Aeschylus Supplices 1057

Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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Supplices. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1922.

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Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

Current edition Perseus

Suppliant Maidens (English) (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Editions (8)
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 1057 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.) — 1057 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 1057 focus
Τί δὲ μέλλω φρένα διαν
Καθορᾶν, ὄψιν ἄβυσσον
Μέτριον νῦν ἔπος εὔχου. 1
Τίνα καιρόν με διδάσκεις
1070
Τὰ θεῶν μηδὲν ἀγάζειν.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1057 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1057 focus
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1057 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1057 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1057 focus
Translations (8)
The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1057 focus
How can I behold the divine mind, a fathomless view? Pray now for moderate things.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1057 focus
Puis-je prétendre contempler la pensée de Zeus, plonger ma vue dans l'abîme ?
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1057 focus
Know'ſt thou his will? Or has thine eye
Look'd thro' futurity?
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1057 focus
A che speculare il pensiero
1120
di Giove, l'estèrmine bàratro?
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1057 focus
Quid debeo diuinam mentem
975
Viderre, immenſam uisionem?
Modicum sermonem nunc opta.
Quam occasionem me docebis?
Quæ deorum sunt non ægre ferre.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1057 focus
What Heaven ordaineth, that with patience bear. 1050
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.) — 1057 focus
How should I scan Zeus' mighty will,
The depth of counsel undescried?
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.) — 1057 focus
Wie vermag ich es, des Zeus Sinn
Zu durchschau'n, Räthsel des Abgrunds?

Commentary

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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Schol. δέδοικα, ὅτι εὐ- πλοίας ἔτυχον, μὴ καὶ τὸ τοῦ γάμου τύχωσιν. ἔπραξαν: vgl. Eur. Or. 355 θεόθεν πράξας ἅπερ ηὔχου und zu 782. Mit ταχυπόμποισι vgl. εὔπομπος vom glücklichen Lenker des Staatsschiffes Soph. O. T. 696, ναὸς ἀκοπόμπου Eur. Iph. Τ. 1136.

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tó, tovto: zu 362. Zum Gedanken vgl. Cho. 102 τὸ μόρσιμον γὰρ τόν τ' ἐλεύθερον μένει καὶ τὸν πρὸς ἄλλης δεσποτούμενον χερός, Soph. Αnt. 1337 πεπρωμένης οὐκ ἔστι θνητοῖς συμφορᾶς ἀπαλλαγή, Hom. Ζ 488 μοῖραν δ᾽ οὔ τινα φημὶ πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν, οὐ κακὸν οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλόν, ἐπὴν τὰ πρῶτα γένηται, Pind. Pyth. XII 30 τό γε μόρσιμον οὐ παρφυκτόν. Wie das Folgende zeigt, fällt hier die Bestimmung des Schicksals mit dem Willen des Zeus zusammen wie Eum. 1046 Ζεὺς ὁ πανόπτας οὕτω Μοϊρά τε συγκατέβα.

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παρβατός, wie auch παρ- βασία, παρβαίνειν, πὰρ Διὸς θρόνοις bei Aschylos vorkommt. Zum Ge- danken_vgl. Prom. 569 οὔποτε τὰν Διὸς ἁρμονίαν θνατῶν παρεξίασι βουλαί, Hom. ε 103 οὔπως ἔστι Διὸς νόον αιγιόχοιο οὔτε παρεξελθεῖν ἄλλον θεὸν οὔθ᾽ ἁλιῶσαι, Hesiod Theog. 613 ὣς οὐκ ἔστι Διὸς κλέψαι νόον οὐδὲ παρελθεῖν. ἀπέρατος, undurchdringlich.

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Schol. μετὰ ἄλλων πολλῶν γάμων γυναικῶν καὶ οὗτος τελε- σθήσεται, was vielen anderen Frauen bisher ( προτερῶν) begegnet ist, wird schließlich auch dein Los sein". Zu πέλοι ergänzt sich ἄν aus 1058, da Διὸς . . ἀπέρατος nur als Parenthese zu betrachten ist. Vgl. Cho. 593 τίς λέγοι ( ἄν) nach ἂν φράσαι 590. Es ist also nicht nötig mit Weil μετ᾽ ἂν ἄλλων zu schreiben.