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Supplices. N. Wecklein. . .

Current edition Experimental

Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (German) (Suppliants, explanatory commentary pp. 24–120. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.)

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.) — 112 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 112 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 112 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 112 focus
ἱλέομαι μὲν Ἀπίαν
βοῦνιν, (καρβᾶν αὐδάν, ὦ γᾶ, ξυνεῖς) πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐμπίτνω
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ξὺν λακίδι λίνοισιν ἢ
Σιδονίᾳ καλύπτρᾳ.
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 112 focus
Τοιαῦτα πάθεα μέλεα θρεομένα λέγω λέγων
λιγέα βαρέα δακρυοπετή,
τὴ τή,
τηλέμοισιν ἐμπρεπῆ ἐμπρέπη 1 ·
ζῶσα γόοις με τιμώ.
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Ἱλέομαι ἱλέωμαι μὲν ᾿Απίαν
βοῦνιν· καρβᾶνα δ' αὐδὲν
εὖ, γᾶ, κοννεῖς εὐακοννεῖς;
πολλάκι δ' ἐμπίτνω ξὺν
λακίδι λινοσινεί λίνοισινῆι
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Σιδονίᾳ καλύπτρᾳ.
θεοῖς δ' ἐναγέα τέλεα πελομένων καλῶς
ἐπίδρομ', ὁπόθι θάνατος ἐπῇ ὅπηι·
ἰὼ ιώ, ιώ δυσάγκριτοι πνόοι πόνοι·
ποῖ τόδε κῦμ' ἀπάξει ;
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Ἱλέομαι ἱλέωμαι μὲν ᾿Απίαν
βοῦνιν· καρβᾶνα δ᾽ αὐδὲν
εὖ, γᾶ, κοννεῖς εὐακοννεῖς ;
πολλάκι δ' ἐμπίτνω ξὺν
λακίδι λινοσινεί λίνοισινῆι
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Σιδονίᾳ καλύπτρᾳ.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 112 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 112 focus
τοιαῦτα πάθεα μέλεα θρεομένα λέγω
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λιγέα βαρέα δακρυοπετή.
ἰὴ ἰή,
ἰηλέμοισιν ἐμπρεπή [θρεομένη μέλη]
ζῶσα γόοις με τιμῶ. –
ἱλεοῦμαι μὲν ᾿Απίαν βοῦνιν,
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καρβᾶνα δ᾽ αὐδὰν εὐ γᾶ κοννεῖς. –
πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐμπίτνω λακίδι σὺν λινοσινεῖ
Σιδονίαι καλύπτραι. –
θεοῖς δ᾽ ἐναγέα τέλεα πελομένων καλῶς
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ἐπίδρομ᾽, ὁπόθι θάνατος ἀπῆι.
ἰὼ ἰώ,
ἰὼ δυσάγκριτοι πόνοι.
ἱλεοῦμαι μὲν ᾿Απίαν βοῦνιν,
καρβᾶνα δ᾽ αὐδὰν εὐ γᾶ κοννεῖς.
πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐμπίτνω λακίδι σὺν λίνοσινεῖ
Σιδονίαι καλύπτραι. =
Translations (9)
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.) — 112 focus
Such wretched sufferings I lamenting recount, mournful, grievous, drawing tears, ah! ah! suited to funereal strains: I alive honour 7
myself with lamentations.
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.
But to the gods just and perfect rites 8
, matters having happened fortunately, shall be abundantly afforded, when death is absent. Ah! ah! ah! troubles difficult to be judged! where will this billow carry us?
I suppliant beseech the Apian land, and may you hear kindly my barbarian voice. But oft I fall upon my linen garments with rendings.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 117 focus
sont les tristes douleurs que
disent mes cris aigus, mes sanglots sourds, mes torrents de larmes, et même, hélas! ces clameurs qui distinguent les chants funèbres:
vivante, je conduis mon propre deuil.
(Retenu.) Sois-nous propice, terre montueuse d'Apis 1 !— M'entends-tu bien, ô terre, malgré mon accent barbare 2 ?
—
Et, sans répit, ma main s'abat, pour en mettre le lin en pièces, sur mon voile de Sidon.
Vers le ciel, c'est une ruée de serments, de vœux d'actions de grâces, quand la mort est là, qui menace 3 . Hélas ! hélas !
vents incertains! où nous emportera ce flot 4 ?
(Retenu.)
Sois-nous propice, terre montueuse d'Apis! M'entends-tu bien, ô terre, malgré mon accent barbare?
Et, sans répit, ma
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 112 focus
Thus I attune my notes of woe,
And bid the varied meaſures flow;
Now the ſhrilling deſcant chaſe,
Now ſolemn ſink the deep'ning baſe;
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Thus bid the warbled cadence 'plain,
And ſteep in tears the mournful ſtrain;
A ſtrain to grace my obſequies,
Whilſt yet I view yon' golden ſkies.
Ye riſing hills that crown this ſhore,
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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;
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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!
The vow perform'd, the Gods aton'd,
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The pious rites with bleſſings crown'd,
Death diſtant waits with ſlacken'd pace,
Nor dares profane the ſacred place.
But will he now his foot repreſs ?
Will the kind Gods their votary bleſs ?
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Ah me! theſe ſwelling waves of woe,
Whither, ah whither will they flow?
Ye riſing hills that crown this ſhore,
Where Apis reign'd in years of yore,
Propitious hear me, nor diſdain
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To let your echoes learn this ſtrain;
Barbaric tho' my voice and rude,
Well may its notes be understood;
Barbaric tho' this purfled ſtole,
Frounc'd around with linen roll :
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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.) — 112 focus
Queste miserie, queste sciagure,
con voci acute, con voci oscure
geme: dal pianto
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spezzato è il canto.
Ahimè! ahimè!
Acconcio, mentre pur viva sono,
io per me l'ululo di morte intono.
E invoco il suolo Apio
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o terra, t'è cognita
la barbara mia querimonia
e avvento le mani, a distruggerla,
sovressa la veste sidonia.
Quando è lontana l'ora di morte,
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quando sorride prospera sorte,
d'ostie profumi
Ahimè! ahimè !
volano ai Numi.
Il mio travaglio qual fine avrà?
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Dove il maroso ci spingerà?
E invoco il suolo Apio
o terra, t'è cognita
la barbara mia querimonia
e avvento le mani, a distruggerla,
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sovressa la veste sidonia.
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 112 focus
Tales affectus doloroſos narrat lugubres,
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Acutos, graues, lachrymoſos heu heu.
Heu heu
Carminibus ornatæ
Lugentes cantiones
Viuens luctibus nobiscum.
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Placo Apiam terram,
Barbaram uocem intelligis.
Sæpe uerò procido cum lacera ueste
Linea, aut
Sidonio integumento.
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Dijs uerò piacula perfecta hoſtium pulchrè
Præcurrens ubi mors adierit.
Heu difficiles labores,
Quonam fluctus is deducet?
Placo quidem Apiam terram,
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Vocem barbaram intelligis,
Sæpe uerò procido cum lacera ueste
Linea, aut
Si domo integumento.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 108 focus
Chorus
Unless some pledge thou givest to this train.
PELASGOS
What will device of zones for thee effect?
Chorus
With tablets now these statues they shall grace—
PELASGOS
Thy words are riddles; plainer be thy speech!
Chorus
Forthwith ourselves we'll strangle from these gods.
PELASGOS
A word I hear piercing my very heart. 460
Chorus
Thou hast it now, for I thine eyes have purged.
PELASGOS
Divers these troubles, hard to struggle with;
A host of ills bursts o'er me like a flood;
Ruin's unfathomed sea, full hard to cross,
I've entered; harbour from the storm is none.
For if I spurn your prayer, pollution dire
Thou namest, overtowering arrow's flight.
But if before the walls taking my stand,
I try the issue with Ægyptos' sons,
Thy kinsmen ;—bitter is the cost to stain 470
With blood of men the soil, for women's sake.
Yet needs must I revere the wrath of Zeus,
The suppliants' god; for, among mortal men
No awe more dread. These branches in thine arms
Taking, thou aged father of these maids,
Forthwith on other shrines of native gods
Lay them; that all the citizens may see
Tokens of this thy visit. Touching me
Let fall no random word; for ever prone
The people are to blame authority.
These things beholding, some, to pity stirred, 480
The insolence may hate of this male troop.
So with the folk more favour shall ye find.
For to the weaker side all bear good will.
DANAOS
A precious boon is this for us, to win
A patron so august, the reigning prince. *
But native escort and interpreters
Send thou with us; so may we surer find
The temple-fronting altars, and abodes,
Friendly to guests, ‡ of city-guarding gods,
And may in safety pass amid thy town.
Unlike are we in feature and in garb, 490
For Neilos not in type of Inachos
Her offspring rears. Beware, lest confidence
Give birth to terror; § for in sooth, ere now
Through ignorance hath friend by friend been slain.
PELASGOS
March with him guards, for well the stranger speaks.
Lead to the city altars, seats of gods;
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And changing watchwords, needless is much talk,
While ye this seaman guide, suppliant of gods.
Chorus
He hath thy hest, thus tutored let him go;
But for myself,-how act? Where safety find?
PELASGOS
Leave here these branches, token of thy need. 500
Chorus
Thy hand and voice obeying, them I leave.
PELASGOS
Now to this open grove betake thyself.
Chorus
But how should grove unhallowed shelter me?
PELASGOS
As prey to birds we will not give thee up.
Chorus
What if to men more dire than dragon-brood?
PELASGOS
A kindly answer give to kindly words.
Chorus
No marvel if I anxious am, through fear.
PELASGOS
But fear to gentle blood unseemly is.
Chorus
Cheer then by deeds, as by thy words, my heart.
PELASGOS
Thee no long time thy sire forlorn will leave. 510
But I, the people of the land convening,
Will in thy favour move the multitude,
And how to frame his speech instruct thy sire.
Wait therefore and our native gods entreat,
With orisons, thine heart's desire to grant.
But I to urge thy cause will now depart;
May suasion and effective fortune follow.
Chorus
Hail, King of Kings! Most Blest
Among the blest! Of powers on high
Most perfect Power! Our prayerful cry 520
Hear, blissful Zeus, and hate-possest,
Of haughty men ward off the lawless pride;
Ay, deep beneath the purple tide
Whelm thou their dark-benched post.
Chorus
Viewing with eye benign
Our woman's cause, our ancient race,
Her tale recall who shared thy grace,
Ancestral mother of our line.
Soother of Io, mindful be once more
Of her, through whom we from this shore 530
Our boasted lineage trace.
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.) — 112 focus
Ah, listen, listen to my grievous tale,
My sorrow's words, my shrill and tearful cries!
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Ah woe, ah woe!
Loud with lament the accents rise,
And from my living lips my own sad dirges flow!
O Apian land of hill and dale,
Thou kennest yet, O land, this faltered foreign wail—
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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!
Ah, but if fortune smile, if death be driven away,
140
Vowed rites, with eager haste, we to the gods will pay!
Alas, alas again!
O whither drift the waves? and who shall loose the pain?
O Apian land of hill and dale,
Thou kennest yet, O land, this faltered foreign wail!
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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.) — 112 focus
Solch schmerzlich Weh beklag' ich, ach, aus banger Brust,
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Das bitter gellend die Thräne weckt,
In Grabgesanges Trauerton;
Lebend sing' ich mein Grablied.
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.
Den Göttern weih' ich vollen Dank, wenn unser Wurf
Gelungen, wenn ich dem Tod entrann.
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O schwerentwirrbar dunkle Müh'n!
Wohin treibst du noch, Welle?
Zu dir fleh' ich, Hügelland Apia's !
(Du kennst ja die Fremdlingszunge, mein Land :)
Hastig zerreiß' ich oft
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Die linnenen Gewande, sieh,
Und den Sidonerschleier.

Notes on the current edition

Supplices

1. Single-witness OCR: uncollated. Source layout and readings require scan review; automatic flags are not exhaustive.
2. Reference placement provisional: provisional local reference window from running Greek. Verify the printed source numbering and note scope against the scan.

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

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πρευμενὴς κτίσειεν:
πρευμενεῖς κτίσειεν
M. G. P. E. Rob.
πρευμενὴς κτίσειε
Turn.
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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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Parodos. An Stelle des προλογίζων wie in den Persern hat der Chor zunächst die Aufgabe die vorausliegenden Begebenheiten und das Motiv der Handlung (Flucht vor den Söhnen des Ägyptos, welche die Danaiden zur Ehe zwingen wollen) anzugeben. Dann richtet er an Götter und Menschen, an das stammverwandte Argos die Bitte um Schutz gegen Ver- gewaltigung vonseiten der die Danaiden verfolgenden Ägyptiaden. Damit wird das Ziel der Handlung bezeichnet. Endlich dient die Paro- dos zur Charakteristik des Chors, um dessen Schicksal sich die Hand- lung dreht (zu 118-181). Parodos zerfällt in drei Teile. Die anapästische Partie 1-39 trägt der Koryphäos vor, die melische 40-117 der Gesamtchor; von der zweiten melischen Partie 118-181, deren drei Strophen mit Ephymnien (zu 134) schließen, scheint jeder der drei oroixo ein Strophenpaar ge- sungen zu haben, während die Ephymnien dem Gesamtchor zu- fielen. Vgl. Jahrb. f. Philol. Suppl. XIII S. 219 ff. Als Schutz- flehende sind die Danaiden durch einen mit weißer Wolle umwundenen Olivenzweig gekennzeichnet (21f.), den sie in der linken Hand halten (197-199). Ihre Tracht ist ägyp- tisch (240 ff.). Während der Paro- dos steht Danaos auf dem hohen Götteraltare und späht bald nach Idem Meere bald nach dem Lande hin (184).

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dritter Teil der Parodos, ein i άleuos (121), eine Klageweise, die mit heftiger Ge- bärde, mit Zerreißen des Gewandes (126 ff.) und Zerkratzen der Wangen ( άuvyuós Cho. 24) verbunden war (zu 72). Die Danaiden erneuern ihre Bitte um Schutz, gehen aber von flehender Bitte zu entschiedener und heftiger Forderung über:,,Mit solchen Klagen trauere ich um mich wie um eine Tote und rufe das argivische Land um Gnade an, in- dem ich im Schmerze meinen Schleier zerreiße. Den Göttern wird gern und reichlich geopfert, wo Wohlstand herrscht und nicht Todesfurcht bedrückt. Ich weiß nicht, was werden soll. Der An- fang zwar, die Fahrt über das Meer, ist glücklich vonstatten ge- gangen; möge nur auch das Ende glücklich sein, daß ich nicht zur Ehe mit den verhaßten Vettern gezwungen werde. Die jungfräu- liche Artemis möge vor allem mir gegen den Angriff auf meine jung- fräuliche Ehre beistehen. Andern- falls, wenn mich die Götter des Olymp verlassen, werde ich samt den schutzflehenden Zweigen zum Zeus der Toten meine Zuflucht nehmen und mich erhängen. Ich merke wohl, daß die Eifersucht der Hera, welche unsere Ahnmutter quälte, auch mich verfolgt. Und statt der reichlichen Opfer wird Zeus nur Unehre ernten, wenn er die Nachkommen seines eigenen Sohnes Epaphos abweist und von uns Schutzflehenden sein Auge ab- wendet. Er möge sich merken, was ich ihm noch einmal zurufe: die Eifersucht der Hera ist schuld an meinem Leide." Die Drohung sich das Leben zu nehmen, wenn sie schutzlos gelassen werden wiederholt mit gesteigerter Hef- tigkeit 472, und damit ein Zeug- nis gegen den Ζεὺς ἱκέσιος ab- zulegen offenbart eine Entschlossen- heit und Heftigkeit des Charakters, welche die Bluttat in der Braut- nacht begreiflich macht.

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Noch lebend singe ich mir mein Grablied, weil der Tod mir vor Augen steht (164). Vgl. Ag. 1321 ἅπαξ ἔτ᾽ εἰπεῖν ῥῆσιν ἢ θρῆνον θέλω ἐμὸν τὸν αὐτῆς, Hom. Z 500 αἳ μὲν ἔτι ζωὸν γόον Εκτορα ᾧ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ, Isokr. 10 § 27 ἰδὼν αὐτοὺς πενθουμένους ἔτι ζῶντας. — μὲ für ἐμαυτήν wie Eur. Andr. 256 ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐγὼ μὴν πρόσθεν ἐκδώσω μέ σοι.