Aeschylus Libation Bearers 631

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Her mandates, and with reckless heel,
Trample high Jove's command.
ANTISTROPHE IV.
Firm based is Justice; Fate of yore
Forged weapon for the blow;
Deep-souled Erinys doth restore
Th' avenger to his home, and, lo!

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

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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.) — 631 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 631 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 631 focus
κακῶν δὲ πρεσβεύεται τὸ Λήμνιον
λόγῳ· γοᾶται δὲ δήποθεν πάθος κατὰ
πτυστόν· ᾔκασεν δέ τις
τὸ δεινὸν αὖ Λημνίοισι πήμασιν.
θεοστυγήτῳ δ᾽ ἄγει
625
βροτῶν ἀτιμωθὲν οἴχεται γένος.
σέβει γὰρ οὔτις τὸ δυςφιλὲς θεοῖς.
τί τῶνδ᾽ οὐκ ἐνδίκως ἀγείρω;
στρ. δ'.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 631 focus
Κακῶν δὲ πρεσβεύεται τὸ Λήμνιον
Ant. 3.
λόγῳ· βοᾶται γοᾶται δὲ δημόθεν δὴ ποθει (ι supra ει) κατά-
630
πτυστον· ᾔκασεν δέ τις
τὸ δεινὸν αὖ Λημνίοισι πήμασιν -σι·
θεοστυγήτῳ δ' ἄχει
βροτοῖς βροτῶν ἀτιμωθὲν οἴχεται γένος·
σέβει γὰρ οὔτις τὸ δυσφιλὲς θεοῖς.
635
Τί τῶνδ' οὐκ ἐνδίκως ἀγείρω ;
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 631 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 631 focus
κακῶν δὲ πρεσβεύεται τὸ Λήμνιον
λόγωι· γοᾶται δὲ δὴ τόδ’ ἕν κατά-
πτυστον, ἤικασεν δέ τις
τὸ δεινὸν αὖ Λημνίοισι πήμασιν.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 631 focus
κακῶν δὲ πρεσβεύεται τὸ Λήμνιον
λόγωι, γοᾶται δὲ δημόθεν κατά-
πτυστον. ἤικασεν δέ τις
τὸ δεινὸν αὐ Λημνίοισι πήμασιν.
θεοστυγήτωι δ᾽ ἄχει
635
βροτοῖς ἀτιμωθὲν οἴχεται γένος.
σέβει γὰρ οὔτις τὸ δυσφιλές θεοῖς.
τί τῶνδ᾽ οὐκ ἐνδίκως ἀγείρω; =
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.)) — 631 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 631 focus
Of horrors, indeed, that of Lemnos holds the first place in story; and it is deplored in every clime as an abomination, and a man is wont to compare what is dreadful to Lemnian sufferings 3
. And by reason of heaven-detested guilt the race of mortals perishes in infamy; for no one reveres that which is offensive to the gods. Which of these hideous facts do I unreasonably reckon up?
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 631 focus
d'un guerrier, d'un
roi dont le courroux en imposait à ses ennemis mêmes 1 ? tandis qu'il garde ses respects pour le foyer paisible où la femme exerce douce royauté. Entre tous les crimes, l'histoire met à part celui qu'a vu Lemnos. La voix publique le maudit avec horreur ; les pires
calamités sont encore appelées du nom de « lemnien 2 ». La race où s'est commis ce crime haï des dieux périt dans le mépris des hommes : il n'est
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 631 focus
In the black annals of far distant time
The Lesbian dames recorded stand u
;
705
But the ſoul ſhudders at the crime,
And execrates the murders of their hand:
Baſely at once the husbands bleed;
Th' indignant Gods abhor the deed.
And ſhall man dare with impious voice t' approve
710
Deeds, that offend the pow'rs above?
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 631 focus
Come mi curvo a femminil talento?
510
4 Strofe IV.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 631 focus
Horum uerò ignauum larem domuum,
Muliebrem timidam hastam,
585
Malorum uerò honorat Lemnium
Sermone, luget uerò utiq; execrandum. aſsimilauit uerò aliquis
Atrocitatem Lemnicis malis impio dolore
Mortalium ignominioſum uenit genus.
Colit nullus inimicum dijs.
590
Quid hos non iuſtè congregos?
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 631 focus
Von Weiberhand
ausgerottet
fiel Lemnos' Männervolk.
Das Sprichwort nennt lemnisch drum
das ärgste Greul. Als lemnisch wird
verflucht auch dies.
635 Verworfen von den Göttern,
verschmäht, verfehmt muſs das Haus zu Grunde geh'n.
Wen Gott verstiefs, niemand ehrt noch achtet ihn.
So ist's. Sagt' ich zu viel?
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.) — 631 focus
But the summit and crown of all crimes is that which in Lemnos befel; 1
A woe and a mourning it is, a shame and a spitting to tell;
715
And he that in after time doth speak of his deadliest thought,
Doth say It is like to the deed that of old time in Lemnos was wrought;
And loathed of men were the doers, and perished, they and their seed,
For the gods brought hate upon them; none loveth the impious deed.
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.) — 631 focus
Vor allen Unthaten ragt im Lied hervor,
630
Was Lemnos' Frau'n übten, was, weithin beklagt,
Als ein Fluch gilt; doch mit Recht
Wird dieser Gräul Lemnos' Unthat gleichgestellt.
Durch blut'ge Schuld, die den Haß
Der Götter weckt, sinkt ein Menschenstamm in Schmach.
635
Denn Keiner mag ehren, was ein Gott verwarf.
Gerecht, wahrhaftig sprach mein Mund hier.
Vierte Strophe.

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

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

ἁπλωστί Libri
ἁπλῶς τι
. Scribendum putavi
ἁπλωστί
. V. ad Suppl. v. 447.
112

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

1
erstes Epeisodion, geteilt durch einen Kommos (305— 476). Anagnorismos und Vorbereitung der Rache.

111-112. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-54

2
σοὶ τἄρα d. i. du gehöret zu denen, welche den Agisthos hassen. Der furchtsame Chor (vgl. 872) bestätigt es nicht direkt:,,das lege dir in Gedanken nach eigenem Wissen zurecht".