Aeschylus Supplices 223

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

Table of Contents

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View: By Card
← Previous Next →
Chorus
How search of Zeus the hidden will?
A fathomless abyss, I trow.

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.) — 234 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 234 focus
Ποδαπὸν ὅμιλον τόνδ᾽ ἀνέλληνα στόλον,
Πέπλοισι βαρβάροισι καὶ πυκνώμασι 1
Χλίοντα προσφωνοῦμεν; οὐ γὰρ Αργολίς
Εσθης γυναικῶν, οὐδ᾽ ἀφ᾿ Ελλάδος τόπων. 2
Όπως δὲ χώραν οὐδὲ κηρύκων ὕπο,
245
Απρόξενοί τε, νόσφιν ἡγητῶν, μολεῖν 3
Ετλητ᾿ ἀτρέστως, τοῦτο θαυμάστον πέλει. 4
Κλάδοι γε μὲν δὴ, κατὰ νόμες ἀφικτόρων,
Κεῖνται παρ᾿ ὑμῖν πρὸς θεοῖς ἀγωνίας 5
Μόνον τόδ᾽ Ελλὰς χθὼν συνοίσεται στόχῳ.
250
Καὶ τἄλλα πόλλ᾽ ἐπεικάσαι δίκαιον ἦν, 6
Εἰ μὴ παρόντι φθόγγος ἦν ὁ σημανῶν.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 234 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 234 focus
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 234 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 234 focus
ποδαπὸν ὅμιλον τόνδ᾽ ἀνελληνόστολον
240
πέπλοισι βαρβάροισι καὶ πυκνώμασι
χλίοντα προσφωνοῦμεν; οὐ γὰρ Ἀργολίς
ἐσθὴς γυναικῶν οὐδ᾽ ἀφ᾽ Ἑλλάδος τόπων.
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 234 focus
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.) — 234 focus
Of what country is this band that we address, not Grecian in its garb, delicately attired in barbarian robes, and in many folds? for this attire of women is not Argolic, nor from the realms of Greece. But how you have dared fearlessly to come to this country, neither [announced] by heralds, and without a public host, without conductors, this is wonderful. Boughs indeed after the fashion of suppliants are laid by you at the altars of the gods who preside over assemblies. The Grecian land will gain by conjecture this only, (viz., that you are suppliants,) and it were just to guess many other things, were there not a voice to inform me present.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 234 focus
triompher votre cause.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 234 focus
What female train addreſs we here, and whence,
Gorgeouſly veſted in barbaric ſtoles
That float in many a fold?
Our Argos ſees not
Her daughters thus array'd, nor Greece thro' all
275
Its ſtates.
That thus without ſome previous herald,
The public hoſpitality not aſk'd,
Without ſafe conduct, you have boldly ventur'd
To land upon our coaſts, this is moſt ſtrange.
280
Only these boughs, as ſupplicants are wont,
You lay before these Gods that o'er the games
Preſide: hence Greece forms one conjecture only,
Of all beſides uncertain what to think,
Till your diſtinct relation clears our doubts.
285
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 234 focus
A chi parliamo? Quale accolta è questa
che si pompeggia in vesti non elleniche,
in pepli e in drappi barbari?
Non d'Argo
né d'altro luogo d'Ellade è la foggia
255
di queste donne. E meraviglio, come
senza nunzî d'araldi, e senza un ospite
che vi tuteli, e d'ogni guida prive,
di tema esenti, a questo suol giungete.
Supplici rami presso a voi, su l'are
260
giaccion, qual'è dei peregrini usanza.
Sol questo intender può la terra d'Ellade:
congetturare tutto il resto è d'uopo,
ove parola a me non lo chiarisca.
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 234 focus
Qualem cateruam & barbaram claſſem
Peplis barbaris & prolixis
Ludentem aduocamus?
220
Non enim Argolica eſt
Vestis mulierum, neq; ab aliquo loco Græciæ.
Sic uerò in regionem neq; ſub caduceatoribus
Non hoſpites ſine ducibus migrare
Toleraſtis intrepidè, hoc mirum est:
225
Rami quidem iuxta leges aduentantium
Iacent apud uos, à dijs Agonijs
Tantummodo hoc coniectura conferet Græciæ terra.
Et alia multa aſsimilare iuſtum erat,
Niſi præſenti uox ſignificabat.
230
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.) — 234 focus
Speak—of what land are ye? No Grecian band
265
Is this to whom I speak, with Eastern robes
And wrappings richly dight: no Argive maid,
No woman in all Greece such garb doth wear.
This too gives marvel, how unto this land,
Unheralded, unfriended, without guide,
270
And without fear, ye came? yet wands I see,
True sign of suppliance, by you laid down
On shrines of these our gods of festival.
No land but Greece can rede such signs aright.
Much else there is, conjecture well might guess,
275
But let words teach the man who stands to hear.
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.) — 234 focus
Als welches Landes Sprossen soll ich grüßen ihn,
220
Den Fremdlingsschwarm hier, welcher in barbarischen
Gewanden stolz sich brüstet? Nicht argolisch ja,
Noch sonst aus Hellas' Auen ist der Frauen Tracht.
Und daß ihr, nicht in eines Gastfreunds Hut und nicht
Mit Führern und Herolden, diesem Land zu nah'n
225
Euch ohne Furcht erkühntet, dünkt mir wunderbar.
Wohl tragt ihr, nach der Schußgenossen altem Brauch,
Delzweig' in Händen bei der Kampfgottheiten Herd :
Dies Eine muthmaßt Hellas' Volk mit Sicherheit.
Auf vieles Andre rieth' ich noch mit gutem Grund,
230
Wär' eure Zunge nicht bereit mir's kundzuthun.

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

223. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-177

προςφωνοῦμεν; οὐ γὰρ:
προσφωνουμένου γὰρ
M. G.
προσφωνοῦμεν, οὐ γὰρ
Rob.
223

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

1
2
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.