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δουλόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολομήτιδες

δυσάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥστε, βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.
760

ΔΑ.

Supplices. Aeschylus. ed. N. Wecklein. Berolini. 1885.

Current edition Experimental

Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) (Greek) (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)

Ἱκέτιδες First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 760-775 focus

Δαναος

ἀλλ᾽ ἔστι φήμη κρείσσονας λύκους¹ κυνῶν
760

εἶναι: βύβλου δὲ καρπὸς οὐ κρατεῖ στάχυν.

<Χοροσ>

ὡς καὶ ματαίων ἀνοσίων τε κνωδάλων²

ἔχοντας³ ὀργάς, χρὴ φυλάσσεσθαι κράτος.⁴

Δαναος

οὔτοι ταχεῖα⁵ ναυτικοῦ στρατοῦ στολή,⁶

οὐδ᾽ ὅρμος, οὐδὲ πεισμάτων⁷ σωτηρίαν⁸
765

ἐς γῆν ἐνεγκεῖν, οὐδ᾽ ἐν⁹ ἀγκυρουχίαις

θαρσοῦσι ναῶν ποιμένες παραυτίκα,

ἄλλως τε¹⁰ καὶ μολόντες ἀλίμενον χθόνα

ἐς νύκτ᾽ ἀποστείχοντος ἡλίου. φιλεῖ¹¹

ὠδῖνα τίκτειν¹² νὺξ κυβερνήτῃ σοφῷ.
770

οὕτω γένοιτ᾽ ἂν οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἔκβασις στρατοῦ

καλή, πρὶν ὅρμῳ ναῦν θρασυνθῆναι. σὺ δὲ

φρόνει¹³ μὲν ὡς ταρβοῦσα μἀμελεῖν¹⁴ θεῶν:

πράξω δ᾽¹⁵ ἀρωγήν: ἄγγελον δ᾽ οὐ μέμψεται¹⁶

πόλις γέρονθ᾽, ἡβῶντα δ᾽ εὐγλώσσῳ¹⁷ φρενί.
775
776

Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 760-775 focus

760

Δαναός

ἀλλʼ ἔστι φήμη τοὺς λύκους κρείσσους κυνῶν
760

εἶναι· βύβλου δὲ καρπὸς οὐ κρατεῖ στάχυν.

Χορός

ὡς καὶ ματαίων ἀνοσίων τε κνωδάλων

ἔχοντας ὀργάς, χρὴ φυλάσσεσθαι τάχος.

Δαναός

οὔτοι ταχεῖα ναυτικοῦ στρατοῦ στολή,

οὐδʼ ὅρμος, οὗ δεῖ πεισμάτων σωτήρια
765

ἐς γῆν ἐνεγκεῖν, οὐδʼ ἐν ἀγκυρουχίαις

θαρσοῦσι ναῶν ποιμένες παραυτίκα,

ἄλλως τε καὶ μολόντες ἀλίμενον χθόνα

ἐς νύκτʼ ἀποστείχοντος ἡλίου. φιλεῖ

ὠδῖνα τίκτειν νὺξ κυβερνήτῃ σοφῷ.
770

οὕτω γένοιτʼ ἂν οὐδʼ ἂν ἔκβασις στρατοῦ

καλή, πρὶν ὅρμῳ ναῦν θρασυνθῆναι. σὺ δὲ

φρόνει μὲν ὡς ταρβοῦσα μὴ ἀμελεῖν θεῶν·

πράξας ἀρωγήν· ἄγγελον δʼ οὐ μέμψεται

πόλις γέρονθʼ, ἡβῶντα δʼ εὐγλώσσῳ φρενί.
775

Greek (Editio princeps, 1518) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Suppliants, 1518 edition. Native printed lineation, page markers, and automated correspondence to the Perseus/Smyth edition.) — 750 focus

Χορός

δολόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολομήτιδες

δυσάγνοις φρεσὶν κόρακες ὥς τε βω

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν,
640

Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 750 focus

Δουλόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολομήτιδες ¹

Δυσάγνοις Φρεσσὶν, κόρακες ὥστε, βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδὲν. ²

ἴαμβοι.

Δα.

Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 750 focus

οὐλόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολιομήτιδες δυσάγνοις φρεσὶν,
750

κόρακες ὥστε, βωμῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 750 focus

δολόφρονες δ᾽ ἄγαν καὶ δολομήτιδες,
720

δυςάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥςτε, βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 750 focus

Οὐλόφρονες δουλόφρονες δ' ἐκεῖνοι δὲ καὶ, δολομήτιδες

Str. 2.

δυσάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥστε, βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 750 focus

οὐλόφρονες δ᾽ ἐκεῖνοι, δολομήτιδες

750

Apparatus Criticus

ἢ ἂν ἢ τρέσητέ τρέσαιτε (δ᾽) (δ᾽) θάρσει θαρσεῖτε¹ ἐγώ ἐγών δοριπαγεῖς δορυπαγεῖς ἐπιτυχεῖ ἐπεὶ τάχει μελαγχίμωι μελεγχείμω μεσημβρίας μεσημβρίαι εὐ κατερρινωμένους κατερρινήμ. θάλπτει βραχεῖον² πρόλειπε πρόλιπε οὐλόφρονες δουλόφρονες ... δὲ καὶ δ.³

ΧΟ.

δυσάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥστε βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

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.)) — 736-775 focus

Chorus

I am possessed by dreadful fear if truly my long flight has been of no profit. Father, I am consumed with fright.

739

Danaus

Since the vote of the Argives was final,

be of good cheer, my children; they will fight in your defence, I know this well.
740

Chorus

Abominable is the lustful race of Aegyptus and insatiate of battle; and you know that all too well.

743

In ships, stout-timbered and dark-prowed, they have sailed here,

attended by a mighty black host, and in their wrath overtaken us.
745

746

Danaus

But they will find here a force with arms well-seasoned by the noonday heat.

Chorus

Do not leave me forlorn, I implore you, father. A woman abandoned to herself is nothing. There is no Ares in her.

750

They are of evil mind, and guileful of purpose, with impure hearts, thinking no more of altars than carrion birds.
750

753

Danaus

This would profit us well, my children, should they incur both Heaven’s hate and yours.

Chorus

Father, no fear of tridents or of things held sacred in the sight of Heaven will ever keep their hands from us.
755

757

They are overweening, maddened, with unholy rage, shameless dogs that do not respect the gods.

760

Danaus

Yet there is a saying that wolves are stronger than dogs; the papyrus-fruit does not conquer the wheat-ear.¹
760

Chorus

Since they have the tempers of lewd and impious beasts, we must guard against them quickly.

Danaus

A fleet in getting under way is not so speedy,

nor yet in anchoring, when the securing cables must be brought ashore; and even at anchorage shepherds of ships do not feel immediately secure, above all if they have arrived on a harborless coast when the sun is sinking into night.
765

In a cautious pilot night is likely to beget anxiety. Then, too, the disembarking of an army cannot be effected with success before a ship has gained confidence in her moorings. But, for all your terror, remember not to neglect the gods. I will return when I have secured aid. The city will find no fault with a messenger,
770

old in years, but with youth in his heart and on his tongue. Exit
775

The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 750 focus

But they are wily and deceitful with impure minds, like crows, caring nought for the altars.

DANAUS

These things would advantage us well, O my children,

LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 750 focus

pleins de pensers criminels, de desseins perfides, au fond de leurs cœurs impurs, pas plus que des corbeaux n'ont souci des autels.

DANAOS

The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 750 focus

Like obſcene crows, ſpare not the hallow'd altar.

DANAUS.

Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 750 focus

E di rovina, di mal sono artefici

quelli, sono empî di cuore, son cani

che niun rispetto nutron dell'are.

800

DANAO

Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 750 focus

Deceptores, & fallaces

705

Impuri corui tanquam aras

Nihil curantes.

Da.

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.) — 750 focus

With guile they pursue me, with counsel malign,

And unholy their soul;
815

And as ravens they seize me, unheeding the shrine!

Danaus

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.) — 750 focus

Tückischen Sinnes, ha! tückischer Ränke voll

In unheil'ger Brust, werden sie, Raben gleich,
715

Keines Altares achten.

Danaos.

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

758. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-588

ἀρτάναις:

σαργάνεις

libri praeter P. qui

ἀρτάναις

praebet.

758

759. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-589

τῷδε χριμφθῆναι χροΐ:

τῶδ᾽ ἐχριμφθῆν χροῖν

Μ.

τῷδ᾽ ἐγκριμφθῆναι χεροῖν

G. Rob.

τῷδ᾽ ἐγκριμφθῆναι χροΐ

Ε.

τῷδε χριμφθῆναι

omissa ultima voce P.

759

760. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-590

Ἅιδας:

δάιδας

Μ.

δαΐδας

δᾄδας

E. Rob. Emendate Victorius.

760

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

718-783. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-446

drittes Epeisodion: 1. Danaos, welcher bisher auf dem Götteraltare stand und nach der Meerseite spähte (721), kündigt das Nahen der Ägyptischen Flotte an und gibt seine Absicht kund Hilfe zu holen. 2. In dem Kommos 742-769 drücken die Danaiden dem Vater ihre Angst aus, während dieser sie zu beruhigen sucht. 3. Danaos bleibt bei seinem Ent- schlusse in der Hoffnung vor dem Ausschiffen der ägyptischen Mann- schaft mit Hilfe zurückzukommen. (Der Dichter braucht eben den Schauspieler, welcher den Danaos gegeben hat, für den Herold der Ägyptiaden.)

742-769. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-461

⁴

Kommos. Jede Strophe und Antistrophe beginnt mit zwei Trimetern, welche, wie es scheint, der κορυφαῖος vorträgt, während die melische Partie der Chor singt. Jeder Strophe und Antistrophe folgen zwei Trimeter des Danaos.

758. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-474

⁵

⁶

οὐλόφρονες (30 Valckenaer für δουλόφρονες), εἰσίν. Vgl. das Homerische όλοόφρων. δολιομή- τιδες, heimtückischen Sinnes.

759-760. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-wecklein1902-com-ger1-475

⁷

⁸

Sie, die in ihrem gottlosen Sinne um die Heiligkeit von Götter- altären sich nicht kümmern wie Raben, welche von Altären Opfer- stücke rauben. Vgl. Paus. V 14, 1. — ἀλέγειν (gewöhnlich mit οὐκ ist ein episches Wort.

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δουλόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολομήτιδες δυσάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥστε, βω- μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν. 760

ΔΑ.

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Δαναος ἀλλ᾽ ἔστι φήμη κρείσσονας λύκους 1 κυνῶν 760 εἶναι: βύβλου δὲ καρπὸς οὐ κρατεῖ στάχυν.

<Χοροσ> ὡς καὶ ματαίων ἀνοσίων τε κνωδάλων 2 ἔχοντας 3 ὀργάς, χρὴ φυλάσσεσθαι κράτος. 4

Δαναός ἀλλʼ ἔστι φήμη τοὺς λύκους κρείσσους κυνῶν 760 εἶναι· βύβλου δὲ καρπὸς οὐ κρατεῖ στάχυν.

Χορός ὡς καὶ ματαίων ἀνοσίων τε κνωδάλων ἔχοντας ὀργάς, χρὴ φυλάσσεσθαι τάχος.

Χορός δολόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολομήτιδες δυσάγνοις φρεσὶν κόρακες ὥς τε βω μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν, 640

Δουλόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολομήτιδες 1 Δυσάγνοις Φρεσσὶν, κόρακες ὥστε, βω- μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδὲν. 2

ἴαμβοι.

Δα.

οὐλόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολιομήτιδες δυσάγνοις φρεσὶν, 750 κόρακες ὥστε, βωμῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

δολόφρονες δ᾽ ἄγαν καὶ δολομήτιδες, 720 δυςάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥςτε, βω- μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

Οὐλόφρονες δουλόφρονες δ' ἐκεῖνοι δὲ καὶ, δολομήτιδες Str. 2. δυσάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥστε, βω- μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

Apparatus Criticus

ΧΟ. δυσάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥστε βω- μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

Chorus I am possessed by dreadful fear if truly my long flight has been of no profit. Father, I am consumed with fright.

Danaus Since the vote of the Argives was final, be of good cheer, my children; they will fight in your defence, I know this well. 740

Chorus Abominable is the lustful race of Aegyptus and insatiate of battle; and you know that all too well.

In ships, stout-timbered and dark-prowed, they have sailed here, attended by a mighty black host, and in their wrath overtaken us. 745

Danaus But they will find here a force with arms well-seasoned by the noonday heat.

Chorus Do not leave me forlorn, I implore you, father. A woman abandoned to herself is nothing. There is no Ares in her.

They are of evil mind, and guileful of purpose, with impure hearts, thinking no more of altars than carrion birds. 750

Danaus This would profit us well, my children, should they incur both Heaven’s hate and yours.

Chorus Father, no fear of tridents or of things held sacred in the sight of Heaven will ever keep their hands from us. 755

They are overweening, maddened, with unholy rage, shameless dogs that do not respect the gods.

Danaus Yet there is a saying that wolves are stronger than dogs; the papyrus-fruit does not conquer the wheat-ear. 1 760

Chorus Since they have the tempers of lewd and impious beasts, we must guard against them quickly.

DANAUS These things would advantage us well, O my children,

DANAOS

DANAUS.

DANAO

Da.

With guile they pursue me, with counsel malign, And unholy their soul; 815 And as ravens they seize me, unheeding the shrine!

Danaus

Tückischen Sinnes, ha! tückischer Ränke voll In unheil'ger Brust, werden sie, Raben gleich, 715 Keines Altares achten.

Danaos.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

δουλόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολομήτιδες

δυσάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥστε, βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.
760

Δαναος

ἀλλ᾽ ἔστι φήμη κρείσσονας λύκους¹ κυνῶν
760

εἶναι: βύβλου δὲ καρπὸς οὐ κρατεῖ στάχυν.

<Χοροσ>

ὡς καὶ ματαίων ἀνοσίων τε κνωδάλων²

ἔχοντας³ ὀργάς, χρὴ φυλάσσεσθαι κράτος.⁴

Δαναός

ἀλλʼ ἔστι φήμη τοὺς λύκους κρείσσους κυνῶν
760

εἶναι· βύβλου δὲ καρπὸς οὐ κρατεῖ στάχυν.

Χορός

ὡς καὶ ματαίων ἀνοσίων τε κνωδάλων

ἔχοντας ὀργάς, χρὴ φυλάσσεσθαι τάχος.

Χορός

δολόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολομήτιδες

δυσάγνοις φρεσὶν κόρακες ὥς τε βω

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν,
640

Δουλόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολομήτιδες ¹

Δυσάγνοις Φρεσσὶν, κόρακες ὥστε, βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδὲν. ²

οὐλόφρονες δὲ καὶ δολιομήτιδες δυσάγνοις φρεσὶν,
750

κόρακες ὥστε, βωμῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

δολόφρονες δ᾽ ἄγαν καὶ δολομήτιδες,
720

δυςάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥςτε, βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

Οὐλόφρονες δουλόφρονες δ' ἐκεῖνοι δὲ καὶ, δολομήτιδες

Str. 2.

δυσάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥστε, βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

ΧΟ.

δυσάγνοις φρεσίν, κόρακες ὥστε βω-

μῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν.

Chorus

I am possessed by dreadful fear if truly my long flight has been of no profit. Father, I am consumed with fright.

Danaus

Since the vote of the Argives was final,

be of good cheer, my children; they will fight in your defence, I know this well.
740

Chorus

Abominable is the lustful race of Aegyptus and insatiate of battle; and you know that all too well.

In ships, stout-timbered and dark-prowed, they have sailed here,

attended by a mighty black host, and in their wrath overtaken us.
745

Danaus

But they will find here a force with arms well-seasoned by the noonday heat.

Chorus

Do not leave me forlorn, I implore you, father. A woman abandoned to herself is nothing. There is no Ares in her.

They are of evil mind, and guileful of purpose, with impure hearts, thinking no more of altars than carrion birds.
750

Danaus

This would profit us well, my children, should they incur both Heaven’s hate and yours.

Chorus

Father, no fear of tridents or of things held sacred in the sight of Heaven will ever keep their hands from us.
755

Danaus

Yet there is a saying that wolves are stronger than dogs; the papyrus-fruit does not conquer the wheat-ear.¹
760

Chorus

Since they have the tempers of lewd and impious beasts, we must guard against them quickly.

DANAUS

These things would advantage us well, O my children,

With guile they pursue me, with counsel malign,

And unholy their soul;
815

And as ravens they seize me, unheeding the shrine!

Tückischen Sinnes, ha! tückischer Ränke voll

In unheil'ger Brust, werden sie, Raben gleich,
715

Keines Altares achten.