SCRIPTURA

Classical Greek

Suppliant Women · Ἱκέτιδες

Aeschylus

Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth

The fifty daughters of Danaus flee marriage to their cousins and beg Argos for sanctuary.

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  • Greek: ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0085.tlg001, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Herbert Weir Smyth, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0085.tlg001.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (line numbers), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

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