Aeschylus Libation Bearers 211

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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The husband's toil supports the wife at home.

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.) — 315-478 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 315-478 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 225 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 225 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 225 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 225 focus
αὐτὸν μὲν οὖν ὁρῶσα δυσμαθεῖς ἐμέ,
κουρὰν δὲ ἰδοῦσα τήνδε κηδείου τριχὸς
225
ἀνεπτερώθης κἀδόκεις ὁρᾶν ἐμέ,
ἰχνοσκοποῦσά τ᾽ ἐν στίβοισι τοῖς ἐμοῖς.
σαυτῆς ἀδελφοῦ συμμέτρου τῷ σῷ κάρᾳ
σκέψαι τομῇ προσθεῖσα βόστρυχον τριχός.
ἰδοῦ δ᾽ ὕφασμα τοῦτο, σῆς ἔργον χερός,
230
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 225 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 225 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.)) — 315-476 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 225 focus
Nay, now, when thou seest me in person, thou hardly knowest me, but when thou didst see your brother's shorn ringlet of mourning hair which corresponded with thine own head, and wast tracing thy footsteps in the track of my feet, thou wast all of a flutter, and didst fancy thou sawest me. Consider the ringlet of my hair, after placing it on the part whence I clipped it; and behold this web, the work of thy hand, and the strokes of the shuttle, and on it the delineation of wild beasts 2
. Be yourself 3
, and be not over-amazed in soul through joy, for I know that the dearest relatives are bitter foes to us twain.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 225 focus
quand tu me vois, tu refuses de me reconnaître, et tout à l'heure, quand tu as aperçu cette boucle coupée en symbole de deuil, ton cœur s'est envolé
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 225 focus
Thou ſeeſt me preſent, yet art ſlow to know me.
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When off'red on the tomb thou ſaw’ſt these locks,
When with thy own th' impreſſions of my feet
Were meaſur’d, joy gave wings to expectation,
And imag’d me before thee.
Mark these locks,
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Shorn from thy brother’s head; obſerve them well,
Compare
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 225 focus
Or che mi scorgi, tu non mi conosci;
e prima, nel veder solo una ciocca
delle chiome fraterne, eri esaltata,
e ti sembrava di vedermi, e andavi
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investigando le mie tracce. Accosta
qui, donde fu reciso, questo ricciolo
simile alle tue chiome, e osserva. Guarda
questo tessuto: la trama dei pettini,
le forme vedi delle fiere: è opera
70
della tua mano! Frenati! La gioia
non turbi la tua mente! Sai che quelli
che amar piú ci dovrebbero, ci aborrono!
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 225 focus
Me ipſum quidem uidens, diffidis,
Pupillamq; uidens, mõsti pili
Excitata es, & uideris uidere me.
210
Speculans in uestigijs meis,
Caput fratris eiufdem menſuræ cum tuo.
Speculare sectione apponens cæſariem crinis.
En texturam opus tuæ manus,
Spathæ ictus, ferarumq; deſcriptionem,
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Non quidem inus, gaudio ne percelle mentes.
Amicos enim nostros tristes eſse animaduerti.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 225 focus
Kleingläub'ge, jetzt, wo ich leibhaftig vor dir steh',
mifskennst du mich, und als du meine Locke sahst,
227 das Traueropfer, das ich für den Vater schnitt,
da stand ich ganz vor der entzückten Seele dir.
230 Sieh doch nur her: die Locke pafst an diesen Schnitt,
sieh auch den Mantel: deine Hände woben ihn,
hier diesen Leu hat deine Nadel eingestickt.
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.) — 225 focus
My very face thou see'st and know'st me not,
And yet but now, when thou didst see the lock
Shorn for my father's grave, and when thy quest
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Was eager on the footprints I had made,
Even I, thy brother, shaped and sized as thou,
Fluttered thy spirit, as at sight of me!
Lay now this ringlet whence 'twas shorn, and judge,
And look upon this robe, thine own hands' work,
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The shuttle-prints, the creature wrought thereon—
Refrain thyself, nor prudence lose in joy,
For well I wot, our kin are less than kind.
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.) — 225 focus
Nun siehst du doch mich selber, und erkennst mich nicht.
Erst als du hier des Trauerhaares Locke sahst,
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Und spähend maßest meiner Tritte Spur, da flog
Dein Herz vor Freude, weil du glaubtest mich zu seh'n.
Hier lag die Locke (prüfe nur den Schnitt des Haars -)
Am Haupt des Bruders, welches ganz dem deinen gleicht:
Betrachte dies Gewebe, deiner Hände Werk,
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Des Weberschiffchens Marken, hier der Thiere Bild! -
(da Elektra sich sehr betroffen zeigt)
Halt ein, im Freudentaumel sei nicht außer dir!
Ich weiß, die nächsten Freunde sind uns bitterfeind.

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

211. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-127

ὧνπερ
ὃν περ
Rob. ἐξηύχου Deinde
ἐξηύχου
Rob. Turn.
ἐξηύχου
sic M. G.
ἐξήυχου
Ald.
211

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.

210-211. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-110

2
δὶς καταφθορά von der peinlichen Ungewissheit. Gegensatz dazu steht εἰδότας 200, zu dem jedoch auch der Satz οἵοισιν .. στροβούμεθα gehört. - σμικροῦ . . πυθμήν: an die Stelle des eigentlichen Ausdrucks tritt ohne weiteres das Gleichnis. Vgl. die schöne Wendung 246 ff.

211-212. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-111

3
τὰ λοιπὰ (Akk., zu 707) τυγχάνειν καλῶς, τοῖς . . ἐπαγγέλ λούσα (den Göttern Bitterfüllung anmeldend d. h. den Göttern dankbar ankündigend, dafs die Bitten in Erfüllung gehen, und damit sich zur Darbringung der gelobten Opfer verpflichtend). Was du erflehst, erfüllt sich bereits; danke den Göttern dafür und bitte nur, dafs auch weiterhin dir alles nach Wunsch gehe." Vgl. 217.