Aeschylus Libation Bearers 75

Robert Potter (Translator)

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;

Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1779.

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Current edition Experimental

The Choephoræ (OCR draft) (English) (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 83-314 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 84-314 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 75 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 75 focus
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ (ἀνάγκαν γὰρ ἀμφίπτολιν
θεοὶ προςήνεγκαν· ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων
πατρῴων δμωΐαν ἐςᾶγον αἶσαν)
δίκαια καὶ μὴ δίκαια, πρέπον τύχαις βίου
βίᾳ φερομένων αἰνέσαι, πικρὸν φρενῶν
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στύγος κρατούσῃ, δακρύων ὑφειμάτων,
ματαίοισι δεσποτᾶν
τύχαις, κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένη.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 75 focus
Ἐμοὶ δ', ἀνάγκαν γὰρ ἀμφίπτολιν
Ep.
θεοὶ προσήνεγκαν, ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων
πατρῴων δούλιον ἐσᾶγον αἶσαν,
δίκαια καὶ μὴ δίκαια
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† πρέποντ' ἀρχὰς βίου
βίᾳ φερομένων αἰνέσαι, πικρῶν φρενῶν †
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στύγος κρατούσῃ· δακρύω δ' ὑφ' εἱμάτων
ματαίοισι δεσποτᾶν δεσπόταν
τύχαις, κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένη -μένην.
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Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 75 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 75 focus
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ (ἀνάγκαν γὰρ ἀμφίπτολιν
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θεοὶ προσήνεγκαν, ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων πατρώιων
δούλιον ἐσᾶγον αἶσαν)
δίκαια καὶ μὴ δίκαι᾽ αἰνέσαι
πρέποντ᾽ ἀρχὰς βίου βίαι φρενῶν,
πικρὸν στύγος κρατούσαι·
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δακρύω δ᾽ ὑφ᾽ εἱμάτων
ματαίοις δεσποτᾶν τύχαισιν,
κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένα.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 75 focus
ἐμοὶ δ’, ἀνάγκαν γὰρ ἀμφίπτολιν
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θεοὶ προσήνεγκαν· ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων
πατρώιων δούλιον ἐσάγαγον αἶσαν·
δίκαια καὶ μὴ δίκαι’ ἀρχὰς πρέπον
βίαι φρενῶν αἰνέσαι,
πικρὸν στύγος κρατούσηι.
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δακρύω δ’ ὑφ’ εἱμάτων
ματαίοισι δεσποτᾶν
τύχαις, κρυφαίοις πένθεσιν παχνουμένη. Γ
Translations (9)
Libation Bearers Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 84-311 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 75 focus
But 'tis my lot, for the gods have visited me with the hardship of a captured city; for they brought me to a slave's estate afar from the house of my fathers, to acquiesce in the things that seem fit to the lords over my life, just or unjust, [the deeds] of mastering the loathing of my soul, those who are violently borne along 6 .
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 75 focus
n'a plus de remède au mal qu'il a fait ; et, pour purifier l'homme aux mains san-
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 75 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 75 focus
Aperienti non nuptiales lectos
Remedium, meatus omnes ex una uia
Euntes.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 75 focus
Doch ach, uns drückt das Joch des Heimatlosen;
in Knechtschaft warfen uns die Götter,
und Recht und Unrecht, wie's der Herr gebeut,
der Diener muſs es loben.
Gehorchen gilt's,
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den Hafs verschliefsen.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 75 focus
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.
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, The Libation-Bearers — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 75 focus
And upon me—ah me!—the gods have laid
The woe that wrapped round Troy,
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What time they led me down from home and kin
Unto a slave's employ—
The doom to bow the head
And watch our master's will
Work deeds of good and ill—
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To see the headlong sway of force and sin,
And hold restrained the spirit's bitter hate,
Wailing the monarch's fruitless fate,
Hiding my face within my robe, and fain
Of tears, and chilled with frost of hidden pain.
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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 75 focus
Doch ich, (denn zwiefache Noth legten mir
Die Götter auf: fern vom Vaterhause
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Führten sie mich fort in's Joch der Knechtschaft,)
Ich muß die Zwingherrn loben, wie mein Loos gebeut,
Ob Recht sie thun, ob Böses, muß den bittern Haß
Im Herzen zähmen, und bewein' im Schleier still
Des Herrschers unseliges
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Geschick, in tiefverhaltnem Seelenleid erstarrt.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of The Libation Bearers.) focus

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τῆσδ'
τῆς δ'
divisim Ald. ἔστε
ἐστὲ
Rob. Ceteri recte
ἔστε
.
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95-100. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-65

NA In libris hi versus hoc ordine leguntur
λέγοις ἄν, εἴ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἔχοις ὑπέρτερον. ΧΟ. αἰδουμένῃ σοί, βωμὸν ὡς, τύμβον πατρὸς λέξω, κελεύεις γάρ, τὸν ἐκ φρενὸς λόγον. ΗΛ. λέγοις ἄν, ὥςπερ ἠδέσω τάφον πατρός. ΧΟ. φθέγγου χέουσα σεμνὰ τοῖσιν εὐφροσιν.
Varietas lectionis haec est. In secundo versu
αἰδουμένη σοι
Ald. Rob. Deinde
βωμὸν
vitiose Ald. Tum
ὡς
G. Ald. Rob. In tertio versu
τὸν
omittit Rob. In quarto
ἠδέσω
vitium Aldinae. In quinto
εὔφροσιν
Turn. Ceteri
εὐφρόσιν
. Sed haec non una ratione corrupta esse vix opus est ut doceamus. Primum horum versuum Schützius, quum prius alia tentasset, in secunda editione ut spurium uncis inclusit, non indicans cur id fecerit. Illud certum est, hoc loco, quo hic versus in libris omnibus legitur, eum ab Aeschylo collocari non potuisse. Nam ne quid de eo dicam, quod quum Electra ante ubique plurali numero usa esset, singularis subito illatus aliquid duri habet, maxime haec duo sede sua exire hunc versum iubent, unum, quod ista iam saepius dictorum repetitio valde ieiuna est, alterum, quod orationes, qualis haec est Electrae, quum generali sententia concluduntur, ea ipsa sententia finiri solent. Et quis est qui non sentiat quam praeclare Electra orationem hoc dicto conclusisset,
μὴ κεύθετ᾽ ἔνδον καρδίας φόβῳ τινός. τὸ μόρσιμον γὰρ τόν τ' ἐλεύθερον μένει καὶ τὸν πρὸς ἄλλης δεσποτούμενον χερός.
Quibus verbis quis credat tam inutilem pannum adsui potuisse, qualis hic est,
λέγοις ἄν, εἴ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἔχεις ὑπέρτερον.
Nam
ἄν
certe scribendum erat, id quod Iacobsii ad Anthol. Pal. p. 581. monitu fecit Blomfieldius. Sed maiora etiam vitia sunt in tribus sequentibus versibus. Nam cur tandem chorus de sua erga Agamemnonem pietate hic loquitur, ubi non de ea re sermo est, utrum chorus Agamemnonem colat necne, sed quo pacto Electra pie sacra debeat peragere? Turpissimus vero versus est is qui sequitur,
λέγοις ἄν, ὥςπερ ᾐδέσω τάφον πατρός.
Eum Schützius sic est interpretatus, dicas velim pro ea quam profiteris erga patris sepulcrum reverentia. Sumamus hanc esse huius versus sententiam, quam verba tamen, quae omni sensu carent, non admittunt: quid aliud Electra quam traducere videbitur chori pietatem, quippe ibi a choro iactatam, a se commemoratam, ubi longe alia dicenda erant? Haec si recte disputata sunt, planum est et ordinem versuum perturbatum et aliis eos vitiis inquinatos esse. Itaque primum illum versum,
λέγοις ἄν, εἴ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἔχοις ὑπέρτερον
, quum a librario ad simile alius versus initium oculis aberrante omissus esset, postea alieno loco additum, et praeterea depravatum esse existimo. Videor autem mihi quod dignum Aeschylo esset effecisse ita his versibus conformatis omnibusque choro redditis,
ΧΟ. αἰδουμένῃ σοὶ βωμὸν ὡς τύμβον πατρὸς λέξω, κελεύεις γάρ, τὸν ἐκ φρενὸς λόγον. λόγους ἂν οἷςπερ ᾐδέσω τάφον πατρὸς στέγοις ἄν, εἴ τι τῶνδ᾽ ἔχεις ὑπέρτερον· φθέγγου χέουσα σεμνὰ τοῖσιν εὐφροσιν.
Quod scripsi
λόγους ἂν οἷςπερ ἠδέσω τάφον πατρός
, conferenda sunt quae de collocatione particulae
ἂν
dixi in libro de ea particula IV. cap. 7. In eo versu, qui intercidit,
χοάς
vel simile vocabulum fuit.

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.

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2
τοῦτο τοὔπος, diese Bitte.

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στέφη hier von den Spenden. Vgl. Soph. Εl. 53 πατρὸς τύμβον . . λοιβαῖσι πρῶτον καὶ καρατόμοις χλι δαῖς στέψαντες. Die Menschen verstehen gewöhnlich unter ἴσα Gutes, hier aber werden κακά daraus (Schol. παρ᾽ ὑπόνοιαν· ἔδει γὰρ τῶν καλῶν εἰπεῖν). Diese Pointe wird durch yè gehoben.

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4
ἀτίμως, so dafs die Spende dem Toten nicht Ehre, sondern Unehre bringt und ihn gegen die Spenderin erbittert. ώσπερ οὖν wie 887.

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καθάρμαθ'. . πάλιν (retro) δικοῦσα (hinter mich werfend) .. ὄμ μασιν: τοῦτο πρὸς τὸ παρ' Αθηναίοις ἔθος, ὅτι καθαίροντες οἰκίαν ὀστρακίνῳ θυματηρίῳ ῥίψαντες ἐν ταῖς τριόδοις ἀμεταστρεπτεὶ ἀνεχώρουν. Vgl. Theokr. 24, 93 συλλέξασα κόνιν πυρὸς ἀμφιπόλων τις ῥιψάτω εὖ μάλα πᾶσαν ὑπὲρ ποταμοῖο φέ ρουσα ῥωγάδος ἐκ πέτρας ὑπερούριον, ἂψ δὲ νέεσθαι ἄστρεπτος, Verg. Ecl. VIII 101 rivoque fluenti transque caput iace; nec respexeris, Ovid Fast. V 437 ff. Auch in Deutschland findet sich die Sitte, dafs man Unglück bedeutende Dinge hinter sich über das Haus weg wirft, ohne umzuschauen.

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μεταίτιαι wie 872 ἀναίτιαι. Blomfield setzt an beiden Stellen die gebräuchliche Form. Aber vgl. 909 παραιτία, Soph. Trach. 447
τῇ μεταιτία
und zu Ag. 1527 .