the awkward collocation of genitives. The gen. ὅσων is attracted to the case governed by

τεύξει.
l. 86 ο. ἀοίνοις ἐμμανεῖς θυμώμασιν, raging with fury not of wine, but implanted by the Eumenides. This highly Aeschylean phrase does not agree with νέων, as in sense it should but with characteristic boldness is transferred to θηγάνας αἱματηράς, the whetstones of bloodshed, as he calls the frenzy of the Furies, by another bold and imaginative figure. ἀοίνοις is specially appropriate to the Furies, as they were goddesses who tasted no wine, l. 107
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ἐξελοῦσα , which has been immensely emended, is no doubt right: the idea is simply as though taking out the heart from fighting cocks and planting it in the citizens , establish civil war, etc. (the cock being the pugnacious bird who will fight with his own kin, and so an emblem of civil strife): only the rapidity of Aeschylus's style makes him compress the two last clauses into one.

mvp-sidgwick-403-2-1 For the domestic broils of the cock see line 866: and Pindar, Ol. 12. 20 ἐνδομάχας ἀλέκτωρ.

οὐ . μόλις παρών (lit. coming not stintedly), no scanty store: i. e. for foreign warfare, let us have plenty of it : but not civil dissension. So

οὐ μόλις ἀπώλεσας
Ag. 1082 .

mvp-sidgwick-405-1-1 The sense is of home birds' battle I will have nought. οὐ λέγω, lit. I do not advise, or bid, is a μείωσις for I forbid. [The passage in Soph. El. 1466 which comm. quote is different.]

θεοφιλεστάτης , see l. 805

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