Aeschylus Libation Bearers 71

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

Lo, when man's force doth ope
The virgin doors, there is nor cure nor hope
For what is lost,—even so, I deem,
85
Though in one channel ran Earth's every stream,
Laving the hand defiled from murder's stain,
It were in vain.

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.) — 71 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 71 focus
θιγόντι δ᾽ οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων
ἄκος· πόροι τε πάντες ἐκ μιᾶς ὁδοῦ
ῥαίνοντες τὸν χερομυσῆ
φόνον καθαρσίοις ἴοιεν ἂν μάτην.
65
ἐπῳδός.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 71 focus
Θιγόντι Οἴγοντι δ' οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων
Ant. 3.
ἄκος, πόροι τε πάντες ἐκ μιᾶς ὁδοῦ
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 71 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 71 focus
θιγόντι δ᾽ οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων
ἄχος, πόροι τε πάντες ἐκ μιᾶς ὁδοῦ
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 71 focus
θιγόντι δ’ οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων
ἄκος, πόροι τε πάντες ἐκ μιᾶς ὁδοῦ
†βαίνοντες τὸν χερομυσῆ
†φόνον καθαίροντες ἰοῦσαν μάταν. =
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.) — 71 focus
But [as] there is no remedy for maidenhood 4 to its violater, [so] all the streams, moving in one course, flow in vain 5 to purify murder of the foul hand.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 71 focus
nourricière, et le sang vengeur se fige : il ne s'écoulera plus ! Une ruine d'autant plus cruelle est la rançon du délai et sait
apporter au coupable une foison de maux largement suffisante !
Qui a forcé la chambre d'une vierge
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 71 focus
Shall he, that foul with midnight rape
Pollutes the nuptial bed, eſcape?
85
Murder and luft! Were all the ſtreams, that wind
Their mazy progreſs to the main,
To cleanſe this odious ſtain in one combin'd,
The ſtreams combin'd wou'd flow in vain.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 71 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 71 focus
Molestum nocumentum dilacerat
Prefectos morbi pullulare.
Hoc imperfecta habet nox
60
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 71 focus
Wenn einmal nur der Jungfrau Gürtel sprang,
auf ewig ist's. Rauschten alle Wasser
der Welt zusammen auch in einen Strom:
75 die Mörderhand
wüschen sie vergebens.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 71 focus
ORESTES
ANTISTROPHE IV.
Oh that, with arm of might
Great Zeus, who guards the right,
†Woe, woe, would strike the guilty pair!
Come peace to this domain !
390
Just meed may the unjust obtain !
Earth, and ye powers of Hades, hear my prayer.
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.) — 71 focus
Wer keusche Brautgemächer kühn erstürmt, wird nie
75
Gefühnt; und strömten alle Ström' auf Einer Bahn
Vereint, mordrother Hände Fluch 1
Hinwegzuspülen: strömten all' umsonst daher.
Schlußgesang.

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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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
.

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χύσιν
λύσιν
Ald. quum in G.
χ
sic scriptum sit, ut negligenter intuenti
λ
videri possit.
87

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καθάρμαθ' ὥς τις
καθάρμαθ᾽ ὥς τις
Turn. et, ut videtur, M.
κάθαρμαθ', ὥς τις
Rob.
κάθαρμα θ' ὥςτις
G.
κάθαρμα θ' ὅς τις
Ald. ἐκπέμψας Deinde
ἐκπέμψαις
G.
ἐκ πέμψαις
Ald. πάλιν δικοῦσα
Πάλιν
ad
δικοῦσα
pertinere animadvertit Turnebus, qui
πάλιν - | δικοῦσα
dedit. Scholiastes
στείχω πάλιν
coniunxit.
88

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

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

1
erstes Epeisodion, geteilt durch einen Kommos (305— 476). Anagnorismos und Vorbereitung der Rache.

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2
δωμάτων εὐθήμονες: Schol. εὖ τιθεῖσαι τὰ κατὰ τὸν οἶκον. Über den Gen. s. Krüger II 47,26,6.

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3
κηδείους χοάς wie 536, Spenden zur Totentrauer, nicht συγγενικάς, wie der Schol. erklärt. Vgl. κηδείου τριχός 225 (Trauerhaar).

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4
εὔφρονα, Verständiges, gut Gedachtes.

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5
6
Vgl. Eur. Or. 116 nai otão' ἐπ᾿ ἄκρου χώματος λέξον τάδε· Ελένη σ᾿ ἀδελφὴ ταῖσδε δωρεῖται χοαῖς. — πὰρ für παρὰ ist zur Gewinnung eines für Äschylos geeigneteren Rhythmus (von H. Wolf) nach Eum. 229 hergestellt.