Aeschylus Supplices 36

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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DANAOS
Of all these gods the common shrine revere,
And in these holy precincts take your seats,
Like flock of doves scared by like-feathered hawks, 220
Our kin, yet foes, polluters of the race.
Can bird, devouring bird, be undefiled?
And how can he who weds unwilling bride,
From sire unwilling, be accounted pure?
Not e'en in realm of Hades, after death,
Shall one so reckless fail to be arraigned.
For there, among the shades, another Zeus,
'Tis said, offence by final verdict dooms.
Look out, and on this place your station take,
So happy issue your emprize shall crown.

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.) — 40-175f focus
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 40-167a 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.) — 40 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 40 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 40 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 40 focus
νῦν δ᾽ ἐπικεκλομένα
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Δῖον πόρτιν ὑπερ-
πόντιον τιμάορ', νιν
ἀνθονομούσας προγόνου βοός, ἐξ ἐπιπνοίας
Ζηνὸς ἔφαψιν, ἐπωνυμίᾳ δ᾽ ἐπε-
κραίνετο μόρσιμος αἰὼν
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εὐλόγως, Ἔπαφόν τ' ἐγέννασεν.
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ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 40 focus
Νῦν δ' ἐπικεκλομένα ἐπικεκλομέναι
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Δῖον πόρτιν ὑπερ-
πόντιον τιμάορ᾽ ἵνιν τ' ἀνθονομού-
σας άνθονομουστας 1
προγόνου βοὸς ἐξ ἐπιπνοίας ἐπιπνοίαις
Ζηνός· ἐφάψει ἔφαψιν ἐπωνυμία δ' ἐπε-
κραίνετο μόρσιμος αἰών
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εὐλόγως, Επαφον δ' ἐγέννασεν·
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 40 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 40 focus
νῦν δ᾽ ἐπικεκλομένα
Δῖον πόρτιν ὑπερπόντιον τιμάορ᾽, ἶνιν [τ᾽]
ἀνθονομούσας προγόνου βοός, ἐξ ἐπιπνοίας
Ζηνὸς ἔφαψιν, ἐπωνυμίαι δ᾽ ἐπε-
κραίνετο μόρσιμος αἰών
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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.)) — 40-165a focus
The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 40 focus
But now invoking 2
the divine calf, my avenger beyond the sea, and the son of the flower-cropping heifer, our progenitor, from the breathing of Jove. But the fated time rightly confirmed the touch [of Jove] in the name [of her son,] and brought forth Epaphus;
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 40 focus
ils se heurtent à une mer farouche et périssent,
Avant d'avoir, malgré le Ciel qui le défend, asservi les
nièces d'un père, en montant dans des lits qui ne les veu- lent pas !
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 40 focus
To thee, th' avenging pow'r
Ador'd beyond the waves of this wide main,
Raiſe we the ſolemn ſtrain,
Her progeny, that crop'd each various flow'r
Which deck'd the fragrant mead,
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Till Jove's ſoft touch her alter'd ſhape caress'd,
And ſooth'd her ſoul to reſt:
Thereto we add thy fateappointed name,
Epaphus of mighty fame,
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 40 focus
Il rampollo divino
ora s'invochi, il vindice
torello oltremarino,
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concetto al tocco e all'alito
di Giove, sopra i floridi
paschi, dalla giovenca progenitrice nostra:
ché giunse il di' scritto nei fati, ed Èpafo
die' a luce: il nome suo l'origin mostra.
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Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 40 focus
Nunc uerò inuocantes
Iouis uirulum ſuper pontium ultorem filium
Contraria lege progenitoris
Bonis ex inſpiratione
Iouis congreſsum denominatione
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Perfecta est fatalis uita
Confeſso, Epaphum generatione exiſtentem dicens.
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.) — 40 focus
And now on her I call,
Mine ancestress, who far on Egypt's shore
A young cow's semblance wore,—
A maiden once, by Hera's malice changed!
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And then on him withal,
Who, as amid the flowers the grazing creature ranged,
Was in her by a breath of Zeus conceived;
And, as the hour of birth drew nigh,
By fate fulfilled, unto the light he came;—
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And Epaphus for name,
Born from the touch of Zeus, the child received.
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.) — 40 focus
Jetzt im Gebete zu dir
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Ruf' ich, o Sprößling des Zeus,
Du mein Hort jenseits des Meeres,
Welchen die grasweidende Sterke gebar von Kronions
Rührendem Hauch, den im Namen bewährte die Zeit des vollendenden Schicksals,
Da sich Epaphos ihrem Schooß entwand !
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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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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.

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φυγάδα: über seine Ver- bannung und seinen Lohndienst bei dem König Admetos berichtet Apollon Eur. Alk. 3ff. Nach dem Schol. zu dieser Stelle fand sich die Sage ebenso bei Hesiod. Cho. 984, Sieb. 844 wird Helios mit Apollon identifiziert.