Aeschylus Libation Bearers 585

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

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Many and marvellous the things of fear
Earth's breast doth bear;
And the sea's lap with many monsters teems,
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And windy levin-bolts and meteor-gleams
Breed many deadly things—
Unknown and flying forms, with fear upon their wings,
And in their tread is death;
And rushing whirlwinds, of whose blasting breath
685
Man's tongue can tell.

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.) — 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.) — 585 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 585 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 585 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 585 focus
πολλὰ μὲν γὰ τρέφει
δεινὰ δειμάτων ἄχη,
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 585 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 585 focus
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.) — 585 focus
Full many 3
a dread and grievous horror does the earth nurture, and the arms of the deep teem with monsters hostile to mortals! and there spring forth in mid-air lights 4
hung aloft. Both the creatures that fly and those that crawl, and the gusty rage of hurricanes, one might be able to describe.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 585 focus
sont les fléaux d'effroi, les monstres que nourrit la terre, et les bêtes cruelles à l'homme qu'enferme le sein des mers. Entre terre et ciel jaillissent
des météores de feu. Et tout ce qui vole ou marche peut parler du courroux orageux des vents
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 585 focus
Pregnant with ills the dreary air
Gives ſickneſs, pain, and terror birth:
665
The ſeas, that wind around the earth,
Fatal to man their hideous monsters bear:
Each forest in its ſhaggy ſides,
That darkens o’er the perilous ground,
The lurking, rav’nous ſavage hides,
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Whilſt fierce birds wheel the ſummits round:
And mark with what tempestuous rage
Black from the ſkies the ruſhing winds engage.
ANTISTROPHE I.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 585 focus
Molti la terra genera
mostri, ed orrendi mali:
brulica il mare di voraci squali
460
nei suoi profondi seni:
fra cielo e terra guizzano
gli eterëi baleni;
e, voli o strisci al suolo,
ogni animal, dei turbini
465
può dir la furia e il procelloso volo.
1 Antistrofe 1.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 585 focus
Ponticeq; ulne bestiarum infeſtarum hominibus
Crefcunt, germinant & intermedie
Lampades subfublimes,
Volucres & currentia, reſpirantium
560
Caprarum dic iram.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 585 focus
Erde nähret reifsend wilder
Tiere Brut
sonder Zahl.
Tief in Meeres Schlüften wimmeln
Ungeheuer,
Fischers Schrecken.
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.) — 585 focus
Erde nährt wunderbar
Grause Schrecken ohne Zahl;
Tief-in Meers düsterm Schooß wimmelt manch
Graunvoll Ungeheuer,
Der Menschen Feind; zwischen Erd' und Himmel hoch
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Sproßt der Blige flammend Licht;
Vogel in Höh'n und die Thiere des Waldes erzählen
Von der Windsbraut jähem Zorn.
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

679. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-434

ὡς πόλλ᾽ ... ἐπωπᾷς ... εὖ κείμενα: ὡς πόλ' error Ald. ὦ πόλλ' error Turn. Deinde ἐπωπᾷς Vict. ἐπωπᾶις Μ. ἐπωπαῖς G. ἐπωπαῖς Ald. ἐπωπᾶς Rob. ἐπ᾽ ὠπαῖς Turn. Deinde εὐκείμενα G. Ald.
679

680. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-435

τόξοις: τόξοις Μ. Rob. Turn. τέξοις codex Robortelli. τάξοις G. Ald. Post hunc versum in libris hic legitur, φίλων ἀποψιλοῖς μὲ τὴν παναθλίαν. Non cohaeret oratio. Itaque hunc versum correctum post v. 682. collocavi, ubi manca erat oratio.
680

681. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-436

εὐβούλως: εὐβόλως Porsonus. Libri εὐβούλως.
681

682. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-437

κομίζων: zouisor Rob. Turn. ex scholiis. vouisor M. G. Ald. Scholiastes έξω πηλοῦ πόδα, παροιμία. Commemorant hoc proverbium Zenobius III. 62. Suidas in αἴρειν ἔξω πόδα πηλοῦ et in ἐκτὸς πηλού πόδα.
682

683. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-438

τὴν ... βακχείας καλῆς: Hic versus post v. 680. legebatur. Libri dлoikois uɛ.
683

684. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-439

νῦν τήνπερ: νῦν δήπερ M. G. Ald. Rob. νῦν δ᾽ ἵπερ Turn. τῶν δ᾽ ἵπερ Scaliger. Scribendum erat σὺν δ' ήπερ. Deinde βακχίας καλῆς Μ. G. Ald. Rob. Buzzɛías zahis Turn. Scribendum erat, ut etiam Emperius vidit, βακχείας ζάλης.
684

685. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-440

παροῦσαν ἐγγράφει. φίλων ἀποψιλοῖ με τὴν παναθλίαν.: Rob. ex coniectura pro, quod in codice eius erat, ut in ceteris libris. Deinde omnes libri nagovoar ¿yyoágu. Scholiastes τάξον, αὐτὴν ἀφανισθεῖσαν ἀρᾷ (ἄρα 6.). ὡς πρὸς τὸ ἐλπίς δ' ἀπέδωκεν. Cantero scribendum videbatur ἀποῦσαν ἐγγράφου. Alii alia coniecerunt. Sed videtur дagočбav ¿yyoúqat, ironice dictum, ferri posse. Simul autem Orestes quae in aedibus debacchantis aestus medica spes erat, praesentem inscribit, h. e. eam spem praesentem esse monstrat, quippe praesens quidem ipse, sed in cineres redactus.
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686. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-441

ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν ... εὐδαίμοσιν: Orestis nomen praefixum in Rob. Turn. Linea in M. G. Nulla personae nota in Ald. ovy Rob. Turn. v, supra scripto our, M. G. @Ald. εὐδαίμοσιν Μ. G. Ald. Rob. εὐδαίμοσι Turn.
686

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

649-778. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-344

1
zweites Epeisodion. Die Ausführung der Rache wird auf listige Weise vorbereitet. Orestes kommt mit Pylades von der linken Seite und pocht an das Thor des Hauses. Beide haben mittlerweile sich als Gepäck tragende Wanderer (671) verkleidet.

677-678. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-365

2
πανδίκως (zu Eum. 291 u. 807) μεμνημένος, sei gewissenhaft es eingedenk und vergifs es nicht ( λάθῃ, ἐπιλάθη). — τεθνεῶτ᾽ εἰπέ, vgl. Soph. Εl. 676 θανόντ' Ορέστην νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι λέγω, Krüger II

679-680. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-366

3
Mit εἴτ᾿ οὖν είτε oder εἴτε εἶτ᾽ οὖν wird ein Satz häufg an einen vorausgehenden Hauptsatz angeschlossen wie Ag. 496 , 834, Soph. Phil. 345 , Oed. T. 1049 , El. 199 , 560. Hier giebt das erste ovv (igitur) die Satzverbindung. μέτ οικον ξένον wie Soph. Oed. Τ. 452 ξένος λόγῳ μέτοικος, εἶτα δ᾽ ἐγγε νὴς φανήσεται Θηβαῖος. Damit wird die Härte, dafs der Tote sein Grab für immer in fremder Erde haben soll, betont. εἰς τὸ πᾶν ἀεί (für alle Zeit immer) wie εἰς τὸ πᾶν χρόνου Eum. 673 . Nach Pers. 322
σκληρᾶς μέτοικος γῆς ἐκεῖ κατέφθιτο
 könnte man auch hier μέτ οικον εἰς τὸ πᾶν ξένης χθονός erwarten.

681. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-367

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ἐφετμὰς τάσδε, Aufträge darüber. — πόρθμευσον: Eur. Iph. Τ. 735 πορθμεύσειν γραφάς.

682. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-368

5
λέβητος: zu Ag. 451 . Aus χαλκέου πλευρώματα hat Sophokles χαλκόπλευρος gebildet: τύπωμα χαλκόπλευρον Εl. 54 von derselben Urne.

683. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-369

6
κέκευθεν transitiv wie Soph. Εl. 1120 τόδε κέκευθεν αὐτὸν τοῦ χος, Eur. Rhes. 621.

684. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-370

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εἰ δὲ κτέ, Schol. πιθανῶς, ἵνα δοκῇ ὅλως ἀγνοεῖν.

686. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-371

8
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τὸν κλύοντα allgemein für σὲ τὴν κλύουσαν: „ich weifs es nicht; wer mich gehört hat, kann es wohl wissen."