Aeschylus Libation Bearers 22-83b

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.) — 22-83b focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 22 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.
τοιάνδε χάριν ἀχάριτον ἀπότροπον κακῶν,
ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα, μωμένα μ᾿ ἰάλλει
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δύσθεος γυνά. φοβοῦμαι δ᾽ ἔπος τόδ᾽ ἐκβαλεῖν.
τί γὰρ λύτρον πεσόντος αἵματος πέδοι;.
ἰὼ πάνοιζυς ἑστία,
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ἰὼ κατασκαφαὶ δόμων.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 22 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'.
τοιάνδε χάριν ἀχάριτον, ἀπότροπον κακῶν,
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ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα, μωμένα με ἰάλλει
δύςθεος γυνά. φοβοῦμαι δ᾽ ἔπος τόδ᾽ ἐκβαλεῖν.
τί γὰρ λύτρον πεσόντος αἵματος πέδῳ;
ἰὼ πανοίζυς ἑστία,
ἰὼ κατασκαφαὶ δόμων.
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ἀνήλιοι, βροτοστυγεῖς
δνόφοι καλύπτουσι δόμους
δεσποτῶν θανάτοισιν.
ἀντ. β'.
σέβας δ᾽ ἄμαχον ἀδάματον ἀπόλεμον τὸ πρὶν
δι' ὤτων φρενός τε δαμίας περαῖνον
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δι' αἵματ᾽ ἐκποθένθ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφοῦ
τίτας φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν.
διαλγὴς δ᾽ ἄτα διαφέρει
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τὸν αἴτιον παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν.
ἀντ. γ'.
θιγόντι δ᾽ οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων
ἄκος· πόροι τε πάντες ἐκ μιᾶς ὁδοῦ
ῥαίνοντες τὸν χερομυσῆ
φόνον καθαρσίοις ἴοιεν ἂν μάτην.
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ἐπῳδός.
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.) — 22 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.
Τοιάνδε χάριν ἀχάριτον ἄχαριν ἀπότροπον κακῶν,
Str. 2.
Σέβας δ' ἄμαχον ἀδάματον -μαντον ἀπόλεμον τὸ πρὶν
Ant. 2.
δι' ὤτων φρενός φρένες τε δαμίας περαῖ-
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νον νῦν ἀφίσταται ἀμφ- M2 s.l.· φοβεῖ-
ται δέ τις· τὸ δ' εὐτυχεῖν,
τόδ' ἐν βροτοῖς -τοῖσι θεός τε καὶ θεοῦ πλέον·
ῥοπὴ δ' ἐπισκοπεῖ Δίκας δίκαν
ταχεῖα τοὺς τοῖς μὲν ἐν φάει·
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τὰ δ' ἐν μεταιχμίῳ σκότου
μένει χρονίζοντας ἄχη χρονίζοντ' ἄχη βρύει (cf. 70 ; βρύει iam deleuerat Hermann)·
τοὺς δ' ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ·
δι' αἵματ' ἐκποθένθ' ἔκποθεν ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφοῦ
Str. 3.
τίτας φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν -υδᾶν·
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διαλγὴς ἄτη διαφέρει
τὸν αἴτιον παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν βρύειν (ν nunc euanidum).
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Θιγόντι Οἴγοντι δ' οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων
Ant. 3.
ἄκος, πόροι τε πάντες ἐκ μιᾶς ὁδοῦ
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.) — 22 focus
ἰαλτὸς ἐκ δόμων ἔβην
χοὰς προπομπὸς ὀξύχειρι σὺν κόπῳ.
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσ᾽ ἀμυγμοῖς
ὄνυχος ἄλοκι νεοτόμῳ·
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(δι' αἰῶνος δ' ἰυγμοῖσι βόσκεται κέαρ)·
λινοφθόροι δ' ὑφασμάτων
λακίδες ἔφλαδον ὑπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν
πρόστερνοι στολμοὶ
πέπλων ἀγελάστοις
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ξυμφοραῖς πεπληγμένων.
1
τορὸς γὰρ Φοῖβος ὀρθόθριξ
δόμων ὀνειρόμαντις ἐξ ὕπνου κότον
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 22 focus
τορὸς γὰρ {Φοῖβος} ὀρθόθριξ δόμων
ὀνειρόμαντις, ἐξ ὕπνου κότον πνέων,
ἀωρόνυκτον ἀμβόαμα
μυχόθεν ἔλακε περὶ φόβωι,
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τοιάνδε χάριν ἀχάρι⟨το⟩ν, ἀπότροπον κακῶν,
ἰὼ Γαῖα μαῖα, μωμένα μ᾽ ἰ⟨ά⟩λλει
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δύσθεος γυνά (φοβοῦμαι δ᾽ ἔπος τόδ᾽ ἐκβαλεῖν)·
τί γὰρ λύτρον πεσόντος αἵματος πέδοι;
ἰὼ πάνοιζυς ἑστία,
ἰὼ κατασκαφαὶ δόμων.
ἀνάλιοι βροτοστυγεῖς
δνόφοι καλύπτουσι δόμους
δεσποτᾶν θανάτοισι.
σέβας δ᾽ ἄμαχον ἀδάματον ἀπόλεμον τὸ πρίν
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δι᾽ ὤτων φρενός τε δαμίας περαῖνον
νῦν ἀφίσταται, φοβεῖται δέ τις. τὸ δ᾽ εὐτυχεῖν,
τόδ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς θεός τε καὶ θεοῦ πλέον·
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τὰ δ᾽ αἵματ᾽ ἐκποθέν⟨θ⟩᾽ ὑπὸ Χθονὸς τροφοῦ,
τίτας φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν·
αἰανὴς ⟨δ᾽⟩ ἄτα
διαφέρει τὸν αἴτιον
⟨καὶ⟩ παναρκέτας νόσος. {βρύειν
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ}
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θιγόντι δ᾽ οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων
ἄχος, πόροι τε πάντες ἐκ μιᾶς ὁδοῦ
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·
80
δακρύω δ᾽ ὑφ᾽ εἱμάτων
ματαίοις δεσποτᾶν τύχαισιν,
κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένα.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 22 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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τοιάνδε χάριν ἀχάριτον ἀπότροπον κακῶν,
ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα, μωμένα μ’ ἰάλ-
λει δύσθεος γυνά. φοβοῦ-
μαι δ’ ἔπος τόδ᾽ ἐκβαλεῖν.
τί γὰρ λύτρον πεσόντος αἵματος πέδοι;
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ἰὼ πάνοιζυς ἑστία,
ἰὼ κατασκαφαὶ δόμων.
ἀνήλιοι βροτοστυγεῖς
δνόφοι καλύπτουσι δόμους
δεσποτῶν θανάτοισι.
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σέβας δ’ ἄμαχον ἀδάματον ἀπόλεμον τὸ πρίν
δι’ ὤτων φρενός τε δαμίας περαῖ-
νον νῦν ἀφίσταται. φοβεῖ-
ται δέ τις. τὸ δ’ εὐτυχεῖν,
τόδ’ ἐμ βροτοῖς θεός τε καὶ θεοῦ πλέον.
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ῥοπὴ δ’ ἐπισκοπεῖ δίκας
ταχεῖα τοὺς μὲν ἐν φάει,
τὰ δ’ ἐν μεταιχμίωι σκότου
μένει χρονίζοντας ἄχη, [βρύει]
τοὺς δ’ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ. =
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τὰ δ’ αἵματ’ ἐκποθένθ’ ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφού
τιτὰς φόνος πέπηγεν οὐ διαρρύδαν.
διαλγής δ’ ἄτη διαφέρει τὸν αἴτιον
παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν. –
[τοὺς δ’ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ]
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θιγόντι δ’ οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων
ἄκος, πόροι τε πάντες ἐκ μιᾶς ὁδοῦ
†βαίνοντες τὸν χερομυσῆ
†φόνον καθαίροντες ἰοῦσαν μάταν. =
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 (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.)) — 22-82 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 22 focus
I am come forth from the palace, sent as an escort to the drink-offering with the noise of sharp clapping of hands. Marked is my cheek with bloody gashes, the furrow newly cut by my nail: for ever is my heart fed on wailings; and the rendings of tissues ruining the vesture, make a noise through my sorrows, the breast-protecting robes being torn through smileless woes.
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.
Such an unkind kindness devising as an averter of ills, O Earth, mother! does the godless woman send me. But I dread to utter this word: for what atonement is there for blood that has fallen on the ground? Alas for the all-unhappy hearth! Alas for the ruin of the dwelling! A gloom uncheered by the sun, abhorred of
And majesty, which was in the olden time unconquered, invincible, unassailed, making its way through the ears and the mind of the people, is now banished. And somebody 1
is terrified. But to be prosperous-this is both a god and more than a god among mortals. And the swift turn of Justice visits some in daylight, and some lingering burst forth with violence in the interval of darkness, and some impracticable night possesses 2
.
Because of the blood that hath been drunk by the fostering earth, gore that cries for vengeance, is fast clotted so as never to be washed away. A piercing bitter curse destroys 3
the author of the all-sufficing malady.
But [as] there is no remedy for maidenhood 4
to its violater, [so] all the streams, moving in one course, flow in vain 5
to purify murder of the foul hand.
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.) — 22 focus
suppliante.
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 «
cet hommage » — ou plutôt cet outrage ! — « détourner d'elle le malheur » 2
dont les maîtres ont péri.

Le respect d'antan, invincible, indestructible, inattaquable, qui pénétrait le cœur comme les oreilles du peuple, maintenant s'est évanoui : la crainte règne seule. Le succès, voilà
ce dont les mortels font un dieu, plus qu'un dieu. Mais la Justice vigilante atteint les uns promptement en leur midi ; à d'autres,
c'est l'heure frontière de l'ombre qui réserve de
plus tardives souffrances ; à d'autres enfin la nuit même n'apporte pas de sanction 3 .
Mais que les gouttes en soient une fois bues par la terre
nourricière, et le sang vengeur se fige : il ne s'écoulera plus ! Une ruine d'autant plus cruelle est la rançon du délai et sait
apporter au coupable une foison de maux largement suffisante !
Qui a forcé la chambre d'une vierge
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.) — 22 focus
This ſadly-penſive train to lead,
With hallow'd rites to ſooth the dead,
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To bear these off'rings to his shrine,
The melancholy taſk is mine.
And, as from yon' proud walls I take my way,
My cheeks, with many' a ſounding blow
Beat by these hands, in crimſon glow,
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Whilſt my poor heart to anguiſh ſinks a prey:
And
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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With ſoul-subduing fear appall'd
Me this unholy woman call'd,
To bear these gifts, this train to lead,
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And ſooth to peace the mighty dead.
But
Round him the blaze of greatneſs ſhone,
And dignity adorn'd his throne:
The people bow'd before their lord,
Awe-ſtruck, and his high ſtate ador'd.
His blood, that ſunk upon the ground
A ſtiffened maſs of carnage lies,
Aloud for vengeance on his murderers cries:
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Ate obeys the call; but flow
Delays, till dreary night encloſe them round,
Prepar'd to ſtrike a deeper blow.
Shall he, that foul with midnight rape
Pollutes the nuptial bed, eſcape?
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Murder and luft! Were all the ſtreams, that wind
Their mazy progreſs to the main,
To cleanſe this odious ſtain in one combin'd,
The ſtreams combin'd wou'd flow in vain.
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.) — 22 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 22 focus
Ex ædibus ascendi miſſus
Libamina deductor acuta manu fundo.
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Congruit gena cruenta clamoribus
Nouæ ſectione unguis,
Per æuum uerò clamoribus pascitur cor.
Ex lino textæ corruptæ
Veſtes laceratæ ſunt pre doloribus
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Ornamenta pectoris:
Peplorum triftibus
Calamitatibus inuolutorum.
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.
Hanc gratiam ingratam aduerfandam malorum.
Heu heu terra,
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Quærens appropinquat
Impia mulier. timeo
Hoc uerbum profundere.
Quid? humiditatem cadentis ſanguinis humi
Heu ærumnosa domus,
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Heu diruptiones domus,
Obscuræ mortalibus inuise
Tenebræ occultant domus,
Morte dominorum.
Cultus inexpugnabilis, indomitus
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Imbellis antea, ab auribus & mente
Populi præfectus.
Nunc abest.
Hos quidem imperfecta habet nox
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Pro ſanguine poto ab alma terra.
Vltrix cædes fixa est non diffluens.
Molestum nocumentum dilacerat
Prefectos morbi pullulare.
Hoc imperfecta habet nox
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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.) — 22 focus
Vom Haus geschickt,
tragen wir zum Grabe
die Spenden; hurt'ger Hände Brüsteschlagen
giebt das Geleit.
Die Wange zeigt frische Purpurstreifen,
25 die Furchen, die der Nagel zog.
Das Herz ist, ach, längst gewohnt des Jammers.
In Fetzen und Streifen zerflattert der Bausch
des Busentuchs.
Bittrer Harm,
wilder Schmerz
30 rifs, zerschlifs den Mantel.
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,
Nun schickt die Gefahr zu beschwören mich her
gedenk' es die Hölle
45 mit heuchlerisch schmeichelnden Gaben
die Gottverlass'ne.
Furchtsam nur
sprech'
ich's aus.
Giebt es denn Sühne für vergoss'nes Blut?
Weh ruf ich, weh!
Einst folgte dem mächtig gebietenden Wort
55 ehrfürchtigen Volks
nie murrender treuer Gehorsam.
Das ist vorüber. Furcht allein fühlen sie;
60 doch der Erfolg ist höchster Gott der Welt.
Vergeltungsschlag,
bald kommt er rasch, am hellen Tag;
der Aufschub bis zur Dämmerung
bringt manchem bittres Weh;
65 und manchen auch birgt die Nacht,
eh' die Sühne kam.
Wo Blut der Erde Mutterboden sog,
unlöschlich schwarz
steht die Schuld geschrieben.
Vergeltung hebt sich nur den Schuld'gen auf,
69 bis voll er steht in der Sünden Blüte.
71
Wenn einmal nur der Jungfrau Gürtel sprang,
auf ewig ist's. Rauschten alle Wasser
der Welt zusammen auch in einen Strom:
75 die Mörderhand
wüschen sie vergebens.
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.) — 22 focus
Chorus
STROPHE.
†Drop ye for the dead
Tears with pattering sound;
Lustral rain is shed
O'er the hallowed mound,
From the pure which screeneth bale,
150 While the powers of Evil quail.
Hear, O master, at thy tomb,
Whispered sounds from sorrow's murky gloom.
ANTISTROPHE.
Now in measured flow
Tune the notes of woe!
When will warrior brave,
†(War-god strong to save
Houses in the dust laid low,)
Hurl the spear, from hornèd bow
Wing the arrow's deadly flight,
Or wield the hilted brand in closing fight?
ELECTRA
These earth-drained off'rings hath my sire received.
Chorus
What meanest thou? Boundeth my heart with fear?
ELECTRA
160 Laid on the tomb this lock of hair I see.
Chorus
Shorn from what man, or what deep-girdled maid?
ELECTRA
Who here will guess may easily divine.
Chorus
Although the elder, I from thee would learn.
ELECTRA
There is but one who could have shorn this hair.
Chorus
True, foes are they who with the lock should mourn.
ELECTRA
And certes, it is very like in hue.
Chorus
Like to what tresses? That I fain would learn.
ELECTRA
In sooth it hath the colour of mine own.
Chorus
Then should it be Orestes' stealthy gift?
ELECTRA
170 The semblance of his clust'ring locks it bears.
Chorus
But hither how could he have dared to come?
ELECTRA
He this shorn lock hath sent to grace his sire.
Chorus
Not less bewept by me what now thou sayest,
If, living, he may never tread this land.
ELECTRA
Rolls o'er my heart a surge of bitterness,
Smitten am I as with a piercing shaft;
And from these eyes, while gazing on this lock,
The thirsty drops of sorrow's wintry flood
Flow unrestrained. For how may I conceive
180 That other of the townsmen owns this hair?
And certes, she who slew him sheared it not,
My mother, all unworthy of the name,
Who towards her children bears a godless mind.
Though not with full assurance may I call
This off'ring his, dearest of mortal men,
Orestes,-still, hope fawns upon my heart.
Alas!—
Oh had it, herald-like, a friendly voice,
So I by doubt no more should be distraught.
190 Then had it clearly counselled me this lock
To loathe, if severed from a foeman's head,
Or else, akin to me, had shared my grief,
Gracing this tomb, an honour to my sire.
Chorus
But let us call upon the gods, who know
In what dire storms, like sailors, we are whirled;
Since if by them our safety is ordained,
From tiny seed may spring a mighty stock.
ELECTRA
And lo, these traces-yet another sign;
Footprints that tally with my own;—and see,
Two diverse outlines are impressed, his own,
And also of some fellow-wayfarer.
The impress of this foot, from heel to toe,
200
Thus measured, hath the symmetry of mine.
Travails my heart-disordered is my wit.
ORESTES
Acknowledging to Heaven thy prayers fulfilled,
Pray that the further issue may be blest.
ELECTRA
What have I won by favour of the gods?
ORESTES
Him to behold for whom thou long hast prayed.
ELECTRA
How knowest thou for whom I raised the prayer?
ORESTES
I know Orestes in thy heart enshrined.
ELECTRA
And say wherein are now my prayers fulfilled?
210
ORESTES
Myself am he;-seck none than me more dear.
ELECTRA
Stranger, around me wouldst thou weave some snare?
ORESTES
Myself against myself would then contrive.
ELECTRA
Wouldest thou mock at my calamity?
ORESTES
At mine own grief I mocked, mocked I at thine.
ELECTRA
Art thou Orestes? Thou to whom I speak?
ORESTES
Myself thou seest, and discernest not;
Yet gazing on this lock of mourning hair,
And in my footprints marking well my track,
Thy fluttered thoughts did paint me to thine eye.
220
This lock, thy brother's, like in hue to thine,
Mark well, applying it whence it was shorn;
Mark too this garment, by thy shuttle wrought,
Scenes of the chase, embroidered by thy hand.
Be calm,-through joy lose not thy self-control;
For deadly are, I know, those near in blood.
ELECTRA
Oh! cherished darling of thy father's house,
Hope of our race, thou precious seed, long wept,
Trusting in thy strong arm thou shalt regain
Thy natal home. O fondly loved, in whom
230
Centre four dear affections; for perforce,
Thee I must hail as father, and on thee
Love for my mother, justly hated, falls;
And for my sister, pitilessly slain.
My faithful brother hast thou ever been,
My pride, my awe;-only may Justice, Strength,
With Zeus supreme, third Saviour, aid thy cause.
ORESTES
Zeus, Zeus, beholder be thou of these woes;-
Mark the young brood, reft of their eagle-sire,
Who perished in the folds, the snaky toils
240
Of direful serpent;-orphaned they endure
The pangs of hunger; not yet strong of wing
To carry to the nest the eagle's prey.
So mayest thou behold us twain, myself,
And her, Electra, offspring sire-bereft,
Thus doomed to common exile from our home.
ELECTRA
And if of sire, who greatly honoured thee
With many a sacrifice, thou slay the brood,
Whence, from like hand, wilt festive gifts obtain?
As none, if thou the eaglets slay, henceforth
250
To mortals will thy trusty omens bear;
So, if all withered, ne'er this royal stock
On sacrificial days shall aid thy shrine.
Provide; from low estate to greatness lift
A house which verily now prostrate seems.
Chorus
Oh children, Saviours of your father's hearth,
Forbear, lest some one should o'erhear your words
And all, with gossip-loving tongue, rehearse
To those in power; whom dead I fain would see
Blazing 'mid spirting pine-wood's pitchy brands.
260
ORESTES
Of Loxias the mighty oracle
Will not betray me; He to this emprize
Hounded me on,-against my inmost reins
Denouncing freezing curses, should I not
Requite the authors of my father's death.
Stript bare and goaded on by forfeiture,
He bade me slay them as my sire they slew,
Declaring I should else atonement make
With my own life and many grievous woes.
First evils dire, from earth that spring, he showed,
270
Soothing to hostile powers; naming these plagues,—
A leprous canker, cleaving to the flesh,
That eats with rancorous tooth the vital strength,
And through disease blanches the youthful locks;
Next of the Furies other dread assaults
He pictured, springing from my father's blood.
For the dark shafts of those beneath the earth,
(The slain who cry for vengeance to their kin,)
With frenzy wild, and groundless fear at night,
Disturb and harass his distracted soul,
280
Who clearly in the darkness Phobos sees
To knit his brow. Thus from the town they chase
The wretch all mangled with the brazen scourge.
Moreover to such caitiff is denied
Or festal cup to share, or solemn pledge,
While from the altars, him, a father's wrath
Unseen excludes ;-him may no host receive
To cleanse, with purifying rite, from guilt;—
Till, friendless and dishonoured, dies the wretch,
The shrivelled prey of all-destructive doom;
290
Such oracles I needs must trust; and e'en
Mistrustful were I, vengeance must be wrought;
For many divers promptings mingle here;—
The god's command, heart-sorrow for my sire,
And indigence hard-pressing: never then
Should citizens, of mortals most renowned,
Who, with heroic spirit, wasted Troy,
Be slaves of women twain. For, sooth, his soul
Is womanish, as trial quick may tell.
Chorus
Ye mighty Fates, end ye the great emprize,
300 As Right, with Heaven's high sanction, hath decreed ;-
" Let tongue of Hatred pay back tongue of Hate;"
Thus with her mighty utt'rance Justice cries,
Due penalty exacting for each deed.
" Let murder on the murderous stroke await!”—
"Doer of wrong must suffer."-This sage lore,
Tradition utters, trebly hoar.
ORESTES
STROPHE I.
What can I, Sire unblest,
Prayerfully sing,
Thee from thy couch of rest
310
Hither to wing?
Lo! in that drear confine,
Darkness is day!
Welcome to Atreus' line,
Pour we the lay!
Chorus
STROPHE II.
My son, the wasting jaws of fire
Quell not the spirit of the dead,
Full late he manifests his ire.-
When mourned is he whose blood is shed,
The slayer is revealed. In time,
320
For slaughtered parents, righteous cry
Of orphans, raised unceasingly,
Availeth to search out the hidden crime.
ELECTRA
ANTISTROPHE I.
In turn, my tearful strain,
O Father, hear!
Hark how thy children twain
Chant anthems drear!
Exiles beside thy tomb,
Sad, suppliant pair ;—
No hope relieves our gloom,
330
Triumphs despair.
Chorus
STROPHE.
And yet, should so the god ordain,
Hereafter, gladder notes shall sound;-
Instead of this funereal strain
In palace-halls shall ring amain
A pæan to the dear one newly found.
ORESTES
STROPHE III.
Oh haddest thou, 'neath Ilion's walls,
But perished, by some Lycian spear
Transfixed, my father, to thy halls
340
Glory bequeathing, while thy proud career
A lustre o'er the path had shed
Which now in gloom thy children tread;
Beyond the wave, by numbers reared, a mound,
No burthen to thy house, thou then hadst found.
Chorus
ANTISTROPHE II.
Dear to the dear ones in the fight
Who perished nobly, thou hadst lain,—
With majesty arrayed, and might,
A king in Pluto's gloomy reign,
350
Serving the great ones who command
In Hades. For in upper day
King was he over kings, whose hand
The fatal sceptre wields which men obey.
ELECTRA
ANTISTROPHE III.
Nay, what the need 'neath Ilion's wall
With other victims of the spear,
Father, for thee in death to fall,
And near Scamander grace a foreign bier?
Oh rather might the murderous twain
Themselves have met their death-blow, slain
360
†By kindred hands, so from afar the tale
Had reached thine ear, shielded thyself from bale.
Chorus
[MESODE.]
Richer, my child, thy words than gold;-
Bliss Hyperborean they excel.
†It may not be! Of scourge twofold
The clang resounds.-Already dwell
'Neath earth your champions; they who hold
Loathed empire here have hands unclean.-
On children falls the pang most keen.
370
ELECTRA
STROPHE IV.
Like dart thy word of dread,
Piercing mine ear, hath sped.
Zeus, Zeus, upsending from below
Late thine avenging blow,—
Upon man's daring, crafty deed,
†To parents thou dost deal their righteous meed.
Chorus
STROPHE V.
Mine be it, in exultant strain,
To celebrate the howl of pain
From caitiff smitten to the death,
380
From woman yielding up her breath!
†For why conceal the frenzied throes
That shake my troubled soul?
There blows
At my heart's prow a tempest dire ;-
'Tis rancour's breath, 'tis vengeful ire.
ORESTES
ANTISTROPHE IV.
Oh that, with arm of might
Great Zeus, who guards the right,
†Woe, woe, would strike the guilty pair!
Come peace to this domain !
390
Just meed may the unjust obtain !
Earth, and ye powers of Hades, hear my prayer.
Chorus
ANTISTROPHE.
For law it is, when on the plain
Blood hath been shed, new blood must fall.
Carnage doth to the Fury call;
Avenger of the earlier slain,
She comes, new Ruin leading in her train.
ELECTRA
STROPHE VI.
Earth, and ye powers who rule below,
†Behold, and ye dread curses of the slain,
400 Behold us, outcast, miserable twain,
Poor remnant of the Atridæ;-whither go?
Oh! sov'reign Zeus, what refuge from our woe?
Chorus
ANTISTROPHE V.
Throbbeth my woman's heart with fear,
The while thy dirge assails mine ear;
At one time hopeful courage wanes,
And darkness o'er my inmost reins
Broods, as I list the doleful sound;
†Then once again my changeful heart,
With hope elate, bids grief depart,
410 And fair the prospect smileth round.
ORESTES
ANTISTROPHE VI.
Can grief by flattery be subdued,
Or soothed by fawning? No, to quell the pain
By parent's hate engendered, charms are vain;
Like savage wolf that ravens for its food,
Tameless from birth is sorrow's torturing brood.
Chorus
STROPHE VII.
With Arian beat I strike my breast;
My outstretched hands in wild unrest,
With Kissian mourner's rhythmic woe,
420 In quick succession,—to and fro,
Shower from all quarters blow on blow;
While with the hurly rings amain
My battered head and my distracted brain.
ELECTRA
423
Cruel, all-daring, Mother, woe!
Alas, as foeman buries foe,
A king, no trusty liegemen near,
Thy wedded lord without a tear,
429
Thou hadst the heart unwailed to send below.
ORESTES
STROPHE VIII.
All the dishonour thou hast shown:
430 Therefore shall she our Sire's disgrace atone,
Far as the gods prevail,
Far as my hands avail;
Then may I perish when she lieth prone!
Chorus
ANTISTROPHE VIII.
Maimed was he;-let this whet thy hate;
And with like outrage him she did entomb,
That for thy life his fate
Might be too sore a weight.
Such was thy Father's ignominious doom!
ELECTRA
ANTISTROPHE VII.
440 Our Father's lot thy words proclaim;
While I, despised, a thing of nought,
Shut out like vicious cur with shame,
Forgot to smile; alone, I sought
Solace in weeping,-anguish-fraught.
Hearing the tale my lips impart,
Grave it, my brother, on thy inmost heart.
Chorus
Piercing thine ear, oh may my word
Find access to the depths within!
True is the tale. Thy spirit gird
450 To hear what yet thou hast not heard!
Now, with undaunted heart the strife begin.
ORESTES
STROPHE IX.
Thine aid, O Father, to thy dear ones lend!
ELECTRA
Weeping sad tears, my voice with his I blend.
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.) — 22 focus
Forth from the royal halls by high command
I bear libations for the dead.
Rings on my smitten breast my smiting hand,
And all my cheek is rent and red,
Fresh-furrowed by my nails, and all my soul
35
This many a day doth feed on cries of dole.
And trailing tatters of my vest,
In looped and windowed raggedness forlorn,
Hang rent around my breast,
Even as I, by blows of Fate most stern
40
Saddened and torn.
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,
45
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,
50
Chanting aloud In realms below
The dead are wroth;
Against their slayers yet their ire doth glow.
Therefore to bear this gift of graceless worth—
O Earth, my nursing mother!—
55
The woman god-accurs'd doth send me forth
Lest one crime bring another.
Ill is the very word to speak, for none
Can ransom or atone
For blood once shed and darkening the plain.
60
O hearth of woe and bane,
O state that low doth lie!
Sunless, accursed of men, the shadows brood
Above the home of murdered majesty.
Rumour of might, unquestioned, unsubdued,
65
Pervading ears and soul of lesser men,
Is silent now and dead.
Yet rules a viler dread;
For bliss and power, however won,
As gods, and more than gods, dazzle our mortal ken.
70
Justice doth mark, with scales that swiftly sway,
Some that are yet in light;
Others in interspace of day and night,
Till Fate arouse them, stay;
And some are lapped in night, where all things are undone. 1
75
On the life-giving lap of Earth
Blood hath flowed forth;
And now, the seed of vengeance, clots the plain—
Unmelting, uneffaced the stain.
And Até tarries long, but at the last
80
The sinner's heart is cast
Into pervading, waxing pangs of pain.
Lo, when man's force doth ope
The virgin doors, there is nor cure nor hope
For what is lost,—even so, I deem,
85
Though in one channel ran Earth's every stream,
Laving the hand defiled from murder's stain,
It were in vain.
And upon me—ah me!—the gods have laid
The woe that wrapped round Troy,
90
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—
95
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.
100
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.) — 22 focus
Gesandt vom Hause kommen wir 1
Mit Opferspenden unter wildem Händeschlag.
Die Wange glüht von blutigrothen Nissen,
35
Frischer Nägelfurchen voll;
Und unruhvoll an Wehklagen weidet sich das Herz.
Zu Fezen riß ich linnenes
Geweb' in wildem Schmerz entzwei;
Mein brusthüllender Flor hängt los am Gewande,
40
Rings zerschlikt von herbem Leid.
Erste Gegenstrophe.
Wahnsinn, der hell die Haare sträubt, 2
In Träumen Zukunft offenbart, im Schlafe Wuth
Aushaucht, erhob um Mitternacht im Hause
Lauten Klageruf der Angst,
45
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."
50
Zweite Strophe.
Sie strebt mit solcher Liebe liebelos das Leid
(O Erdreich, o Mutter!) abzuwehren, sendet 3
Mich, - das frevle Weib! Mir graut's,
Auszusprechen solches Wort.
Wo gibt es Sühne, wenn zur Erde floß das Blut?
55
O gramumlagert Königshaus!
O jammervoll entlaubter Stamm!
Ein Graun den Menschen, sonnenlos
Schwebt düstre Nacht über dem Haus,
Wo der Herrscher entseelt lag.
60
Zweite Gegenstrophe.
Die niebezwungne, niegebeugte Siegerin,
Die Scheu, die des Volkes Ohr und Herz erfüllte,
Schwindet nun dahin: denn wer 4
Fürchtet noch? Das Glück allein,
Das ist der Gott der Menschen, ist noch mehr als Gott.
65
Doch Einen rafft am hellen Tag
Des Rechtes Wage schnell dahin;
Den drückt sie machtvoll, säumend zwar, 5
Im Dämmerlicht nieder in Staub;
Den hüllt ewige Nacht ein.
70
Dritte Strophe.
Der Strom des Blutes, den die Mutter Erde trank, 6
Gerann zum Rächermale, das nicht mehr zerfließt.
Der Fluch, grimmvoll, zerreißt, zerfleischt 7
Den Mörder, daß ihn Jammer ohne Maß umwogt.
Dritte Gegenstrophe.
Wer keusche Brautgemächer kühn erstürmt, wird nie
75
Gefühnt; und strömten alle Ström' auf Einer Bahn
Vereint, mordrother Hände Fluch 8
Hinwegzuspülen: strömten all' umsonst daher.
Schlußgesang.
Doch ich, (denn zwiefache Noth legten mir
Die Götter auf: fern vom Vaterhause
80
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
85
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

22. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-16

ἰαλτὸς
ἴαλτος
M. G. Ald. Rob. Emendavit accentum Turn. ἔβην
ἔβην
Rob. Turn.
ἔβη
M. G. Ald.
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23. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-17

χοὰς
χοὰς
M. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
χοᾶς
Vict. Defendi potest
χοάς
, pendens e
προπομπός
, sed veri simile est Aeschylum
χοᾶν
scripsisse, ut Casaubonus voluit. προπομπὸς Libri
πρόπομπος
. Emendavit accentum Vict. σὺν κτύπῳ
σὺν κτύπῳ
Arnaldus.
συγκύπτῳ
M.
σὺν κύπτῳ
G. Ald.
συγκόπτῳ
Rob.
συγκύπτῳ
Turn.
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24. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-18

πρέπει παρῇσι φοίνιος διωγμός
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσαμυγμοῖς
M.
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσα γωγμοῖς
G. Ald. Inde
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσα γ' ὠγμοῖς
Turn. Veterem scripturam Rob. adnotavit hanc,
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσα γωγμοῖς
, Sophiani coniecturam hanc attulit,
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσ᾽ ἀμυγμοῖς
, ipse edidit
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσ'
, omisso quarto vocabulo. Stanleius, nisi iam ante eum Auratus aut Scaliger (nam in Choephoris caremus schedis Spanhemii),
πρέπει παρηὶς φοινίοις ἀμύγμοις
scribendum censuit, idque Schützius, Porsonus, ceteri receperunt. At in hoc versu spondei tolerari nequeunt, quum primi quattuor versus systema e puris iambis factum comprehendant. Scribendum erat
πρέπει παρῇσι φοίνιος διωγμός,
conspicua est in genis cruenta vis unguium, recenti sulco.
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ἰυγμοῖσι
δι' οἰγμοῖσι
M. G. Ald. Rob.
δ᾽ ὠγμοῖσι
Turn. Emendavit Canterus.
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ἄλγεσιν Libri
ἄλγεσι
. Porsonus
ἄλγεσιν
, ut est apud Etym. M. p. 403, 47.
ἔφλαδον, σημαίνει τὸ ἐσχίσθην, ἢ ἐθλάσθην, ἢ διερρήγνυντο, ὡς φησιν Αἰσχύλος “λινοφθόροι ὑφασμάτων λακίδες ἔφλαδον ὑπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν.”
Iungendum est
λινοφθόροι ὑφασμάτων
, i. e. φθείρουσαι τὰ τῶν ὑφασμάτων λίνα. Constructio autem haec est (male enim post
ἄλγεσιν
virgulam ponunt),
πρόστερνοι στολμοὶ λακίδες ἔφλαδον
, i. e. ὥςτε λακίδες γενέσθαι. Schol. partim recte,
τὸ ἑξῆς, οἱ δὲ στολισμοὶ τῶν ὑφασμάτων πρὸς τοῖς στέρνοις λινοφθόροι λακίδες ἐρράγησαν
. Eodem modo Aeschylus locutus est in Persis v. 836.
πάντα γὰρ κακῶν ὑπ᾽ ἄλγους λακίδες ἀμφὶ σώματι στημορραγοῦσι ποικίλων ἐσθημάτων
, i. e. πάντα λακίδες ὄντα.
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πρόστερνοι
πρόστελνοι
sic M.
πρόστελνοι
G. Ald. Rob. Emendavit Turnebus.
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τορὸς δὲ φοῖτος ὀρθόθριξ Libri
τορὸς γὰρ φοῖβος
(sic etiam M.)
ὀρθόθριξ
, nisi quod Turn.
φόβος
posuit. Heathio auctore Schutzius et Porsonus
τορὸς γὰρ ὀρθόθριξ φόβος
. Si sic legitur, turbat mox
περὶ φόβῳ
, quod Schützius in secunda editione scripsit
περὶ φόνῳ
. Sed
φόβος
illud e Turnebi ingenio, non e veteribus libris ductum est. Scholiastae quidem ad v. 34. haec est adnotatio,
ἐκ τῶν τῆς καρδίας μυχῶν περισσῶς τῷ φόβῳ ἀναλακεῖν καὶ βοῆσαι τὴν Κλυταιμνήστραν ἐποίησεν ὁ σαφὴs φόβος δὲ ὀνείρων μαντευόμενος
, ut
φόβος
legisse videri possit: sed nihil obstat quin eum
φοῖβος
ut alius vocabuli interpretationem posuisse existimemus. Scripsit autem Aeschylus
τορὸς δὲ φοῖτος ὀρθόθριξ.
In eandem emendationem incidit Bambergerus.
31

34. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-23

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
.
34

35. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-24

γυναικείοισιν Libri
γυναικίοισιν
. Correxit Victorius. βαρὺς πίτνων
βαρὺς πιτνῶν
M. Rob.
βαρὺ πιτνῶν
G. Turn.
βαρυπιτνών
Ald.
βαρὺς πίτνων
Blomfieldius ex Elmsleii sententia.
35

36. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-25

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.
36

37. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-26

ἔλακον
ἔλαχον
M. G. Ald. Rob. Correxit Turnebus.
37

39. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-27

ἐγκοτεῖν In
ἐγκοτεῖν
in M.
ο
ex
ω
factum.
39

40. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-28

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
.
40

41. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-29

ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα
ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα
M. G. Ald. Turn. Agnoscit hoc scholiastes, qui
ὦ γῆ μήτηρ
adscripsit. Recte vero Rob.
ἰὼ γαῖα γαῖα
. Illud ineptum. μωμένα με ἰάλλει Deinde
μωμέν αμιλλεί
, accentus in
ω
et spiritu, ut videtur, in
α
deletis, M.
μωμένα μιλλεῖ
G. Ald. Rob.
μωμένα μυλλεῖ
Turn. Emendavit Stanleius.
41

42. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-30

τόδ'
τόδ'
G. Ald.
τόδε
M. Rob. Omittit Turn. ἐκβαλεῖν Deinde
ἐκβάλλειν
libri, nisi quod
ἐκβάλλεν
Turn. Correxit Stanleius.
42

43. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-31

λύτρον Libri
λυγρόν
. Emendavit Canterus.
43

44. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-32

πάνοιζυς
πανοϊζὺς
M. G. Rob.
πανοίξυς
Ald. Turn. idque e codice suo affert Robortellus. Scribendum
πάνοιζυς
. V. Lob. Paralip. p. 251.
44

48. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-33

θανάτοισιν Libri
θανάτοισι
.
48

49. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-34

ἀδάματον Libri
ἀδάμαντον
, quod olim correxi.
49

50. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-35

φρενός τε
φρενός τε
Vict.
φρένες τε
M. G.
φρένε τε
Ald.
φρέννεσθε
codex Robortelli.
φρένας τε
Rob.
φρενῶν τε
Turn. In
περαῖνον
M.
αι
et
αι
ab alia manu in litura habet.
50

51. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-36

ἀφίσταται In
ἀφίσταται
in M. alia manus
με
super adscripsit. Stanleius aliique interrogative haec dici voluerunt,
φοβεῖται δὲ τίς;
Recte scholiastes
τοῦτο δὲ θέλει εἰπεῖν, ὅτι ἡ αἰδώς, ἣν περὶ Ἀγαμέμνονος εἶχον οἱ δῆμοι, νῦν εἰς φόβον ἐτράπη, ἐκεῖνον γὰρ ᾐδοῦντο καὶ ἐφίλουν, τὸν δὲ φοβοῦνται ὡς τύραννον διατελούμενον
. Hoc enim chorus dicit, maiestas inexpugnabilis, invicta, non debellata olim in auribus animisque popularibus versata destitit: metuit autem aliquis (man ist in furcht).
51

52. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-37

ἐν βροτοῖς In
ἐν βροτοῖς
in M.
ο
ex
ω
factum. Habere autem
ἐν βροτοῖς
, non
ἐμβροτοῖς
, videtur M.
ἐν βροτοῖσι
Rob. Deinde
θεός τε καὶ θεοῦ
, omisso
καί
, vitium Ald. unde
θεός τε θεοῦ
Turn.
52

53. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-38

ῥοπὴ
ῥοπὴ
M. Rob. Turn.
ῥοπῇ
G. Ald. δίκας Deinde
δίκαν
M. G. Ald. Rob.
δίκας
recte Turn. Scholiastes
ἡ δὲ τῆς δίκης ῥοπὴ τοὺς μὲν ἐπισκοπεῖ ταχέως καὶ ἀμύνεται, ἄλλοις δὲ ἐν ἀμφιβόλῳ ἐᾷ τὴν τιμωρίαν, οὐκ ἀθρόως αὐτοὺς ἀμυνομένη, ὥςτε τοὺς ἠδικημένους ὑπ' αὐτῶν λυπεῖσθαι, ἄλλους δὲ σκότος καλύπτει, ὡς μηδ' ὁρᾶσθαι ὑπ᾽ αὐτῆς. ὁμοίως ὁ φόνος πέπηγε καὶ οὐ διαρρεῖ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπέξεισιν ἑαυτόν.
53

54. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-39

τοὺς μὲν
τοῖς μὲν
M. G. Ald. Rob.
τοὺς μὲν
recte Turn. cum scholiasta.
54

56. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-40

μένει χρονίζοντ' ἀτυχής
μένει. χρονίζοντ᾽ ἄχη βρύει
M. sed
η
in
ἄχη
ab alia manu in litura scriptum est; fuisse antea
ε
videtur:
χ
autem ita scriptum, ut
εὐ
videri possit negligentius inspicienti. Hinc
μένει χρονίζοντ᾽ εὐχὴ βρύει
G. Ald. et codex Robortelli et
μένει χρονίζον τεύχη βρύει
Ald. et
μένει, χρονίζον τ' εὐχῇ βρύει
Turn.
μένει, κρονίζοντ'
(voluit
χρονίζοντ'
, ut in adnotatione scripsit)
ἄχη βρύει
cum Sophiano Robortellus. Multa hic temere tentata sunt. Possis suspicari Aeschylum scripsisse
μένει χρονίζοντα βρύειν
, ut haec sit sententia, sed conversio iustitiae subita respicit hos in luce; alia in confiniis tenebrarum exspectat morata efflorescere; alios cassa tenet nox. Sed veri similius est
βρύει
, quod scholiastes
ἀνθεῖ
interpretatur, ex versu 61. ubi
βρύειν
legitur, per errorem huc translatum esse, ut versus 57. post illum versum 61. perperam repetitus est. Aeschylum igitur scripsisse puto
ῥοπὴ δ᾽ ἐπισκοπεῖ δίκας ταχεῖα τοὺς μὲν ἐν φάει, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν μεταιχμίῳ σκότου μένει χρονίζοντ᾽ ἀτυχῆς τοὺς δ᾽ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ.
Sed conversio iustitiae subita respicit hos in luce (i. e. sed iustitia subito se convertit in hos qui in luce versantur: Clytaemnestram et Aegisthum intelligit); alii inter lucem et tenebras infelices morantur (infelix exsilio Orestes); alios (Agamemnonem) cassa nox tenet.
56

58. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-41

αἵματ'
δι' αἵματ'
M. G. Ald. et codex Robortelli.
δι' αἷμά τ'
ex coniectura Rob. Turn. et ita edd. ante Porsonum, qui pluralem restituit. ἐκποθένθ' Deinde
ἐκποθένθ'
e Schützii emendatione Porsonus.
ἐκποθὲν
M.
ἐκποθὲν
ceteri.
58

59. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-42

τίτας
τὶ τὰς
vitium Ald. πέπηγεν οὐ Deinde
πέπηγεν οὐ
M. Rob. Turn.
πεπηγμένου
G. Ald. διαρρύδαν Deinde libri
διαρρυδῶν
. Blomfieldius
διαρρυδάν
. Scribendum erat
διαρρύδαν
. Scholiastam, cuius haec est interpretatio,
ἀντὶ τοῦ οὐ διαρρέων
, adverbium legisse animadvertit Lobeckius Paral. p. 156.
59

60-61. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-43

διαλγὴς δ' ἄτα διαφέρει τὸν αἴτιον παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν Libri
διαλγὴς ἄτη
, nisi quod Robortellus
αἴτη
ex suo codice affert. Recte Schützius in secunda editione
διαλγὴs δ᾽ ἄτα
. In G. ante
διαφέρει
hoc signum est,
[
, minio scriptum, quo librarius indicare voluit
ἄτη
et
διαφέρει
, inter quae verba paene nullum in codice spatium est, maiore spatio disiungenda fuisse, quo spatio versuum fines notantur. Mox iterum tale spatium est inter
αἴτιον
et
παναρκέτας
. Asulanus igitur signo isto et spatio, quod post
αἴτιον
est, librarium verba ista
διαφέρει τὸν αἴτιον
expungenda indicasse ratus omisit ea in editione Ald. posuitque pro iis, quod in codice ut interpretatio supra scriptum est,
διασπαράσσει
. Itaque Turnebus quoque haec ita exhibuit,
διαλγὴς ἄτη διασπαράσσει, παναρκέτας νόσου βρύειν
, correcto vitio Aldinae, quae
παναλκέτας
habet. Scholiastes autem, qui
διασπαράσσει
ad
διαφέρει
adscripsit, quae interpretatio etiam in M. addita est, male haec interpretatus est. Hoc dicit poeta, graviter dolitura noxa differt auctorem (i. e. differt auctori poenam), ut satietate malorum abundet. Post hunc versum in libris repetitus legitur versus 57.
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ
. Adscriptum est in M. G.
τοῦτο ὥςπερ ἐπαδόμενόν ἐστιν
.

62. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-44

θιγόντι Libri
οἴγοντι
. Stephani Scaligerique emendatio,
θιγόντι
, vel metri caussa recipi debebat. Recepit eam Blomfieldius: sed male idem ex Bothii sententia
οὔτι
, quod libri habent, in
οὔτε
mutavit. Neque enim
θιγόντι
ad ea pertinere potest, quae sequuntur,
πόροι τε πάντες etc
.
62

64. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-45

διαίνοντες Libri
βαίνοντες
. Scribendum
διαίνοντες
, quod etiam Lachmannus vidit. χερομυσῆ Deinde
τὸν χαιρομυσῆ
M. G. Rob.
τὸν χαιρομισῆ
Ald.
τὸν χειρομισῆ
Turn.
τὸν χειρομυσῆ
Pauwius aliique.
τὸν χερομυσῆ
scribendum esse vidit Porsonus.
64

65. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-46

φόνον καθαρσίοις ἴοιεν ἂν μάτην. Libri
φόνον καθαίροντες ἰοῦσαν ἄτην
. Scholiastes
ἀντὶ τῆς ἐπιούσης αὐτῷ ἄτης. Ἀττικῶν δὲ τὸ πρὸς αἰτιατικὴν συντάσσειν, καθαίρω σε τὸν φόνον· τὸ δὲ κοινόν, καθαίρω σε τοῦ φόνου
. Scaligero
ἐλοῦσαν μάτην
scribendum videbatur, quod ferri non magis potest quam quod Godefrido Müllero in mentem venit,
ἔθυσαν μάτην
. Aoristus enim id quod factum est indicat tamquam exemplum eius quod fieri soleat: quod autem non est factum, non potest pro exemplo esse. Heathius
ῥέουσι μάτην
scribendum coniecit; alii alia, quae tacere praestat. Corruptum esse apparet non finem tantum versus, sed etiam
καθαίροντες
. Nam nec spondeus ferri potest, quum puri ubique iambi sint, et, si recte in praecedente versu
διαίνοντες
scripsimus, de quo non videtur dubitandum esse, ipsum
καθαίροντες
propter formam et significationem displiceat necesse est. Videtur autem
καθαίροντες
ex interpretatione natum esse. Aeschylum scripsisse puto
φόνον καθαρσίοις ἴοιεν ἂν μάτην.
65

66. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-47

ἀμφίπτολιν
ἀμφίπτολιν
M. G.
ἀμφὶ πτόλιν
Ald. Rob. Turn.
Ἀνάγκαν ἀμφίπτολιν
Blomfieldius,
τὸν ἀμφιτειχῆ λεών
, quod est in Sept. c. Theb. v. 273. comparans, perperam interpretatur necessitatem urbi circumdatam, quum ab hostibus obsidione capta esset. Neque satis recte scholiastes
τὴν ἐκ διαφόρων πόλεων ἀνάγκην, ὅ ἐστι πόλεμον. ὡς “ἀμφιμάτορας κόρους” φησὶν ὁ Εὐριπίδης
(Androm. v. 467.).
ἐκ διαφόρων γὰρ πόλεων ἦσαν οἱ Ἕλληνες
. Immo intelligitur duplicis sedis necessitas, quam dii imposuerunt his mulieribus, ut ex patria abductae in aliena urbe servitutem paterentur. Haec autem verba,
ἀνάγκαν — αἶσαν
, parenthesin esse et Stanleius intellexit et scholiastes.
66

68. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-48

πατρῴων τάνδ' ἐςᾶγον αἶσαν
πατρῴων δούλιον ἐς ἄγον αἶσαν
M. G. Ald. In M. in
ἄγον
inter
γ
et
ο
aliquid erasum.
δούλιον ἐς ἄγον αἶσαν
ex codice suo Robortellus affert.
ἐςᾶγον
emendate Rob. Turn. Vitium in hoc versu arguit metri insolentia. Blomfieldius
δουλίαν
scripsit. Portus
δούλειον
voluerat. Immo
δούλιον
ortum esse puto ex adscripta interpretatione
δουλείαν
. Aeschylus enim scripsisse videtur
πατρῴων τάνδ᾽ ἐςᾶγον αἶσαν.
68

69-70. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-49

δίκαια καὶ μὴ 'μαῖς πρέπον τύχαις βίου βίᾳ φερομένων αἰνέσαι
δίκαια καὶ μὴ δίκαια πρέποντ᾽ ἀρχὰς βίου
M. G. Ald.
ἀρκᾶς βίου
ex codice affert Robortellus: ipse ex Sophiani coniectura
ἀρχαῖς βίου
dedit.
ἀρχαὶ βίου
Turn. Deinde
βίαι
vel
βίᾳ
M. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
βίᾳ
ex codice affert Rob. Hic quoque metrum vitia ostendit. Atque alterum quidem
δίκαια
ab interprete adscriptum esse videtur. Quam suspicionem confirmat fortasse scholiastes, cuius haec est adnotatio,
εἴτε δικαίως εἴτε μή. ἐστὶ δὲ παροιμία· “δοῦλε, δεσποτῶν ἄκουε καὶ δίκαια κἄδικα.”
Deinde
πρέποντ᾽ ἀρχὰς βίου
vix possunt intelligi. Scholiastae legisse videntur
ἀπ' ἀρχᾶς
. Eorum enim hae sunt adnotationes, una ad v. 66.
τὸ ἑξῆς, ἐμοὶ δὲ πρέποντα καὶ ὀφειλόμενά ἐστιν ἀπαρχὰς
(sic etiam M.)
βίου τὰ τῶν βίᾳ με φερομένων αἰνέσαι πικρὸν φρενῶν στύγος κρατούσῃ. ἀνάγκην γάρ μοι οἱ θεοὶ προςήνεγκαν
: altera ad v. 69.
πρέποντά μοι ἐστι καὶ ὀφειλόμενα, ἐξότε τοῦτον ἐπανῄρημαι τὸν βίον, τὰ τῶν πρὸς βίαν κεκτημένων ἐπαινέσαι, καλυπτούσῃ τὴν κατ' αὐτῶν ἀποστύγησιν καὶ μηδὲ παρρησίᾳ τὸν δεσπότην κλαιούσῃ
, cui adnotationi quod in ed. Rob. praefixum est lemma,
πρέποντ᾽ ἀρχαίου βίου
, non legitur in codicibus M. G. Apparet iam scholiastas depravatam scripturam invenisse. Certa emendatione vereor ne non possint hi versus restitui: sed veri simile puto Aeschylum scripsisse
ἐμοὶ δ᾽, (ἀνάγκαν — αἶσαν) δίκαια καὶ μὴ 'μαῖς πρέπον τύχαις βίου βίᾳ φερομένων αἰνέσαι
. Nam
πρέπον τύχαις
scribendum esse probabilis est Schützii coniectura.
βίᾳ φερόμενοι
quum dicuntur domini, non severi in chorum significantur, sed violenti in Agamemnonem eiusque liberos.

70. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-50

πικρὸν
πικρὸν
Vict. et ita scholiastes.
πικρῶν
M. G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
70

71. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-51

κρατούσῃ
κρατούσῃ
Ald. δακρύων ὑφειμάτων Deinde
δακρύω δ᾽ ὑφ᾽ εἱμάτων
M. Rob. Turn.
δακρύω δ᾽ ὑφειμάτων
G. Ald. Corrupta haec esse vidit Porsonus ad Eur. Med. v. 1218. Non potest enim dubitari quin trimeter iambicus restituendus sit. Scribendum
δακρύων ὑφειμάτων
, qui genitivi pertinent ad
πένθεσιν
.
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72. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-52

ματαίοισι
ματαίαισι
ante correctionem G. δεσποτᾶν Deinde libri
δεσπόταν
. Correxit Stanleius.
72

73. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-53

παχνουμένῃ
πένθεσιν παχνουμένην
M. Rob.
πένθεσι παχνουμένην
G. Ald.
πένθεσι παχνουμένη
Turn. Scribendum erat
πένθεσιν παχνουμένῃ
. Itaque hanc epodum ita conformavi,
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκαν γὰρ ἀμφίπτολιν θεοὶ προςήνεγκαν· ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων πατρῴων τάνδ᾽ ἐςᾶγον αἶσαν) δίκαια καὶ μὴ 'μαῖς πρέπον τύχαις βίου βίᾳ φερομένων αἰνέσαι, πικρὸν φρενῶν στύγος κρατούσῃ, δακρύων ὑφειμάτων, ματαίοισι δεσποτᾶν τύχαις, κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένη.
Me vero (duplicis enim sedis necessitatem addidere dii: nam ex patriis aedibus in hanc duxerunt sortem) iusta et iniusta eorum, qui violenti feruntur, pro mea conditione decet approbare, acerbo compresso animi odio, lacrimarumque veste celatarum propter temeraria dominorum fata occultis doloribus horrescentem.
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75. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-54

πάρεστε
πάρετε
Ald. προςτροπῆς
προτροπῆς
G. Ald.
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76. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-55

γένεσθε
γένεσθαι
, sed
ε
ad
αι
supra adscripto, M.
76

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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εὔφρον' In
εὔφρον'
in M.
ο
ex
ω
factum est. κατεύξωμαι Deinde
κατεύξομαι
M. G. Ald. Rob. Emendavit Turnebus.
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τῶνδ'
τῶνδ'
Vict. et, ut videtur, M.
τῶν δ'
G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
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τόνδε In
τόνδε
in M.
ο
ex
ω
factum.
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ὡς νόμος βροτοῖς, ἔσθλ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσιν τάδε στέφη, δόσιν γε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν; Libri
ὡς νόμος βροτοῖς ἔστ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσι τάδε στέφη δόσιν τε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν
. In his
πέμπουσιν
emendate scripsit Victorius. Elmsleio in addendis ad Eur. Heracl. v. 387. scribendum videbatur
ὡς νόμος βροτοῖς, ἔσθλ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσιν τάδε στέφη, δόσιν τε τῶν καλῶν ἐπαξίαν;
Et
ἔσθλ᾽ ἀντιδοῦναι
verum videtur: sed deinde scribendum est
δόσιν γε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν
. Vidit hoc etiam Stanleius in curis secundis,
δόσιν γε
scribendum esse. Ad
τῶν κακῶν
scholiastes haec adnotavit παρ' ὑπόνοιαν.
ἔδει γὰρ τῶν καλῶν εἰπεῖν
.

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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Ιαλτός wie πλαγκτός Ag. 598 . Schol. ὑπὸ Κλυταιμήστρας πεμφθεῖσα (nicht auf eigenen Antrieb). Vgl. 44 1.

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χοὰς προπομπός: zu Ag. 1075 . κόπῳ, κοπετῷ Schol. Vgl. 425 f. und Soph. Αi. 631 χερόπλακτοι δ' ἐν στέρνοισι πεσοῦνται δοῦποι καὶ πολιᾶς ἄμυγμα χαίτας, Eur. Tro. 794 τάδε σοι δίδομεν πλήγματα κρατὸς στέρνων τε κόπους.

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Auf den blutigen Wangen sind sichtbare Spuren des Zerfleischens die Ritzen, welche der Nagel frisch gerissen hat." Vgl. Hom. Τ 285 χερσὶ δ᾽ ἄμυσσεν στή θεά τ' ἠδ᾽ ἁπαλὴν δειρὴν ἰδὲ καλὰ πρόσωπα, Eur. Androm. 826 σπάραγμα κόμας ὀνύχων τε δάι᾽ ἀμύγ ματα θήσομαι, Εl. 146 κατὰ μὲν φίλαν ὄνυχι τεμνομένα δέραν, Οι. 961 τιθεῖσα λευκὸν ὄνυχα διὰ παρηίδων und zu ἄλοκι Eur. Suppl. 826
κατὰ μὲν ὄνυξιν ἠλοκίσμεθα
. Nach Plut. Sol. c. 21 hob Solon ἀμυχὰς κοπτομένων καὶ τὸ θρηνεῖν πεποιημένα καὶ τὸ κωκύειν ἄλλον ἐν ταφαῖς ἑτέρων auf.

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δι' . . κέαρ ist eine Zwischenbemerkung, die sich an νεοτόμῳ anschliefst, wozu δι' αἰῶνος den Gegensatz bildet: die äufseren Zeichen der Trauer sind neu, der innere und geheime (80 f.) Schmerz dauert die ganze Zeit über." Ebenso steht die Parenthese αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον μένει Sept. 730 in Gegensatz zu ὠκύποινον. Ζυ δι' αἰῶνος vgl. Ag. 559 .

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Zu Fetzen durch Zerreifsen des linnenen Gewebes ( λινοφθόροι ὑφασμάτων s. v. a. τὰ τῶν ὑφασμά των λίνα φθείρουσαι) schlitzte unter dem Ausdruck des Schmerzes das Gewand vor der Brust, auf welches infolge eines unheimlichen Vorfalles Schläge gefallen sind." Es steht also λινοφθόροι λακίδεςals proleptisches Prädikat. Zu στολμοὶ πέπλων vgl. Eur. Alk. 216 μέσ λανα στολμὸν πέπλων, Androm. 148 στολμόν τε χρωτὸς τόνδε ποικίλων πέπλων. Zum Gedanken vgl. Pers. 1061
πέπλον δ᾽ ἔρεικε κολπίαν ἀκμῇ χεροῖν
. Glatter würde der Text sein, wenn es nach den Vermutungen von Heimsöth und Keck προστέρνων στολμῶν, οἴκων . . πεπληγμένων hiefse, so dafs πρ. στολμῶν von λακίδες abhängig und οἴκων.. πεπληγμένων wie Ag. 1660
δαίμονος χηλῇ βαρείᾳ δυστυχῶς πεπληγμένοι
 gesagt wäre.

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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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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.

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Dafür eine Gunsterweisung, die nicht als Gunst aufgenommen wird, zur Abwendung des Schlimmen suchend u. s. w. τοιάνδε ist dem Sinne nach von τοιῶνδε, wie Schütz schreiben wollte, nicht verschieden. χάρις ἀχάριτος wie ἄχαρις χάρις Ag. 1545 , Prom. 561 . Vgl. zu Ag. 1137 . Die Erklärung giebt Soph. Εl. 442 σκέψαι γὰρ εἴ σοι προσφι λῶς αὐτῇ δοκεῖ γέρα τάδ᾽ οὖν τάφοισι δέξασθαι νέκυς, ὑφ᾽ ἧς θανών ἄτιμος ὥστε δυσμενὴς ἐμασχαλίσθη κτέ. γαῖα μαία ( ὦ γῆ μήτηρ Schol., vgl. ὦ γαῖα μήτερ Eur. Hipp. 601) ruft der Chor aus, weil er die Absicht der Klyt. als frivol erkennt.

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τί γὰρ κτἑ. giebt die Begründung von ἀχάριτον, worin das Vergebliche des Versuchs die Unterirdischen zu versöhnen ausgesprochen ist.

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βροτοστυγεῖς, den Menschen grauenvoll, dagegen Prom. 825
Γοργόνες βροτοστυγείς
, den Menschen feindlich. Wie φάος, lux, Heil und Segen, so bedeutet δνόφοι Unsegen, welcher auf dem Hause ruht, weil die Besitzer sich ihrer Schuld bewufst sind und im Gefühle allgemeiner Mifsachtung keine frohe Stunde haben. Vgl. Εum. 380.

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Für δυόφοι βροτοστυγεῖς folgt die Erklärung: „Die früher unbezwingliche, unüberwindliche, unnahbare Ehrfurcht vor dem königlichen Hause, welche Ohr und Herz des Volkes durchdrang, weicht jetzt. Und mancher scheut sich nunmehr solches Glück königlicher Stellung zu geniefsen, während sonst königliche Macht den Menschen als Gott und als mehr denn Gott erscheint." δι᾽ ὤτων φρενός τε, weil sich die Ehrfurcht in Reden und in der Gesinnung zeigt. περαίνειν steht im Sinne von περᾶν, vgl. Pind. Pyth. Χ 28 περαίνει πρὸς ἔσχατον πλόον.

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Begründung ( δὲ wie 32) zu φοβεῖται δέ τις τόδ᾽ εὐτυχεῖν: Die Entscheidung der strafenden Gerechtigkeit erschaut schnell die offenbaren Verbrecher; solche aber, deren Schuld sich im Zwielicht birgt, erwartet erst mit der Zeit die Strafe; andere aber deckt wirkungslose (d. h. die Bestrafung ver- eitelnde) Nacht. Der Mord ist offenbar durch das Blutmal, das nicht zerfliefst; der mit Seelenschmerz verbundene Aufschub bewirkt bei dem Mörder nur üppige Blüte der Krankheit (vgl. zu 381 ff.); kein Versteck giebt es für ihn und wenn alle Ströme der Erde sich vereinigen, können sie das Blutmal seiner Hand nicht rein waschen." Den drei Gliedern ταχεία ἐν φάει, χρονίζοντας ἐν μεταιχμίῳ σκότου, ἄκραντος — νύξ entsprechen die drei Glieder des Gegensatzes: immer sichtbare Spur ( ἐν φάει), Aufschub ( χρονίζοντας), Versteck ( νύξ). Anderes Unrecht wird bald gleich, bald spät, manchmal auch gar nicht bestraft, den Mord erwartet unter allen Umständen die Strafe. Aschylos liebt es, durch solchen Kontrast das Verbrechen des Mordes als das schwerste hervorzuheben. Vgl. zu Ag. 990 und besonders Eum. 648 Fesseln kann man lösen: der Tote aber steht nicht wieder auf; dafür allein hat Vater Zeus keine Sühne geschaffen; alles andere nimmt er nicht so schwer." τὰ δ᾽ ἐν μεταιχμίῳ σκ. χρονίζοντας um des Versmarses willen statt der gewöhnlichen Wendung τοὺς δὲ . . χρονίζοντας. — ἐν μεταιχμίω σκότου scil. καὶ φάους, wie sich aus dem Vorhergehenden ergiebt. Vgl. Aristoph. Vö. 187 ἐν μέσω δήπουθεν ἀήρ ἐστι γῆς (scil. καὶ οὐρανοῦ). ἅπαξ ποθέν wie Αg. 1004 πεσὸν ἅπαξ, Eum. 651
ἀνδρὸς δ᾽ ἐπειδὰν αἷμ᾽ ἀνασπάσῃ κόνις ἅπαξ θανόντος
. – φόνος πέπηγεν: haec e populari quadam superstitione intellegenda sunt, ad nostram etiam aetatem propagata, qua maculam ex sanguine hominis iniuste caesi in terram effuso semper manere nec elui posse fingebant (Schütz). διαφέρει, differt, hält hin. - Das dunkle Wort παναρκέτας (vgl. zu Eum. 529 ) erklärt der Schol. τῆς εἰς πάντα τὸν χρόνον ἀρκούσης αὐτῷ. Vgl. Suid. παναρκέος· τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ δυνατοῦ und πανταρκής Pers. 857 . Mit βρύειν vgl. ἀνθεῖ 1007. Genet. wie Soph. Oed. K. 17 x ρος . . βρύων δάφνης ἐλαίας ἀμπέλου. Der Infin. steht konsekutiv. νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων wie πωλικῶν εδωλίων Sept. 441 von den παρθε νῶνες. Als Versteck erscheint die Frauenwohnung auch Sol. eleg. 4, 30 εἰ καί τις φεύγων ἐν μυχῷ ᾖ θα λάμου, Eur. Iph. Τ. 825 λόγχην . ἐν παρθενῶσι τοῖσι σοῖς κεκρυμμέ νην. πόροι τε πάντες κτ.: vgl Soph. Oed. Τ. 1227 οἶμαι γὰρ οὔτ᾽ ἂν Ἴστρον οὔτε Φᾶσιν ἂν νίψαι καθαρμῷ τήνδε τὴν στέγην κτέ. διαίνοντες, anfeuchtend, konnte Der hier mit καθαίροντες erklärt werden, welches statt des ergänzten ῥοαῖσιν in den Handschriften steht. · ᾐόνησαν: aus einer anderen Stelle des Asch. (frg. 366 Dind.) wird γόνησας angeführt und mit ἔλουσας erklärt. Der Potentialis der Vergangenheit steht ähnlich wie der s. g. gnomische Aorist.

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ἀνάγκαν ἀμφίπτολιν von der Knechtschaft, infolge deren sie von einer Stadt, ihrem Vaterlande, in eine andere Stadt abgeführt worden sind. Der Schol. verweist auf ἀμφιμάτορας κόρους Eur. Androm. 466 (Geschwister, die von zwei Müttern, aber einem Vater stammen). Vgl. Hesych. ἀμφιμήτορες· οἱ ἐκ πολλῶν (vielmehr ἐξ ἄλλων, wie Buresch verbessert) μητέρων γεγονότες ἀδελφοί. Αἰσχύλος Ηρακλείδαις. Vgl. auch τῆς ἀναγκαίας τύχης Soph. Ai. 485 .

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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δωμάτων εὐθήμονες: Schol. εὖ τιθεῖσαι τὰ κατὰ τὸν οἶκον. Über den Gen. s. Krüger II 47,26,6.