Eumenides. Aeschylus. Ioannes Sanravius (Translator). Basileae. 1555.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by Schmidt Sciences.
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) (Latin) (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.)
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
No corresponding passage available
903. ἐπίσκοπα , such as look to, hath regard to no dishonourable victory; a vivid word for befit. The word is similarly used Cho. 126 εὐχὰς πατρῴων δωμάτων ἐπισκόπους, Aias 976 ἄτης τῆσδ᾽ ἐπίσκοπον μέλος.
907. ἐπίρρυτον , abundantly, predicative adj.
912. ἀπένθητον , predicative.
913. σοὔστι , the regular crasis for σοὶ ἐστί. τῶν ἀρειφάτων . . . πόλιν, and in the glorious strife of war I shall not suffer but that my city shall be honoured among men as victorious.
913. ἀγώνων is gen. of respect, put provisionally at the beginning and depending ultimately on ἀστύνικον.
913. τιμᾶν , active according to Greek idiom: they say, I shall not allow but that [people] shall honour my city: we say, 'I shall not allow my city to be unhonoured.'
916. Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν , i. e. to dwell with Pallas.
918. ῎Αρης . is specially mentioned, no doubt because of the Areiopagos, the scene of the latter half of the play.
924. ἐξαμβρῦσαι . (from ἐξαναβρύω used transitively) is Pauw's probable correction of the meaningless readings of MSS. It is adopted by H. Weil, Lin., Schütz. Well.
929.
κατανασσαμένη
, middle,
housing in my city. 11. 932, 933. The MSS. read
Now τούτων here must refer to the Furies, as αὗται above and τάσδε below: and consequently βαρέων must be wrong, as (1) it is the wrong gender: (2) even if we suppose (with D.) a fem. form βαρεῶν, it clearly is the wrong sense. What Aeschylus means to say is,
He who incurs the wrath of the Furies meets with unexpected calamity: the sins of his fathers bring him into their power.
ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων
οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου.
939. χάριν , ‘boon,' blessing .
945. γόνος δ᾽ ἀεὶ πλουτόχθων , and ever may the earths rich produce .' The bold compound πλουτόχθων is very Aeschylean. The reference is not (as H. P.) to precious metals, of which Athena (whom the Chorus closely follows in their prayers) had made no mention, and to which γόνος would not be so suitable; but simply to the 'produce' in the ordinary sense.
945. δόσιν τίοι they clearly mean that out of their abundance they are to give thank-offerings to the bounteous gods.
947. ἑρμαίαν , for Hermes was the god of good luck (from Homer downwards, Ερμείας ἐφίλει καὶ κτῆσιν ὄπασσε Il. 14.491) : and a wind-fall or godsend was called ἕρμαιον.
950. ἐπικραίνει , brings to pass, vivid use of present, of a thing now promised.
953. διαπράσσουσιν ., intrans. plain and full is their accomplishment.
954. βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι , ‘a life dimmed with tears,' a beautifully vivid metaphor. δακρύων is gen. of respect after adj. ἀμβλωπόν.
956. ἀνδροκμής , lit. bringing weariness to men,' here a euphemism for 'deadly, is a favourite word of Aeschylus, being found with μόχθος (above 1. 248), and πέλεκυς (Cho. 889), and λοιγός (Suppl. 680) in the same sense as here.
960. κύρια , ‘the rightful power;' the gods they appeal to being such powers as Ζεὺς τέλειος, Ἥρα, ᾿Αφροδίτη. See above 1. 214.
962. μητροκασιγνῆται , ‘sisters by one mother,' because the Fates (like the Furies 1. 322) were daughters of Night (Hes. Theog. 217 καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο).
963. ὀρθονόμοι . [not ὀρθόνομοι from νόμος], the MSS. reading, from νέμω, assigning what is due.
964. ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous .
965. ὁμιλίαις , ‘visitations.'
970. στέργω , I bless.
971. ἐπωπάω . is properly to look down on, watch, behold, descry: so Cho. 693, Eum. 275, but, like the commoner ἐποπτεύω, is used regularly of gods or supernatural powers, and gets the meaning 'to guard, guide, direct;' see note on 1. 220.
973. ἀγοραῖος , God of the gathering, was a name given to Zeus and other gods (Hermes, Ar. Eq. 297, Artemis and Athena, Paus. 3. 11. 9) as protectors of the city life of which the natural centre was the ἀγορά or 'gathering place' (Agam. 90). But as the ἀγορά was also the place for speech (ἀγορεύω, κατηγορέω, etc.) the name here implies god of speech.
981. ποινᾶς ἀντιφόνους ἄτας , the murderous woes of vengeance, the woes of murderous requital; a very Aeschylean phrase, and more natural on the whole than the Med. reading ποινάς, which would make ἄτας gen.: for in any case it is certainly right to take these three words together. [H. P. and others take δι᾽ ὀργὰν ποινᾶς, 'from desire of vengeance,' weaker meaning and more strained usage.]
1034. παῖδες ἄπαιδες , the MSS. reading, could hardly mean childless children, which seems pointless: it might mean evil children, like vᾶes ἄναες: but the real objection to any such word as ἄπαιδες is that here the words in which the Chorus are addressed are specially reverent and honourable. It is best to reject it and then we get rid also of τύχᾳ τε, meaningless and unmetrical, at the end of 1. 1037.
mvp-comment-689-1
νείκης: Post
ὁποῖα puncto distinguunt G. Ald. Rob. Notam interrogationis in quibusdam libris haberi quum dicit Stephanus, has ipsas editiones videtur intelligere. Deinde libri
νίκης. Frustra fuerunt qui id defendere conati sunt. Scribendum erat, ut in adnotatione ad Soph. Ai. v. 976. dixi,
νείκης. Opta quae bonae contentionis, non, qualis ante tua fuerat rixa, malae provida sint.
Ἐπίσκοπα enim idem est quod
ἐπιμελητικά, ut in Sophoclis versu,
βοῶντος ἄτης τῆςδ᾽ ἐπίσκοπον ἔπος. Vocabulo
νείκη usus est Aeschylus Ag. v. 1338. et, ut videtur, Choeph. v. 593.
mvp-comment-690-1
βοτῶν: Libri
βροτῶν. Emendavit Stanleius. Expressi videntur ex hoc loco versus esse, quos propterea Ennio adscribimus, apud Ciceronem Tusc. Q. I. 28. quorum mentio etiam fit de or. III. 38.
suo non intermillal tempore caelum nitescere, arbores frondescere, viles laetificae pampinis pubescere, rami baccarum ubertate incurviscere, segetes largiri fruges, florere omnia, fontes scalere, herbis prata convestirier.
mvp-comment-691-1
εὐθενοῦντα:
εὐθενοῦντα Turn.
εὐθενοῦντας M. G. Ald.
εὐθινοῦντας Rob.
εὐστενοῦντας Aug.
εὐστενοῦντα Ven. Flor. et
σε supra adscripto Farn.
mvp-comment-692-1
σωτηρίαν: Accusativus
σωτηρίαν refertur, ut omnia in his versibus, ad id quod v. 889. chorus dixerat.
mvp-comment-693-1
δυςσεβούντων:
τῶν omittunt Ven. Flor. Farn.
mvp-comment-694-1
ἐκφορωτέρα:
ἐκφοροτέρα G. Ald.
mvp-comment-695-1 NA: Hunc et sequentem versum choro tribuunt Ven. Flor. Farn. Rob.
mvp-comment-696-1
φιτυποίμενος:
φιτυποίμενος Lobeckius Paralip. p. 195.
φιτυποιμένος G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Turn.
φιτυ ποιμένος M. Aug. Rob. et in Aug. quidem super
ι duo puncta (:) apposita sunt, quibus etiam alibi incerta scriptura indicatur. Asteriscum eodem fine adiecit in extremo versu Rob.
mvp-comment-697-1
τοιαῦτα σοὔστι: Hic rursus
θ. praefixum in Ven. Flor. Farn. Rob. Chori nota in G. Ald.
τοιαῦτα σοὔστι Porsonus.
τοιαῦτα σοῦ 'στι Μ. Aug. Ven. Flor.
τοιαῦτα σούστι Rob.
τοιαῦτασ᾽ οὗτοι G.
τοιαῦτας οὗτοι Αld.
τοιαῦτα σ᾽ οὗτοι Turn.
mvp-comment-698-1
πρεπτῶν:
πρεπτὸν Ven. et, ut videtur, Flor. Farn.
mvp-comment-699-1
ἀγώνων:
ἀγώνων Ald.
mvp-comment-700-1
οὐκ:
κοὐκ pro
οὐκ Ven.
οὐ in fine versus omittunt Ven. Flor. Farn.
mvp-comment-701-1
τήνδ᾽ ἀστύνικον:
τὴν ἀστόνικον G. Ald. Turn.
mvp-comment-702-1
νέμει:
νόμοι Rob.
νόμον Ven. Flor. Farn.
mvp-comment-703-1
ῥυσίβωμον:
ουσίβολον G. Ald. Turn.
mvp-comment-704-1
ᾧ τ᾽:
ᾧ Turn.
μ' M.
αἵ G.
αἵ τ' Aug. Rob.
αἵ τ' Ald.
αἵτ', ut videtur, Ven. Flor.
αἷς Farn.
mvp-comment-705-1
ἐπισσύτους ... ὀνησίμους:
ἐπισεύτους G. Ald. unde
ἐπιτεύκτους fecit Turn.
βίου τύχας ὀνησίμους M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. et, ut Franzius ait, Flor. ex quo Linwoodius
βίους τύχας affert.
βίους ὀνησίμους, omisso
τύχας, Ven. Farn. Adscriptum in Ven. Flor.
καὶ τοῦτο (
τοῦτο Flor.)
περισσὸν (
περισσῶς Flor.)
πρὸς τὸ κῶλον τῆς ἀντιστροφῆς.
mvp-comment-706-1
ἐξαμβρῦσαι: Hi duo versus omissi in Aug.
ἐξαμβρόσαι M. G. Ald. Turn.
ἐξ ἀμβρόσαι Rob.
ἐξαμϋρόσαι Ven. Flor. Farn. Adscriptum
ἀντὶ μιᾶς in Farn. Probabilis est Pauwii emendatio,
ἐξαμβοῦσαι, quamquam non videtur inveniri aliud aoristi primi huius verbi exemplum. De activo
βρύειν v. Lob. ad Αi. p. 93.
mvp-comment-707-1
δυςαρέστους:
δυσαρέτους Ald.
mvp-comment-708-1
κατανασσαμένη:
κατανασαμένη Αld.
mvp-comment-709-1
ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου προςέπαισαν: Libri
ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου. Multa mirabilia de his versibus prolata sunt. Non discedendum esse putavi ab ea sententia, quam in Opusc. VI. 2. Ρ. 109. seqq. exposui. Itaque scripsi
ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τέκτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου * προςέπαισαν. * Excidisse enim aliquid, quo paroemiacus explebatur, antisystema docet. Aptum autem videtur
προςέπαισαν. Sic dicuntur
πρόςπαια κακά Ag. ν. 332. et
θολεροὶ δὲ λόγοι παίουσ' εἰκῇ στυγνῆς πρὸς κύμασιν ἀτης Prom. v. 887. Neque tantum
κυρέω, sed etiam antiquior verbi forma cum nomine vel participio iungi potest, ut in Soph. Oed. Col. v. 1159.
θύων ἔκυρον. Sententiarum nexus hic est, hae enim deae omnia quae ad homines pertinent administrant: si quis autem non commisil delictum, is nescit unde affligatur: nam priorum peccata his eum tradunt, et tacitum exilium etiam magna sonantem (i. e. superbientem et de felicitate sua gloriantem) pessumdat.
mvp-comment-710-1
ἀπλακήματά νιν:
ἀπλακήματά νιν Pauwius.
ἀμπλακήματά νιν Μ. Par. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἁμαρτήματα, omisso
νιν, Ven. (sic Ven. teste Bekkero) Flor. et, ut videtur, Farn.
mvp-comment-711-1
σιγῶν δ᾽ ὄλεθρος: Libri
σιγῶν ὄλεθρος, nisi quod
σιγὼν ὄλεθρος est in Ald. Scribendum erat
σιγῶν δ᾽ ὄλεθρος. Nam quod sequitur
και non est et, sed etiam, omninoque qui poeticae dictionis naturam et vim norit, non dubitabit quin
δέ addi post
σιγῶν debeat.
mvp-comment-712-1
μέγα φωνοῦντ᾽:
μεγαφώνους τ' G. Ald. unde Turn.
μεγαφώνους, omisso τ'.
mvp-comment-713-1
πνέοι: Similiter Herodotus III. 65. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ποιεῦσι ὑμῖν γῆ τε καρπὸν ἐκφέροι καὶ γυναῖκές τε καὶ ποῖμναι τίκτοιεν, ἐοῦσι ἐς τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον ἐλευθέροισι. Aeschines in Ctesiph. §. 111. p. 502. καὶ ἐπεύχεται αὐτοῖς μήτε γῆν καρποὺς φέρειν, μήτε γυναῖκας τέκνα τίκτειν γονεῦσιν ἐοικότα, ἀλλὰ τέρατα, μήτε βοσκήματα κατὰ φύσιν γονὰς ποιεῖσθαι etc.
πλέοι Ven. Flor.
mvp-comment-714-1
φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν, τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων:
φλογμός τ' Flor. (ut Franzius ait) et Turn.
φλογμὸς, omisso τ', Ven.
φλοιγμός, sine τ', M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob.
φλοιγμὸς δ᾽ ex Par. a Faehsio et Linwoodio affertur. Deinde
τόπον pro
τόπων Rob. Putavi olim scribendum esse
φλογμοῖς ὀμματοστερής, id ut cum
βλαβά coniungeretur. Schoemanno
περῶν in
πέραν mutandum videtur, quae etiam Musgravii opinio fuit, atque sic scribendum,
φλογμός τ' όμματα-στερὴς φυτῶν μένοι πέραν ὅρου τόπων, ut
τόπων idem sit quod
τῶνδε τόπων. Id fieri nequit. Nam si
γῆ,
χθών,
χώρα nullo alio verbo addito de ea terra dicuntur, de qua sermo est, non continuo putandum est etiam
τόπους ita dici posse. Verum esse videtur
φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν, neque quicquam mutandum in iis quae libri ita scripta habent,
τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρων τόπων. Ardor oculos sive germina plantarum perdens, ut ne terminum locorum suorum transgrediantur, nihil aliud est, ut Schützius vidit, quam ardor qui oculos plantarum impedit quominus progerminent et efflorescant. Intelligendum est autem
μὴ ἐφερπέτω ex eo quod sequitur
μηδ' ἐφερπέτω.
mvp-comment-715-1
αἰανὴς:
αλα νὴς G.
mvp-comment-716-1
ἐφερπέτω:
ἐφέρπω Ven.
mvp-comment-717-1
εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ:
εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν M. Aug. G. Turn.
εὐσθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν Ald.
εὐθυνοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν Rob.
εὐθηνοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν Ven. Flor. Farn. Recepi nunc Dobraei emendationem
εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ.
mvp-comment-718-1
διπλοῖσιν Stanleius, et sic Ven. Flor.
διπλοῖς M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
ἐμβρύοις:
ἐν βρύοις ex M. affertur.
mvp-comment-719-1
τρέφοι libri. Deinde
τεταγμένῳ:
τεταγμίω Ald. Denique
γόνος omnes praeter Turn. qui
γόνον scripsit. Apparet duas syllabas excidisse. Olim putabam scribendum esse
μηλά τ' εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν — πρέποι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος δὲ γᾶς etc. Nunc, recepta v. 931. Dobraei emendatione, scripsi
τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· γόνος * δ᾽ ἀεὶ * πλουτόχθων etc. Ita Musgravius et, ut videtur, Pearsonus.
mvp-comment-720-1
πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν:
πλουτόχθω νερμαίαν Ald. Scholiastes ὁ καρπὸς ὁ ἐκ γῆς πλουτίζων. Intelliguntur metalla: erant enim, ut notum est, aeris fodinae in Colono, argenti in Thorico et nobiliores in Laurio monte. Has significat Aeschylus etiam in Persis v. 236.
ἀργύρου πηγή τις αὐτοῖς ἐστι, θησαυρὸς χθονός.
τισι G.
mvp-comment-721-1
τίοι: M. Aug. Turn. et haud dubie Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. sed in G. ultimae duae litterae punctis notatae et
or supra scriptum.
τίσι Rob.
mvp-comment-722-1
ἦ:
ἢ Ven.
mvp-comment-723-1
οἷ' ἐπικραίνει recte Pauwius, et ita Ven. atque, ut videtur, Flor.
οἷα επικρανεῖ M. G. Ald.
οἷ (
οἷ, Rob.)
ἐπικρανεῖ Rob. Turn. et, ut puto, Aug. Idem vitium sublatum in Ag. v. 1300.
γὰρ omittit Rob.
mvp-comment-724-1
Ἐρινὺς:
ἐρινὺς M. Par. G. Rob.
ἐριννὺς Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. Turn.
παρά τ':
πάρα τ' Αld.
mvp-comment-725-1
διαπράσσουσιν: M. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Ald. Rob.
διαπράσουσι Flor.
διαπράσσουσι Turn.
mvp-comment-726-1
τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων: Id est in Ald. Turn.
τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ κρύων M. Par. G. Ven. Rob. et, ut Linwoodius ait, Flor. cui
τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων Franzius tribuit.
mvp-comment-727-1
ἀνδροκμῆτας:
ανδροκμήτας Farn.
ἀνδρομῆκτας Ven.
ἀνδρομῆτας Αld.
ἀώρους:
dogovs M. Aug. G. Ald. Turn.
dágos Rob. idque ex Ven. Flor. affertur.
mvp-comment-728-1
νεανίδων trisyllabum est.
ἀντὶ μιᾶς adscriptum in Farn.
mvp-comment-729-1
βιότους:
βιότου Ven. Flor. Farn. Deinde
κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες, θεαί τ᾽ ὦ Μοῖραι, ματροκασιγνῆται:
κύρι' ἔχοντες θεαὶ τῶν, μοῖραι Μ. G. Ald.
θεαὶ τῶν μοῖραι Rob.
θεαὶ, τῶν μοῖραι Turn.
κύριες ἔχοντες θεαῖ τῶν, μοῖραι Ven. Flor. Farn. Casaubonus et Stanleius
ἔχουσαι. Alii
θεοί. Scribendum puto
κύρι' ἔχοντες, θεαί τ' ὦ Μοῖραι, ut Parcae dicantur Furiarum
ματροκασιγνῆται, i. e.
και σιγνῆται ὁμομήτριοι (ita enim hoc vocabulum hic explicandum esse videtur),
κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες autem intelligantur dii qui matrimoniis praesunt, qui sunt praeter Venerem maxime commemorati v. 213. Iuppiter et Iuno. [Eodem modo Hermannus in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 115. Aliter in Annalium Vindobonensium vol. CXI. Ibi p. 265. repudiata, ut inutili et languida, Schoemanni coniectura,
ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους δότε καίρι ἔχοντας, verum esse iudicavit
κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες θεαί, p. autem 251. seq. ita disputavit. Um die schwierigen worte zu erklären,
κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες θεαί, τῶν Μοῖραι ματροκασιγνήται, stellt herr Schömann den ingeniosen gedanken auf, dass der dichter einer alten theogonie gefolgt sei, in welcher der ursprung aller dinge der Ocean war. In jenem systeme seien nun sicherlich die Mören töchter des Oceans gewesen, eben so wie Tyche, die nach Pindar bei dem Pausanias VII. 26, 8. eine der Mören sei, und bei dem Hesiodus unter den Oceaniden vorkomme. Eine der Oceaniden nun sei Eurynome; löchter dieser aber seien die Charitinnen; mithin deren mullerschwestern die Mören. Den worten des Aeschylus würde diese deutung allerdings angemessen sein, wenn ihr nur nicht andere bedenken entgegenständen. Aber erstens ist es eine blosse hypothese, dass die Mören töchter des Oceans seien; denn die Oceanide Tyche hat eine ganz andere bedeutung bei dem Hesiodus als bei dem Pindar, und ist mithin nicht dieselbe. Die pindarische, von der Pausanias sagt
ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν Πινδάρου τά τε ἄλλα πείθομαι τῇ ᾠδῇ καὶ Μοιρῶν τε εἶναι μίαν τὴν Τύχην καὶ ὑπὲρ τὰς ἀδελφάς τι ισχύειν, beruht auf einem solchen mythus, wie der von Pausanias I. 19, 2. erwähnte ist,
τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμα σημαίνει τὴν Οὐρανίαν Αφροδίτην τῶν καλουμένων Μοιρῶν εἶναι πρεσβυτάτην. Zweitens ist es nicht denkbar, dass, wenn die Charitinnen gemeint sein sollten, nicht nur ihr name nicht genannt, sondern sie auch nach einem wenig bekannten mythus bloss durch ihre mutterschwestern kenntlich gemacht wären. Drittens sind die auf jene worte folgenden prädicale, die herr Schömann in seiner übersetzung auf die Charitinnen bezogen hat, so wenig für diese charakterisierend, dass sie vielmehr auf die Mören passen, auf die sie auch der wortstellung nach' am natürlichsten bezogen werden. Fasst man daher, wie billig, das ins auge, was die worte ihrer bedeutung und stellung nach als das von selbst sich darbietende enthalten, so ist der sinn der: gebet dass den jungfrauen männer zu theil werden, ihr diesem amte vorstehenden göllinnen, deren mullerschwestern die Mören sind. Daraus ergiebt sich nun von selbst, dass diese göllinnen deswegen nicht mit namen genannt sind, weil verschiedene göllinnen gemeint werden, die der dichter nicht einzeln nennen wollte. Damit aber nicht an Aphrodite und Here gedacht werde, fasst er sie unter einer andern bestimmung zusammen, und bezeichnet sie durch ihre mutterschwestern. An die Charitinnen ist nun wohl allerdings zu denken, aber an diese nicht allein: denn sonst würden sie genannt sein. Also werden ihnen noch die Horen zugesellt werden müssen. Bei dem Hesiodus haben beide zum vater den Zeus, die mutter der Charitinnen aber ist (Theog. 907.) Eurynome, der Horen (901) Themis. Vermuthlich gab Aeschylus beiden dieselbe muller, sei es die Eurynome oder Themis, oder welche sonst, deren schwestern die Mören waren, die nach in die Theogonie eingeschobenen versen töchter der Themis sind. Aeschylus lässt uns darüber in ungewissheit.]
mvp-comment-730-1
ὀρθονόμοι:
ὀρθονόμοι G. Ald. Turn.
ὀρθονόμοι Rob. et, ut videtur, reliqui. Hoc a
νέμω factum est, iusta distribuentes: illud a
νόμος, et potest videri praeferendum esse.
mvp-comment-731-1
δόμῳ:
δαίμω pro
δόμῳ Bekkero teste Ven. et Linwoodio teste Flor.
μετάκοινοι Turnebus.
μέγακοινοι M. Par. Rob.
μεγάκοινοι Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald.
mvp-comment-732-1
ἐπιβριθεῖς:
ἐπικριθεὶς Par.
ἐπιβριθαῖς, male lecto scripturae compendio quod in G. est, Ald.
mvp-comment-733-1
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις:
ἐνδίκοις Rob. Male olim iungebantur haec verba,
ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις, cum sequentibus.
mvp-comment-734-1
πάντα Canterus.
πάντα M. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob.
πάντων Farn. Turn.
τιμιώταται:
τιμιώτατα Rob.
mvp-comment-735-1
γάνυμαι:
χάνομαι G. Ald.
ὄμματα:
ὄμματι Ven. Flor.
mvp-comment-736-1
ἐπωπᾷ:
ἐποπτᾶ Flor.
ἐποπτᾷ Farn.
ἐποπτας teste Bekkero Ven.
mvp-comment-737-1
ἀπανηναμένας:
ἀπονηναμένας Ven. (sic Ven.) Flor. Farn.
mvp-comment-738-1
ἐκράτησεν: Libri
ἐκράτησε.
mvp-comment-739-1
τὰν δ᾽ ἄπληστον:
τὴν δ᾽ ἄπληστον Aug. Rob.
τάνδ' ἄπληστον Μ. Ven. Flor.
τὴν δ᾽ ἄπλειστον G. in quo ante correctionem
τῶν δ' fuerat.
τόν δ' ἄπλειστον Αld.
τήνδ' άπληστον Turn.
mvp-comment-740-1
μήποτ':
μήτ' pro
μήποτ' Rob.
mvp-comment-741-1
τῇδ᾽:
τῇδ' Rob.
ἐπεύχομαι:
ἀπεύχομαι Par.
ἐπαύχομαι Rob. Pro verbo
βρέμειν in ed. Turn. per errorem e fine sequentis versus repetitum est
πολιτῶν.
mvp-comment-742-1
μηδὲ πιοῦσα κόνις Rob. Turn. et, ut videtur, M.
μὴ δ' ἐπιοῦσα Aug. Farn. et Bekkero teste Ven.
μὴ δ᾽ ἐπιθῦσα κόνις G.
μὴ δ' ἐπὶ θυσακόνις Ald. Deinde
πολιτᾶν:
πολιτῶν M. Aug. Rob. et ex correctione G.
πολίτων G. ante correctionem et Ald. Turn.
πολιητῶν Ven. Flor. Farn.
mvp-comment-743-1
ποινᾶς Pauwius, et sic Ven. Flor. Farn.
ποινὰς M. Aug. G. Ald. Rob. Turn. Deinde
ἀντιφόνους:
ἀντιφώνους Ven. Flor. Farn. Intellige
δι' ὀργὴν τῆς ποινῆς ἁρπαλίσαι ἀντιφόνους ἄτας πόλεως.
mvp-comment-744-1
ἀντιδιδοῖεν: M. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Rob.
ἀντιδοῖεν Ald. Turn.
mvp-comment-745-1
κοινοφιλεῖ: Iam olim scripsi
κοινοφιλεῖ, quam emendationem sequens versus confirmat.
κοινωφελεῖ Aug. Ven. Flor. Rob. Turn. et, ut Franzius ait, Μ.
κοινοφελεῖ G. Ald. idque alii ex M. afferunt.
mvp-comment-275-1 βοτῶν] Stanley for βροτῶν. See Suppl. 670 seqq.
mvp-comment-276-1 σωτηρίαν] See v. 631.
mvp-comment-277-1 ἐκφορωτέρα] The meaning seems to be, μᾶλλον ἔκφορος, - may you more than ever get rid of the impious. The metaphor, as it appears from what follows, is from removing rubbish from plantations. The superlative έπιφορώτατος occurs Cho. 798 .
mvp-comment-278-1 ἀπένθητον] spared from mourning. Cf. Agam. 868 .
mvp-comment-279-1 ἀγώνων] The term may include both contests at the great games (at which some Athenian had perhaps been lately successful), and the contests of war, in which Athens, under the patronage of the War-goddess, would prove to be ever superior. The first epithet seems to have an active sense, 'war-slaying, though the Homeric ἀρηίφατος means slain in war. ,
mvp-comment-280-1 καὶ Ζεύς] the Almighty Zeus also (as well as his daughter Athena). The fortified area of the Acropolis is appropriately called φρούριον, the garrison of the gods, and the deities' darling abode. See Thuc. 11. 15, 5 .
mvp-comment-281-1 πρευμενώς] They are now well-wishers,' Εύμενίδες.
mvp-comment-282-1 ἐξαμβράσαι, from ἐκβράσσω, οι ἐκβράζω, to cause to spring forth, is Prof. Scholefield's correction of ἐξαμβρόσαι. Such an aorist however has no early authority in its favour, and the true reading is very uncertain. See Veitch, Gr. Verbs, p. 142.
mvp-comment-283-1 τάδ' ἐγὼ κ.τ.λ.] This is what I do in kindly regard to my citizens, by causing these powerful and hardlyappeased deities to take up their abode here.' She means, this is my part in the transaction, viz. successfully employing my eloquence, sup. 845.
mvp-comment-284-1 βαρέων] Supply λαχέων from ἔλαχον. 'He who has not met with a hard lot in life (who has not gained wisdom by misfortune, Ag. 169 ) has yet to learn the great truth, that ancestral crime, as well as actual sins committed, are often the secret causes of woe. —προσέπαισαν is supplied on Hermann's conjecture.
mvp-comment-285-1 βλάβα] See on v. 254.
mvp-comment-286-1 τὸ μή] i. e. ὥστε μὴ, to prevent them from outgrowing the space allotted to each in planting. - αἰανὴς, either long-lasting,' or dismal. See on v. 394.
mvp-comment-287-1 εὐθενοῦντα] See v. 855. For ἄγαν Dobree proposed ya, Meineke Πάν.
mvp-comment-288-1 γόνος] A word is lost in the MSS., perhaps δ' ἀεὶ or δὲ γᾶς. The allusion may be, as in Pers. 236 , to the silver-mines at Laurium, from which a tithe for luck may have been paid to the treasury of the goddess.
mvp-comment-289-1
πόλεως φρούριον]
Schol.
ὦ ᾿Αρεοπαγῖται.
mvp-comment-290-1 κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες] ye gods who have the power, viz. as presiding over marriage, " Ηρας τελείας καὶ Διὸς πιστώματα, sup. 205. -Μοῖραι, as daughters of Night, were sisters of the Furies by the mother's side. The MSS. give θεαὶ τῶν μοῖραι, corrected by Hermann.
mvp-comment-291-1 ἐπωπᾷ] respicit, 'regards with favour. Cf. v. 845. —ἀλλὰ κ.τ.λ., 'however, it was Zeus the god of the agora (the patron of popular eloquence) who prevailed; and the contest between him and me, as to which benefits the citizens the more, prevails (over the evil caused by the Furies' anger), and shall prevail for all time.' By ἡμετέρα the united efforts of the Furies also, in their present mood, are perhaps meant.
mvp-comment-292-1 κόνις] The Earth is meant, which on the pantheistic theology, exacted penalties for blood ( ποινὰς) by causing retributive murders. Perhaps πόλεως is best taken in its natural order, eagerly to seize from the city, like a debt due but yet unpaid.
mvp-comment-293-1 ἆρα κ.τ.λ.] Are they not becoming wise, and do they not find a good course for the expression of their wishes? We might somewhat improve the sense by reading ἀγαθὴν for ἀγαθῆς. The citizens are called on to attest the goodness of the goddesses in their benign wishes for blessings on the state. By φοβερὰ πρόσωπα the masks must be meant which made them look like Gorgons, sup. 49.
mvp-comment-316-1 τὰ σπέρματα. παγῖται.
mvp-comment-317-1 ὁ καρπὸς ὁ ἐκ γῆς πλουτίζων.
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-481-1 1
mvp-comment-481-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 313
mvp-comment-481-3
Was auf einen nicht unedlen Streit, wie der bisherige gewesen ist, was auf einen Wettstreit im Guten (
ἀγαθῶν ἔρις 976) abzielt." Soph.
Oed. T. 879
tò nalõs
δ᾽ ἔχον πόλει πάλαισμα μήποτε
λύσαι
θεὸν
αὐτοῦμαι, wie Hesiod. W. u. T. 24 von der
κακὴ ἔρις die
ἀγαθὴ ἔρις unterscheidet, den edlen Wettstreit in Kunst und Arbeit.
ἐπίσκοπα νείκης wie
Soph. Ai. 976
ἄτης τῆσδ᾽ ἐπίσκοπον (Schol.
ἐστοχασμένον)
μέλος.
Aus
mvp-comment-482-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 313
mvp-comment-482-2 Und dieses wünsche sowohl von der Erde her (d. h. dafs es von der Erde her zu teil werde)" u. s. w. Für „,und von den Winden her tritt ein eigener Satz ἀήματα ἀνέμων ἐπιστείχειν ein. dieser Stelle leitet Hermann das bei Cicero Tusc. I 28 erhaltene Fragment eines römischen Dichters (also wohl der Eumen. des Ennius) ab: Caelum nitescere (non intermittit suo tempore geht im Text voraus), arbores frondescere, Vites laetificae pampinis pubescere, Rami bacarum ubertate incurvescere, Se- getes largiri fruges, florere omnia, Fontes scatere, herbis prata convestirier.
mvp-comment-482-3 2
mvp-comment-483-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314
mvp-comment-483-2 σωτηρίαν scil. ἐφύμνησον.
mvp-comment-484-1 3
mvp-comment-484-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 314
mvp-comment-484-3 Der Gottlosen Saat aber möge ausgejätet werden.
mvp-comment-485-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314
mvp-comment-485-2 τὸ τῶν δικαίων γένος ἀπέν θητον τῶνδε, ungetrübt und ungestört von diesen (den Gottlosen). Man erwartet aber einen Ausdruck, der von der Gärtnerei entlehnt ist: vielleicht hat es ἀπανθιστὸν γάνος geheifsen d. i. ,die Zier der Gerechten von diesen weggepflückt" für diese aus dem prangenden Beet der Gerechten ausgepflückt." Vgl. Hom. η 128 πρασιαι .. ἐπηετανὸν γανόωσαι.
mvp-comment-486-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314
mvp-comment-486-2 τῶν ἀρειφάτων ἀγώνων von kriegerischen blutigen Kämpfen. Bei Homer sind ἀρηίφατοι solche, die in der Schlacht getötet werden. Vgl. ἀρείφατοι φόνοι Eur. Suppl. 603 , auch ἀρείφατον λῆμα Aesch. frg. 146 D. πρεπτῶν, in denen man sich auszeichnen kann (bei Homer μάχῃ ἐνὶ κυδιανείρῃ). Wenn es auch Plat. Prot. 323 A ἅπαντος ἀνδρὸς ἀνέχονται heifst, so ist immerhin in der Redensart ἀνέχεσθαί τί τινος der Gen. von τ, nicht von ἀνέχεσθαι abhängig: ,,von den kriegerischen ruhmreichen Kämpfen werde ich es mir nicht gefallen lassen, dafs sie nicht diese Stadt als siegreich ehren." ἀστύνίκον: zu 37.
mvp-comment-486-3 4
mvp-comment-487-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314
mvp-comment-487-2 Kommos. Der Chor erfleht oder weissagt alles Gute (Wachstum und Gedeihen der Früchte und Herden Gesundheit des Volkes und bürgerliche Eintracht Wohlwollen und Segen der Götter) für Athen und wird darob von Athena belobt und geehrt. · ξυνοικίαν: zu 836.
mvp-comment-488-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314
mvp-comment-488-2 καὶ entspricht nicht dem folgenden τέ, sondern heifst,,auch, sogar".
mvp-comment-489-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314
mvp-comment-489-2 φρούριον θεῶν, insofern sie ein die Altäre der Götter schützendes Kleinod der Hellenen" ist. Diesen Ruhm hat sich Athen eigentlich erst durch die Perserkriege erworben, weil nach der Vorstellung der Griechen die Perser es auf die Altäre und Tempel der griechischen Götter abgesehen hatten. Vgl. Pers. 811 f. , Herod. VII 109 .
mvp-comment-490-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315
mvp-comment-490-2 άτε κι ἐξαμβοῦσαι: ihr möge der Sonne glänzender Strahl aus der Erde reichen Segen des Lebensunterhalts hervorquellen lassen. ἐπίσσυτος ist gebraucht wie ἐπίρρυτος 908, wenn nicht nach Meinekes Vermutung ἐπιρρύτους zu schreiben ist. Unter βίου .. ὀνησίμους sind, wie das Folgende zeigt, gesegnete Ernten und reichliche Erträgnisse des Bodens zu verstehen; es steht also ẞiov im Sinne von βιότου wie frg. 41 D. μήλων τε βοσκὰς καὶ βίον Δημήτριον. — ἐξαναβρῦσαι transitiv wie auch βρύω gebraucht wird. Vgl. Lobeck zu Soph. Ai. p. 932 .
mvp-comment-491-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315
mvp-comment-491-2 πράσσω αὐτοῦ κατανασ σαμένη, erwirke ich dadurch, dafs ich sie hier Wohnung zu nehmen bestimmt babe. Den aktiven Aor. κατένασσα braucht in der Bedentung,,ansiedeln" Hesiod W. u. T. 166, Theog. 329, 620.
mvp-comment-492-1 5
mvp-comment-492-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 315
mvp-comment-492-3 Denjenigen, der sich ihrer Huld nicht erfreut, treffen unversehens Schläge des Unglücks. χαροπός mit hell und freudig strahlendem Blicke.
mvp-comment-493-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315
mvp-comment-493-2 Vgl. Cho. 401 ff.
mvp-comment-494-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315
mvp-comment-494-2 σιγῶν als Gegensatz zu μέγα φωνοῦντα, um das κάλλος και κῶν ὕπουλον, die Ironie, mit welcher hinter dem laut prahlenden Glanze das Verderben lauert, zu bezeichnen. Ζυ μέγα φωνοῦντα ( μεγαλαυχοῦντα) vgl. μεγάλης γλώσ σης κόμπους Soph. Ant. 127 , μεγάλοι λόγοι ebd. 1349.
mvp-comment-495-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315
mvp-comment-495-2 ἐχθραῖς ὀργαῖς von den Erinyen übertragen.
mvp-comment-496-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 315
mvp-comment-496-2 Dem Gedeihen der Olivenbäume verdankte Athen einen Hauptteil seines Wohlstandes. Soph. Oed. K. 700 ὃ τῇδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρα, γλαυκάς παιδοτρόφου φύλο λον ἐλαίας. Über den Einfuls' der Winde auf die Vegetation handelt Plin. N. Hist. XVIII c. 34 . Vgl. Hor. saec. 31 nutriant fetus et aquae salubres et Iovis aurae. carm.
mvp-comment-496-3 6
mvp-comment-497-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-497-2 ,,Meine Gunst und Wohlthat bezeichne ich damit" steht als Parenthese.
mvp-comment-498-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-498-2 φλογμός τε scil. μὴ πνέοι oder vielmehr γένοιτο. Der Brand, welcher die Pflanzen der Augen beraubt, so dafs sie nicht die Hülse sprengen und hervorkeimen. ὀμματοστερής: zu Cho. 252 . Über τὸ μὴ zu Ag. 1589 . Soph. Oed. T. 25 φθίνουσα μὲν κάλυξιν ἐγκάρ ποις χθονός.
mvp-comment-498-3 7
mvp-comment-499-1 8
mvp-comment-499-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-499-3 ἄκαρπος: wenn auch die Knospen sich zur Frucht entfalten, kann immer noch die Frucht verderben. alavýs wie 482. νόσος, der Meltau, Brand, robigo.
mvp-comment-500-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-500-2
Πᾶν als der Gott der Herden,
Ovid. fast. II 271
Pana deum pecoris,
Verg. Ecl. II 33
Pan curat ovis oviumque magistros. Vgl.
Herod. III 65
καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ποιεῦσι ὑμῖν γῆ τε καρπὸν ἐκφέροι καὶ γυναϊκές
τε καὶ ποῖμναι τίκτοιεν und den bei
Aeschin. 3, 111
gegen die Verletzer der amphiktyonischen Satzungen ausgesprochenen Fluch:
μήτε γῆν καρποὺς φέρειν μήτε
γυναῖ και
τέκνα τίκτειν γονεῦσιν ἐοικότα,
ἀλλὰ τέρατα,
μήτε βοσκήματα κατὰ φύσιν γονὰς ποιεῖσθαι.
mvp-comment-501-1 9
mvp-comment-501-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-501-3 γόνος δὲ γᾶς πλουτόχθων (vgl. zu 37) weist hin auf die attiPers. 241 schen Silberbergwerke. ἀργύρου πηγή τις αὐτοῖς (den Athenern) ἐστι, θησαυρὸς χθονός, dazu Schol. ἐν Θορικῷ γάρ ἐστι μέταλλα καὶ ἐν Λαυρίῳ, Strabon III p. 147 οὐ γὰρ πλουσία μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑποπλουσία ἦν ἡ χώρα καὶ παρ' ἐκείνοις ὡς ἀληθῶς τὸν ὑποχθόνιον τόπον οὐχ ὁ "Αἵδης ἀλλ' ὁ Πλούτων ἑρμαίαν, weil diese Gabe der Götter erst glücklich gefunden werden muſs (,,weshalb auch unsere Bergleute einander Glück auf wünschen" Hermann). möge hohen Wert geben.
mvp-comment-501-4 10
mvp-comment-502-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-502-2 πόλεως φρούριον: Schol. ὦ Ἀρεοπαγῖται. κατοικεί. τίοι,
mvp-comment-503-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-503-2 μέγα γὰρ δύναται παρά τε: an die Stelle eines zweiten παρά τε tritt eine andere Wendung. Vgl. zu 861.
mvp-comment-504-1 11
mvp-comment-504-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-504-3
τοῖς ὑπὸ γαῖαν wie
Eur. Hek. 149
θεοὺς τούς τ᾽ οὐρανίδας τούς θ᾽ ὑπὸ
γαϊαν,
Alk. 895
φίλων τῶν ὑπὸ γαῖαν,
Aeschin. 2, 41
τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον ἀνθρώπων.
mvp-comment-505-1 12
mvp-comment-505-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-505-3 φανερῶν in Gegensatz zu ὑπὸ γαῖαν s. v. a. τῶν ἐν φάει. τελέως ( διὰ τέλους, wie 321) διαπράσσουσιν, die Erinyen geben die endgültige Entscheidung ihres Schicksals.
mvp-comment-506-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
mvp-comment-506-2 δακρύων hängt von άμβλω πόν ab, weil dieses s. v. a. πλήρη; ἀμβλωπόν ist vom thränenfeuchten und deshalb stumpfsichtigen Auge übertragen.
mvp-comment-507-1 13
mvp-comment-507-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
mvp-comment-507-3
ἀνδροκμῆτας ἀώρους τύχας, Fälle wo die Menschen vor der Zeit hinsterben.
Suppl. 686
μηδέ τις ἀνδροκμὴς λοιγὸς ἐπελθέτω τάνδε πόλιν δαΐζων,
Eur. Hek. 425
ὦ τῆς ἀώρου θύγατερ ἀθλία τύχης.
mvp-comment-508-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
mvp-comment-508-2
νεανίδων dreisilbig, zu Ag.
1162.,,Gewährt gattenbeglücktes Dasein holdseliger Mägdlein, die ihr des Gewalt habt" d. h. Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite nach 214 f.
θεαί
τ'
ὦ Μοῖραι: die Mören besiegeln den ehelichen Bund. Vgl. 217.
ματροκασιγνῆται, hier
nicht, Schwestern der Mutter", sondern
,,Schwestern von der gleichen Mutter". Auch die Mören waren Töchter der Nacht nach
Hes. Theog. 217
και Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο νηλεοποίνους. Sie heifsen Schwestern von mütterlicher Seite, weil sie keinen Vater haben:
οὔτινι κοιμηθεῖσα θεὰ τέκε Νὺξ ἐρεβεννή ebd. 213.
mvp-comment-508-3 14
mvp-comment-509-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
mvp-comment-509-2
ὀρθονόμοι, richtig verteilend. Dies wird in den folgenden drei Versen ausgeführt, ähnlich wie
Suppl. 408
Ζεὺς ἑτερορρεπής, νέμων εἰκότως ἔλλερα μὲν κακοῖς, αἴσια δ᾽ ἐννόμοις. Das Wort
ὀρθονόμος kommt nur hier vor.
mvp-comment-510-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
mvp-comment-510-2
,,Jeglichem Hause billig und freundlich, jeglichem Sitze beschwerlich in gerechtem Besuche" d. h. die Schicksalsgöttinnen suchen jedes Haus und jeden Sitz auf in gerechtem Walten, freundlich oder feindlich.
Ζη ἐπιβριθεῖς vgl.
Suppl. 656
ὃν οὔτις ἂν δόμος ἔχων ἐπ᾿ ὀρόφων ἰαίνοιτο.
mvp-comment-511-1 15
mvp-comment-511-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
mvp-comment-511-3
τάδε zu
γάνυμαι.
ἐπικραινομένων scil.
τούτων, vgl.
ὀρ θουμένων 775,
εὖ ξυντυχόντων
Sept. 260
πελομένων καλῶς
Suppl. 129
,
Krüger I § 47, 4, 3
. Manche Erklärer betrachten
ἐπικραινομένων als Medium (
ἐπικρ. scil.
αὐτῶν), so
dafs
τάδε von
ἐπικρ. abhängt.
στέργω, veneror.
·
ὄμματα Πειθοῦς:
Soph. frg. 743
D. δεινὸν τὸ τῆς Πειθοῦς πρόσωπον.
mvp-comment-512-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
mvp-comment-512-2 στόμ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ πρὸς τάσδε, sie waltete über meinen Mund diesen gegenüber.
mvp-comment-513-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-513-2
ἀγοραῖος als Hort der beratenden Versammlungen und der dort den Ausschlag gebenden Wohlredenheit. Vgl.
Suppl. 632
,
Aristoph. 410
ἀγοραίου Διός, 500
πράξειας κατὰ νοῦν τὸν ἐμὸν
και
σε φυλάττοι Ζεὺς
ἀγοραίος, Hesych.
ἀγοραίου Διὸς βωμὸς
᾿Αθήνησιν.
mvp-comment-514-1 16
mvp-comment-514-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-514-3
ἀγαθῶν ἔρις, Wetteifer im Guten, certamen utrum plus boni Minerva an Eumenides civitati conferant (Butler). Vgl.
Herod. VIII 79
ἡμέας στασιάζειν χρεόν ἐστι ἔν τε τῷ ἄλλῳ καιρῷ καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐν τῷδε, περὶ τοῦ ὁκότερος ἡμέων πλέω ἀγαθὰ τὴν πατρίδα ἐργάσεται und zu 904.
mvp-comment-514-4 17
mvp-comment-515-1 18
mvp-comment-515-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-515-3 βρέμειν von dem Lärm und Toben des Aufruhrs.
mvp-comment-516-1 19
mvp-comment-516-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-516-3 ἐχθραν ist ergänzt nach 938.
mvp-comment-517-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-517-2
Das vergossene Blut fordert mit Ungeduld von der Stadt Blut zum Entgelt d. h. die eine
Partei, deren Blut vergossen worden ist, sucht alsbald wieder die andere zu überwältigen. Die Form
ἁρπαλίσαι wie
Suppl. 668
κενώσαι, 670
αἱματίσαι. Vgl. Anhang zu 621. -
ἀντιφόνους ἄτας wie
ἀντικτόνοις ποιναῖσι 467.
mvp-comment-518-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-518-2 ,,Sie mögen Freude mit Freude erwidern in bürgerlichem Gemeinsinn." In etwas anderem Sinne regiert αντιδιδοῖεν den Infin. στυγείν: sie mögen tauschen den Hafs, so dafs sie einig sind im Hassen (wie im Lieben).
ἐπίσκοπα
,
such as look to,
hath regard to no dishonourable victory; a vivid word for
befit. The word is similarly used
Cho. 126
εὐχὰς πατρῴων δωμάτων ἐπισκόπους,
Aias 976
ἄτης τῆσδ᾽ ἐπίσκοπον μέλος.
mvp-sidgwick-419-2-1 The νίκη is explained by ll. 864-866 : he means victory over foes, not in civil broils: and the next line extends it to all sort of prosperity.
mvp-sidgwick-420-1-1 'Ay, and that from earth, and watery sea, and heaven [all be blest], and gentle gales with fair sunshine blowing may pass o'er the land.' The rapidity in this fine and poetic passage again rather obscures the grammar, though not the sense: the fact is, he was going to say '[and pray] that from earth, sea, sky, and winds [all may prosper]:' but the clause about the winds is specially developed, and the sentence ends differently from what was intended.
ἐπίρρυτον , abundantly, predicative adj.
mvp-sidgwick-422-1-1 But the impious be more ready to weed out; the metaphor of ἔκφορος, carrying away, is probably from gardening, as the next line explains.
ἀπένθητον , predicative.
σοὔστι , the regular crasis for σοὶ ἐστί. τῶν ἀρειφάτων . . . πόλιν, and in the glorious strife of war I shall not suffer but that my city shall be honoured among men as victorious.
ἀγώνων is gen. of respect, put provisionally at the beginning and depending ultimately on ἀστύνικον.
τιμᾶν , active according to Greek idiom: they say, I shall not allow but that [people] shall honour my city: we say, I shall not allow my city to be unhonoured.
Παλλάδος ξυνοικίαν , i. e. to dwell with Pallas.
῎Αρης . is specially mentioned, no doubt because of the Areiopagos, the scene of the latter half of the play.
mvp-sidgwick-427-1-1 There is a fine boldness about the expressions which Aeschylus uses for Athens, 'the fortress of the gods..., the glory of the Powers of Greece, the saviour of their altars;' an imaginative rendering of the favourite idea of the piety' of Athens ll. 805, 869 .
mvp-sidgwick-428-1-1 This prayer closely follows Athena's suggestion ll. 906-908 , 'that the bright sunshine make to blossom up from the earth the blessings of life in plenty.' ἐπισσύτους (lit. rushing on, used of the springs of tears, Ag. 887 , and of the throes of vain sorrow, Ag. 1150 ) corresponds to ἐπίρρυτον l. 907 .
ἐξαμβρῦσαι . (from ἐξαναβρύω used transitively) is Pauw's probable correction of the meaningless readings of MSS. It is adopted by H. Weil, Lin., Schütz. Well.
κατανασσαμένη
, middle,
housing in my city.
ll. 932, 933
. The MSS. read
Now τούτων here must refer to the Furies, as αὗται above and τάσδε below: and consequently βαρέων must be wrong, as (1) it is the wrong gender: (2) even if we suppose (with D.) a fem. form βαρεῶν, it clearly is the wrong sense. What Aeschylus means to say is,
He who incurs the wrath of the Furies meets with unexpected calamity: the sins of his fathers bring him into their power.
ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων
οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου.
mvp-sidgwick-430-2-1 We must take therefore some emendation like ἱλαρῶν (Weil.), χαροπῶν (Weck.), τῶνδ᾽ εὐμενέων (Hart.): of which I have preferred the former. βαρέων will perhaps have arisen from confusion of β- and ιλ-: or perhaps from a gloss. Another question arises about the metre. Hermann, followed by most edd. (Lachm. Franz. Pal. Hart. Merkel. Weil.), has assumed that Athena's anapaestic stanzas, which alternate with the lyrics, correspond. There are five such stanzas: the three middle ones (at ll. 949, 968, 988 ) are all the same length: and the first and the last would be exactly equal, if after βιύτου we read some words like προσέπαισαν (H.). The practice is not uniform: thus in the κομμός in the Choephoroi the anapaestic alternating stanzas do not correspond, though roughly about the same length: on the other hand in Agamemnon (11. 1448-1577) the anapaests do correspond.
mvp-sidgwick-430-3-1 It is on the whole more probable that the latter is the case here: and I have accordingly adopted H.'s προσέπαισαν.
mvp-sidgwick-430-4-1 The sense then is, He who finds them not propitious is stricken with calamities he knows not whence: and μὴ ἱλαρῶν κύρσας is really a euphemism for offended.
mvp-sidgwick-431-1-1 Note the effective antithesis between the silence of the ruin and the loud boasts of the unfortunate man.
χάριν , boon, blessing.
mvp-sidgwick-433-1-1 Corrupt. Some of the commentators (H, Schütz. D. Pal.) try to translate it as it stands: 'Let a blight killing the germs of plants [come not near] to prevent them passing their bounds,' i. e. to prevent them growing: surely an impossible interpretation: a plant does not pass its bounds by growing. The general sense is plain, No blight come near; and perhaps we might accept Wecklein's very ingenious λοπῶν for τύπων: ‘... killing the buds of plants that they pass not the bounds of their husks.' But the sentence is still awkward, with no verb. The other emendations proposed are not convincing.
mvp-sidgwick-434-1-1 MSS. read εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν. Most edd. take Dobree's εὐθενοῦντα ya, but Meineke's suggestion Πᾶν is nearer to MSS. and rather more likely.
γόνος δ᾽ ἀεὶ πλουτόχθων , and ever may the earths rich produce .' The bold compound πλουτόχθων is very Aeschylean. The reference is not (as H. P.) to precious metals, of which Athena (whom the Chorus closely follows in their prayers) had made no mention, and to which γόνος would not be so suitable; but simply to the produce in the ordinary sense.
δόσιν τίοι they clearly mean that out of their abundance they are to give thank-offerings to the bounteous gods.
ἑρμαίαν , for Hermes was the god of good luck (from Homer downwards, Ερμείας ἐφίλει καὶ κτῆσιν ὄπασσε Il. 14.491) : and a wind-fall or godsend was called ἕρμαιον.
ἐπικραίνει , brings to pass, vivid use of present, of a thing now promised.
διαπράσσουσιν ., intrans. plain and full is their accomplishment.
βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι , a life dimmed with tears, a beautifully vivid metaphor. δακρύων is gen. of respect after adj. ἀμβλωπόν.
ἀνδροκμής
, lit.
bringing weariness to men,' here a euphemism for
deadly, is a favourite word of Aeschylus, being found with μόχθος (above
l. 248
), and
πέλεκυς
(Cho. 889
), and
λοιγός
(Suppl. 680
) in the same sense as here.
κύρια , the rightful power; the gods they appeal to being such powers as Ζεὺς τέλειος, Ἥρα, ᾿Αφροδίτη. See above l. 214 .
μητροκασιγνῆται , sisters by one mother, because the Fates (like the Furies l. 322 ) were daughters of Night (Hes. Theog. 217 καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο).
ὀρθονόμοι . [not ὀρθόνομοι from νόμος], the MSS. reading, from νέμω, assigning what is due.
ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous.
ὁμιλίαις , visitations.
στέργω , I bless.
ἐπωπάω . is properly to look down on, watch, behold, descry: so Cho. 693 , Eum. 275, but, like the commoner ἐποπτεύω, is used regularly of gods or supernatural powers, and gets the meaning to guard, guide, direct; see note on l. 220 .
ἀγοραῖος , God of the gathering, was a name given to Zeus and other gods (Hermes, Ar. Eq. 297, Artemis and Athena, Paus. 3. 11. 9) as protectors of the city life of which the natural centre was the ἀγορά or gathering place ( Agam. 90 ). But as the ἀγορά was also the place for speech (ἀγορεύω, κατηγορέω, etc.) the name here implies god of speech.
mvp-sidgwick-449-1-1 And our strife for blessings is victorious for ever.' 'We have before had an ἔρις κακή, a hostile strife: henceforward it will be an ἔρις ἀγαθῶν, a friendly rivalry to do good: and the victory, νίκη, shall be with both; we shall always succeed.'
ποινᾶς ἀντιφόνους ἄτας , the murderous woes of vengeance, the woes of murderous requital; a very Aeschylean phrase, and more natural on the whole than the Med. reading ποινάς, which would make ἄτας gen.: for in any case it is certainly right to take these three words together. [H. P. and others take δι᾽ ὀργὰν ποινᾶς, from desire of vengeance, weaker meaning and more strained usage.]
mvp-sidgwick-451-1-1 'And may they give joy for joy, with one heart of love, and to hate with one soul.' An imaginative way of saying, 'May they live in happiness that comes from harmony, having the same friends and foes.' The latter phrase is the well-known Greek formula in making alliances.
mvp-sidgwick-452-1-1 MSS. read φρονοῦσιν and εὑρίσκει, no sense. I have adopted the original suggestion of Hermann, accepted by D. Weil. φρονοῦσα and εὑρίσκεις. Dost thou then wisely find the path of good words? i. e. Are you then come to a better mind, blessing instead of cursing?'
mvp-sidgwick-452-2-1 The first two lines are addressed to the Furies: the two next are a reflection and then she turns to the citizens.