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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.) — 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.) — 77 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Joannes Cornelius de Pauw, 1745.) — 77 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 77 focus
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 77 focus
ἀλλά, θεοὶ γενέται, κλύετ' εὖ τὸ δίκαιον ἰδόντες,
ἢ καὶ μὴ τέλεον δόντες ἔχειν παρ' αἶσαν,
ὕβριν δ᾽ ἐτύμως στέγοντες, εἰ
πέλοιτ᾽ ἂν ἔνδικοι νόμοις.
ἔστι δὲ κἀκ πολέμου
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τειρομένοις βωμὸς ἀρῆς φυγάσιν
ῥῦμα, δαιμόνων σέβας,
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ἰθείῃ Διὸς εὖ παναληθῶς.
Διὸς ἵμερος οὐκ εὐθήρατος ἐτύχθη.
2
πάντα τοι φλεγέθει κἂν σκότῳ μελαί-
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να τε τύχα μερόπεσσι λαοῖς.
πίπτει δ᾽ ἀσφαλὲς οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ νώτῳ,
κορυφᾷ Διὸς εἰ κρανθῇ πρᾶγμα τέλειον.
ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 77 focus
Ἀλλά, θεοὶ θεοὶ οἱ γενέται, κλύετ'
εὖ τὸ δίκαιον ἰδόντες·
ἢ καὶ μὴ τέλεον
Εἴθ' εἴη τέλος Διὸς (cf. 86) εὖ παναλη-
θῶς. Διὸς ἵμερος οὐκ
εὐθήρατος ἐτύχθη·
παντᾷ τοι φλεγέθει
κἂν σκότῳ μελαίνᾳ
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ξὺν τύχᾳ μερόπεσσι λαοῖς.
Πίπτει δ' ἀσφαλὲς οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ νώ-
τῳ, Διὸς εἰ κορυφᾷ κορυφᾷ Διὸς εἰ
κρανθῇ πρᾶγμα τέλειον·
δαυλοὶ γὰρ πραπίδων
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δάσκιοί τε τείνου-
σιν πόροι κατιδεῖν ἄφραστοι.
Ἱκέτιδες (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἱκέτιδες. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 77 focus
Aeschyli Supplices (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Supplices. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 77 focus
ἀλλὰ, θεοὶ γενέται κλύετ᾽ εὐ τὸ δίκαιον ἰδόντες,
εἰ καὶ μὴ τέλεον δόντες ἔχειν παρ᾽ αἰσαν,
ὕβριν γ᾽ ἐτύμως στυγοῦντες
πέλοιτ᾽ ἂν ἔνδικοι νόμοις.
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τειρομένοις
ἔστι δὲ κἀκ πολέμου
βωμὸς ἀρῆς φυγάσιν
ῥῦμα, δαιμόνων σέβας. =
εὖ θείη Διός, εἰ παναλη-
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θῶς Διός, ἵμερος. οὐκ
εὐθήρατος ἐτύχθη.
πάνται τοι φλεγέθει καν
σκότωι μελαίναι ξὺν τύχαι
μερόπεσσι λαοῖς. –
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πίπτει δ᾽ ἀσφαλὲς οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ νώ-
τωι, κορυφᾶι Διὸς εἰ
κρανθῆι, πρᾶγμα τέλειον.
δαυλοὶ γὰρ πραπίδων δά-
σκιοί τε τείνουσιν πόροι
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κατιδεῖν ἄφραστοι. =
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.) — 77 focus
But ye gods, authors of our race, hear, duly regarding justice, or if ye do not grant success in obtaining what is contrary to right, but hating insolence in your souls, you should be just in regard to nuptials 5
. But there is even to those who fly from war, being hard pressed, an altar, a defence from calamity 1
, honoured by the deities.
Would that [the will] of Jove would bring to pass all things truly. The counsel of Jove is not easily traced out, yet in all things it shines forth, even in darkness, with black calamity to articulate-voiced men.
But it falls firmly not upon its back 2
, if a thing be perfected by the head of Jove: for the ways of the [divine] breast stretch thick and shady, difficult to discover.
LES SUPPLIANTES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SUPPLIANTES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 77 focus
sur mon exil loin de la Terre Brumeuse 1 ?
Allons, divins auteurs de ma naissance, vous voyez où est le Droit: exaucez-nous ! Ou, si le Destin ne veut pas que le
être celui de nos vœux ! Le désir de Zeus n'est point aisé à saisir. Mais, quoi qu'il arrive, il flamboie soudain, parfois en pleines ténèbres 3 , escorté d'un noir châtiment, aux yeux des hommes éphé- mères.

Il retombe toujours d'aplomb, jamais ne va à terre 4 , le sort dont Zeus a décidé d'un signe de son front qu'il devait s'achever. Les voies de la pensée divine vont à leur but par des fourrés et des ombres épaisses que nul regard ne sau- rait pénétrer.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 77 focus
Ye Gods, from whom we proudly trace
The glories of our highborn race,
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Hear us, ye pow'rs, propitious hear,
And ſhow that juſtice is your care;
Guard in our juſt, our holy cauſe
The ſanctity of nature's laws;
You, that abhor each impious deed,
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Ariſe, protect the nuptial bed.
When Mars to ſlaughter gives the reins f
,
And rages o'er th' enſanguin'd plains,
To each that flies the altar gives
A refuge, and the ſuppliant lives,
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For Jove, with pious pray'rs ador'd,
Commands ſtern war to drop the ſword.
Jove's firm decree, tho' wrapt in night,
Beams 'midſt the gloom a conſtant light;
Man's fate obſcure in darkneſs lies,
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Not to be pierc'd by mortal eyes:
The juſt reſolves of his high mind
A glorious conſummation find;
Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Le Supplici: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 77 focus
Numi dei padri, ascoltatemi
voi cui diletta è giustizia:
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non rida la sorte propizia
all'uomo che ingiusto operò.
Punite l'iniquo connubio,
punite la rea tracotanza:
l'altare e la santa osservanza
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dei Numi, tutelano il supplice
che stanco alla pugna scampò.
Deh!, fosse pur vero
ch' io sono di Giove progenie!
Di Giove il pensiero
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nessuno è che valga a sorprenderlo;
e pure in fortuna di tenebre
il raggio ne brilla
fra il buio, all'umana pupilla!
Sui piedi secura
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ogni opera sta, che nel cèrebro
di Giove matura,
né crolla riversa: ché i tramiti
dei suoi pensamenti si stendono
oscuri ed arcani;
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né scioglierli posson gli umani.
Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Supplices: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 77 focus
A terra aeria
Si aliquis est gubernator.
Sed dij genitores,
Audite probè ius uidentes.
Aut non dantes habere fatum perfectum,
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Contumeliam uerè odio habentes,
Sint enim iuſti nuptijs.
Est enim mali belli uenatis
Ara Martis fugientibus
Liberatio cultus deorum. ſi cucurrerit Iouis uerè omnia,
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Iouis desiderium non facile uenatu fuit. (ſciunt)
Omnia certè comburit, etiam in tenebris.
Nigra conſortia mortalibus hominibus.
Cadit tutò neq; in dorſum,
Vertice Iouis ſi perficiatur negocium integrum.
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Titiones curarum
Vmbroſiq; intendunt meatus,
Viſum conſiderati.
The Suppliants (OCR draft) Experimental (The Suppliants. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 74 focus
Chorus
One's kinsmen who would wish to buy as lords? *
PELASGOS
By such alliance waxeth strength to mortals
Chorus
Ay, and the wretched to desert is easy.
PELASGOS
How then towards you may I pious prove?
Chorus
Us yield not, when Ægyptos' sons demand.
PELASGOS
Grave the request new war to undertake.
Chorus
But patron to her champion Justice stands.
PELASGOS
True, if at first I had a party been.
Chorus
Revere the city's stern thus garlanded. *
PELASGOS
With awe these seats I mark shaded with boughs. 340
Chorus
Grievous the wrath of Zeus, the suppliant's god.
Chorus
Son of Palaechthon, hear!
With heart benign hear me, Pelasgic king.
Me suppliant mark, exile lone-wandering;
Like heifer that on rocky height,
Wolf-chased, confiding in assistance near,
Loweth, the herdsman warning of her plight.
PELASGOS
Shaded by boughs new-culled a troop I see,
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Bowed at the shrine of these Agonian gods.
But may their claim as town-guests breed no harm; 350
Nor from event unlooked for, unprepared,
Be quarrel born; unwelcome to the state.
Chorus
That mischief on our flight
Wait not, may she, Goddess of Suppliants, grant,
Themis, from Zeus, supreme Allotter, sprung!
Learn thou, in wisdom old, from me more young;—
The suppliant aiding, never shalt thou want,
Nor will the gods the good man's offering slight.
PELASGOS
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Not at my private hearth suppliant ye sit.
But if some common guilt the state pollute, 360
In common let the people work the cure.
No pledge I give, till, touching these events,
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Counsel I hold with all my citizens.
Chorus
Thou art the state, the people, thou alone:—
Ruler accountable to none;
With sovereign nod, the altar-stone,
The hearth, thou swayest, of the land,—
And from sole-sceptred throne,
All issues canst command.
Oh then pollution shun. 370
PELASGOS
Pollution rest upon mine enemies!
But you I cannot succour without bale,
Nor gracious is it to despise these prayers.
Perplexed I am and fear my heart distracts,
To act or not to act, and bide my chance.
Chorus
The jealous watcher mark enthroned on high,
Guardian of mortals travail-worn,
Who to those near for aid apply,
And find their lawful claims denied.
At suppliants' wail forlorn
The wrath of Zeus doth bide 380
Implacable for aye.
PELASGOS
But if Ægyptos' sons have power o'er thee,
As next of kin, pleading their city's laws,
Who would desire such pleading to withstand?
To native customs thou must make appeal,
That legal rights against thee they have none.
Chorus
Ne'er may I subject be to men's rude might;
Escape from baleful marriage-tie,
Star-guided, I mark out in flight.
But Justice' self now taking for ally,
Side with the holy gods and judge the right. 390
PELASGOS
Judgment not easy: choose me not for judge.
Before I told you, I, though chief in sway,
Cannot herein without my people act.—
Ne'er shall the throng aver, should ill befal,—
"Strangers revering, thou the state hast wrecked."
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.) — 77 focus
Gods of the ancient cradle of my race,
Hear me, just gods! With righteous grace
On me, on me look down!
Grant not to youth its heart's unchaste desire,
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But, swiftly spurning lust's unholy fire,
Bless only love and willing wedlock's crown!
The war-worn fliers from the battle's wrack
Find refuge at the hallowed altar-side,
The sanctuary divine,—
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Ye gods! such refuge unto me provide—
Such sanctuary be mine!
Though the deep will of Zeus be hard to track,
Yet doth it flame and glance,
A beacon in the dark, 'mid clouds of chance
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That wrap mankind.
Yea, though the counsel fall, undone it shall not lie,
Whate'er be shaped and fixed within Zeus' ruling mind—
Dark as a solemn grove, with sombre leafage shaded,
His paths of purpose wind,
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A marvel to man's eye.
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.) — 77 focus
Götter des Stammes, vernehmt, ihr erfahrenen Hüter des Rechtes!
Nicht doch wider Gebühr führt es an uns zu Ende,
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Nein, hasset den Frevel treuen Sinns; 1
So wahrt ihr wohl des Gesezes Macht!
Flüchtigen auch, von des Kampfs
Mühen erschöpft, beut der Altar vor Gewalt 2
Schuk, der Götter fromme Scheu.
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Lass es ein Gott uns gedeihen in Wahrheit! 3
In Gedanken des Zeus dringt kein sterbliches Auge.
Dennoch strahlen sie rings,
Auch gehüllt in Nacht 4
Schwarzen Geschicks, vor der Menschen Blicken.
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Siegend und aufrecht wandelt die That hin,
In dem Haupte des Zeus Einmal gereift zur Vollendung;
Denn dichtschattig und wirr
Ziehen seines Sinns 5
Pfade, dem irdischen Aug' unmerkbar.
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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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βίαν δ᾽ οὔτις ἐξαλύξει τὰν ἄπονον δαιμονίων. μνῆμον ἄνω φρόνημά πως αὐτόθεν ἐξέπραξεν ἔμπας ἑδράνων ἀφ᾽ ἁγνῶν.: Libri
βίαν δ᾽ οὔτιν᾽ ἐξοπλίζει τὴν ἄποινον δαιμονίων. ἥμενον ἄνω
(ita etiam M.)
φρόνημά πως
(
φρόνημα πῶς
Rob.
φρονήμάτοως
, sed το in
πω
mutato G.)
αὐτόθεν ἐξέπραξεν ἔμπας ἑδράνων ἐφ᾽ ἁγνῶν
. Auratus
οὔτις
, credo ut
ἐξοπλίζει
significaret armis eruit, cuius significationis exemplum ex Appiano affertur. Ea hic eo minus admitti potest, quod hoc verbum v. 655. 672. usitata armandi significatione dictum est. Sententia bona Wellauerus coniecerat
βίαν δ᾽ οὔτιν ἐξοπλίζει. πᾶν ἀπονον δαιμονίων
, quod recepit Paleius ita ut
δαιμόνιον
scriberet. At id Aeschylus dixisset
βίαν οὔτιν ἐξοπλίζων
, addidissetque
δέ
ad
πᾶν
. Sententiam perspexisse videtur Auratus: verum etiam si
ἐξοπλίζει
eo quo volebat significatu dictum esset, tamen non indicativus praesentis, sed aut futurum aut optativus addito
ἄν
poni debebat. Quare adscito
οὔτις
, quoniam
οὔτινα
cum
τὰν ἄπονον
nullo modo coniungi potuit, scripsi
βίαν δ᾽ οὔτις ἐξαλύξει τὴν ἄπονον δαιμονίων
. Dictum est
δαιμονίων
ut apud Euripidem πολλαὶ μορφαὶ τῶν δαιμονίων. Quod sequitur in libris
ἥμενον ἄνω
etiam si non repugnaret metro, languidum esset
ἥμενον
, quum sequatur
ἑδράνων ἀφ᾽ ἁγνῶν
. Itaque
μνῆμον
posui.
Ἔμπας
dixit, referendum ad
βίαν τὴν ἄπονον
. Postremo
ἀφ᾽ ἁγνῶν
scribendum esse vidit nescio quis a Spanhemio memoratus et Wordsworthius, Homerica comparans, in Museo philol. I. p. 211.

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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εὔθ᾽ εἴην (so Pauw für εἰθείη): ,,(Ich stamme von Zeus:) möge ich doch dem Zeus in voller Wahrheit angehören." Das Verhältnis der Abstammung wird in das religiöse Verhältnis zu Zeus umgewandelt und so der Übergang von dem mythologischen Zeus zu Zeus als höchstem Vertreter göttlichen Wesens und Inbegriff göttlicher Macht und Weisheit gewonnen. Mit εὖ παναληθῶς vgl. εὖ σάφα Eum. 196, εὖ σαφῶς Pers. 786.