Aeschylus Libation Bearers 1007

ed. Martin L. West

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αἰαῖ ⟨αἰαῖ⟩ μελέων ἔργων·
στυγερῶι θανάτωι διεπράχθης·
ἐέ· μίμνοντι δὲ καὶ πάθος ἀνθεῖ.

Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. ed. Martin L. West. Stutgardiae. 1990.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Current edition Experimental

Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) (Greek) (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (5)
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1007 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1007 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1007 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1007 focus
αἰαῖ αἰαῖ μελέων ἔργων·
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στυγερῷ θανάτῳ διεπράχθης,
ἔ ἔ,
μίμνοντι δὲ καὶ πάθος ἀνθεῖ.
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1007 focus
Translations (8)
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1007 focus
Alas! alas for the sad deeds! by a hateful death wast thou despatched, and for the survivor also suffering blame.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1007 focus
Les dieux me fassent plutôt mourir sans postérité !
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1007 focus
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1007 focus
Ahimè, ahi, quanto misero scempio!
Di che morte odïosa fu spento!
Ahimè, ahimè!
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Piú rigoglio ha, se tarda, il tormento!
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1007 focus
Heu heu, triſtium operi odioſam mortem perfe-
Heu heu. manenti uerò dolor floret.
Patrauit aut non patrauit, teſtifica mihi?
Hanc ueſtem ut tinxit Aegisthi enſis.
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Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1007 focus
Wehe wehe, unheilvolle Thaten,
hingemordet ward er jammervoll.
Wehe!
Doch es kommt der Tag, da auch des Leidens
Blüte bricht.
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.) — 1007 focus
Woe for each desperate deed!
Woe for the queen, with shame of life bereft!
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And ah, for him who still is left,
Madness, dark blossom of a bloody seed!
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.) — 1007 focus
Weh, weh, weh, weh! Unselige That!
Welch grausamen Todes du hinstarbst!
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Ach, ach! Leid blüht
Auch dem, der im Leben zurückbleibt.

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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κηκὶs ... ξυμβάλλεται: κηκίς Rob. Turn. et e correctione M. κικὶς G. Ald. et ante correctionem M. In ξυμβάλλεται prius a postea additum in M. λ
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βαφὰς: βαφάς omissum in Rob.
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νῦν αὐτὸν ... νῦν δ᾽ ἀποιμώζω παρών: Libri νῦν αὐτόν. Schutzius ex mea emendatione νῦν αὑτόν, me ipsum. Id Graece dictum esse negans Blomfieldius scribendum coniecit νῦν ταὐτὸν αἰνῶ, νῦν ἀποιμώξω παρόν. Sed de αυτόν satis dictum est ad Soph. Trach. v. 451. Scribendum autem νῦν δ᾽ ἀποιμώζω παρών. Libri νῦν ἀποιμώζω παρών, nisi quod παρόν habet Rob. In παρών nihil vitii est.
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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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μίμνοντι . . ἀνθεῖ, einem Zuwartenden erblüht nur auch üppig die Strafe d. h. wenn die Rache auf sich warten läfst, wird sie nur um so heftiger, wie sie jetzt nach einiger Zeit zwar, aber fürchterlich über die Mörder des Agamemnon hereingebrochen ist. Über den Gedanken zu 381 f. ἀνθεῖ wie βρύειν 68.

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ἔδρασεν, Κλυταιμήστρα.

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Haec vestis testatur, se ab Aegisthi ense tinctam esse (Butler). Das Schwert also, mit welchem Klyt. den Agamemnon getötet, war ihr von Agisthos gegeben. Vgl. Ag. 1608 f.