N. Wecklein Libation Bearers 834.comm-834

Table of Contents

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

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.) — 838 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 838 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 838 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 838 focus
ἥκω μὲν οὐκ ἄκλητος, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπάγγελος·
νέαν φάτιν δὲ πεύδομαι λέγειν τινὰς
ξένους μολόντας οὐδαμῶς ἐφίμερον,
μόρον γ' Ὀρέστου. καὶ τόδ᾽ ἀμφέρειν δόμοις
840
γένοιτ' ἂν ἄχθος αἱματοσταγὲς φόνῳ
τῷ πρόσθεν ἑλκαίνοντι καὶ δεδηγμένῳ.
πῶς ταῦτ᾽ ἀληθῆ καὶ βλέποντα δοξάσω;
ἢ πρὸς γυναικῶν δειματούμενοι λόγοι
πεδάρσιοι θρώσκουσι θνήσκοντες μάτην;
845
τί τῶνδ᾽ ἂν εἴποις ὥστε δηλῶσαι φρενί;
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 838 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 838 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.)) — 838-931 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 838 focus
I have come not unbidden, but summoned by a messenger ; and I understand that some strangers who have arrived tell us news by no means welcome, to wit, the death of Orestes. And the imputation of this upon the house would be a blood- dripping burthen upon one still ulcerated and irritated by the former murder 4
. How am I to deem these tidings true and clear? or can it be that alarming rumours in the minds of women are flitting in mid-air, such as die away without effect ? What of these things shouldst thou say, so as to prove it to my mind ?
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 838 focus
achève l'œuvre amère du Malheur.)
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 838 focus
This meſſage has a voice, that calls me forth
940
To learn with more aſſurance this report,
By certain ſtrangers brought, touching the death
Of young Oreſtes; most unwelcome this;
And the relation to this house will add
Fresh terror to the fear, whoſe unheal’d wound
945
Smarts inwardly, and rankles.
Shou'd I give
Full credit to this tale, or rather deem it
The idle offspring of these women’s fears,
That lightly roſe, and will as lightly die?
950
Tell me, what proof gives credit to this rumour?
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 838 focus
Non senza invito io venni, anzi chiamato.
745
So che son giunti forestieri, e recano
una novella punto grata. Oreste
è morto. E deve questo nuovo cruccio
patir la casa, oltre l'antica strage
che ci piaga e ci morde. Or, come apprendere
750
se credibile e vera è la novella,
o se sgomente ciance all'aria corrono,
di femmine, che presto irrite cadono?
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 838 focus
Venio non inuocatus, ſed nuncio accerſitus.
Nouam famam ut audiam dicere aliquos
775
Hoſpites accedentes nequaquam caducam,
Mortem Oreſtis, & hoc ferre domum.
Sit dolor hæc in cædem terriculi,
Vulneranti primo & proiſecto.
Quomodo hæc uera & uiuentia putabo?
780
Aut à mulieribus terrendi ſermones,
"Excelsi cadunt morientes fruſtra.
Quid horum dices, ut maniſeſtes mentem?
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 838 focus
Da bin ich, hergerufen, nicht aus eig'nem Drang.
Mit neuer Botschaft, heifst es, kam ein fremder Mann,
840 mir keineswegs erwünschter, von Orestes' Tod.
Das lüde schwerste Sorg' und Angst auf unser Haus,
das von der alten Wunde schwer darniederliegt.
Wie darf ich das betrachten? Leuchtet klar darin
die Wahrheit? Ist's ein Nebelwort, das aus der Angst
845 des Frauenherzens aufsteigt, bald in nichts verweht?
Könnt ihr mir Auskunft geben, die Gewissheit schafft?
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.) — 838 focus
Hither and not unsummoned have I come;
For a new rumour, borne by stranger men
935
Arriving hither, hath attained mine ears,
Of hap unwished-for, even Orestes' death.
This were new sorrow, a blood-bolter'd load
Laid on the house that doth already bow
Beneath a former wound that festers deep.
940
Dare I opine these words have truth and life?
Or are they tales, of woman's terror born,
That fly in the void air, and die disproved?
Canst thou tell aught, and prove it to my soul?
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.) — 838 focus
Nicht ungerufen komm' ich, Boten riefen mich;
Denn neue Kunde, hör' ich, ward von Fremdlingen
Hieher gemeldet, keineswegs erfreuliche:
Der Tod Orestens. Würde das im Hause kund,
Ein schreckentriefend Grausen wohl erweckt' es hier,
835
Wo noch des Mordes Wunde brennt mit altem Schmerz.
Wie? Dars' ich's Wahrheit achten, ist's lebendig hell?
Sind's eitle Frauensagen, die, vom Schreck gezeugt,
Zur Luft sich aufwärts schwingen und in Nichts vergeh'n?
Was weißt du hiervon zweifellos mir kundzuthun?
840

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

834. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-534

ἠκούσαμεν: Linea praefixa in M. G. Nulla nota in Ald. Αγγ. Turn. Recte haec choro tribuit Rob.
834

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

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.

834. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-441

2
3
ἔνδοθεν, ἔνδον, im Hause.