Aeschylus Libation Bearers 66

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

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On the life-giving lap of Earth
Blood hath flowed forth;
And now, the seed of vengeance, clots the plain—
Unmelting, uneffaced the stain.
And Até tarries long, but at the last
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The sinner's heart is cast
Into pervading, waxing pangs of pain.

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.) — 83-314 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 84-314 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 66 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 66 focus
δι' αἵματ᾽ ἐκποθένθ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφοῦ
τίτας φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν.
διαλγὴς δ᾽ ἄτα διαφέρει
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τὸν αἴτιον παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν.
ἀντ. γ'.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 66 focus
δι' αἵματ' ἐκποθένθ' ἔκποθεν ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφοῦ
Str. 3.
τίτας φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν -υδᾶν·
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διαλγὴς ἄτη διαφέρει
τὸν αἴτιον παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν βρύειν (ν nunc euanidum).
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Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 66 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 66 focus
τὰ δ᾽ αἵματ᾽ ἐκποθέν⟨θ⟩᾽ ὑπὸ Χθονὸς τροφοῦ,
τίτας φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν·
αἰανὴς ⟨δ᾽⟩ ἄτα
διαφέρει τὸν αἴτιον
⟨καὶ⟩ παναρκέτας νόσος. {βρύειν
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ}
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Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 66 focus
τὰ δ’ αἵματ’ ἐκποθένθ’ ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφού
τιτὰς φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν.
διαλγής δ’ ἄτη διαφέρει τὸν αἴτιον
παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν. –
[τοὺς δ’ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ]
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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.)) — 84-311 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 66 focus
Because of the blood that hath been drunk by the fostering earth, gore that cries for vengeance, is fast clotted so as never to be washed away. A piercing bitter curse destroys 3
the author of the all-sufficing malady.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 66 focus
c'est l'heure frontière de l'ombre qui réserve de
plus tardives souffrances ; à d'autres enfin la nuit même n'apporte pas de sanction 1 .
Mais que les gouttes en soient une fois bues par la terre
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 66 focus
His blood, that ſunk upon the ground
A ſtiffened maſs of carnage lies,
Aloud for vengeance on his murderers cries:
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Ate obeys the call; but flow
Delays, till dreary night encloſe them round,
Prepar'd to ſtrike a deeper blow.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 66 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 66 focus
Hos quidem imperfecta habet nox
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Pro ſanguine poto ab alma terra.
Vltrix cædes fixa est non diffluens.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 66 focus
Wo Blut der Erde Mutterboden sog,
unlöschlich schwarz
steht die Schuld geschrieben.
Vergeltung hebt sich nur den Schuld'gen auf,
69 bis voll er steht in der Sünden Blüte.
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The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 66 focus
Chorus
ANTISTROPHE II.
Dear to the dear ones in the fight
Who perished nobly, thou hadst lain,—
With majesty arrayed, and might,
A king in Pluto's gloomy reign,
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Serving the great ones who command
In Hades. For in upper day
King was he over kings, whose hand
The fatal sceptre wields which men obey.
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.) — 66 focus
Der Strom des Blutes, den die Mutter Erde trank, 1
Gerann zum Rächermale, das nicht mehr zerfließt.
Der Fluch, grimmvoll, zerreißt, zerfleischt 2
Den Mörder, daß ihn Jammer ohne Maß umwogt.
Dritte 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

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τύμβῳ χέουσα
τύφῳ δὲ χέουσα
M. G.
τύφῳ δὲ χέουσα
codex Robortelli. In M. adscriptum
οἶμαι τύμβῳ
. In G.
τύφῳ
vocabuli ultima syllaba punctis notata et
μβῳ
supra scriptum.
τύμβῳ δὲ χέουσα
Ald. Rob.
τύμβῳ χέουσα
emendate Turn.
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εὔφρον' In
εὔφρον'
in M.
ο
ex
ω
factum est. κατεύξωμαι Deinde
κατεύξομαι
M. G. Ald. Rob. Emendavit Turnebus.
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81. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-58

τῶνδ'
τῶνδ'
Vict. et, ut videtur, M.
τῶν δ'
G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
81

82. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-59

τόνδε In
τόνδε
in M.
ο
ex
ω
factum.
82

83-85. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-60

ὡς νόμος βροτοῖς, ἔσθλ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσιν τάδε στέφη, δόσιν γε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν; Libri
ὡς νόμος βροτοῖς ἔστ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσι τάδε στέφη δόσιν τε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν
. In his
πέμπουσιν
emendate scripsit Victorius. Elmsleio in addendis ad Eur. Heracl. v. 387. scribendum videbatur
ὡς νόμος βροτοῖς, ἔσθλ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσιν τάδε στέφη, δόσιν τε τῶν καλῶν ἐπαξίαν;
Et
ἔσθλ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι
verum videtur: sed deinde scribendum est
δόσιν γε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν
. Vidit hoc etiam Stanleius in curis secundis,
δόσιν γε
scribendum esse. Ad
τῶν κακῶν
scholiastes haec adnotavit παρ' ὑπόνοιαν.
ἔδει γὰρ τῶν καλῶν εἰπεῖν
.

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

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1
2
Schol. ἔστι δὲ παροιμία· δοῦλε, δεσποτῶν ἄκουε καὶ δίκαια κἄδικα.

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3
4
πρέποντα ( ἐστὶν ἐπ᾿ ἀρχᾶς βίου, es kommt mir zu bei der Abhängigkeit meines Lebens. Krüger I 68, 40, 4.

79. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-34

5
6
βία φρενῶν (mit innerem Widerstreben) wie Sept. 599 , Suppl. 806
βία καρδίας
.

80. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-35

7
ὑφ᾽ εἱμάτων, um die Thranen zu verbergen ( κρυφαίοις πέν θεσιν 82).

81. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-36

8
δεσπόταν wie Eur. frg. 831 δακρύειν τοὺς προσήκοντας φίλους. Der Dativ ματαίοισι τύχαις steht kausal (ob des frevlen Geschicks).

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9
παχνουμένη: vgl. Hom. P 112 τοῦ δ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶν ἄλκιμον ἦτορ παχνοῦται, Hes. W. u. Τ. 360 τό γ ἐπάχνωσεν φίλον ἦτορ, Eur. Hipp. 803 λύπῃ παχνωθείσ', Ον. Her. XV 112 adstrictum gelido frigore pectus erat.

83-582. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-38

10
erstes Epeisodion, geteilt durch einen Kommos (305— 476). Anagnorismos und Vorbereitung der Rache.

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11
δωμάτων εὐθήμονες: Schol. εὖ τιθεῖσαι τὰ κατὰ τὸν οἶκον. Über den Gen. s. Krüger II 47,26,6.