Aeschylus Libation Bearers 800

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Upon the righteous cause propitious smile!
800
Dark words and subtle speaking, he by night
Men's eyes o'ercloudeth, nor by day
More manifest his secret way.
Yet many a deed, in darkness veiled awhile,
By him is brought to light.
STROPHE IV.

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.) — 783-837 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 800 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 800 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 800 focus
οἵ τ᾽ ἔσω δωμάτων
πλουτογαθῆ μυχὸν ἐνίζετε,
κλῦτε, σύμφρονες θεοί·
790
ἄγετε, τῶν πάλαι
λύσασθ' αἷμα προςφάτοις δίκαις.
γέρων φόνος μηκέτ' ἐν δόμοις τέκοι.
μεσωδός.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 800 focus
Οἵ τ᾽ ἔσω δωμάτων
πλουτογαθῆ πλουταγαθῆ μυχὸν νομίζετε,
κλῦτε κλύετε, σύμφρονες θεοί·
ἄγετε 1 .
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 800 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 800 focus
οἵ τ᾽ ἔσωθε δωμάτων
800
πλουτογαθῆ μυχὸν κομίζετε,
κλῦτε σύμφρονες θεοί·
ἄγετε ⟨– υ – υ – υ⟩
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 800 focus
οἵ τ᾽ ἔσωθε δωμάτων
800
πλουτογαθῆ μυχὸν νομίζετε,
κλῦτε, σύμφρονες θεοί.
ἄγετε
τῶν πάλαι πεπραγμένων
λύσασθ᾽ αἷμα προσφάτοις δίκαις. γέρων φόνος
805
μηκέτ᾽ ἐν δόμοις τέκοι.
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.)) — 800 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 800 focus
Ye too, that haunt the alcove that exults in opulence, give ear, propitious gods. Come, make atonement for the bloodshed of those that were done to death in the olden time by fresh vengeance. No more let ancient murder spawn in the halls.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 800 focus
vous qui séjournez au fond du palais, dans l'éclat joyeux de l'or 1 , dieux bienveillants, écoutez-moi. Allons!
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 800 focus
And you, that guard this royal ſeat,
900
Its blazing wealth, its gorgeous ſtate,
Hear, propitious Gods, and ſave!
Let not the blood of former slain
Fresh returns of vengeance crave;
No more these crimson'd manſions stain:
905
Slaughter no more from ſlaughter riſe,
If low beneath the righteous sword he lies!
MONOSTROPHE.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 800 focus
E voi, Numi, che negli aditi
685
della reggia avete stanza,
fra la pace e l'abbondanza,
Numi, il sangue dei misfatti
che un dí fûr, con novello esito
di giustizia or si riscatti:
690
strage antica piú non frutti
nella casa nuovi lutti!
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 800 focus
Ducite, quæ olim conſtituta ſunt
745
Soluite ſanguinem nouis pænis.
Antiqua cædes non amplius in ædibus pariet,
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 800 focus
In des Hauses tiefster Kammer,
da des Reichs Kleinode liegen,
webt ihr heimlich, Ahnengeister,
mitempfindend
eurer Enkel Leiden.
Höret, helfet mit zur Heilung.
Lafst den Flecken alten Blutes
aufgelöst
in dem neuen Strom zerfliefsen.
Und des Mordes Zeugungskraft
805 sei verdorrt.
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.) — 800 focus
And ye who dwell within the inner chamber
Where shines the storèd joy of gold—
Gods of one heart, O hear ye, and remember;
895
Up and avenge the blood shed forth of old,
With sudden rightful blow;
Then let the old curse die, nor be renewed
With progeny of blood,—
Once more, and not again, be latter guilt laid low!
900
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.) — 800 focus
Götter, ihr, die den goldreichen Schak
Ihr im Raum der Burg bewacht,
Götter, hört huldreich mich an!
Auf! Des alten Mords
Blutschuld sühnt mit neuem Strafgericht!
800
Die greise Schuld zeuge nicht im Hause fort!
Bwischengesang.

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

800. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-512

ἐπιφορώτατος: Omnes επιφορώτατος. Non debebam olim scribendum coniicere επιφ θορώτατος, neque Emperius ἐπεὶ φορώτατος, sed emen- danda erat stropha. Scholiastes ὡς ἐπὶ ἀνέμου εἶπεν, ἀντὶ τοῦ ὁ λο- γικώτατος. Thucydides III. 74. ἡ πόλις ἐκίνδυνευσε πᾶσα διαφθα- ρῆναι, εἰ ἄνεμος ἐπεγένετο τῇ φλογὶ ἐπίφορος ἐς αὐτήν. Lucianus Hermot. 28. p. 769. εἰ ἐπίφορόν ἐστι καὶ οὔριον τὸ πνεῦμα τοῖς Κό- ρινθόνδε διαπλεῦσαι ἐθέλουσι.
800

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

779-836. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-424

1
zweites Stasimon. Mit der starken Erregung, welche durch das Gefühl hochwichtiger Entscheidung hervorgebracht wird, fleht der Chor um glückliches Vollbringen des Rachewerks: » Lafs mich, Zeus, den Sieg des Rechtes sehen. Lenke den Sturmlauf des Orestes, dafs sein Fufs nicht strauchle. Ihr, Götter des Familienschatzes, sühnt die alte Blutschuld, damit das Haus rein wird. Du, Apollon, lafs den Palast des Agamemnon wieder den heiteren Tag der Freiheit schauen nach der finsteren Umnachtung. Seinen Beistand leiste endlich Hermes, der Gott der List, der sogar zur hellen Tageszeit das Auge mit Finsternis blendet. Wenn dann der Tag der Freiheit anbricht, dann werden wir fröhlichen Sang anstimmen. Nun aber vollende du, Orestes, mutig das Werk und schaffe Genugthuung den Freunden drunten und auf der Oberwelt durch Vernichtung des Mörders." - Von den drei Strophenpaaren scheint jeder Stoichos eines zu singen, während die Ephymnien dem Gesamtchore zufallen.