Aeschylus Libation Bearers 22

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Translator)

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Vom Haus geschickt,
tragen wir zum Grabe
die Spenden; hurt'ger Hände Brüsteschlagen
giebt das Geleit.
Die Wange zeigt frische Purpurstreifen,
25 die Furchen, die der Nagel zog.
Das Herz ist, ach, längst gewohnt des Jammers.
In Fetzen und Streifen zerflattert der Bausch
des Busentuchs.
Bittrer Harm,
wilder Schmerz
30 rifs, zerschlifs den Mantel.

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 (8)
Χοηφóρoι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 22-83b focus
Χοηφóρoι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 22-83b focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 22 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 22 focus
ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 22 focus
Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 22 focus
ἰαλτὸς ἐκ δόμων ἔβην
χοὰς προπομπὸς ὀξύχειρι σὺν κόπῳ.
πρέπει παρηὶς φοίνισσ᾽ ἀμυγμοῖς
ὄνυχος ἄλοκι νεοτόμῳ·
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(δι' αἰῶνος δ' ἰυγμοῖσι βόσκεται κέαρ)·
λινοφθόροι δ' ὑφασμάτων
λακίδες ἔφλαδον ὑπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν
πρόστερνοι στολμοὶ
πέπλων ἀγελάστοις
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ξυμφοραῖς πεπληγμένων.
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Χοηφόροι (OCR draft) Experimental (Χοηφόροι. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 22 focus
Aeschyli Choephori (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Choephori. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 22 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.)) — 22-82 focus
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 22 focus
I am come forth from the palace, sent as an escort to the drink-offering with the noise of sharp clapping of hands. Marked is my cheek with bloody gashes, the furrow newly cut by my nail: for ever is my heart fed on wailings; and the rendings of tissues ruining the vesture, make a noise through my sorrows, the breast-protecting robes being torn through smileless woes.
LES CHOÉPHORES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES CHOÉPHORES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 22 focus
suppliante.
The Choephoræ (OCR draft) Experimental (The Choephoræ. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 22 focus
This ſadly-penſive train to lead,
With hallow'd rites to ſooth the dead,
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To bear these off'rings to his shrine,
The melancholy taſk is mine.
And, as from yon' proud walls I take my way,
My cheeks, with many' a ſounding blow
Beat by these hands, in crimſon glow,
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Whilſt my poor heart to anguiſh ſinks a prey:
And
Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Coefore: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 22 focus
Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Choephori: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 22 focus
Ex ædibus ascendi miſſus
Libamina deductor acuta manu fundo.
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Congruit gena cruenta clamoribus
Nouæ ſectione unguis,
Per æuum uerò clamoribus pascitur cor.
Ex lino textæ corruptæ
Veſtes laceratæ ſunt pre doloribus
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Ornamenta pectoris:
Peplorum triftibus
Calamitatibus inuolutorum.
The Libation Bearers (OCR draft) Experimental (The Libation Bearers. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 22 focus
Chorus
STROPHE.
†Drop ye for the dead
Tears with pattering sound;
Lustral rain is shed
O'er the hallowed mound,
From the pure which screeneth bale,
150 While the powers of Evil quail.
Hear, O master, at thy tomb,
Whispered sounds from sorrow's murky gloom.
ANTISTROPHE.
Now in measured flow
Tune the notes of woe!
When will warrior brave,
†(War-god strong to save
Houses in the dust laid low,)
Hurl the spear, from hornèd bow
Wing the arrow's deadly flight,
Or wield the hilted brand in closing fight?
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.) — 22 focus
Forth from the royal halls by high command
I bear libations for the dead.
Rings on my smitten breast my smiting hand,
And all my cheek is rent and red,
Fresh-furrowed by my nails, and all my soul
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This many a day doth feed on cries of dole.
And trailing tatters of my vest,
In looped and windowed raggedness forlorn,
Hang rent around my breast,
Even as I, by blows of Fate most stern
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Saddened and torn.
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.) — 22 focus
Gesandt vom Hause kommen wir 1
Mit Opferspenden unter wildem Händeschlag.
Die Wange glüht von blutigrothen Nissen,
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Frischer Nägelfurchen voll;
Und unruhvoll an Wehklagen weidet sich das Herz.
Zu Fezen riß ich linnenes
Geweb' in wildem Schmerz entzwei;
Mein brusthüllender Flor hängt los am Gewande,
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Rings zerschlikt von herbem Leid.
Erste Gegenstrophe.

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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ἰυγμοῖσι
δι' οἰγμοῖσι
M. G. Ald. Rob.
δ᾽ ὠγμοῖσι
Turn. Emendavit Canterus.
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ἄλγεσιν Libri
ἄλγεσι
. Porsonus
ἄλγεσιν
, ut est apud Etym. M. p. 403, 47.
ἔφλαδον, σημαίνει τὸ ἐσχίσθην, ἢ ἐθλάσθην, ἢ διερρήγνυντο, ὡς φησιν Αἰσχύλος “λινοφθόροι ὑφασμάτων λακίδες ἔφλαδον ὑπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν.”
Iungendum est
λινοφθόροι ὑφασμάτων
, i. e. φθείρουσαι τὰ τῶν ὑφασμάτων λίνα. Constructio autem haec est (male enim post
ἄλγεσιν
virgulam ponunt),
πρόστερνοι στολμοὶ λακίδες ἔφλαδον
, i. e. ὥςτε λακίδες γενέσθαι. Schol. partim recte,
τὸ ἑξῆς, οἱ δὲ στολισμοὶ τῶν ὑφασμάτων πρὸς τοῖς στέρνοις λινοφθόροι λακίδες ἐρράγησαν
. Eodem modo Aeschylus locutus est in Persis v. 836.
πάντα γὰρ κακῶν ὑπ᾽ ἄλγους λακίδες ἀμφὶ σώματι στημορραγοῦσι ποικίλων ἐσθημάτων
, i. e. πάντα λακίδες ὄντα.
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πρόστερνοι
πρόστελνοι
sic M.
πρόστελνοι
G. Ald. Rob. Emendavit Turnebus.
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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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1
2
Auf den blutigen Wangen sind sichtbare Spuren des Zerfleischens die Ritzen, welche der Nagel frisch gerissen hat." Vgl. Hom. Τ 285 χερσὶ δ᾽ ἄμυσσεν στή θεά τ' ἠδ᾽ ἁπαλὴν δειρὴν ἰδὲ καλὰ πρόσωπα, Eur. Androm. 826 σπάραγμα κόμας ὀνύχων τε δάι᾽ ἀμύγ ματα θήσομαι, Εl. 146 κατὰ μὲν φίλαν ὄνυχι τεμνομένα δέραν, Οι. 961 τιθεῖσα λευκὸν ὄνυχα διὰ παρηίδων und zu ἄλοκι Eur. Suppl. 826
κατὰ μὲν ὄνυξιν ἠλοκίσμεθα
. Nach Plut. Sol. c. 21 hob Solon ἀμυχὰς κοπτομένων καὶ τὸ θρηνεῖν πεποιημένα καὶ τὸ κωκύειν ἄλλον ἐν ταφαῖς ἑτέρων auf.

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4
δι' . . κέαρ ist eine Zwischenbemerkung, die sich an νεοτόμῳ anschliefst, wozu δι' αἰῶνος den Gegensatz bildet: die äufseren Zeichen der Trauer sind neu, der innere und geheime (80 f.) Schmerz dauert die ganze Zeit über." Ebenso steht die Parenthese αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον μένει Sept. 730 in Gegensatz zu ὠκύποινον. Ζυ δι' αἰῶνος vgl. Ag. 559 .

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Zu Fetzen durch Zerreifsen des linnenen Gewebes ( λινοφθόροι ὑφασμάτων s. v. a. τὰ τῶν ὑφασμά των λίνα φθείρουσαι) schlitzte unter dem Ausdruck des Schmerzes das Gewand vor der Brust, auf welches infolge eines unheimlichen Vorfalles Schläge gefallen sind." Es steht also λινοφθόροι λακίδεςals proleptisches Prädikat. Zu στολμοὶ πέπλων vgl. Eur. Alk. 216 μέσ λανα στολμὸν πέπλων, Androm. 148 στολμόν τε χρωτὸς τόνδε ποικίλων πέπλων. Zum Gedanken vgl. Pers. 1061
πέπλον δ᾽ ἔρεικε κολπίαν ἀκμῇ χεροῖν
. Glatter würde der Text sein, wenn es nach den Vermutungen von Heimsöth und Keck προστέρνων στολμῶν, οἴκων . . πεπληγμένων hiefse, so dafs πρ. στολμῶν von λακίδες abhängig und οἴκων.. πεπληγμένων wie Ag. 1660
δαίμονος χηλῇ βαρείᾳ δυστυχῶς πεπληγμένοι
 gesagt wäre.