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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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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.) — 83-314 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 75 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 75 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 75 focus
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ (ἀνάγκαν γὰρ ἀμφίπτολιν
θεοὶ προςήνεγκαν· ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων
πατρῴων δμωΐαν ἐςᾶγον αἶσαν)
δίκαια καὶ μὴ δίκαια, πρέπον τύχαις βίου
βίᾳ φερομένων αἰνέσαι, πικρὸν φρενῶν
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στύγος κρατούσῃ, δακρύων ὑφειμάτων,
ματαίοισι δεσποτᾶν
τύχαις, κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένη.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 75 focus
Ἐμοὶ δ', ἀνάγκαν γὰρ ἀμφίπτολιν
Ep.
θεοὶ προσήνεγκαν, ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων
πατρῴων δούλιον ἐσᾶγον αἶσαν,
δίκαια καὶ μὴ δίκαια
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† πρέποντ' ἀρχὰς βίου
βίᾳ φερομένων αἰνέσαι, πικρῶν φρενῶν †
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στύγος κρατούσῃ· δακρύω δ' ὑφ' εἱμάτων
ματαίοισι δεσποτᾶν δεσπόταν
τύχαις, κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένη -μένην.
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Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 75 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 75 focus
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ (ἀνάγκαν γὰρ ἀμφίπτολιν
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θεοὶ προσήνεγκαν, ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων πατρώιων
δούλιον ἐσᾶγον αἶσαν)
δίκαια καὶ μὴ δίκαι᾽ αἰνέσαι
πρέποντ᾽ ἀρχὰς βίου βίαι φρενῶν,
πικρὸν στύγος κρατούσαι·
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δακρύω δ᾽ ὑφ᾽ εἱμάτων
ματαίοις δεσποτᾶν τύχαισιν,
κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένα.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 75 focus
ἐμοὶ δ’, ἀνάγκαν γὰρ ἀμφίπτολιν
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θεοὶ προσήνεγκαν· ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων
πατρώιων δούλιον ἐσάγαγον αἶσαν·
δίκαια καὶ μὴ δίκαι’ ἀρχὰς πρέπον
βίαι φρενῶν αἰνέσαι,
πικρὸν στύγος κρατούσηι.
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δακρύω δ’ ὑφ’ εἱμάτων
ματαίοισι δεσποτᾶν
τύχαις, κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένη. Γ
Translations (9)
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 75 focus
But 'tis my lot, for the gods have visited me with the hardship of a captured city; for they brought me to a slave's estate afar from the house of my fathers, to acquiesce in the things that seem fit to the lords over my life, just or unjust, [the deeds] of mastering the loathing of my soul, those who are violently borne along 6 .
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 75 focus
n'a plus de remède au mal qu'il a fait ; et, pour purifier l'homme aux mains san-
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 75 focus
Me, from my bleeding country torn,
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Condemn'd the ſervile yoke to bear,
Bitter conſtraint and ſpirit-sinking fear
Compel t' obey their proud commands;
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 75 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 75 focus
Aperienti non nuptiales lectos
Remedium, meatus omnes ex una uia
Euntes.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 75 focus
Doch ach, uns drückt das Joch des Heimatlosen;
in Knechtschaft warfen uns die Götter,
und Recht und Unrecht, wie's der Herr gebeut,
der Diener muſs es loben.
Gehorchen gilt's,
80 Gewalt dem Herzen thun,
den Hafs verschliefsen.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 75 focus
Of my true lords I weep the hapless fate.
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.) — 75 focus
And upon me—ah me!—the gods have laid
The woe that wrapped round Troy,
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What time they led me down from home and kin
Unto a slave's employ—
The doom to bow the head
And watch our master's will
Work deeds of good and ill—
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To see the headlong sway of force and sin,
And hold restrained the spirit's bitter hate,
Wailing the monarch's fruitless fate,
Hiding my face within my robe, and fain
Of tears, and chilled with frost of hidden pain.
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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.) — 75 focus
Doch ich, (denn zwiefache Noth legten mir
Die Götter auf: fern vom Vaterhause
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Führten sie mich fort in's Joch der Knechtschaft,)
Ich muß die Zwingherrn loben, wie mein Loos gebeut,
Ob Recht sie thun, ob Böses, muß den bittern Haß
Im Herzen zähmen, und bewein' im Schleier still
Des Herrschers unseliges
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Geschick, in tiefverhaltnem Seelenleid erstarrt.

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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πάρεστε
πάρετε
Ald. προςτροπῆς
προτροπῆς
G. Ald.
75

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γένεσθε
γένεσθαι
, sed
ε
ad
αι
supra adscripto, M.
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77. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-56

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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78. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-57

εὔφρον' In
εὔφρον'
in M.
ο
ex
ω
factum est. κατεύξωμαι Deinde
κατεύξομαι
M. G. Ald. Rob. Emendavit Turnebus.
78

81. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-58

τῶνδ'
τῶνδ'
Vict. et, ut videtur, M.
τῶν δ'
G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
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82. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-59

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

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
ἐσᾶγον αἶσαν: vgl. Hom. Ω 719 εἰσάγαγον κλυτὰ δώματα, ζ 91 εἴ ματα . . ἐσφόρεον μέλαν ὕδωρ, Eur. Hik. 876 χρυσὸν . . οὐκ εἰσεδέξατ' οἶκον, Iph. Τ. 742 εἰσβήσω σκάφος, Hel. 1566 εἰσέθεντο σέλματα, Herc. 850 οὗ γέ μ᾽ εἰσπέμπεις δόμους.

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3
4
Schol. ἔστι δὲ παροιμία· δοῦλε, δεσποτῶν ἄκουε καὶ δίκαια κἄδικα.

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5
6
πρέποντα ( ἐστὶν ἐπ᾿ ἀρχᾶς βίου, es kommt mir zu bei der Abhängigkeit meines Lebens. Krüger I 68, 40, 4.

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7
8
βία φρενῶν (mit innerem Widerstreben) wie Sept. 599 , Suppl. 806
βία καρδίας
.

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

9
ὑφ᾽ εἱμάτων, um die Thranen zu verbergen ( κρυφαίοις πέν θεσιν 82).

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10
δεσπόταν wie Eur. frg. 831 δακρύειν τοὺς προσήκοντας φίλους. Der Dativ ματαίοισι τύχαις steht kausal (ob des frevlen Geschicks).

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11
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.