N. Wecklein Eumenides 632-633.comm-632-633

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Wecklein’s commentary on Eumenides (1888; German; OCR draft) (German) (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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 566-777 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 566-777 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 640 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 640 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 640 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 640 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 640 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 640 focus
πατρὸς προτιμᾷ Ζεὺς μόρον τῷ σῷ λόγῳ,
αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἔδησε πατέρα πρεσβύτην Κρόνον.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 640 focus
Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 640 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 640 focus
πατρὸς προτιμᾷ Ζεὺς μόρον, τῷ σῷ λόγῳ·
610
αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἔδησε πατέρα πρεσβύτην Κρόνον.
πῶς ταῦτα τούτοις οὐκ ἐναντίως λέγεις;
ὑμᾶς δ᾽ ἀκούειν ταῦτ᾽ ἐγὼ μαρτύρομαι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 640 focus
πατρὸς προτιμᾶι Ζεὺς μόρον τῶι σῶι λόγωι·
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αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἔδησε πατέρα πρεσβύτην Κρόνον.
πῶς ταῦτα τούτοις οὐκ ἐναντίως λέγεις;
ὑμᾶς δ᾽ ἀκούειν ταῦτ᾽ ἐγὼ μαρτύρομαι.
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.)) — 566-775 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 640 focus
Jove by your account respects the death of a father; but he himself bound his aged father Saturn 1 . How do you say that these things are not contrary to those ? But I call you as witnesses to hear these things.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 640 focus
ce que j'ai dit, afin d'éveiller le courroux des hommes ici chargés de décider en cette cause.
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 640 focus
So Jove, it ſeems, reſpects the father's fate;
Yet on his father he cou'd bind the chain,
The hoary Saturn: that his deed gainſays
Thy words: I pray you mark the poor evaſion.
710
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 640 focus
Ma tu sei vivo, e lei Morte fa libera.
640
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 640 focus
Patris ueneratur Iupiter fatum, tuo ſermone
605
Ipſe ligauit patrem ſenem Saturnum.
Quomodo hæc his non contrario dicis?
Vos uerò audire hoc ego testificor.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 640 focus
Zeus schätzt den Tod des Vaters höher, wie du sagst.
Doch seinen eignen Vater Kronos hat er selbst
gefesselt. Darin ist ein offner Widerspruch.
Ihr habt's gehört, ihr Richter, Zeugen seid ihr mir.
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.) — 640 focus
Zeus, as thou sayest, holds a father's death
As first of crimes,—yet he of his own act
Cast into chains his father, Cronos old,—
740
How suits that deed with that which now ye tell?
O ye who judge, I bid ye mark my words!
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.) — 640 focus
Du sagtest, schwerer achte Zeus des Vaters Mord;
610
Doch band er selbst den greisen Vater Kronos einst.
Steht das mit deiner Rede nicht im Widerspruch?
Darauf zu hören, ruf' ich euch als Zeugen auf.
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

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

mvp-comment-410-1 NA: Hi versus desunt in Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-444-1 ἄμεινον ... δροίτῃ περῶντι λουτρά:

ἄμεινον
recte G. Ald.
ἀμείνον'
sic M.
ἀμείνον'
Rob. Turn. Hoc dicit, rebus plerisque bene gestis. Deinde v. 624.
δροίτῃ
M. G. Ald.
δροίτῃ
Par. Aug. Rob. Turn.
Δροίτῃ
, ut Robortellus in corrigendis scribi iussit, Victorius. V. ad Ag. v. 1506. Deinde
κἀπὶ τέρμασι
G. sed mutatum ab eadem manu in
κἀπὶ τέρματι
, ut Aug. Rob. habent.
κἀπιτέρματι
Ald. Turn. Non recte Schoemannus, ut antea G. Bernhardy in Syntaxi p. 83.
δροίτῃ
masculinum esse putat, comparans Soph. Ant. v. 904.
καίτοι σ᾽ ἐγὼ τίμησα τοῖς φρονοῦσιν εὖ
. Non potest dubitari quin
εὔφροσιν
cum
δεδεγμένη
sit coniungendum. Mihi olim
εὐφρόσιν
dictum esse videbatur ut
μειλιχίοισιν, κερτομίοισιν
, ut esset blandis verbis:
καί
autem in
κἀπί
eo modo post participium positum esse putabam, de quo dictum est ad Ag. v. 97. Linwoodius scripsit
δροίτης περῶντι λουτρά
, et post haec verba huiusmodi aliquid excidisse putavit,
συνθέτοις λόγοις θέλγει φρένας κλέπτουσα
. Immo recte intellexit Dindorfius post v. 622. lacunam esse indicandam. In eo versu qui excidit, nisi plures fuerunt, substantivum fuisse videtur, ad quod
εὔφροσιν
pertinebat, et hic fere sententiarum nexus,
adstitit, ferrum celans, operam datura (exeunti e labro, δροίτῃς περῶντι λουτρά)
. Itaque sic scripsi
ἀπὸ στρατείας γάρ νιν ἠμποληκότα τὰ πλεῖστ᾽ ἄμεινον εὔφροσιν δεδεγμένη ... δροίτῃς περῶντι λουτρά, κἀπὶ τέρματι
etc.

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

mvp-comment-201-1 It is better to construe δεδεγμένη δροίτῃ, after receiving him with (or in) a bath. See on ν. 453. –περῶντι, as he was passing out of the bath and just at the end of it. In this case δροίτη must mean the bath-room. But ἐπὶ τέρματι may mean that she threw the garment, like a tentcover, completely over the bath to the very end of it, so as to leave him no escape. - The reading of the Med. and the Schol. is περεσκήνωσεν, as if περισκηνοῦν were meant, to inclose as in a tent. But we should thus expect φάρει, with a mantle.' It is likely that the poet had in mind some well-known painting of the event.

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-252-1 βελτίονα πλεῖστα ηὐτυχηκότα ἀπὸ στρατείας.

mvp-comment-253-1 πυέλωι', τῆι ὡς σορῶι αὐτῶι γενομένηι. παρὰ τὴν δρῦν· ξύλιναι γὰρ αὗται. τῶν λουτρῶν δῆλον ὅτι.

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-312-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 292

mvp-comment-312-2 viertes Epeisodion: Vor dem neu eingesetzten Gerichtshof, dem Athena als ἡγεμών und εἰσαγωγεύς vorsteht (583), bringen die Erinyen ihre Anklage vor, Apollon legt Zeugnis ab und tritt den Erinyen als Vertreter der Sache des Orestes, die zugleich seine eigene ist, entgegen. Darauf fällen die Areopagiten das Urteil. Athena tritt rechts auf. Ein Herold und ein Trompetenbläser schreiten voraus, Bürger von Athen folgen ihr. κήρυσσε scil. σίγα ( Eur. Phoen. 1224

σίγα κηρύξαι στρατῷ
). Der Schol. :
ὅρα πῶς τὰ νέων ἔθη ἀναχρονίζει. ἃ γὰρ νῦν γίνε ται, ταῦτα τὴν ᾿Αθηνῶν εἰσήγαγε λέγουσαν. ἐχρῶντο γὰρ τῇ σάλ πιγγι ἀνείργειν τὸ πλῆθος θέλοντες
. στρατόν: natürlich ist das Volk nur gedacht.

mvp-comment-349-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 296

mvp-comment-349-2 Hesych. ἐμπολῇ· περιέρ χεται, πραγματεύεται. Soph. Ai. 978

ἆρ᾽ ἠμπόληκας
; (s. v. a. πέπραγας). Schol. πλεῖστα ηὐτυχηκότα, rebus plerisque bene gestis (Stanley). Vgl. Anbang. – Zu εὔφροσιν vermifst man ein Substantiv wie λόγοις (gemeint ist die Begrüfsung Ag. 846 f.), zu δροίτῃ περῶντι λουτρά fehlt das Verbum. Es könnte etwa geheifsen haben: λόγοις ὀρέξουσ᾽ ὠλένην ἐχρίμπτετο, so dafs δροίτῃ von ἐχρίμπτετο (sie stand an der Badewanne), περῶντι λουτρά von ὀρέξουσ᾽ ὠλένην (scheinbar um ihm den Arm zu reichen, wenn er aus dem Bade stiege) abhängig wäre. ἐπὶ τέρματι, am Ende.

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

mvp-sidgwick-290-1-1 A passage of well-known difficulty. The MSS. reading (with slight corrections, see critical notes) is substantially the following:

ἀπὸ στρατείας γάρ νιν ἠμποληκότα
τὰ πλεῖστ᾽ ἄμεινον εὔφροσιν δεδεγμένη
δροίτῃ περῶντι λουτρὰ κἀπὶ τέρματι
φᾶρος παρεσκήνωσεν, ἐν δ᾽ ἀτέρμονι
κόπτει πεδήσασ᾽ ἄνδρα δαιδάλῳ πέπλῳ·
which it is possible to translate, as follows:
For him from the wars (returning) having dealt
In most things prosperously, she welcomed with kindly words,
And over the bath, as he stepped from the water, and on the edge,
She threw a cloak for covering, and entangling her lord
In a broidered robe inextricable, she smote him...
This makes good sense, and is in substance no doubt what the poet meant. But several things are at least suspicious: ἠμποληκότα τὰ πλεῖστ᾽ ἄμειvov is a harsh phrase, even if we justify the rather flat τὰ πλεῖστα and the comparative ἄμειvov by supposing an intentional understatement: εὔφροσιν without substantive is very harsh, and is hardly supported by the Homeric κερτομίοισιν and μειλιχίοισιν which are special idioms: δροίτῃ governed by παρεσκήνωσε, and λουτρά separate from it, is clumsy: κἀπὶ τέρματι is not smooth, and is suspiciously like ἀτέρμονι in the line below: finally most of the MSS. and Schol. read περεσκήνωσεν, for περιεσ-, unexampled in Attic. Corruption is almost certain: but as sense can be made, and no suggestions are really satisfactory¹, it is best to leave it.