哀求者(AESCHYLUS)__AESCHYLUS.pdf

英文名著3000 本 THE SUPPLIANTS 1 英文名著3000 本 by Aeschylus translated by E.D.A. Morshead 2 英文名著3000 本 CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY DANAUS THE KING OF ARGOS HERALD OF AEGYPTUS CHORUS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUS Attendants SUPPLIANTS (SCENE:-A sacred precinct near the shore in Argos. Several statues of the gods can be seen, as well as a large altar. As the play opens, DANAUS, and his fifty daughters, the maidens who compose the CHORUS, enter. Their costumes have an oriental richness about them not characteristic of the strictly Greek. They carry also the wands of suppliants. The CHORUS is singing.) CHORUS Zeus! Lord and guard of suppliant hands 3 英文名著3000 本 Look down benign on us who crave Thine aid-whom winds and waters drave From where, through drifting shifting sands, Pours Nilus to the wave. From where the green land, god-possest, Closes and fronts the Syrian waste, We flee as exiles, yet unbanned By murders sentence from our land; But-since Aegyptus had decreed His sons should wed his brothers seed,- Ourselves we tore from bonds abhorred, From wedlock not of heart but hand, Nor brooked to call a kinsman lord! And Danaus, our sire and guide, The king of counsel, pondring well The dice of fortune as they fell, Out of two griefs the kindlier chose, 4 英文名著3000 本 And bade us fly, with him beside, Heedless what winds or waves arose, And oer the wide sea waters haste, Until to Argos shore at last Our wandering pinnace came- Argos, the immrial home