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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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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.) — 838-934 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 838 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 838 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 838 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 838 focus
ἥκω μὲν οὐκ ἄκλητος, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπάγγελος·
νέαν φάτιν δὲ πεύδομαι λέγειν τινὰς
ξένους μολόντας οὐδαμῶς ἐφίμερον,
μόρον γ' Ὀρέστου. καὶ τόδ᾽ ἀμφέρειν δόμοις
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γένοιτ' ἂν ἄχθος αἱματοσταγὲς φόνῳ
τῷ πρόσθεν ἑλκαίνοντι καὶ δεδηγμένῳ.
πῶς ταῦτ᾽ ἀληθῆ καὶ βλέποντα δοξάσω;
ἢ πρὸς γυναικῶν δειματούμενοι λόγοι
πεδάρσιοι θρώσκουσι θνήσκοντες μάτην;
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τί τῶνδ᾽ ἂν εἴποις ὥστε δηλῶσαι φρενί;
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 838 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 838 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.)) — 838 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 838 focus
I have come not unbidden, but summoned by a messenger ; and I understand that some strangers who have arrived tell us news by no means welcome, to wit, the death of Orestes. And the imputation of this upon the house would be a blood- dripping burthen upon one still ulcerated and irritated by the former murder 4 . How am I to deem these tidings true and clear? or can it be that alarming rumours in the minds of women are flitting in mid-air, such as die away without effect ? What of these things shouldst thou say, so as to prove it to my mind ?
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 838 focus
achève l'œuvre amère du Malheur.)
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 838 focus
This meſſage has a voice, that calls me forth
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To learn with more aſſurance this report,
By certain ſtrangers brought, touching the death
Of young Oreſtes; most unwelcome this;
And the relation to this house will add
Fresh terror to the fear, whoſe unheal’d wound
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Smarts inwardly, and rankles.
Shou'd I give
Full credit to this tale, or rather deem it
The idle offspring of these women’s fears,
That lightly roſe, and will as lightly die?
950
Tell me, what proof gives credit to this rumour?
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 838 focus
Non senza invito io venni, anzi chiamato.
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So che son giunti forestieri, e recano
una novella punto grata. Oreste
è morto. E deve questo nuovo cruccio
patir la casa, oltre l'antica strage
che ci piaga e ci morde. Or, come apprendere
750
se credibile e vera è la novella,
o se sgomente ciance all'aria corrono,
di femmine, che presto irrite cadono?
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 838 focus
Venio non inuocatus, ſed nuncio accerſitus.
Nouam famam ut audiam dicere aliquos
775
Hoſpites accedentes nequaquam caducam,
Mortem Oreſtis, & hoc ferre domum.
Sit dolor hæc in cædem terriculi,
Vulneranti primo & proiſecto.
Quomodo hæc uera & uiuentia putabo?
780
Aut à mulieribus terrendi ſermones,
"Excelsi cadunt morientes fruſtra.
Quid horum dices, ut maniſeſtes mentem?
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 838 focus
Da bin ich, hergerufen, nicht aus eig'nem Drang.
Mit neuer Botschaft, heifst es, kam ein fremder Mann,
840 mir keineswegs erwünschter, von Orestes' Tod.
Das lüde schwerste Sorg' und Angst auf unser Haus,
das von der alten Wunde schwer darniederliegt.
Wie darf ich das betrachten? Leuchtet klar darin
die Wahrheit? Ist's ein Nebelwort, das aus der Angst
845 des Frauenherzens aufsteigt, bald in nichts verweht?
Könnt ihr mir Auskunft geben, die Gewissheit schafft?
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 838 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.) — 838 focus
Hither and not unsummoned have I come;
For a new rumour, borne by stranger men
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Arriving hither, hath attained mine ears,
Of hap unwished-for, even Orestes' death.
This were new sorrow, a blood-bolter'd load
Laid on the house that doth already bow
Beneath a former wound that festers deep.
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Dare I opine these words have truth and life?
Or are they tales, of woman's terror born,
That fly in the void air, and die disproved?
Canst thou tell aught, and prove it to my soul?
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.) — 838 focus
Nicht ungerufen komm' ich, Boten riefen mich;
Denn neue Kunde, hör' ich, ward von Fremdlingen
Hieher gemeldet, keineswegs erfreuliche:
Der Tod Orestens. Würde das im Hause kund,
Ein schreckentriefend Grausen wohl erweckt' es hier,
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Wo noch des Mordes Wunde brennt mit altem Schmerz.
Wie? Dars' ich's Wahrheit achten, ist's lebendig hell?
Sind's eitle Frauensagen, die, vom Schreck gezeugt,
Zur Luft sich aufwärts schwingen und in Nichts vergeh'n?
Was weißt du hiervon zweifellos mir kundzuthun?
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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

838. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-537

εἴτ᾽: Turn. M. Žɛv G. Ald. Rob.
838

839. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-538

κληδόνος: κλυδόνος G. Ald.
839

840. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-539

οὔτοι φρέν᾽ ἂν κλέψειεν: οὗτοι φρέν ἂν κλέψειεν Elmsleius ad Euripidis Med. p. 150. οὗτοι φρένα κλέψειαν M. G. Ald. Rob. Τurn. κλέψειεν Stephanus.
840

841. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-540

ἄρξωμαι: ἄρξαμαι vitium Ald.
841

842. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-541

κἀπιθεάζουσ': nagyoμén Rob. Deinde záridoάžovou M. G. sed in M. od ab alia manu in litura scriptum est. κἀπιθοάζωσα Ald. καπι θοάζουσα Rob. zḍлidoάlovo' Turn. Recte Blomfieldius et ante eum Schultzius scribendum coniecerunt κἀπιθεάζουσ'.
842

844. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-542

ἀνύσωμαι: ἀνύσομαι G.
844

845. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-543

μιανθεῖσαι: juaviva Rob. ex sua coniectura: codex eius, ut ceteri libri, μιανθεῖσαι.
845

846. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-544

πειραὶ: Scholiastes πειραί, αἱ ἀκμαὶ τῶν ξιφῶν, παρὰ τὸ πείρειν. Non debebat Blomfieldius Pauwii лɛα probare.
846

848. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-545

ὄλεθρον: pov error Rob.
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850. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-546

δαίων ἀρχάς τε πολισσονόμους: δαίων M. G. Rob. δαΐων Ald. Turn. Deinde libri αρχάς τε πολισσονόμους, nisi quod Ald. πολυσσονομούς habet. Porsonus scripsit ἀρχαῖς τε πολισσονόμοις. Receperunt hoc editores praeter Wellanerum, qui té post participium ea ratione positum esse putavit, de qua dixi ad Ag. v. 97. Hic quidem veri simillimum est excidisse versum eiusmodi, πλοῦτόν τε δόμων.
850

852. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-547

πατέρων: πύτον Ald. male intellecto compendio codicis G. Hinc πατρῷον Turn.
852

853. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-548

πάλην ... μόνος ὢν: úr Ald. et codex Robortelli: ipse Rob. náλny scripsit, quod est in M. G. Turn. Deinde uóvos ir M. Rob. μóvos omittunt G. Ald. unde Turn. r o scripsit.
853

854. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-549

θεῖος: Jos Turn. 9ɛiois M. G. Ald. Rob.
854

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

1
drittes Epeisodion: Vollzug der Rache. Ägisthos tritt rechts auf (ohne Gefolge).

840. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-445

2
καὶ schliefst den Gedanken an οὐδαμῶς ἐφίμερον an. ἀμφέρειν wie 446: und dieses zu ertragen dürfte dem Hause eine bluttriefende Last sein, das von dem früheren Morde noch wund und zerrissen ist." Der Ausdruck aî μa τοσταγές und ἑλκαίνουσι καὶ δεδηγμένοις hat Bezug auf das Zerreifsen von Brust und Wange bei einem Todesfalle. Vgl. 24 f.

843. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-446

3
βλέποντα, lebenskräftig, οὐ φθίνοντα, Gegensatz θνήσκοντες μάτην 845. Soph. Οed. Τ. 482 τὰ δ᾽ αἰεὶ ζῶντα περιποτᾶται.

844. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-447

4
δειματούμενοι λόγοι, Reden der Angst. Eigentlich γυναικῶν δειματουμένων, also von der Person übertragen.

845. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-448

5
Sie fliegen in der Luft (sie gleichen einem leichten Windhauch) und vergehen in Nichts. Vgl. Ag. 492 . Uber die Form πεδάρσιοι τη 588. — Mit θνήσκοντες μάτην vgl. καθεύδουσιν μάτην 880 und εἴδωλον ἄλλως Soph. Phil. 947 .

847. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-449

6
Mit ἠκούσαμεν μὲν vgl. Ag. 1619
γέρων ὤν
, Eur. Bakch. 189 γέροντες ὄντες u. . .

848-849. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-450

7
8
Persönliche Erkundigung ist mehr wert als Mitteilung von Boten. Soph. Οed. Τ. 6 ἁγὼ δικαιῶν μὴ παρ᾽ ἀγγέλων, τέκνα, ἄλλων ἀκούειν αὐτὸς ὧδ᾽ ἐλήλυθα, Aristoph. Vö. 967 οὐδὲν οἷόν ἐστ᾽ ἀκοῦσαι τῶν ἐπῶν, Plat. Gorg. p. 447 C οὐδὲν οἷον τὸ αὐτὸν ἐρωτῶν.

851. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-451

9
θνῄσκοντος, αὐτοῦ.

853. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-452

10
κλέψειεν (trügen) wie Soph. Trach. 243
εἰ μὴ συμφοραὶ κλέ πτουσί με
, Ant. 1218
θεοῦσι κλέπτομαι
. ὠμματωμένην: Eur. Hel 122 αὐτὸς γὰρ ὄσσοις εἰδόμην καὶ νοῦς ὁρᾷ. Agisthos tritt durch die Mittelthüre in den Palast.