Aeschylus Libation Bearers 66

Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator)

Because of the blood that hath been drunk by the fostering earth, gore that cries for vengeance, is fast clotted so as never to be washed away. A piercing bitter curse destroys 3 the author of the all-sufficing malady.

Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1849.

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The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) (English) (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 83-314 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 84-314 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 66 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 66 focus
δι' αἵματ᾽ ἐκποθένθ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφοῦ
τίτας φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν.
διαλγὴς δ᾽ ἄτα διαφέρει
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τὸν αἴτιον παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν.
ἀντ. γ'.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 66 focus
δι' αἵματ' ἐκποθένθ' ἔκποθεν ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφοῦ
Str. 3.
τίτας φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν -υδᾶν·
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διαλγὴς ἄτη διαφέρει
τὸν αἴτιον παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν βρύειν (ν nunc euanidum).
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Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 66 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 66 focus
τὰ δ᾽ αἵματ᾽ ἐκποθέν⟨θ⟩᾽ ὑπὸ Χθονὸς τροφοῦ,
τίτας φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν·
αἰανὴς ⟨δ᾽⟩ ἄτα
διαφέρει τὸν αἴτιον
⟨καὶ⟩ παναρκέτας νόσος. {βρύειν
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ}
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Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 66 focus
τὰ δ’ αἵματ’ ἐκποθένθ’ ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφού
τιτὰς φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν.
διαλγής δ’ ἄτη διαφέρει τὸν αἴτιον
παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν. –
[τοὺς δ’ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ]
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Translations (9)
Libation Bearers Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 84-311 focus
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 66 focus
c'est l'heure frontière de l'ombre qui réserve de
plus tardives souffrances ; à d'autres enfin la nuit même n'apporte pas de sanction 1 .
Mais que les gouttes en soient une fois bues par la terre
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 66 focus
His blood, that ſunk upon the ground
A ſtiffened maſs of carnage lies,
Aloud for vengeance on his murderers cries:
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Ate obeys the call; but flow
Delays, till dreary night encloſe them round,
Prepar'd to ſtrike a deeper blow.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 66 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 66 focus
Hos quidem imperfecta habet nox
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Pro ſanguine poto ab alma terra.
Vltrix cædes fixa est non diffluens.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 66 focus
Wo Blut der Erde Mutterboden sog,
unlöschlich schwarz
steht die Schuld geschrieben.
Vergeltung hebt sich nur den Schuld'gen auf,
69 bis voll er steht in der Sünden Blüte.
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The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 66 focus
Chorus
ANTISTROPHE II.
Dear to the dear ones in the fight
Who perished nobly, thou hadst lain,—
With majesty arrayed, and might,
A king in Pluto's gloomy reign,
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Serving the great ones who command
In Hades. For in upper day
King was he over kings, whose hand
The fatal sceptre wields which men obey.
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, The Libation-Bearers — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 66 focus
On the life-giving lap of Earth
Blood hath flowed forth;
And now, the seed of vengeance, clots the plain—
Unmelting, uneffaced the stain.
And Até tarries long, but at the last
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The sinner's heart is cast
Into pervading, waxing pangs of pain.
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.) — 66 focus
Der Strom des Blutes, den die Mutter Erde trank, 1
Gerann zum Rächermale, das nicht mehr zerfließt.
Der Fluch, grimmvoll, zerreißt, zerfleischt 2
Den Mörder, daß ihn Jammer ohne Maß umwogt.
Dritte Gegenstrophe.

Commentary

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

147-151. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-90

δεσπότᾳ πρὸς ἕρμα γᾶς τόδε κεδνῶν, κακῶν δ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἄγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν· κλῦε δέ μοι, σέβας, κλύ᾽, ὦ δέσποτ᾽, ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός.
δέσποτα
vitium Ald. Deinde libri
πρὸς ἔρυμα τόδε κακῶν κεδνῶν τ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἄλγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν
. In G. Ald.
χοᾶν
scriptum est. Nisi aperte haec antistrophica essent, prorsus incerta fluctuaret emendatio. Primo
ἔρυμα
Stanleius tumulum interpretatur, eodemque modo
τὸν τάφον
adscriptum est in M. G. Sed id dicendum fuisse
ἕρμα
ad Soph. Ant. v. 841. significavi. Scribendum videtur
πρὸς ἕρμα γᾶς τόδε κεδνόν
. Deinde librorum scripturam
ἄλγος
in
ἄγος
mutavit Victorius. Scholiastae enim haec est adnotatio,
τὸ ἑξῆς· ἐκκεχυμένων χοᾶν πρὸς ἔρυμα τόδε ἵετε δάκρυ ἄγος ἀπεύχετον (τὸ δάκρυ γὰρ ἀπευκτὸν ἄγος εἶπεν) ἀπότροπον τῶν ἡμετέρων κακῶν καὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τῶν ἐχθρῶν.
Receperunt
ἄγος
omnes post Victorium editores. Sed requiritur potius
ἅγος
. Hesychius
ἅγος, ἅγνισμα θυσίας. Σοφοκλῆς Φαίδρᾳ
. Scribendum erat
κακῶν δ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἅγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν
. Deinde libri
κλύε δέ μοι κλύε. σεβάς, ὦ δέσποτα ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός
, nisi quod
ἀμαυρᾶς
est in G. Ald.
κλύε
emendato accentu Porsonus,
σέβας ὦ δέσποτα
Turnebus. Mutato verborum ordine dochmiorum numerus restituendus erat. Itaque sic hanc stropham scripsi,
ἵετε δάκρυ καναχὲς ὀλόμενον ὀλομένῳ δεσπότᾳ πρὸς ἕρμα γᾶς τόδε κεδνόν· κακῶν δ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἅγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν· κλῦε δέ μοι σέβας, κλύ᾽, ὦ δέσποτ᾽, ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός.
Míttite lacrimam stridulam miseram misero domino ad sacrum huncce tumulum: malorum autem averruncam consecrationem effusarum inferiarum abominor: audi vero mihi reverentiam (i. e. preces), audi, domine, ex tenebroso corde.

Wecklein’s commentary on Choephoroi / Libation Bearers (1888; German; OCR draft) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 163–234; single HW42J8 OCR witness, conservatively retained. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.) focus

83-582. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-38

1
erstes Epeisodion, geteilt durch einen Kommos (305— 476). Anagnorismos und Vorbereitung der Rache.