Aeschylus Libation Bearers 1065

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Translator)

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Also hat sich jähes Ungewitter
über unserm Königshaus entladen,
schon zum dritten Male schlug es ein.
1070 Erst der Knäblein jämmerliches Schicksal,
da Thyestes Unerhörtes litt.
Zweites Opfer war ein Mann; im Bade
fiel der Held, der Herzog der Hellenen.
Heut' erschien der dritte - sag' ich Retter,
sag' ich Schicksalsschlag? Was ist der Ausgang?
1075 Kaum entschlummert wacht die Wut des Fluches
wieder auf und rast - wohin, wohin?

Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Translator). Berlin. 1919–1923.

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Current edition Experimental

Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation (OCR draft) (German) (Aeschylus, Die Totenspende: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (6)
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1065 focus
ὅδε τοι μελάθροις τοῖς βασιλείοις
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τρίτος αὖ χειμών
πνεύσας γονίας ἐτελέσθη.
παιδόβοροι μὲν πρῶτον ὑπῆρξαν
μόχθοι τάλανές τε θυέστου·
δεύτερον ἀνδρὸς βασίλεια πάθη·
1070
λουτροδάϊκτος δ᾽ ὤλετ᾽ Ἀχαιῶν
πολέμαρχος ἀνήρ·
νῦν δ᾽ αὖ τρίτος ἦλθέ ποθεν σωτὴρ,
ἢ μόρον εἴπω;
ποῖ δῆτα κρανεῖ, ποῖ καταλήξει
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μετακοιμισθὲν μένος ἄτης;
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1065 focus
ὅδε τοι μελάθροις τοῖς βασιλείοις
τρίτος αὖ χειμὼν
πνεύσας γονίας ἐτελέσθη.
παιδοβόροι μὲν πρῶτον ὑπῆρξαν
1065
μόχθοι τάλανες·
δεύτερον ἀνδρὸς βασίλεια πάθη·
λουτροδάϊκτος δ᾽ ὤλετ' Ἀχαιῶν
πολέμαρχος ἀνήρ·
νῦν δ᾽ αὖ τρίτος ἦλθέ ποθεν σωτήρ,
1070
ἢ μόρον εἴπω;
ποῖ δῆτα κρανεῖ, ποῖ καταλήξει
μετακοιμισθὲν μένος ἄτης;
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1065 focus
Ὅδε τοι μελάθροις τοῖς βασιλείοις
τρίτος αὖ χειμών
πνεύσας πνεούσας γονίας ἐτελέσθη·
παιδόβοροι παιδόμοροι μὲν πρῶτον ὑπῆρξαν
1070
μόχθοι τάλανές τε Θυέστου
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1065 focus
ὅδε τοι μελάθροις τοῖς βασιλείοις
τρίτος αὖ χειμών
πνεύσας γονίας ἐτελέσθη.
1065
παιδοβόροι μὲν πρῶτον ὑπῆρξαν
μόχθοι τάλανές τε θυέστου·
δεύτερον ἀνδρὸς βασίλεια πάθη
λουτροδάικτος δ᾽ ὤλετ᾽ Ἀχαιῶν
πολέμαρχος ἀνήρ.
1070
νῦν δ᾽ αὖ τρίτος ἦλθέ ποθεν σωτήρ,
ἢ μόρον εἴπω;
ποῖ δῆτα κρανεῖ, ποῖ καταλήξει
μετακοιμισθὲν μένος ἄτης;
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1065 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1065 focus
ὅδε τοι μελάθροις τοῖς βασιλείοις
1065
τρίτος αὖ χειμὼν
πνεύσας γονίας ἐτελέσθη.
παιδόμοροι μὲν πρῶτον ὑπῆρξαν
μόχθοι τάλανός τε θυέστου·
δεύτερον ἀνδρὸς βασίλεια πάθη·
1070
λουτροδάικτος δ᾽ ὤλετ᾽ Ἀχαιῶν
πολέμαρχος ἀνήρ.
νῦν δ᾽ αὖ τρίτος ἦλθέ ποθεν, σωτῆρ᾽
ἢ μόρον εἴπω;
ποῖ δῆτα κρανεῖ, ποῖ καταλήξει
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μετακοιμισθὲν μένος ἄτης;
Translations (7)
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1065 focus
This third tempest arising out of the family, after having blown In its turn in the royal halls, like as a family wind 2
hath come to an end. First of all there were the child-devouring wretched troubles of Thyestes. Next came a hero's kingly sufferings, and stabbed in a bath the warrior chieftain of the Greeks perished. Now too once more, third in order, there hath come, we know not whence, a saviour, or should I call it doom. Where then is the violence of calamity, when lulled, to find an end; or where is it to reach a termination?
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1065 focus
palais de nos rois! Des enfants dévorés ouvrirent — tristement pour Thyeste ! — la série de nos maux.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1065 focus
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1065 focus
Questa terza procella s'abbatte
990
d'improvviso spirando, sovressa
la casa del re.
Cominciarono i miseri strazî
di Tieste, ed i figli vorati.
Fu seconda la strage regale,
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quando il duce, il signor degli Achivi,
fu sgozzato nel bagno. Ora terza
giunge questa, non so s'io dir debba
salvezza o rovina.
Quale mèta avrà mai, quale termine
1000
del cordoglio la Furia sopita?
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1065 focus
Tertia uerò hyems uestibulis regijs
Hos angulos impleuit liberorum fatales primò fuerüt
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.) — 1065 focus
Behold, the storm of woe divine
That raves and beats on Atreus' line
Its great third blast hath blown.
First was Thyestes' loathly woe—
The rueful feast of long ago,
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On children's flesh, unknown.
And next the kingly chief's despite,
When he who led the Greeks to fight
Was in the bath hewn down.
And now the offspring of the race
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Stands in the third, the saviour's place,—
To save—or to consume?
O whither, ere it be fulfilled,
Ere its fierce blast be hushed and stilled,
Shall blow the wind of doom?
1200
[ Exeunt.
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.) — 1065 focus
So erfüllte sich denn in der Könige Haus
Nun dreimal der Sturm,
1060
Der mit Macht wuthschnaubend hereinbrach.
Erst sah es den Gräul, der die Kinder zerfleischt,
Und das blutige Mahl des Thyestes;
Zum zweiten das Loos, das den König entrafft;
Denn gemordet im Bad, ach! sank, der im Streit
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Den Achäern gebot.
Zum dritten erschien — wie nenn' ich ihn doch?
Den Erretter? Den Fluch?
Wo endet sie noch, wo findet sie Ruh,
Die entschlummerte Wuth des Verderbens?
1070

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

1070. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-692

ἦλθέ: ἦνθε scriptum esse videtur in M.
1070

1072. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-693

ποῖ καταλήξει: πῆ καταλήξει Ald. Turn.
1072

1073. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-694

μετακοιμισθὲν ... ἄτης: Valckenarius ad Phoen. v. 1576. scribendum iudicavit μέγα κοιμισθέν. Quantumvis hoc elegans sit, tamen quod libri habent, μετακοιμισθέν, defendendum esse puto. Μετακοιμίζεσθαι est alio in loco, alia in persona quiescere. Similiter μεταπτοιοῦσαν dixit in Suppl. ν. 317. ἄτην vitium Ald.
1073

1073. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-695

Subscriptum in M. ΑΙΣΧΥ ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ, in G. τέλος αἰσχύλου δράματος χοηφόροι.
1073

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

1072. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-589

1
2
,Oder soll ich Verderben ihn nennen?", weil Orestes Tod und Verderben ins Haus gebracht hat.

1073. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-590

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4
ποῖ κρανεῖ (intransitiv) wie ποὺ τελεῖ. Ζu 1019.

1074. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg006-wecklein1888-com-ger1-591

5
μετακοιμισθέν, wieder (abwechselnd) beschwichtigt. Vgl. µɛ ταστένομαι Eur. Med. 996, μετακλαίομαι Hek.214. Franz vermutet κατακοιμισθέν. Der Chor ab in den Palast.