Aeschylus Supplices 117

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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PELASGOS
March with him guards, for well the stranger speaks.
Lead to the city altars, seats of gods;
1 2 3
And changing watchwords, needless is much talk,
While ye this seaman guide, suppliant of gods.

Supplices. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.

Sponsored by University of Leipzig.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition Experimental

The Suppliants (OCR draft) (English) (The Suppliants. Anna Swanwick, 1886.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (9)
Ἱκέτιδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 176-347 focus
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 176-347 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.) — 117 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 117 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 117 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 117 focus
ἱλέομαι μὲν Ἀπίαν
βοῦνιν, (καρβᾶν αὐδάν, ὦ γᾶ, ξυνεῖς) πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐμπίτνω
105
ξὺν λακίδι λίνοισιν ἢ
Σιδονίᾳ καλύπτρᾳ.
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 117 focus
Ἱλέομαι ἱλέωμαι μὲν ᾿Απίαν
βοῦνιν· καρβᾶνα δ' αὐδὲν
εὖ, γᾶ, κοννεῖς εὐακοννεῖς;
πολλάκι δ' ἐμπίτνω ξὺν
λακίδι λινοσινεί λίνοισινῆι
120
Σιδονίᾳ καλύπτρᾳ.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 117 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 117 focus
ἱλεοῦμαι μὲν ᾿Απίαν βοῦνιν,
115
καρβᾶνα δ᾽ αὐδὰν εὐ γᾶ κοννεῖς. –
πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐμπίτνω λακίδι σὺν λινοσινεῖ
Σιδονίαι καλύπτραι. –
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.)) — 176-347 focus
The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 117 focus
I suppliant beseech the Apian land, and may you hear kindly my barbarian voice. But oft I fall upon my linen garments with rendings, and my Sidonian head-dress.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 117 focus
sont les tristes douleurs que
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 117 focus
Ye riſing hills that crown this ſhore,
125
Where Apis reign'd in years of yore,
Propitious hear me, nor diſdain
To let your echoes learn this ſtrain;
Barbaric tho' my voice and rude,
Well may its notes be underſtood;
130
Barbaric tho' this purfled ſtole h ,
Frounc'd around with linen roll,
This blushing veil tho' Sidon gave,
Ye hills of Apis hear, and ſave!
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 117 focus
spezzato è il canto.
Ahimè! ahimè!
Acconcio, mentre pur viva sono,
io per me l'ululo di morte intono.
E invoco il suolo Apio
125
o terra, t'è cognita
la barbara mia querimonia
e avvento le mani, a distruggerla,
sovressa la veste sidonia.
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 117 focus
Placo Apiam terram,
Barbaram uocem intelligis.
Sæpe uerò procido cum lacera ueste
Linea, aut
Sidonio integumento.
115
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.) — 117 focus
O Apian land of hill and dale,
Thou kennest yet, O land, this faltered foreign wail—
135
Have mercy, hear my prayer!
Lo, how again, again, I rend and tear
My woven raiment, and from off my hair
Cast the Sidonian veil!
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.) — 117 focus
Zu dir fleh' ich, Hügelland Apia's!
(Du kennst ja die Fremdlingszunge, mein Land :) 1
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Hastig zerreiß' ich oft
Die linnenen Gewande, sieh,
Und den Sidonerschleier.

Notes on the current edition

Supplices

1. * I adopt
ἐγκρέοντα
—Professor Newman's emendation for
εὖ ῥέοντα
.
2. ‡ For the second
πολισσούχων
, which is probably corrupt, Professor Newman suggests
πολυλλίστους
, or else
πολυξείνους
. I adopt the latter.
3. §
φόνον
seems to me to give better sense than
φόβον
.

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

426-431. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-353

NA: Vulgo haec sic scripta sunt,
καὶ χρήμασιν μὲν ἐκ δόμων πορθουμένων, ἄτης γε μείζω, καὶ μέγ' ἐμπλήσας γόμον, γένοιτ' ἂν ἄλλα κτησίου Διὸς χάριν· καὶ γλῶσσα τοξεύσασα μὴ τὰ καίρια, γένοιτο μύθου μῦθος ἂν θελκτήριος, ἀλγεινὰ θυμοῦ κάρτα κινητήρια
. Horum versuum in primo perversitas sententiae offensui est. Expugnata enim domo non opibus, quae iam nullae sunt, aliae possunt accedere, sed domui, quae spoliata opibus est. Confirmatur hoc eo quod ad hunc versum in scholiis adscriptum est
χρημάτων
, quae non videtur interpretatio, sed notatio alius scripturae esse. Scilicet scriba in antiquissimo codice
χρήμασι
(ita libri,
χρήμασιν
Vict.) pro
δώμασι
,
δόμων
autem pro
χρημάτων
scripserat. In altero versu veteres libri
ἄτην γε μείζω
, nisi Escorialensis
μείζων
, omnes autem
καὶ μέγ' ἐμπλήσας γόμου
praebent. Vulgata scriptura a Turnebo profecta est. Duplex facta est comparatio, utraque tribus versibus, utraque consimili ordine et forma sententiarum. Quare hic versus tertius esse debebat, correctus ita, ut amissae opes etiam cum incremento restitui posse dicerentur. Pariter in ultimo versu, quum, ut saepe in crasi, particula ad metrum redundare visa omissa esset,
μὴ ἀλγεῖν ἅ
pro
ἀλγεινά
erat scribendum.

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.

423-446. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-256

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Chorikon. Auf die Debatte folgt die Beratung. Wie Pers. 626 ff. u. Cho. 152 ff. die äußere Handlung, das Opfer am Grabe, so wird hier das stille Nachdenken des Königs von einem Chorgesang begleitet, welcher auf den Ent- schluß des Königs einzuwirken sucht und noch einmal die (drei) Gründe zusammenfaßt, welche den schwankenden König für die Dana- iden günstig stimmen sollen:,,Habe Mitleid mit den Verfolgten, laß uns nicht von heiliger Stätte weg- reißen, laß nicht deine Schützlinge grausam mißhandeln. Dein Tun wird deinen Kindern und deinem Hause Fluch oder Segen bringen".

425. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-258

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πρόξενος: zu 245.