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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.) — 838-934 focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 838-934 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 811 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 811 focus
ξυλλάβοι δ᾽ ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας ἐπιφορώτατος
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πρᾶξιν οὐρίαν θέλων.
τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα ἀμφανεῖ
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 811 focus
Ξυλλάβοι δ' ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας, ἐπεὶ φορώτατος ἐπιφορ-
πρᾶξιν οὐρίσαι οὐρίαν θέλων θέλεν·
† πολλὰ δ' ἄλλα φανεῖ χρῄζων
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κρυπτά· † ἄσκοπον δ' ἔπος λέγων
νυκτὸς προὐμμάτων νύκτα πρό τ' ὀμμάτων σκότον φέρει,
καθ' ἡμέραν δ' οὐδὲν ἐμφανέστερος.
1 (Τὸ δὲ καλῶς κτίμενον ὦ μέγα ναίων
στόμιον, εὖ δὸς ἀνιδεῖν δόμον ἀνδρός,
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 811 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 811 focus
ξυλλάβοι δ᾽ ⟨ἂν⟩ ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας, ἐπεὶ φορώτατος
πρᾶξιν οὐρίσαι θέλων.
πολλὰ δ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἔφανε χρήιζων,
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{κρυπτά} ἄσκοπον κλέπος τελῶν·
νύκτωρ τ᾽ ὀμμάτων σκότον φέρει,
καθ᾽ ἡμέραν δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἐμφανέστερος.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 811 focus
ξυλλάβοι δ᾽ ἐνδίκως
παῖς ὁ Μαίας, ἐπεὶ φορώτατος
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.)) — 838-931 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 811 focus
May Maia's most propitious 6
son also, willing him an auspicious issue, rightfully take up the cause. Many other mysterious things too will he develope if he be willing ; and uttering obscure language, both by night he brings dark- ness before the eyes, and in the daytime he is nought clearer.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 811 focus
l'éblouissant soleil de la liberté succéder à ce voile de ténèbres.


Et puisse Hermès, fils de Maïa, nous prêter l'aide qui lui revient! 1 Personne ne sait mieux que lui faire souffler les vents propices.
Avec un mot obscur il répand sur les yeux les ombres de la nuit, et le jour même ne les dissiperait pas 2 .
((Plus soutenu.) Toi qui habites l'édifice splendide bâti autour de la bouche terrible, fais que la maison d'un héros puisse enfin relever la tête et voir de ses yeux fidèles l'éblouissant soleil de la liberté succéder à ce voile de ténèbres.)
Alors, pour célébrer la maison délivrée, nous irons poussant par la ville la clameur dont les femmes saluent l'apparition des vents heureux

Victoire! le profit, le profit est pour
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 811 focus
Thou, son of Maia, come, and with thee lead
Succeſs, that crowns the daring deed:
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To form the close and dark design,
Whether th' ambiguous tale thou lov'ſt to weave,
And throw around the veil of night;
Or bid'st e'en truth itself deceive,
Diſplay'd in all the dazzling blaze of light;
920
The pow'rs of seeresy are thine.
Then ſhall this penſive female train
Theſe rich oblations pay no more;
No more the melancholy strain,
Tuned to the voice of anguiſh, pour,
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Raptur'd their triumph ſhall I ſee,
My friends from ruffian danger free.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 811 focus
Il figliuolo anch'ei di Maia
giunger deve al mio soccorso:
ei, se vuol, su l'altrui corso
sa spirar prospero vento.
Spesso ei svela eventi incogniti;
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poi, col suon d'oscuro accento,
stende, pur se il sole brilla,
buio e notte a la pupilla,
E tu da la gran fauce
de l'eccelsa caverna
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vaticinante, accordami
che ancor prospera io scerna
la casa del mio duce,
e lui stesso, dal buio
ch'or lo fascia, con liberi
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sguardi brillare in luce.
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 811 focus
Filius Maiæ uehementiſsimus actionem bonam uolens.
Multa alia oſtendet deſiderans
Occulta, inopinabile uerbum dicens.
Noctu ante oculos tenebras fert,
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Interdiu nihil maniſeſtius.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 811 focus
Hermes, du verstehst vor allen
Göttern kühnem Unterfangen
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.) — 811 focus
And Hermes, Maia's child, lend hand to save,
Willing the right, and guide
Our state with Fortune's breeze adown the favouring tide.
Whate'er in darkness hidden lies,
He utters at his will;
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He at his will throws darkness on our eyes,
By night and eke by day inscrutable.
Then, then shall wealth atone
The ills that here were done.
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.) — 811 focus
Helfe mit allgerecht Maja's Sohn!
Mög' er ihm, verderbenschwer,
Frischen Hauch zur That verleih'n!
Du erhellst die Nacht,
Phöbos! Thust du kund ein dunkles Wort,
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Hüllst du das Aug' in Nacht und Finsterniß;
Erscheint der Tag, strahlt es hell, die Wolken flieh'n.
Vierte Strophe.

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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οὐριοστάταν: Ουριοστάταν recte interpretari videtur scholiastes οὐρίως σταθέντα.
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ἅμα δὲ κρεκτὸν γοερὸν νόμον θήσομεν πόλει: ὁμοῦ κρεκτὸν γοήτων νόμον μεθήσομεν πόλει Μ. in quo ὁμοῦ itemque or in νόμον, quod antea νόμων erat, ab alia, ut videtur manu, in litura scripta sunt. Discrepant ab his ceteri libri eo quod in G. γοήτῶν cum duplici accentu et sequens vocabulum eo compendio scriptum est, quod νόμων significat: ceteri γοητῶν νόμον habent. μεΘέλσομεν vitium Rob. Praeterea Turnebus κρεκτῶν scripsit. Scholion in M. ita scriptum est ὁμοῦ δὲ μεθήσομεν τὸν κρεκτὸν γοήτων νόμων, ὃ ἐστι, καὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τῇ πόλει μεταδώσομεν καὶ τὸν Αγαμέμνονα ἀκινδύνως θρηνήσομεν. Deinde aliud scholion, τὸν τῶν γοήτων, οἳ ὡς ᾄδουσι παριόντες (sic M. περιϊόντες Vict.) τὴν πόλιν. Scripsisse videtur Aeschylus ἅμα δὲ κρεκτὸν γοατὰν νόμον θήσομεν πόλει. Sepulcri ornamenta, inquit, ex mulieris congestis opibus ampla feremus Agamemnoni, simulque lugebimus eum.

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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1
zweites Stasimon. Mit der starken Erregung, welche durch das Gefühl hochwichtiger Entscheidung hervorgebracht wird, fleht der Chor um glückliches Vollbringen des Rachewerks: » Lafs mich, Zeus, den Sieg des Rechtes sehen. Lenke den Sturmlauf des Orestes, dafs sein Fufs nicht strauchle. Ihr, Götter des Familienschatzes, sühnt die alte Blutschuld, damit das Haus rein wird. Du, Apollon, lafs den Palast des Agamemnon wieder den heiteren Tag der Freiheit schauen nach der finsteren Umnachtung. Seinen Beistand leiste endlich Hermes, der Gott der List, der sogar zur hellen Tageszeit das Auge mit Finsternis blendet. Wenn dann der Tag der Freiheit anbricht, dann werden wir fröhlichen Sang anstimmen. Nun aber vollende du, Orestes, mutig das Werk und schaffe Genugthuung den Freunden drunten und auf der Oberwelt durch Vernichtung des Mörders." - Von den drei Strophenpaaren scheint jeder Stoichos eines zu singen, während die Ephymnien dem Gesamtchore zufallen.

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ἐνδίκως, als Ἑρμῆς δόλιος. Vgl. zu 723. φορώτατος: seinem Ungestüm kann niemand widerstehen, wenn er eine Handlung zum glücklichen Ende führen will.