Aeschylus Libation Bearers 22

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

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Forth from the royal halls by high command
I bear libations for the dead.
Rings on my smitten breast my smiting hand,
And all my cheek is rent and red,
Fresh-furrowed by my nails, and all my soul
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This many a day doth feed on cries of dole.
And trailing tatters of my vest,
In looped and windowed raggedness forlorn,
Hang rent around my breast,
Even as I, by blows of Fate most stern
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Saddened and torn.

Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) (English) (Aeschylus, The Libation-Bearers — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 22-83b focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 22-83b focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 22 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 22 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 22 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 22 focus
ἰαλτὸς ἐκ δόμων ἔβην
χοὰς προπομπὸς ὀξύχειρι σὺν κόπῳ.
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσ᾽ ἀμυγμοῖς
ὄνυχος ἄλοκι νεοτόμῳ·
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(δι' αἰῶνος δ' ἰυγμοῖσι βόσκεται κέαρ)·
λινοφθόροι δ' ὑφασμάτων
λακίδες ἔφλαδον ὑπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν
πρόστερνοι στολμοὶ
πέπλων ἀγελάστοις
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ξυμφοραῖς πεπληγμένων.
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Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 22 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 22 focus
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.)) — 22-82 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 22 focus
I am come forth from the palace, sent as an escort to the drink-offering with the noise of sharp clapping of hands. Marked is my cheek with bloody gashes, the furrow newly cut by my nail: for ever is my heart fed on wailings; and the rendings of tissues ruining the vesture, make a noise through my sorrows, the breast-protecting robes being torn through smileless woes.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 22 focus
suppliante.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 22 focus
This ſadly-penſive train to lead,
With hallow'd rites to ſooth the dead,
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To bear these off'rings to his shrine,
The melancholy taſk is mine.
And, as from yon' proud walls I take my way,
My cheeks, with many' a ſounding blow
Beat by these hands, in crimſon glow,
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Whilſt my poor heart to anguiſh ſinks a prey:
And
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 22 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 22 focus
Ex ædibus ascendi miſſus
Libamina deductor acuta manu fundo.
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Congruit gena cruenta clamoribus
Nouæ ſectione unguis,
Per æuum uerò clamoribus pascitur cor.
Ex lino textæ corruptæ
Veſtes laceratæ ſunt pre doloribus
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Ornamenta pectoris:
Peplorum triftibus
Calamitatibus inuolutorum.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 22 focus
Vom Haus geschickt,
tragen wir zum Grabe
die Spenden; hurt'ger Hände Brüsteschlagen
giebt das Geleit.
Die Wange zeigt frische Purpurstreifen,
25 die Furchen, die der Nagel zog.
Das Herz ist, ach, längst gewohnt des Jammers.
In Fetzen und Streifen zerflattert der Bausch
des Busentuchs.
Bittrer Harm,
wilder Schmerz
30 rifs, zerschlifs den Mantel.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 22 focus
Chorus
STROPHE.
†Drop ye for the dead
Tears with pattering sound;
Lustral rain is shed
O'er the hallowed mound,
From the pure which screeneth bale,
150 While the powers of Evil quail.
Hear, O master, at thy tomb,
Whispered sounds from sorrow's murky gloom.
ANTISTROPHE.
Now in measured flow
Tune the notes of woe!
When will warrior brave,
†(War-god strong to save
Houses in the dust laid low,)
Hurl the spear, from hornèd bow
Wing the arrow's deadly flight,
Or wield the hilted brand in closing fight?
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.) — 22 focus
Gesandt vom Hause kommen wir 1
Mit Opferspenden unter wildem Händeschlag.
Die Wange glüht von blutigrothen Nissen,
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Frischer Nägelfurchen voll;
Und unruhvoll an Wehklagen weidet sich das Herz.
Zu Fezen riß ich linnenes
Geweb' in wildem Schmerz entzwei;
Mein brusthüllender Flor hängt los am Gewande,
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Rings zerschlikt von herbem Leid.
Erste 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

31. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-22

τορὸς δὲ φοῖτος ὀρθόθριξ Libri
τορὸς γὰρ φοῖβος
(sic etiam M.)
ὀρθόθριξ
, nisi quod Turn.
φόβος
posuit. Heathio auctore Schutzius et Porsonus
τορὸς γὰρ ὀρθόθριξ φόβος
. Si sic legitur, turbat mox
περὶ φόβῳ
, quod Schützius in secunda editione scripsit
περὶ φόνῳ
. Sed
φόβος
illud e Turnebi ingenio, non e veteribus libris ductum est. Scholiastae quidem ad v. 34. haec est adnotatio,
ἐκ τῶν τῆς καρδίας μυχῶν περισσῶς τῷ φόβῳ ἀναλακεῖν καὶ βοῆσαι τὴν Κλυταιμνήστραν ἐποίησεν ὁ σαφὴs φόβος δὲ ὀνείρων μαντευόμενος
, ut
φόβος
legisse videri possit: sed nihil obstat quin eum
φοῖβος
ut alius vocabuli interpretationem posuisse existimemus. Scripsit autem Aeschylus
τορὸς δὲ φοῖτος ὀρθόθριξ.
In eandem emendationem incidit Bambergerus.
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34. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-23

ἔλακε
ἔλακε
Rob. Turn.
ἔλαχε
M. G. Ald. codex Robortelli, sed in M. G.
κ
e supra adscriptum.
περὶ φόβῳ
, prae timore. Infra v. 541.
ἀμφὶ τάρβει
. Pers. v. 697.
περὶ τάρβει
. Euripides Or. v. 815.
θανάτου ἀμφὶ φόβῳ
.
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35. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-24

γυναικείοισιν Libri
γυναικίοισιν
. Correxit Victorius. βαρὺς πίτνων
βαρὺς πιτνῶν
M. Rob.
βαρὺ πιτνῶν
G. Turn.
βαρυπιτνών
Ald.
βαρὺς πίτνων
Blomfieldius ex Elmsleii sententia.
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κριταὶ δὲ Libri
κριταὶ τῶνδ᾽ ὀνειράτων
. In M. est
κρίται
, sed
ι
ab alia manu in litura scriptum est. Porsonus post
κριταί
inseruit
τε
, Schützius ex Arnaldi sententia
δέ
, quod praestat.
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37. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-26

ἔλακον
ἔλαχον
M. G. Ald. Rob. Correxit Turnebus.
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39. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-27

ἐγκοτεῖν In
ἐγκοτεῖν
in M.
ο
ex
ω
factum.
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40. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-28

τοιάνδε
τοιάνδε
M. Rob.
τοιάνδε
G.
τοιὰν δὲ
Ald. Turn. χάριν ἀχάριτον Deinde
χάριν ἀχάριτον
Elmsleius ad Soph. Oed. Col. v. 836. Libri
χάριν ἀχάριν
.
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41. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-29

ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα
ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα
M. G. Ald. Turn. Agnoscit hoc scholiastes, qui
ὦ γῆ μήτηρ
adscripsit. Recte vero Rob.
ἰὼ γαῖα γαῖα
. Illud ineptum. μωμένα με ἰάλλει Deinde
μωμέν αμιλλεί
, accentus in
ω
et spiritu, ut videtur, in
α
deletis, M.
μωμένα μιλλεῖ
G. Ald. Rob.
μωμένα μυλλεῖ
Turn. Emendavit Stanleius.
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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

32. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-21

1
2
Es folgt die Erklärung der ἀγέλαστοι συμφοραί: Nicht ein in Rätseln sprechender, sondern ein deutlicher Phöbos (Wahrsager), der macht, dafs die Haare zu Berge stehen, nicht der Phöbos, der in Delphi, sondern ein Phobos, der im Traume dem Hause weissagt, der Grimm schnaubt im Schlafe, liefs in tiefer Nacht aus dem Innern des Hauses vor Angst einen Aufschrei ertönen, indem er sich schwer auf das Frauengemach stürzte." D. h. der Aufschrei, welchen die von bösen Träumen geingtigte ( περὶ φόβῳ) und gequälte ( ἐξ ὕπνου κότον πνέων) Klytämestra erschallen liefs, ist wie eine prophetische Stimme. Ebenso sagt der Chor Soph. Εl. 475 εἶσιν ἁ πρόμαντις Δίκα κτἑ., nachdem er den Traum der Klyt. vernommen hat. Der Traum und der Grund des Schreiens wird 525 ff. genauer angegeben. Mit τορὸς Φοῖβος ὀνειρόμαντις vgl. das zu Ag. 82 Angeführte. Ζη ὀρθόθριξ vgl. Sept. 551
τριχὸς δ᾽ ὀρθίας πλόκαμος ἵστα ται
, Soph. Oed. Κ. 1624 ὥστε πάν τας ὀρθίας στῆσαι . . τρίχας. δὲ: zu Ag. 437 . περὶ φόβῳ (übermannt von Furcht) wie 545 ἀμφὶ τάρβει, Pers. 697
σέβομαι δ᾽ ἀντία λέξαι σέθεν ἀρχαίῳ περὶ τάρβει
, Soph. frg. 147 ἀμφὶ θυμῷ, Eur. Or. 825 θανάτου γὰρ ἀμφὶ φόβῳ Τυν δαρὶς ἰάχησε.

38. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-22

3
4
θεόθεν ὑπέγγυοι: ἐκ θεῶν ἠσφαλισμένοι τὴν μαντείαν Schol., als θεομάντεις, deren Aussage durch göttliche Eingebung verbürgt ist, nicht als θυμομάντεις ( Pers. 227 ).

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τοὺς γᾶς νέρθεν allgemein von Agamemnon.