N. Wecklein Libation Bearers 885.comm-885

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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.) — 875 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 875 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 875 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 875 focus
οἴμοι πανοίμοι δεσπότου τελουμένου,
οἴμοι μάλ᾽ αὖθις ἐν τρίτοις προσφθέγμασιν.
875
Αἴγισθος οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστιν. ἀλλ᾽ ἀνοίξατε
ὅπως τάχιστα, καὶ γυναικείους πύλας
μοχλοῖς χαλᾶτε· καὶ μάλ᾽ ἡβῶντος δὲ δεῖ,
οὐχ ὡς ἀρῆξαι διαπεπραγμένῳ· τί γάρ;
ἰοὺ ἰού.
κωφοῖς ἀυτῶ καὶ καθεύδουσιν μάτην
880
ἄχραντα βάζω. ποῖ Κλυταιμήστρα, τί δρᾷ;
ἔοικε νῦν αὐτῆς ἐπὶ ξυροῦ πέλας
αὐχὴν πεσεῖσθαι πρὸς δίκην πεπληγμένος.
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 875 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 875 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.) — 875 focus
Woe's me! ay every woe's me, for my slain lord! yet once more woe's me ! in a third exclamation. Aegisthus is no more : but open as quickly as ye may, and unclose, by [re­ moving] the bars, the doors of the women's apartments ; and need there surely is of a vigorous arm; but not to succour the slain ; what need of that ? What, hoa ! I am shouting to the deaf, and calling in vain to those that are madly sleeping. Where is Clytemnestra ? what is she doing ? It seems now that her neck is soon to fall on the edge of the steel, she being justly smitten 2 .
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 875 focus
l'issue en est décidée.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 875 focus
Woe, woe to me! Woe to my ſlaughter’d lord!
980
Woe on my wretched head, and woe again!
Ægisthus is no more. But open here,
Ye females, inſtantly unbar these doors;
Th' occaſion calls for vigor, not t' aſſiſt
The ſlain. Ho, here!
985
What, call I to the deaf?
Or ſleep you? Where is Clytemnestra? How
Employ'd? Her life ſtands at the ſword's bare point,
And ready vengeance ſeems to prompt the blow.
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 875 focus
Ahimè, misero me, spento è il signore!
Ahimè! La terza volta ancor lo grido!
780
Egisto non è piú! Non indugiate,
aprite, su, dei ginecei le porte
dalle spranghe sciogliete! E c'è bisogno
d'un giovane gagliardo. E non per porgere
soccorso: ai morti chi può dar soccorso?
785
Ahimè, ahimè!
Io grido ai sordi, io mi rivolgo indamo
ai dormïenti, e nulla ottengo. Ov'è
Clitennestra? Che fa? Già la cervice
ella ha sul ceppo, piomba il colpo già!
790
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 875 focus
Hei mihi omnino, domino conſummato,
Hei mihi rurſus in tertijs clamoribus.
810
Aegiſthus non amplius est. ſed aperite
Quàm citiſſimè, & muliebres portas
Repagulis laxate, & admodum pubescente opus est,
Non ut iuuet factum. quid enim?
Heu heu, ſurdis clamore, & dormientibus fruſtra
815
Imperfectè loquor. quò Clytemneſtra? quid facit?
Videtur cum nouacula prope ipſam
Principium cadere propter cauſam territe.
Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 875 focus
Weh wehe, tötlich ist der Herr getroffen, weh
und aber wehe rufet euch mein dritter Schrei.
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.) — 875 focus
O woe, O woe, my lord is done to death!
Woe, woe, and woe again, Ægisthus gone!
Hasten, fling wide the doors, unloose the bolts
Of the queen's chamber. O for some young strength
980
To match the need! but aid availeth nought
To him laid low for ever. Help, help, help!
Sure to deaf ears I shout, and call in vain
To slumber ineffectual. What ho!
The queen! how fareth Clytemnestra's self?
985
Her neck too, hers, is close upon the steel,
And soon shall sink, hewn thro' as justice wills.
[ Enter Clytemnestra.
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.) — 875 focus
Weh, wehe mir! In seinem Blute liegt der Fürst!
Und wehe nochmals, rus' ich aus zum drittenmal!
Aegisthos ist erschlagen! Deffnet, öffnet doch
870
So schnell wie möglich; schiebt die Riegel weg am Thor
Des Frauenhauses! Großer Schnelligkeit bedarf's,
Nicht um dem Todten beizusteh'n: was hülfe das?
Hoiho! Hoiho!
Zu Tauben ruf' ich und verschwend' an Schlafende
Mein Wort. Wo ging die Herrin hin? Was zögert sie?
875
Es scheint, ihr eigner Nacken schwebt auf Messers Rand,
Und sinkt alsbald getroffen von der Nache Strahl.
(Klytämnestra tritt eilig heraus.)

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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πρὸς ᾧ σὺ πολλὰ δὴ βρίζων: πρὸς ᾧ σὲ πολλὰ Rob. πρὸς ὠκύ (sic mihi relatum: alii ὴν vel ὴν ex M. afferunt) πολλὰ Μ. πρὸς ὠκύπολλα G. Ald. πρὸς ὃ καὶ πολλὰ Turn. In G. ante correctionem δ᾽ ὑβρίζων pro δὴ βρίζων scriptum erat.
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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

837-934. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-443

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drittes Epeisodion: Vollzug der Rache. Ägisthos tritt rechts auf (ohne Gefolge).

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Schol. ὁ τῷ λόγῳ τεθνηκως Ὀρέστης ἀπέκτεινε τὸν ζῶντα Αίγι σθον. Nachgeahmt von Soph. Εl. 1478 ΟΡ. οὐ γὰρ αἰσθάνῃ πάλαι ζῶντας θανοῦσιν οὔνεκ᾽ ἀνταυδᾷς ἴσα; ΑΙΓ. οἴμοι ξυνῆκα τοὔπος. 1 η anderem Sinne heifst es ebd. 1419 ζῶσιν οἱ γᾶς ὑπαὶ κείμενοι (von Agamemnon).