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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.) — 141 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 141 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 141 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 141 focus
σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρὸς εὐνὰς
ἀνδρῶν, ἢ ἔ,
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν.
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σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρὸς εὐνὰς
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν.
ἀνδρῶν, ἐ ἔ,
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ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 141 focus
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
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διωγμοῖς ἀσχαλῶσ' διωγμοῖσι δ' ἀσφαλέας (cf. 146)
ἀδμῆτος ἀδμήτα ἀδμήτας
ῥύσιος γενέσθω.
Σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα μα-
τρὸς εὐνὰς ἀνδρῶν, ἐή ΐ ἔ,
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ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἀδάμαντον ἐκφυγεῖν.
Εἰ δὲ δὴ μή, μελανθὲς
ἡλιόκτυπον γένος
τὸν γάϊον,
τὸν πολυξενώτατον
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Ζῆνα τῶν κεκμηκότων
ἱξόμεσθα σὺν κλάδοις,
ἀρτάναις θανοῦσαι,
μὴ τυχοῦσαι θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 141 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 141 focus
(ὦ) σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρός, εὐνάς
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ἀνδρῶν, ἔ ἔ,
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν. –
θέλουσα δ᾽ αὖ θέλουσαν ἁ-
γνά μ᾽ ἐπιδέτω Διὸς κόρα,
ἔχουσα σέμν᾽ ἐνώπι᾿ ἀσφαλῶς· παντὶ δὲ σθένει
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διωγμοῖς ἀσφαλέας
ἀδμῆτας Ἀδμήτα ῥύσιος γενέσθω,
(ὦ) σπέρμα σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρός, εὐνάς
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ἀνδρῶν, ἔ ἔ,
ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν. =
εἰ δὲ μή, μελανθές
ἡλιόκτυπον γένος τὸν γάιον,
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.) — 141 focus
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
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But if not, a blackened sun-burnt 3
race to Zagreus 4
, the many-guest-receiving Jove of the dead will we approach with these suppliant boughs, dying by the noose, not having obtained [the favour] of the Olympian gods.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 141 focus
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
auguste mère échappent aux embrassements des mâles, libres d'hymen, libres de joug!
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 141 focus
The daſhing oar, the ſwelling ſail,
That caught the favorable gale,
Safe from the ſtorms, nor I complain,
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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!
If not, this glowing train, that trace
From Heav'n's high king their highborn race,
Shall voluntary victims go
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To th' allreceiving realms below;
To their dread Gods for refuge fly,
If Heav'n's high pow'rs their aid deny.
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 141 focus
La progenie della madre venerabile
schivi il letto dei mariti,
delle nozze il laccio evíti.
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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,
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me salvar, vergine intatta!
La progenie della madre venerabile
schivi il letto dei mariti,
delle nozze il laccio evíti.
O, spènteci di laccio,
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stringendo i rami supplici,
andrem, fosca progenie,
dal sole in bruno tinte,
al Nume che tutti ospita,
al Giove sotterraneo
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che sui defunti vigila,
poi che ci avran gli Olimpî Dei respinte.
Ahimè, Giove, ahimè!, l'ira
dei Celesti contro lo, me pur flagella:
noto il geloso zelo
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m'è di tua sposa, che sconvolge il cielo.
Ahi! da qual vento spira
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 141 focus
Sine matrimonio indomitam effugere,
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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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Si uerò non, nigrum
Aut Ioue formatum genus
Propinquum
Hoſpitalißimum
Iouem deſesſorum
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Adiemus cum ramis,
Laqueis morientes,
Non conſecutæ deos cœlestes.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 135 focus
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
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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
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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.
DANAOS
Children, since ratified the Argives' vote,
Take courage; well I know, for you they'll fight. 720
Chorus
Insatiate of battle, fierce and lewd
Ægyptos' race;-to one who knows I speak.
In timbered ships, blue-prowed, their rage to wreak,
Hither with many a follower, sable-hued,
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In prosperous wrath they sped.
DANAOS
Ay, but they here a numerous host will find,
With thews well hardened in the noon-tide heat.
Chorus
Oh leave me not alone, father, I pray;
Woman abandoned to herself is nought.
In her no war-god dwells. Crafty are they 730
In mind and counsel; dissolute in thought,
750
Neither, like crows, for altars care they aught.
DANAOS
Our interest, children, it would much avail
Were they to gods as hateful as to thee.
Chorus
No awe of gods before whose shrines we stand,
Or of these sacred tridents, O my sire,
From us will hold their sacrilegious hand;
Too proud their hearts, mad with unhallowed fire,
757
Reckless as dogs, they scorn the gods' command.
DANAOS
But wolves o'ermaster dogs, so runs the rede; 740
And fruit of byblos is no match for corn.
Chorus
Since they the tempers have of brutes unclean
And wanton, of their power we must beware.
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.) — 141 focus
Grant that henceforth unstained as heretofore
I may escape the forced embrace
Of those proud children of the race
That sacred Io bore.
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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,
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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
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That sacred Io bore!
Yet if this may not be,
We, the dark race sun-smitten, we
Will speed with suppliant wands
To Zeus who rules below, with hospitable hands
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Who welcomes all the dead from all the lands:
Yea, by our own hands strangled, we will go,
Spurned by Olympian gods, unto the gods below!
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.) — 141 focus
Daß der hochheiligen Ahnin Töchter,
Ach, ach, unvermählt,
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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
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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
Willst du nicht, so flich' ich
Dunkle sonnverbrannte Schaar
Zum Schattengott,
Der die Todten allzumal
Gastlich hegt im Erdenschooß,
140
Fliehe hin mit grünem Zweig,
Durch den Strang mich tödtend,
Weil Olymps Götter nicht mein Fleh'n erhört.

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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λεύσσω:
λεύσω
supra scripto altero σ Μ.
λεύσω
Rob.
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ὀχήμασιν:
ὀχήμασιν
cum ν M. G. Rob.
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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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Ζήν alte Form für Ζεύς, dorisch Ζάν (Aristoph. Vö. 570): Ach Gott, der Groll von Seite der Götter (der Hera) gegen Io ist's, der uns geifelt μαστίκτειρ (80 Abresch für μάστειρ' nach dem Schol. μαστιγωτική) τη μαστικτήρ (475) wie σώτειρα και σωτήρ. - Nach dem Schol. ὦ Ζεῦ, ἡ παρὰ τῶν θεῶν μῆνις κατὰ Ἰοῦς ὠδῆς ( μανιώ- δης?) ἐστὶ καὶ μαστιγωτική will Dindorf οἰστρώδης oder ein ähn- liches Epitheton für ió setzen.