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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.) — 585-651 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 585-651 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 585 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 585 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 585 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 585 focus
πολλὰ μὲν γὰ τρέφει
δεινὰ δειμάτων ἄχη,
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 585 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 585 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.)) — 585-650 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 585 focus
Full many 3
a dread and grievous horror does the earth nurture, and the arms of the deep teem with monsters hostile to mortals! and there spring forth in mid-air lights 4
hung aloft. Both the creatures that fly and those that crawl, and the gusty rage of hurricanes, one might be able to describe.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 585 focus
sont les fléaux d'effroi, les monstres que nourrit la terre, et les bêtes cruelles à l'homme qu'enferme le sein des mers. Entre terre et ciel jaillissent
des météores de feu. Et tout ce qui vole ou marche peut parler du courroux orageux des vents
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 585 focus
Pregnant with ills the dreary air
Gives ſickneſs, pain, and terror birth:
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The ſeas, that wind around the earth,
Fatal to man their hideous monsters bear:
Each forest in its ſhaggy ſides,
That darkens o’er the perilous ground,
The lurking, rav’nous ſavage hides,
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Whilſt fierce birds wheel the ſummits round:
And mark with what tempestuous rage
Black from the ſkies the ruſhing winds engage.
ANTISTROPHE I.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 585 focus
Molti la terra genera
mostri, ed orrendi mali:
brulica il mare di voraci squali
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nei suoi profondi seni:
fra cielo e terra guizzano
gli eterëi baleni;
e, voli o strisci al suolo,
ogni animal, dei turbini
465
può dir la furia e il procelloso volo.
1 Antistrofe 1.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 585 focus
Ponticeq; ulne bestiarum infeſtarum hominibus
Crefcunt, germinant & intermedie
Lampades subfublimes,
Volucres & currentia, reſpirantium
560
Caprarum dic iram.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 585 focus
Erde nähret reifsend wilder
Tiere Brut
sonder Zahl.
Tief in Meeres Schlüften wimmeln
Ungeheuer,
Fischers Schrecken.
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.) — 585 focus
Many and marvellous the things of fear
Earth's breast doth bear;
And the sea's lap with many monsters teems,
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And windy levin-bolts and meteor-gleams
Breed many deadly things—
Unknown and flying forms, with fear upon their wings,
And in their tread is death;
And rushing whirlwinds, of whose blasting breath
685
Man's tongue can tell.
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.) — 585 focus
Erde nährt wunderbar
Grause Schrecken ohne Zahl;
Tief-in Meers düsterm Schooß wimmelt manch
Graunvoll Ungeheuer,
Der Menschen Feind; zwischen Erd' und Himmel hoch
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Sproßt der Blige flammend Licht;
Vogel in Höh'n und die Thiere des Waldes erzählen
Von der Windsbraut jähem Zorn.
Erste Gegenstrophe.

Notes on the current edition

Libation Bearers

1. Reference alignment provisional: inherited from the 1885 edition or a documented bounding range; verify against the 1888 scan.
2. 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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πόντιαί τ' ἀγκάλαι κνωδάλων ἀνταίων βρύουσι· βλάπτουσι καὶ πεδαίχμιοι λαμπάδες πεδάοροι, πτανά τε καὶ πεδοβάμον᾽, ἅ τ' ἀνεμούντων αἰγίδων φράσαι κότον: Hi versus in M. sic scripti sunt, πόντιαί τ' ἀγκάλαι κνωδάλων ἀνταίων βροτοῖσι πλήθουσι βλαστοῦσι καὶ πεδαίχμιοι λαμπάδες πεδάμαροι πτηνά τε καὶ πεδοβάμονα· κἀνεμούντων αἰγίδων φράσαι κότον, ita quidem, ut e in πεδάμαροι, item in πτηνά τε et in πεδοβάμονα in litura scriptum sit. In primo versu ἀγκάλαια νωδάλων Ald. ἀγκάλων κνωδάλων Rob. In tertio versu πεδαίχμιοι etiam Rob. habet. ποδαίχμιοι G. Ald. μεταίχμιο Turn. Vict. Non recte olim πεδαίχμιοι in πεδαιχμίῳ mutandum putabam: dicuntur quae sunt inter caelum ac terram. In proximo versu in πεδάμαροι consentiunt libri. Adscriptum est in M. οἶμαι πέδουροι, ἵν ᾖ τὸ σημαινόμενον μετέωροι, et in altera margine αἱ ἀκτῖνες τοῦ ἡλίου αἱ καθημεριναί. Scribendum esse πεδάοροι vidit Stanleius, comparans cum illa priore adnotatione quod Hesychius habet, πέδουρος, μετέωρος. Versu quinto in πτηνά τε G. Rob. cum M. consentiunt. πτηνά τε Ald. Turn. Deinde πεδοβάμονα· κανεμούντων etiam Turn. Vict. πεδοβάμον ἀπ᾿ ανεμούντων G. πεδοβάμον ἀπ᾿ ἀνεμούντων Ald. πεδοβάμονακ᾽ ἀνεμούντων Rob. Scribendum, ut in Opusc. I. p. 114. dixi, πτανὰ δὲ καὶ πεδοβάμον ἀπ᾿ ἀνεμούντων αἰγίδων φράσαι κότον. Sed etiam priores versus vitiosos esse et metrum arguit et sententia. Itaque βροτοῖσι in βρύουσι mutavi, βλαστοῦσι autem, quod nihil esse videtur nisi adscripta alia lectio, delevi. Sic igitur hos versus scripsi, πόντιαί τ' ἀγκάλαι κνωδάλων άνταίων βρύουσι· πλήθουσι καὶ πεδαίχμιοι λαμπάδες πεδάοροι, πτανὰ δὲ καὶ πεδοβάμον ἀπ' ἀνεμούντων αἰγίδων φράσαι κότον. Masculina forma ἀνεμούντων nemo debet suspectam habere.

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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,,Um den Schwertkampf mir mit glücklichem Erfolg zu krönen.“ ξιφηφόρος ἀγών,,,der schwerttragende Kampf" für Kampf von Schwerttragenden. Vgl. Eur. Herc. 812 ξιφηφόρων αγώνων, Bakch. 384 κισσοφόροις ἐν θαλίαις, 531 στε φαναφόρους θιάσους. Elektra geht ins Haus, Orestes und Pylades treten zur linken Seite ab. 583 - 648 erstes Stasimon: Vieles Schreckliche bietet die Natur; aber schrecklicher als die Ungeheuer der Natur ist des Mannes verbrecherischer Sinn und des Weibes rüchsichtslose Gier. Beispiele hiefür sind Althäa, welche den Sohn, Skylla, welche den Vater, die Frauen von Lemnos, welche die Gatten ihrer Leidenschaft opferten. Zu diesen kommt jetzt die Buhlerei der Klytämestra, durch welche der allverehrte Herrscher den Untergang fand. Aber Dike dient der Vorsorglichen Schwertfegerin Aisa als Ambofs und das Erzeugnis ihrer Arbeit bringt die Erinys mit der Zeit ins Haus, um den Greuel alter Blutschuld zu sühnen. Dieses aber, das Schwert, trifft um der mit Fülsen getretenen Dike willen ins Herz diejenigen, welche sich über alle Verehrung des Zeus hinweggesetzt haben".