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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.) — 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.) — 207 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 207 focus
Ιδοιτο δήτα πρευμενοῦς ἀπ᾿ ὄμματος. 3
Κείνει θέλοντος εὖ τελευτήσει τάδε.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 207 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 207 focus
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 207 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 207 focus
ἴδοιτο δῆτα πρευμενοῦς ἀπ᾿ ὄμματος.
κείνου θέλοντος εὖ τελευτήσει τάδε.
καὶ Ζηνὸς ὄρνιν τόνδε νῦν κικλήσκετε.
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 207 focus
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.) — 207 focus
Delay not now, but let there be an accomplishment of your plan 3
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LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 207 focus
de prudence à des enfants prudents: j'aurai soin de me rappeler tes sages avis. Mais que Zeus notre aïeul jette un regard sur nous !
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 207 focus
Quick be his aid, ſtrong guardian of our cauſe.
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Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 207 focus
Con benevolo ciglio, oh sí!, ci guardi!
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 207 focus
Videat ex oculo propitio.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 202 focus
HERALD
Go to Ægyptos' sons and tell them this.
PELASGOS
Such utterance my spirit brooketh not.
HERALD
But that with knowledge I may spcak more plainly,
(For it beseems a herald to report
Clearly each circumstance,) how, and by whom,
Shall I, on my return, declare myself
Robbed of this female train, as kindred claimed? 910
Ares such plea by voice of witnesses
Decideth not; neither by silver's worth
Compoundeth quarrel; but, ere comes the end,
With bitter wrench from life falls many a hero.
PELASGOS
Why tell to thee my name? Tutored by time,
Know it thou shalt and those who sail with thec.
As for these maids, provided they consent
With willing hearts,-if pious word prevail,-
Them thou may'st take; but by the public voice,
Unanimous, hath this decree been passed;- 920
Ne'er on compulsion to deliver up
This female train;-firmly through this resolve
The nail is driven, so to abide unmoved.
Neither inscribed on tablets nor sealed up
In folds of books these matters are, but them
Plainly thou hearest from free-spoken tongue.
Now, with all speed, betake thee from my sight.
HERALD
'Tis then thy pleasure to incur new war:-
May victory and strength be with the males!
PELASGOS
[Exit.]
But in this land male dwellers ye shall find,
Drinking, I trow, no draughts of barley winc. 930
[To the Suppliants]
But maidens, taking heart, repair ye all,
With friendly escort, to the well-fenced town,
Shut in with deep device of many a tower.
The State owns many mansions, and myself
A palace have, built with no grudging hand.
Pleasant the lot in fellowship to hold
Glad dwellings; yet, if rather such your wish,
Make ye in separate abodes your home.
Choose of these offers that which seemeth best,
Most pleasing to your sisterhood; myself 940
Your patron am, and all these burghers here,
For you their vote who pledged.-Why wait ye then
For others armed with more authority?
Chorus
In return for deeds of grace
May thy lot with grace be crowned,
Hero of Pelasgic race!
But hither send, with purpose kind,
Our sire, of brave and wary mind,
Danaos, prime councillor and guide.
His counsel will direct us here
Where we must dwell, and he decide
The place where malice may not reach.
For ready every one is found 950
Strangers to blame. But may the best betide!-
With fair repute and with unwrathful speech
Of citizens, handmaidens dear!
Your places take, as Danaos hath assigned,
A maid, as marriage portion, unto each.
DANAOS
Ye to the Argives should with sacrifice,
As to Olympian gods, libations pour,
My daughters! for deliverers they have proved,
Beyond dispute. Wrathful from me they heard 960
What had been done by those most precious friends,
Your cousins, and forthwith, this body-guard,
As mark of honour they assigned to me,
Lest too, by secret spear-thrust slain, my death
Should curse undying bring upon the land.
Such favours reaping, justice bids us hold
In higher honour still their kindly grace.
These admonitions too ye shall inscribe
With many prudent maxims of your sire,
That Time this stranger company may test. 970
Each 'gainst the alien bears an evil tongue,
From which the slanderous word full lightly falls.
But, I exhort you, do me no disgrace,
Crowned as ye are with youth's attractive bloom.
Not easy tender ripeness is to guard;
Wild beasts despoil it,-mortals too no less,
And winged tribes and treaders on the earth.
Her gushing fruitage Kypris heraldeth,
Nay, the unripe scarce suffers she to stay;
And at the virgin's daintiness of form, 980
Each passer-by, o'ercome by fond desire,
Sends from his eye a shaft of suasive spell.
Forget we not then wherefore many a toil,
And breadth of sea was furrowed by our keel.-
Shame to ourselves, but triumph to our foes,
Let us not work. A two-fold dwelling here,
(One doth Pelasgos give, the city one,)
Awaits us, free of charge;-easy the terms.
This only,-guard the mandates of your sire.
And honour hold in more respect than life. 990
Chorus
Be the Olympians gracious in all else!
Touching my youthful bloom take courage, father;-
For I, unless new plans the gods devise,
Will never from my mind's first pathway swerve.
Chorus
Praise the blest gods, state-ruling powers supreme,
The city's tutelary guardians praise,
And those who haunt old Erasinos' stream.
Chorus
Chant, maidens, your responsive lays; 1000
For this Pelasgic state your anthems pour,
Nor Neilos' mouths henceforth with hymns adore!
Chorus
Rather those rivers whose glad waters lave,
With fruitful increase fraught, this Argive land,
Soothing the earth with fertilizing wave.
Chorus
Chaste Artemis, with pity view our band; 1010
On us may Kythereia ne'er impose
Forced wedlock; may such prize reward our foes!
Chorus
Not that this friendly hymn disdains her sway
Who reigns with Zeus and Hera, Kypris dear,
Goddess of guileful spells, whose reign,
O'er solemn rites extending, all revere.
Chorus
Sharing her honours, wait their mother near 1020
Fond Yearning, Suasion also, who in vain
Her plea ne'er urgeth; Loves with whispering play,
Harmonia too, share Aphrodite's sway.
Chorus
For us, poor fugitives, dire woes I dread,
Yea, bloody wars my bodeful heart appal;
Since hither, eager in pursuit,
In swiftly-wafted ships our foes have sped. 1030
Chorus
But what is fated that must sure befal,
For the vast mind of Zeus is absolute.
To us may end of wedlock come at last,
As to full many women in the past.
Chorus
From marriage with Ægyptos' seed
Thy suppliants, mighty Zeus, defend!
Chorus
All yet propitiously may end.
Chorus
Cure seekest thou for curéless ill. 1040
Chorus
But certes thou the future canst not read.
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.) — 207 focus
Even so—with gracious aspect let him aid.
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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.) — 207 focus
Mit gnadereichem Auge mög' er niederschau'n!

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

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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ἄλλος πομπός ( πομπός ist dem Zusammenhang zuliebe für τοῖσιν gesetzt): Poseidon hat sich bereits als guter πομπός erwiesen. Vgl. Sieb. 411 γίγας ὅδ᾽ ἄλλος τοῦ πάρος λελεγμένου μείζων. Hermes ist ψυχοπομπός (Soph. Αi. 832 καλῶ δ᾽ ἅμα πομπαῖον Ἑρμῆν χθόνιον εὖ με κοιμίσαι) und überhaupt Ge- leiter ( πομπαῖος) als κῆρυξ. Vgl. Eum. 90 κάρτα δ᾽ ἂν ἐπώνυμος πομπαῖος ἴσθι.