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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.) — 376 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 376 focus
Αγος μὲν εἴη τοῖς ἐμοῖς παλιγκότας, 1
Υμῖν δ᾽ ἀρήγειν οὐκ ἔχω βλάβης ἄτερ·
Οὐδ᾽ αὖ τόδ᾽ εἶφρον, τάσδ' ἀτιμάσαι λιτάς.
Αμηχανῶ δὲ, καὶ φόβος μ ἔχει Φρένας
Δράσαι τε, μὴ δράσαι τε, καὶ τύχην ἑλεῖν. 2
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Τὸν ὑψίθεν σκοπὸν ἐπισκόπει,
Φύλακα πολυπόνων 3
Βροτῶν, οἱ τοῖς πέλας προσήμενοι
Δίκας οὐ τυγχάνωσιν ἐννόμου.
Μένει του Ζηνὸς ἱκταίε κότος 4
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Εν δυσπαρθίλκτοις παθόντος οἴκτοις. 5
Εἴ τοι κρατοῦσι παῖδες Αἰγύπτε σέθεν,
Νόμῳ πόλεως φάσκοντες ἐγγύτατα γένες
Εἶναι, τις ἂν τοῖσδ᾽ ἀντιωθῆναι θέλοι;
Δεῖ τα σὲ φεύγειν κατὰ νόμους τοὺς οἴκοθεν,
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Ως οὐκ ἔχουσι κῦρος οὐδὲν ἀμφὶ σοῦ.
Μήτι ποτ᾿ οὖν γενοίμαν ὑποχείριος
Κράτεσιν ἀρσένων· ὕπαστρον δε του 6
Μῆχαρ ὁρίζομαι γάμου δύσφροπος
Φυγᾷ. ξύμμαχον δ᾽ ἑλόμενος δίκαν
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Κρίνε σέβας τὸ πρὸς θεῶν.
Οὐκ εὔκριτον τὸ κρῖμα μή μ αἱροῦ κριτήν.
Εἶπον δὲ καὶ πρὶν, οὐκ ἄνευ δήμε τάδι
Πράξαιμ᾽ ἂν, οὐδέπερ κρατῶν, καὶ μήποτε
Εἴπῃ λεὼς, εἴ που τὶ μὴ τοῖον τύχη
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Επήλυδας τιμῶν, ἀπώλεσας πόλιν.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 376 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 376 focus
εἴ τοι κρατοῦσι παῖδες Αἰγύπτου σέθεν
νόμῳ πόλεως, φάσκοντες ἐγγύτατα γένους
εἶναι, τίς ἂν τοῖςδ᾽ ἀντιωθῆναι θέλοι;
δεῖ τοί σε φεύγειν κατὰ νόμους τοὺς οἴκοθεν,
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ὡς οὐκ ἔχουσι κῦρος οὐδὲν ἀμφὶ σοῦ.
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 376 focus
Τὸν ὑψόθεν σκοπὸν ἐπισκόπει,
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φύλακα πολυπόνων
βροτῶν, οἱ τοῖς πέλας προσήμενοι
δίκας οὐ τυγχάνουσιν ἐννόμου
μένει τοι Ζηνός Ικταίου κότος
δυσπαραθέλκτους ὦ δυσπαραθέλκτοις παθόντος οἴκτοις.
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Μή τί ποτ' οὖν γενοίμαν ὑποχείριος
κάρτεσιν ἀρσένων· ὕπαστρον δέ τοι
μῆχαρ ὁρίζομαι γάμου δύσφρονος
φυγάν φυγαί· ξύμμαχον δ' ἑλόμενος δίκαν
κρῖνε σέβας τὸ πρὸς θεῶν.
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Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 376 focus
ἄγος μὲν εἴη τοῖς ἐμοῖς παλιγκότοις,
ὑμῖν δ᾽ ἀρήγειν οὐκ ἔχω βλάβης ἄτερ
οὐδ᾽ αὖ τόδ᾽ εὐφρον, τάσδ' ἀτιμάσαι λιτάς.
ἀμηχανῶ δὲ καὶ φόβος μ' ἔχει φρένας
δρᾶσαί τε μὴ δρᾶσαί τε καὶ τύχην ἑλεῖν.
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τὸν ὑψόθεν σκοπὸν ἐπισκόπει,
φύλακα πολυπόνων
βροτῶν, οἱ τοῖς πέλας προσήμενοι
δίκας οὐ τυγχάνουσιν ἐννόμου.
μένει τοι Ζηνὸς ἱκταίου κότος
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δυσπαραθέλκτους παθόντος οἴκτοις.
εἴ τοι κρατοῦσι παῖδες Αἰγύπτου σέθεν
νόμῳ πόλεως, φάσκοντες ἐγγύτατα γένους
εἶναι, τίς ἂν τοῖσδ᾽ ἀντιωθῆναι θέλοι;
δεῖ τοί σε φεύγειν κατὰ νόμους τοὺς οἴκοθεν,
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ὡς οὐκ ἔχουσιν κῦρος οὐδὲν ἀμφὶ σοῦ.
μή τί ποτ᾽ οὖν γενοίμαν ὑποχείριος
κράτεσιν ἀρσένων. ὕπαστρον δέ τοι
μῆχαρ ὁρίζομαι γάμου δύσφρονος
φυγαί. ξύμμαχον δ᾽ ἑλόμενος δίκαν
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κρῖνε σέβας τὸ πρὸς θεῶν.
οὐκ εὔκριτον τὸ κρῖμα· μή μ' αἱροῦ κριτήν.
εἶπον δὲ καὶ πρίν, οὐκ ἄνευ δήμου τάδε
πράξαιμ᾽ ἄν, οὐδέ περ κρατῶν, καὶ μή ποτε
εἴπῃ λεώς, εἴ πού τι καὶ μὴ τοῖον τύχοι·
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ἐπήλυδας τιμῶν ἀπώλεσας πόλιν.
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 376 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.) — 376 focus
May pollution, indeed, be upon my enemies: but I can not aid you without harm, nor again is it prudent to reject these prayers. But I am perplexed, and fear holds my mind, whether to act, or not to act, and to take my chance.
Look to the beholder on high, the protector of troubled mortals, who sitting [as suppliants] before their kindred, obtain not lawful justice. Therefore the wrath of Jove guardian of suppliants waits upon the wailing of the sufferer, that can not be appeased.
If the sons of Ægyptus have power over you by the law of your state, saying that they are nearest of kin, who would wish to oppose them? Ye needs must therefore prove according to the laws of your home that they have no authority over you.
May I never at any time then become subject to the power of males: but I mark out a star-guided remedy of the wretched marriage by flight: and having taken Justice an ally, do thou determine according to the reverence due to the gods.
The judgment is not easy to judge: choose not me as judge. But I said even before, not without the people would I do these things, not even though ruler, lest at any time the people shall say, if perchance any thing fall out not such [as we wish] 2
, honoring strangers you have destroyed the city.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 376 focus
garde-toi d'une souillure.
celui qui d'en haut tout regarde, le protecteur des mortels douloureux qui, aux genoux de leurs frères, n'obtiennent pas le droit que la loi
leur donne. Songes-y:
le courroux de Zeus Suppliant attend tous ceux qui restent insensibles aux plaintes de qui souffre.
Il te faut, toi, plaider que les lois de chez vous ne leur donnent point sur toi de tutelle.
alliance avec la Justice: prends une décision qui d'abord respecte les dieux.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 376 focus
That profanation to mine enemies.
To grant you my protection cannot be
But with much danger; to reject your pray'rs,
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Humanity forbids: perplex'd I fear
To act, or not to act, and fix my choice.
On Heav'n's high throne he ſits, whoſe watch-
ful eye
Regards th' afflicted, when unfeeling pride
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Denies that juſtice which the law aſks for them.
Reverence his pow'r; for when the ſufferer groans
With pangs unpitied, the fix'd wrath of Jove,
Protector of the ſuppliant, burns ſevere r
.
If by your country's laws Ægyptus' ſons,
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As next of blood, aſſert a right in you,
Who ſhou'd oppoſe them? It behoves thee then
By your own laws to prove ſuch claim unjuſt,
Ah never may I be perforce a thrall
To man! By heav'ndirected flight I break
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The wayward plan of theſe deteſted nuptials.
Arm juſtice on thy ſide, and with her aid
Judge with that ſanctity the Gods demand.
No eaſy province: make not me your judge.
Great tho' my pow'r, it is not mine to act, s
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I told thee ſo, without my people's voice
Aſſenting; left, if ill arife, they ſay
By honouring ſtrangers thou' hast undone thy country.
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 376 focus
Sopra chi m'odia il sacrilegio piombi!
Soccorrervi non posso io senza biasimo,
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né saggio è disprezzar le preci vostre.
Terror m'ingombra: rimango perplesso,
fare o non fare e scegliere la sorte.
Pur dal superno custode guàrdati,
vigile ognor sui miseri,
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quanti ai parenti chiedono supplici
giusto soccorso, ma non l' impètrano.
Chi degli afflitti non si commuove
pei lagni, irato lo aspetta Giove.
E se i figli d'Egitto sostenessero
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ch'àn diritto su te, sendo i piú prossimi
parenti tuoi, per legge patria, opporsi
chi a lor potrebbe? Dimostrar t'è d'uopo
che diritto non han per quella legge.
Deh! in lor dominio non m'abbiano gli uomini!
420
Prima la fuga per me sarà farmaco
dell'odioso connubio, e mi guidi
degli astri il raggio. Alleata or Giustizia
tu scegli, i Numi abbi in cuore, e decidi.
Facil non è. Non scegliere me giudice.
425
Te l'ebbi a dire: senza i cittadini
nulla farei, pur se il potere avessi:
ché poi, volgendo tristi eventi, il popolo
non mi dovesse dir: « Per fare onore
a stranïere, hai la città perduta ».
430
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 376 focus
Scelus iræ plenum meis erit.
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Vobis opitulari non poſsum ſine nocumento.
Neq; rurſus hoc iucundum has preces contemnere.
Inops uerò sum conſilij, & metus mea mente occupat.
Facere & non facere, aſsequi & auferre.
Speculatorem altum conſidera,
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Cuſtodem laborioſorum
Mortalium, qui propinquis aſsidẽtes
Non aſsequuntur cauſam iuſtam.
Manet Iouis Icſei ira
In implacabilibus patientis miſerationibus.
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Si uerò ſuperent te filij Aegypti
Iure ciuitatis dicentes propinquitatem generis.
Eſse, quis contrà ire uoluerit?
Oportet iuxta leges has domo fugere,
Vt non habeant ullam poteſtatem in te.
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Ne igitur, ne fortè ſubditus essem
Imperantibus uirorum magnum
Machinamentum termino matrimonij iniucundi
Fuga. eligens iuſticiam ſociam.
Iudica cultum per deos.
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Non facile iudicatum eſt hoc iudicium. ne me elige
Dixi uerò antea, non ſine populo hæc
Agerem, neq; imperans, ne fortè
Dicat populus, quod tale non conſtingat.
Honorans aduenas, perdiſti urbem.
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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.) — 376 focus
May that curse fall upon mine enemies!
I cannot aid you without risk of scathe,
Nor scorn your prayers—unmerciful it were.
Perplexed, distraught I stand, and fear alike
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The twofold chance, to do or not to do.
Have heed of him who looketh from on high,
The guard of woeful mortals, whosoe'er
Unto their fellows cry,
And find no pity, find no justice there.
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Abiding in his wrath, the suppliants' lord
Doth smite, unmoved by cries, unbent by prayerful word.
But if Aegyptus' children grasp you here,
Claiming, their country's right, to hold you theirs
As next of kin, who dares to counter this?
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Plead ye your country's laws, if plead ye may,
That upon you they lay no lawful hand.
Let me not fall, O nevermore,
A prey into the young men's hand;
Rather than wed whom I abhor,
430
By pilot-stars I flee this land;
O king, take justice to thy side,
And with the righteous powers decide!
Hard is the cause—make me not judge thereof.
Already I have vowed it, to do nought
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Save after counsel with my people ta'en,
King though I be; that ne'er in after time,
If ill fate chance, my people then may say—
In aid of strangers thou the state hast slain.
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.) — 376 focus
Schuld falle nur auf meiner Widersacher Haupt!
Doch euch vermag ich ohne Fahr nicht beizusteh'n,
Und wieder hart wär's, wies' ich euer Fleh'n zurück.
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Ich schwanke, Furcht befällt mich, ob ich's wagen soll,
Ob nicht es wagend, wählen soll das Ungefähr.
Zweite Gegenstrophe.
O blick' auf Ihn, der aus den Höhen blickt,
Ihn, der Bedrängten Schirm
Und Hort, die flehend ihrem Nächsten nah'n,
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Und Recht nicht finden noch Gerechtigkeit.
Wohl straft Zeus' Grimm, des Flüchtlingshortes, einst,
Wen das Geschrei nicht erbarmt des Armen.
Doch wenn Aegyptos' Söhne dich bewältigen,
Und als die nächsten Vettern auf die heimischen
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Geseze sich berufen: wer wehrt ihnen dann?
Ihr müßt erweisen nach des Vaterlandes Recht,
Daß ihrer keiner über euch Gewalt besikt.
Dritte Strophe.
Nie denn, o nie hinfort seien wir unterthan
Roher Gewalt des Manns! Heller Gestirne Bahn
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Wies mir in weiter Flucht aus dem verhaften Bund
Rettung. O richte denn, treu der Gerechtigkeit,
Deren Gewalt von Zeus ist!
Ein schweres Richtamt: nicht zum Richter wähle mich!
Ich sagte längst, nicht ohne meines Volkes Nath
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Verfüg' ich Etwas, hätt' ich auch die Macht dazu.
Nie soll das Volk mir sagen, wenn's nicht glücklich geht:
„Den Fremdling schügend, gabest du die Deinen preis!"
Dritte Gegenstrophe.

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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ξύνοικον θησόμεσθ':
ξύνοικον θησόμεθ'
M. Rob.
ξύνοισιν θήσομεν
G.
ξύνοικον θησόμεσθ'
Victorius.
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ὃς οὐδ᾽ ἐν:
ὡς οὐδὲν
M. Rob.
ὡς οὐδ᾽ ἐν
G. Correxit Stephanus.
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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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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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Erwähle die Dike zur Bundesgenossin und entscheide dich für das was bei den Göttern heilig ist." Vgl. τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμα Soph. Ant. 77.