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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 (8)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 22-83b focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 32 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 32 focus
τορὸς γὰρ ὀρθόθριξ φόβος,
δόμων ὀνειρόμαντις, ἐξ ὕπνου κότον
πνέων, ἀωρόνυκτον ἀμβόαμα
μυχόθεν ἔλακε περὶ φόβῳ,
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γυναικείοισιν ἐν δώμασιν βαρὺς πίτνων.
κριταί τε τῶνδ᾽ ὀνειράτων
θεόθεν ἔλακον ὑπέγγυοι
μέμφεσθαι τοὺς γᾶς
νέρθεν περιθύμως
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τοῖς κτανοῦσί τ᾽ ἐγκοτεῖν.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 32 focus
τορὸς δὲ φοῖτος ὀρθόθριξ,
δόμων ὀνειρόμαντις, ἐξ ὕπνου κότον
πνέων, ἀωρόνυκτον ἀμβόαμα
μυχόθεν ἔλακε περὶ φόβῳ,
γυναικείοισιν ἐν δώμασιν βαρὺς πίτνων.
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κριταὶ δὲ τῶνδ᾽ ὀνειράτων
θεόθεν ἔλακον ὑπέγγυοι
μέμφεσθαι τοὺς γᾶς νέρθεν περιθύμως,
τοῖς κτανοῦσί τ᾽ ἐγκοτεῖν.
στρ. β'.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 32 focus
Τορὸς γὰρ γὰρ φοῖβος ὀρθόθριξ δόμων
Ant. 1.
ὀνειρόμαντις, ἐξ ὕπνου κότον πνέων,
ἀωρόνυκτον ἀμβόα-
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μα μυχόθεν ἔλακε ἔλαχε περὶ φόβῳ,
γυναικείοισιν -κίοισιν ἐν
δώμασιν βαρὺς πίτνων·
κριταί <τε> om. τῶνδ' ὀνειράτων
θεόθεν ἔλακον ἔλαχον ὑπέγγυοι
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μέμφεσθαι τοὺς
γᾶς νέρθεν περιθύμως
τοῖς κτανοῦσί τ' ἐγκοτεῖν.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 32 focus
τορὸς γὰρ Φοῖβος ὀρθόθριξ
δόμων ὀνειρόμαντις ἐξ ὕπνου κότον
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 32 focus
τορὸς γὰρ {Φοῖβος} ὀρθόθριξ δόμων
ὀνειρόμαντις, ἐξ ὕπνου κότον πνέων,
ἀωρόνυκτον ἀμβόαμα
μυχόθεν ἔλακε περὶ φόβωι,
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Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 32 focus
τορὸς γὰρ [φοῖβος] ὀρθόθριξ δόμων
ὀνειρόμαντις ἐξ ὕπνου κότον πνέων
ἀωρόνυκτον ἀμβόα-
μα μυχόθεν ἔλακε περὶ φόβωι,
γυναικείοισιν ἐν δώμασιν βαρὺς πίτνων.
κριταί (τε) τῶνδ᾽ ὀνειράτων
θεόθεν ἔλακον ὑπέγγυοι
μέμφεσθαι τοὺς γᾶς νέρθεν περιθύ-
μως τοῖς κτανοῦσί τ’ ἐγκοτεῖν. =
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Translations (9)
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 32 focus
For a thrilling, hair-stiffening panic, the dream-prophet of the house, breathing wrath in the midst of slumbers, echoed an outcry full fearfully at dead of night from the inmost apartments, falling heavy on the chambers of the women. Interpreters too of these dreams, bound to veracity, declared on the part of the gods, that those beneath the earth are complaining full angerly and are wroth against their murderers.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 32 focus
se dressent les cheveux, le prophète qui, dans cette demeure, parle par la voix des songes, soufflant la vengeance du fond du sommeil, en pleine
nuit, au cœur du palais, proclamant son oracle en un cri d'épouvante, lourdement vient de s'abattre sur les chambres des femmes 1 . Et, interprétant ces songes, des hommes dont la voix a les dieux pour garants ont proclamé que, sous terre,
les morts âprement se plaignent et s'irritent contre leurs meurtriers. Et c'est dans un ardent désir de voir «
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 32 focus
For in the ſtill and midnight hour,
When darkneſs aids his hideous pow'r,
Affright, that breaths his vengeance deep,
Haunts with wild dreams the troubled ſleep,
That freeze the blood, and raiſe the briſtling hair:
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Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 32 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 32 focus
Verus enim metus erectos habens crines
Domorum somniorum uates ex somno iram
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Spirans, in media nocte clamorem
Ex profundo miſſit, pre timore
Muliebribus in ædibus grauiter incidens.
Judices somniorum
Diuinitus oracula ediderunt ueri,
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Quod accusarent qui funt terram
Infrà uehementer
Interfectores, & illis irascerentur.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 32 focus
In tiefster Nacht
war's; zum Frau'ngemache
drang schlummerscheuchend, Schreck und Schauder
ein schriller Schrei.
weckend
35 Die Todesangst schrie in stiller Kammer.
Haarsträubend offenbart der Traum
des Hauses Not. Gottes voll enthüllen
die Seher des Traums des entsetzlichen Sinn.
Der Toten Zorn
40 tief im Grab
grollet grimm dem Mörder.
heischt sein Recht,
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 32 focus
Breathing forth rage in sleep,—at dead of night
From the recesses of these royal halls,
Rang out a cry of wild affright
That heavy on the women's chambers falls.
And dream-interpreters proclaim
Pledged to the truth, in Heaven's name,
That unavenged 'neath earth, the slain
Against their slayers wrathfully complain.
STROPHE II.
40 Such graceless grace, against the threatened ill
Devising cure, (oh fostering earth!)
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.) — 32 focus
Oracular thro' visions, ghastly clear,
Bearing a blast of wrath from realms below,
And stiffening each rising hair with dread,
Came out of dream-land Fear,
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And, loud and awful, bade
The shriek ring out at midnight's witching hour,
And brooded, stern with woe,
Above the inner house, the woman's bower.
And seers inspired did read the dream on oath,
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Chanting aloud In realms below
The dead are wroth;
Against their slayers yet their ire doth glow.
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.) — 32 focus
Wahnsinn, der hell die Haare sträubt, 1
In Träumen Zukunft offenbart, im Schlafe Wuth
Aushaucht, erhob um Mitternacht im Hause
Lauten Klageruf der Angst,
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Und kam in's Frau'ngemach grauenschwer hereingestürzt.
Des Traumes Deuter, deren Spruch
Als wahr der Götter Geist verbürgt,
Riefen: „voll Unmuth schau'n die drunten im Grabe,
Zürnend ihre Mörder an."
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Zweite Strophe.

Notes on the current edition

Libation Bearers

1. The language of the passage is accommodated to a double purpose: (1) to indicate an oracular deliverance on the part of the inspired prophetess at Delphi , and (2) to show the alarming nature of Clytaemestra’s dream: while certain limiting expressions (as ἀωπόνυκτον, ὕπτου) show the points of difference. Phoebus is used for a prophetic possession, which assails Clytaemestra as a nightmare (cp. βαρὺς πίτνων); so that her vision is itself called an ὀνειρόμαντις.

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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ἔλακε
ἔλακε
Rob. Turn.
ἔλαχε
M. G. Ald. codex Robortelli, sed in M. G.
κ
e supra adscriptum.
περὶ φόβῳ
, prae timore. Infra v. 541.
ἀμφὶ τάρβει
. Pers. v. 697.
περὶ τάρβει
. Euripides Or. v. 815.
θανάτου ἀμφὶ φόβῳ
.
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γυναικείοισιν Libri
γυναικίοισιν
. Correxit Victorius. βαρὺς πίτνων
βαρὺς πιτνῶν
M. Rob.
βαρὺ πιτνῶν
G. Turn.
βαρυπιτνών
Ald.
βαρὺς πίτνων
Blomfieldius ex Elmsleii sententia.
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κριταὶ δὲ Libri
κριταὶ τῶνδ᾽ ὀνειράτων
. In M. est
κρίται
, sed
ι
ab alia manu in litura scriptum est. Porsonus post
κριταί
inseruit
τε
, Schützius ex Arnaldi sententia
δέ
, quod praestat.
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ἔλακον
ἔλαχον
M. G. Ald. Rob. Correxit Turnebus.
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ἐγκοτεῖν In
ἐγκοτεῖν
in M.
ο
ex
ω
factum.
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τοιάνδε
τοιάνδε
M. Rob.
τοιάνδε
G.
τοιὰν δὲ
Ald. Turn. χάριν ἀχάριτον Deinde
χάριν ἀχάριτον
Elmsleius ad Soph. Oed. Col. v. 836. Libri
χάριν ἀχάριν
.
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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

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2
Es folgt die Erklärung der ἀγέλαστοι συμφοραί: Nicht ein in Rätseln sprechender, sondern ein deutlicher Phöbos (Wahrsager), der macht, dafs die Haare zu Berge stehen, nicht der Phöbos, der in Delphi, sondern ein Phobos, der im Traume dem Hause weissagt, der Grimm schnaubt im Schlafe, liefs in tiefer Nacht aus dem Innern des Hauses vor Angst einen Aufschrei ertönen, indem er sich schwer auf das Frauengemach stürzte." D. h. der Aufschrei, welchen die von bösen Träumen geingtigte ( περὶ φόβῳ) und gequälte ( ἐξ ὕπνου κότον πνέων) Klytämestra erschallen liefs, ist wie eine prophetische Stimme. Ebenso sagt der Chor Soph. Εl. 475 εἶσιν ἁ πρόμαντις Δίκα κτἑ., nachdem er den Traum der Klyt. vernommen hat. Der Traum und der Grund des Schreiens wird 525 ff. genauer angegeben. Mit τορὸς Φοῖβος ὀνειρόμαντις vgl. das zu Ag. 82 Angeführte. Ζη ὀρθόθριξ vgl. Sept. 551
τριχὸς δ᾽ ὀρθίας πλόκαμος ἵστα ται
, Soph. Oed. Κ. 1624 ὥστε πάν τας ὀρθίας στῆσαι . . τρίχας. δὲ: zu Ag. 437 . περὶ φόβῳ (übermannt von Furcht) wie 545 ἀμφὶ τάρβει, Pers. 697
σέβομαι δ᾽ ἀντία λέξαι σέθεν ἀρχαίῳ περὶ τάρβει
, Soph. frg. 147 ἀμφὶ θυμῷ, Eur. Or. 825 θανάτου γὰρ ἀμφὶ φόβῳ Τυν δαρὶς ἰάχησε.

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4
θεόθεν ὑπέγγυοι: ἐκ θεῶν ἠσφαλισμένοι τὴν μαντείαν Schol., als θεομάντεις, deren Aussage durch göttliche Eingebung verbürgt ist, nicht als θυμομάντεις ( Pers. 227 ).

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τοὺς γᾶς νέρθεν allgemein von Agamemnon.