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Supplices. N. Wecklein. . .

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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.) — 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.) — 123 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 123 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 123 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 123 focus
σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρὸς εὐνὰς
ἀνδρῶν, ἢ ἔ,
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν.
125
σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρὸς εὐνὰς
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν.
ἀνδρῶν, ἐ ἔ,
135
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 123 focus
θεοῖς δ' ἐναγέα τέλεα πελομένων καλῶς
ἐπίδρομ', ὁπόθι θάνατος ἐπῇ ὅπηι·
ἰὼ ιώ, ιώ δυσάγκριτοι πνόοι πόνοι·
ποῖ τόδε κῦμ' ἀπάξει ;
125
Ἱλέομαι ἱλέωμαι μὲν ᾿Απίαν
βοῦνιν· καρβᾶνα δ᾽ αὐδὲν
εὖ, γᾶ, κοννεῖς εὐακοννεῖς ;
πολλάκι δ' ἐμπίτνω ξὺν
λακίδι λινοσινεί λίνοισινῆι
130
Σιδονίᾳ καλύπτρᾳ.
Πλάτα μὲν οὖν λινορραφής
τε δόμος ἅλα στέγων δορὸς
Σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα μα-
τρὸς εὐνὰς ἀνδρῶν, ἐή ΐ ἔ,
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ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἀδάμαντον ἐκφυγεῖν.
θέλουσα δ' αὖ θέλουσαν ἁ-
γνά μ' ἐπιδέτω Διὸς κόρα
ἔχουσα σέμν' ἐνώπι' ἀσφαλές,
παντὶ δὲ σθένει σθένουσι
145
διωγμοῖς ἀσχαλῶσ' διωγμοῖσι δ' ἀσφαλέας (cf. 146)
ἀδμῆτος ἀδμήτα ἀδμήτας
ῥύσιος γενέσθω.
Σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα μα-
τρὸς εὐνὰς ἀνδρῶν, ἐή ΐ ἔ,
150
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἀδάμαντον ἐκφυγεῖν.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 123 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 123 focus
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. =
πλάτα μὲν οὖν λινορραφής
τε δόμος ἅλα στέγων δορός
ἀχείματόν μ᾽ ἔπεμπε σὺμ πνοαῖς, οὐδὲ μέμφομαι·
τελευτὰς δ᾽ ἐν χρόνωι
πατὴρ ὁ παντόπτας πρευμενεῖς κτίσειεν,
(ὦ) σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρός, εὐνάς
140
ἀνδρῶν, ἔ ἔ,
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν. –
θέλουσα δ᾽ αὖ θέλουσαν ἁ-
γνά μ᾽ ἐπιδέτω Διὸς κόρα,
ἔχουσα σέμν᾽ ἐνώπι᾿ ἀσφαλῶς· παντὶ δὲ σθένει
145
διωγμοῖς ἀσφαλέας
ἀδμῆτας Ἀδμήτα ῥύσιος γενέσθω,
(ὦ) σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρός, εὐνάς
150
ἀνδρῶν, ἔ ἔ,
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν. =
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.)) — 176-347 focus
The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 123 focus
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.
The oar indeed and the wooden house with flaxen sails 9
, keeping out the sea, has wafted me with the breezes untroubled
by tempests: nor do I blame it: but hereafter may the all-seeing father bring to pass a propitious end 1
,
that the mighty seed of our venerable mother escape, alas! from the beds of men unwedded, virgin.
But again may the chaste daughter of Jove willingly regard me willing, keeping fixed upon me her dread countenance: and with all her might let her a virgin defending virgins from persecutions, be our deliverer 2
.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 123 focus
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 1 . Hélas ! hélas !
vents incertains! où nous emportera ce flot 2 ?
(Retenu.)
Sois-nous propice, terre montueuse d'Apis! M'entends-tu bien, ô terre, malgré mon accent barbare?
Et, sans répit, ma
main s'abat, pour en mettre le lin en pièces, sur mon voile de Sidon.
daigne le Père qui voit tout me
l'accorder en sa bonté !
(Un peu retenu.) Que les enfants d'une auguste mère échappent aux
embrassements des mâles, libres d'hymen, libres de joug!
regard assurant mon salut! Que, de tout son pouvoir,
indignée de telle poursuite, vierge, elle sauve une vierge!
(Un peu retenu.) Que les enfants d'une
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 123 focus
The vow perform'd, the Gods aton'd,
135
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 ?
140
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
145
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 :
150
This blushing veil tho' Sidon gave,
Ye hills of Apis hear, and ſave!
The daſhing oar, the ſwelling ſail,
That caught the favorable gale,
Safe from the ſtorms, nor I complain,
155
Wafted our frail bark o'er the main.
All-ſeeing ſovereign fire, defend,
And guide us to a proſp'rous end;
Save us, O ſave the ſeed divine
Of our great mother's ſacred line;
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From man's rude touch O ſave us free,
And help inſnared chaſtity!
Thou, virgin daughter of high Jove,
A virgin's vows hear, and approve;
Holding thy ſober, aweful ſtate,
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Protect us from the touch we hate;
From bold incontinence ſecure,
Pure thyſelf, preſerve us pure;
Save us, O ſave the ſeed divine
Of our great mother's ſacred line;
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From man's rude touch O ſave us free,
And help inſnared chaſtity!
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 123 focus
Quando è lontana l'ora di morte,
130
quando sorride prospera sorte,
d'ostie profumi
Ahimè! ahimè !
volano ai Numi.
Il mio travaglio qual fine avrà?
135
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,
140
sovressa la veste sidonia.
La dimora di tronchi alberi, ch'à compagini di funi,
ci condusse remigando, tra procelle e flutti, immuni,
col soffiar di venti prosperi.
Non mi lagno. Deh!, sicuro
145
cosí Giove affretti l'esito
d'ogni evento nel futuro.
La progenie della madre venerabile
schivi il letto dei mariti,
delle nozze il laccio evíti.
150
Sopra me che a lei m'affido, volga il guardo ora la figlia
del Signor dei Numi, Artèmide, cui pudore è su le ciglia.
Sopra quelli che m'inseguono
con gran possa ella s'abbatta:
ella deve, intatta vergine,
155
me salvar, vergine intatta!
La progenie della madre venerabile
schivi il letto dei mariti,
delle nozze il laccio evíti.
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 123 focus
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.
Remus quidem & nauis domusq; protegẽs mare hastae
125
Intempestuosum me emittebat auris.
Neq; accuſo finem, in tempore uerò
Pater qui omnia uidet propitius condidit
Semen magnum grauis matris cubilia uirorum heu heu
Sine matrimonio indomitam effugere,
130
Volentem igitur
Volentem caſtam
Me reſpiciat Iouis filia,
Habens me in conspectu tutò,
Omnino uerò fortificans perſecutionibus
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Veræ tutelæ indomitæ indomita
Liberatrix esto,
Semen magnum grauis matris
Cubilia uirorum heu heu,
Carens nuptijs indomitam effugere.
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The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 120 focus
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.
Chorus
Back where my mother trod the wold,
Her ancient haunts, flower-gendering meads,
Pastures where yet the heifer feeds,
I now betake me,—whence of old,
Brize-goaded, and distracted, speeds
Through many a tribe of mortal men,
Io;-and while she holds in ken *
The adverse shore, straight through the sea,
A path she cleaveth, led by Destiny. 540
Chorus
Through Asia's land in wild career,
Right o'er sheep-pasturing Phrygia's plain,
Till Teuthras' Mysian towers appear,
And Lydian vales,—she scours amain;
Cilicia's and Pamphylia's height
Leaving behind, she speeds her flight
O'er banks of ever-flowing streams,
To the fair land with corn that teems,
Region deep-soiled to Aphrodite dear.
Chorus
Pierced by her wingèd herdsman's sting, 550
The lea she gains all fostering,—
1
That heavenly meadow fed from snow,
O'erswept by Typhon's strength,
And by the bale-averting flow
Of Neilos' water;-there, at length,
Frenzied she comes by toils unseemly spent,
And goading pangs by jealous Hera sent.
Chorus
And mortals who the land possessed,
While pallid terror shook their breast, 560
Amazed a shape unwonted saw,—
Half heifer and half maid,
Mortal and brute, bi-formed. With awe,
The wondrous portent they surveyed.
Who then was he who gently soothed to rest
Far-roaming Io, brize-stung, sore distrest?
Chorus
Zeus, lord of ceaseless ages, thine,
Oh thine was that unharming might! 570
The breathing of thy love divine
Arrests at length her toilsome flight,
And gently, with the mournful tide
Of modest tears, her woes subside.
Then, as Fame truly tells, receiving there
Thy germ divine, her blameless child she bare,
Chorus
From age to age supremely blest.
Hence the whole earth proclaims, this seed,
Life teeming, springs in very deed
From Zeus, for who but he the pest 580
Could stay, devised by Hera's spite?
Thine, Zeus, the work! Hence, whoso hails our race
As sprung from Epaphos, errs not from right.
Chorus
Whom of the gods more fitly now
May I invoke for deeds of grace?
Father, Creator, King art thou,
Whose forming hand begat our race;
Artificer supreme, ancient of days,
Zeus, the all-wise, whose breath each purpose sways.
Chorus
Nor seated upon lower throne
Wieldeth he delegated sway; 590
Nor doth as his superior own
Ruler whose word he must obey;-
No, on his sovereign fiat waits the deed,
595
To execute his mind's deep-ponder'd rede.
DANAOS
(to his daughters).
Take courage, with the natives all goes well.
Decrees all-perfect have the people passed.
Chorus
Hail, sire revered; herald to me most dear;
But say what measure hath been ratified,
Whereto the people's hand out-numbering swayed? 600
DANAOS
Not by division did the Argives vote,
But so as to make young mine aged heart.
For in full mote, with raised right-hands the air
Bristled, while this decree they ratified,
That we in Argive land might settle, free,
Not subject to arrest, inviolate;
That no one, native here or foreigner,
Should seize us;-but, should violence be used,
And any of these burghers fail to aid,
An outlaw should he be, to exile doomed. 610
Thus in our favour spake Pelasgia's king,
Persuasive, warning lest the mighty wrath
Of Zeus, the suppliant's god, in future time,
The city should weigh down, and two-fold wrong,
To us as strangers and as citizens,
Upon the state two-fold pollution bring,
Food of disaster irremediable.
Hearing such things the Argives, by their hands,
Confirmed, ere herald summoned, these decrees.
The orator's persuasive winding speech
Heard the Pelasgi, and Zeus wrought the end.
Chorus
Come now for Argos' race
Chant we the gracious prayer 620
Requiting kindly grace.
May Zeus, the stranger's friend,
From strangers' lips regard with favour rare
The orisons, and crown with prosperous end.
Chorus
Ye gods, heaven-born, if e'er before,
Hear now the prayers that for this race we pour!
Never may this Pelasgic town,
Fire-wasted, lift the joyless cry
Of Ares, wanton deity,
Who men in other harvest-fields mows down!
For that a gracious law
They passed, to mercy stirred; 630
And for this pity-moving herd,
Thy supplicants, oh Zeus! felt righteous awe.
Chorus
Nor, voting on the side of men,
The women's cause did they disdainful slight;
But the dread watcher held in ken,
Full hard to cope with, vengeful Might,
Whom on its roofs what house could bear
Wrathful? For heavily he sitteth there.
Yea, sith their proper kin,
Suppliants of Zeus severe,
They venerate with pious fear;
Hence with pure altars they heaven's grace shall win. 640
Chorus
Therefore, in tuneful rivalry, let vows
Ascend from lips shaded by olive boughs.
May pestilence ne'er drain
Of manly strength this town;
Nor discord's lawless reign
With native corpses strow
This land's ensanguined plain!
Still may youth's gracious flower
Unsickled blow;
Nor Aphrodite's spouse, man-slaying power,
Relentless Ares, mow its blossom down! 650
Chorus
May offerings blaze in every sacred fane, *
By foreign elders throng'd, an honoured train,
That well may fare the State!
Zeus let them hail, the Great,—
The stranger's god, who fate
By hoary law doth rein.
Fresh produce may the fields
For ever bear,
And may dread Artemis, her bow who wields,
View women's travail-pangs and kindly spare. 660
Chorus
And let no man-destroying mischief lay
This town in ruins, arming civil feud,
And Ares tear-exciter, for the fray
Danceless and lyreless. May the brood
Of fell disease far from these burghers wing
2
Its joyless flight, and the Lykeian king
The nation's youth propitiously survey!
Chorus
With every season's wealth may Zeus benign 670
Crown the rich earth, and mightily increase
Before the city walls the pasturing kine!
Ne'er may the gods' rich blessing cease!
May the well-omened song from every shrine
Ascend, and from chaste lips the solemn strain,
Joy-laden, lyre-enamoured, sound amain!
Chorus
Still may the people guard with constant zeal *
Their honours for the virtuous, while the sway
Of prudent councillors the city's weal 680
Makes stedfast; and, ere arming for the fray,
May they, unscathed, just pacts with strangers seal!
Chorus
And let them, to the gods this land who hold,
With sacrifice and laurel bough draw near,
Jealous to keep their fathers' rites of old.
For venerable Justice hath enroll'd
698 704
This her third statute:—"Parents aye revere.” †
DANAOS
These sober prayers, daughters beloved, I praise. 690
But though ye from your father tidings hear
New and unlooked for, keep a stedfast heart.
For from this suppliant-guarding eminence
The barque I see; well-marked it 'scapes me not;—
The swelling sails, the bulwarks on each side,
The prow in front, scanning its way with eyes,
And, as to us unfriendly, all too well
Hearing the guiding rudder at the stern.
Distinctly now the sailors may be seen,
Their swart limbs manifest in white attire. 700
Now ope to view the rest, the attendant ships;—
Meanwhile this one, the leader, with furled sails,
Towards the shore is rowed, with equal stroke.
You it behoves, calmly, with stedfast mind,
Viewing the danger, not to slight these gods.
With champions I'll return and advocates,
Should haply herald come or embassy,
Eager to seize you as the prize of war.
But thus it may not be; fear not the event.
Yet were it best, should we be slow to aid, 710
In no wise to forget your shelter here.
Courage! when strikes the appointed day and hour,
Due fine that man shall pay who slights the gods.
Chorus
Father, afraid I am, since swift of wing
The ships advance; full soon will they be here.
My spirit fails me, scared by anxious fear,
Lest that my lengthened flight no profit bring.
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Father, I faint through dread.
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.) — 123 focus
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!
145
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!
The wafting oar, the bark with woven sail,
150
From which the sea foamed back,
Sped me, unharmed of storms, along the breeze's track—
Be it unblamed of me!
But ah, the end, the end of my emprise!
May He, the Father, with all-seeing eyes,
155
Grant me that end to see!
Grant that henceforth unstained as heretofore
I may escape the forced embrace
Of those proud children of the race
That sacred Io bore.
160
And thou, O maiden-goddess chaste and pure—
Queen of the inner fane,—
Look of thy grace on me, O Artemis,
Thy willing suppliant—thine, thine it is,
Who from the lustful onslaught fled secure,
165
To grant that I too without stain
The shelter of thy purity may gain!
Grant that henceforth unstained as heretofore
I may escape the forced embrace
Of those proud children of the race
170
That sacred Io bore!
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.) — 123 focus
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
115
Die linnenen Gewande, sieh,
Und den Sidonerschleier.
Das Nuder und des Kieles Haus,
Die linnene, wogenfefte Wehr,
Trug ohne Sturm mit sanftem Hauch mich her:
120
Ich beklag' es nicht. O schaffe
Meinem Leid hinfort der Allherrscher
Zeus ein gnädig Ende,
Daß der hochheiligen Ahnin Töchter,
Ach, ach, unvermählt,
125
Unbezwungen entflieh'n dem verhaften Bund!
Zu mir, der Frohen, schaue froh
Zeus' heilige Tochter, wende stets
Ihr hehres Antliß unverrückt auf mich!
Wehre du, Jungfrau, mit aller
130
Macht die Verfolger ab von uns Jungfrau'n,
Retterin, erscheine,
Daß der hochheiligen Ahnin Töchter,
Ach, ach, unvermählt,
Unbezwungen entflieh'n dem verhaften Bund!
135

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

144-145. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg001-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-115

ὦ Ζεῦ, Ἰοῦς ἰῷ μῆνις μάστειρ᾽:
ἀζηνιουσίω
(
ἀζηνὶ οὐσίῳ
G. Ε.
ἀζηνιοουσίω
Ρ.
ἄζηνι ουσιω
cod. Robortelli)
μῆνις μάστειρ᾽ ἐκ θεῶν
Μ. G. E. P.
ὦ Ζεῦ Ἰοῦς ἰω μῆνις μάστειο᾽ ἐκ θεῶν
Rob. ex coniectura. Interiectio
ὦ Ζεῦ
nec recte collocata est, nec digna quae cum nomine Ius compararetur. Scholia codicum M. et G.
ὦ Ζεῦ, ἡ παρὰ τῶν θεῶν μῆνις κατὰ Ἰοῦς ὠδῆς ἐστὶ καὶ μαστιγωτική
. Patet
ὠδῆς
, quod in scholiis Robortelli et Monacensibus omissum est,
ἰώδης
esse. Quare in poetae versu
ἰῷ
posui. Virus pro odio dicit ut in Agam. 801.
δύςφρων γὰρ ἰὸς καρδίᾳ προςήμενος ἄχθος διπλοίζει τῷ πεπαμένῳ νόσον
. Magis proprie sic iram Furiarum vocat in Eumen. 470. 722. Quod
μάστειρα
scholiastae
μαστιγωτική
est, non mirarer, si Aeschylus in hae tragoedia, quae non pauca perantiqua et obsoleta verba habet, a
μαστίειν
formasset
μάστιραν
, quamvis insolita forma.
Φθίρα
quidem apud Stephanum Byzantium error scribae est veramque scripturam
Φθῖρ
habet Eustathius p. 368, 7. qui ibi copiose de scriptura disserit, Herodiano auctore Choeroboscum
Φθῖρ
solo
ι
scribi memorans, quod nomen habuerit filius Endymionis. V. Choerobosci canones p. 86, 16. 346, 8. et epimerismos p. 4, 11. et Theognostum p. 41, 17. Goettlingio ad Theodosium visus est Herodianus i in
Φθίρ, Φθιρός
corripi iudicasse. Si ita statuit, vereor ne erraverit. Nam si mons Latmus
Φθίρ
eiusque incolae
Φθῖρες
dicti sunt,
Φθίρων ὄρος ἀκριτόφυλλον
ΙΙ. 1i. 868. contrarium docet. Quod si
Φθίρ
producta vocali admittitur, certe non carent analogia
μαστίρ
et
Μάστιρα
.
Μαστίχτειρα
quidem ne scribatur in Aeschyli versu prohibet systema anapaesticum. Non male coniecerunt quidam
μνάστειρα
, ut
μνάμων μῆνις
est in Agam. 143. Servanda tamen visa est
μάστειρα
, quum commode explicari possit: v. ad v. 146.

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ξυννῶ δ᾽ ἄταν:
κοννωδάταν
Μ. G. E. Rob.
κοννῶ δ᾽ ἄταν
Turn.
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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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