Aeschylus Libation Bearers 161

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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From Phocis I, a Daulian, stranger here.-
What time my home I left, for Argos bound,
Starting on foot, with baggage self-equipped,
A man to me unknown, as I to him,
Met me, inquired my route and told me his.
Strophios, the Phocian, as in talk I learned.
"Stranger," he said, "since Argos is thy goal,
Say to the parents,”—strictly mark my words,——
"Dead is Orestes;-grave it on thy mind;-
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Whether the counsel of his friends prevail
To bring him home, or give him sepulture,
Alien for aye;-bear thou their mandates back;
For now the brazen urn doth shroud from sight
The ashes of the hero duly wept."
Such words I heard, and tell thee;—if to those
Who here bear rule I speak, kin to the dead,
I know not;-but 'tis meet his sire should know.

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.) — 164 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 164 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 164 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 164 focus
ἔχει μὲν ἤδη γαπότους χοὰς πατήρ,
νέου δὲ μύθου τοῦδε κοινωνήσατε.
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Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 164 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 164 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.) — 164 focus
My father now has the earth-drunk libations 3 ; and do ye share with me in a new discourse.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 164 focus
pour combattre de plus près ?
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 164 focus
’Tis finiſh'd; these libations to my father
The earth has drunk.
—Thou aweful pow'r, that holdeſt
'Twixt this ætherial ſky and the dark realms
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Beneath dread intercourſe, What may this mean?
’Tis all amazement. Share this wonder with me.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 164 focus
E piede in questo suol mai non porrà!
A maggior pianto i tuoi detti mi sforzano.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 164 focus
Habet quidem iam terripota libamina pater.
Caduceatrix maxima corũ quæ ſum supra, & infrà
Huius noui sermonis participes eſtole.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 164 focus
Die Spende für den Vater sog der Boden ein,
166 doch steht mir nun in einer neuen Sorge bei.
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.) — 164 focus
Lo! the earth drinks them, to my sire they pass—
Learn ye with me of this thing new and strange.
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.) — 164 focus
Des Vatergrabes Erde trank die Spende nun.
Jetzt hört das neue Wunder, das sich hier begab !
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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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ἀεὶ ξένον: ἀείξενον coniunctim legit Schneiderus in Lexico.
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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

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zweites Epeisodion. Die Ausführung der Rache wird auf listige Weise vorbereitet. Orestes kommt mit Pylades von der linken Seite und pocht an das Thor des Hauses. Beide haben mittlerweile sich als Gepäck tragende Wanderer (671) verkleidet.

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Δαυλιεύς: Das Zusammentreffen des Dauliers und des Strophios, der von Krisa ( Soph. El. 180 ), also auf der Strafse von Delphi herkommt, erinnert an den aus der Oedipussage bekannten Dreiweg, von welchem es Soph. Oed. T. 733 heifst: Φωκὶς μὲν ἡ γῆ κλήζε ται, σχιστὴ δ᾽ ὁδὸς ἐς ταὐτὸ Δελφῶν κἀπὸ Δαυλίας ἄγει. Auf das Einlenken in den vereinigten Weg bezieht sich δεῦρ᾽ ἀπεζύγην πόδα 672.