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Libation Bearers. N. Wecklein. . 2026-09-07.

Current edition Experimental

Wecklein’s commentary on Choephoroi / Libation Bearers (1888; German; OCR draft) (German) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 163–234; single HW42J8 OCR witness, conservatively retained. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.)

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.) — 55 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 55 focus
σέβας δ᾽ ἄμαχον ἀδάματον ἀπόλεμον τὸ πρὶν
δι' ὤτων φρενός τε δαμίας περαῖνον
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ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 55 focus
Σέβας δ' ἄμαχον ἀδάματον -μαντον ἀπόλεμον τὸ πρὶν
Ant. 2.
δι' ὤτων φρενός φρένες τε δαμίας περαῖ-
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νον νῦν ἀφίσταται ἀμφ- M2 s.l.· φοβεῖ-
ται δέ τις· τὸ δ' εὐτυχεῖν,
τόδ' ἐν βροτοῖς -τοῖσι θεός τε καὶ θεοῦ πλέον·
ῥοπὴ δ' ἐπισκοπεῖ Δίκας δίκαν
ταχεῖα τοὺς τοῖς μὲν ἐν φάει·
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τὰ δ' ἐν μεταιχμίῳ σκότου
μένει χρονίζοντας ἄχη χρονίζοντ' ἄχη βρύει (cf. 70 ; βρύει iam deleuerat Hermann)·
τοὺς δ' ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ·
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 55 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 55 focus
σέβας δ᾽ ἄμαχον ἀδάματον ἀπόλεμον τὸ πρίν
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δι᾽ ὤτων φρενός τε δαμίας περαῖνον
νῦν ἀφίσταται, φοβεῖται δέ τις. τὸ δ᾽ εὐτυχεῖν,
τόδ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς θεός τε καὶ θεοῦ πλέον·
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Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 55 focus
σέβας δ’ ἄμαχον ἀδάματον ἀπόλεμον τὸ πρίν
δι’ ὤτων φρενός τε δαμίας περαῖ-
νον νῦν ἀφίσταται. φοβεῖ-
ται δέ τις. τὸ δ’ εὐτυχεῖν,
τόδ’ ἐμ βροτοῖς θεός τε καὶ θεοῦ πλέον.
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ῥοπὴ δ’ ἐπισκοπεῖ δίκας
ταχεῖα τοὺς μὲν ἐν φάει,
τὰ δ’ ἐν μεταιχμίωι σκότου
μένει χρονίζοντας ἄχη, [βρύει]
τοὺς δ’ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ. =
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Translations (10)
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.) — 55 focus
And majesty, which was in the olden time unconquered, invincible, unassailed, making its way through the ears and the mind of the people, is now banished. And somebody 1
is terrified. But to be prosperous-this is both a god and more than a god among mortals. And the swift turn of Justice visits some in daylight, and some lingering burst forth with violence in the interval of darkness, and some impracticable night possesses 2
.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 55 focus
dont les maîtres ont péri.

Le respect d'antan, invincible, indestructible, inattaquable, qui pénétrait le cœur comme les oreilles du peuple, maintenant s'est évanoui : la crainte règne seule. Le succès, voilà
ce dont les mortels font un dieu, plus qu'un dieu. Mais la Justice vigilante atteint les uns promptement en leur midi ; à d'autres,
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 55 focus
Round him the blaze of greatneſs ſhone,
And dignity adorn'd his throne:
The people bow'd before their lord,
Awe-ſtruck, and his high ſtate ador'd.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 55 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 55 focus
Cultus inexpugnabilis, indomitus
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Imbellis antea, ab auribus & mente
Populi præfectus.
Nunc abest.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 55 focus
Einst folgte dem mächtig gebietenden Wort
55 ehrfürchtigen Volks
nie murrender treuer Gehorsam.
Das ist vorüber. Furcht allein fühlen sie;
60 doch der Erfolg ist höchster Gott der Welt.
Vergeltungsschlag,
bald kommt er rasch, am hellen Tag;
der Aufschub bis zur Dämmerung
bringt manchem bittres Weh;
65 und manchen auch birgt die Nacht,
eh' die Sühne kam.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 55 focus
ELECTRA
Oh! cherished darling of thy father's house,
Hope of our race, thou precious seed, long wept,
Trusting in thy strong arm thou shalt regain
Thy natal home. O fondly loved, in whom
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Centre four dear affections; for perforce,
Thee I must hail as father, and on thee
Love for my mother, justly hated, falls;
And for my sister, pitilessly slain.
My faithful brother hast thou ever been,
My pride, my awe;-only may Justice, Strength,
With Zeus supreme, third Saviour, aid thy cause.
ORESTES
Zeus, Zeus, beholder be thou of these woes;-
Mark the young brood, reft of their eagle-sire,
Who perished in the folds, the snaky toils
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Of direful serpent;-orphaned they endure
The pangs of hunger; not yet strong of wing
To carry to the nest the eagle's prey.
So mayest thou behold us twain, myself,
And her, Electra, offspring sire-bereft,
Thus doomed to common exile from our home.
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.) — 55 focus
Rumour of might, unquestioned, unsubdued,
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Pervading ears and soul of lesser men,
Is silent now and dead.
Yet rules a viler dread;
For bliss and power, however won,
As gods, and more than gods, dazzle our mortal ken.
70
Justice doth mark, with scales that swiftly sway,
Some that are yet in light;
Others in interspace of day and night,
Till Fate arouse them, stay;
And some are lapped in night, where all things are undone. 1
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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.) — 55 focus
Die niebezwungne, niegebeugte Siegerin,
Die Scheu, die des Volkes Ohr und Herz erfüllte,
Schwindet nun dahin: denn wer 1
Fürchtet noch? Das Glück allein,
Das ist der Gott der Menschen, ist noch mehr als Gott.
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Doch Einen rafft am hellen Tag
Des Rechtes Wage schnell dahin;
Den drückt sie machtvoll, säumend zwar, 2
Im Dämmerlicht nieder in Staub;
Den hüllt ewige Nacht ein.
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Dritte Strophe.

Notes on the current edition

Libation Bearers

1. Single-witness OCR: uncollated; flagged readings require scan review.

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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ῥοπὴ
ῥοπὴ
M. Rob. Turn.
ῥοπῇ
G. Ald. δίκας Deinde
δίκαν
M. G. Ald. Rob.
δίκας
recte Turn. Scholiastes
ἡ δὲ τῆς δίκης ῥοπὴ τοὺς μὲν ἐπισκοπεῖ ταχέως καὶ ἀμύνεται, ἄλλοις δὲ ἐν ἀμφιβόλῳ ἐᾷ τὴν τιμωρίαν, οὐκ ἀθρόως αὐτοὺς ἀμυνομένη, ὥςτε τοὺς ἠδικημένους ὑπ' αὐτῶν λυπεῖσθαι, ἄλλους δὲ σκότος καλύπτει, ὡς μηδ' ὁρᾶσθαι ὑπ᾽ αὐτῆς. ὁμοίως ὁ φόνος πέπηγε καὶ οὐ διαρρεῖ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπέξεισιν ἑαυτόν.
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τοὺς μὲν
τοῖς μὲν
M. G. Ald. Rob.
τοὺς μὲν
recte Turn. cum scholiasta.
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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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Für δυόφοι βροτοστυγεῖς folgt die Erklärung: „Die früher unbezwingliche, unüberwindliche, unnahbare Ehrfurcht vor dem königlichen Hause, welche Ohr und Herz des Volkes durchdrang, weicht jetzt. Und mancher scheut sich nunmehr solches Glück königlicher Stellung zu geniefsen, während sonst königliche Macht den Menschen als Gott und als mehr denn Gott erscheint." δι᾽ ὤτων φρενός τε, weil sich die Ehrfurcht in Reden und in der Gesinnung zeigt. περαίνειν steht im Sinne von περᾶν, vgl. Pind. Pyth. Χ 28 περαίνει πρὸς ἔσχατον πλόον.