Aeschylus Supplices 77

Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator)

But ye gods, authors of our race, hear, duly regarding justice, or if ye do not grant success in obtaining what is contrary to right, but hating insolence in your souls, you should be just in regard to nuptials 5 . But there is even to those who fly from war, being hard pressed, an altar, a defence from calamity 1 , honoured by the deities.

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

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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.) — 40-175f focus
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 40-167a 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.) — 77 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 77 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 77 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 77 focus
ἀλλά, θεοὶ γενέται, κλύετ' εὖ τὸ δίκαιον ἰδόντες,
ἢ καὶ μὴ τέλεον δόντες ἔχειν παρ' αἶσαν,
ὕβριν δ᾽ ἐτύμως στέγοντες, εἰ
πέλοιτ᾽ ἂν ἔνδικοι νόμοις.
ἔστι δὲ κἀκ πολέμου
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τειρομένοις βωμὸς ἀρῆς φυγάσιν
ῥῦμα, δαιμόνων σέβας,
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ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 77 focus
Ἀλλά, θεοὶ θεοὶ οἱ γενέται, κλύετ'
εὖ τὸ δίκαιον ἰδόντες·
ἢ καὶ μὴ τέλεον
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 77 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 77 focus
ἀλλὰ, θεοὶ γενέται κλύετ᾽ εὐ τὸ δίκαιον ἰδόντες,
εἰ καὶ μὴ τέλεον δόντες ἔχειν παρ᾽ αἰσαν,
ὕβριν γ᾽ ἐτύμως στυγοῦντες
πέλοιτ᾽ ἂν ἔνδικοι νόμοις.
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τειρομένοις
ἔστι δὲ κἀκ πολέμου
βωμὸς ἀρῆς φυγάσιν
ῥῦμα, δαιμόνων σέβας. =
Translations (8)
Suppliant Maidens Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 40-165a focus
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 77 focus
sur mon exil loin de la Terre Brumeuse 1 ?
Allons, divins auteurs de ma naissance, vous voyez où est le Droit: exaucez-nous ! Ou, si le Destin ne veut pas que le
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 77 focus
Ye Gods, from whom we proudly trace
The glories of our highborn race,
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Hear us, ye pow'rs, propitious hear,
And ſhow that juſtice is your care;
Guard in our juſt, our holy cauſe
The ſanctity of nature's laws;
You, that abhor each impious deed,
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Ariſe, protect the nuptial bed.
When Mars to ſlaughter gives the reins f ,
And rages o'er th' enſanguin'd plains,
To each that flies the altar gives
A refuge, and the ſuppliant lives,
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Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 77 focus
Numi dei padri, ascoltatemi
voi cui diletta è giustizia:
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non rida la sorte propizia
all'uomo che ingiusto operò.
Punite l'iniquo connubio,
punite la rea tracotanza:
l'altare e la santa osservanza
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dei Numi, tutelano il supplice
che stanco alla pugna scampò.
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 77 focus
A terra aeria
Si aliquis est gubernator.
Sed dij genitores,
Audite probè ius uidentes.
Aut non dantes habere fatum perfectum,
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Contumeliam uerè odio habentes,
Sint enim iuſti nuptijs.
Est enim mali belli uenatis
Ara Martis fugientibus
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 77 focus
PELASGOS
How then towards you may I pious prove?
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.) — 77 focus
Gods of the ancient cradle of my race,
Hear me, just gods! With righteous grace
On me, on me look down!
Grant not to youth its heart's unchaste desire,
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But, swiftly spurning lust's unholy fire,
Bless only love and willing wedlock's crown!
The war-worn fliers from the battle's wrack
Find refuge at the hallowed altar-side,
The sanctuary divine,—
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Ye gods! such refuge unto me provide—
Such sanctuary be mine!
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.) — 77 focus
Götter des Stammes, vernehmt, ihr erfahrenen Hüter des Rechtes!
Nicht doch wider Gebühr führt es an uns zu Ende,
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Nein, hasset den Frevel treuen Sinns; 1
So wahrt ihr wohl des Gesezes Macht!
Flüchtigen auch, von des Kampfs
Mühen erschöpft, beut der Altar vor Gewalt 2
Schuk, der Götter fromme Scheu.
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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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ἵζεσθε κίρκων:
ἵζεσθαι κρέκω
Μ. G.
κρέκω
etiam E.
ἵζεσθαι κεκρέκω
Ρ.
ἕζεσθαι κέρκω
margo M.
ἵζεσθε κίρκων
Rob.
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ἐχθρῶν ὅμαιμον καταμιαινόντων γένος: Libri inepte
ἐχθρῶν ὁμαίμων καὶ μιαινόντων γένος
. Sic mutata sententia, ut feci, apparet quo modo adiungi potuerit proximus versus.
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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

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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.

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φυλάξομαι hier ich werde gewissenhaft darauf bedacht sein“.

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