Libation Bearers. N. Wecklein. . 2026-09-07.
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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.)
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Editions (8)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 783-837 focus
Χορός
νῦν παραιτουμένᾳ μοι,
1
πάτερ
Ζεῦ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων,
δὸς τύχας εὖ τυχεῖν
2
κυρίως
785
τὰ σώφρον᾽
3
εὖ μαιομένοις ἰδεῖν.
ἔλακον, ὦ Ζεῦ, σύ
6
νιν φυλάσσοις.
789
Χορός
ἐέ, πρὸ δὲ δὴ ᾽χθρῶν
τὸν ἔσωθεν μελάθρων, Ζεῦ,
7
790
θές, ἐπεί νιν
8
μέγαν ἄρας,
δίδυμα καὶ τριπλᾶ
παλίμποινα θέλων ἀμείψει.
794
Χορός
ἴσθι
9
δ᾽ ἀνδρὸς φίλου πῶλον εὖ-
νιν ζυγέντ᾽ ἐν ἅρμασιν
10
795
πημάτων, ἐν δρόμῳ προστιθεὶς
μέτρον. τίς ἂν σῳζόμενον ῥυθμὸν
τοῦτ᾽ ἴδοι διὰ πέδον
11
ἀνομένων βημάτων ὄρεγμα;
12
800
Χορός
οἵ τ᾽ ἔσω
13
δωμάτων
800
κλῦτε,
16
σύμφρονες θεοί:
λύσασθ᾽
19
αἷμα προσφάτοις δίκαις.
γέρων φόνος μηκέτ᾽ ἐν δόμοις τέκοι.
805
806
Χορός
ξυλλάβοι δ᾽ ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας, ἐπιφορώτατος
πρᾶξιν οὐρίαν θέλων:
[πολλὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα φανεῖ χρηίζων κρυπτά
26
].
815
ἄσκοπον δ᾽ ἔπος λέγω:
27
νύκτα πρό
28
τ᾽ ὀμμάτων σκότον φέρει,
καθ᾽ ἡμέραν δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἐμφανέστερος.
29
819
Χορός
δωμάτων λυτήριον,
820
θῆλυν οὐριοστάταν
†ὁμοῦ κρεκτον γοα-
τὰν
32
νόμον μεθήσομεν.
πόλει τάδ᾽
33
εὖ:
ἐμὸν ἐμὸν κέρδος αὔξεται
34
τόδ᾽: ἄ-
825
τα δ᾽ ἀποστατεῖ φίλων†.
35
827
Χορός
σὺ δὲ θαρσῶν, ὅταν ἥκῃ μέρος ἔργων,
ἐπαΰσας Πατρὸς αὐδὰν
36
θροούσᾳ [πρὸς σὲ
37
] Τέκνον [πατρὸς αὐδὰν]
[καὶ] πέραιν᾽
38
ἀνεπίμομφον ἄταν.
830
831
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 783-837 focus
Χορός
νῦν παραιτουμένᾳ μοι, πάτερ
Ζεῦ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων,
δὸς τύχας τυχεῖν δόμου κυρίως
785
τὰ σώφρονʼ εὖ μαιομένοις ἰδεῖν.
διὰ δίκας πᾶν ἔπος
ἔλακον·
ὦ Ζεῦ, σύ νιν φυλάσσοις.
Χορός
ἓ ἕ, πρὸ δὲ δὴ ʼχθρῶν
τὸν ἔσωθεν μελάθρων, Ζεῦ,
790
θές, ἐπεί νιν μέγαν ἄρας,
δίδυμα καὶ τριπλᾶ
παλίμποινα θέλων ἀμείψει.
Χορός
ἴσθι δʼ ἀνδρὸς φίλου πῶλον εὖ-
νιν ζυγέντʼ ἐν ἅρμασιν
795
πημάτων.
σὺ δʼ ἐν δρόμῳ προστιθεὶς
μέτρον κτίσον σῳζόμενον ῥυθμὸν
τοῦτʼ ἰδεῖν διὰ πέδον
ἀνομένων βημάτων ὄρεγμα;
Χορός
οἵ τʼ ἔσω δωμάτων
800
πλουτογαθῆ μυχὸν νομίζετε,
κλῦτε, σύμφρονες θεοί·
ἄγετε τῶν πάλαι πεπραγμένων
λύσασθʼ αἷμα προσφάτοις δίκαις.
γέρων φόνος μηκέτʼ ἐν δόμοις τέκοι.
805
Χορός
τὸ δὲ καλῶς κτίμενον ὦ μέγα ναίων
στόμιον, εὖ δὸς ἀνιδεῖν δόμον ἀνδρός,
καί νιν ἐλευθερίας
φῶς
λαμπρὸν ἰδεῖν φιλίοις
ὄμμασιν
ἐκ δνοφερᾶς καλύπτρας.
810
Χορός
ξυλλάβοι δʼ ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας, ἐπεὶ φορώτατος
πρᾶξιν οὐρίαν θέλων·
πολλὰ δʼ ἄλλα φανεῖ χρηίζων κρυπτά.
815
ἄσκοπον δʼ ἔπος λέγων
νύκτα πρό τʼ ὀμμάτων σκότον φέρει,
καθʼ ἡμέραν δʼ οὐδὲν ἐμφανέστερος.
Χορός
καὶ τότʼ ἤδη κλυτὸν
δωμάτων λυτήριον,
820
θῆλυν οὐριοστάταν οὐδʼ
ὀξύκρεκτον γοα-
τᾶν νόμον θήσομεν·
πλεῖ τάδʼ εὖ·
ἐμὸν ἐμὸν κέρδος αὔξεται τόδʼ· ἄ-
825
τα δʼ ἀποστατεῖ φίλων.
Χορός
σὺ δὲ θαρσῶν, ὅταν ἥκῃ μέρος ἔργων,
ἐπαΰσας πατρὸς αὐδὰν
θροούσᾳ
πρὸς σὲ τέκνον
πατρὸς αὐδὰν
καὶ πέραινʼ ἀνεπίμομφον ἄταν.
830
Χορός
Περσέως τʼ ἐν φρεσὶν
καρδίαν ἀνασχεθών,
τοῖς θʼ ὑπὸ χθονὸς φίλοισιν,
τοῖς τʼ ἄνωθεν πρόπρασ-
σε χάριν ὀργᾶς λυγρᾶς, ἔνδοθεν
835
φόνιον ἄταν τιθείς, τὸν αἴτιον δʼ
ἐξαπολλύων μόρου.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 806 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 806 focus
τὸ δὲ καλῶς κτάμενον, ὦ μέγα ναίων
795
στόμιον, εὖ δὸς ἀνέδην ἰδεῖν δόμον ἀνδρός,
καί νιν ἐλευθερίοις
ὄμμασιν ἐκ δνοφερᾶς καλύπτρας.
ἀντ. γ'.
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 806 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 806 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 806 focus
τὸ δὲ καλῶς κτίμενον ὦ μέγα ναίων
στόμιον, εὖ δὸς ἀνιδεῖν δόμον ἀνδρός,
καί νιν ἐλευθερίας
λαμπρὸν ἰδεῖν ⟨φῶς⟩ φιλίοις
810
ὄμμασι⟨ν ἐκ⟩ δνοφερᾶς καλύπτρας.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 806 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.)) — 783-835 focus
Chorus
Now at my supplication, O Zeus, father of the Olympian gods, grant that the fortunes of our house be firmly established,
so that those who rightly desire the rule of order may behold it. Every word of mine has been uttered in justice. O Zeus, may you safeguard it!
785
Chorus
O Zeus, set him who is within the palace before his foes;
since, if you exalt him, he will gladly pay you with double and triple recompense.
790
Chorus
Know that the orphaned colt of a loved one is harnessed to the chariot of distress.
And by setting bounds to his course may you grant that we see him keep a steady pace through this race and win the goal in the straining stride of a gallop.
1
795
Chorus
And you who within the house inhabit the inner chamber that exults in its wealth, hear me, you gods, that feel with us! By a fresh award redeem the blood of deeds done long ago.
800
May aged Murder cease begetting offspring in our house!
805
Chorus
And you who occupy the mighty, gorgeously built cavern,
2
grant that the man’s house may lift up its eyes again in joy, and that with glad
eyes it may behold from under its veil of gloom the radiant light of freedom.
810
Chorus
But by his mysterious utterance he brings darkness over men’s eyes by night, and by day he is no more clear at all.
815
Chorus
And then at last with a loud voice we shall sing a song of the deliverance of our house,
the song that women raise when the wind sits fair, and not the shrill strain of those who mourn:
The ship goes well. This grows to profit for me, for me, and calamity holds off from those I love.
820
Chorus
But may you with good courage, when the part of action comes, cry out loud the name
Father when she exclaims
Son,
and accomplish the baneful but irreproachable deed.
830
Chorus
Raise up Perseus’ spirit within my breast. And for those dear to you below the earth, and for those above, exact satisfaction for their dire wrath
by working bloody ruin in our house and obliterating the guilt of murder.
5
835
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 806 focus
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 806 focus
enfin relever la tête
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 806 focus
CHORUS.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 806 focus
CORO
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 806 focus
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 806 focus
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.) — 806 focus
O thou who dwell'st in Delphi's mighty cave,
Grant us to see this home once more restored
Unto its rightful lord!
Let it look forth, from veils of death, with joyous eye
Unto the dawning light of liberty;
905
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.) — 806 focus
Wenn er den Mord vollbracht, Herrscher in tiefgründiger Kluft,
Laß frei zu dem Hause des Vaters,
Laß ihn leuchtenden Auges und hell
Aus der umschleiernden Nacht emporschau'n!
805
Dritte Gegenstrophe.
Notes on the current edition
Libation Bearers
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
802-805.
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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
779-836.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-424
802-803.
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