# Choëphoroe (Murray 1923)

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The second tragedy in the Oresteia, as translated by Gilbert Murray, who also translated Aeschylus' Agamemnon (1920) and Eumenides (1925).
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THE
CHOËPHOROE
(LIBATION-BEARERS)
OF
AESCHYLUS
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE BY
GILBERT MURRAY
REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD
RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. 1
IMMATURA MORTE PEREMPTAE
A. E. M.
FILIOLAE COMMILITONI EXEMPLO
HOC CARMEN DEDICO
* Preface
* Characters
* The Choëphoroe
* Notes
First published in 1923
(All rights reserved)
Printed in Great Britain by UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED LONDON AND WOKING
THE ATHENIAN DRAMA FOR ENGLISH READERS
A Series of Verse Translations of the Greek Dramatic Poets, with Commentaries and Explanatory Notes.
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