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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.) — 838-934 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 855 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 855 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 855 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 855 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 855 focus
Ζεῦ Ζεῦ, τί λέγω, πόθεν ἄρξωμαι,
τάδ᾽ ἐπευχομένη κἀπιδεάζουσ',
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ὑπὸ δ᾽ εὐνοίας
πῶς ἴσον εἰποῦσ᾽ ἀνύσωμαι;
νῦν γὰρ μέλλουσι μιανθεῖσαι
πειραὶ κοπάνων ἀνδροδαΐκτων
ἢ πάνυ θήσειν ᾿Αγαμεμνονίων
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οἴκων ὄλεθρον διὰ παντός,
ἢ πῦρ καὶ φῶς ἐπ᾿ ἐλευθερίᾳ
δαίων αρχάς τε πολισσονόμους
ἕξει πατέρων μέγαν ὄλβον.
τοιάνδε πάλην μόνος ὢν ἔφεδρος
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δισσοῖς μέλλει θείοις Ὀρέστης
ἅψειν. εἴη δ᾽ ἐπὶ νίκῃ.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 855 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 855 focus
Translations (9)
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 855 focus
O Jupiter ! Jupiter! what am I to say ? whence shall I commence thus praying and importunating 1
? How, speaking from good feeling, shall I obtain an equivalent boon ?
For now either the gore-stained attempts of the man-slaying axes are on the point of working the destruction of the family of Agamemnon throughout all time, or he, kindling fire and light for liberty, and the authorities that give laws to the state, shall enjoy the great weal of his fathers. Upon such a con­ flict as this is god-like Orestes, a solitary single-handed champion, on the point of entering against two. And may it be for victory!
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 855 focus
défie bien en tout cas de tromper ma clairvoyance.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 855 focus
What ſhou'd I ſay, eternal King,
Or how begin the strain?
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These passions how contain,
That in my throbbing breast tumultuous ſpring?
O that, in aid, my daring deed
Might all the force of words exceed!
For now diſtained with blood the bick'ring sword,
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The contest ends;
if all
This royal race ſhall fall;
Or the just laws their antient ſtate reſuming,
And liberty her light reluming,
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Hail to his father's rights the son reſtor'd.
'Gainſt two fierce wolves the youth conteſting ſtands d
Alone: May heav'n-ſent conquest grace his hands!
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 855 focus
Giove, Giove, che dire? Da dove
cominciar le preghiere ed i voti?
Qual parola trovare che all'émpito
mio sia pari, che affretti gli eventi?
Ora i fili di scuri omicide
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sanguinanti, daranno alla rocca
d'Agamènnone l'ultimo crollo;
o la luce ed il fuoco e le leggi
ravvivando pei liberi, Oreste
dei suoi padri la grande opulenza
770
riavrà. Contro due quel divino
si cimenta. Oh!, gli arrida Vittoria!
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 855 focus
O` Iupiter, Iupiter, quid dico unde incipiam
Hæc optans & currens?
Quomodo æqualia dices, perficiam?
Nunc enim futuræ funt inquinare
Experientiæ piſtillorum uiri infeſtorum.
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Aut omnino facere Agamemnoniarum
Domorum iacturam omnino,
Aut ignem aut lucem pro libertate
Principatus hoſtium politicos
Habebit paternam magnam felicitatem,
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Hanc fortem præſes exiſtens.
Geminis curæ erit diuus Oreſtes.
Attrectare, eat uerò ad uictoriam.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 855 focus
Zeus, was sag' ich? Zeus, womit beginn' ich?
Beten will ich und ich will beschwören,
doch das Herz, mitfühlend allzu heftig,
wie vermag's zu sagen, was es fühlt?
Jetzt entscheidet sich's. Im Mannesbusen
860 färbt sich purpurn jetzt des Schwertes Klinge,
und entweder schlägt sie Agamemnons
Hause jetzt den letzten Todesstreich,
oder zu der Freiheit heller Feier
darf das alte Haus die Flamm' entzünden,
und der Ahnen städtewaltend Scepter,
865 Herrlichkeit und Reichtum kehrt zurück.
Darum geht das Ringen. Wider beide,
die im letzten Gange siegreich waren,
trat allein mit Gottes Kraft Orestes
auf den Plan. O werde sein der Sieg.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 855 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.) — 855 focus
Zeus, Zeus! what word to me is given?
What cry or prayer, invoking heaven,
Shall first by me be utterèd?
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What speech of craft—nor all revealing,
Nor all too warily concealing—
Ending my speech, shall aid the deed?
For lo! in readiness is laid
The dark emprise, the rending blade;
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Blood-dropping daggers shall achieve
The dateless doom of Atreus' name,
Or—kindling torch and joyful flame
In sign of new-won liberty—
Once more Orestes shall retrieve
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His father's wealth, and, throned on high,
Shall hold the city's fealty.
So mighty is the grasp whereby,
Heaven-holpen, he shall trip and throw,
Unseconded, a double foe.
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Ho for the victory! [ A loud cry within.
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.) — 855 focus
Was sag' ich, o Zeus, wo beginn' ich zuerst
Mein brünstiges Fleh'n, mein heißes Gebet?
Wie ström' ich den Strom
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(Ab.)
Wohlwollender Wünsche zulekt aus?
Denn jetzt ist die Zeit, daß in ewige Nacht,
Von der Erde vertilgt, Agamemnons Haus,
Das geliebte, versinkt, von des mordenden Stahls
Blutlechzender Spike geopfert,
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Ach! - oder er selbst flammt Feuer und Glut
Für die Freiheit empor, und erringt sich des Volks
Herrschaft und das Haus,
Das gesegnete Erbe der Ahnen.
In so mächtigem Kampf will kühn er allein
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Sich messen mit Zwei'n, der erhabene Held,
Orestes. Kröne der Sieg ihn!

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

855. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-550

νίκῃ: vízy M. G. Rob. vízyy Ald. Turn.
855

856. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-551

ἔ ἔ, ὀτοτοτοτοῖ: Huic et sequenti versui lineae praefixae in M. G. Omittit personarum notas Ald. Libri è otototoĩ, quod oxytonon est in G. Rob. Scripsi OTOTOTOTOT. Proprius in talibus exclamationibus est versus dochmiacus.
856

857-858. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-552

ἔα, ἔα, ἔα μάλα. πῶς ἔχει; πῶς κέκρανται δόμοις: Vulgo ἔα, ἔα μάλα. πῶς ἔχει; πῶς κέκρανται δόμοις; Sic Vict. ex M. zézagra G. Ald. Turn. xéxoaora Rob. Dochmiacus versus esset a la μáha. Verum ita is, qui sequitur, trimeter esset Creticus, quod genus in huiuscemodi vociferationibus prorsus inusitatum est. Quare sic haec scribenda putavi, ἔα, ἔα μάλα. πῶς ἔχει, κέκρανται δόμοις; AESCHYLUS II. 36

859. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-553

ἀποσταθῶμεν: Huic versui chori nomen praefixum in M. G. Ald. ἀποσταθῶμεν Rob. Turn. απο σταθῶμεν Μ. ἀποσταθῶ μὲν G. Ald.
859

862. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-554

πεπληγμένου: Personae nota omissa in M. G. Ald. Rob. Οι. praefixit Turn. πανοίμοι Porsonus. Libri πάν· οἴμοι vel πάν, οἴμοι, Rob. πᾶν. οἴμοι. In fine versus libri τελουμένου. Aberravit librarius ad v. 859. Recepi probabilem Schiitzii emendationem, πεπληγμένου.
862

863. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-555

προςφθέγμασιν: In προςφθέγμασιν inter y et ut aliquid erasum in M.
863

865. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-556

γυναικείους: γυναικείους M. Rob. Turn. γυναικίους G. Ald. γυναικείας scripserat Vict. Recte Blomfieldius γυναικείους restituit. Male autem idem Blomfieldius de ανδρωνίτιδι et γυναικωνίτιδι cogitavit. Ex hospitalibus egressus est servus, et aperiri iubet regias aedes.
865

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).

855. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-453

2
3
τάδε ( Αkk. des inneren ObHesych. jekts), in dieser Sache. ἐπιθεάζει· θεοὺς ἐπικαλεῖται.

857. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-454

4
ἴσον scil. τῇ εὐνοίᾳ. Wie soll ich es fertig bringen dem Drang meiner Gefühle entsprechenden Ausdruck zu geben? Das Particip bei ἀνύσωμαι wie bei λήγειν, παύεσθαι.

859. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-455

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Schol. πειραὶ αἱ ἀκμαὶ τῶν ξιφῶν, παρὰ τὸ πείρειν· κοπάνων δὲ τῶν κοπτικῶν ξιφῶν. Vgl. Anhang.

862-863. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-456

6
πῦρ καὶ φῶς: Eur. Or. 1137 ὀλολυγμὸς ἔσται πῦρ τ᾿ ἀνάψουσιν θεοῖς. ἐπ' ἐλευθερίᾳ d. i. aus Freude über die wiedererlangte Freiheit. δαίων, Orestes.

864. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-457

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8
ἐΰν: Hesych. ἐΰς· ἀγαθός, καλός, μέγας. Vgl. Soph. Εl. 72 ἀρχέπλουτον καὶ καταστάτην δόμων.

865-866. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-458

9
μόνος steht nur in Gegensatz z α δισσοίς ohne Rücksicht auf Pylades. - ἔφεδρος hiefs beim Ringkampf derjenige, welcher den Ausgang des Kampfes von zwei anderen abwartete, um es mit dem aufzunehmen, der Sieger blieb. Hier sind es zwei Gegner, mit denen Orestes nach der Überwältigung des Agamemnon zu ringen hat.