N. Wecklein Supplices 429.comm-429

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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.) — 438-523 focus
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 438-523 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.) — 402 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 402 focus
Αμφοτέρους ὁμαίμων τάδ ἐπισκοπεῖ
Ζεὺς ἑτεροῤῥεπὴς, νέμων εἰκότως 1
Αδικα μὲν κακοῖς, ὅσια δ᾽ ἐννόμοις.
Τί, τῶνδ᾽ ἐξ ἴσει ῥεπομένων, μεταλ- 2
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γεῖς τὸ δίκαιον ἔρξαι;
Δεῖ τοι βαθείας Φροντίδος σωτηρία, 3
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, 4
Μήτ᾽ ἐν θεῶν ἕδραισιν ὧδ ιδρυμένας
Εκδόντες ὑμᾶς, τὸν πανώλεθρον θεὸν
Βαρὺν ξύνοικον θησόμεσθ᾽ ἀλάστορα.
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Ως οὐδ᾽ ἐν ᾄδε τὸν θανόντ᾽ ἐλευθεροῖ.
Μῶν οὐ δοκεῖ δεῖν φροντίδος σωτηρία;
Φρόντισον, καὶ γενοῦ
Πανδίκως εὐσεβής
Πρόξενος,
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Τὰν φυγάδα μὴ προδῶς
Τὰν ἕκαθεν ἐκβολαῖς
Δυσθέας ὁρμωμέναν 5
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 402 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 402 focus
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 402 focus
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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Φρόντισον καὶ γενοῦ πανδίκως
εὐσεβὴς πρόξενος·
τὰν φυγάδα μὴ προδῷς,
τὰν ἕκαθεν ἐκβολαῖς
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δυσθέοις ὀρμέναν ὀρομέναν 1 ·
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 402 focus
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,
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ὃς οὐδ᾽ ἐν Ἅιδου τὸν θανόντ᾽ ἐλευθεροῖ.
μῶν οὐ δοκεῖ δεῖν φροντίδος σωτηρίου;
φρόντισον καὶ γενοῦ
πανδίκως εὐσεβὴς
πρόξενος,
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τὰν φυγάδα μὴ προδῷς,
τὰν ἕκαθεν ἐκβολαῖς
δυσθέοις ὀρμέναν·
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 402 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.)) — 438-520 focus
The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 402 focus
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?
Consider, and be most justly a pious receiver of strangers, betray not the exile driven from afar by godless expulsion:
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 402 focus
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?
vengeur 2 qui, même dans l'Hadès, ne lâche point le mort: Dites, n'ai-je pas besoin d'une pensée qui sauve?
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 402 focus
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,
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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?
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Deliberate then with prudent care:
To thy counſels take with thee
Heav'ncommercing piety,
And be ſtedfaſt juſtice near.
Hark! methinks I hear them ſay,
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Do not, mighty king, betray
Wretched exiles wand'ring far.
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 402 focus
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?
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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?
Medita, e in tutto mostrati
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pio protettor degli ospiti,
come Giustizia chiede.
No, non tradir la profuga,
che dall'avversa furia
d'empî sospinta, qui supplice siede.
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Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 402 focus
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.
Cura, & esto omnino pius.
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Hoſpes, exulem ne prodas.
Hanc procul expulſionibus impijs agitatam.
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.) — 402 focus
Zeus, lord of kinship, rules at will
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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?
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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
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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,
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A grievous inmate, an abiding bane.
—Spake I not right, of saving counsel's need?
Yea, counsel take and stand to aid
At Justice' side and mine.
Betray not me, the timorous maid
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Whom far beyond the brine
A godless violence cast forth forlorn.
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.) — 402 focus
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?
Sorge du, sei, o Herr,
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Allgerecht frommgesinnt, unser Schuh!
Nicht dahin gib die Schaar,
Die Gewalt ruchlos aus-
trieb in dies ferne Land!
Erste 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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NA: Vulgo haec sic scripta sunt,
καὶ χρήμασιν μὲν ἐκ δόμων πορθουμένων, ἄτης γε μείζω, καὶ μέγ' ἐμπλήσας γόμον, γένοιτ' ἂν ἄλλα κτησίου Διὸς χάριν· καὶ γλῶσσα τοξεύσασα μὴ τὰ καίρια, γένοιτο μύθου μῦθος ἂν θελκτήριος, ἀλγεινὰ θυμοῦ κάρτα κινητήρια
. Horum versuum in primo perversitas sententiae offensui est. Expugnata enim domo non opibus, quae iam nullae sunt, aliae possunt accedere, sed domui, quae spoliata opibus est. Confirmatur hoc eo quod ad hunc versum in scholiis adscriptum est
χρημάτων
, quae non videtur interpretatio, sed notatio alius scripturae esse. Scilicet scriba in antiquissimo codice
χρήμασι
(ita libri,
χρήμασιν
Vict.) pro
δώμασι
,
δόμων
autem pro
χρημάτων
scripserat. In altero versu veteres libri
ἄτην γε μείζω
, nisi Escorialensis
μείζων
, omnes autem
καὶ μέγ' ἐμπλήσας γόμου
praebent. Vulgata scriptura a Turnebo profecta est. Duplex facta est comparatio, utraque tribus versibus, utraque consimili ordine et forma sententiarum. Quare hic versus tertius esse debebat, correctus ita, ut amissae opes etiam cum incremento restitui posse dicerentur. Pariter in ultimo versu, quum, ut saepe in crasi, particula ad metrum redundare visa omissa esset,
μὴ ἀλγεῖν ἅ
pro
ἀλγεινά
erat scribendum.

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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Chorikon. Auf die Debatte folgt die Beratung. Wie Pers. 626 ff. u. Cho. 152 ff. die äußere Handlung, das Opfer am Grabe, so wird hier das stille Nachdenken des Königs von einem Chorgesang begleitet, welcher auf den Ent- schluß des Königs einzuwirken sucht und noch einmal die (drei) Gründe zusammenfaßt, welche den schwankenden König für die Dana- iden günstig stimmen sollen:,,Habe Mitleid mit den Verfolgten, laß uns nicht von heiliger Stätte weg- reißen, laß nicht deine Schützlinge grausam mißhandeln. Dein Tun wird deinen Kindern und deinem Hause Fluch oder Segen bringen".

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ἴδῃς, παρίδης, Υπερίδης.