Aeschylus Libation Bearers 612

Paul Mazon (Editor)

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Ἄλλαν Ἀλλὰ δ' ἦν τιν' δή τιν' ἐν λόγοις στυγεῖν
Ant. 2.
φοινίαν Σκύλλαν Σκύλλαν pro glossa habeo (cf. 603),
ἅτ' ἐχθρῶν ὑπαὶ
φῶτ' ἀπώλεσεν ἀπολ- φίλον Κρητικοῖς
χρυσεοδμήτοισιν ὅρ-
615
μοις πιθήσασα πειθ-, δώροισι δόρ- Μίνω,
Νῖσον νίσον ἀθανάτας τριχὸς
νοσφίσασ' ἀπροβούλως
πνέονθ' ἁ κυνόφρων ὕπνῳ·
κιγχάνει κιχάνει δέ νιν Ἑρμῆς.
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Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Paul Mazon (Editor). Paris. 1920-1925.

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Current edition Experimental

ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) (Greek) (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
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.) — 612 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 612 focus
ἄλλαν δ᾽ ἔστιν ἐν λόγοις στυγεῖν
φοινίαν Σκύλλαν, ἅτ᾽ ἐχθρῶν ὑπαὶ
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φῶτ᾽ ἀπώλεσεν φίλον, Κρητικοῖς
χρυσοκμήτοισιν ὅρμοις
πιθήσασα δώροισι Μίνω,
Νῖσον ἀθανάτας τριχὸς
νοσφίσασ᾽ ἀπροβούλως
610
πνέονθ' ὁ κυνόφρων ὕπνῳ·
κιγχάνει δέ μιν Ἑρμῆς.
στρ. γ'.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 612 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 612 focus
ἄλλα⟨ν⟩ δ’ ἐστὶν ἐν λόγοις στυγεῖν,
φοινίαν
κόραν, ἅτ’ ἐχθρῶν ὑπαὶ
615
φῶτ’ ἀπώλεσεν φίλον,
Κρητικοῖς
χρυσεοδμήτοισιν ὅρ-
μοις πιθήσασα, δώροισι Μίνω,
Νῖσον ἀθανάτας τριχὸς
620
νοσφίσασ’ ἀπροβούλως
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 612 focus
ἄλλαν δ᾽ ἔστιν ἐν λόγοις στυγεῖν
φοινίαν Σκύλλαν,
ἅτ᾽ ἐχθρῶν ὑπὲρ φῶτ᾽ ἀπώλε-
615
σεν φίλον, Κρητικοῖς
χρυσεοδμήτοισιν ὅρ-
μοις πιθήσασα δώροισι Μίνω,
Νίσον ἀθανάτας τριχὸς
νοσφίσασα προβούλως
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πνέονθ᾽ ἁ κυνόφρων ὕπνωι·
κιγχάνει δέ νιν Ἑρμῆς. –
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.)) — 585-650 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 612 focus
Another is there in legends whom we are bound to abhor, the murderess Scylla, who at the foeman's instigation destroyed a man [she should have] loved, having been seduced by Cretan necklaces of wrought gold, the gifts of Minos, what time she, shameless, robbed Nisus of his undying ringlet as he was breathing unsuspectingly in sleep; but Mercury 1
overtakes her.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 612 focus
et qui devait mesurer son passage à travers la vie jusqu'au jour arrêté par le Destin.
Les vieux récits flétrissaient aussi la sanglante Skylla 1 , qui à des ennemis immola un père et, séduite par des bracelets d'or crétois, présents de Minos, arracha le cheveu qui le fai-
sait immortel au front
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 612 focus
With horror think on Scylla's deed t
:
To win the favour of the foes,
The golden bracelets were the meed,
690
Againſt her father's life ſhe roſe,
Approach’d the ſleeping monarch’s bed,
And reſt the ſacred honours of his head.
ANTISTROPHE 2.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 612 focus
Degna la sanguinaria
485
Scilla è che pur s'abomini.
Ad opra rea la mosse
l'oro dei vezzi crétici
che in dono offria Minosse.
Chi piú caro doveva esserle, a pro'
490
dei nemici, immolò:
cagna odïosa, il crin fatale a Niso
ella mozzò, che improvvido
giacea nel sonno; e colse Ermes l'ucciso.
3 Strofe III.
Ma nei misfatti ha Lemno il pregio primo:
495
ne suona alto l'obbrobrio;
e ben simile a quello il nostro estimo.
Prive d'onor, disfatte
vanno le umane schiatte
per le colpe che i Numi anche aborriscono:
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nessuno onora ciò ch'odian gli Dei.
Qual non colsi dal ver, dei detti miei?
3 Antistrofe III.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 612 focus
Sed oportet aliquem in uerbis odio habere
Cruentam Scyllam,
Quæ pro inimicis uirum interfecit amicum Creticis
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Auro fabricatis impetibus perſuasa, donis Minois
Nisum immortali crine priuans inconſulto
Spirantem miti ſomno.
Inuenit ipſam Mercurius.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 612 focus
Und auch sie
nennt die Sage, lehrt sie hassen,
die blutige Skylla.
615 Minos bot der Nisostochter
köstlich goldgefaſst Geschmeide,
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.) — 612 focus
Yea, and man's hate tells of another, even Scylla 1 of murderous guile,
Who slew for an enemy's sake her father, won o'er by the wile
And the gifts of Cretan Minos, the gauds of the high-wrought gold;
For she clipped from her father's head the lock that should never wax old,
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As he breathed in the silence of sleep, and knew not her craft and her crime—
But Hermes, the guard of the dead, doth grasp her, in fulness of time.
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.) — 612 focus
Auch dein werde stets in Haß gedacht,
Blut'ge Skylla, dein,
Die, dem Feind zulieb,
Einem Freunde gab den Tod, angelockt
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Durch das goldne Kreterhalsband,
Durch Minos' Brautgabe gefangen.
Als er sorglos athmet' im Schlaf,
Schnitt die Freche dem Nisos
Sein unsterbliches Haar vom Haupt:
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Rächend findet sie Hermes.
Dritte Strophe.

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

611. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-394

πνέονθ' ὁ κυνόφρων: πνείονθ' Heathius. Libri πνέονθ'. Deinde ἁ κυνόφρων Μ. Rob. ἀκυνόφρων G. ἀκανόφρων Ald. ἀγανόφρονι Turn.
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612. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-395

κιγχάνει δέ μιν: κιγχάνει Porsonus. Libri κιχάνει, sed in M. inter ut et y una littera erasa est. Deinde viv Blomfieldius. Libri μιν.
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613. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-396

ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπεμνησάμην: ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπεμνήσαμεν Μ. ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπεμνήσαμεν G. Ald. Turn. ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐμνήσαμεν Rob. Scribendum esse ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπεμνησάμην Heathius vidit. Apodosis incipit cum antistropha, ubi dé particula de more posita est post ἐπεὶ δέ, longiore parenthesi interposita.
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614. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-397

ἄκαιρος δ᾽ ὁ δυςφιλὴs: Libri ἀκαίρως δὲ δυσφιλές etc. In M. haec scholia adscripta sunt, λείπει μνήσομαι Κλυταιμνήστρας (ut ad μήτιδας ν. 616. adscriptum est λείπει εἰργάσατο), εἰ ὁ δὲ ἀντὶ τοῦ γάρ. Scribendum ἄκαιρος δ᾽ ὁ δυςφιλές etc.
614

617. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-398

ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ τευχεσφόρῳ: Hunc versum Ald. Rob. Turn. omittunt. Prima eum habet editio Victorii. Scriptus est in M. in margine, sed a prima manu. In G. iisdem litteris eodemque atramento, quo scholia scripta sunt, supra adscriptus est postremis verbis praecedentis versus.
617

618. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-399

ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ δᾴοις ἐπικλύτῳ, σέβας: ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ δηΐοις ἐπικότω σέβας Μ. in quo antea ἐπὶ κότω scriptum fuerat. ἐπὶ κάτῳ G. ἐπὶ κάτω Ald. ἐπικότῳ Rob. Τurn. In reliquis ceteri libri cum M. consentiunt. Scholiastes haec adnotavit, ¿a' ἀνδρὶ φοβερῷ καὶ σεβαστῷ καὶ παρὰ τοῖς πολεμίοις. Malas coniecturas, quibus Aeschyli verba vexata sunt, tacere praestat. Scribendum erat ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ δᾴοις ἐπικλύτῳ σέβων. Apollonius Rhodius Il. 236. εἰ δὲ ἐγὼν ὁ πρίν ποτ᾽ ἐπίκλυτος ἀνδράσι Φινεὺς ὄλβῳ μαντοσύνῃ τε.
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619-620. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-400

τίων τ᾽ ἀθέρμαντον ἑστίαν δόμων γυναικείαν τ' ἄτολμον αἰχμάν: τίων δ' M. G. Ald. Rob. τοιώνδ' Turn. Stanleii coniectura, τίω δ', a Wellauero et Blomfieldio recepta est. Scribendum erat τίων τ'. Addidi τ' ante άτολμον. Sic igitur hane stropham scripsi, ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπεμνησάμην ἀμειλίχων πόνων (ἄκαιρος δ᾽ ὁ δυςφιλὲς γαμήλευμὶ ἀπεύχετον δόμοις γυναικοβούλους τε μήτιδας φρενῶν ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ τευχεςφόρῳ, ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ δάοις ἐπικλύτῳ σέβων, τίων τ' ἀθέρμαντον ἑστίαν δόμων γυναικείαν τ' ἄτολμον αἰχμάν)· Quando autem mentionem feci tristium laborum (intempestivus enim, qui inimicum connubium, exsecrandum aedibus, et femineae mentis insidias viro bellatori, viro apud hostes claro structas colit, et suspicil igne carentem focum atque imbelle mulieris sceptrum): malorum maxime celebratur Lemnium.

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

611. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-337

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Ein anderes verderbliches Mägdlein kann man hassen, wenn man von ihm erzählen hört." Nisos, der König von Megara, hatte unter seinen Haupthaaren ein goldenes (oder purpurnes), an welches sein Leben geknüpft war. Als Minos den Nisos in Nisäa belagerte, verleitete er durch einen Goldschmuck dessen Tochter Skylla, dem Vater das verhängnisvolle Haar im Schlafe auszuziehen. Nach anderer Darstellung geschah es aus Liebe ( σημείωσαι ὅτι ὅρμον ὑπὸ Μίνωός φησιν εἰληφέναι Σκύλλαν, οὐ δι' ἔρωτα Schol. Vgl. Paus. I 19, 4, Apollod. III 15, 8). Aber die goldene Kette schliefst das Liebesverhältnis ( ἀπέρωτος ἔρως) nicht aus. Über diese Sage vgl. Schwartz, der Ursprung der Mytho- logie, S. 63 f. πιθήσασα (s. F. a. πεισθεῖσα), eine epische Form. - ἀθανάτας, weil die Erhaltung des Haares dem Nisos die Unsterblichkeit sicherte. ἀπροβούλως ἐνδόντα ὕπνῳ, als er ahnungslos sich dem Schlafe hingegeben hatte. κυνόφρων wie bei Homer κύων (z. Β. Ζ 344), κύντερος, κύντατος, κυνῶπα (4 159) zur Bezeichnung der Schamlosigkeit dient. Schutz. 766 κυνοθρασείς. χάνει . . Ἑρμῆς ( χθόνιος), er fel aber dem (in die Unterwelt führenden) Hermes anheim. Vgl. Hom. Ρ 672, Χ 436 νῦν αὖ θάνατος καὶ μοῖρα κιχάνει, Χ 303 νῦν αὐτέ με μοῖρα κιχάνει. Vgl. κιγ