Aeschylus Libation Bearers 623

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Branded with infamy by men,
The impious disappear;
For whom the righteous gods condemn,
No mortal dares revere.—
The lore which thus we chant in choral strain,
Say ye, doth Reason at her bar arraign?
STROPHE IV.
Right through the lungs doth Justice' hand
Drive home the bitter steel;
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†For all must perish who withstand

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.) — 652-782 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 623 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 623 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 623 focus
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπεμνησάμην ἀμειλίχων
πόνων, (ἄκαιρος δ᾽ ὁ δυςφιλὴς γαμη-
λεύματ᾽ ἀπεύχετον δόμοις)
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γυναικοβούλους τε μήτιδας φρενῶν
ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ τευχεσφόρῳ,
ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ δᾴοις ἐπικλύτῳ, σέβας
τίων τ᾽ ἀθέρμαντον ἑστίαν δόμων
γυναικείαν τ' ἄτολμον αἰχμάν.
620
ἀντ. γ'.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 623 focus
Ἐπεὶ δ' ἐπεμνασάμαν ἐπεμνήσαμεν (α supra η M1) ἀμειλίχων
Str. 3.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 623 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 623 focus
ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐπεμνασάμαν ἀμειλίχων
πόνων, ἄκαιρ’ οὐδὲ δυσφιλὲς γαμή-
λευμ’ ἀπεύχετον δόμοις
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γυναικοβούλους τε μήτιδας φρενῶν
ἐπ’ ἀνδρὶ τευχεσφόρωι
†ἐπ’ ἀνδρὶ δηΐοις ἐπικότω σέβας†.
τίω δ’ ἀθέρμαντον ἑστίαν δόμων,
γυναικείαν ἄτολμον αἰχμάν.
630
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 623 focus
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπεμνησάμην ἀμειλίχων
πόνων, ἀκαίρως δέ, δυσφιλές γαμή-
λευμ᾿ ἀπεύχετον δόμοις
625
γυναικοβούλους τε μήτιδας φέρων
ἐπ᾿ ἀνδρὶ τευχεσφόρωι
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.)) — 623 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 623 focus
And since I have made mention of savage horrors, though unseasonably 2
, [one may also mention] the odious match, execrated by the house, and plots laid by a woman's mind against an armed warrior, against a warrior for his majesty bitter to his enemies; and I honour the hearth of a household that knows not audacity, and in women an undaring spirit.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 623 focus
de Nisos endormi sans défiance — l'impudente chienne ! — et Hermès se saisit de lui 1 .
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 623 focus
Amongſt these deeds of blood, that ſtain
The annals of the times of old,
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Be that unhallow'd couch enroll’d,
Whoſe guilty loves this royal house profane.
Enroll’d be all that female hate
Form’d 'gainſt the chief in arms renown’d;
The chief, whoſe glorious, aweful ſtate
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Foes 'midſt their rage with reverence own’d:
Those glories, tho’ they blaze no more,
Quench’d by a woman’s hand, I still adore.
EPODE.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 623 focus
Se questi rammentai travagli amari,
come dunque dimentico
il connubio esecrato ai nostri cari,
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e la donnesca frode
contro l'uomo che prode
era nell'arme, e fregio era al suo popolo?
Or come onoro il focolare spento?
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 623 focus
Poſtquam recordamur durorum
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Laborum, intempeſtiuè uerò inimicum coniugium-
Execratum ædibus, muliebriaq; consilia memis
Pro uiro inimicis culpando cultus.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 623 focus
Und wenn ich so arger Thaten
gedenke - darf ich's denn?
Ich dulde ja schnöd'sten Bund,
625 die Ehe, die das Haus verflucht,
der Frau Verrat,
Verrat am Heldengatten,
des Heldenglanz
niederblitzte jeden Feind.
Ich beug' mich ja falscher Weibermajestät
630 am kalten Hausaltar.
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.) — 623 focus
And since of the crimes of the cruel I tell, let my singing record
The bitter wedlock and loveless, the curse on these halls outpoured,
The crafty device of a woman, whereby did a chieftain fall,
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A warrior stern in his wrath, the fear of his enemies all,—
A song of dishonour, untimely! and cold is the hearth that was warm,
And ruled by the cowardly spear, the woman's unwomanly arm.
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.) — 623 focus
Doch nun ich so kundgethan so schweres Leid,
Was nennt' ich noch dieser Ch' unholden Bund,
Die der Fluch des Hauses ward,
Und wie des Weib's arge Listen ihn umstrickt,
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Den Mann im erzhellen Kleid,
Den Mann, der einst aller Feinde Schrecken war?
Was ehrt' ich noch diesen ausgebrannten Herd,
Der Unmacht feigen Weibeszepter?
Dritte 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

630. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-406

διανταίαν ... οὐτᾷ: δι' ἀνταίαν Ald. Turn. Deinde libri σοῦται. Glossa in G. ὁρμα. Scholiastes τὸ δὲ ξίφος τῆς Δίκης τὸ ἔχον πικρίαν ἀντικρὺ διὰ πνευμόνων ὁρμα. Scribendum erat οὐτῷ, ut in Elem. doctr. metr. p. 236. indicavi. Hoc ipsum οὐτῷ legisse videtur scholiastes, cuius non rectam horum verborum explicationem ad v. 628. adscripsi: dicit enim νύσσει.
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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

630-631. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-339

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λόγω γιατᾷ (vgl. 818) ῥοθεῖ κατάπτυστον, in Klagereden hört man es allenthalben als etwas Verabscheuungswürdiges nennen und hin und wieder verglich man das Schlimmste lemnischem Weh d. h. lemnisches Leid ist sprichwörtlich geworden für die ärgste Missthat. Vgl. Herod. VI 138 ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ τοῦ ἔργου καὶ τοῦ προτέρου τούτων, τὸ ἐργάσαντο αἱ γυ ναῖκες τοὺς ἅμα Θόαντι ἄνδρας σφετέρους ἀποκτείνασαι, νενόμισται ἀνὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα τὰ σχέτλια ἔργα πάντα Λήμνια καλέεσθαι, Hesych. Λήμνιον κακόν· παροιμία κτἑ., Pind. Pyth. IV 252 Λαμνιᾶν τ᾽ ἔθνει γυναικῶν ἀνδροφόνων, Eur. Hek. 886 τί δ᾽; οὐ γυναῖκες εἷλον Αἰγύπτου τέκνα καὶ Λήμνον ἄρδην ἀρσένων ἐξώκισαν. Mit δοθεί vgl. Soph. ῥοθεῖ Ant. 259
λόγοι δ᾽ ἐν ἀλλήλοισιν ἐρρόθουν κακοί
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