Aeschylus Supplices 630

Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator)

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Now, if ever, you gods sprung from Jove, hear us pouring forth prayers for desirable things for this race: that bold Mars may never cause to be consumed by fire the Pelasgian city, who with joyless cry mows down mortals in other plowed fields: since they have pitied us, and have passed a favorable decree; but they revere the suppliants of Jove, this band unenvied:

Supplices. Aeschylus. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1849.

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Current edition Experimental

The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) (English) (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (9)
Ἱκέτιδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 630-709 focus
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 630-709 focus
Greek (Editio princeps, 1518) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Suppliants, 1518 edition. Native printed lineation, page markers, and automated correspondence to the Perseus/Smyth edition.) — 630 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 630 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 630 focus
νῦν ὅτε καὶ θεοὶ
630
Διογενεῖς κλύοιτ᾽ εὐκταῖα γένει χεούσας·
μήποτε πυρίφατον τὰν Πελασγίαν πόλιν
τὸν ἄχορον βοὰν κτίσαι μάχλον ῎Αρη,
635
τὸν ἀρότοις θερίζοντα βροτοὺς ἐν ἄλλοις,
οὔνεκ᾽ ᾤκτισαν ἡμᾶς,
ψῆφον δ᾽ εὔφρον᾽ ἔθεντο,
640
αἰδοῦνται δ᾽ ἱκέτας Διὸς, ποίμναν τάνδ᾽ ἀμεγαρτου·
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 630 focus
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 630 focus
Νῦν ὅτε καὶ θεοὶ
Διογενείς κλύοιτ' εὐκα
630
ταῖα γένει 1 χεούσας·
μήποτε πυρίφατον πρέφατον τάνδε Πελασγίαν τὰν πελασγίαν πόλιν
τὸν ἄχορον βοὰν κτίσαι μάχλον Αρη,
τὸν ἀρότοις θερί
ζοντα βροτοὺς ἐν ἄλλοις·
635
οὕνεκ' ᾤκτισαν ἡμᾶς,
ψῆφον δ' εὔφρον᾽ ἔθεντο,
αἰδοῦνται δ' ἱκέτας Διὸς
ποίμναν τάνδ' ἀμέγαρτον·
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 630 focus
νῦν ὅτε καὶ θεοὶ
Διογενεῖς κλύοιτ᾽ εὐ-
κταῖα γένει χεούσας·
640
μήποτε πυρίφατον
τὰν Πελασγίαν πόλιν
τὸν ἄχορον βοᾶν
κτίσαι μάχλον Ἄρη,
τὸν ἀρότοις
645
θερίζοντα βροτοὺς ἐν ἄλλοις,
Οἵνεκ᾽ ᾤκτισαν ἡμᾶς,
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 630 focus
νῦν ὅτε καὶ θεοὶ
630
Διογενεῖς κλύοιτ᾽ εὐκταῖα γένει χεούσας·
μήποτε πυρίφατον γᾶν Πελασγίαν [πόλιν]
Translations (7)
Suppliant Maidens Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 630-705 focus
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 630 focus
rend la bouche de ses hôtes !
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 630 focus
Ye progeny of Jove, whoſe aweful pow'r
710
In yon' ætherial plain
Fixes the glories of your reign,
Bend from your radiant ſeats your ear,
Attentive to a virgin's pray'r,
And on this gen'rous race your choiceſt bleſſings ſhow'r.
715
Never may war, whoſe wanton rage
The thund'ring falchion joys to wield,
Joys, when embattled hoſts engage,
To mow with ruthless arm the field;
Never with rude diſcordant roar
720
Affright the echoes of this ſhore;
Never with hoſtile hand
Wave round theſe glitt'ring tow'rs the blazing brand.
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 630 focus
È questo il punto, o Superi
figli di Zeus, che piacciavi
udir quanto io per queste genti invoco.
Non mai preda del fuoco
685
questi pelasgi valli
riduca Ares che infuria
fra grida ostili ai balli,
che in maggesi insüete
spenti gli uomini miete.
690
Ché pïetosi emisero
voto propizio, e onorano
questa supplice nostra
gregge che a Zeus si prostra.
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 630 focus
Nunc uerò cum & dij
Generoſi audiueritis
Optanda genere fundente me.
595
Ne fortè igni conſumptam
Pelaſgiam urbem,
Choreis carentem clamorem
Poſsideat laſciuus bellum
In aruis
600
Metens alijs mortales.
Quando miſerti sunt noſtri,
Suffragium lætum poſuerunt.
Reuerentur ſupplices Iouis,
Gregem hunc magnum.
605
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 630 focus
Now may the Zeus-born gods on high
695
Hear us pour forth
A votive prayer for Argos' clan!—
Never may this Pelasgian earth,
Amid the fire-wrack, shrill the dismal cry
On Ares, ravening lord of fight,
700
Who in an alien harvest mows down man!
For lo, this land had pity on our plight,
And unto us were merciful and leal,
To us, the piteous flock, who at Zeus' altar kneel!
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.) — 630 focus
Götter aus Zeus' Geschlecht,
Höret mich jetzt, wenn Einmal,
Segen erfleh'n für Argos!
Nicht in der Flamme Glut tilge Pelasgos' Stadt
Ares, der üppig tobt mit graunvollem Ruf,
610
Der auf des Blutes Feld Saaten der Männer abmäht,
Weil sie mein sich erbarmte,
Und mild fällte mein Urtheil,
Und Zeus' Schüßlinge ehrt, der Frau'n
Mitleidwürdige Heerde.
615
Erste Gegenstrophe.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to The Suppliant Women (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of The Suppliant Women.) focus

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NA: Nescio an
οὔτε
Aeschylus scripserit.
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Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (Suppliants, explanatory commentary pp. 24–120. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.) focus

182-532. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-85

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erstes Epeisodion. 1. Szene (182—239): Danaos und der Koryphaios. Danaos kündigt das Nahen des Königs an und gibt seinen Töchtern Verhaltungsmaß- regeln. 2. Szene (240 - 349): Pelas- gos und die Vorigen. Die Danaiden erklären ihre Herkunft von Argos und erflehen als ungerecht Ver- folgte den Schutz des Argivischen Königs. Dieser ist bedenklich wegen der schweren Folgen, welche die Zusage des Schutzes für sein Land haben kann. 3. Kommos (350-422): Fortsetzung der Bitte. 4. Chorikon (423-446), welches das Nachsinnen des Königs zu Gunsten der Da- naiden zu wenden sucht. 5. Dialog des Königs, des Koryphaios und des Danaos (447-532): Der König offenbart seinen Entschluß die Entscheidung dem Volke anheim- zugeben.

225. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-119

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δεξάσθω :Poseidon hat ein An- recht auf Argos. Von einem Heiligtum des Poseidon mit dem Beinamen Προσκλύστιος berichtet Paus. II 22, 4 mit dem Zusatz: τῆς γὰρ χώρας τὸν Ποσειδῶνα ἐπικλύσαι τὴν πολλήν, ὅτι Ἥρας εἶναι καὶ οὐκ αὐτοῦ τὴν γῆν Ιναχος καὶ οἱ συνδικάσαντες ἔγνωσαν. Von einem Ort Τρίαινα in Argos weiß der Schol. zu Eur. Phoen. 187. Vgl. Einl. S. 3.