Aeschylus Libation Bearers 22

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Chorus
STROPHE.
†Drop ye for the dead
Tears with pattering sound;
Lustral rain is shed
O'er the hallowed mound,
From the pure which screeneth bale,
150 While the powers of Evil quail.
Hear, O master, at thy tomb,
Whispered sounds from sorrow's murky gloom.
ANTISTROPHE.
Now in measured flow
Tune the notes of woe!
When will warrior brave,
†(War-god strong to save
Houses in the dust laid low,)
Hurl the spear, from hornèd bow
Wing the arrow's deadly flight,
Or wield the hilted brand in closing fight?

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.) — 22-83b focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 22-83b focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 22 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 22 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 22 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 22 focus
ἰαλτὸς ἐκ δόμων ἔβην
χοὰς προπομπὸς ὀξύχειρι σὺν κόπῳ.
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσ᾽ ἀμυγμοῖς
ὄνυχος ἄλοκι νεοτόμῳ·
25
(δι' αἰῶνος δ' ἰυγμοῖσι βόσκεται κέαρ)·
λινοφθόροι δ' ὑφασμάτων
λακίδες ἔφλαδον ὑπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν
πρόστερνοι στολμοὶ
πέπλων ἀγελάστοις
30
ξυμφοραῖς πεπληγμένων.
1
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 22 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 22 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.)) — 22-82 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 22 focus
I am come forth from the palace, sent as an escort to the drink-offering with the noise of sharp clapping of hands. Marked is my cheek with bloody gashes, the furrow newly cut by my nail: for ever is my heart fed on wailings; and the rendings of tissues ruining the vesture, make a noise through my sorrows, the breast-protecting robes being torn through smileless woes.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 22 focus
suppliante.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 22 focus
This ſadly-penſive train to lead,
With hallow'd rites to ſooth the dead,
30
To bear these off'rings to his shrine,
The melancholy taſk is mine.
And, as from yon' proud walls I take my way,
My cheeks, with many' a ſounding blow
Beat by these hands, in crimſon glow,
35
Whilſt my poor heart to anguiſh ſinks a prey:
And
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 22 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 22 focus
Ex ædibus ascendi miſſus
Libamina deductor acuta manu fundo.
15
Congruit gena cruenta clamoribus
Nouæ ſectione unguis,
Per æuum uerò clamoribus pascitur cor.
Ex lino textæ corruptæ
Veſtes laceratæ ſunt pre doloribus
20
Ornamenta pectoris:
Peplorum triftibus
Calamitatibus inuolutorum.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 22 focus
Vom Haus geschickt,
tragen wir zum Grabe
die Spenden; hurt'ger Hände Brüsteschlagen
giebt das Geleit.
Die Wange zeigt frische Purpurstreifen,
25 die Furchen, die der Nagel zog.
Das Herz ist, ach, längst gewohnt des Jammers.
In Fetzen und Streifen zerflattert der Bausch
des Busentuchs.
Bittrer Harm,
wilder Schmerz
30 rifs, zerschlifs den Mantel.
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.) — 22 focus
Forth from the royal halls by high command
I bear libations for the dead.
Rings on my smitten breast my smiting hand,
And all my cheek is rent and red,
Fresh-furrowed by my nails, and all my soul
35
This many a day doth feed on cries of dole.
And trailing tatters of my vest,
In looped and windowed raggedness forlorn,
Hang rent around my breast,
Even as I, by blows of Fate most stern
40
Saddened and torn.
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.) — 22 focus
Gesandt vom Hause kommen wir 1
Mit Opferspenden unter wildem Händeschlag.
Die Wange glüht von blutigrothen Nissen,
35
Frischer Nägelfurchen voll;
Und unruhvoll an Wehklagen weidet sich das Herz.
Zu Fezen riß ich linnenes
Geweb' in wildem Schmerz entzwei;
Mein brusthüllender Flor hängt los am Gewande,
40
Rings zerschlikt von herbem Leid.
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

147-151. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-90

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

83-582. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-38

1
erstes Epeisodion, geteilt durch einen Kommos (305— 476). Anagnorismos und Vorbereitung der Rache.

150. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-79

2
ἐπανθίζειν: Schol. στέφειν ὡς ἄνθεσιν, scil. χοάς. Vgl. Pers. 622
ἀλλ᾽
, ὦ φίλοι, χοαῖσι ταῖσδε νερτέρων ὕμνους ἐπευφημεῖτε.