Aeschylus Libation Bearers 372

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

Χοηφóρoι (Greek) (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.)

Editions (7)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 315-478 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 372 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 372 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 372 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 372 focus
ταῦτα μέν, ὦ παῖ, κρείσσονα χρυσοῦ,
μεγάλης δὲ τύχης καὶ ὑπερβορέου
μείζονα φωνεῖς· δύνασαι γάρ.
ἀλλὰ διπλῆς γὰρ τῆσδε μαράγνης
δοῦπος ἱκνεῖται· τῶν μὲν ἀρωγοί
375
κατὰ γῆς ἤδη· τῶν δὲ κρατούντων
χέρες οὐχ ὅσιαι στυγερῶν τούτων,
παισὶ δὲ μᾶλλον γεγένηται.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 372 focus
ταῦτα μὲν ὦ παῖ κρείσσονα χρυσοῦ,
μεγάλης δὲ τύχης καὶ ὑπερβορέου
μείζονα φωνεῖς· δύνασαι γάρ.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 372 focus
Translations (10)
Libation Bearers Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 372 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 372 focus
These things of which thou speakest, my child, are more precious than gold, and surpassing e'en Hyperborean happiness, for thou art in anguish 5
. But [enough], for the clang of this double scourge comes upon me: the protectors of these [children] are already beneath the earth: but the hands of the odious pair that rule are polluted; on their children too it bath fallen heavier 6
.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 372 focus
qui
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 372 focus
Treaſures of gold, my child, are poor to this:
430
Thy words are greater than the greatest fortune,
And all her favours:
from thy grief they ſpring k
.
But from this ſcourge a double claſh is heard l
;
One from th' aſſiſtant pow’rs beneath the earth;
435
One from those lords, those hated lords that rule us,
Whose
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 372 focus
Piú che l'oro, fanciullo, rifulgono
i tuoi voti, la sorte che t'auguri
vale piú che la sorte iperborea.
235
Sono agevoli i voti! Ma duplice
suona il fischio di questo flagello!
Chi poteva recarci soccorso
è sotterra; e le mani sono empie
dei signori odïosi che imperano:
240
e piú crude sui figli imperversano.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 372 focus
Hæc quidem ô filia meliora funt auro.
Magna uerò fortuna & altiſsima
Maiora dicis: dolere enim oportet.
350
Sed dupli enim flagri
Metus it horum quidem auxiliatores
Supra terram iam sunt, horum uerò imperantium
Manus non sunt ſanctæ horum odioforum.
Pueris magis erit.
355
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 372 focus
Ja, mein Kind, du hast es leicht zu wünschen;
was du sagst, das wäre freilich köstlich
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 372 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.) — 372 focus
O child, forbear! things all too high thou sayest.
440
Easy, but vain, thy cry!
A boon above all gold is that thou prayest,
An unreached destiny,
As of the blessed land that far aloof
Beyond the north wind lies;
445
Yet doth your double prayer ring loud reproof;
A double scourge of sighs
Awakes the dead; th' avengers rise, though late;
Blood stains the guilty pride
Of the accursed who rule on earth, and Fate
450
Stands on the children's side.
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.) — 372 focus
Traun, köstlicher, Kind, als Schäße des Golds,
Ja, seliger, als hyperborisches Glück,
375
Ist, was du dir klagend erbittest.
Doch doppelt umsaust dumpfhallender Schlag
Von der Geißel mein Ohr; in der Erde ja ruht,
Der schirmte das Haus, und der Herrschenden Hand,
Der Verhaften, befleckt der entsegliche Mord;
380
Und das Bitterste dulden die Kinder!
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

372. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-231

τῶν δὲ κρατούντων: Ad γῆς in Μ. @ supra adscriptum. Deinde τῶν δε sic G. Rob.
372

373. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-232

στυγερῶν δ' ὄντων: Libri στυγερῶν τούτων, quae verba in M. interpunctione a praecedentibus et sequentibus distincta sunt. Scholiastes Touro idių ἀναπεφώνηται, τῶν ἄγαν στυγερῶν τούτων. τοῦτο δὲ μᾶλλον Αγαμέμνονος τοῖς παισὶν αὐτοῦ συμβέβηκεν· πρὸς ὃ ἐπάγει Ηλέκτρα ὅτι ὡς βέλος μου ὁ λόγος οὗτος ἥψατο. Haec non magis probari possunt quam quae recentiores critici protulerunt. Olim scribendum esse putabam στυγερῶν ὄντων. Scribendum potius erat, mulatione paene nulla, στυγερῶν γ' ὄντων.
373

374. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-233

γεγένηται: Αν γεγένηται intelligendum δοῦπος μαράγνης. Nisi scribendum est γεγένηνται, ut Boissonadus voluit.
374

375. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-234

διαμπερὲς οὖς: Nulla personae nota in M. G. Ald. Electrae nomen praefixum in Rob. Turn. δι' ἀμπερὲς G. διαπρεπές Rob. Deinde οὖς Schutzius. ως M. G. Ald. Rob. ὡς Turn.
375

376. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-235

τομῷ ἅπερ τε βέλος: ἵκετο ἅπερ τε βέλος M. G. Ald. Rob. ἵκετο ἅτεπερ βέλος Turn. Apparet ἵκεθ' esse scribendum.
376

377. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-236

Ζεῦ, Ζεῦ,: Orestis nota in Rob. adscripta est, chori in Turn.
377

378. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-237

ἄταν: ἄταν G. Ald. Turn. άτην, supra adscripto a, Μ. ἄτην Rob.
378

379. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-238

τλήμονι: Rectius τλάμονι. Deinde πανούργο Ald.
379

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

83-582. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-38

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erstes Epeisodion, geteilt durch einen Kommos (305— 476). Anagnorismos und Vorbereitung der Rache.

305-476. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-176

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Kommos, welcher den Rächer weckt (vgl. 326 f.) und die Motive der Handlung entwickelt zur Ermutigung und Stärkung des Orestes (510 ἐπειδὴ δρᾶν κατώρθωσαι φρενί). Derselbe wird durch eine anapästische Partie des Koryphaios eingeleitet und durch eine solche geschlossen und besteht aufserdem aus vier Teilen. Die erste Partie (314-421) zerfällt durch ein anapästisches System des Koryphaios (371-378) in zwei symmetrische Teile, deren Mitte wieder anapästische Systeme des Chorführers einnehmen, die sich entsprechen (339 - 343 = 399 - 403), während zu beiden Seiten eine Strophe des Orestes und eine Antistrophe der Elektra stehen, die auf der einen Seite durch eine Strophe, auf der anderen durch eine Antistrophe des Chors getrennt werden. Die Form des Ganzen ist also folgende: Or. Cho. El. Kor. Or. Cho, El. Kor. Or. Cho. El. Kor. Or. Cho. El.

379. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-203

3
,,Dieses Wort drang tief hinein wie ein Pfeil ins Ohr." Aus der Erinnerung an das unwürdige Todeslos des Agamemnon entwikkelt sich das glühende Verlangen nach Rache.