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partie notre colonie.

Une trace ancienne me ramène aujourd'hui aux lieux où
sous l'œil d'un gardien jadis paissait ma mère. C'est là la prairie qui nourrit les génisses, d'où Io, pourchassée par le taon, s'enfuit un jour, l'esprit perdu, traverse cent peuples divers,
et, fendant le détroit houleux, sur l'ordre du destin, dépasse la limite des deux continents

Supplices. Aeschylus. Paul Mazon (Editor). Paris. 1920-1925.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by Schmidt Sciences.

Current edition Experimental

LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) (fra) (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (9)

Ἱκέτιδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 524-599 focus

str. 1

Χορος

ἄναξ ἀνάκτων, μακάρων

μακάρτατε καὶ τελέων
525

τελειότατον κράτος, ὄλβιε Ζεῦ,

πιθοῦ¹ τε καὶ γένει σῷ²

ἄλευσον ἀνδρῶν ὕβριν εὖ στυγήσας:

λίμνᾳ δ᾽ ἔμβαλε πορφυροειδεῖ³

τὰν μελανόζυγ᾽ ἄταν.
530
531

ant. 1

Χορος

τὸ πρὸς γυναικῶν <δ᾽⁴> ἐπιδὼν

παλαίφατον ἁμέτερον

γένος φιλίας προγόνου γυναικὸς

νέωσον εὔφρον᾽ αἶνον,

γενοῦ πολυμνάστωρ, ἔφαπτορ⁵ Ἰοῦς,
535

Δῖαι⁶ τοι γένος εὐχόμεθ᾽ εἶναι

γᾶς ἀπὸ τᾶσδ᾽ ἄποικοι.⁷

538

str. 2

Χορος

παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπάς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ
540

οἴστρῳ ἐρεσσομένα

φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος,

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

φῦλα, διχῇ δ᾽ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέμ-
545

νουσα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει:

547

ant. 2

Χορος

ἰάπτει δ᾽ Ἀσίδος⁸ δι᾽ αἴας

μηλοβότου Φρυγίας διαμπάξ:

περᾷ δὲ Τεύθραντος ἄστυ Μυσῶν,⁹

Λύδιά¹⁰ τ᾽ ἂγ¹¹ γύαλα,
550

καὶ δι᾽ ὀρῶν¹² Κιλίκων

Παμφύλων τε [γένη¹³] διορνυμένα

πὰρ¹⁴ ποταμοὺς¹⁵ ἀενάους

καὶ βαθύπλουτον χθόνα καὶ

τὰν¹⁶ Ἀφροδίτας πολύπυρον αἶαν.
555
556

str. 3

Χορος

ἱκνεῖται δ᾽ †εἰσικνουμένου¹⁷ βέλει

βουκόλου πτερόεντος

Δῖον πάμβοτον ἄλσος,

λειμῶνα χιονόβοσκον, ὅντ᾽ ἐπέρχεται

Τυφῶ μένος,
560

ὕδωρ τε¹⁸ Νείλου νόσοις ἄθικτον,

μαινομένα πόνοις ἀτί-

μοις ὀδύναις τε κεντροδα-

λήτισι¹⁹ θυιὰς Ἥρας.

565

ant. 3

Χορος

βροτοὶ δ᾽, οἳ γᾶς τότ᾽ ἦσαν ἔννομοι,
565

χλωρῷ δείματι²⁰ θυμὸν

πάλλοντ᾽ ὄψιν ἀήθη,

βοτὸν²¹ ἐσορῶντες δυσχερὲς μιξόμβροτον,

τὰν μὲν βοός,

τὰν δ᾽ αὖ γυναικός: τέρας δ᾽ ἐθάμβουν.²²
570

καὶ τότε²³ δὴ τίς ἦν ὁ θέλ-

ξας πολύπλαγκτον ἀθλίαν

οἰστροδόνητον Ἰώ;

574

str. 4

Χορος

δι᾽²⁴ αἰῶνος κρέων ἀπαύστου

Ζεὺς...²⁵²⁶
575

χειρὸς²⁷ δ᾽ ἀπημάντῳ σθένει

καὶ θείαις ἐπιπνοίαις

παύεται, δακρύων δ᾽ ἀπο-

στάζει πένθιμον αἰδῶ.

λαβοῦσα δ᾽ ἕρμα Δῖον ἀψευδεῖ λόγῳ
580

γείνατο παῖδ᾽ ἀμεμφῆ,

582

ant. 4

Χορος

δι᾽ αἰῶνος μακροῦ πάνολβον:

ἔνθεν πᾶσα βοᾷ χθών,

“φυσιζόου²⁸ γένος τόδε²⁹

Ζηνός ἐστιν ἀληθῶς:
585

τίς γὰρ ἂν κατέπαυσεν Ἥ-

ρας νόσους ἐπιβούλους;”

Διὸς τόδ᾽ ἔργον: καὶ τόδ᾽ ἂν γένος λέγων

ἐξ Ἐπάφου κυρήσαις.

590

str. 5

Χορος

τίν᾽ ἂν θεῶν ἐνδικωτέροισιν
590

κεκλοίμαν εὐλόγως ἐπ᾽ ἔργοις;

<αὐτὸς³⁰> πατὴρ φυτουργὸς αὐτόχειρ ἄναξ

γένους παλαιόφρων μέγας

τέκτων, τὸ πᾶν μῆχαρ οὔριος Ζεύς.

595

ant. 5

Χορος

ὑπ᾽ ἀρχᾶς³¹ δ᾽ οὔτινος θοάζων
595

τὸ μεῖον κρεισσόνων³² κρατύνει;³³

οὔτινος³⁴ ἄνωθεν ἡμένου³⁵ σέβει κάτω.

πάρεστι δ᾽ ἔργον ὡς ἔπος

σπεῦσαί τι τῶν βούλιος³⁶ φέρει φρήν.

600

Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 524-599 focus

Χορός

ἄναξ ἀνάκτων, μακάρων

μακάρτατε καὶ τελέων
525

τελειότατον κράτος, ὄλβιε Ζεῦ,

πιθοῦ τε καὶ γένει σῷ

ἄλευσον ἀνδρῶν ὕβριν εὖ στυγήσας.

λίμνᾳ δʼ ἔμβαλε πορφυροειδεῖ

τὰν μελανόζυγʼ ἄταν.
530

531

Χορός

τὸ πρὸς γυναικῶν δʼ ἐπιδὼν

παλαίφατον ἁμέτερον

γένος φιλίας προγόνου γυναικὸς

νέωσον εὔφρονʼ αἶνον,

γενοῦ πολυμνάστωρ, ἔφαπτορ Ἰοῦς·
535

Δῖαί τοι γένος εὐχόμεθʼ εἶναι

γᾶς ἀπὸ τᾶσδʼ ἄποικοι.

538

Χορός

παλαιὸν, δʼ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπάς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ
540

οἴστρῳ ἐρεθομένα

φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος,

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

φῦλα, διχῇ δʼ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέμ-
545

νουσα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει·

547

Χορός

ἰάπτει δʼ Ἀσίδος διʼ αἴας

μηλοβότου Φρυγίας διαμπάξ.

περᾷ δὲ Τεύθραντος ἄστυ Μυσῶν,

Λύδιά τε γύαλα,
550

καὶ διʼ ὀρῶν Κιλίκων

Παμφύλων τε γένη διορνυμένα

καί ποταμοὺς ἀενάους

καὶ βαθύπλουτον χθόνα καὶ

τὰν Ἀφροδίτας πολύπυρον αἶαν.
555

556

Χορός

ἱκνεῖται δὴ σινουμένα βέλει

βουκόλου πτερόεντος

Δῖον πάμβοτον ἄλσος,

λειμῶνα χιονόβοσκον, ὅντʼ ἐπέρχεται

Τυφῶ μένος,
560

ὕδωρ τε Νείλου νόσοις ἄθικτον,

μαινομένα πόνοις ἀτί-

μοις ὀδύναις τε κεντροδα-

λήτισι, θυιὰς Ἥρας.

565

Χορός

βροτοὶ δʼ, οἳ γᾶς τότʼ ἦσαν ἔννομοι
565

χλωρῷ δείματι θυμὸν

πάλλοντʼ ὄψιν ἀήθη,

βοτὸν ἐσορῶντες δυσχερὲς μειξόμβροτον,

τὰν μὲν βοός,

τὰν δʼ αὖ γυναικός· τέρας δʼ ἐθάμβουν.
570

καὶ τότε δὴ τίς ἦν ὁ θέλ-

ξας πολύπλαγκτον ἀθλίαν

οἰστροδόνητον Ἰώ;

574

Χορός

διʼ αἰῶνος κρέων ἀπαύστου

Ζεὺς
575

Διὸς δʼ ἀπημάντῳ σθένει

καὶ θείαις ἐπιπνοίαις

παύεται, δακρύων δʼ ἀπο-

στάζει πένθιμον αἰδῶ.

λαβοῦσα δʼ ἕρμα Δῖον ἀψευδεῖ λόγῳ
580

γείνατο παῖδʼ ἀμεμφῆ,

582

Χορός

διʼ αἰῶνος μακροῦ πάνολβον·

ἔνθεν πᾶσα βοᾷ χθών,

φυσιζόου γένος τόδε

Ζηνός ἐστιν ἀληθῶς·
585

τίς γὰρ ἂν κατέπαυσεν Ἥ-

ρας νόσους ἐπιβούλους;

Διὸς τόδʼ ἔργον καὶ τόδʼ ἂν γένος λέγων

ἐξ Ἐπάφου κυρήσαις.

590

Χορός

τίνʼ ἂν θεῶν ἐνδικωτέροισιν
590

κεκλοίμαν εὐλόγως ἐπʼ ἔργοις;

αὐτὸς ὁ πατὴρ φυτουργὸς αὐτόχειρ ἄναξ

γένους παλαιόφρων μέγας

τέκτων, τὸ πᾶν μῆχαρ οὔριος Ζεύς.

595

Χορός

ὑπʼ ἀρχᾶς δʼ οὔ τινος θοάζων
595

τὸ μεῖον κρεισσόνων κρατύνει.

οὔτινος ἄνωθεν ἡμένου σέβει κράτη.

πάρεστι δʼ ἔργον ὡς ἔπος

σπεῦσαί τι τῶν βούλιος φέρει φρήν.

Greek (Editio princeps, 1518) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Suppliants, 1518 edition. Native printed lineation, page markers, and automated correspondence to the Perseus/Smyth edition.) — 538 focus

Χορός

παλαιὸν δ' εἰς ἴχνος μετεστίαν . ματέρος ἀν-

θονόμους ἐπωπάς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον ἔνθεν ἰὼ οἵστρῳ ἐρεσσομένα,
475

φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος πολλά βροτῶν διαμειβόμεθα-

φυλα διχῆ δ' ἀντίπορον γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέ-

μνουσα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει . ἰάπτει βάσιν διᾶς

Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 538 focus

Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 538 focus

παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπὰς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ
540

οἴστρῳ ἐρεσσομένα

φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος,

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

φῦλα, διχῆ δ᾽ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέμνουσα πόρον κυματίαν

545

ὁρίζει·

Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 538 focus

παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπάς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ

οἴστρῳ ἐρεσσομένα
525

φεύγει ἁμαρτίπνοος,

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

Χορός Δαναΐδων

φύλα, διχῇ δ᾽ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέμνουσα πόρον

κυματίαν ὁρίζει.
530
¹

ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 538 focus

Παλαιὸν δ' εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπάς.

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ

540

οἴστρῳ ἐρεσσομένα

φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος,

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

φύλα, διχῇ δ' ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσα διατέμνουσα πόρον

545

κυματίαν ὁρίζει·

Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 538 focus

παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπάς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ

οἴστρῳ ἐρεσσομένα
550

φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος,

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

φῦλα, διχῇ δ᾽ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέ-

μνουσα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει.
555

¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴

πιθοῦ πιθοῦ πείθου Μ. καὶ γένει σῷ λίμνᾳ .. πορφυροειδεῖ λίμνα, mut. in λίμναι et πορφυροειδεί corr. ex -ῆ Μ. τὸ πρὸς γυναικῶν fort. τὸ προστρόπαιον δ' (τὸ προστροπαίων γ' H Voss). πολυμνῆστορ πολυμνήστωρ πολυμνήστωρ Μ. ἔφαπτορ ἔφαπτορ margo Askewi ἐφάπτωρ Μ. Δίας Δῖον γᾶς ἀπὸ τᾶσδ᾽ ἔνοικοι τᾶσδ᾽ ἀπὸ γᾶς μέτοικοι πολλὰ πόλλ᾽ ἀνδρῶν 7 Μ.

Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 538 focus

παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπάς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰώ

540

Apparatus Criticus

ποῖα τοῖα πιθοῦ τε καὶ γένει σῶι πείθου γένει σῶι γενέσθω ¹ (δ᾽) (δ᾽)² πολυμνῆστορ πολυμνάστωρ³ ἔφαπτορ ἐφάπτωρ ⁴ ⁵

ΧΟΡΟΣ

οἴστρωι ἐρεσσομένα

φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

φύλα, διχῆι δ᾽ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσαι διατέ-
545

μνοντα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει.

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.)) — 524-595 focus

Chorus

Lord of lords,

most blessed among the blessed, power most perfect among the perfect, O blessed Zeus, hear! And from your offspring ward off in utter abhorrence the lust of men, and into the purple sea cast
525

their black-benched madness!
530

531

Chorus

Look benignly upon the women’s cause, look upon our race ancient in story, and recall the happy tale of our ancestress, the woman of your love.

Show that you remember all, you who laid your hand upon Io. It is from Zeus that we claim descent, and it is from this, our homeland, that we went forth.
535

538

Chorus

I have come here to the prints of ancient feet, my mother’s, even to the region where she was watched while she browsed among the flowers—

into that pasture, from which Io, tormented by the gad-fly’s sting, fled in frenzy, traversing many tribes of men, and
540

according to fate, cut in two the surging strait, marking off the land upon the farther shore.
545

547

Chorus

And through the land of Asia she gallops, straight through sheep-pasturing Phrygia , and she passes the city of Teuthras among the Mysians,

and the hollow vales of Lydia , across the mountains of the Cilicians and the Pamphylians, speeding over ever-flowing rivers and earth deep and rich, and
550

the land of Aphrodite that teems with wheat.
555

556

Chorus

Harassed by the sting of the winged herdsman she gains at last the fertile groves sacred to Zeus, that snow-fed pasture assailed

by Typho’s fury, and the water of the Nile that no disease may touch—maddened by her ignominious toils and frenzied with the pain of Hera’s torturing goad.
560

565

Chorus

And mortals, who in those days dwelled in the land, shook with pallid terror at the terrible sight as they beheld a being fearsome, half-human, part cow
565

and part of woman; and they were astonished at the monstrous thing. And then, at last, who was it who calmed the far-wandering, the wretched, the sting-tormented Io?
570

574

Chorus

Zeus, it was, through endless time, the lord,

. . . and by the unharming might of his hand, and by his divine breath, she gained rest, and let fall the sorrowing shame of tears.
575

And, taking Zeus as her support, according to a true story, she bore a blameless son—
580

582

Chorus

Throughout long ages blessed. All the earth cries aloud, This is in very truth the offspring of life-giving Zeus; for who else could have endured the suffering plotted by Hera? Call this the work of Zeus and this his race sprung from Epaphus and you will hit the truth.

590

Chorus

Which of the gods has accomplished deeds which, with good reason, warrant more justly my appeal to him? Father himself and lord, he planted us with his own hand; he is the mighty fashioner of our race, ancient in wisdom, who devises everything, whose breath makes all things prosper, Zeus himself.
590

595

Chorus

He does not sit upon his throne by mandate of another and hold his dominion beneath a mightier. No one sits above him whose power he holds in awe. He speaks, and it is done—he hastens to execute whatever his counselling mind conceives.¹
595

The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 538 focus

But I have returned into the ancient track, and the flowery scenes of the watchings of our mother, the herd-feeding mead, from whence Io driven by the brize, flies distracted, passing through many tribes of mortals: and twice by fate having cut through the billowy way she reaches the opposite continent.

The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 538 focus

Her foot, in times of old, where now we tread,

Trod the flow'renamell'd mead;

625

And made with lowings loud the forests ring,

As from the bryze's tort'ring ſting

O'er many' a realm ſhe wander'd wide,

And dar'd the bounding waves, that world from

world divide .

630

Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 538 focus

E impressi i pie', dell'avola

su l'orme antiche, per vedette floride

e sovra erbosi pascoli,

donde lo, punta dall'estro,

fugge nel suo delirio

585

per molte tribú d'uomini,

e, limitando il confin manco e il destro

d'opposte terre, il tramite marino

scende, com'è destino.

CORO

Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 538 focus

Antiquum ad uestigium tranſmiſerunt

Matris inspectores contrarios

In pratum bubus præbens cibum, inde Io

505

Oestro impulſa

Fugit errans,

Multas mortalium lustrans

Nationes, bifariam uerò contra uadam

Terram fatò disſecans,

510

Vadum tempeſtuoſum metitur.

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.) — 538 focus

And now have I roamed back

Unto the ancient track
595

Where Io roamed and pastured among flowers,

Watched o'er by Argus' eyes,

Through the lush grasses and the meadow bowers.

Thence, by the gadfly maddened, forth she flies

Unto far lands and alien peoples driven
600

And, following fate, through paths of foam and surge,

Sees, as she goes, the cleaving strait divide

Greece, from the Eastland riven.

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.) — 538 focus

Ich fand hier alte Spuren wieder,

Au'n, wo die Mutter auf Blumen geweidet,

Die fette Grasflur, von wannen Jo

Einst von der Bremse verfolgt

Flüchtete, rasend im Geist;
520

Viele Geschlechter der Menschen hindurch

Schweifte sie; zwier kam ste zum jenseitigen Strand,

Nach des Geschicks Willen der See wogende Flut durchschneidend.

Zweite 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

540. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-426

ἐγκεχριμένα:

ἰσικνουμένου

M. sed ut ultimae duae vocales in rasura scriptae sint a m. secunda, et P. E. Rob.

εἰσικνουμένη

G. Nimis inepte coniuncta sunt

ἱκνεῖται δ᾽ εἰςικνουμένου βουκόλου

, quod scholiastes explicat

ἱκνεῖται δὲ δῖον πάμβοτον ἄλσος, τοῦ οἴστρου τῷ κέντρῳ αὐτὴν διατρυπῶντος

. Defenderunt tamen Marckscheffelius p. 188. et Paleius scripturam aperte a dormitante librario profectam. Lusui in similitudine verborum ibi tantum locus est, ubi aliquid ad sententiam confert. Dictioni poeticae magis hic convenit participium quo Io, quam quo asilus significetur. Talia complura inveniri possunt. Rei aptissimum videtur

ἐγκεχριμένα

. Prom. 564.

χρίει τις αὖ με τὰν τάλαιναν οίστρος

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ὅντ᾽:

τ'

pro

όντ'

Rob.

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Τυφῶ:

τυφώμενος

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ὕδωρ τὸ Νείλου: Schutzius

ὕδωρ τε Νείλου

. Tenendam duxi librorum scripturam, de qua recte scholiastes,

ἐπεξηγήσατο δὲ τί ἐστι τὸ μένος τοῦ τυφῶ, εἰπὼν τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ Νείλου

. Tueri videtur ipse Aeschylus in versibus de incremento Nili (fr. 305.) apud Athenaeum in fine libri II.

ἔνθα Νεῖλος ἑπτάρους γάνος κυλίνδει πνευμάτων ἐπομβρία, ἐν δ᾽ ἥλιος πυρωπὸς ἐκλάμψας χθονὶ τήκει πετραίαν χιόνα, πᾶσα δ᾽ εὐθαλὴς Αἴγυπτος ἁγνοῦ νάματος πληρουμένη φερέσβιον Δήμητρος ἀντέλλει στάχυν

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erstes Stasimon: Gebet zu Gott (Zeus). Schütze uns gegen den Übermut der Männer; als Nachkommen der Io rufen wir zu dir als unserem Stammvater. Wir stehen jetzt wieder auf der Flur, von welcher Io fortgetrieben wurde hinauf zum Bosporus, über diesen nach Klein- asien, durch Phrygien, Mysien, Lydien, Pamphylien, Kilikien, Phönikien nach Ägypten, wo sie erschien zum Staunen der Be- wohner, welche sich über das niegesehene Wesen, halb Kuh, halb Frau, entsetzten. Dort in Ägypten aber legtest du deine heilende Hand auf sie und sie erhielt wieder ihre Gestalt und gebar von dir den Epaphos, den Ahnherrn unseres Geschlechts. Wir haben also ein Anrecht auf deine Hilfe, und du kannst helfen; denn wer ist mäch- tiger als Zeus, dessen Wort sofort zur Tat wird!" Auch hier benutzt der Dichter die Gelegenheit seine geographischen Kenntnisse zu ver- werten. Vgl. zu 261.

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προστρόπαιον δ' (so für πρὸς γυναικῶν wie ποτιτρόπαιον (supplicem) 366.

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παλαίφατον, altgefeiert, alt.

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γένος φιλίας προγόνου (43) γυναικός, Stamm der geliebten Ahnfrau. Der

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Erneuere in deinem Ge- dächtnis die uns freundliche Kunde; der du einst Io in Liebe berührtest, sei des wohl eingedenk." Vokativ πολυμνᾶστορ steht prädi- kativ wie in ὄλβιε, κῶρε, γένοιο Theokr. XVII 66, ἰὼ δύστηνε σύ, δύστηνε δῆτα .. φανείς Soph. Phil. 761 u. a.

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Δίον (so Butler für δίας) γένος: vgl. 41, 588, 1068.

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παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπὰς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ
540

παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπάς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ

οἴστρῳ ἐρεσσομένα
525

φεύγει ἁμαρτίπνοος,

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

Χορός Δαναΐδων

φύλα, διχῇ δ᾽ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέμνουσα πόρον

κυματίαν ὁρίζει.
530
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Apparatus Criticus

ΧΟΡΟΣ

οἴστρωι ἐρεσσομένα

φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

φύλα, διχῆι δ᾽ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσαι διατέ-
545

μνοντα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει.

Chorus

Lord of lords,

most blessed among the blessed, power most perfect among the perfect, O blessed Zeus, hear! And from your offspring ward off in utter abhorrence the lust of men, and into the purple sea cast
525

their black-benched madness!
530

Chorus

Zeus, it was, through endless time, the lord,

. . . and by the unharming might of his hand, and by his divine breath, she gained rest, and let fall the sorrowing shame of tears.
575

And, taking Zeus as her support, according to a true story, she bore a blameless son—
580

Chorus

Throughout long ages blessed. All the earth cries aloud, This is in very truth the offspring of life-giving Zeus; for who else could have endured the suffering plotted by Hera? Call this the work of Zeus and this his race sprung from Epaphus and you will hit the truth.

Chorus

He does not sit upon his throne by mandate of another and hold his dominion beneath a mightier. No one sits above him whose power he holds in awe. He speaks, and it is done—he hastens to execute whatever his counselling mind conceives.¹
595

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παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπὰς, λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ 540

παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπάς, λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ οἴστρῳ ἐρεσσομένα 525 φεύγει ἁμαρτίπνοος, πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

Χορός Δαναΐδων φύλα, διχῇ δ᾽ ἀντίπορον γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέμνουσα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει. 530 1

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ΧΟΡΟΣ οἴστρωι ἐρεσσομένα φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα φύλα, διχῆι δ᾽ ἀντίπορον γαῖαν ἐν αἴσαι διατέ- 545 μνοντα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει.

Chorus Lord of lords, most blessed among the blessed, power most perfect among the perfect, O blessed Zeus, hear! And from your offspring ward off in utter abhorrence the lust of men, and into the purple sea cast 525 their black-benched madness! 530

Chorus Zeus, it was, through endless time, the lord, . . . and by the unharming might of his hand, and by his divine breath, she gained rest, and let fall the sorrowing shame of tears. 575 And, taking Zeus as her support, according to a true story, she bore a blameless son— 580

Chorus Throughout long ages blessed. All the earth cries aloud, This is in very truth the offspring of life-giving Zeus; for who else could have endured the suffering plotted by Hera? Call this the work of Zeus and this his race sprung from Epaphus and you will hit the truth.

Chorus He does not sit upon his throne by mandate of another and hold his dominion beneath a mightier. No one sits above him whose power he holds in awe. He speaks, and it is done—he hastens to execute whatever his counselling mind conceives. 1 595

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παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπὰς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ
540

παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς ἴχνος μετέσταν

ματέρος ἀνθονόμους ἐπωπάς,

λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ἰὼ

οἴστρῳ ἐρεσσομένα
525

φεύγει ἁμαρτίπνοος,

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

Χορός Δαναΐδων

φύλα, διχῇ δ᾽ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέμνουσα πόρον

κυματίαν ὁρίζει.
530
¹

ΧΟΡΟΣ

οἴστρωι ἐρεσσομένα

φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοος

πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα

φύλα, διχῆι δ᾽ ἀντίπορον

γαῖαν ἐν αἴσαι διατέ-
545

μνοντα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει.

Chorus

Lord of lords,

most blessed among the blessed, power most perfect among the perfect, O blessed Zeus, hear! And from your offspring ward off in utter abhorrence the lust of men, and into the purple sea cast
525

their black-benched madness!
530

Chorus

Zeus, it was, through endless time, the lord,

. . . and by the unharming might of his hand, and by his divine breath, she gained rest, and let fall the sorrowing shame of tears.
575

And, taking Zeus as her support, according to a true story, she bore a blameless son—
580

Chorus

Throughout long ages blessed. All the earth cries aloud, This is in very truth the offspring of life-giving Zeus; for who else could have endured the suffering plotted by Hera? Call this the work of Zeus and this his race sprung from Epaphus and you will hit the truth.

Chorus

He does not sit upon his throne by mandate of another and hold his dominion beneath a mightier. No one sits above him whose power he holds in awe. He speaks, and it is done—he hastens to execute whatever his counselling mind conceives.¹
595