Aeschylus Persians 272

Guilielmus Dindorfius (Editor)

Persians. Aeschylus. Guilielmus Dindorfius (Editor). Lipsiae. 1882.

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Πέρσαι (OCR draft) (Greek) (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (6)
Πέρσαι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 256-289 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 256-289 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 272 focus
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 272 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 272 focus
πλήθουσι νεκρῶν δυσπότμως ἐφθαρμένων
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Σαλαμῖνος ἀκταὶ πᾶς τε πρόσχωρος τόπος.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 272 focus
Translations (8)
Persians Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 256-286 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 272 focus
The shores of Salamis, and all the adjoining region, are full of the corpses of those who miserably perished.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 272 focus
rien qu'ensemble des milliers d'armes de toute espèce ont passé du
pays d'Asie sur une terre ennemie, sur le sol de Grèce !
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 272 focus
Ah me! unhappy is his taſk
That bears unhappy tidings: but conſtraint
Compels me to relate this tale of woe.
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Perſians, the whole barbaric hoſt is fall'n.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 272 focus
Piene le spiagge son di Salamina
di tristi spoglie, e ogni terra vicina.
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 272 focus
Plena ſunt cadauerum corruptorum infœliciter
Salaminis littora, omnisq; finitimus locus.
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.) — 272 focus
Piled with men dead, yea, miserably slain,
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Is every beach, each reef of Salamis!
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.) — 272 focus
Bedeckt mit Leichen kläglich Hingemordeter
Sind Salamis' Felsufer und die Gau'n umher.
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Commentary

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

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πλαγκτοῖς:
πλακτοῖς
Vit. Lips. Lambeth. et Lips. quidem cum hac adnotatione, γρ.
πολυπλάκτοις, ἢ ἐν αἷς ταῦτα πλανῶνται
. διπλάκεσσιν:
διπλάκεσιν
G. Vit. Lips. Ven. B. Ald. Rob.
διπλάκεσσιν
edd. inde a Turn. et sic M. In explicando hoc vocabulo laborant scholiastae. Quorum qui hanc explicationem adscripsit,
ὡς ἂν εἴποι τις διαύλοις· τὰ γὰρ κύματα ἐκχεῖται καὶ ὑπονοστεῖ
, in mente habuit hoc Euripidis Hec. v. 29.
πολλοῖς διαύλοις κυμάτων φορουμένας.
Stanleius auctor fuit, ut de tabulis navium haec vox acciperetur. Sed haec quoque interpretatio fundamento caret. Solus Sanravius de vestibus mersorum in mari fluctuantibus cogitavit, vertit enim in errabundis diploidibus.
Δίπλαξ
quum proprie adiectivum esset, tamen etiam pro substantivo usurpari solitum est, sic quidem ut pallium significaret. Pallium autem quum grammatici duobus modis
δίπλακα
dici tradant, vel quod ex duplicato filo contextum sit, quod etiam
δίμιτον
vocetur, vel quod ob latitudinem in gestando duplicetur, haec posterior explicatio et ipsa per se probabilior videtur et valde confirmatur similium nominum comparatione. Hesychius
δίπλακα, διπλῆν, μεγάλην διπλοΐδα, ὥςτε διπλῇ χρῆσθαι
. Idem
διπλοΐδα, διπλουμένην χλανίδα ἐν τῷ φορεῖσθαι
. Idem
διπλῆν, διπλασίονα, καὶ μεγάλην
, quod pertinet ad Il. X. 134. ubi poeta
χλαῖναν
commemorat
διπλῆν, ἐκταδίην
. Idem Hesychius
δίβολον φάρος, διπλοῦν
, et
διβόλους χλαίνας, οἳ μὲν διμίτους, οἳ δὲ διπλᾶς
. In primis ea quam praetulimus explicatio eo confirmatur quod notam illam Cynicorum duplicem vestem Antipater Sidonius epigr. 61.
ἔσθος διπλάδιον
, epigr. autem 82.
δίπλακα
vocat. Plura in hanc rem collegerunt Salmasius ad Tertull. de pallio p. 396. seqq. Iungermannus ad Poll. VII. 47. Iacobsius Anthol. vol. II. p. I. p. 57. seqq. Videtur igitur Aeschylus
πλαγκτοὺς δίπλακας
amplas Persarum vestes dicere, quae in mari nantibus mortuis late expansae huc illuc ferebantur. Ita Rufinus epigr. 38. comas fuitantes dicit
τρίχας τὰς ἐπὶ τοῖς σοβαροῖς αὐχέσι πλαζομένας
.

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ἀπώλλυτο:
δ᾽ ἀπόλλυτο
, ad
υ
supra adscripto
οι
, Vit.
δὲ ἀπώλλετο
Lips.
ἀπώλετο
adscriptum in Par. B.

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

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Kommos, drei Stro- phenpaare des Chors, unterbrochen je durch zwei Trimeter des Boten.

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Zwei trochäische Verse (1. trip. catal.; 2. tetrap. cat. mit Anakrusis) und zwei logaödi- sche. Die ionische Form πολέα auch Ag. 723. ᾿ασίς (763. Suppl. 457), dagegen ᾿ασία κ. ᾿ασίας (12.57 61. 249. Prom. 735). – πλήθουσι (420) νεκρῶν Ag. 1220. – Σαλαμίνος 327, Westphal II S. 485.