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εἶεν, φίλιαι δμωίδες οἴκων,
715
πότε δὴ στομάτων
δείξομεν ἰσχὺν ἐπ᾽ Ὀρέστῃ;
ὦ πότνια χθὼν καὶ πότνι ἀκτὴ
χώματος, ἣ νῦν ἐπὶ ναυάρχῳ
σώματι κεῖσαι τῷ βασιλείῳ,
720
νῦν ἐπάκουσον, νῦν ἐπάρηξον·
νῦν γὰρ ἀκμάζει Πειθὼ δολίαν
ξυγκαταβῆναι, χθόνιον δ᾽ Ἑρμῆν
καὶ τὸν νύχιον τοῖσδ᾽ ἐφοδεῦσαι
ξιφοδηλήτοισιν ἀγῶσιν.
725

Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. ed. N. Wecklein. Berolini. 1885.

Current edition Experimental

Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) (Greek) (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 783-837 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 783-837 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 719 focus
εἶεν, φίλιαι δμωΐδες οἴκων,
πότε δὴ στομάτων
720
δείξομεν ἰσχὺν ἐπ᾿ Ὀρέστῃ;
ὦ πότνια χθὼν καὶ πότνι ἀκτὴ
χώματος, ἢ νῦν ἐπὶ ναυάρχῳ
σώματι κεῖσαι τῷ βασιλείῳ,
νῦν ἐπάκουσον, νῦν ἐπάρηξον·
725
νῦν γὰρ ἀκμάζει Πειθὼ δολίαν
ξυγκαταβῆναι, νύχιόν θ᾽ Ἐρμῆν
τοῖσδ᾽ ἐφοδεῦσαι
ξιφοδηλήτοισιν ἀγῶσιν.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 719 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 719 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 719 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 719 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.)) — 783-835 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 719 focus
Well, dear handmaidens of the house, when indeed shall we put forth the strength of our mouths on account of Orestes? O revered earth, and revered pile of the mound, which now dost press upon the remains of the monarch that led the fleet, now give ear, now lend thine aid; for now is it high time for wily plausibility and the nether Mercury to come together, and to guide the mysterious man on his way in conflicts of the destructive sword.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 719 focus
Allons, amies, captives du palais,
qu'attendons-nous, pour déployer, en faveur d'Oreste, notre seule force, celle de nos voix?
O sol auguste, auguste tertre, dont la haute masse au- jourd'hui recouvre le corps d'un royal chef d'escadre,
l'heure est venue: prête-nous l'oreille, prête-nous ton se- cours. Oui, l'heure est venue pour la Persuasion traîtresse de descendre avec eux dans la lice, et pour Hermès Infer- nal, pour Hermès Ténébreux aussi, de diriger la joute des épées meurtrières.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 719 focus
Now, my dear partners, ſlaves to this proud house,
810
Now let us ſhow our fortitude, now teach
Our tongues a noble daring for Oreſtes.
Thou hallow'd earth, thou hallow'd mound,
Whoſe high sepulchral round
Lies on the royal chief, that o'er the main
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To glory led his martial train,
Now hear us, now impart your aid:
On this important hour,
Perſuaſion, try thy fraudful pow’r:
And thou, thro’ night’s ſurrounding shade,
820
Come, Mercury, from the ſhades below,
And when the falchion flames, direct th' avenging blow!
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 719 focus
Che s'aspetta, o fedeli fantesche
della reggia, a provar quanto valgano
per Oreste le nostre preghiere?
Venerabile Terra, e del tumulo
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venerabile clivo, che sorgi
su la spoglia del re navichiero,
ora ascolta, soccorso ora porgine.
Ora è tempo che scenda Suada
frodolenta, ed Ermete notturno
600
da la terra si levi ad assistere
questo agone di ferro e di morte.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 719 focus
Esto, chare famule domus, tandem iam oris
Potentiam oſtendemus pro Oreſte.
O ueneranda terra, ò uenerandum littus
670
Aggeris, quod ſupra nauarchum
Corpus iaces regium.
Nunc audi, nunc opitulare.
Nunc uerò floret perſuasio fraudulenta,
Vt congrediatur. terreſtrem uerò Mercurium
675
Et nocturnum adoriatur his
Certaminibus enſibus factis.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 719 focus
Auf, ihr Mägde, wenn ihr Agamemnons
Haus die Treue hieltet, so beweiset
für Orestes des Gebetes Kraft.
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.) — 719 focus
So be it done—
Sister-servants, when draws nigh
Time for us aloud to cry
Orestes and his victory?
O holy earth and holy tomb
810
Over the grave-pit heaped on high,
Where low doth Agamemnon lie—
The king of ships, the army's lord!
Now is the hour—give ear and come,
For now doth Craft her aid afford,
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And Hermes, guard of shades in hell,
Stands o'er their strife, to sentinel
The dooming of the sword.
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.) — 719 focus
Auf, Freundinnen, dienstbar waltend im Haus,
Wann heben wir laut
715
Für Orestes unser Gebet an?
O heiliges Land und der heiligen Gruft
Erdwall, der nun des Gebieters im Meer,
Des gewaltigen Feldherrn, Asche bewahrt,
Nun hör' uns, nun sei hülfreich uns!
720
Denn nun ist's Zeit,
Daß Peitho mit Trug in die Schranken sich stellt,
Und Hermes, der Nachtgott, ihn in den Kampf
Des vertilgenden Schwertes geleitet!
Kilissa, die Amme des Orestes, kommt weinend aus der Frauenwohnung.)

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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ξιφοδηλήτοισιν: ξιφοδηλήτοισιν M. Rob. ξιφοδημήτῃσιν G. Ald. ξιφοδημήτοισιν Τurn.
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ἀνὴρ ὁ ξένος τεύχειν: Linea praefixa est in M. Omissa personae nota in G. Ald. θερ. praefixum in Rob. Οι. (i. e. οἰκέτης) Turn. et reliqui. Chorum haec loqui viderunt Tyrwhittus et Bothius. Idque intellexit scholiastes, qui haec adscripsit, ξένον τὸν Ὀρέστην καλεῖ, ἵνα δόξωσιν ἀγνοεῖν τὸ σκαιώρημα. Libri ἀνήρ. Correxit Porsonus. Deinde libri τεύχειν. Quod res ipsa docere poterat, scripsisse Aeschylum τυχεῖν, et versum post hunc excidisse, etiam scholiastae adnotatio docet, ἀντὶ τοῦ πεποιη- κέναι πένθος τῷ οἴκῳ διὰ τῆς ἀγγελίας. Sensus verborum hic fuit, quem scholiastes indicat, malum hic hospes videtur in aedibus luctum excitasse. Itaque κακόν adiectivum est, ad nomen, quod excidit, pertinens. Scriptum fuisse videtur eiusmodi quid, ἔοικεν ἀνὴρ ὁ ξένος τυχεῖν κακὸν οἴκοισι πένθος θεὶς νέοις ἀγγέλμασιν.
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Ὀρέστου τήνδ᾽: Hunc versum habent codices quidam Etymologici M. P. 1429. A. 1431. A. Gaisf. ὀρέστου τήνδ' Μ. Turn. ὀρέστου τὴν δ᾽ Rob. ὀρέσταν τὴν δ᾽ Αld. ορέστου τὴν δ' G. sed librarius o diphthongi addita lineola in a mutavit et ad v spiritum asperum adscripsit, ut legeretur ορέσταὑτὴν δ᾽.
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Κίλισσα: κίλισσα M. Turn. κίλισσα G. κιλίσσω Αld. γείλισσα Rob. Vict. et recentiores. Etenim scholion sic ediderunt Rob. et Vict. Fɛi- λισσαν δέ φησι τὴν Ὀρέστου τροφόν, Πίνδαρος (Pyth. ΧΙ. 25.) δὲ Αρσινόην, Στησίχορος δὲ Λαοδαμίαν. Sed hic quoque κίλισσαν habent M. G. Recte igitur Kikooa restituerunt Wellauerus et Blomfieldius. Nomina servi a patria quisque sua accipere solebant, uti, si in tali re auctore opus est, Hemsterhusius docuit ad Aristophanis Plutum p. 8. Cilissa, nutrix Achaei Meropis f. commemoratur a scholiasta Aristophanis ad Pacis v. 362. a Suida in v. Kikizor et Kikioors, a Photio in v. Kɩ- Kízor. Laodamiam Orestis nutricem appellavit Stesichorum secutus Pherecydes: v. schol. Pind. Pyth. XI. 25. et Sturzium ad Pherecydem p. 224.
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720. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-458

σοι: ἐπί σοι Αld.
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τοῖς ξένοις: Linea praefixa est in M. Personae nota omissa in G. Ald. γει. praefixum in Rob. 19. in Turn. Libri τοὺς ξένους. Scholiastes ἡ τοὺς ξένους κρατοῦσα καὶ ὑποδεξαμένη Αίγισθον καλεῖν ἐκέλευσε. Hoc ineptum est. Vulgatum qui tueri vult, ita explicare debebit, regina iubet hospites quam celerrime Aegisthum advocare, id ut sic ab nutrice dici intelligatur, ut eum per ipsam advocari indicet. Sed recte videtur Pauwius Tois Sévois scribendum coniecisse.
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πύθηται ... οἰκέτας: πύθεται Rob. εἰκέτας Ald.
724

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ἔθετο σκυθρωπὸν ἐντὸς ὀμμάτων γέλων κεύθουσ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἔργοις διαπεπραγμένοις καλῶς: Libri θέτο σκυθρωπόν. Victorius θέτο σκυθρωπῶν. Heathii mutatio, eto ozv‡qonur, a Porsono, Schützio aliisque recepta est. Praeclaram huius versus emendationem mecum communicavit Erfurdius, nulla plane mutatione facta scribens 9to5zv&gw¬òv ¿rtòs ὀμμάτων γέλων κεύθουσα, adoptivae maestitiae signa simulantem risum oculis celans. καλῶν Rob.

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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Mit πότε . . δείξομεν ἰσχὺν (Schol. πότε ἐπευξόμεθα) ἐπ᾿ Ὀρέ στη fordert der Koryphaios den Chor zu einem sofortigen Gebete auf. Die V. 718-725 werden also von dem Gesamtchore vorgetragen. Vgl. das Gebet der Elektra Soph. El. 1376 . Mit ἐπ' Ὀρέστη (zu Gunsten des Orestes) vgl. Suppl. 633
λέξωμεν ἐπ᾿ Αργείοις εὐχὰς ἀγαθάς
.

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ἀκτὴ τοῦ τάφου) von dem Grabhügel wie ἀκταν βώμιον Soph. Oed. T. 183 von der Altarerhöhung.

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ξυγκαταβῆναι, mit Orestes (und Pylades) auf den Kampfplatz trete. Vgl. καθήκειν 453, Suidas unter κατάβα: καταβαίνειν τὸ εἰς ἀγῶνα χωρεῖν. — χθόνιον Ἑρμῆν als Gott heimlicher List, vgl. 808 ff., Soph. Εl. 1395 ὁ Μαίας δὲ παῖς ἐπί σφ᾽ ἄγει, δόλον σκότω κρύψας κτέ. ἐφοδεύειν mit Akk. bedeutet obire, mit Dat. hier ,,hingeleiten".