Aeschylus Libation Bearers 423

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Cruel, all-daring, Mother, woe!
Alas, as foeman buries foe,
A king, no trusty liegemen near,
Thy wedded lord without a tear,

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.) — 479-584 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 423 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 423 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 423 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 423 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 423 focus
ἔκοψα κομμὸν Ἄριον ἔν τε Κισσίας
νόμοις ἰηλεμιστρίας
ἀπριγδόπληκτα πολυπλάνητα δ᾽ ἦν ἰδεῖν
ἐπασσυτεροτριβῆ τὰ χερὸς ὀρέγματα
425
ἄνωθεν ἀνέκαθεν, κτύπῳ δ᾽ ἐπερρύνει
κροτητὸν ἁμὸν καὶ πανάθλιον κάρα.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 423 focus
ἔκοψα κομμὸν Ἄριον ἔν τε Κισσίας
νόμοις ἰ⟨η⟩λεμιστρίας,
ἀπρικτόπληκτα πολυπλάνητα δ᾽ ἦν ἰδεῖν
425
ἐπασσυτεροτριβῆ τὰ χερὸς ὀρέγματα
ἄνωθεν ἀνέκαθεν, χτύπωι δ᾽ ἐπερρόθει
κροτητὸν ἁμὸν {καὶ} πανάθλιον κάρα.
⟨ΗΛ.⟩
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 423 focus
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.)) — 423 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 423 focus
She struck a martial strain; then, after the manner of a Cissian heroine 5
, with a shower of blows wandering many ways might you see the outstretchings of her hand, dealt without intermission, from above, from afar; and with the stroke my buffeted, and all-wretched head resounds.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 423 focus
Et moi, je bats sur ma poitrine le rythme du thrène arien 1 . Voyez donc : suivant le rite des pleureuses
kissiennes, sans relâche, ma main errante bondit ; elle va redoublant ses coups, frappant de haut et de loin, faisant gémir sous ses chocs mon front meurtri et douloureux
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 423 focus
With bold hand
485
She struck the ſtroke w
, bold as the Ciſſian dame
Train'd to the warrior’s arms. She struck him once;
Again ſhe ſtruck him; her uplifted hands
Redoubled blow on blow; ſwift on his head
The distant-sounding ſtroke m
with ſteep force fell.
490
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 423 focus
Ario gemito io levo, a mo' di prèfica
cissia: le chiome lacero:
su le mie membra le mie mani avventano
dure percosse e fitte,
dall'alto spinte e da lontano: strepito
295
levano i colpi su le fronti afflitte.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 423 focus
Secuit ornamentum martialem ſine legibus Ciſsa.
Legibus bellicosa
Manus extensiones.
400
Ex ſuperiori loco procul ictu uerò ſtrepit,
Plauſum aliquem & insenum caput.
Heu heu hostilis
Audaciſsima mater, in elatione mortuorum miſera
Sine cumbis,
405
Regem ſine luctibus miferum,
Infletum uirum ſepelire.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 423 focus
Wie Asiens Klageweiber,
Heulweiber von Susa,
so schlugen in Thränen
wir Busen und Haupt.
425 Die blutigen Fäuste flogen
und trafen und flogen wieder.
Von unten, von oben, von rechts und von links
geschlagen, gestofsen, erdröhnte
mein Haupt verzweiflungsvoll.
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.) — 423 focus
I dealt upon my breast the blow
That Asian mourning women know;
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Wails from my breast the fun'ral cry,
The Cissian weeping melody;
Stretched rendingly forth, to tatter and tear,
My clenched hands wander, here and there,
From head to breast; distraught with blows
500
Throb dizzily my brows.
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.) — 423 focus
Sie traf mit grausen Schlägen ihn, der kissischen
425
Blutlechzenden Waffendirne gleich;
Unabgesekt in wildem Wechsel jagte sich,
Weitausgeholt, dumpfhallend ihres Armes Schlag,
Hoch nieder, jäh' hernieder; dröhnend fcholl dazu,
Von meinem Streich getroffen, mein unselig Haupt.
430

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

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.
77

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

77. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-32

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Schol. ἔστι δὲ παροιμία· δοῦλε, δεσποτῶν ἄκουε καὶ δίκαια κἄδικα.