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Eumenides. Aeschylus. ed. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Berolini. 1914.

Current edition Experimental

Aeschyli Eumenides (OCR draft) (Greek) (Aeschyli Eumenides. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)
Εὐμενίδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 916-1020 focus
Εὐμενίδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 916-1020 focus
Εὐμενίδες (1518 edition; OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1518 edition. VLM-assisted OCR with native lineation and automated correspondence to the Smyth edition.) — 949 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 949 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 949 focus
ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 949 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Arthur Sidgwick, 1887.) — 949 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 949 focus
ἦ τάδ᾽ ἀκούετε, πόλεως φρούριον,
950
οἷς ἐπικραίνει; μέγα γὰρ δύναται
πότνι᾽ Ἐρινὺς παρά τ᾿ ἀθανάτοις
τοῖς θ᾽ ὑπὸ γαῖαν, περί τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων
φανερῶς τελέως διαπράσσουσιν
τοῖς μὲν ἀοιδάς, τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων
955
βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Εὐμενίδες. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 949 focus
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by F. A. Paley, 1885.) — 949 focus
ἢ τάδ᾽ ἀκούετε, πόλεως φρούριον,
οἷ᾽ ἐπικραίνει; μέγα γὰρ δύναται
910
πότνι᾿ Ἐρινὺς παρά τ᾿ ἀθανάτοις
τοῖς θ᾽ ὑπὸ γαῖαν, περί τ᾿ ἀνθρώπων
φανερῶς τελέως διαπράσσουσιν,
τοῖς μὲν ἀοιδὰς, τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων
915
βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι.
Εὐμενίδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek text of Aeschylus' Eumenides, edited by Friedrich Blass, 1907.) — 949 focus
ἢ τάδ᾽ ἀκούεις, πόλεως φρούριον,
οἷ᾽ ἐπικραίνει;
μέγα γὰρ δύναται πότνι᾽ Ἐρινὺς
950
παρά τ᾿ ἀθανάτοις τοῖς θ᾽ ὑπὸ γαῖαν,
περί τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων φανερῶς τελέως
διαπράσσουσιν, τοῖς μὲν ἀοιδάς,
τοῖς δ᾽ αὖ δακρύων
βίον ἀμβλωπὸν παρέχουσαι.
955
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.)) — 916-1020 focus
The Eumenides (OCR draft) Experimental (The Eumenides. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 949 focus
Do you hear these things, guardians of the city, what she accomplishes? for the awful Erinnys has great power both with the immortals, and with those beneath the earth, and with respect to men they manifestly and powerfully bring about to some indeed the song, but to others on the contrary affording a life dimmed with tears.
LES EUMÉNIDES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES EUMÉNIDES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 949 focus
le produit du trésor que ce sol vous a révélé jamais ne cesse de faire honneur au don des dieux 1 !
The Furies (OCR draft) Experimental (The Furies. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 949 focus
Hear this, ye guardians of the ſtate, and know
Her word ſhall be accompliſh'd; for the Gods
That tread the ſpangled ſkies, and thoſe that hold
In the dark realms beneath their ſolemn thrones,
Revere her aweful pow'r; and her high ſtrains
1085
To mortal man in accents dread pronounce
Bleſſings to ſome, to ſome a life of woes.
Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Eumenidi: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 949 focus
O d'Atena presidio, o voi giudici,
questi voti ora udite? Ben grande
995
presso i Dèmoni inferni è la possa
de l'Erinni; e palese è fra gli uomini
ciò che valgano: a questi concedono
gioie e canti: di lagrime a quelli
fosca e torbida rendon la vita.
1000
Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Eumenides: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 949 focus
Hæc audite, urbis præſidium,
Qualia perficiet, multum potest enim
Veneranda Erinnys apud inmortales
Subterraneos, de hominibus
Maniſeſtè perfectè faciunt,
890
His quidem cantilenas, illis uerò lacrymarum
Vitam cæcam præbentes.
Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Eumeniden: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 949 focus
Höret ihr, Athens beruf'ne Wächter,
950 was Erinys uns verspricht, die hehre?
Bei den Sel'gen und den Unterird'schen
hat sie grofs Gewicht, und klar bewährt sie
ihres Willens zielessich're Wirkung
an den Menschen, hier in Jubelliedern,
955 dort in trüber Trauer Thränenblick.
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.) — 949 focus
O hearken, warders of the wall
That guards mine Athens, what a dower
Is unto her ordained and given!
1095
For mighty is the Furies' power,
And deep-revered in courts of heaven
And realms of hell; and clear to all
They weave thy doom, mortality!
And some in joy and peace shall sing;
1100
But unto other some they bring
Sad life and tear-dimmed eye.
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.) — 949 focus
Habt ihr es gehört, Schirmherren der Stadt,
905
Welch Glück sie verleih'n?
Denn Großes vermag der Erinnyen Wort
Bei den Göttern der Höh'n und im Reiche der Nacht;
Sie schalten mit Allmacht, offen und klar,
In der Menschen Geschick, dem frohen Gesang
910
Und dem Andern ein Loos
Voll düsterer Zähren bereitend.
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.)

929. κατανασσαμένη , middle, housing in my city. 11. 932, 933. The MSS. read

ὁ δὲ μὴ κύρσας βαρέων τούτων
οὐκ οἶδεν ὅθεν πληγαὶ βιότου.
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.

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.

964. ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous .

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.

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

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.

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

mvp-comment-289-1 πόλεως φρούριον] Schol.

ὦ ᾿Αρεοπαγῖται.

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-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-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 1

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 2

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.

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

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.