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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.) — 652-782 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 653-782 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 691 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 691 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 691 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 691 focus
οἰ 'γώ, κατ᾿ ἄκρας ἐνπᾶς ὡς πορθούμεθα.
ὦ δυσπάλαιστε τῶνδε δωμάτων ἀρά,
ὡς πόλλ᾽ ἐπωπᾷς κἀκποδὼν εὖ κείμενα
τόξοις πρόσωθεν εἰσκόποις χειρουμένη
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φίλων ἀποψιλοῖς με τὴν παναθλίαν.
καὶ νῦν Ὀρέστης, ἦ γὰρ εὐβούλως ἔχων,
ἔξω κομίζων ὀλεθρίου πηλοῦ πόδα,
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 691 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 691 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.)) — 652-781 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 691 focus
Woe's me! how 1
are we utterly ruined. O insuperable curse of this family, how dost thou level at many things that are well placed out of thy way, overcoming them with thy bow, that carries true to the mark even from afar. Thou strippest me thoroughly wretched of my friends. And now Orestes,—for he used to be lucky in his throws, removing his foot from out the slough of destruction,-but now—the hope which was to be medicinal against the goodly revelry in this house, he writes down as present 2
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LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 691 focus
Malheur sur moi! tes paroles achèvent ma ruine. Ah! qu'il est malaisé de lutter contre toi, Impré- cation tombée sur le palais! Que ta vue est perçante, si, ce que je croyais bien loin à l'abri, tu sais l'abattre de ton arc
infaillible, me dépouillant ainsi de tous les miens, malheu- reuse! Aujourd'hui, c'est Oreste — Oreste, qui avait eu le flair de retirer son pied du bourbier sanglant c'est le dernier espoir d'une pure allégresse capable de guérir à jamais ce palais, qui apparaît... et qu'Elle efface 1 !
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 691 focus
Ah me! Thus desolation on our head x
Is fall’n. O thou relentless curſe, whoſe rage
Hung o'er this house, has thy unsparing eye
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Mark’d what we lodg’d at diſtance, aiming there
Thy cruel ſhafts, to rob me of my friends?
E'en now Oreſtes, who with cautious tread
Had from this gulf of ruin freed his foot,
E’en he, the hope medicinal to the madneſs
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Of this ill house, ſhows that our hope betrays us.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 691 focus
Ahi!, che rovina sopra noi s'abbatte!
Ahi!, maledetta ineluttabil sorte
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di questa casa, anche i lontani beni
miri e colpisci con diritte frecce;
e me tapina dei miei cari privi.
E adesso Oreste, che guardingo il piede
lunge tenea dalla sanguigna gora,
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la speranza, medela unica all'impeto
degli affanni, perduta adesso scrivila.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 691 focus
Heu me in arce quomodo expugnamur?
O infelix harum domuum execratio.
O multa in oculis & procul bene poſita.
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Arcubus ulterius capta bene ſpeculantibus
Amicis nudas me miſeram.
Et nunc Oreſtes. erat enim conſultò habens,
Extra perniciofum lutum pedem ducens,
Nunc uerò in ædibus pulchra Bacche
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Medicus ſpes erat.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 691 focus
Weh mir, zerschmettert also doch bis auf den Grund.
Du alter Fluchgeist unsres Hauses, ja, umsonst
ist's, wider dich zu ringen. Weithin reicht dein Blick,
und was sich in der Ferne wohl geborgen wähnt,
erliegt, von deines Pfeiles sich'rem Schufs ereilt.
695 Du raubst die Meinen alle, machst mein Elend voll.
So jetzt Orestes von dem mörderischen Sumpf
hielt er doch weislich seine Schritte fern, und jetzt -
die Hoffnung auf Genesung, Frieden, Jubelrausch
von reiner Freude lebt' in unserm Hause doch
und tröstete. Nah war sie: du verlöschest sie.
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.) — 691 focus
Ah woe is me! thy word our ruin tells;
From roof-tree unto base are we despoiled.—
O thou whom nevermore we wrestle down,
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Thou Fury of this home, how oft and oft
Thou dost descry what far aloof is laid,
Yea, from afar dost bend th' unerring bow
And rendest from my wretchedness its friends;
As now Orestes—who, a brief while since,
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Safe from the mire of death stood warily,—
Was the home's hope to cure th' exulting wrong;
Now thou ordainest, Let the ill abide.
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.) — 691 focus
Ha, wie von Grund aus unser Glück zertrümmerte!
O Fluch, der unbezwinglich geht durch dieses Haus,
Wie waltest du so grausam, überwältigest
Fernher mit sichern Pfeilen auch das ferne Glück,
Raubst meine Lieben alle mir Unseligen!
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Nun auch Orestes, dem ein großer Wurf gelang, -
Denn ferne lenkt' er aus des Unheils Bahn den Fuß,
Er löscht des Wonnesturmes Hoffnungsschimmer aus,
Der uns, ein Arzt im Leide, schon so nah geglänzt!

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

701. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-447

ὑπευθύνῳ: ὑπευθύνῳ Turn. ἐπευθύνωι Μ. ἐπ᾿ εὐθύνῳ G. ἐπ᾽ εὐθύνω Α. ἐπευθύνω Rob. Scholiastes ὡς δώσοντι δίκην. In G. glossa ὑποδίκῳ.
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702. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-448

ἡμεῖς δὲ: Linea praefixa in M. op. in Rob.
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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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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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καρανῶσαι: Hesych. καρα νούσθω· τελειούσθω. φίλοις all- gemein von Strophios, mit dem er in ein gastfreundliches Verhältnis getreten war ( κατεξενωμένον). καταινέσαντα, nachdem ich es zugesagt. Hesych. καταινέσαι· ξυγκαταθέσθαι, Soph. Oed. Κ. 1633 καταίνεσον μήποτε προδώσειν τάσδ' ἑκών.