Aeschylus Persians 871

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Und die, ferne der See, sich im Schooße des Land's mit der Mauer umgürtet,
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Folgten dieses Herrschers Wort,
Dann an dem Sunde der Helle die prangenden Städt' und die Bucht der Propontis
Sammt des Pontos Mündung,
Dritte Strophe.

Persians. Aeschylus. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Πέρσαι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 852-908 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 852-908 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 871 focus
λίμνας τ᾽ ἔκτοθεν αἳ κατὰ χέρσον ἐληλάμενα.
περὶ πύργον
τοῦδ᾽ ἄνακτος ἄϊον,
Ἕλλας τ᾽ ἀμφὶ πόρον πλατὺν εὐχόμεναι, μυχία τε Προποντὶς,
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καὶ στόμωμα Πόντου·
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 871 focus
λίμνας τ' ἔκτοθεν αἳ κατὰ χέρσον ἐληλαμέναι πέρι πύργον
τοῦδ᾽ ἄνακτος ἄϊον,
Ἕλλας τ᾽ ἀμφὶ πόρον πλατὺν ἀρχόμεναι, μυχία τε Προποντίς,
καὶ στόμωμα Πόντου·
στρ. γ'.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 871 focus
λίμνας τ' ἔκτοθεν αἳ κατὰ χέρσον ἐ-
Ant. 2.
ληλαμέναι περὶ πύργον
τοῦδ' ἄνακτος ἄϊον,
Ἕλλας τ' Ἕλλας ἀμφὶ πόρον πλατὺν εὐχόμε-
ναι, μυχία τε Προποντὶς
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καὶ στόμωμα Πόντου·
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 871 focus
λίμνας τ᾽ ἔκτοθεν αἳ
κατὰ χέρσον ἐλη-
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λαμέναι περὶ πύργον
τοῦδ᾽ ἄνακτος ἄιον,
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 871 focus
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.)) — 852-905 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 871 focus
and beyond the sea, those along the main land environed with fortresses obeyed this king, and those who boast 3
to dwell on both sides of the broad frith of Helle, and the gulfy Propontis, and the outlet of the Pontus:
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 871 focus
qui confinent aux bourgades thraces.
Et, en dehors de ce lac, celles qui, sur la terre ferme, portent ceinture de remparts ont obéi aussi à ce monarque.
Et les cités fièrement assises sur les bords du large détroit d'Hellé ; et le repli profond de la Propontide,
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 871 focus
Nor thoſe, that far th' extended ocean o'er
Stand girt with many' a tow'r;
Nor where the Helleſpont his broad wave ſpreads;
Nor the firm baſtions' rampir'd might,
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Whoſe foot the deep Propontis laves;
Nor thoſe, that glorying in their height
Frown o'er the Pontic ſea, and ſhade his darken'd
waves,
STROPHE 2.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 871 focus
E quelle che, lontano
dal mare, in terra surgono,
cinte di torri, omaggio
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prestarono al Sovrano;
e quante d'Elle al valico
han glorïosa voce,
e la curva Propontide,
e del Ponto la foce.
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Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 871 focus
Per terram ducte circum turrim.
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Huius uerò regisſpirarunt Helles circum uadum
Latum detente, abditać Propontis,
Et ostia Ponti, inſuleq;
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.) — 871 focus
And those that stand back from the main, enringed by their fortified wall,
Gave o'er to Darius, the king, the sceptre and sway over all!
Those too by the channel of Helle, where southward it broadens and glides,
By the inlets, Propontis! of thee, and the strait of the Pontic tides,
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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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μόνης γάρ, οἶδα, σοῦ:
μόνοις
Ven. A.
μόνοις γὰρ, οἶδα
. γρ.
μόνης
ex Par. B. Faehsius affert.
σοῦ οἶδα
Lips.
οἶδα σου
Ald. Rob. Turn.
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841. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-774

ζόφον:
Sógor
, ad
ó
supra scripto, sic Lips.
Cógov
ex Ask. A. affertur.
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842. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-775

πρέσβεις:
géoẞrs
Cantabr. 1. Ald. Quum ex usu Graecorum
ὅμως
ad verbum pertineat, post
yuiger'
interpunctio cum veteribus libris ´omittenda est.
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843. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-776

ψυχῇ διδόντες ἡδονὴν:
yuziv didóvtɛç ydovìv
solae Ald. Rob. Quod Pauwius scribendum esse coniecit,
vezir didórtes idory
, probari posset, nisi etiam vulgata lectio bona esset.
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καθ᾿ ἡμέραν:
zanuέgar
M. Non satis accurate
za9 quéour
interpretantur quotidie. Rectius dum licet. Proprie
za⁹ qué-our
est per diem, i. e. dum praesens dies dural. Ita Sophocles Oed. Col. v. 1079.
τελεῖ, τελεῖ Ζεύς τι κατ' άμαρ
, i. e. hodie. Iude
καθ' ἡμέραν
est de die in diem. Euripides Alc. v. 791.
τὸν καθ' ἡμέραν βίον λογίζου σόν
, praesentem voluptatem tuam puta. Hinc plerumque ita usurpatur, ut sit quod nos dicimus tag für tag, idque sane saepissime dicere possumus quotidie. Ad sententiam comparari potest Soph. Trach. v. 943.
ὡςτ᾽ εἴ τις δύο ἢ καὶ πλέους τις ἡμέρας λογίζεται, μάταιος ἐστιν. οὐ γὰρ ἔσθ᾽ ἣ γ' αὔριον πρὶν εὖ πάθῃ τις τὴν παροῦσαν ἡμέραν
.
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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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ὅμως, vgl. 295. ψυχῇ διδόντες ἡδονὴν vgl. Kra- tinos fr. 418: ἔσθιε καὶ σῇ γαστρὶ δίδου χάριν. Eur. Suppl. 844 : σκληρά τῇ φύσει διδούς, auch die Grab- schrift bei Athenäus VIII p. 336 D: πιέν, φαγὲν καὶ πάντα τὰ ψυχᾷ δόμεν. Hor.od. IV 7, 19 f. Mahnung aus dem Munde eines Gestorbenen sich durch das Unglück des Augen- blicks die Freude am Leben nicht trüben zu lassen. Vgl. übrigens oben S. 33. A. 20. καθ' ἡμέραν teils per diem, dum praesens dies durat (Soph. O. Κ. 1079: τελεῖ Ζεύς τι κατ᾿ ἄμαρ, vgl. ἡδέως ζῆν τὸν βίον καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, Philetaer. 7, 5), teils de die in diem (Eur. Alk. 788: τὸν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν βίον λογίζου σόν). Das εἴδωλον Δαρείου verschwin- det wieder unter die Erde ( κατα- πίεσμα).

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ἤλγ., vgl. 224. ὦ δαῖμον, 472. 515. δάκνει, Eum. 638. ἀτιμία ἐσθημάτων indignitas vestium, schmählicher Aufzug. Vgl. auch oben S. 34 M. – πειράσομαι, es ist ihr noch nicht gewiſs, ob sie die Kraft dazu in sich finden wird, τὰ φίλτατα vgl. Plat. legg. I extr.: ἐπιτρέ- ποντα αὐτοῦ θυγατέρας τε καὶ υἱεῖς καὶ γυναῖκας͵ οὕτως ἐν τοῖς φιλτάτοις κινδυνεύειν.