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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.) — 776-824 focus
Ἱκέτιδες Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 776-824 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.) — 800 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 800 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 800 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 800 focus
γένος γὰρ Αἰγύπτειον ὕβριν
785
δύςοιστον ἀρσενογενές, οἳ
μετά με δρόμοισι διόμενοι
φυγάδα μάταισι πολυθρόοις
βίαια δίζηνται λαβεῖν.
σὸν δ᾽ ἐπίπαν ζυγὸν
790
ταλάντου. τί δ' ἄνευ σέθεν
θνητοῖσι τέλειόν ἐστιν;
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 800 focus
Κυσὶν δ' ἔπειθ' ἕλωρα κἀπιχωρίοις
Ant. 2.
ὄρνισι δεῖπνον οὐκ ἀναίνομαι πέλειν
Ιυζε δ' ἶϋζευ δ᾽ ὀμφὰν οὐράνια μέλη
Str. 3.
λιτανὰ θεοῖσι καὶ θεαῖς om.,
810
τέλεα δὲ πῶς πελόμενά μοι;
Λύσιμα, μάχιμα δ' ἔπιδε, πάτερ,
βίαια μὴ φίλοις φιλεῖς ὁρῶν
ὄμμασιν, ἐνδίκως ἐνδίκοις · σεβί-
ζου δ' ἱκέτας σέθεν, γαι-
815
άρχε παγκρατές Ζεθ.
Γένος γὰρ Αἰγύπτιον, ὕβριν
Ant. 3.
δύσφορον, ἀρσενογενέσιν ἀρσενογενές
μετά με δρόμοισι διόμενοι,
φυγάδα μάταισι πολυθρόοις
820
βίαια δίζηνται λαβεῖν.
Σὸν δ' ἐπίπαν ζυγὸν ταλάν-
του· τί δ' ἄνευ σέθεν θνα-
τοῖσι τέλειόν ἐστιν;
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Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 800 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 800 focus
κυσὶν δ᾽ ἔπειθ᾽ ἕλωρα κἀπιχωρίοις
800
ὄρνισι δεῖπνον οὐκ ἀναίνομαι πέλειν·
τὸ γὰρ θανεῖν ἐλευθεροῦται φιλαιάκτων κακῶν.
ἐλθέτω μόρος πρὸ κοίτας γαμηλίου τυχών.
τίνα φυγᾶς, τίν᾽ ἔτι πόρον τέμνω γάμου λυτῆρα; =
γένος γὰρ Αἰγύπτιον ὕβριν
δύσφορον ἀρσενογενές
μετά με δρόμοισι διόμενοι,
φυγάδα μάταισι πολυθρόοις
βίαια δίζηνται λαβεῖν.
820
σὸν δ᾽ ἐπίπαν ζυγὸν ταλάν-
του. τί δ᾽ ἄνευ σέθεν θνα-
τοῖσι τέλειόν ἐστιν; =
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.)) — 776-820 focus
The Suppliant Women. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliant Women.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 800 focus
And then I refuse not to become the prey of dogs, and the food of the birds of the country: for death is free from mournful ills: let fate approach, having seized me before the nuptial bed. What remedy for myself delivering me from the marriage can I yet find 5
Pour forth a voice to the heavens, supplicating strains to the gods, and such as will bring about good fortune to me, being the means of deliverance for me 6
. Father; do not love violence, seeing with just eyes and respect your suppliants, O earth-ruling, all-powerful Jove.
For the male offspring of Ægyptus intolerable in insolence pursuing me with speed, seek with foul abuse to seize me a fugitive by force. But the beam of your balance is over all: and what without you is perfected to mortals?
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 800 focus
Après, j'y consens, qu'on fasse de moi la proie des chiens, le festin des oiseaux d'alentour. Qui meurt se libère de dou-
tes vœux jusqu'au ciel, vers les
dieux et les déesses ! Mais par où s'accompliront-ils ? Ah ! tourne donc vers nous, père, des yeux qui nous promettent la délivrance, même au prix des combats ! Et sur la violence
jette un regard de colère : c'est celui qui lui est dû. Respecte en nous tes suppliantes, Zeus
tout-puissant, seigneur d'Argos.
Car les fils d'Égyptos intolérable démesure mâles
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 800 focus
Throw me, e'er that deteſted day,
To prowling dogs and rav'nous birds a prey.
No form of death affrights me now:
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O thou, aſſign'd the wretches' friend,
To bid his miſeries end,
And in oblivion's balm to ſteep his woe;
Come, gentle death, e'er that ſad hour
Which drags me to the nuptial bed;
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And let me find in thy ſoft pow'r
A refuge from the force I dread;
O ſpread thy ſable cloud,
And in its unpierc'd gloom our forrows ſhroud!
Higher let your voices riſe,
900
And ſwell the choral deſcant to the ſkies,
Notes of ſuch a lofty vein,
That Gods may liſten to the ſolemn ſtrain !
Eternal Sire, from Heav'n's high throne,
If thy indignant eyeballs glow
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With vengeance at foul deeds below,
Look down, thou Sovereign of the World, look down:
Ægyptus' ſons, a ruffian race,
Our flying footſteps chace;
And on our trembling, weeping band
910
Advance to lay their vengeful hand:
Extend thy golden ſcales,
For without thee what mortal worth avails?
By land, by ſea,
They ſeek their prey;
915
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 800 focus
Preda allora dei cani essere, e pascolo
850
non mi rifiuto dei montani aligeri.
Poi che la morte libera
d'ogni querulo male.
Morte vo', pria che simile
talamo nuzïale.
855
Quale aprirmi potrò fuggiasca via
che dalle nozze libertà mi dia?
La voce alta ne l'ètere
lancia, e supplici canti innalza ai Superi,
che salva dai perigli
860
te rimandâro. O padre, e non benevoli
su chi protervo infuria
china i tuoi giusti cigli;
ma noi prostrate al soglio tuo proteggi,
possente Re che l'universo reggi.
865
Poi che la maschia egizia
schiatta, per tracotanza insopportabile,
sull'orme mie si lancia,
che in folle fuga erro con alti gemiti,
e a forza tenta cogliermi.
870
Ma tu della bilancia
governi il giogo. E che possiamo noi
nati alla morte, quando tu non vuoi?
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 800 focus
Canibus deinde, patrijs
Auibus cœnam non renuo eſse.
750
Morte liberatur quis ò amice à malis.
Veniat,
Veniat mors ad cubilia
Hymen aſsequens.
Aliquem pro ipſa exitum
755
Inuenit, matrimonijq; expiationes.
Clama uocem cælestem,
Carmina deprecatoria dijs,
Perfecta mihi, quomodo
Exiſtentia mihi
760
Solubilia & bellicosa uide pater, uim ſi amas uidere
Oculis iuſtis.
Honora ſupplices tuas
Terræ concuſsor præpotens Iupiter,
Genus enim Aegyptium contumelia
765
Intolerabilia uirorum genus
Me curſibus perſequens,
Exulent ſtultis & tumultuoſis.
Vi quærunt accipere
Tuum omnino iugum,
770
Miſerrima. quid uerò sine te mortalibus est perfectum?
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.) — 800 focus
Yea, a prey to the dogs and the birds of the mount will I give me to be,—
860
From wailing and curse and pollution it is death, only death, sets me free:
Let death come upon me before to the ravisher's bed I am thrust;
What champion, what saviour but death can I find, or what refuge from lust?
I will utter my shriek of entreaty, a prayer that shrills up to the sky,
That calleth the gods to compassion, a tuneful, a pitiful cry,
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That is loud to invoke the releaser. O father, look down on the fight;
Look down in thy wrath on the wronger, with eyes that are eager for right.
Zeus, thou that art lord of the world, whose kingdom is strong over all,
Have mercy on us! At thine altar for refuge and safety we call.
For the race of Aegyptus is fierce, with greed and with malice afire;
870
They cry as the questing hounds, they sweep with the speed of desire.
But thine is the balance of fate, thou rulest the wavering scale,
And without thee no mortal emprise shall have strength to achieve or prevail.
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.) — 800 focus
Wohl auch der Hunde Beute, wohl auch heimischer
Raubvögel Mahl zu werden, ich verweigr' es nicht:
Der Tod allein ja nimmt von uns
All das jammerschwere Leid.
765
Komme denn sein Tag, bevor
Mich das Brautgemach empfängt!
Was vermag mich sonst zu retten,
Was zu lösen diese Bande?
- Dritte Strophe.
Um Hülfe jamm're himmelan,
770
Den Göttern flehe mein Gesang,
Der diese Leiden ende, der
Mich löse! Vater, sieh den Kampf!
Dein gerechtes Auge lieb' es nicht,
Freche Gewalt zu schau'n!
775
Deinen Schüzlingen hilf, o Zeus,
Weltlenkender Gott der Allmacht!
Dritte Gegenstrophe.
Denn sieh, Aegyptos' Söhne, frech,
Mit unerträglich wildem Trok
In hastigem Laufe stürmen sie
780
Der Flüchtigen nach; mit wildem Ruf
Trachten sie gewaltsam mich zu fah'n.
Dein ist die Wage, du
Wäge! Schaffst du nicht das Gedeih'n,
Was könnte der Mensch vollenden?
785
(Geschrei der ankerwerfenden Aegypter. Die Führerin zeigt nach dem Strande hinaus; voll Entsetzen drängen sich die Jungfrauen zu einer jammernden Masse zusammen.) Schlußgesang.

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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βίᾳ, βίᾳ. φροῦδα πολέα βάθί μοι, πρόκακα πάθ᾽ ὀλόμενε παλάμαις:
βίαι βίαι
(erasa utrobique inter α et ι littera)
τε πολλαι
(erasa inter α et ι littera)
φροῦδα βάτεαι βαθμι τροκακὰ παθῶν ὀλόμεναι παλάμαις
Μ.
βίᾳ βίᾳ τε πολλα φροῦδα βάτεαι βαθμό
(
ι
in litura)
προκακὰ παθῶν ὀλομέναι
(ante correctionem
ὀλομάναι
)
παλάμαις
G.
βία βίᾳ τε πολλά φροῦδα βάττ' ἐπ' ἀμίδα τροκακὰ παθῶν ὀλόμεναι παλάμαις
Rob.
βάτεαι βαθυ μιτροκακὰ παθῶν ὀλλόμεναι π.
Ε.
βάτεαι βαθυ μητροκακαπαθῶν
Ρ. Res ipsa loqui videtur, haec sic ut feci emendanda fuisse.
Βάτεαι
est
βᾶτε
, pluralis explicandi caussa ad
βᾶθι
adscriptus, quum praeco haec dicere crederetur.
Longe
, inquit chorus,
abscede a me; pessima mala patere perdite ob conatus tuos
.

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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drittes Stasimon, in welchem die Danaiden ihrer höchsten Angst und ihrem In- grimm gegen die Ägyptiaden Aus- druck geben und Zeus selbst da- für verantwortlich machen, wenn jene ihre Freveltat ausführen: Wohin im apischen Lande soll ich mich verkriechen? Könnte ich als Rauch in die Höhe steigen! Was der Vater erspäht hat, er- schreckt mich zu Tode; lieber will ich mich aufhängen als an der Seite des vermaledeiten Mannes ruhen. Könnte ich mich in den hohen Äther erheben oder auf einen steilen Felsen um mich von ihm hinabzustürzen, bevor ich die unselige Ehe eingehe! Würde ich dann auch den Hunden und Vögeln zur Speise, lieber als das Ehelager ist mir der Tod.. · Höre mein Flehen, Vater Zeus; verab- scheue in deiner Gerechtigkeit die Gewalttätigkeit, erbarme dich der Schutzflehenden. Mich verfolgen die Söhne des Ägyptos. Du hast Macht gegen alles: was erfüllt sich den Sterblichen gegen deinen "Willen?" Der Parallelismus im Inhalt der beiden ersten Strophen- paare legt den Gedanken nahe, daß der eine Halbchor das erste, der andere das zweite, der Ge- samtchor das dritte Strophenpaar vorzutragen hat.

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ἐπίπαν: Schol. ἴσον ἐπὶ πάν των, vgl. Pers. 43. ,Dein Wage- balken schwebt über allen" s. v. a. du wägst die Schicksale allen zu von deiner Entscheidung hängt das Wohl und Wehe aller ab". Vgl. Hom. Θ 69 καὶ τότε δὴ χρύσεια πατὴρ ἐτίταινε τάλαντα, Π 658 γνῶ γὰρ Διὸς ἱρὰ τάλαντα, Τ 223 ἐπὴν κλίνῃσι τάλαντα Ζεύς, Theogn. 157 Ζεὺς γάρ τοι τὸ τάλαντον ἐπιρρέπει ἄλλοτε ἄλλως.