Aeschylus Supplices 96

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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PELASGOS
Deep salutary counsel need we here,
An eye clear-sighted, not with wine surcharged,
To plunge like diver to the lowest deep,
That these events, first, harmless to the state
May prove, and next bring vantage to ourselves.
So may not ye be booty of the strife,
Nor we, by yielding you, near holy seats
Of gods established, bring, to haunt our land,
The all-destroying Might, Avenger stern,
Who e'en in Hades' realm frees not the dead. 410
Seems there not need of salutary thought?

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.) — 96 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 96 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 96 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 96 focus
ἱάπτει δ' ἐλπίδων
ἀφ᾽ ὑψιπύργων πανώλεις βροτούς,
βίαν δ᾽ οὔτις ἐξαλύξει
τὰν ἄπονον δαιμονίων.
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μνῆμον ἄνω φρόνημά πως
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αὐτόθεν ἐξέπραξεν ἔμ-
πας ἑδράνων ἀφ᾽ ἁγνῶν.
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ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 96 focus
Ἰάπτει δ' ἐλπίδων
ἀφ' ὑψιπύργων πανώλεις βροτούς,
βίαν δ' οὔτιν' ἐξοπλίζει·
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πᾶν ἄπονον τὰν ἄποινον δαιμόνιον δαιμονίων·
θάσσον ἥμενον ἄνω φρόνημά πως
αὐτόθεν ἐξέπραξεν ἔμ-
πας ἑδράνων ἐφ᾽ ἁγνῶν.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 96 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 96 focus
ἰάπτει δ᾽ ἐλπίδων
ἀφ᾽ ὑψιπύργων πανώλεις βροτούς,
βίαν δ᾽ οὔτιν᾽ ἐξοπλίζει.
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.) — 96 focus
But he smites abandoned mortals, looking down 3
from his high-towered heights, and no one arms violence unpunished by the deity: the [divine] mind sitting aloft 4
upon holy seats, nevertheless from that place takes vengeance on it.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 96 focus
de leurs espoirs superbes dans le néant; mais sans s'armer de violence: rien
ne
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 96 focus
Tho' in majestic ſtate enthrond
Thick clouds and dark incloſe him round,
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As from the tow'r of heav'n his eye
Surveys bold man's impiety;
Till, his ripe wrath on vengeance bent,
He arms each god for puniſhment g
,
And from his high and holy throne
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Sends all his aweful judgments down.
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 96 focus
Essi scrollano i miseri
mortali giú dai vertici
di turrite speranze,
né d'arme alcuna vïolenza affrancano.
105
Agevol tutto è ai Dèmoni:
da le superne stanze
del ciel, dai puri seggi, ogni disegno
recano a certo segno.
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 96 focus
Lædit uerò intuens,
Ab altis turribus pernicioſos
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Mortales. uiolentiam
Nullam armis inſtruis.
Munus dæmoniorum,
Collocatum ſupra prudentiam quomodo
Egit ex ſe tamen,
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In ſedibus caſtis.
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.) — 96 focus
Smitten by him, from towering hopes degraded,
Mortals lie low and still:
Tireless and effortless, works forth its will
The arm divine!
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God from His holy seat, in calm of unarmed power,
Brings forth the deed, at its appointed hour!
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.) — 96 focus
In Staub stürzt aus dem Wahn 1
Thurmhoher Hoffnung Zeus das verruchte Haupt;
Der mühlosen Götterallmacht,
Keiner vermag ihr zu entflieh'n.
Droben ja wacht ein Auge stets,
90
Das von den heiligen Höh'n herab
Alles im Nu vernichtet.

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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Kommos, in welchem die Gründe für und gegen erörtert werden. Auf jede Strophe und Antistrophe des Chors folgen fünf Trimeter des Königs; nur den Ab- schluß der Partie bilden 11 Tri- meter. im

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,,Da dieses unparteiisch ab- gewogen wird, was hast du pein- liche Bedenken das Rechte zu tun?" Schol. εἰ ὁ Ζεὺς τὸ ἴσον φυλάττει, τί ἀπορεῖς συμμαχῆσαι τῷ Διί. Vereinzelt steht die passive Form ῥεπομένων. Doch findet sich ἐπιρρέπειν und καταρρέπειν transi- tiv. - In μεταγεῖν bezeichnet μετά wie in μεταγιγνώσκειν, μετα- μανθάνειν, μεταμέλεσθαι, μετα- στένειν den Wechsel des Sinns. Vgl. auch Hom. X 232 ὀλοφύρεαι ἄλκιμος εἶναι. Das von W. Head- lam vermutete osas entspricht dem Sinne weniger, da das Tun erst erwartet wird.