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Eumenides. Aeschylus. Ioannes Sanravius (Translator). Basileae. 1555.
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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.
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929.
κατανασσαμένη
, middle,
housing in my city. 11. 932, 933. The MSS. read
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.]
992. εὔφρονas , kindly, a reference to their name Εὐμενίδες.
996. αἰσιμίαισι , ‘blessings,' from αἴσιμος, ‘right,' meet, good, lit. that which is one's share or lot, from aloa (strong form from ἴσος).
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.
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ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου προςέπαισαν: Libri
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ἀπλακήματά νιν:
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σιγῶν δ᾽ ὄλεθρος: Libri
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μέγα φωνοῦντ᾽:
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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.
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φλογμός τ' ὀμματοστερὴς φυτῶν, τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὅρον τόπων:
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αἰανὴς:
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ἐφερπέτω:
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εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ:
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διπλοῖσιν Stanleius, et sic Ven. Flor.
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τρέφοι libri. Deinde
τεταγμένῳ:
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πλουτόχθων ἑρμαίαν:
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τίοι: M. Aug. Turn. et haud dubie Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. sed in G. ultimae duae litterae punctis notatae et
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ἦ:
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οἷ' ἐπικραίνει recte Pauwius, et ita Ven. atque, ut videtur, Flor.
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Ἐρινὺς:
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διαπράσσουσιν: M. Par. Aug. G. Ven. Ald. Rob.
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τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων: Id est in Ald. Turn.
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ἀνδροκμῆτας:
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νεανίδων trisyllabum est.
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βιότους:
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ὀρθονόμοι:
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δόμῳ:
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ἐπιβριθεῖς:
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ἐνδίκοις ὁμιλίαις:
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πάντα Canterus.
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γάνυμαι:
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ἐπωπᾷ:
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ἀπανηναμένας:
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ἐκράτησεν: Libri
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τὰν δ᾽ ἄπληστον:
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μήποτ':
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τῇδ᾽:
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μηδὲ πιοῦσα κόνις Rob. Turn. et, ut videtur, M.
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ποινᾶς Pauwius, et sic Ven. Flor. Farn.
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ἀντιδιδοῖεν: M. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Rob.
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κοινοφιλεῖ: Iam olim scripsi
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ἆρα Flor. Farn. et Bekkero teste Ven.
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εὔφρονας εὔφρονες Turn.
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καὶ γῆν καὶ πόλιν ὀρθοδίκαιοι: Libri
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χαίρετε, χαίρετ' Turnebus. Ceteri
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ἀστικὸς M. G. Ven. Flor. Farn. Ald. Rob. Turn. Sic etiam e correctione Aug. quum antea scriptum fuisset
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ἵκταρ G.
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παρθένου φίλας φίλοι, σωφρονοῦντες ἐν χρόνῳ:
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δ᾽ omittunt G. Ald. Turn.
ὑπὸ πτεροῖς:
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χαίρετε χἠμεῖς:
mvp-comment-755-1 Post ἀποδείξουσαν vulgo interpungitur.
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προπομπῶν Bentleius in Resp. ad Boylium p. 79.
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.
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πόλεως φρούριον]
Schol.
mvp-comment-290-1 κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες] ye gods who have the power, viz. as presiding over marriage, " Ηρας τελείας καὶ Διὸς πιστώματα, sup. 205. -Μοῖραι, as daughters of Night, were sisters of the Furies by the mother's side. The MSS. give θεαὶ τῶν μοῖραι, corrected by Hermann.
mvp-comment-291-1 ἐπωπᾷ] respicit, 'regards with favour. Cf. v. 845. —ἀλλὰ κ.τ.λ., 'however, it was Zeus the god of the agora (the patron of popular eloquence) who prevailed; and the contest between him and me, as to which benefits the citizens the more, prevails (over the evil caused by the Furies' anger), and shall prevail for all time.' By ἡμετέρα the united efforts of the Furies also, in their present mood, are perhaps meant.
mvp-comment-292-1 κόνις] The Earth is meant, which on the pantheistic theology, exacted penalties for blood ( ποινὰς) by causing retributive murders. Perhaps πόλεως is best taken in its natural order, eagerly to seize from the city, like a debt due but yet unpaid.
mvp-comment-293-1 ἆρα κ.τ.λ.] Are they not becoming wise, and do they not find a good course for the expression of their wishes? We might somewhat improve the sense by reading ἀγαθὴν for ἀγαθῆς. The citizens are called on to attest the goodness of the goddesses in their benign wishes for blessings on the state. By φοβερὰ πρόσωπα the masks must be meant which made them look like Gorgons, sup. 49.
mvp-comment-294-1 εὔφρονας εὔφρονες] with mutual goodwill.
mvp-comment-295-1 πρέψετε seems here, as in Ag. 1299 , to be transitive, you will make conspicuous, cause to be admired by all.
mvp-comment-296-1 ἐν αἰσιμίαισι] In possession of the blessings of wealth.
mvp-comment-297-1 ἴκταρ Διός] There appears to have been a statue of Ζεὺς Πολιεὺς on the southern summit of the Acropolis, overlooking the theatre.
mvp-comment-298-1 σωφρονοῦντες] The notion seems to be, that now at length, when the cultus of the Erinyes, i.e. the law of Conscience, is established among the citizens, they will be wiser than before.
mvp-comment-299-1 ὑπὸ πτεροῖς] This refers to a winged statue of Pallas Νίκη, made by Phidias about two years before the acting of the play.
mvp-comment-300-1 προτέραν στείχειν] Athena now announces her intention of heading a procession of citizens to escort the Furies with lighted torches to their shrine under the Areopagus. She repeats this at v. 976, as the procession begins to move. Compare Pers. ult. πέμψω τοί σε δυσθρόοις γόοις. There is probably an allusion to the citizens in holiday attire attending the Panathenaic πομπή.
mvp-comment-316-1 τὰ σπέρματα. παγῖται.
mvp-comment-317-1 ὁ καρπὸς ὁ ἐκ γῆς πλουτίζων.
mvp-comment-487-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 314
mvp-comment-487-2 Kommos. Der Chor erfleht oder weissagt alles Gute (Wachstum und Gedeihen der Früchte und Herden Gesundheit des Volkes und bürgerliche Eintracht Wohlwollen und Segen der Götter) für Athen und wird darob von Athena belobt und geehrt. · ξυνοικίαν: zu 836.
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mvp-comment-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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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mvp-comment-502-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-502-2 πόλεως φρούριον: Schol. ὦ Ἀρεοπαγῖται. κατοικεί. τίοι,
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mvp-comment-503-2 μέγα γὰρ δύναται παρά τε: an die Stelle eines zweiten παρά τε tritt eine andere Wendung. Vgl. zu 861.
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mvp-comment-504-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
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τοῖς ὑπὸ γαῖαν wie
Eur. Hek. 149
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mvp-comment-505-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 316
mvp-comment-505-3 φανερῶν in Gegensatz zu ὑπὸ γαῖαν s. v. a. τῶν ἐν φάει. τελέως ( διὰ τέλους, wie 321) διαπράσσουσιν, die Erinyen geben die endgültige Entscheidung ihres Schicksals.
mvp-comment-506-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
mvp-comment-506-2 δακρύων hängt von άμβλω πόν ab, weil dieses s. v. a. πλήρη; ἀμβλωπόν ist vom thränenfeuchten und deshalb stumpfsichtigen Auge übertragen.
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mvp-comment-507-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
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ἀνδροκμῆτας ἀώρους τύχας, Fälle wo die Menschen vor der Zeit hinsterben.
Suppl. 686
mvp-comment-508-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
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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
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mvp-comment-509-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
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ὀρθονόμοι, richtig verteilend. Dies wird in den folgenden drei Versen ausgeführt, ähnlich wie
Suppl. 408
mvp-comment-510-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
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,,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
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mvp-comment-511-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 317
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τάδε zu
γάνυμαι.
ἐπικραινομένων scil.
τούτων, vgl.
ὀρ θουμένων 775,
εὖ ξυντυχόντων
Sept. 260
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mvp-comment-512-2 στόμ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ πρὸς τάσδε, sie waltete über meinen Mund diesen gegenüber.
mvp-comment-513-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
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ἀγοραῖος als Hort der beratenden Versammlungen und der dort den Ausschlag gebenden Wohlredenheit. Vgl.
Suppl. 632
,
Aristoph. 410
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mvp-comment-514-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
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ἀγαθῶν ἔρις, Wetteifer im Guten, certamen utrum plus boni Minerva an Eumenides civitati conferant (Butler). Vgl.
Herod. VIII 79
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mvp-comment-515-1 14
mvp-comment-515-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-515-3 βρέμειν von dem Lärm und Toben des Aufruhrs.
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mvp-comment-516-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-516-3 ἐχθραν ist ergänzt nach 938.
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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
mvp-comment-518-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-518-2 ,,Sie mögen Freude mit Freude erwidern in bürgerlichem Gemeinsinn." In etwas anderem Sinne regiert αντιδιδοῖεν den Infin. στυγείν: sie mögen tauschen den Hafs, so dafs sie einig sind im Hassen (wie im Lieben).
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mvp-comment-519-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-519-3 ,,Nicht wahr? Verständige (Gutgesinnte) finden den Weg zu guten Worten?“ d. h. da bestätigt sich wieder einmal der Satz, dafs es zur guten Rede nur guter Gesinnung bedarf. ἆρα wie Soph. El. 614 ἆρά σοι δοκεῖ χωρεῖν ἂν εἰς πᾶν ἔργον αἰσχύνης ἄτερ; Oed. Τ. 822 ἆρ᾽ ἔφυν κακός;
mvp-comment-520-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 318
mvp-comment-520-2 τῶνδε ist Gen. zu αίδε.
mvp-comment-521-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319
mvp-comment-521-2 Wenn ihr diese hoch ehret ( μέγα wie 12), werdet ihr glänzend dastehen als solche, die Land und Stadt recht und gerecht durchaus erhalten. Isokr. 3, 41 τὰς πόλεις ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ πειρᾶσθαι διάγειν.
mvp-comment-522-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319
mvp-comment-522-2 αἰσιμίαι (nur hier) s. v. a. εὐτυχίαι, Segen.
mvp-comment-523-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319
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ἔκταρ ἥμενοι Διός versteht Hermann de praestantia et virtute, indem er
Plat. Phil. p. 16
C
οἱ παλαιοὶ κρείττονες ἡμῶν καὶ ἐγγυτέρω θεῶν οἰκοῦντες, Staat III p. 368B
Πρίαμον ἐγγὺς θεῶν γεγονότα,
Aesch. frg. 155
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mvp-comment-524-2 παρθένου genügt, weil Athena vor ihnen steht. Für ἐν χρόνῳ vermutet Weil ἔμφρονος.
mvp-comment-525-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319
mvp-comment-525-2 ὑπὸ πτεροις, weil die Athener unter der der Pallas heiligen Burg wohnen, vgl. Eur. Herakl 10 τὰ κείνου τέκν᾽ ἔχων ὑπὸ πτεροῖς.
mvp-comment-526-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 319
mvp-comment-526-2
Vgl. 1024, 1037,
Paus. I 28, 6
mvp-comment-527-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 320
mvp-comment-527-2 πρὸς φῶς wie 247 πρὸς alua, eigentlich „hinblickend auf“. Vgl. Cho. 903 , Prom. 1032 . προπομποί: der Nebenchor ( παραχορήγημα) der Tempeldienerinnen (1025), welche Fackeln tragen, muls kurz zuvor aus dem Tempel getreten sein.
mvp-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
κύρια , the rightful power; the gods they appeal to being such powers as Ζεὺς τέλειος, Ἥρα, ᾿Αφροδίτη. See above l. 214 .
μητροκασιγνῆται , sisters by one mother, because the Fates (like the Furies l. 322 ) were daughters of Night (Hes. Theog. 217 καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο).
ὀρθονόμοι . [not ὀρθόνομοι from νόμος], the MSS. reading, from νέμω, assigning what is due.
ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous.
ὁμιλίαις , visitations.
στέργω , I bless.
ἐπωπάω . is properly to look down on, watch, behold, descry: so Cho. 693 , Eum. 275, but, like the commoner ἐποπτεύω, is used regularly of gods or supernatural powers, and gets the meaning to guard, guide, direct; see note on l. 220 .
ἀγοραῖος , God of the gathering, was a name given to Zeus and other gods (Hermes, Ar. Eq. 297, Artemis and Athena, Paus. 3. 11. 9) as protectors of the city life of which the natural centre was the ἀγορά or gathering place ( Agam. 90 ). But as the ἀγορά was also the place for speech (ἀγορεύω, κατηγορέω, etc.) the name here implies god of speech.
mvp-sidgwick-449-1-1 And our strife for blessings is victorious for ever.' 'We have before had an ἔρις κακή, a hostile strife: henceforward it will be an ἔρις ἀγαθῶν, a friendly rivalry to do good: and the victory, νίκη, shall be with both; we shall always succeed.'
ποινᾶς ἀντιφόνους ἄτας , the murderous woes of vengeance, the woes of murderous requital; a very Aeschylean phrase, and more natural on the whole than the Med. reading ποινάς, which would make ἄτας gen.: for in any case it is certainly right to take these three words together. [H. P. and others take δι᾽ ὀργὰν ποινᾶς, from desire of vengeance, weaker meaning and more strained usage.]
mvp-sidgwick-451-1-1 'And may they give joy for joy, with one heart of love, and to hate with one soul.' An imaginative way of saying, 'May they live in happiness that comes from harmony, having the same friends and foes.' The latter phrase is the well-known Greek formula in making alliances.
mvp-sidgwick-452-1-1 MSS. read φρονοῦσιν and εὑρίσκει, no sense. I have adopted the original suggestion of Hermann, accepted by D. Weil. φρονοῦσα and εὑρίσκεις. Dost thou then wisely find the path of good words? i. e. Are you then come to a better mind, blessing instead of cursing?'
mvp-sidgwick-452-2-1 The first two lines are addressed to the Furies: the two next are a reflection and then she turns to the citizens.
εὔφρονas , kindly, a reference to their name Εὐμενίδες.
mvp-sidgwick-454-1-1 Taking πάντως, the reading of Ven., for the flat πάντες, there is no need to alter further.
mvp-sidgwick-454-2-1 Guiding your land and city in all righteousness, ye shall be glorious. ὀρθοδίκαιον is predicative. The use of διάγειν is a little strange: but it is not a great extension of its ordinary usage with βιότον, αἰῶνα, etc. We may compare χρόνος διηγέ μ' Soph. Εl. 789, διῆγεν ὑμᾶς ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς κατὰ βίον Dem. 255. 11: and particularly πόλεις ἐν ὑμονοίᾳ διάγειν Isocr. 35 Β. [Paley takes πρέπω active: but it is very common and always intrans. in Aeschylus.]
αἰσιμίαισι , blessings, from αἴσιμος, right, meet, good, lit. that which is one's share or lot, from aloa (strong form from ἴσος).
mvp-sidgwick-456-1-1
Seated near to Zeus; fine and simple metaphor for the
righteous people specially under divine protection. Hermann quotes
Aesch. Niobe, frag. 146
mvp-sidgwick-457-1-1 Wise at last, i. e. having made your peace with us. This is the simplest interpretation, and there is no ground for suspecting the reading. 6