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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.) — 540 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 540 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 540 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 540 focus
ἀλλ᾽ εὔχομαι γῇ τῇδε καὶ πατρὸς τάφῳ
τοὔνειρον εἶναι τοῦτ᾽ ἐμοὶ τελεσφόρον.
κρίνω δέ τοί νιν ὥστε συγκόλλως ἔχειν.
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εἰ γὰρ τὸν αὐτὸν χῶρον ἐκλιπὼν ἐμοὶ
οὔφις επᾶσα σπαργανη πλείζετα
καὶ μαστὸν ἀμφέχασκ᾽ ἐμὸν θρεπτήριον,
θρόμβῳ τ᾽ ἔμιξεν αἵματος φίλον γάλα,
ἡ δ᾽ ἀμφὶ τάρβει τῷδ᾽ ἐπῴμωξεν πάθει,
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δεῖ τοί νιν, ὡς ἔθρεψεν ἔκπαγλον τέρας,
θανεῖν βιαίως· ἐκδρακοντωθεὶς δ᾽ ἐγὼ
κτείνω νιν, ὡς τοὔνειρον ἐννέπει τόδε.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 540 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 540 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.) — 540 focus
But I make my prayer to this earth, and to the tomb of my father, that this dream may bring accomplishment to me. And i'faith I interpret it so that it exactly tallies; for if, after quitting the same place with me, the serpent was decked in my swaddling-clothes, and mouthed the breast that gave me nutriment, and mingled with clotted blood the loved milk, and she shrieked in dread at this mischance-it needs must be that she, as she reared a terrific portent, should die a violent death; and I, changed into a serpent, will slay her, as this dream of her's declares. And I choose thee for my expounder of portents as touching this matter.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 540 focus
bien ! je prie la Terre qui nous porte, je prie le tombeau de mon père de me laisser réaliser ce songe. Voyez, je l'interprète en le serrant de près : si,
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 540 focus
But to this earth, and to my father's tomb
I make my ſupplications, that in me
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 540 focus
A questa terra e al tumulo del padre
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chiedo ch'esito il sogno abbia per me:
e ben mi sembra ch'esso a me s'attagli.
Ché se quel serpe, dallo stesso grembo
ond'io son nato, uscí, se nelle fasce
mie fu ravvolto, e sugge' la mammella
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che me nutriva, ed un grumo di sangue
mischiò nel latte, ed essa nel terrore
per lo strazio geme'; conviene adesso
che, come un mostro orrendo ella nutrí,
morte abbia dura: e, come il sogno dice,
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io, fatto serpe, morte le darò.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 540 focus
Remedium tonſum ſperans eſse dolorum.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 540 focus
Nun denn, bei dieser Erde, bei des Vaters Gruft,
Erfüllung finde dieses Traumgesicht durch mich.
Ich deut' es, und die Deutung pafst aufs Haar genau.
Denn wenn der Drache, aus dem Schofs, der mich
gebar
hervorgegangen, sich in meiner Wiege barg,
545 wenn er die Brust umzischte, die mir Nahrung bot,
und schwarzen Blutstrom schlürfte mit der linden Milch,
wenn sie dann gellend aufschrie, schmerz- und schauder-
voll,
dann gilt es ihr. Sie hat das Drachenkind gesäugt,
und blutig muſs sie sterben. Und der Wurm bin ich,
550 ich bin ihr Mörder. Das verkündet dieser Traum.
Und hierfür sollt' ihr meine Zeichendeuter sein.
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.) — 540 focus
Earth and my father's grave, to you I call—
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Give this her dream fulfilment, and thro' me.
I read it in each part coincident
With what shall be; for mark, that serpent sprang
From the same womb as I, in swaddling bands
By the same hands was swathed, lipped the same breast,
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And sucking forth the same sweet mother's-milk
Infused a clot of blood; and in alarm
She cried upon her wound the cry of pain.
The rede is clear: the thing of dread she nursed,
The death of blood she dies; and I, 'tis I,
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In semblance of a serpent, that must slay her.
Thou art my seer, and thus I read the dream.
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.) — 540 focus
So fleh' ich, Erde, Vatergruft, dich fleh' ich an,
Das Ziel vollenden möge mir das Traumgesicht.
Ich deut' es also, daß es wohl eintreffen muß.
Denn wenn demselben Mutterschooß, wie ich, entstammt,
In meine Windeln eingehüllt der Drache lag,
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Dieselbe Brust umgähnte, die mich einst genährt,
Und Klumpen Bluts einsaugte sammt der Muttermilch,
Daß sie, von Angst ergriffen, laut aufschrie vor Schmerz:
Dann muß sie wahrlich sterben, die solch grause Brut
Ernährt, gewaltsam sterben; ich, ein Drache selbst,
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Ermorde sie, wie jenes Traumbild kundgethan.
Du sei der Zeichendeuter mir für solchen Traum!

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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θρόμβῳ τ' ἔμιξεν: Libri θρόμβῳ δ' ἔμιξεν. Scribendum erat θρόμβῳ τ' ἔμιξεν.
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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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erstes Epeisodion, geteilt durch einen Kommos (305— 476). Anagnorismos und Vorbereitung der Rache.

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νίν, αὐτό wie Soph. Εl. 436 νίν für αὐτά steht. Krüger II § 51, συγκόλλως d. i. ich deute den Traum so, dafs der Sinn, den ich hineinlege, sich genau an die Anzeichen des Traumes anlehnt.