Aeschylus Libation Bearers 147

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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What nurture might the new-born horror crave?

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.) — 83-314 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 84-314 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 152 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 152 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 152 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 152 focus
ἵετε δάκρυ καναχὲς ὀλόμενον
ὀλομένῳ δεσπότα,
πρὸς ἔρυμα τόδε κακῶν κεδνῶν τ᾿
ἀπότροπον ἄγος ἀπεύχετον
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κεχυμένων χοᾶν. κλύε δέ μοι, κλύε
σέβας, ὦ δέσποτ᾽, ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 152 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 152 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.)) — 84-311 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 152 focus
Shed ye the pattering death-tear 1 for the dead sovereign, now that drink-offerings have been poured out upon this defence against both evil and good by way of averting 2 unprayed-for pollution. And do thou, O give ear, give ear, O master, from thy darkling spirit. Woe! woe! woe! woe! alas! what stout Scythian spearman is deliverer of the house, and Mars that in the conflict brandishes with his hands the curved darts, and wields hilted weapons in close combat?
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 152 focus
dus au maître mort — devant ce sûr rempart 1 dans la peine et la joie ! Leur vertu expiatoire saura détruire l'effet
des libations abominables qui viennent d'être versées. Et toi, écoute, ô Majesté ! écoute, ô maître, l'appel de mon cœur en deuil ! Las ! las ! hélas ! Ah ! quel libérateur viendra donc à cette maison, puissant
guerrier, brandissant à la fois et l'arme scythe, que les mains ploient dans la bataille, et l'épée, où lame et poignée ne font qu'un,
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 152 focus
Swell the warbling voice of woe,
Loudly let the meaſures flow;
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And ever and anon the forrowing tear
Trickling dew the hallow'd ground,
T' avert the ills we fear;
Whilſt on this ſepulchral mound
Her pious hands the pure libation ſhed,
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T'atone the mighty dead.
Hear me, O hear me, aweful lord,
Thro' the dreary gloom ador'd!
Ha! Who is this c ? See, ſiſters, ſee,
Mark with what force he ſhakes his angry lance:
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Comes he this ruin’d house to free?
So does ſome Thracian chief advance;
So Mars, when rous’d with war’s alarms,
Radiant all his claſhing arms,
Rears high his flaming falchion to the blow,
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And thunders on the foe.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 152 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 152 focus
Mittite lachrymas reſonantes pernicioſas
Pereunti domino.
Ob liberationem horum malorum, bonorum
Fugiendumq; dolorem execratum
Effuſis inferijs, audi uerò me. audi
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Cultum ô domine ex obſcura mente,
Heu, heu, heu.
Heu quis haſta potens
Vir dissolutor domorum Scytha hæc
Manibus flexa tela quatiens Mars,
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Et uibras enſes manubria habentes ferè interficientes.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 152 focus
Lafst rinnen die Zähren,
zerrinnen im Staub.
Staub ward der Herr,
ihm rinne die Zähre,
sein Grab ist uns Zuflucht
in Freud und Leid.
Wir weinen und beten, den Zauber
der Grabesspenden zu brechen.
Erhör' uns, Herr,
erhabner Fürst,
hindurch durch die Nacht,
die die Seele dir deckt,
erhör' uns.
Wehe! wehe! wehe!
Ach, kommt denn keiner
das Haus zu erlösen?
Fäll' er die Lanze,
160 spann' er zum Schusse
skythischen Bogen,
pack' er des Schwertes
Knauf im Gefechte
Brust an Brust.
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.) — 152 focus
Woe, woe, woe!
Let the teardrop fall, plashing on the ground
Where our lord lies low:
Fall and cleanse away the cursed libation's stain,
Shed on this grave-mound,
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Fenced wherein together, gifts of good or bane
From the dead are found.
Lord of Argos, hearken!
Though around thee darken
Mist of death and hell, arise and hear!
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Hearken and awaken to our cry of woe!
Who with might of spear
Shall our home deliver?
Who like Ares bend until it quiver,
Bend the northern bow?
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Who with hand upon the hilt himself will thrust with glaive,
Thrust and slay and save?
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.) — 152 focus
Weint mit Schluchzen die schwindende Thräne
Ihm, der schwand, unserm Herrn,
Indeß die fromme Spende strömt,
Die sühnend Heil und Segen schafft,
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Und abwehrt den Fluch! Vernimm unser Fleh'n,
Hör' es, o Herr, das Fleh'n aus der umwölkten Brust!

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

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δεσπότᾳ πρὸς ἕρμα γᾶς τόδε κεδνῶν, κακῶν δ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἄγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν· κλῦε δέ μοι, σέβας, κλύ᾽, ὦ δέσποτ᾽, ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός.
δέσποτα
vitium Ald. Deinde libri
πρὸς ἔρυμα τόδε κακῶν κεδνῶν τ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἄλγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν
. In G. Ald.
χοᾶν
scriptum est. Nisi aperte haec antistrophica essent, prorsus incerta fluctuaret emendatio. Primo
ἔρυμα
Stanleius tumulum interpretatur, eodemque modo
τὸν τάφον
adscriptum est in M. G. Sed id dicendum fuisse
ἕρμα
ad Soph. Ant. v. 841. significavi. Scribendum videtur
πρὸς ἕρμα γᾶς τόδε κεδνόν
. Deinde librorum scripturam
ἄλγος
in
ἄγος
mutavit Victorius. Scholiastae enim haec est adnotatio,
τὸ ἑξῆς· ἐκκεχυμένων χοᾶν πρὸς ἔρυμα τόδε ἵετε δάκρυ ἄγος ἀπεύχετον (τὸ δάκρυ γὰρ ἀπευκτὸν ἄγος εἶπεν) ἀπότροπον τῶν ἡμετέρων κακῶν καὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τῶν ἐχθρῶν.
Receperunt
ἄγος
omnes post Victorium editores. Sed requiritur potius
ἅγος
. Hesychius
ἅγος, ἅγνισμα θυσίας. Σοφοκλῆς Φαίδρᾳ
. Scribendum erat
κακῶν δ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἅγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν
. Deinde libri
κλύε δέ μοι κλύε. σεβάς, ὦ δέσποτα ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός
, nisi quod
ἀμαυρᾶς
est in G. Ald.
κλύε
emendato accentu Porsonus,
σέβας ὦ δέσποτα
Turnebus. Mutato verborum ordine dochmiorum numerus restituendus erat. Itaque sic hanc stropham scripsi,
ἵετε δάκρυ καναχὲς ὀλόμενον ὀλομένῳ δεσπότᾳ πρὸς ἕρμα γᾶς τόδε κεδνόν· κακῶν δ᾽ ἀπότροπον ἅγος ἀπεύχετον κεχυμένων χοᾶν· κλῦε δέ μοι σέβας, κλύ᾽, ὦ δέσποτ᾽, ἐξ ἀμαυρᾶς φρενός.
Míttite lacrimam stridulam miseram misero domino ad sacrum huncce tumulum: malorum autem averruncam consecrationem effusarum inferiarum abominor: audi vero mihi reverentiam (i. e. preces), audi, domine, ex tenebroso corde.

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

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

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Pers. 225
ἐσθλά σοι πέμπειν τέκνῳ τε γῆς ἔνερθεν ἐς φάος
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