Aeschylus Libation Bearers 42

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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The godless woman sends me to fulfil.
To speak the words prescribed I dread;
For ah! when blood hath once been shed,
Falling to earth, what ransom can be paid?
Woe for the sorrow-stricken hearth,
The home in ruin laid!
By mortals still abhorr'd a cloud,
To sunless darkness wed,
50 Doth through the master's fall the dwelling shroud.
ANTISTROPHE II.
The majesty invincible of old,
Matchless, supreme, who filled the ear
Of faithful lieges, and their heart controlled,
Standeth aloof;-Fear reigneth now,

Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.

Sponsored by University of Leipzig.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition Experimental

The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) (English) (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 22-83b focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 42 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 42 focus
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.) — 42 focus
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'.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 42 focus
Τοιάνδε χάριν ἀχάριτον ἄχαριν ἀπότροπον κακῶν,
Str. 2.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 42 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 42 focus
τοιάνδε χάριν ἀχάρι⟨το⟩ν, ἀπότροπον κακῶν,
ἰὼ Γαῖα μαῖα, μωμένα μ᾽ ἰ⟨ά⟩λλει
45
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.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 42 focus
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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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.)) — 42 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 42 focus
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
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 42 focus
cet hommage » — ou plutôt cet outrage ! — « détourner d'elle le malheur » 1
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 42 focus
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
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 42 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 42 focus
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,
40
Heu diruptiones domus,
Obscuræ mortalibus inuise
Tenebræ occultant domus,
Morte dominorum.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 42 focus
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!
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.) — 42 focus
Therefore to bear this gift of graceless worth—
O Earth, my nursing mother!—
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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.
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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.
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.) — 42 focus
Sie strebt mit solcher Liebe liebelos das Leid
(O Erdreich, o Mutter!) abzuwehren, sendet 1
Mich, - das frevle Weib! Mir graut's,
Auszusprechen solches Wort.
Wo gibt es Sühne, wenn zur Erde floß das Blut?
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O gramumlagert Königshaus!
O jammervoll entlaubter Stamm!
Ein Graun den Menschen, sonnenlos
Schwebt düstre Nacht über dem Haus,
Wo der Herrscher entseelt lag.
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Zweite Gegenstrophe.

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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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.
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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

50-51. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-27

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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.