Aeschylus Libation Bearers 602

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L'union qui joint les couples est traîtreusement vaincue par le désir sans frein qui dompte la femelle, chez l'homme comme chez la bête 1 .

Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Paul Mazon (Editor). Paris. 1920-1925.

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Funding provided by Schmidt Sciences.

Current edition Experimental

LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) (fra) (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 585-651 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 585-651 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 602 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 602 focus
ἴστω δ᾽, ὅςτις οὐχ ὑπόπτερος
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φροντίσιν, τὰν δαεῖσ᾽ ἃ παιδολυ-
μὰς τάλαινα Θεστιὰς μήσατο
πυρδαῆτιν πρόνοιαν,
καταίθουσα παιδὸς δαφοινὸν
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 602 focus
Ἴστω δ' ὅστις οὐχ ὑπόπτερος
Str. 2.
φροντίσιν δαεὶς
τὰν ἃ παιδολυ-
μὰς -λύμας τάλαινα Θεστιὰς μήσατο
πυρδαῆ τινα πρόνοι-
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αν, καταίθουσα κ' αἰθοῦσα (κ' αἴθουσα M2) παιδὸς δαφοινὸν
δαλὸν ἥλικ', ἐπεὶ μολὼν
ματρόθεν κελάδησε
ξύμμετρόν τε διαὶ διὰ βίου
μοιρόκραντον -χραντον (-τος M1) δ' ἐς ἦμαρ.
610
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 602 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 602 focus
ἴστω δ’, ὅστις οὐχ ὑπόπτερος
φροντίσιν,
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 602 focus
ἴστω δ᾽, ὅστις οὐχ ὑπόπτερος
φροντίσιν †δαείς,
τὰν ὁ παιδολυμὰς τάλαινα
θεστιὰς μήσατο,
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πυρδαῆ τινὰ πρόνοι-
αν, καταίθουσα παιδὸς δαφοινόν
δαλὸν ἥλικ᾽, ἐπεὶ μολὼν
ματρόθεν κελάδησε,
ξύμμετρόν τε διαὶ βίου
μοιρόκραντον δ᾽ ἐς ἦμαρ. —
Translations (8)
Libation Bearers Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 585-650 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 602 focus
Let whosoever is not flighty in his thoughts know this, when he hath learned what a kindling device the wretched daughter of Thestius, who worked the destruction of her son, sought out, when she committed to the flames the glowing brand that was his coeval, from the time when he uttered his first cry on coming from the womb, and commensurate through his life unto the day foredoomed by Fate.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 602 focus
Think with what ſullen frenzy fir'd
The Theſtian dame with ruthless hand s
.
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Cast on the hearth the fatal brand;
The flames confum’d it, and her ſon expir’d.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 602 focus
Chi sua memoria sperdersi
475
non lascia all'aura labile,
pensi il feral consiglio
onde la rea Testíade
die' morte al proprio figlio,
quando bruciò lo stizzo a cui la vita
480
di Meleagro unita
era, dal punto ch'ei dal grembo uscí
materno, e il primo gemito
mise, fino al fatale ultimo dí.
2 Antistrofe II.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 602 focus
Scito quisquis es, non alligeris curis, doctus
Quam filioru perditrix Theſtias miſera operata est
Ignifciens prouidentiam, & comburens filij funeſtum
570
Titionem æquale tempore, poſtq; migras ex matrice cla
Symmetrum per uitam, diem fatalem.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 602 focus
Kennen soll,
wen nicht Wunsch und Wahn verblendet,
Althaia, die Arge.
Wohlersonnen war die Tücke,
und Brandstiftertücke war es:
mit dem Scheit frafs die Glut
das Leben des Sohnes.
Ihm gaben zum Lebensgenossen das Scheit
610 die Schicksalsschwestern am Tag, da dem Schofs
der Mutter sich wimmernd das Knäblein entwand:
und mit ihm muſst' er verglimmen.
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.) — 602 focus
Let him be the witness, whose thought is not borne on light wings thro' the air,
But abideth with knowledge, what thing was wrought by 1 Althea's despair;
For she marr'd the life-grace of her son, with ill counsel rekindled the flame
That was quenched as it glowed on the brand, what time from his mother he came,
With the cry of a new-born child; and the brand from the burning she won,
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For the Fates had foretold it coeval, in life and in death, with her son.
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.) — 602 focus
Merkt auf, wenn ihr nicht in leichtem Sinn
Flattert, eitler Art,
Wie dort Thestios'
Arge Tochter, wie die Kindsmörderin
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Tückevoll den Brand ersonnen!
In Glut warf sie todschnaubend des Sohnes
Lebensfackel, die, seit er bang
Ihrem Schooß sich entwunden,
Ihn durch's Leben geleitete
610
Bis zum Tage des Schicksals.
Zweite Gegenstrophe.

Notes on the current edition

Libation Bearers

1. C'est-à-dire : le mariage est détruit par la violence du désir qui domine la femme, aussi impérieux chez elle que chez les femelles des animaux.
2. La fille de Thestios, roi de Pleuron, en Étolie, est Althaia. Le fils d'Althaia est Méléagre. La vie de Méléagre était attachée à un tison, que sa mère gardait dans un coffret. Le jour où elle apprit que ses frères venaient, à la suite d'une querelle, d'être tués par Méléagre, elle jeta ce tison dans la flamme, et Méléagre aussitôt mourut.

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

605. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-388

ὑπαὶ: Porsonus ύπερ, quod non diffiteor aptissimum esse. Nec tamen necessarium putavi vлai mutare, quo significatur ab hostibus inductam esse ad istud facinus Scyllam.
605

606. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-389

ἀπώλεσεν: ἀπόλεσεν Ald. ἀπώλεσε Turn.
606

607. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-390

χρυσοκμήτοισιν: Libri χρυσεοδμήτοισιν. Scribendum erat χρυσοκμήτοισιν.
607

608. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-391

πιθήσασα ... Μίνω: πιθήσασα Abreschius. Libri πειθήσασα. Deinde δόροισι G. Tum μίνω Rob. Turn. et ita M. sed ut i ex et factum sit. μείνω G. Ald.
608

609. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-392

Νῖσον: Libri νίσον. Correxit accentum Blomfieldius.
609

610. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-393

νοσφίσασ᾽ ἀπροβούλως: νοσφίσ᾽ ἀπροβούλως Rob. Celeri νοσφίσασ᾽ ἀπροβούλως. - Porsonus νοσφίσασα προβούλως, adverbio otioso et ideo valde inepto. Scholiastes ἀπρονοήτως, οὐ προσκεψαμένη τὸ ἀποβησόμενον. ὡς προδότες γὰρ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐτιμωρήθη ὑπὸ Μίνωος.
610

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

606. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-335

1
δαφοινόν von dem rot glühenden Scheite. Nur von dem brennenden Scheite gilt das folgende ἥλικ' κτἑ. Hesych. δαφοινόν: μέλαν, δεινόν, ποικίλον, ἐρυθρόν, πυρρόν.

607-608. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-336

2
ἥλικα wird bestimmt durch ἐπεὶ .. ἆμαρ: die Lebenszeit mit ihm gemeinsam habend vom Tage der Geburt bis zur Stunde des Todes. Ov. Met. VIII 454 tempora, dixerunt (triplices sorores), eadem lignoque tibique, o modo nate, damus. μολὼν ματρόθεν καλάδησε, a matre editus vagirit.