Aeschylus Libation Bearers 639

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

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It is well of these tales to tell; for the sword in the grasp of Right
720
With a cleaving, piercing blow to the innermost heart doth smite,
And the deed unlawfully done is not trodden down nor forgot,
When the sinner out-steppeth the law and heedeth the high God not;

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.) — 652-782 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 653-782 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 639 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 639 focus
τὸ δ᾽ ἄγχι πνευμόνων ξίφος
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 639 focus
Τὸ δ' ἄγχι πλευμόνων ξίφος
Str. 4.
διανταίαν ὀξυπευκὲς οὐτᾷ σοῦται
† διαὶ Δίκας. τὸ μὴ θέμις γὰρ οὐ
1
λὰξ πέδον πατούμενον
640
τὸ πᾶν Διὸς
σέβας παρεκβάντες οὐ θεμίστως. †
2
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 639 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 639 focus
τόδ’ ἄγχι πλευμόνων ξίφος
διανταίαν
640
ὀξυπευκὲς οὐτᾶι
διαὶ Δίκας· τὸ μὴ θέμις, {γὰρ οὐ}
λὰξ πέδον πατουμένας —
τὸ πᾶν Διὸς σέβας παρεκ-
βάντες οὐ θεμιστῶς.
645
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 639 focus
τὸ δ᾽ ἄγχι πλευμόνων ξίφος
διανταίαν ὀξυπευκὲς οὐτᾶι
640
διαὶ Δίκας τομήν· θέμις γὰρ οὖν
λάξ πέδοι πατούμενον
τὸ πᾶν Διὸς σέβας παρεκ-
βάντας οὐ θεμιστῶς –
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.)) — 652-781 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 639 focus
But the sword, sharp and bitter, inflicts a wound right through the lungs, driven by the hand of Justice. For the lawless conduct of him 4
that hath lawlessly trespassed against every awful attribute of Jupiter, is not trampled under foot on the ground.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 639 focus
personne qui honore ce qu'abominent les dieux. Quelle est de ces vérités celle que je n'aie pas le droit de rappeler ?
Le glaive aigu vise au cœur et le transperce, au nom de la Justice 1 . Elle a tous les droits sur ceux qui, contre tout
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 639 focus
Thro' the gored breast
With rage impreſt
The ſword of justice hews the dreadful wound;
And haughty might
715
That mocks at right,
Like the vile duſt is trampled on the ground.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 639 focus
Immerge al reo nel petto
del ferro suo la punta aspra Giustizia:
a mortal non concede
che deluda il rispetto
dovuto al re dei Superi,
515
né su vi calchi iniquamente il piede.
4 Antistrofe IV.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 639 focus
Enſis uerò prope pulmones
Per contrarietatem amarus
Per pænas mouetur.
Non fas est enim, non
595
Calcitrando campum conculcare.
Omnem Iouis
Cultum prætergredientes nefariè.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 639 focus
Das bohrt in die Seele
mir stechende Wunde;
Gerechtigkeit fordr' ich. Wo bleibt sie?
640 Wenn jegliche Scheu
vor Gottes Gesetzen sie schmählich
mit Füfsen treten dürfen
645
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.) — 639 focus
Das Schwert, gezückt auf Frevlerbrust,
Es stürmt grad' ein bitterscharf, und mordet
Durch Dike's Hand. In Staub hinab
640
Tritt ihr Fuß die Missethat,
Die sich von aller Furcht des Zeus frevelnd abgewendet.
Vierte 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

720. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-458

σοι: ἐπί σοι Αld.
720

721. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-459

τοῖς ξένοις: Linea praefixa est in M. Personae nota omissa in G. Ald. γει. praefixum in Rob. 19. in Turn. Libri τοὺς ξένους. Scholiastes ἡ τοὺς ξένους κρατοῦσα καὶ ὑποδεξαμένη Αίγισθον καλεῖν ἐκέλευσε. Hoc ineptum est. Vulgatum qui tueri vult, ita explicare debebit, regina iubet hospites quam celerrime Aegisthum advocare, id ut sic ab nutrice dici intelligatur, ut eum per ipsam advocari indicet. Sed recte videtur Pauwius Tois Sévois scribendum coniecisse.
721

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.

723-724. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-389

2
ξυγκαταβῆναι, mit Orestes (und Pylades) auf den Kampfplatz trete. Vgl. καθήκειν 453, Suidas unter κατάβα: καταβαίνειν τὸ εἰς ἀγῶνα χωρεῖν. — χθόνιον Ἑρμῆν als Gott heimlicher List, vgl. 808 ff., Soph. Εl. 1395 ὁ Μαίας δὲ παῖς ἐπί σφ᾽ ἄγει, δόλον σκότω κρύψας κτέ. ἐφοδεύειν mit Akk. bedeutet obire, mit Dat. hier ,,hingeleiten".