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Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1926.

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Current edition Perseus

Libation Bearers (English) (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Editions (7)
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 1010 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1010 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1010 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1010 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1010 focus
ἔδρασεν ἢ οὐκ ἔδρασε; μαρτυρεῖ δέ μοι
φᾶρος τόδ᾽, ὡς ἔβαψεν Αἰγίσθου ξίφος.
φόνου δὲ χηκὶς ξὺν χρόνῳ ξυμβάλλεται,
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πολλὰς βαφὰς φθείρουσα τοῦ ποικίλματος.
νῦν αὐτὸν αἰνῶ, νῦν ἀποιμώζω παρὼν
πατροκτόνον θ᾽ ὕφασμα προσφωνῶν τόδε
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1010 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1010 focus
Translations (9)
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1010 focus
Did he or did he not do it? but this vest bears witness to me that the sword of Aegisthus stained it. The stain of the gore too coincides with the time [of the deed,] damaging the various hues of the embroidery. Now I praise him 3
, now upon the spot I bemoan him; and addressing his vestment, that wrought my father's fall, I grieve for the offences and the suffering, and the entire family, having the unenviable pollutions of this victory which I have achieved.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1010 focus
terrible!
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1010 focus
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1010 focus
Uccise o non uccise? Ecco la prova:
questo mantello cui d'Egisto il ferro
la tinta die'. La macchia della strage
s'accorda al tempo: assai corroso è il ricco
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variar dei colori. Ora m'esalto,
ed ora gemo, e parlo a questo peplo
che uccise il padre; e colpe io piango, e pene.
e la progenie tutta. E la vittoria
mi contamina sí, che niun m'invidia!
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Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1010 focus
Cædis uerò fructus cum tempore conducet,
Multas tincturas corrumpens textura.
Nunc ipſum laudo, nunc lugeo præſens,
Parricidamq; texturam uocans hanc
Doleo quidem propter opus, affectum eſt genus omne.
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Non æmulanda huius uictoriæ habeo piacula.
Nullus mortalium innocuam uitam per omnia ignominioſus
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1010 focus
War sie auch schuldig? Wirklich schuldig? Das
Gewand
bezeugt es. Diese Stelle hat Aigisthos' Dolch
gefärbt. Der Blutfleck, der des Purpurs Glanz zerstört,
1313 ist alt, so alt wie ihr Verbrechen. Damals war
ich ahnungslos, sie hielten mich der Heimat fern.
1314 Jetzt steh' ich hier, begreif' es, jetzt bewein' ich es,
1015 und blick' ich hin auf meines Vaters Mordgewand,
dann kommen mir die Schmerzen der Erinnerung
an mein Geschlecht, an alles, was es that und litt,
und meines Sieges Blutschuld fällt mir schwer aufs
Herz.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1010 focus
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, The Libation-Bearers — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 1010 focus
Did she the deed or not? this robe gives proof,
Imbrued with blood that bathed Ægisthus' sword:
Look, how the spurted stain combines with time
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To blur the many dyes that once adorned
Its pattern manifold! I now stand here,
Made glad, made sad with blood, exulting, wailing—
Hear, thou woven web that slew my sire!
I grieve for deed and death and all my home—
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Victor, pollution's damnèd stain for prize.
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.) — 1010 focus
Hat sie's verschuldet oder nicht? Bezeugt es mir
Doch dies Gewand hier, das Aegisthos' Schwert gefärbt!
Noch hat die Zeit des Mordes Flecken nicht getilgt,
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Der dieses Purpurs farbenreiche Pracht entweiht.
Bald preis' ich selber meine That, bald jammr' ich laut,
Und rede dieses Mordgespinnst des Vaters an.
Graunvoll befleckt durch dieses Sieges blut'ge Schuld,
Beklag' ich meine That, mein Leid, mein ganzes Haus!
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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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προςφωνῶν: πρὸς φωνῶν Ald.
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ἀλγῶ: Hic demum Orestis personam adnotavit Rob.
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νίκης τῆσδ᾽ ἔχων μιάσματα: νίκης M. Rob. νίκας, supra scripto η, G. νίκας Ald. Turn. Deinde τῆσδ᾽ ἔχων μιάσματα M. Rob. τῆσδ᾽ ἔχω μιάσματα G. Turn. τῆς δ᾽ ἐχομιάσματα Ald.
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οὔτις μερόπων ἀσινῆ βίοτον διὰ παντὸς ἄμοχθος ἀμείψει. ... ἰὼ πόνος, ὁ μὲν αὐτίχ', ὁ δ᾽ ... ἥξει: Chori nomen in libris omissum est. οὔτις μερόπων ἀσινῇ βίοτον διὰ πάντ᾽ ἄτιμος ἀμείψεται· ἐς μόχθος δ᾽ ὁ μὲν αὐτίχ᾽ ὅδ᾽ ἦξε (ita mihi relatum est: ήξεν alert Franzius) ita M. in quo ἤ in ἀσινῆ ex et factum et ultima littera in μόχθος ab alia manu scripta est. Etiam quae sequuntur d'ò µèv ήξε ab alia manu scripla esse videntur. ἐς μόχθον δ' habent ceteri libri. ὅδ᾽ ἦξε G. ὅδ᾽ εἶξαι Ald. ὁ δ᾽ ἥξει Turn. ὁ δ᾽ ᾖξεν Rob. Excidisse ὕστερον iure putavit Schützius. Sed in reliquis etiam et metrum et sententia laborat. Scholiastes adnotavit ή διά πρὸς τὸ ἀμείψεται, et ἄτιμος interpretatur ἀτιμώρητος. Mihi ita fere scripsisse videtur Aeschylus, οὔτις μερόπων ἀσινῆ βίοτον διὰ πάντ' εὔθυμος ἀμείψει, * τέκνον,* ἐς μόχθον δ' ὃ μὲν αὐτίχ, ὃ δ' *ὕστερον * ήξεν.

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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Der Blutflecken (65) unterstützt die Zeit in der Zerstörung der Farbe des bunten Gewandes.

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νῦν .. νῦν παρών ( παρών wie Soph. Αi. 338 ἔοικεν τοῖς πάλαι νοσήμασι ξυνοῦσι λυπεῖσθαι παρών): jetzt - jetzt augenblicklich d. h.,,so eben erst spendete ich meiner That Beifall, jetzt muss ich sie beklagen." αὐτόν, ἐμαυ τόν, vgl. 220.

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ἀλγῶ μὲν: darnach scheint ἀλγῶ δὲ gefolgt, also ein Vers ausgefallen zu sein. ἀλγῶ mit Akk. wie Soph. Αi. 790 πρᾶξιν ἣν ἤλγησ᾽ ἐγώ. — ἔργα καὶ πάθος, mein Thun und Leiden d.i. alles was mit mir ist.

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μιάσματα tritt für σκυλεύματα ein.