N. Wecklein Libation Bearers 120.comm-120

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.) — 106 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 106 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 106 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 106 focus
αἰδουμένη σοι βωμὸν ὣς τύμβον πατρὸς
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λέξω, κελεύεις γάρ, τὸν ἐκ φρενὸς λόγον.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 106 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 106 focus
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.) — 106 focus
Reverencing the tomb of thy sire as though an altar, I will speak, for thou biddest me, the sentiment of my soul.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 106 focus
le même sort est réservé à l'homme, qu'il soit libre ou esclave au pouvoir d'un maître.
Parlez, de grâce, si vous avez mieux à me dire.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 106 focus
Since, as ſome hallow'd ſhrine, thy father's tomb
I reverence, at thy bidding I will ſpeak.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 106 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 106 focus
Diceres enim, si haberes his sublimius,
Pudore affecta tibi aram tanquam ſepulchrũ patris
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Dicam: iubes enim ex mente uerbum.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 106 focus
Gleich dem Altar verehr' ich deines Vaters Grab
und sage dir gehorsam, was das Herz mir rät.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 121 focus
Chorus
STROPHE I.
Full many a horror drear
And ghastly, Earth doth rear;-
With direful monsters teems encircling Ocean;
Meteors, with threatening sheen,
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Hang heaven and earth between ;—
The tempest's wrath still raves with wild commotion;
These, and dire wingèd things, and things that crawl,
Thou mayst describe them all.
ANTISTROPHE I.
But man's audacious might
What words can paint aright,
Or woman's daring spirit who may tell?
Her passion's frenzied throes,
Co-mates of mortal woes?
For love unlovely, when its evil spell
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'Mong brutes or men the feebler sex befools,
Conjugial bands o'errules.
STROPHE II.
Let him confirm the truth I sing,
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Whose thoughts soar not on Folly's wing,
Knowing full well what Thestios' daughter planned * ;—
Her fiery plot, child-murdering;
Wretched, who burnt her son's coeval brand.
Born with him when he cried
First from the mother's womb;-
Like-aged with him it died,
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When dawned his day of doom.
ANTISTROPHE II. 602
Needs must we loathe another dame,
The bloody Scylla, known to fame, *
Who lured by Minos' gifts of fine-wrought gold,
Neck-gear from Crete,-devoid of shame,
Nisos her sire, a friend to foemen, sold.
Deep-breathing, free from care,
In slumber while he lay,
Ruthless she cut th' immortal hair :
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And Hermes seized his prey.
STROPHE III. 612
But since these direful woes have burst,
†Untimely, into song:-
Be the foul wedlock too accursed,
That doth this palace wrong.—
And cursed be the plot that snared
(By woman's brain devised,)
The armed chief who foemen scared,
Whom faithful lieges prized.
Dear is to me the unstained hearth, and dear
In woman's hand the unaudacious spear.
ANTISTROPHE III.
But first of woes in every clime,
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The Lemnian is deplored ;— *
And still the most detested crime
As Lemnian is abhorred.
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Branded with infamy by men,
The impious disappear;
For whom the righteous gods condemn,
No mortal dares revere.—
The lore which thus we chant in choral strain,
Say ye, doth Reason at her bar arraign?
STROPHE IV.
Right through the lungs doth Justice' hand
Drive home the bitter steel;
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†For all must perish who withstand
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Her mandates, and with reckless heel,
Trample high Jove's command.
ANTISTROPHE IV.
Firm based is Justice; Fate of yore
Forged weapon for the blow;
Deep-souled Erinys doth restore
Th' avenger to his home, and, lo!
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He pays the bloody score.
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.) — 106 focus
Thou biddest; I will speak my soul's thought out,
Revering as a shrine thy father's grave.
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.) — 106 focus
Ich rede, (du gebeutst ja,) wie's vom Herzen kommt;
Denn als Altar verehr' ich deines Vaters Grab.
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Notes on the current edition

Libation Bearers

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

Commentary

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

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Schlichtweg etwa so dich ausdrückend" u. s. w. Meineke vermutet ἁπλῶς πιφαύσκουσ'.