Attack on Titan episode 2 - What does preacher say?

Question

I am translating 進撃の巨人. Below is a sentence from the transcript of the second episode.

Here the link for reference: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XT7gHjFO8jft8DAQCVpPfmU3DreCsraJVYC-NPtmv5g/edit

Japanese from transcript: 汝わが血筋を汝の許にひきて、これに己が肉をさへ顧みざらしめしほどなればこのうえ、何をすべきや！

English from Transcript: What canst thou more, who has subdued our blood so wholly to thyself, they feel no care of their own flesh?

I think the english translation is not a very direct translation. It helps you get the gist but it doesn't give you the satisfaction to really understand what is said.

Therefore can somebody provide a translation that considers the following points:

• What is the meaning of
  • 許
  • ひきて (Is this a verb?)
  • さへ顧みざらしめしほど

The best that I can come up with is: You (ひきて = ???) with our lineage (with/in/by?) your (許), if this (さへ顧みざらしめしほど) (with?) my own flesh, (このうえ = Now that things have come to this?) what should I/we do?

Answer 1

As you said, his preach does not seem to have been translated very literally (but that does not mean it's a bad translation, of course). To understand this sentence, you need to be familiar with some of the classical Japanese grammar.

Vocab:

• 許: "(someone's) side"
• ひきて: The "classical te-form" of 引く, which means "to draw" or "to inherit" (see the twelfth definition of the link).
• さへ: Historical kana version of さえ ("even").
• 顧みざらしめし: "made (someone/something) not reflect on (it)", "prevented from paying attention to"
  • 顧み: 顧みる in irrealis form
  • ざら: Negative auxiliary (ず in irrealis form)
  • しめ: Causative auxiliary (しむ in continuative form). The agent (causee) marked by に is これ, which refers to the 血筋.
  • し: Past auxiliary (き in attributive form)
• ほど(だ): (∼ くらい(だ)) "to the point where", "it's even that"
• この上: "further"

So the literal translation is as follows. I'm not good at "thou art" type English grammar, so allow me to use modern grammar.

汝わが血筋を汝の許にひきて、...
→ (現代文) あなたは私の血筋をあなたのもとに引いて、...

You drew/inherited my bloodline to your side, (and) ...

これに己が肉をさへ顧みざらしめしほどなれば、...
→ それに自分の肉をさえ顧みないようにさせたほどであるから、...

it's even that you made it not reflect even on your own flesh, so ...
(= Yet you even disallowed my bloodline to worry about your own flesh! Then...)

このうえ、何をすべきや！
→ このうえ、何をするべきなのか！

What should I/we do further? (= Nothing can be done!)