Aeschylus Eumenides 321

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Mortals imbrued with kindred gore
We chase, till under earth they flee;
And when in death they yield their breath,
Not e'en in realm of Hades are they free.
Now o'er the victim lift the dread refrain,
The Furies' death-hymn, madness-fraught;-
Torch of the brain, from Hades brought,—

Eumenides. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.

Sponsored by University of Leipzig.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition Experimental

Eumenides (OCR draft) (English) (Eumenides. Anna Swanwick, 1886.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 299-396 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 321 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 321 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 321 focus
μᾶτερ ἃ μ᾽ ἔτικτες, ὦ μᾶτερ
Νὺξ, ἀλαοῖσι καὶ δεδορκόσιν
ποινὰν, κλῦθ᾽. ὁ Λατοῦς γὰρ ἶνίς μ' άτιμον
τίθησι
τόνδ᾽ ἀφαιρούμενος πτῶκα, ματρῷον ἅγνισμα
325
κύριον φόνου.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 321 focus
μᾶτερ, ἃ μὲ ἔτικτες, ὦ μᾶτερ
Νύξ, ἀλαοῖσι καὶ δεδορκόσιν ποινάν,
320
κλῦθι· ὁ Λατοῦς γὰρ ἰ-
νίς μ' ἄτιμον τίθησιν,
τόνδ᾽ ἀφαιρούμενος
πτῶκα, ματρῷον ἅ-
γνισμα κύριον φόνου.
325
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 321 focus
Μᾶτερ ἃ μ' ἔτικτες, ὦ μᾶτερ
Νύξ, ἀλαοῖσι -οῖσιν -οις καὶ δεδορκόσιν
ποινάν, κλῦθ᾽· ὁ Λατοῦς γὰρ ΐ- 1
νίς μ' ἄτιμον τίθησι -σιν
τόνδ' ἀφαιρούμενος
325
πτῶκα πτᾶκα (πτάκα Μ1), ματρῷον ἅ-
γνισμα κύριον φόνου.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 321 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 321 focus
μᾶτερ, ἃ μ᾽ ἔτικτες, ὦ μᾶτερ
Νύξ, ἀλαοῖσι καὶ δεδορκόσιν
ποινάν, κλῦθ᾽. ὁ Λατοῦς γὰρ ἶ-
νίς μ᾽ ἄτιμον τίθησιν,
325
τόνδ᾽ ἀφαιρούμενος
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 321 focus
μᾶτερ ἅ μ᾽ ἔτικτες, ὦ
μᾶτερ Νύξ, ἀλαοῖσι καὶ δεδορκόσιν ποινάν,
κλῦθ’· ὁ Λατοῦς γὰρ ἶνίς μ᾽ ἄτιμον τίθησιν
τόνδ’ ἀφαιρούμενος πτῶκα, ματρῶιον ἅγ-
325
νισμα κύριον φόνου.
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 321 focus
μᾶτερ, ἅ μ᾿ ἔτικτες, ὦ
μᾶτερ Νύξ, ἀλαοῖσι καὶ δεδορκόσιν
ποινάν, κλῦθ᾽· ὁ Λατοῦς γὰρ ἰ-
νίς μ᾿ ἄτιμον τίθησι,
τόνδ᾽ ἀφαιρούμενος
325
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 321 focus
μᾶτερ ἃ μ᾿ ἔτικτες, ὦ μᾶτερ
Νὺξ, ἀλαοῖσι καὶ δεδορκόσιν
ποινὰν, κλῦθ᾽· ὁ Λατοῦς γὰρ ἶνίς μ᾿ ἄτιμον τιθησιν,
τόνδ᾽ ἀφαιρούμενος
πτῶκα, ματρῷον ἄγνισμα κύριον φόνου.
315
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 321 focus
μᾶτερ ἃ μ᾽ ἔτικτες, ὦ μᾶτερ
στρ. α
Νύξ, ἀμαυροῖσι καὶ δεδορκόσιν ποινάν,
κλῦθ᾽. ὁ Λατοῦς γὰρ ἶνίς μ᾿ ἄτιμον τίθησι
τόνδ᾽ ἀφαιρούμενος πτῶκα, ματρῶιον ἁγνισμα
325
κύριον φόνου.
Translations (10)
Eumenides Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 321 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 321 focus
Mother, O mother Night! thou who brought me forth a punishment 3
to the dead and the living, hear! for the son of Latona makes me disho­ noured, taking away this timid animal, our own victim to expiate a mother's murder 4
.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 321 focus
pour qu'il paie sa dette de sang, implacables, nous surgissons.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 321 focus
Hear me, dread parent, ſable-veſted Night,
O hear th' avenger of each impious deed;
360
Whether we lie in ſhades conceal'd,
Or to the eye of day reveal'd!
Seeſt thou how Phœbus robs me of my right
From my juſt rage the trembling victim freed,
Deſtin'd his mother's death t' atone,
365
And for her blood to ſhed his own!
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 321 focus
O mia madre, o tu che m'hai
generata, Notte madre,
a punir vivi e defunti,
355
tu m'ascolta:
ch'ora Febo
me d'ogni onore priva, e m'invola
questo fuggiasco, che la sua madre
scannò, ch'è sozzo di sangue ancora!
360
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 321 focus
Mater simul peperiſti, mater
Nox imprudentibus, & uidentibus,
Pœnam audi. Latonæ filius me ignominioſam facit.
315
Hunc auferens timidum, purgationem
Propriam cædis.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 321 focus
Mutter Nacht,
höre mich,
Mutter Nacht, du gebarst
mich der Welt des Lichtes,
mich der Welt der Finsternis
zum Gericht.
325 Letos Sohn kränkt dein Recht,
330 raubt das Wild. Mir gehört's
mutterblutbesudelt.
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.) — 321 focus
Night, Mother Night, who brought me forth, a torment
To living men and dead,
Hear me, O hear! by Leto's stripling son
I am dishonourèd:
380
He hath ta'en from me him who cowers in refuge,
To me made consecrate,—
A rightful victim, him who slew his mother,
Given o'er to me and fate.
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.) — 321 focus
Mutter, die du mich gebarst, Urnacht,
Mich, der verblich'nen wie der lichten Welt Strafgeist,
Höre mich! Leto's Sohn beut mir Hohn, spottet meiner;
Dieses Wild raubt er uns, dessen Blut fließen muß,
Abzubüßen Muttermord.
315
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.)

No corresponding passage available

Commentary

Commentary on Aeschylus: Eumenides (Aeschylus. Eumenides. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887.)

43-45. σωφρόνως seems to mean duly , piously.

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

mvp-comment-35-1 λῆνῃ μεγίστῃ σωφρόνως ἐστεμμένον: Libri λήνει μεγίστῳ σωφρόνως ἐστεμμένον, nisi quod λίνει habent Ven. Flor. Farn. Rob. et μεγίστω sine iota subscripto G. Ald. Rob. Valckenarius ad Phoen. v. 994. “pro λήνει μεγίστῳ,” inquit, “Georg. Arnaldus in margine libri posuerat λήγει μὲν ολός, quae correctio mihi quidem Hemsterbusii videtur, quem docentem audierat." Exemplum dicit editionis Victorianae: id ego nunc possideo. Coniectura autem illa, cuiuscumque sit, non est talis quae inventori laudem parere possit. Nam nec uév hic locum habet, ut vidit Abreschius, neque, quod Schützius intellexit, opus habitura essent haec verba explicatione quam adiecit poeta. Mirum quantum differt illud, ἅλω δὲ πολλήν, ἀσπίδος κύκλον λέγω, ab Iosepho Scaligero, quem memoral Valckenarius, ad Varronem p. 49. comparatum. Sed ut λήνει μεγίστῳ a poeta dictum esse existimem, adduci non possum. Videtur Aeschylus scripsisse λήνει μεγιστοσοφρόνως ἐστεμμένον. Sic μεγιστότιμος invenitur in Suppl. v. 679.

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-1-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 251

mvp-comment-1-2 Prolog, wenn man das Erwachen der Erinyen 140-178 als Parodos und das zweite Erscheinen derselben 244-275 als Epiparodos gelten läfst. Andernfalls müfste man den Prolog bis zum eigentlichen Auftreten des Chors als der wirklichen Parodos, also 1-243 rechnen. Die Pythia, welche als Greisin (38) sich auf einen Stab stützt, kommt (durch eine Seitenthüre der Hinterwand) aus einem Nebenraume des Tempels zum Haupteingange desselben und verrichtet vor dem Eintritt ein Gebet (30 f.). Sie hat die χρηστηρία ἐσθής wie Kasandra in Agamemnon (zu Ag. 774 ). Gut bemerkt der Schol. :

φαίνεται ἐπὶ σκηνῆς τὸ μαντεῖον· η δὲ προφῆτις πρόεισιν ἐπικλήσεις, ὡς ἔθος, τῶν θεῶν ποιησομένη, ἀπροόπτως τε ἰδοῦσα τὰς Ἐρινύας κύκλῳ τοῦ Ὀρέστου καθευδούσας πάντα μηνύει τοῖς θεαταῖς, οὐχ ὡς διηγουμένη τὰ ὑπὸ τὴν σκηνήν, τοῦτο γὰρ νεωτερικὸν Εὐριπίδειον, ὑπὸ δὲ τῆς ἐκπλήξεως τὰ θορυβήσαντα αὐτὴν καταμηνύουσα φιλοτέχνως
(d. h. die Exposition ist nicht unvermittelt wie bei Euripides, sondern wohl motiviert). τὰ δὲ πρῶτα εὐχαὶ καὶ ἐπικλήσεις θεῶν, ἵνα ἀπὸ τῶν εὐφημοτέρων ἄρξηται ἡ προφῆτις (in der That breitet das Gebet der Priesterin über den Anfang eine weihevolle Stimmung aus). οἰκονομικῶς δὲ οὐκ ἐν ἀρχῇ διώκεται Ὀρέστης, ἀλλὰ τοῦτο ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ δράματος κατατάττει, ταμιευόμενος τὰ ἀκμαιότατα ἐν μέσῳ.

mvp-comment-31-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 256

mvp-comment-31-2 λῆνος wird als minder gewöhnliches, vielleicht sakrales Wort im folg. V. erklärt. Vgl. Sept. 476

ἅλω δὲ πολλήν, ἀσπίδος κύκλον λέγω
. Zwischen μεγίστῳ und σωφρόνως besteht scheinbar ein Widerspruch, in Wirklichkeit nicht, weil hier die Gröfse (die Länge der wollenen Binden) ein Kennzeichen der Unterwürfigkeit ist.

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

mvp-sidgwick-35-1-1 The olive-branch, with tufts of wool attached, was the regular sign of the suppliant :

ἱκετῶν ἐριοστέπτοισι κλάδοισι
Suppl. 23 ,
κλάδοις κατάσκιον ὅμιλον
ib. 354 ,
ἱκτηρίοις κλάδοισιν ἐξεστεμμένοι
Ο. Τ. 3 .

σωφρόνως seems to mean duly, piously.