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Supplices. N. Wecklein. . .

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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.) — 40-175f focus
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 40-167a 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.) — 40 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 40 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 40 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 40 focus
νῦν δ᾽ ἐπικεκλομένα
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Δῖον πόρτιν ὑπερ-
πόντιον τιμάορ', νιν
ἀνθονομούσας προγόνου βοός, ἐξ ἐπιπνοίας
Ζηνὸς ἔφαψιν, ἐπωνυμίᾳ δ᾽ ἐπε-
κραίνετο μόρσιμος αἰὼν
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εὐλόγως, Ἔπαφόν τ' ἐγέννασεν.
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ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 40 focus
Νῦν δ' ἐπικεκλομένα ἐπικεκλομέναι
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Δῖον πόρτιν ὑπερ-
πόντιον τιμάορ᾽ ἵνιν τ' ἀνθονομού-
σας άνθονομουστας 1
προγόνου βοὸς ἐξ ἐπιπνοίας ἐπιπνοίαις
Ζηνός· ἐφάψει ἔφαψιν ἐπωνυμία δ' ἐπε-
κραίνετο μόρσιμος αἰών
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εὐλόγως, Επαφον δ' ἐγέννασεν·
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 40 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 40 focus
νῦν δ᾽ ἐπικεκλομένα
Δῖον πόρτιν ὑπερπόντιον τιμάορ᾽, ἶνιν [τ᾽]
ἀνθονομούσας προγόνου βοός, ἐξ ἐπιπνοίας
Ζηνὸς ἔφαψιν, ἐπωνυμίαι δ᾽ ἐπε-
κραίνετο μόρσιμος αἰών
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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.)) — 40-165a focus
The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 40 focus
But now invoking 2
the divine calf, my avenger beyond the sea, and the son of the flower-cropping heifer, our progenitor, from the breathing of Jove. But the fated time rightly confirmed the touch [of Jove] in the name [of her son,] and brought forth Epaphus;
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 40 focus
ils se heurtent à une mer farouche et périssent,
Avant d'avoir, malgré le Ciel qui le défend, asservi les
nièces d'un père, en montant dans des lits qui ne les veu- lent pas !
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 40 focus
To thee, th' avenging pow'r
Ador'd beyond the waves of this wide main,
Raiſe we the ſolemn ſtrain,
Her progeny, that crop'd each various flow'r
Which deck'd the fragrant mead,
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Till Jove's ſoft touch her alter'd ſhape caress'd,
And ſooth'd her ſoul to reſt:
Thereto we add thy fateappointed name,
Epaphus of mighty fame,
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 40 focus
Il rampollo divino
ora s'invochi, il vindice
torello oltremarino,
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concetto al tocco e all'alito
di Giove, sopra i floridi
paschi, dalla giovenca progenitrice nostra:
ché giunse il di' scritto nei fati, ed Èpafo
die' a luce: il nome suo l'origin mostra.
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Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 40 focus
Nunc uerò inuocantes
Iouis uirulum ſuper pontium ultorem filium
Contraria lege progenitoris
Bonis ex inſpiratione
Iouis congreſsum denominatione
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Perfecta est fatalis uita
Confeſso, Epaphum generatione exiſtentem dicens.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 31 focus
Chorus
Whom next of all these gods shall I invoke?
DANAOS
This trident see I, ensign of the god.
Chorus
Well hath he sped us, well may he receive!
DANAOS
Here Hermes also after Hellas' rites.
Chorus
May he good tidings herald to the free!
DANAOS
Of all these gods the common shrine revere,
And in these holy precincts take your seats,
Like flock of doves scared by like-feathered hawks, 220
Our kin, yet foes, polluters of the race.
Can bird, devouring bird, be undefiled?
And how can he who weds unwilling bride,
From sire unwilling, be accounted pure?
Not e'en in realm of Hades, after death,
Shall one so reckless fail to be arraigned.
For there, among the shades, another Zeus,
'Tis said, offence by final verdict dooms.
Look out, and on this place your station take,
So happy issue your emprize shall crown.
PELASGOS
As from what soil this troop may we salute, 230
Band un-Hellenic, in barbaric robes
And folds luxuriant? This female gear
Nor Argos knows, nor any tract of Hellas.
How without heralds, without public hosts,
E'en destitute of guides, ye to this land
Fearless have dared to come, is marvellous!
Branches, indeed, as is the suppliant's wont,
Lie near you, hard by these Agonian gods;
By this alone may Hellas form surmise;
And many other things to guess were just, 240
Were none at hand by living voice to tell.
Chorus
Touching my garb not falsely hast thou spoken;
But whom do I address? A citizen,
Or temple-guard, or leader of the state?
PELASGOS
In that regard speak thou and answer make
Fearless; earth-born Palaechthon's son am I,
Of this Pelasgic country potentate.
And they this soil who reap, from me, their lord,
Race of Pelasgi rightfully are named.
For all the land through which clear Strymon flows, 250
Towards the setting sun, my sway doth own.
My realm the lands of the Perrhæbi gird,
Those beyond Pindus to Paeonia near,
And high Dodona. Ocean's watery bourne
Cuts it sheer off. Within these bounds I rule.
This plain itself, this Apian land, of old
In wise physician's honour gained its name.
For Apis, prophet-leech, Apollo's son,
Arriving from Naupactos, o'er the sea,
This land from man-destroying monsters purged, 260
Whom earth, by stains of ancient blood defiled,
Sent up in anger, dragon-progeny,
Co-dwellers fierce. Apis, as leech and seer,
Blameless, for Argive land these ills hath cured,
And for reward hath mention in our prayers.
Having from me these tokens, in return
Show forth your lineage, and further speak.
Yet long discourse this city brooketh not.
Chorus
Brief be my tale and clear. Of Argive race,— 270
Seed of the heifer in her offspring blest,
We boast ourselves. All this will I confirm.
PELASGOS
Incredible, O strangers, sounds your tale,
That this your race from Argos is derived.
For Libya's daughters ye resemble most,
In no wise like to women native here.
Such progeny might Neilos rear perchance;
Such too the Cyprian character impressed
In female moulds by male artificers.
Of nomad Indian women too I hear, 280
Who, pannier-borne, on steed-like camels ride,
Dwellers in land hard by the Æthiops' home.
Haply, if armed with bows, I you had deemed
Unlorded flesh-devouring Amazons.
Instructed I shall better understand,
How ye descent and race from Argos claim.
Chorus
They say that Io, in this Argive land,
Of Hera's temple bare of yore the keys.
PELASGOS
True, certes;—widely the report prevails.—
Runs not the tale that Zeus a mortal loved? 290
Chorus
Ay, and with dalliance not from Hera veiled.
PELASGOS
How ended then these royal jealousies?
Chorus
The goddess to a heifer changed the maid.
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.) — 40 focus
And now on her I call,
Mine ancestress, who far on Egypt's shore
A young cow's semblance wore,—
A maiden once, by Hera's malice changed!
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And then on him withal,
Who, as amid the flowers the grazing creature ranged,
Was in her by a breath of Zeus conceived;
And, as the hour of birth drew nigh,
By fate fulfilled, unto the light he came;—
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And Epaphus for name,
Born from the touch of Zeus, the child received.
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.) — 40 focus
Jetzt im Gebete zu dir
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Ruf' ich, o Sprößling des Zeus,
Du mein Hort jenseits des Meeres,
Welchen die grasweidende Sterke gebar von Kronions
Rührendem Hauch, den im Namen bewährte die Zeit des vollendenden Schicksals,
Da sich Epaphos ihrem Schooß entwand !
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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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ὑπερπόντιον:
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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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zweiter Teil der Pa- rodos:,,Jetzt den Epaphos, den Sprößling des Zeus, da anrufend, WO vorzeiten die Ahnmutter Io weidete, werde ich von meiner Abstammung den Bewohnern des Landes sichere Beweise geben. Ich fürchte aber und daher weine und klage ich wie die Nachtigall, welche um den Verlust ihres früheren Daseins (in Menschen- gestalt) und um den Tod ihres Sohnes weint -, es möchten die Freunde in Argos meine Bitte um Schutz abweisen. Wohlan denn, Götter meines Stammes, verhelft ihr mir zu meinem Rechte, wenn nicht aus Rücksicht auf mich, so doch aus Haß gegen den Übermut der Vettern, wenn sie mich von eurem Altare reißen wollen. Auch im Kriege finden die Besiegten Schutz an den Altären der Götter. Meinem Gotte gebe ich ganz und gar mich hin. Seine Ratschlüsse sind unerforschlich; aber sein Wille geschieht unfehlbar. Ein Licht ist er in der Finsternis des Unglücks, dagegen stürzt er die Frevler herab von dem hohen Turm des Glücks in seiner Allmacht, in welcher er seine Gedanken sofort zur Tat macht ohne sich vom Sitze zu rühren. Möge er herabblicken auf den menschlichen Übermut, welcher von rasender Leidenschaft sich zu allem Frevel fortreißen läßt, wenn dieser auch zum Verderben führen mu.

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Δῖον πόρτιν ( Διὸς πόρτιν wie 317, Schol. τὸν Ἔπαφον. Zwar wird πόρτις wie πῶλος, μόσχος, δάμαλις von jungen Mädchen und Knaben gebraucht wie νεοσσοί von Kindern, aber es hat hier doch eine besondere Beziehung auf die πρό- γονος βοῦς, die Ahnmutter Io. ὑπερπόντιον τιμάορα (Schol. βοηθόν) enthält nach ἐπικεκλομένη den Sinn: er möge über das Meer zu Hilfe kommen". Vgl. Eur. Phoen. 676 καὶ σέ, τὸν προμάτορος Ιούς ποτ᾽ ἔκγονον Ἔπαφον, ὦ Διὸς γένεθλον, ἐκάλεσ᾽ ἐκάλεσα βαρβάρῳ βοᾷ, ἐώ, βαρβάροις λιταῖς, βᾶθι βᾶθι τάνδε γᾶν. Die alleinstehende Form τι- μάρα, welche dem Versmaß dient, scheint durch die nicht zutreffende Analogie von χρυσάορος, χρυσάωρ veranlaßt zu sein. Vgl. Lobeck Paralip. S. 216. ἶνιν für ἶνίν τ' Hermann. Wahrscheinlich ist um der Responsion willen ΐνιν zu schreiben, vgl. zu κόνιν 186.