Aeschylus Libation Bearers 811

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

And Hermes, Maia's child, lend hand to save,
Willing the right, and guide
Our state with Fortune's breeze adown the favouring tide.
Whate'er in darkness hidden lies,
He utters at his will;
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He at his will throws darkness on our eyes,
By night and eke by day inscrutable.
Then, then shall wealth atone
The ills that here were done.

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.) — 838-934 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 838-934 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 811 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 811 focus
ξυλλάβοι δ᾽ ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας ἐπιφορώτατος
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πρᾶξιν οὐρίαν θέλων.
τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα ἀμφανεῖ
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 811 focus
Ξυλλάβοι δ' ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας, ἐπεὶ φορώτατος ἐπιφορ-
πρᾶξιν οὐρίσαι οὐρίαν θέλων θέλεν·
† πολλὰ δ' ἄλλα φανεῖ χρῄζων
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κρυπτά· † ἄσκοπον δ' ἔπος λέγων
νυκτὸς προὐμμάτων νύκτα πρό τ' ὀμμάτων σκότον φέρει,
καθ' ἡμέραν δ' οὐδὲν ἐμφανέστερος.
1 (Τὸ δὲ καλῶς κτίμενον ὦ μέγα ναίων
στόμιον, εὖ δὸς ἀνιδεῖν δόμον ἀνδρός,
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 811 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 811 focus
ξυλλάβοι δ᾽ ⟨ἂν⟩ ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας, ἐπεὶ φορώτατος
πρᾶξιν οὐρίσαι θέλων.
πολλὰ δ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἔφανε χρήιζων,
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{κρυπτά} ἄσκοπον κλέπος τελῶν·
νύκτωρ τ᾽ ὀμμάτων σκότον φέρει,
καθ᾽ ἡμέραν δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἐμφανέστερος.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 811 focus
ξυλλάβοι δ᾽ ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας, ἐπεὶ φορώτατος
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.)) — 838-931 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 811 focus
May Maia's most propitious 6 son also, willing him an auspicious issue, rightfully take up the cause. Many other mysterious things too will he develope if he be willing ; and uttering obscure language, both by night he brings dark- ness before the eyes, and in the daytime he is nought clearer.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 811 focus
l'éblouissant soleil de la liberté succéder à ce voile de ténèbres.


Et puisse Hermès, fils de Maïa, nous prêter l'aide qui lui revient! 1 Personne ne sait mieux que lui faire souffler les vents propices.
Avec un mot obscur il répand sur les yeux les ombres de la nuit, et le jour même ne les dissiperait pas 2 .
((Plus soutenu.) Toi qui habites l'édifice splendide bâti autour de la bouche terrible, fais que la maison d'un héros puisse enfin relever la tête et voir de ses yeux fidèles l'éblouissant soleil de la liberté succéder à ce voile de ténèbres.)
Alors, pour célébrer la maison délivrée, nous irons poussant par la ville la clameur dont les femmes saluent l'apparition des vents heureux

Victoire! le profit, le profit est pour
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 811 focus
Thou, son of Maia, come, and with thee lead
Succeſs, that crowns the daring deed:
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To form the close and dark design,
Whether th' ambiguous tale thou lov'ſt to weave,
And throw around the veil of night;
Or bid'st e'en truth itself deceive,
Diſplay'd in all the dazzling blaze of light;
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The pow'rs of seeresy are thine.
Then ſhall this penſive female train
Theſe rich oblations pay no more;
No more the melancholy strain,
Tuned to the voice of anguiſh, pour,
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Raptur'd their triumph ſhall I ſee,
My friends from ruffian danger free.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 811 focus
Il figliuolo anch'ei di Maia
giunger deve al mio soccorso:
ei, se vuol, su l'altrui corso
sa spirar prospero vento.
Spesso ei svela eventi incogniti;
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poi, col suon d'oscuro accento,
stende, pur se il sole brilla,
buio e notte a la pupilla,
E tu da la gran fauce
de l'eccelsa caverna
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vaticinante, accordami
che ancor prospera io scerna
la casa del mio duce,
e lui stesso, dal buio
ch'or lo fascia, con liberi
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sguardi brillare in luce.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 811 focus
Filius Maiæ uehementiſsimus actionem bonam uolens.
Multa alia oſtendet deſiderans
Occulta, inopinabile uerbum dicens.
Noctu ante oculos tenebras fert,
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Interdiu nihil maniſeſtius.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 811 focus
Hermes, du verstehst vor allen
Göttern kühnem Unterfangen
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.) — 811 focus
Helfe mit allgerecht Maja's Sohn!
Mög' er ihm, verderbenschwer,
Frischen Hauch zur That verleih'n!
Du erhellst die Nacht,
Phöbos! Thust du kund ein dunkles Wort,
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Hüllst du das Aug' in Nacht und Finsterniß;
Erscheint der Tag, strahlt es hell, die Wolken flieh'n.
Vierte Strophe.

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

906. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-590

μὴ ἀλλ᾽ εἴφ᾽ ὁμοίως: Libri 22' sig' (ɛiq' Turn.) duoiws. Canterus '2' iq' duolos. Delevi u, quod nihil est nisi error librarii, qui ad sequentem versum, qui hac vocula µ incipit, aberrans, statim animadverso errore abstitit et versum scripsit eum quem debebat.
906

909. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-591

δέ γ': de y' M. 7' ab alia manu in litura scripto. ' vitium Ald.
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912. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-592

φύλαξαι: φύλαξαι Μ. φυλάξαι Rob. φυλάξω G. Ald. Turn.
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914. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-593

τύμβον: Tußov vitium Ald. Scholiastes παροιμίαν εἶναι τοῦτο φασί, πρὸς τύμβον τε (sic M. G.) κλαίειν καὶ πρὸς ἄνδρα νήπιον.
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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

837-934. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-443

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drittes Epeisodion: Vollzug der Rache. Ägisthos tritt rechts auf (ohne Gefolge).

907. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-488

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D. i. wie ich dich grofs gezogen habe, so will ich auch mit dir altern und dir liegt die Pflicht des γηροβοσκεῖν ob.

909. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-489

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Soph. Εl. 428 ἡ γὰρ Δίκη νιν (scil. Ιφιγένειαν) εἷλεν, οὐκ ἐγὼ μόνη. In anderer Weise heifst es Hom. Τ 86 ἐγὼ δ᾽ οὐκ αἴτιός εἰμι, ἀλλὰ Ζεὺς καὶ μοίρα καὶ ἠεροφοίτις ἐρινύς.

912. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-490

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D. i. wie kann ich in dir die Mutter achten? Vgl. 189 f.

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,,Das kann man keine Verstofsung nennen, wenn man jemanden in ein gastfreundliches Haus zum Auferziehen giebt.“