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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.) — 392 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 392 focus
Μήτι ποτ᾿ οὖν γενοίμαν ὑποχείριος
Κράτεσιν ἀρσένων· ὕπαστρον δε του 1
Μῆχαρ ὁρίζομαι γάμου δύσφροπος
Φυγᾷ. ξύμμαχον δ᾽ ἑλόμενος δίκαν
400
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
405
Επήλυδας τιμῶν, ἀπώλεσας πόλιν.
Αμφοτέρους ὁμαίμων τάδ ἐπισκοπεῖ
Ζεὺς ἑτεροῤῥεπὴς, νέμων εἰκότως 2
Αδικα μὲν κακοῖς, ὅσια δ᾽ ἐννόμοις.
Τί, τῶνδ᾽ ἐξ ἴσει ῥεπομένων, μεταλ- 3
410
γεῖς τὸ δίκαιον ἔρξαι;
Δεῖ τοι βαθείας Φροντίδος σωτηρία, 4
Δίκην κολυμβητῆρος, ἐς βυθὸν μολεῖν
Δεδορκὸς ὅμμα, μηδ᾽ ἄγαν οἰνωμένον·
Οπως ἄνατα ταῦτα, πρῶτα μὲν πόλει,
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Αὐτοῖσί θ᾽ ἡμῖν ἐκτελευτήσει καλῶς,
Καὶ μήτε δῆρις ῥυσίων ἐφάψεται, 5
Μήτ᾽ ἐν θεῶν ἕδραισιν ὧδ ιδρυμένας
Εκδόντες ὑμᾶς, τὸν πανώλεθρον θεὸν
Βαρὺν ξύνοικον θησόμεσθ᾽ ἀλάστορα.
420
Ως οὐδ᾽ ἐν ᾄδε τὸν θανόντ᾽ ἐλευθεροῖ.
Μῶν οὐ δοκεῖ δεῖν φροντίδος σωτηρία;
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 392 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 392 focus
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 392 focus
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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Αμφοτέροις Αμφοτέρους δμαίμων τάδ' ἐπισκοπεῖ
Ζεὺς ἑτερορρεπής, νέμων εἰκότως
ἄδικα μὲν κακοῖς, ὅσια δ' ἐννόμοις·
τί τῶνδ᾽ ἐξ ἴσου δεπομένων μεταλ-
γεῖς τὸ δίκαιον ἔρξαι;
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Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 392 focus
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.
ἀμφοτέρους ὁμαίμων τάδ᾽ ἐπισκοπεῖ
Ζεὺς ἑτερορρεπής, νέμων εἰκότως
ἄδικα μὲν κακοῖς, ὅσια δ᾽ ἐννόμοις.
τί τῶνδ᾽ ἐξ ἴσου ῥεπομένων μεταλ-
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γεῖς τὸ δίκαιον ἔρξαι;
δεῖ τοι βαθείας φροντίδος σωτηρίου
δίκην κολυμβητῆρος ἐς βυθόν μολεῖν
δεδορκὸς ὄμμα, μηδ᾽ ἄγαν ᾠνωμένον,
ὅπως ἄνατα ταῦτα πρῶτα μὲν πόλει,
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αὐτοῖσί θ᾽ ἡμῖν ἐκτελευτήσει καλῶς,
καὶ μήτε δήρις ῥυσίων εφάψεται
μήτ᾽ ἐν θεῶν ἕδραισιν ὧδ' ἱδρυμένας
ἐκδόντες ὑμᾶς τὸν πανώλεθρον θεὸν
βαρὺν ξύνοικον θησόμεσθ᾽ ἀλάστορα,
420
ὃς οὐδ᾽ ἐν Ἅιδου τὸν θανόντ᾽ ἐλευθεροῖ.
μῶν οὐ δοκεῖ δεῖν φροντίδος σωτηρίου;
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 392 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.) — 392 focus
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.
Jove allied to both, inclining to one side, regards these things, distributing as is right unjust things to the bad, but the rewards of piety to the just 3
. Wherefore, these being equally inclined, are you pained to do what is just?
There is need of deep thought, so that the clear-sighted eye may 4
, without dizziness, reach the bottom of deep preserving thought, like a diver: that these things harmless, first indeed to the city and to ourselves, may turn out well, and that neither strife lay hold of the pledges 1
, nor that we, having given up you placed here in the seats of the gods, bring on ourselves a dire fellow-dweller the all-destroying avenging god, who, not even in the abode of Hades frees the dead. Does there not seem to be need of saving thought?
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 392 focus
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.
un jour, si pareil malheur arrivait : « Pour honorer des étrangers, tu as perdu ta cité! »
stricte équité, comment avoir scrupule à faire ce que la Justice veut?
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 392 focus
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.
Each equally allied, impartial Jove
Weighs each in equal balance; but repays
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The impious deed with vengeance, to the juſt
Rewards their ſanctity. Why griev'ſt thou then
To emulate the God, and act with juſtice?
Matter of high import hast thou propos'd,
Which not admits heady and fitful raſhneſs,
475
But deep deliberation, provident care,
Wiſely attentive to the general weal,
That hence no evil riſe, but the event
Be profp'rous found, firſt, to the ſtate and me;
Next, that no force arreſt you here, nor we
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Betray you refug'd in theſe hallow'd ſeats,
The hostages of Heav'n, and on our heads
Call ruin and the vengeance of the Gods,
That e'en in death acquits not. Seems not this
Matter of deep debate, and public care?
485
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 392 focus
Deh! in lor dominio non m'abbiano gli uomini!
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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.
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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
Agli uni e alle altre parente, c'invigila
Giove, che parte con equa bilancia
il bene ai giusti, ed ai tristi l'offesa.
Or, se tale è la suprema giustizia,
perché compir ciò ch'è giusto ti pesa?
435
D'un meditar profondo e salutare
entro ai gorghi or convien che a guisa cali
di palombaro la pupilla vigile,
non torbida d'ebbrezza, affinché prima
tutti, per la città, per noi medesimi,
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lieto esito abbian questi eventi, in modo
che né alcuno ci provochi a contesa
per rïaver le cose estorte, né
tradir dobbiamo voi, prostrate supplici
agli altari dei Numi, ed attirare
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il Dio della rovina ultima, Alàstore,
ospite duro, che neppur nell'Ade
lascia liberi i morti. O non vi sembra
che la salvezza meditar convenga?
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 392 focus
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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Ambos conſanguineus conſiderat
Iupiter, in alteram partem uergens distribuens meritò
Iniusta malis, ſancta pijs.
Quid horum ſuſceptio non repentium, ægre fers iuſticiam.
Opus est profundâ cura ſalutari,
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Inſtar natatoris in gurgitem euntis
Intuentis oculo neq; admodum temulentus.
Vt innocua hæc ſint, primò quidem urbi,
Nobisq; ipſis perficiat pulchrè.
Et neq; liberatorum contentio aggrediatur.
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Neq; in ſolijs deorum sic conſtitutas
Grauem cohabitatorem faciamus, & Alasſora.
Vt neq; mortuum apud inferos liberet.
Num uidetur opus eſse cura ſalutari.
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.) — 392 focus
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.
Zeus, lord of kinship, rules at will
440
The swaying balance, and surveys
Evil and good; to men of ill
Gives evil, and to good men praise.
And thou—since true those scales do sway—
Shalt thou from justice shrink away?
445
A deep, a saving counsel here there needs—
An eye that like a diver to the depth
Of dark perplexity can pass and see,
Undizzied, unconfused. First must we care
That to the State and to ourselves this thing
450
Shall bring no ruin; next, that wrangling hands
Shall grasp you not as prey, nor we ourselves
Betray you thus embracing sacred shrines,
Nor make the avenging all-destroying god,
Who not in hell itself sets dead men free,
455
A grievous inmate, an abiding bane.
—Spake I not right, of saving counsel's need?
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.) — 392 focus
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.
Auf uns Beide schaut, Beiden verwandt, mit gleich
Schwebender Wage Zeus: gerecht theilt der Gott
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Bösen den Fluch der Schuld, Segen dem Frommen zu.
Warum sträubst du dich, da doch die Schalen gleich
Schweben, gerecht zu richten?
Wohl muß in tiefer Sorge Flut, der Retterin,
Mein Auge, gleich dem Taucher, bis zum Grund hinab
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Scharfspähend sich versenken, nicht umwölkt von Dunst,
Daß dieses Alles ohne Harm für meine Stadt,
Sodann für uns auch enden mag in gutem Glück.
Kein Hader soll sie kränken, die sich uns vertraut,
Noch will ich, die den Götterherden zugefloh'n,
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Preisgeben, daß wir keinen allvernichtenden
Nachgeist im Hause wecken uns zu Schmach und Qual,
Der selbst in Hades' Reiche nicht den Todten läßt.
Ist hier die Sorge nicht gerecht, die Retterin?

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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ὀρμέναν:
ὀρομέναν
Μ.
ὁρωμένων
G. E. Rob. Correxit Pauwius.
407

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ἐξ ἑδρᾶν:
ἐξ ἕδραν
Μ. G.
ἐξέδραν
Rob.
ἐξεδρᾶν
Turn.
ἐξ ἐδρῶν
Vict.
408

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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ἀμφοτέροις (so Schütz für ἀμφοτέρους, wie die Handschrift 483 ὁμαίμους für ὁμαίμοις bietet) ὁμαίμων κτέ, wenn Zeus auch beiden Teilen, uns und den Vettern, in gleicher Weise verwandt ist, so behandelt er doch nicht beide gleich, sondern neigt sich nach der einen Seite, wo er das Recht sieht". Vgl. Ζεὺς νεμέτωρ Sieb. 472.