Supplices. Aeschylus. ed. Gottfried Hermann. Lipsiae. 1852.
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Ἱκέτιδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 902-1017 focus
Κηρυξ
εἰ μή τις ἐς ναῦν εἶσιν αἰνέσας τάδε,
λακὶς χιτῶνος ἔργον οὐ κατοικτιεῖ.
Χορος
Κηρυχ
ἕλξειν ἔοιχ᾽ ὑμᾶς ἀποσπάσας κόμης,
905
<Χοροσ>
<Κηρυξ>
πολλοὺς ἄνακτας παῖδας Αἰγύπτου, τάχα
ὄψεσθε: θαρσεῖτ᾽, οὐκ ἐρεῖτ᾽ ἀναρχίαν.
8
Βασιλευς
οὗτος, τί ποιεῖς; ἐκ ποίου φρονήματος
910
ἀνδρῶν Πελασγῶν τήνδ᾽ ἀτιμάζεις χθόνα;
ἀλλ᾽ ἦ γυναικῶν ἐς πόλιν δοκεῖς μολεῖν;
κάρβανος ὢν δ᾽
9
Ἕλλησιν ἐγχλίεις ἄγαν:
Κηρυξ
τί δ᾽ ἠμπλάκηται τῶνδ᾽ ἐμοὶ δίκης ἄτερ;
Βασιλευς
ξένος μὲν εἶναι πρῶτον οὐκ ἐπίστασαι.
Κηρυξ
πῶς δ᾽ οὐχί; τἄμ᾽ ὀλωλόθ᾽ εὑρίσκων ἄγω.
12
Βασιλευς
ποίοισιν εἰπὼν προξένοις
13
ἐγχωρίοις;
Κηρυξ
Ἑρμῇ μεγίστῳ προξένῳ μαστηρίῳ.
920
Βασιλευς
θεοῖσιν εἰπὼν τοὺς θεοὺς οὐδὲν σέβει.
Κηρυξ
τοὺς ἀμφὶ Νεῖλον δαίμονας σεβίζομαι.
Βασιλευς
οἱ δ᾽ ἐνθάδ᾽ οὐδέν, ὡς ἐγὼ σέθεν κλύω.
14
Κηρυξ
ἄγοιμ᾽ ἄν, εἴ τις τάσδε μὴ ʼξαιρήσεται.
Βασιλευς
Κηρυξ
ἤκουσα τοὔπος οὐδαμῶς φιλόξενον.
Βασιλευς
οὐ γὰρ ξενοῦμαι τοὺς θεῶν συλήτορας.
Κηρυξ
λέγοιμ᾽
17
ἂν ἐλθὼν παισὶν Αἰγύπτου τάδε.
Βασιλευς
ἀβουκόλητον τοῦτ᾽ ἐμῷ φρονήματι.
930
Κηρυξ
ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἂν εἰδὼς ἐννέπω σαφέστερον,—
930
καὶ γὰρ πρέπει κήρυκ᾽ ἀπαγγέλλειν τορῶς
ἕκαστα,—πῶς φῶ, πρὸς τίνος τ᾽ ἀφαιρεθεὶς
ἥκειν
18
γυναικῶν αὐτανέψιον στόλον;
οὔτοι δικάζει ταῦτα μαρτύρων ὕπο
Ἄρης: τὸ νεῖκος δ᾽ οὐκ ἐν ἀργύρου λαβῇ
935
ἔλυσεν: ἀλλὰ πολλὰ γίγνεται πάρος
πεσήματ᾽ ἀνδρῶν κἀπολακτισμοὶ βίου.
19
<Βασιλευσ>
τί σοι λέγειν χρὴ τοὔνομ᾽; ἐν χρόνῳ μαθὼν
εἴσι σύ τ᾽ αὐτὸς χοἰ
20
ξυνέμποροι σέθεν.
ταύτας δ᾽ ἑκούσας μὲν κατ᾽ εὔνοιαν φρενῶν
940
ἄγοις ἄν, εἴπερ εὐσεβὴς πίθοι λόγος.
21
τοιάδε δημόπρακτος ἐκ πόλεως μία
ψῆφος κέκρανται, μήποτ᾽ ἐκδοῦναι βίᾳ
στόλον γυναικῶν: τῶνδ᾽ ἐφήλωται τορῶς
22
γόμφος διαμπάξ, ὡς μένειν ἀραρότως.
945
ταῦτ᾽ οὐ πίναξίν ἐστιν ἐγγεγραμμένα
οὐδ᾽ ἐν πτυχαῖς βίβλων κατεσφραγισμένα,
σαφῆ δ᾽ ἀκούεις ἐξ ἐλευθεροστόμου
γλώσσης. κομίζου δ᾽ ὡς τάχιστ᾽ ἐξ ὀμμάτων.
<Κηρυξ>
εἴη δὲ νίκη καὶ κράτη τοῖς ἄρσεσιν.
<Βασιλευσ>
ἀλλ᾽ ἄρσενάς τοι τῆσδε γῆς οἰκήτορας
εὑρήσετ᾽ οὐ πίνοντας ἐκ κριθῶν μέθυ.
ὑμεῖς δὲ πᾶσαι ξὺν φίλαις
25
ὀπάοσι
θράσος λαβοῦσαι στείχετ᾽ εὐερκῆ πόλιν,
955
πύργων βαθείᾳ μηχανῇ κεκλῃμένην.
26
καὶ δώματ᾽ ἐστὶ πολλὰ μὲν τὰ δήμια,
δεδωμάτωμαι δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐγὼ σμικρᾷ χερί.
πολλῶν μετ᾽ ἄλλων: εἰ δέ τις μείζων χάρις,
960
πάρεστιν οἰκεῖν καὶ μονορρύθμους
30
δόμους.
τούτων τὰ λῷστα καὶ τὰ θυμηδέστατα
πάρεστι, λωτίσασθε.
31
προστάτης δ᾽ ἐγὼ
ἀστοί τε πάντες, ὧνπερ ἥδε κραίνεται
ψῆφος. τί τῶνδε κυριωτέρους μένεις;
965
966
Χορος
ἀλλ᾽ ἀντ᾽ ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθοῖσι
32
βρύοις,
δῖε Πελασγῶν.
πέμψον δὲ πρόφρων δεῦρ᾽ ἡμέτερον
πατέρ᾽ εὐθαρσῆ Δαναόν, πρόνοον
καὶ βούλαρχον. τοῦ γὰρ προτέρα
970
μῆτις, ὅπου χρὴ δώματα ναίειν
καὶ τόπος εὔφρων. πᾶς τις ἐπειπεῖν
ψόγον ἀλλοθρόοις
εὔτυκος:
33
εἴη δὲ τὰ λῷστα.
ξύν τ᾽ εὐκλείᾳ καὶ ἀμηνίτῳ
975
βάξει λαῶν ἐν χώρῳ
34
τάσσεσθε, φίλαι δμωίδες, οὕτως
ὡς ἐφ᾽ ἑκάστῃ διεκλήρωσεν
Δαναὸς θεραποντίδα φερνήν.
980
Δαναος
ὦ παῖδες, Ἀργείοισιν εὔχεσθαι χρεών,
980
θύειν τε λείβειν θ᾽, ὡς θεοῖς Ὀλυμπίοις,
σπονδάς, ἐπεὶ σωτῆρες οὐ διχορρόπως.
καί μου τὰ μὲν πραχθέντα πρὸς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς
35
ἐμοὶ δ᾽
38
ὀπαδοὺς τούσδε καὶ δορυσσόους
985
ἔταξαν, ὡς ἔχοιμι τίμιον γέρας,
λάθοιμι, χώρᾳ δ᾽ ἄχθος ἀείζων πέλοι.
τοιῶνδε τυγχάνοντας ἐκ πρυμνῆς
41
φρενὸς
χάριν σέβεσθαι τιμιωτέραν λέγω.
42
990
πολλοῖσιν ἄλλοις σωφρονίσμασιν πατρός,
ἀγνῶθ᾽ ὅμιλον ἐξελέγχεσθαι
45
χρόνῳ.
πᾶς δ᾽ ἐν μετοίκῳ γλῶσσαν εὔτυκον
46
φέρει
κακήν, τό τ᾽ εἰπεῖν εὐπετὲς μύσαγμά πως.
995
ὑμᾶς δ᾽ ἐπαινῶ μὴ καταισχύνειν ἐμέ,
ὥραν ἐχούσας τήνδ᾽ ἐπίστρεπτον βροτοῖς.
τέρειν᾽ ὀπώρα δ᾽ εὐφύλακτος οὐδαμῶς:
θῆρες δὲ κηραίνουσι καὶ βροτοί, τί μήν;
47
καὶ κνώδαλα πτεροῦντα καὶ πεδοστιβῆ.
48
1000
†καρπώματα στάζοντα κηρύσσει Κύπρις
καλωρα κωλύουσαν θωσμένειν ἐρῶ,†
49
καὶ παρθένων χλιδαῖσιν εὐμόρφοις ἔπι
πᾶς τις παρελθὼν ὄμματος θελκτήριον
τόξευμ᾽ ἔπεμψεν, ἱμέρου νικώμενος.
1005
πρὸς ταῦτα μὴ πάθωμεν ὧν πολὺς πόνος
πολὺς δὲ πόντος οὕνεκ᾽ ἠρόθη
50
δορί,
μηδ᾽ αἶσχος ἡμῖν, ἡδονὴν δ᾽ ἐχθροῖς ἐμοῖς
πράξωμεν. οἴκησις
51
δὲ καὶ διπλῆ πάρα:
τὴν μὲν Πελασγός, τὴν δὲ καὶ πόλις διδοῖ,
1010
οἰκεῖν λάτρων
52
ἄτερθεν: εὐπετῆ τάδε.
μόνον φύλαξαι
53
τάσδ᾽ ἐπιστολὰς πατρός,
τὸ σωφρονεῖν τιμῶσα τοῦ βίου πλέον.
Χορος
τἄλλ᾽ εὐτυχοῖμεν πρὸς θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων:
ἐμῆς δ᾽ ὀπώρας οὕνεκ᾽ εὖ θάρσει, πάτερ.
1015
εἰ γάρ τι μὴ θεοῖς
54
βεβούλευται νέον,
ἴχνος τὸ πρόσθεν οὐ διαστρέψω φρενός.
1018
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 902-1017 focus
Κῆρυξ
εἰ μή τις ἐς ναῦν εἶσιν αἰνέσας τάδε,
λακὶς χιτῶνος ἔργον οὐ κατοικτιεῖ.
Χορός
διωλόμεσθʼ· ἄσεπτʼ, ἄναξ, πάσχομεν—
Κῆρυξ
πολλοὺς ἄνακτας, παῖδας Αἰγύπτου τάχα
905
ὄψεσθε· θαρσεῖτʼ, οὐκ ἐρεῖτʼ ἀναρχίαν.
Χορός
ἰὼ πόλεως ἀγοὶ πρόμοι, δάμναμαι.
Κῆρυξ
ἕλξειν ἔοιχʼ ὑμᾶς ἀποσπάσας κόμης,
ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἀκούετʼ ὀξὺ τῶν ἐμῶν λόγων.
910
Βασιλεύς
οὗτος, τί ποιεῖς; ἐκ ποίου φρονήματος
ἀνδρῶν Πελασγῶν τήνδʼ ἀτιμάζεις χθόνα;
ἀλλʼ ἦ γυναικῶν ἐς πόλιν δοκεῖς μολεῖν;
κάρβανος ὢν δʼ Ἕλλησιν ἐγχλίεις ἄγαν·
καὶ πόλλʼ ἁμαρτὼν οὐδὲν ὤρθωσας φρενί.
915
Κῆρυξ
τί δʼ ἠμπλάκηται τῶνδʼ ἐμοὶ δίκης ἄτερ;
Βασιλεύς
ξένος μὲν εἶναι πρῶτον οὐκ ἐπίστασαι.
Κῆρυξ
πῶς δʼ οὐχί; τἄμʼ ὀλωλόθʼ εὑρίσκων ἄγω.
Βασιλεύς
ποίοισιν εἰπὼν προξένοις ἐγχωρίοις;
Κῆρυξ
Ἑρμῇ μεγίστῳ προξένῳ μαστηρίῳ.
920
Βασιλεύς
θεοῖσιν εἰπὼν τοὺς θεοὺς οὐδὲν σέβῃ.
Κῆρυξ
τοὺς ἀμφὶ Νεῖλον δαίμονας σεβίζομαι.
Βασιλεύς
οἱ δʼ ἐνθάδʼ οὐδέν, ὡς ἐγὼ σέθεν κλύω;
Κῆρυξ
ἄγοιμʼ ἄν, εἴ τις τάσδε μὴ ʼξαιρήσεται.
Βασιλεύς
κλάοις ἄν, εἰ ψαύσειας, οὐ μάλʼ ἐς μακράν.
925
Κῆρυξ
ἤκουσα τοὔπος
δʼ οὐδαμῶς φιλόξενον.
Βασιλεύς
οὐ γὰρ ξενοῦμαι τοὺς θεῶν συλήτορας.
Κῆρυξ
λέγοιμʼ ἂν ἐλθὼν παισὶν Αἰγύπτου τάδε.
Βασιλεύς
ἀβουκόλητον τοῦτʼ ἐμῷ, φρονήματι.
930
Κῆρυξ
ἀλλʼ ὡς ἂν εἰδὼς ἐννέπω σαφέστερον,—
930
καὶ γὰρ πρέπει κήρυκʼ ἀπαγγέλλειν τορῶς
ἕκαστα,—πῶς φῶ, πρὸς τίνος τʼ ἀφαιρεθεὶς
ἥκειν γυναικῶν αὐτανέψιον στόλον;
οὔτοι δικάζει ταῦτα μαρτύρων ὕπο
Ἄρης· τὸ νεῖκος δʼ οὐκ ἐν ἀργύρου λαβῇ
935
ἔλυσεν· ἀλλὰ πολλὰ γίγνεται πάρος
πεσήματʼ ἀνδρῶν κἀπολακτισμοὶ βίου.
Βασιλεύς
τί σοι λέγειν χρὴ τοὔνομʼ; ἐν χρόνῳ μαθὼν
εἴσῃ σύ τʼ αὐτὸς χοἰ ξυνέμποροι σέθεν.
ταύτας δʼ ἑκούσας μὲν κατʼ εὔνοιαν φρενῶν
940
ἄγοις ἄν, εἴπερ εὐσεβὴς πίθοι λόγος.
τοία δὲ δημόπρακτος ἐκ πόλεως μία
ψῆφος κέκρανται, μήποτʼ ἐκδοῦναι βίᾳ
στόλον γυναικῶν· τῶνδʼ ἐφήλωται τορῶς
γόμφος διαμπάξ, ὡς μένειν ἀραρότως.
945
ταῦτʼ οὐ πίναξίν ἐστιν ἐγγεγραμμένα
οὐδʼ ἐν πτυχαῖς βίβλων κατεσφραγισμένα,
σαφῆ δʼ ἀκούεις ἐξ ἐλευθεροστόμου
γλώσσης. κομίζου δʼ ὡς τάχιστʼ ἐξ ὀμμάτων.
Κῆρυξ
ἔοιγμεν ἤδη πόλεμον ἀρεῖσθαι νέον.
950
εἴη δὲ νίκη καὶ κράτη τοῖς ἄρσεσιν.
Βασιλεύς
ἀλλʼ ἄρσενάς τοι τῆσδε γῆς οἰκήτορας
εὑρήσετʼ οὐ πίνοντας ἐκ κριθῶν μέθυ.
ὑμεῖς δὲ πᾶσαι σὺν φίλαις ὀπάοσι
θράσος λαβοῦσαι στείχετʼ εὐερκῆ πόλιν,
955
πύργων βαθείᾳ μηχανῇ κεκλῃμένην.
καὶ δώματʼ ἐστὶ πολλὰ μὲν τὰ δήμια,
δεδωμάτωμαι δʼ οὐδʼ ἐγὼ σμικρᾷ χερί.
ἔνθʼ ὑμίν ἐστιν εὐτύκους ναίειν δόμους
πολλῶν μετʼ ἄλλων· εἰ δέ τις μείζων χάρις,
960
πάρεστιν οἰκεῖν καὶ μονορρύθμους δόμους.
τούτων τὰ λῷστα καὶ τὰ θυμηδέστατα
πάρεστι, λωτίσασθε. προστάτης δʼ ἐγὼ
ἀστοί τε πάντες, ὧνπερ ἥδε κραίνεται
ψῆφος. τί τῶνδε κυριωτέρους μένεις;
965
966
Χορός
ἀλλʼ ἀντʼ ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθοῖσι βρύοις,
δῖε Πελασγῶν.
πέμψον δὲ πρόφρων δεῦρʼ ἡμέτερον
πατέρʼ εὐθαρσῆ Δαναόν, πρόνοον
καὶ βούλαρχον. τοῦ γὰρ προτέρα
970
μῆτις, ὅπου χρὴ δώματα ναίειν
καὶ τόπος εὔφρων. πᾶς τις ἐπειπεῖν
ψόγον ἀλλοθρόοις
εὔτυκος· εἴη δὲ τὰ λῷστα.
σύν τʼ εὐκλείᾳ καὶ ἀμηνίτῳ
975
βάξει λαῶν ἐγχώρων
τάσσεσθε, φίλαι δμωίδες, οὕτως
ὡς ἐφʼ ἑκάστῃ διεκλήρωσεν
Δαναὸς θεραποντίδα φερνήν.
Δαναός
ὦ παῖδες, Ἀργείοισιν εὔχεσθαι χρεών,
980
θύειν τε λείβειν θʼ, ὡς θεοῖς, Ὀλυμπίοις,
σπονδάς, ἐπεὶ σωτῆρες οὐ διχορρόπως.
καί μου τὰ μὲν πραχθέντα πρὸς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς
φίλους πικρῶς ἤκουσαν αὐτανεψίοις·
ἐμοὶ δʼ ὀπαδοὺς τούσδε καὶ δορυσσόους
985
ἔταξαν, ὡς ἔχοιμι τίμιον γέρας,
καὶ μὴ ʼξ ἀέλπτων δορικανεῖ μόρῳ θανὼν
λάθοιμι, χώρᾳ δʼ ἄχθος ἀείζων πέλοι.
τοιῶνδε τυγχάνοντας ἐκ πρυμνῆς φρενὸς
χάριν σέβεσθαι τιμιωτέραν χρεών.
990
καὶ ταῦθʼ ἅμʼ ἐγγράψασθε πρὸς γεγραμμένοις
πολλοῖσιν ἄλλοις σωφρονίσμασιν πατρός,
ἀγνῶθʼ ὅμιλον ἐξελέγχεσθαι χρόνῳ.
πᾶς δʼ ἐν μετοίκῳ γλῶσσαν εὔτυκον φέρει
κακήν, τό τʼ εἰπεῖν εὐπετὲς μύσαγμά πως.
995
ὑμᾶς δʼ ἐπαινῶ μὴ καταισχύνειν ἐμέ,
ὥραν ἐχούσας τήνδʼ ἐπίστρεπτον βροτοῖς.
τέρεινʼ ὀπώρα δʼ εὐφύλακτος οὐδαμῶς·
θῆρες δὲ κηραίνουσι καὶ βροτοί, τί μήν;
καὶ κνώδαλα πτεροῦντα καὶ πεδοστιβῆ.
1000
καρπώματα στάζοντα κηρύσσει Κύπρις
καλωρα κωλύουσαν θωσμένειν ἐρῶ,
καὶ παρθένων χλιδαῖσιν εὐμόρφοις ἔπι
πᾶς τις παρελθὼν ὄμματος θελκτήριον
τόξευμʼ ἔπεμψεν, ἱμέρου νικώμενος.
1005
πρὸς ταῦτα μὴ πάθωμεν ὧν πολὺς πόνος
πολὺς δὲ πόντος οὕνεκʼ ἠρόθη δορί,
μηδʼ αἶσχος ἡμῖν, ἡδονὴν δʼ ἐχθροῖς ἐμοῖς
πράξωμεν. οἴκησις δὲ καὶ διπλῆ πάρα
τὴν μὲν Πελασγός, τὴν δὲ καὶ πόλις διδοῖ,
1010
οἰκεῖν λάτρων ἄτερθεν· εὐπετῆ τάδε.
μόνον φύλαξαι τάσδʼ ἐπιστολὰς πατρός,
τὸ σωφρονεῖν τιμῶσα τοῦ βίου πλέον.
Χορός
τἄλλʼ εὐτυχοῖμεν πρὸς θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.
ἐμῆς δʼ ὀπώρας οὕνεκʼ εὖ θάρσει, πάτερ.
1015
εἰ γάρ τι μὴ θεοῖς βεβούλευται νέον,
ἴχνος τὸ πρόσθεν οὐ διαστρέψω φρενός.
Greek (Editio princeps, 1518) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Suppliants, 1518 edition. Native printed lineation, page markers, and automated correspondence to the Perseus/Smyth edition.) — 895 focus
Χορός
μαιμαιπέλας δ' ἴπκ ὄφις, ἔχιδνα δ' ὥσμε
τί ποτ' ἐν, δακοσάχ. ὀτοτοτοτοῖ.
750
μᾶ γᾶ. μᾶ γᾶ, βοᾶν, φοβερὸν ἀπόβεπε,
ὦ βᾶ γᾶς. παῖ ζῶ.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 895 focus
Μαιμᾷ πέλας δίπες όφις,
Εχιδνα δ' ως με
905
Τί ποτ᾿ ἐνδακοῦσα.
Οτοτοτοτοί.
Μᾶ γᾶ, μᾶ γᾶ, βοᾶν
Φοβερὸν ἀπότρεπε,
Ω βᾶ γᾶς παῖ Ζεῦ.
1
910
ἴαμβοι.
Κη.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 895 focus
ΧΟ.
μαιμᾷ πέλας δίπους ὄφις,
895
ἔχιδνα δ᾽ ὡς με τί ποτ'
ἐνδακοσάχ.
ὀτοτοτοί.
μᾶ Γᾶ μᾶ Γᾶ, βοᾶν
φοβερὸν ἀπότρεπε,
900
ὦ βᾶ Γᾶς παῖ Ζεῦ.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 895 focus
Ἡμιχόριον Β
1
μαιμᾷ πέλας
860
δίπους ὄφις,
ἔχιδνα δ᾽ ὡς μέ τις πόδ᾽ ἐνδακοῦσ᾽ ἔχει.
ὀτοτοτοτοῖ.
μᾶ Γᾶ, μᾶ Γᾶ, βοὰν
865
φοβερὸν ἀπότρεπε.
ὦ βᾶ, Γᾶς παῖ, Ζεῦ.
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 895 focus
ΧΟΡΟΣ
Μαιμᾷ
μαι μαι πέλας δίπους ὄφις·
Ant. 3.
ἔχιδνα δ' ὥς με
τί ποτ' ἐν
δακοσάχ
Ὀτοτοτοῖ
900
μᾶ Γᾶ μᾶ Γᾶ, βόαν
φοβερὸν ἀπότρεπε,
ὦ πᾶ, Γᾶς παῖ, Ζεῦ.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 895 focus
μαιμᾷ πέλας δίπους ἄφες,
ἔχιδνα δ' ὥς με
τί ποτ᾽ ἔν
δακοσάχ
ὀτοτοτοτοῖ.
910
μᾶ Γᾶ, μᾶ Γᾶ, βοᾶν
φοβερὸν ἀπότρεπε,
ὦ βᾶ Γᾶς παῖ Ζεῦ.
ΚΗ.
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 895 focus
ΧΟ.
μαιμᾶι πέλας δίπους ὄφις,
895
ἔχιδνα δ᾽ ὡς με
τί ποτ᾽ ἔν δακοσάχ –
ὀτοτοτοτοῖ.
μᾶ Γᾶ, μᾶ Γᾶ βοάν
φοβερὸν ἀπότρεπε.
900
Testimonia
Apparatus Criticus
ἄιστον ἄφερτον 1 2 ἀμφίστροφον ἀντίστροφον 3 4 μηδέ τις ὅρον τι αὕτη οὔτοι αὕτη scripsi 5 6 βρέτεος ἄρος ἀτᾶι βροτιοσα ροσαται μαλδαάγει βρότεος ἄρος ἄτα 7 ἁλάδ᾽ ἁλάδ᾽ 8 9 10 11 πᾶ Σβᾶ 12 13 14 15
ΧΟ.
ὦ πᾶ, Γᾶς παῖ Ζεῦ. =
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.)) — 902-1015 focus
Herald
If you will not resign yourself and get to the ship, rending will have no pity on the fabric of your garments.
Chorus
We are lost! O King, we are suffering impious violence!
1
Herald
Chorus
Listen! Chiefs and rulers of the city, I am threatened with violence!
3
Herald
I think I will have to seize you by the hair and drag you off
4
since you are slow to heed my orders.
910
Enter the King with retainers
King
You there! What are you doing? What kind of arrogance has incited you to do such dishonor to this realm of Pelasgian men? Indeed, do you think you have come to a land of women? For a barbarian dealing with Hellenes, you act insolently.
Many are the misses of your wits, and your hits are none.
915
Herald
And in this case where have I gone wrong and transgressed my right?
King
First of all, you do not know how to act as a stranger.
Herald
I not know? How so, when I simply find and take my own that I had lost?
King
To what patrons of your land was your notice given?
Herald
To Hermes, the Searcher, greatest of patrons.
920
King
For all your notice to the gods, you do them no reverence.
Herald
I revere the deities by the
Nile
.
King
While ours are nothing, as I understand you?
Herald
I shall carry off these maids unless someone tears them away.
King
If you so much as touch them, you will regret it, and right soon.
925
Herald
I hear you; and your speech is far from hospitable.
King
No, since I have no hospitality for despoilers of the gods.
Herald
I will go and tell
Aegyptus
’ sons about this.
King
My proud spirit will not ponder on this threat.
930
Herald
But that I may know and tell a plainer tale —for it is fitting that a herald make exact report on each detail—what message am I to deliver? Who is it, am I to tell on my return, that has despoiled me of this band of women, their own cousins? It is not, I suppose, by voice of witnesses that the god of battle judges cases like this;
930
nor is it by the gift of silver that he settles dispute; no! If that be the case, many a one shall fall and shuffle off his life.
935
King
My name? Why should I tell you? In due course of time you will learn it, you and your companions.
As for these maids, if, convinced by god-fearing argument, they consent of their own free will and heartily, you may take them. But to this purpose a decree has been passed by the unanimous resolve of the people of the State, never, under compulsion, to surrender this association of women. Through their resolve
940
the rivet has been driven home, to remain fixed and fast. Not on tablets is this inscribed, nor has it been sealed in folds of books: you hear the truth from free-spoken lips. Now get out of my sight immediately!
945
Herald
I think we are about to involve ourselves in a new war. But may victory and authority rest with the men!
950
King
It is men, I believe, you will find in the dwellers of this land; and they are no drinkers of diluted wine.
Exit Herald. But
take courage, all of you, and together with your handmaidens, proceed to our well-fenced town, encircled by sturdy devices of towers. As for places inside to lodge, there are plenty of the public sort. For on no modest scale do I myself live, where,
955
in company with many others, you may occupy abodes suitably prepared; or, if it is more pleasing to you, it is free for you also to make your home in dwellings of separate sort. Of these select what is best and most to your desires. A protector you have in me and in all the inhabitants, whose resolve this is that now takes effect.
960
Why wait for others of higher authority?
965
966
Chorus
In blessings may you abound, noble Pelasgian, in requital for your blessings! But, if it pleases you, send our brave father Danaus here to be our adviser
and leader of our counsels. For it befits him, rather than ourselves, to advise us where we should establish our home and what neighborhood is friendly. All the world is ready to cast reproach on those who speak a foreign tongue. But may all be for the best!
Exit the King.
970
And you, dear handmaidens, preserving your fair fame and provoking no angry utterances on the part of the native folk, take up your stations even as Danaus has allotted her duty of attendance unto each.
975
980
Enter Danaus with a bodyguard
Danaus
My children, it is right to offer prayers to the Argives and to sacrifice and pour libations to them as to Olympian gods; for they are our saviors in no doubtful manner. They heard from my lips the conduct of your cousins toward their own kinfolk, and were moved to bitterness against them;
980
but to me they assigned this escort of spearmen, that I might have rank and honor, and might not be ambushed and perish by the death of the spear, and so an ever-living burden come upon the land. Recipients of such favors as these,
985
it becomes us to hold gratitude in yet higher honor from the bottom of our hearts. And in addition to the many other wise injunctions of your father recorded in your memory, inscribe this too—that an unknown company is proved by time. For in an alien’s case, all the world bears an evil tongue in readiness,
990
and it is easy lightly to utter defiling slander. Therefore I would have you bring no shame upon me, now when your youthful loveliness attracts men’s gaze. The tender ripeness of summer fruit is in no way easy to protect; beasts despoil it—and men, why not?—
995
and brutes that fly and those that walk the earth. Love’s goddess spreads news abroad of fruit bursting ripe. . . . So all men, as they pass,
1000
mastered by desire, shoot an alluring arrow of the eye at the delicate beauty of virgins. See to it, therefore, that we do not suffer that in fear for which we have endured great toil and ploughed the great waters with our ship; and that we bring no shame to ourselves and exultation to our enemies. Housing of two kinds is at our disposition,
1005
the one Pelasgus offers, the other, the city, and to occupy free of cost. These terms are easy. Only pay heed to these behests of your father, and count your chastity more precious than your life.
1010
Chorus
May the Olympian gods grant us good fortune in all the rest!
But, concerning the bloom of my virginity, father, be of good cheer, for, unless some evil has been devised of Heaven, I will not swerve from the former pathway of my thoughts.
1015
The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 895 focus
HERALD
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 895 focus
hélas ! Terre mère, écarte de moi l'effrayant hurleur ! O père, Zeus, fils de la Terre 1 !
LE HÉRAUT
Si tu ne te résignes à gagner le vaisseau,
ta tunique
ta tunique
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 895 focus
Earth, I adjure thee ſhield me; ſhield me, Jove,
God of this land; ſave me in this hard conflict.
975
HERALD.
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 895 focus
EGIZIO
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 895 focus
Cad.
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.) — 895 focus
Like a snake that is human he comes, he shudders and crawls to my side:
As an adder that biteth the foot, his clutch on my flesh doth abide.
O Earth, O my mother! O Zeus, thou king of the earth, and her child!
935
Turn back, we pray thee, from us his clamour and threatenings wild!
Herald of Aegyptus
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.) — 895 focus
In meiner Nähe zischt zweifüßig hier
Die Schlang' heran und wird
845
Zur gift'gen Natter, bohrt
In's Herz tief sich ein.
O Ge, Ge, Mutter hilf,
Wende das Graun von uns!
O Zeus, Ge's Sohn, hilf!
850
Der Herold.
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
863.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-668
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
832-1028.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-520
856-921.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-532