Aeschylus Libation Bearers 942

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Doth vengeance hither bring,
Guilelessly guileful; lame, yet sure her feet.
Weighty the saying; Zeus, although divine,
No consort is of guilt; needs must we pay

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.) — 935-972 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 942 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 942 focus
ἐπολολύξατ᾽ ὦ δεσποσύνων δόμων
ἀναφυγὰς κακῶν καὶ κτεάνων τριβᾶς
ὑπαὶ δυοῖν μιαστόροιν,
δυσοίμου τύχας.
945
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 942 focus
ἐπολολύξατ', ὦ, δεσποσύνων δόμων
930
ἀναφυγὰς κακῶν καὶ κτεάνων τριβᾶς
ὑπαὶ δυοῖν 1 μιαστόροιν,
δυςοίμου τύχας.
ἀντ. α'.
ἅπερ ὁ Λοξίας ὁ Παρνάσσιος
μέγαν ἔχων μυχὸν χθονός, 2
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 942 focus
Ἐπολολύξατ', ὤ -ξάτω, δεσποσύνων δόμων
ἀναφυγᾷ -γὰς κακῶν καὶ κτεάνων τριβᾶς τριβὰς
ὑπὸ δυοῖν δοιοῖν μιασ- μιαιστό-
τόροιν ροιν, δυσοίμου τύχας.
1 (Ἐπολολύξατ', ὤ, δεσποσύνων δόμων
ἀναφυγᾷ κακῶν καὶ κτεάνων τριβᾶς
ὑπὸ δυοῖν μιασ-
τόροιν, δυσοίμου τύχας.)
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 942 focus
Ἐπολολύξατ᾽ ὦ δεσποσύνων δόμων
ἀναφυγὰς κακῶν καὶ κτεάνων τριβᾶς
ὑπὸ δυοῖν μαστόροιν,
δυσοίμου τύχας.
1
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 942 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 942 focus
ἐπολολύξατ᾽ ὦ δεσποσύνων δόμων
ἀναφυγᾶι κακῶν
945
καὶ κτεάνων τριβᾶς
ὑπαὶ δυοῖν μιαστόροιν,
δυσοίμου τύχας. –
(ἐπολολύξατ᾽ ὦ δεσποσύνων δόμων
ἀναφυγᾶς κακῶν
945
καὶ κτεάνων τριβᾶς
ὑπαὶ δυοῖν μιαστόροιν,
δυσοίμου τύχας.) =
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.)) — 942 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 942 focus
Celebrate ye with a loud shout the escape 1
of our master's house from evils, and from the dilapidation of its treasures by the defiling pair, a mournful fate.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 942 focus
Il a poussé jusqu'au bout, l'exilé prédit par Pythô, guidé dans son élan par les conseils d'un dieu !
et qui sur ses ennemis souffle la vengeance et la mort.
(Ah! jetez un cri d'allégresse sur le palais de vos maîtres enfin libéré de ses maux, ainsi que des deux sacrilèges qui, pour dévorer
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 942 focus
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 942 focus
Alti si levino gioiosi gridi,
fine hanno i triboli di questa terra,
fine han gli sperperi degli omicidi,
850
fortuna i tramiti suoi piú non serra.
Ciò che l'ambiguo signor del Parnasso
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 942 focus
Eiulate dominarum & ædium
875
Fugas malorum, et poſseſsionum moras.
Magnum habens ſeceſſum in tumulo terræ.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 942 focus
Heil rufet mit Jauchzen
dem Hause des Herrn.
945 Vorbei ist die Schande,
des Gutes Vergeudung,
der beiden Tyrannen
verbrecherisch Glück.
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.) — 942 focus
Cry out, rejoice ! our kingly hall
Hath 'scaped from ruin—ne'er again
Its ancient wealth be wasted all
By two usurpers, sin-defiled—
1050
An evil path of woe and bane!
1
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.) — 942 focus
Jauchzet, o jauchzet laut, daß das erlauchte Haus
935
Dem Unheil entrann, daß an dem reichen Schay
Nicht schwelgend zehrt das Mörderpaar, -
O fluchvolles Loos!
Erste 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

220. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-134

ὡς ὄντ᾽ Ὀρέστην γάρ σ' ἐγὼ προςεννέπω;
ὡς ὄντ᾽ Ὀρέστην τάδ᾽ ἐγὼ σε προὐννέπω
M. Rob. Eodem modo G. Ald. nisi quod
προὐννέπω
habent.
τάδ᾽ ἐγώ σε προὐννέπω
Turn.
τάδε ἐγὼ σε προὐννέπω
Vict.
ταῦτ᾽ ἐγώ σε προὐννέπω
Porsonus. Ineptum hic
προὐννέπειν
, quod est praedicere, edicere, iubere, proloqui. Itaque quo verbo opus esset intellexerunt Arnaldus et, ut Blomfieldius dicit, Auratus: sed quod scribendum putarunt
τάδε σ' ἐγὼ προςεννέπω
, probatum illud Schützio, Blomfieldio, aliis, propter numeros ab Aeschylea tragoedia alienos non potest admitti. Quam ob rem scripsi
ὡς ὄντ᾽ Ὀρέστην γάρ σ' ἐγὼ προςεννέπω;
Γάρ
admirantis est, ut apud Euripidem in Or. v. 484.
κείνου γὰρ ὅδε πέφυκε, τοιοῦτος γεγώς;
220

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.

220. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-117

2
κατ᾿ αὐτοῦ: zu Ag. 827 .