Aeschylus Libation Bearers 982.app-982-1

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Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. ed. Gottfried Hermann. Lipsiae. 1852.

Current edition Experimental

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

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (6)
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 973 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 973 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 973 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 973 focus
ἴδεσθε χώρας τὴν διπλῆν τυραννίδα
πατροκτόνους τε δωμάτων πορθήτορας.
σεμνοὶ μὲν ἦσαν ἐν θρόνοις τόθ' ἥμενοι,
φίλοι δὲ καὶ νῦν, ὡς ἐπεικάσαι πάθη
πάρεστιν, ὅρκος τ᾽ ἐμμένει πιστώμασιν.
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Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 973 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 973 focus
Translations (8)
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 973 focus
Behold ye the two sovereigns of the realm and the pillagers of this mansion that murdered my father. Proud were they, when sitting on their thrones, and now too [are they] loving, as we may guess from what has befallen them, and the oath remains to their pledges [unbroken] 4
. They conspired indeed [to work] the death of my unhappy father, and to die together; and this result is according to the oath. Furthermore behold ye 1
,—ye that are hearers of these ills, the contrivance, the shackles of my unhappy father, both the fet- ters for his hands and the yoke for his feet! Stretch it out, and standing round in a circle display the robe that enshrouded the hero, in order that the father may see—not mine, but he that beholdeth all these things, the Sun—the unhallowed doings of my mother; that so he may be present to me in my trial some future time, as an evidence, that with justice I pro- secuted this doom; of my mother I mean, for I am not speak- ing of that of Aegisthus, for he has undergone the sentence of an adulterer, as the law prescribes. But she who plotted this detestable deed against a husband, from whom she had been wont to bear the burthen of children beneath her zone—a burthen once dear, but now, as is plain, an hostile ill—what thinkest thou? assuredly she was a conger, or a viper 2
, that could canker by a touch one who had not suffered from her bite, by reason of her daring and her unrighteous spirit; what shall I call it, and succeed in giving it a correct name? a snare for a wild beast, or a canopy of a bath that enshrouded the feet of the dead ? nay rather, thou mightest call it a net or toils, and a robe for snaring the feet. A thing like this a robber might have in his possession; one that deceives stran- gers, that leads a life of plunder, and cutting off many by this device, he might nurse many a hot deed in his mind. Be never woman like this an inmate in my house: sooner may I be doomed by the gods to die childless.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 973 focus
décisive franchira le vestibule de cette maison. Ce sera quand toute souillure aura été expulsée du foyer par les rites expiatoires qui chassent les folles erreurs.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 973 focus
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 973 focus
Ecco di questa terra i due tiranni,
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gli assassini di mio padre, i predoni
della mia casa. Assai si pompeggiarono
seduti in trono: e se da ciò che soffrono
argomentar si può, s'amano ancora.
Fede tennero al giuro. Al padre misero
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giurarono dar morte, e insiem soccombere:
e i loro voti esauditi furono.
E voi, presenti a questi orridi fatti,
mirate anche l'ordigno, il laccio teso
al mio povero padre, i ceppi duplici
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onde aggiogati e mani e piedi furono.
Dispiegatelo, in giro collocatevi:
la rete, ove l'eroe cadde, mostratela,
ché scorga il padre, non il mio, ma quegli
che tutti vede i nostri eventi, il Sole,
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l'empio misfatto di mia madre, scorga,
e siami teste nel giudizio, ch'io
compiuta a dritto ho la materna strage.
Quella d'Egisto non la dico. Adultero,
come legge dimanda ebbe castigo.
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Ma lei che macchinò l'orrida trama
contro lo sposo, ond'ella già dei figli
sotto la zona resse il peso, allora
diletto, ed ora, come vedi, infesto,
di', che ti sembra mai, murena o vipera,
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che, pur col tocco, senza morso, attossica?
Come lo chiamerò? Qual nome è giusto?
Rete da fiera? o involucro talare
di funerea bara? Laccio chiamalo,
chiamalo rete, pastoia dei piedi.
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Tali strumenti l'assassino adopera
che tende frodi, ed estorce il denaro
ai viatori, e cosí vive, e quando
molti ne uccise, molto il cuor gli esulta
per la sua frode!
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Oh mai simile sposa
non m'abbia! Prima senza figli io muoia.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 973 focus
Videte regionis duplicem tyrannidem
Patris interfictores, & ædium depopulatores,
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Graues quidem erant in ſolijs tunc ſedentes.
Amici nunc conijcere dolores
Licet, iuſiurandum manet fidelibus.
Coniurarunt quidem mortem miſerè patri,
Et unde interficere, et hæc iuxta iuſiurandum ſe habet.
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Machinamentum, uinculum miſero patri,
Pedicas in manibus & pedibus coniunctionem.
Interficite ipſum, & circulo aſtando
Tegmentum uirorum oſtendite, ut uideat pater,
Non meus, ſed qui hæc omnia inſpicit
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Sol impura matris opera meæ.
Vt adfuerit mihi teſtis tandem iuſtè,
Vt ego iuſtè mortem hanc tentauerim
Matris. nam mortem Aegisthi non dico.
Habet enim instar uerecundæ legis,
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Quæ in uirum hoc odium conſuluit.
Ex quo liberos tulit ſub cingulo pondus
Charu interea, nunc uerò ut apparet inimicu malum
Quid tibi uidetur? murena aut uipera nata est.
Putreſcere tangens, alium non proiectum.
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Audaciæ cauſa & iniuſti conſilij.
Quid Ipſum alloquar, & ualde bona uerba faciam?
Rete ſeræ aut mortui uinculum,
Filiorum adumbratio, rete quidem igitur.
Rete enim dixeris, & peplos pedes detinentes.
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Talem adeptus eſt charus uir
Deceptione hoſpitum, fælicem
Vitam putans. hac fraude
Multos interficiens multa fouit mente.
Talis mihi contubernalis in ædibus? ne
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Sit? perirem potius à dijs ſine liberis.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 973 focus
Da seht sie, unsres Vaterlands Tyrannenpaar,
die vatermordend mir das Elternhaus zerstört.
975 Wie stolz noch jüngst, vereinigt auf dem Herrscher-
thron,
vereint auch jetzt in Liebe: ihr Geschick verrät's.
Sie haben Wort gehalten. Treue schwuren sie
einander zu für meines armen Vaters Mord,
und treu den Tod zu teilen: beides ist erfüllt.
980 Und weiter seht, ihr Zeugen dieser blut'gen That,
der Arglist Werkzeug. Um der Händ' und Füfse Paar
des armen Vaters schlangen diese Fesseln sich.
Entfaltet das und tragt es rings im Kreis herum,
und zeigt das Menschenstellnetz. Möge denn das Werk
der Tücke, das die Mutter sann, der Vater seh'n
985 nicht meiner, nein, der Weltenvater Helios,
der alles schaut, auf dafs er am Gerichtstag einst
als Zeuge mir zur Seite die Gerechtigkeit
des Mordes mit vertrete - nur den Muttermord;
990 Aigisthos zählt nicht. Was dem Ehrenschänder recht,
ist ihm geworden. Aber sie, die am Gemahl,
an ihm das Greu'l verübt hat, der ihr Kind gezeugt,
das unterm Herzen sie getragen - einst ihr Kind,
ihr liebstes, jetzt als ärgster Feind an ihr bewährt -
was dünkt von ihr euch? Sei sie Natter oder Wurm,
995 sie braucht nicht erst zu stechen, schon Berührung
bringt
den Brand: so ganz verwogen, so verrucht ist sie.
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.) — 973 focus
There lies our country's twofold tyranny,
My father's slayers, spoilers of my home.
Erst were they royal, sitting on the throne,
And loving are they yet,—their common fate
Tells the tale truly, shows their trothplight firm.
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They swore to work mine ill-starred father's death,
They swore to die together; 'tis fulfilled.
O ye who stand, this great doom's witnesses,
Behold this too, the dark device which bound
My sire unhappy to his death,—behold
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The mesh which trapped his hands, enwound his feet!
Stand round, unfold it—'tis the trammel-net
That wrapped a chieftain; hold it that he see,
The father—not my sire, but he whose eye
Is judge of all things, the all-seeing Sun!
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Let him behold my mother's damnèd deed,
Then let him stand, when need shall be to me,
Witness that justly I have sought and slain
My mother; blameless was Ægisthus' doom—
He died the death law bids adulterers die.
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But she who plotted this accursèd thing
To slay her lord, by whom she bare beneath
Her girdle once the burden of her babes,
Beloved erewhile, now turned to hateful foes—
What deem ye of her? or what venomed thing,
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Sea-snake or adder, had more power than she
To poison with a touch the flesh unscarred?
So great her daring, such her impious will.
How name her, if I may not speak a curse?
A lion-springe? a laver's swathing cloth,
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Wrapping a dead man, twining round his feet—
A net, a trammel, an entangling robe?
Such were the weapon of some strangling thief,
The terror of the road, a cut-purse hound—
With such device full many might he kill,
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Full oft exult in heat of villainy.
Ne'er have my house so cursed an indweller—
Heaven send me, rather, childless to be slain?
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.) — 973 focus
Da sehet an des Landes stolzes Herrscherpaar,
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Des Vaters Mörder, die das Haus verwüsteten!
Sie saßen stolzgebietend einst auf hohem Thron,
Und noch vereint sie Liebe, wie's ihr gleiches Loos
Bezeugt; dem alten Schwure bleibt ihr Bund getreu.
Dem armen Vater schwuren sie vereint den Tod,
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Vereint zu sterben; und der Schwur ist wohlerfüllt.
Nun sehet auch, ihr Zeugen dieses Jammers, seht
Das Truggewebe, das den Armen fesselte,
Das ihm die Händ' umstrickte, das die Füße band!
Wie mag ich's treffend nennen mit beredtem Mund?
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Fanggarn des Wildes oder fußumschlingendes
Gewand der Todtenbahre? Nenn' es Jägernek,
Heimtückisch Stellgarn oder fußverwickelnd Vließ!
Ein Straßenräuber schaffe sich ein solch Gespinnst,
Das seinen Gastfreund tückisch fängt; mit Geldesraub
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Sein Leben fristend, mag er dann durch diesen Trug
Recht viele morden, daß sein Herz vor Freude glüht!
(Zu den Dienern.)
Auf, breitet's auseinander, zeigt im Kreis umher
Des Mannes Mordhemd, daß des Vaters Auge sieht,
Nicht meines Vaters, nein, des Allesschauenden,
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Des Helios, was meine Mutter Grauses that!
Denn im Gerichte soll er einst mir Zeuge sein,
Daß ich mit vollem Nechte hier zum Morde schritt
Der Mutter; von Aegisthos' Tode red' ich nicht;
Denn er empfing des Eheschänders Lohn nach Recht.
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Doch, die dem Manne solches Graun bereitete,
Von dem sie süßer Kinder Last im Schooße trug,
Ihr theure Last einst, nun verhaßt, es zeigt sich hier, -
Wie? Stammt sie nicht von Vipern, nicht von Nattern ab,
Daß ungebissen faule, wen sie nur berührt,
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Ob ihrer Frechheit, ihres kühn ruchlosen Sinns?
Solch eine Hausfrau wohne nie an meinem Herd,
Niemals! O Götter, stürb' ich eher kinderlos!

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

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τί νιν προςείπω ... πολλὰ θερμαíνοι φρένα.: Hos octo versus, qui in libris post versum 998. leguntur, huc revocandos esse vidit Meinekius in Diurnis antiquariis a. 1843. p. 183.

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ξένων: ξένον et antea αρὴρ pro ἀνὴρ vitia Rob.
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