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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.) — 348-437 focus
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 348-437 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.) — 354 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 354 focus
Ορῶ κλάδοισι νεοδρόποις κατάσκιον 1
Νέον θ᾽ ὅμιλον τῶνδ᾽ ἀγωνίων θεῶν.
360
Εἴη δ' ἄνατον πρᾶγμα τοῦτ᾽ ἀστοξένων. 2
Μηδ' ἐξ ἀέλπτων καπρομυθήτων πόλει
Νεῖκος γένηται τῶν γὰρ οὐ δεῖται πόλις.
Ιδοιτο δῆτα τὰν ἄνατον φυγὰν 3
Ικεσία θέμις Διὸς κλαρίω.
365
Σὺ δὲ παρ᾿ ὀψιγόνες μάθε γέρων ὢν 4
Ποτιτρόπαιον αἰδόμενος, οὗπερ 5
Ιεροδόκα θεῶν λήμα 6
ματ᾿ ἀπ᾿ ἀνδρὸς ἁγνοῦ.
Οὔτα κάθησθε δωμάτων ἐφέστιοι 7
370
Εμῶν· τὸ κοινὸν δ' εἰ μιαίνεται πόλις, 8
Ξυνή μελέσθω λαὸς ἐκπονεῖν ἄκη.
Ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἂν οὐ κραίνοιμ᾽ ὑπόσχεσιν πάρος,
Αστῶν δὲ πᾶσι τοῖσδε κοινώσας πέρι.
Σύ του πόλις, σὺ δὲ τὸ δήμιον,
375
Πρύτανις ἄκριτος ὢν, 9
Κρατύνεις βωμὸν ἑστίαν χθονός
Μονοψήφοισι νεύμασι σέθεν,
Μονοσκήπτροισι δ᾽ ἐν θρόνοισι χρέος
Πᾶν ἐπικραίνεις ἄγος φυλάσσου.
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Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 354 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 354 focus
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 354 focus
Ἴδοιτο δῆτ' ἄνατον δῆτα τὰν ἄνατον φυγὰν
Ικεσία θέμις Διὸς Κλαρίου·
σὺ δὲ παρ᾽ ὀψιγόνου μάθε γεραρὰ φρονῶν γεραφρόνων·
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ποτιτρόπαιον αιδόμενος εὐπορείς οὖν περ·
ἱεροδόκα θεῶν
1 λήματ' ἀπ' ἀνδρὸς ἁγνοῦ.
Σύ τοι πόλις, σὺ δὲ τὸ δήμιον,
πρύτανις ἄκριτος ὢν
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κρατύνεις βωμόν, ἑστίαν χθονός,
μονοψήφοισι νεύμασιν σέθεν,
μονοσκήπτροισι δ' ἐν θρόνοις χρόνοισι θρόνοισι χρέος
πᾶν ἐπικραίνεις· ἄγος ἄλγος φυλάσσου.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 354 focus
ὁρῶ κλάδοισι νεοδρόποις κατάσκιον
ναύονθ᾽ ὅμιλον τῶνδ᾽ ἀγωνίων θεῶν.
εἴη δ᾽ ἄνατον πρᾶγμα τοῦτ᾽ ἀστοξένων,
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μηδ᾽ ἐξ ἀέλπτων κἀπρομηθήτων πόλει
νεῖκος γένηται· τῶν γὰρ οὐ δεῖται πόλις.
ἴδοιτο δῆτ᾽ ἄνατον φυγὰν
ἱκεσία θέμις Διὸς κλαρίου.
σὺ δὲ παρ᾽ ὀψιγόνου μάθε γεραφρόνων·
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ποτιτρόπαιον ἀ-
δόμενος οὖν περ
ἱεροδόκα θεῶν λή-
ματ᾽ ἀπ᾿ ἀνδρὸς ἁγνοῦ.
οὔτοι κάθησθε δωμάτων ἐφέστιοι
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σύ τοι πόλις, σὺ δὲ τὸ δήμιον,
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πρύτανις ἄκριτος ὤν,
κρατύνεις βωμόν, ἑστίαν χθονός,
μονοψήφοισι νεύμασιν σέθεν,
μονοσκήπτροισι δ᾽ ἐν θρόνοις χρέος
πᾶν ἐπικραίνεις· ἄγος φυλάσσου.
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Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 354 focus
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.)) — 348-435 focus
The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 354 focus
I behold a youthful band 3
shaded with new-cropped boughs [at the altars] of these gods who preside over the games. But may this business of the guests of our city be unattended with hurt nor let strife arise to the city from unexpected and sudden things, for these the city wants not.
May Themis, the goddess of suppliants, daughter of lot-directing Jove, regard in truth our harmless flight: but do you, though being an old man 4
in mind, learn from one younger; reverencing a suppliant, you shall not be reduced to want. 5
* * * * gifts offered to the gods from a pure man.
By no means do you sit at the hearth of my house: but if the city be polluted in common, together let the people take care to work out remedies: but I could not perform a promise, before at least having communicated with all these of 1
citizens concerning these things.
You are the city, and you are the people, being a ruler accountable to none, you have sway over the altar, the hearth of the land: by your soul-deciding nod, and on a sole-sceptred throne you determine every thing; beware of pollution.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 354 focus
escarpés, puis, meuglante, conte sa peine à son bouvier.
Oui, pour que notre exil ne crée point de
maux, daigne Thémis Suppliante 1 , fille de Zeus qui répartit les destins, jeter un regard sur nous! Malgré ton âge et ton savoir, apprends-le de plus jeune que toi : à qui respecte le suppliant ira la prospérité; les temples divins ouverts aux offrandes
reçoivent comme agréable que ce qu'ils reçoivent d'un mortel sans tache.
les faits à tous les Argiens.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 354 focus
I ſee a ſtranger train, with boughs newpluck'd
Shading theſe Gods that o'er the games preſide.
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May their arrival, tho' now ſtrangers here,
Yet hence deſcended, bring no dread event;
Nor from this ſudden, unexpected hap
Let war, which least we wish, disturb our ſtate.
May Themis, guardian of the ſuppliant, ſprung
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From pow'rful Jove, look on our harmless flight.
Nor from a younger let thy age diſdain
To learn the reverence due to ſupplicants,
From whoſe pure hands the fav'ring Gods accept
The grateful offering.
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Make not your requeſt
To me in private: if pollution ſtains
The public ſtate, the public has the charge
To expiate that ſtain; nor can my voice,
E'er conſultation with the people held,.
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Warrant the fanction of the public faith.
Thou art the ſtate; the public thou; thy voice,
Superior to controul, confirms the ſanction
This altar gives; thy fole authority,
Highſcepter'd monarch of a ſovereign throne,
440
Is here obey'd: religion's voice pleads for us;
Revere it, nor profane theſe hallow'd feats.
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 354 focus
Dinanzi ai Numi tutelari scorgo
la vostra schiera, e ombrarla i rami supplici.
Buon esito l'arrivo abbia di queste
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estranee figlie d'Argo; e dagli eventi
inaspettati e impreveduti, guerra
non surga alla città guerre non giovano.
Diva dei supplici, di Zeus che vigila
tutto, ministra, proteggi, o Tèmide,
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― questa incolpevole fuga. E me giovine,
odi tu, saggio per bianca età.
Abbi pietà
di chi vien supplice. Degna mercede
ne avrai dai Superi,
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grati alle offerte dell'uom che ha fede.
Ma non sedete innanzi al focolare
della mia casa. Se contagio macchia
la città, deve tutto quanto il popolo
provvedere ai rimedî. Io la promessa
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non ti farò, se prima i cittadini
dell'evento non sian resi partecipi.
La città solo tu sei, tu il popolo,
l'insindacabil principe:
l'altare, fuoco sacro alla patria,
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tu reggi: l'unico tuo voto, l'unico
tuo cenno, tutto dal trono regio
dispone. Guàrdati dal sacrilegio.
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 354 focus
Video ramis recenter decerptis umbraculum,
Iuuenemq; cæternam horum forenſium deorum.
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Erit innocuum hoc negotium ciuibus.
Neq; ex inſperatis & improuidis urbi,
Contentio fiat, his enim non eget urbs.
Videret uidelicet innocuam fugam,
Iceſia Themis Iouis Clarij filia.
340
Tu ab alienato intellige ſenex cum ſis
Parricidam ueritus, ex quo
Sacra conſilia deorum
A uiro casto.
Non ſedebitis domorum contubernales
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Meorum, ſi communiter inquinetur urbs.
Ego uerò non perficerem promiſsionem priorem
Ciuium omnibus his communicans.
Tu urbs es, & tu popularis,
Gubernator iniudicatus,
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Tenes aras & focos terræ,
Solo calculorum nutu tuo.
In ſolijs ſceptralibus negotium
Omne perficis. ſcelus uita.
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.) — 354 focus
Lo, with bowed heads beside our city shrines
Ye sit 'neath shade of new-plucked olive-boughs.
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Our distant kin's resentment Heaven forefend!
Let not this hap, unhoped and unforeseen,
Bring war on us: for strife we covet not.
Justice, the daughter of right-dealing Zeus,
Justice, the queen of suppliants, look down,
395
That this our plight no ill may loose
Upon your town!
This word, even from the young, let age and wisdom learn:
If thou to suppliants show grace,
Thou shalt not lack Heaven's grace in turn,
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So long as virtue's gifts on heavenly shrines have place.
Not at my private hearth ye sit and sue;
And if the city bear a common stain,
Be it the common toil to cleanse the same:
Therefore no pledge, no promise will I give,
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Ere counsel with the commonwealth be held.
Nay, but the source of sway, the city's self, art thou,
A power unjudged! thine, only thine,
To rule the right of hearth and shrine!
Before thy throne and sceptre all men bow!
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Thou, in all causes lord, beware the curse divine!
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.) — 354 focus
Von frischgepflückten Zweigen überschattet, winkt
Huldblickend, seh' ich, dort der Kampfgottheiten Chor.
O daß der Fremden Nähe doch uns keinen Harm
Bereite, daß nicht plöhlich, unvorherbedacht,
Sich Kampf entſpinne! Keines Kampfs bedarf die Stadt.
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Erste Gegenstrophe.
Laß uns der Stadt kein Leid bringen, Kind
Des Looslenkers Zeus, Themis, der Flücht'gen Hort!
Und von den jüngeren Frau'n hör' es, erfahrner Greis:
Wenn du den Flüchtling ehrst, mangelt dir's nimmerdar,
Wird dir ein selig Loos! Freudig empfangen Götter
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Das Opfer von reinen Händen.
Doch lagert ihr an meines Hauses Herde nicht.
Trifft denn gemeinsam diese Stadt der Fluch, so muß
Das Volk gemeinsam sorgen, daß der Fluch entweicht.
Ich könnte Nichts erfüllen, und verhieß ich's auch,
350
Bevor ich Alles kundgethan vor allem Volk.
Zweite Strophe.
Du bist die Stadt, du das gesammte Volk;
Keinem Gerichte stehst
Du, lenkst machtvoll Altar und Landesherd;
Alleinherr durch des Auges Herrscherwink,
355
Alleinherr, führst du, groß durch Thron und Stab,
Alles zum Ziel: fliehe vor der Blutſchuld!

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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Kommos, in welchem die Gründe für und gegen erörtert werden. Auf jede Strophe und Antistrophe des Chors folgen fünf Trimeter des Königs; nur den Ab- schluß der Partie bilden 11 Tri- meter. im

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ἱροδόκων ( ἱεροδόκων Butler für ἱεροδόκα nach dem Schol. οἱ θεοὶ δέχονται τὰ ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς ἁγνοῦ ἱερά) θεῶν λαίγματ' (für λήματ' nach Hesych. λαίγματα· πέμματα ἱερά, ἀπάργματα): der Akk. λαίγματα ist von ἱροδόκων wie von δεχομένων abhängig, zu 254. Vgl. Sieb. 686 μελάναιγις ἐκ δ᾽ εἶσι δόμων Ἐρινύς, ὅταν ἐκ χερῶν θεοὶ θυσίαν δέχωνται. Zum Gedanken vgl. Eur. Fragm. 327, 4 ἐγὼ δὲ πολλάκις σοφωτέρους πένητας ἄνδρας εἰσορῶ τῶν πλουσίων καὶ θεοῖσι μικρᾷ χειρί θύοντας τέλη τῶν βουθυτούντων ὄντας εὐσεβεστέρους, 946 εὖ ἴσθ᾽, ὅταν τις εὐσεβῶν θύῃ θεοῖς, κἂν σμικρὰ θύη, τυγχάνει σωτηρίας, Xen. Memor. I 3, 3, Isokr. VII § 30, Anaxim. Rhet. K. 2 S. 180, 20 ovx εἰκὸς τοὺς θεοὺς χαίρειν ταῖς δαπάναις τῶν θυομένων, ἀλλὰ ταῖς εὐσεβείαις τῶν θυόντων, Hor. carm. III 23, 17.