Eumenides. Aeschylus. ed. N. Wecklein. Berolini. 1885.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) (Greek) (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.)
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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.
964. ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous .
1033. βᾶτε δόμῳ , pass into your home, Epic use of the dat. local after verb of motion, e. g. πεδίῳ πέσε (11. 5. 82), κυνέῃ βάλε (7.187).
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-773-1
Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἄπαιδες non dicuntur Furiae quod prole careant, quae Schutzii et O. Mülleri opinio fuit, sed intelliguntur grandaevae. Ita v. 72.
Νυκτὸς παλαιαὶ παῖδες. Deinde
ὑπ᾽ εὔφρονι πομπᾷ:
απευθύφρον πομπᾷ Α.
ὑπ᾽ εὐθύφοι πομπᾷ Flor. Ceteri
ὑπ᾽ εὐθύφρονι πομπᾷ. Ludovicus Dindorfius in Stephani Thes. vol. III. p. 2503. scribendum coniecit
ὑπ' εύφρονι πομπα. [ recepi.
mvp-comment-774-1
εὐφαμεῖτε δὲ:
εὐφημεῖτε δὲ Flor. Deinde libri
χωρεῖτε. Scribendum esse
χωρῖται indicavi in Elem. doctr. metr. p. 435. Pluribus exemplis hoc vocabulum illustrat Stephanus Byzantius in v.
χώρα. Intelliguntur autem incolae regionis vel cives. Sed fuerunt fortasse qui
προπομπούς indicari crederent, quandoquidem Hesychius scribit
χωρίτης, ἀγρώτης, ἄγροικος. ἄλλοι τὸν ὁδηγόν. Ceterum praecedentia, non habita ratione versus intercalaris, cum sequentibus ita nexa sunt,
βᾶτε δόμῳ γᾶς ὑπὸ κεύθεσιν.
mvp-comment-303-1 The concluding hymn, sung by escorts who with the goddess head the procession, is very corrupt. In the first verse ἐν δόμῳ should perhaps be δόμους, go to your abodes; in the second, the dactylic metre suggests the omission of Νυκτός. Ιη ν. 990 περίσεπται τύχα τε (τύχαι τε Med.) is hard to correct; perhaps θυσίαισιν ὑπαὶ πυρίσεπτοι. In 996 εἰσόπιν and ἴτων is Linwood's conjecture for ἐς τὸ πᾶν οἴκων. Let libations made by torchlight (i.e. libationbearers) follow behind.
mvp-comment-538-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 322
mvp-comment-538-2 δόμῳ d. h. in eure künftige Behausung. Über den Dativ Krüger II § 46, 2, 4 . παῖδες ἄπαιδες, vgl. 69 Νυκτός παλαιαὶ παῖδες, Kinder der Nacht, aber keine Kinder mehr, sondern Greisinnen. Vgl. ἄπολιν πόλιν 460. Das Ephymnion unterbricht den Satz; denn das folgende γᾶς ὑπὸ κεύθεσιν κτέ. schliefst sich an βᾶτε πομπᾷ an.
βᾶτε δόμῳ , pass into your home, Epic use of the dat. local after verb of motion, e. g. πεδίῳ πέσε (11. 5. 82), κυνέῃ βάλε (7.187).
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 l. 1037 .