Aeschylus Persians 664

Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator)

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Show thyself, sovereign lord 5
, that thou mayest hear the sorrows of our sovereign, strange in their nature, and new. For some Stygian gloom is hovering over us; for all 6
our youth have already sunk in ruin. Come forth, O Darius, author of no ill: Hoa!

Persians. Aeschylus. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1849.

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Current edition Experimental

The Persians. (OCR draft) (English) (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Πέρσαι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 681-693 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 681-693 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 664 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 664 focus
οἶ,
ὅπως καινά τε κλύῃς νέα τ᾽ ἄχη·
δέσποτα δεσπότου, φάνηθι.
Στυγία γάρ τις ἐπ᾽ ἀχλὺς πεπόταται·
νεολαία γὰρ ἤδη
670
κατὰ γᾶς ὄλωλεν.
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε, Δαρειάν.
οἶ.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 664 focus
Ὅπως καινά τε κλύῃς νέα τ' ἄχη·
Ant. 3.
δέσποτα δεσπότου φάνηθι.
Στυγία γάρ τις ἐπ' ἀχλὺς πεπόταται·
νεολαία γὰρ ἤδη
665
κατὰ πᾶσ' ὄλωλεν·
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε Δαριάν, οἴ.
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 664 focus
ὅπως καινά τε κλύῃς
νέα τ᾽ ἄχη
δέσποτα δεσπότου,
670
φάνηθι. Στυγία γάρ
τις ἐπ᾽ ἀχλὺς πεπόταται·
νεολαία γὰρ ἤδη
κατὰ πᾶσ᾽ ὄλωλεν.
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε Δαριάν, οἴ.
675
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 664 focus
οἰ. –
†ὅπως καινά τε κλύηις νέα τ᾽ ἄχη,
δέσποτα δεσπότου φάνηθι. Στυγία
γάρ τις ἐπ᾽ ἀχλὺς πεπόταται· νεολαί-
α γὰρ ἤδη κατὰ πᾶσ᾽ ὄλωλεν.
665
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε Δαριάν,
οἰ. =
Translations (7)
Persians Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 681-690 focus
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 664 focus
la sandale teinte de safran qui enferme ton pied ; fais luire à nos yeux le bouton de la tiare royale 1 ; viens, père bienfaisant, Darios ! — Ah ! ah !

Viens apprendre de nouvelles, d'inouïes douleurs. Maître de mon maître 2 , apparais. Sur nous
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 664 focus
Great and good, Darius, riſe:
Lord of Perſia's lord, appear:
800
Thus invok'd with thrilling cries
Come, our tale of ſorrow hear!
Woe her Stygian pennons ſpreads,
Brooding darkneſs o'er our heads;
For ſtre tcb'd along the dreary ſhore
805
The flow'r of Aſia lies diſtain'd with gore.
THE PERSIANS.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 664 focus
Odi i novelli spasimi,
odi il recente duolo:
móstrat, o Re dei Re!
D'una stigia caligine
760
su noi si addensa il volo:
tutti caddero spenti
i giovani fiorenti:
o innocuo padre, o Dario, accorri! Ahimè!
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 664 focus
Vt noua audias, recentia mala.
Domine domini appare.
Odiofe enim tenebre uolant,
620
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persians — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 664 focus
List to the strange new sorrows of thy line,
680
Sire of a woeful son!
A mist of fate and hell is round us now,
And all the city's flower to death is done!
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.) — 664 focus
Vernimm neues Leid, des Volk's herbes Loos!
König des Königs, auf, erscheine!
Ein Gewölk, stygischer Nacht Grauen, umschwebt uns:
In den Staub sank, im Grab modert des Landes Blüte. 1
645
Vater Dareios, o komm, gütiger Fürst!

Commentary

Critical apparatus to The Persians (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of The Persians.) focus

84. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-68

πολυναύτης:
πολυναύτας
Vit. Cantabr. 2.

Commentary (W. S. Teuffel; revised by N. Wecklein, 1886; German; OCR draft) (Persians, explanatory commentary pp. 43–97. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.) focus

81-86. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-14

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Die Furchtbarkeit des Xerxes. κυάνεον, Hesiod. Scut. 7: βλεφάρων ἄπο κυανεάων. Ibyk. fr. 2: Ἔρως κυανέοισιν ὑπὸ βλεφάροις τάκερ᾽ ὄμμασι δερκόμε- νος. Den Blick der Schlangen hielt der Aberglaube für gefähr- lich; vgl. Basiliskenblick. Reich an Mannschaft, Schiffen u. (Streit-) Wagen (Herod. VII 63: οὗτοι ὑπὸ μὲν Ἑλλήνων ἐκαλέοντο Σύριοι, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν βαρβάρων ᾿Ασσύριοι ἐκλήθη- σαν. - Auffallende und kaum unbe- wufste (vgl. 348. 727; oben S. 31, A. 12) Ähnlichkeit mit dem Orakel vor der Schlacht bei Salamis, Herod. VII 140: κατὰ γάρ μιν ἐρείπει πῦρ τε καὶ ὀξὺς Αρης, συριηγενὲς ἄρμα διώκων. Die nationale Angriffs- waffe der Hellenen ist das δόρυ ( αἰχμή), der Orientalen (neben αἰχ- μὴ βραχεῖα oder ἀκόντιον, 52. vgl. Jerem. 19, 35-38. Herod. V 49. VII 61) der Bogen. Vgl. 147 f. 239f. Quantität von " Αρη wie Sept. 115.