Aeschylus Persians 472.app-472-1

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Persians. Aeschylus. ed. Gottfried Hermann. Lipsiae. 1852.

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

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Πέρσαι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 548-597 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 548-597 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 480 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 480 focus
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 480 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 480 focus
ναῶν δὲ ταγοὶ τῶν λελειμμένων σύδην
κατ᾽ οὗρον οὐκ εὔκοσμον αἴρονται φυγήν.
στρατὸς δ᾽ ὁ λοιπὸς ἔν τε Βοιωτῶν χθονὶ
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διώλλυθ᾽, οἳ μὲν ἀμφὶ κρηναῖον γάνος
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 480 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.)) — 548-595 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 480 focus
The commanders of the ships, indeed, which were left, tumultuously take to flight before the wind, not in good order. But the residue of the forces perished both in the land of the Boeotians—some around the fountain spring suffering from thirst, and some 2
of us exhausted by panting, pass on thence into the territory of the Phocians, and the land of Doris, and the Melian bay, where Spercheius waters the plain with kindly stream; and thence the soil of the Achaian land, and the city of the Thessalians received us, straitened for want of food: here, indeed, a great many perished both from thirst and hunger; for both these evils befel us. We came also into the land of Magnesia, and the country of the Macedonians, to the ford of the Axius, and the fenny reed of Bolbe, and to mount Pangaeus, Edonian land. And in this night God called up winter out of his season 3
, and congeals the whole stream of the sacred Strymon. And one that had aforetime believed not in the gods, then made prayer in orisons, doing reverence to earth and heaven 4
. And after that the host had ceased from offering their many invocations, it makes its passage across the ice-bound stream. And whosoever of us had sped our way before the rays of the god had been shed abroad, bath escaped; for the bright orb of the sun blazing with his beams, penetrated through the middle of the stream, warming it with its blaze. They fell, too, one upon another; and happy, in sooth, was any that most speedily broke off the breath of life. And as many as survived and attained to safety, having with difficulty made their way through Thrace with much toil 1
, having made their escape, have reached, in no great numbers, the land of their homes; so that the city of the Persians may well sigh, regretting the dearest youth of our country. These tidings are true: but I omit to tell you of many of the horrors which the god bath hurled down upon the Persians.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 480 focus
Non, les chefs des vaisseaux épargnés,
en toute hâte, profitant d'un bon vent, ont pris la fuite en désordre. Le reste de l'armée, sur le sol de Béotie, déjà commençait à fondre. Les uns, autour de la clarté des sources 1 , souffraient l'agonie de la soif ; les autres, à bout de souffle, tombaient sur les chemins. Pour nous, <...> 2 nous
arrivons à passer en territoire phocidien et en Doride ; nous atteignons le golfe Maliaque, où le Sperchios fait boire à la plaine son eau bienfaisante. Le pays d'Achaïe, les villes thessaliennes nous voient arriver à court de vivres. Plus
d'un meurt là et de soif et de faim : les deux maux à la fois sont maintenant les nôtres ! Nous parvenons au pays des Magnètes et à la région macédonienne, au cours de l'Axios, puis aux roseaux qui marquent le Bolbé, enfin au mont
Pangée, à la terre des Édoniens 3 ! Cette nuit-là un dieu fit naître un précoce hiver et, sur toute l'étendue de son cours, geler le Strymon sacré. Alors plus d'un, pour qui auparavant il n'était point de dieux, de lancer vœux et prières, en adorant la terre et le ciel ; et, dès que l'armée a
cessé ses invocations, commence le passage du fleuve de
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 480 focus
Whoe'er of Perſia's warriors glow'd in prime
Of vig'rous youth, or felt their generous ſouls
Expand with courage, or for noble birth
Shone with diſtinguiſh'd luſtre, or excell'd
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In firm and duteous loyalty, all theſe
Are fall'n, ignobly, miſerably fall'n.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 480 focus
I duci delle navi anche superstiti,
confusamente, senza ardire, dove
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soffia la brezza, si volgono a fuga.
Quel che restò de le terrestri schiere,
perí nel suolo dei Beoti:
questi
travagliati da sete intorno al fiotto
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delle sorgive: estenuati quelli,
senza anelito.
E quindi il suol di Fòcide,
e la dorica terra attraversiamo,
e il seno di Malía, dove col flutto
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benigno i piani irriga lo Spercheo.
Quivi, stremati d'ogni cibo, il piano
li accoglieva d'Acaia, e le città
della Tessaglia.
I piú quivi morirono
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di sete e fame: ché soffrian d'entrambe!
E alla terra Magnesia e al suol Macedone
giungemmo, sopra il valico dell'Assio,
di Bolbe sopra le palustri canne,
di Pange all'alpe, ed all'Edonia terra.
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In questa notte un Nume suscitò
intempestivo gelo, e le fluenti
tutte agghiacciò del limpido Strimone.
Qui, tal che pria fede negava ai Numi,
allora si prostrò, la terra e il cielo
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con le preci invocò.
Quando poi tregua
ebber le tante suppliche, l'esercito
il fiume traversò, fatto cristallo.
Ma sol chi lo varcò prima che i raggi
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si spandesser del sole, in salvo giunse:
poiché l'orbe del sol, di raggi ardendo,
e con la vampa il tràmite bruciando,
lo liquefece a mezzo.
Oh!, fortunato
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chi perse prima l'alito vitale!
Quei che, serbati, attinsero salvezza,
traversata la Tracia a gran fatica,
sul patrio suolo sono qui, fuggiaschi;
né molti sono.
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Onde può Susa piangere
la sua piú cara gioventú perduta.
Il vero è questo.
Ed altri assai tralascio
mali che un Nume ai Persïani inflisse.
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Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 480 focus
Ducis nauium relictarum celeriter
Iuxta stationem, inornatè eligunt fugam.
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Exercitus reliquus in terra Bœotiorum
Perijt, partim quidem circa fontanum Ganum,
Siti laborantes, partim uerò anhelitu uacui.
Tranfiuimus in Phocenfium terram,
Et Doridum folum,& finum Meliacum, ubi
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Sperchius irrigat campum propitio potu.
Inde nos folum terre Achaice,
Et Theßalorum oppidum egentes
Cibo fufceperunt:ibi fanè multi perierunt
Et siti fameqs:hec ambo nobis aderant.
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Magnesiam uerò in terram, Macedonumq,
Regionem uenimus, in tranfitu Axij,
Bolbesq palustrofam arūdinem, Pangeūq; montë,
Edonidam in terram.
nocte in illa Deus
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uerò
Tēpestate acerba concitauit:constringebatur
Fluentum cafti Strymonis.
Deos uerò qui
Antea nequaquam putauerat, tunc orabat
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Precibus, terram cælum adorans.
Poftquam diu à precibus quieuit
Exercitus, tranfit conftrictum uadum gelu.
Et quisquis noſtrûm priusquam difpargeretur Dei
Radij conatus est tranfire, & feruatus est.
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Lucens enim radijs fplendidus folis orbis
Tranfiuit per medium uadum, calefaciens flamma,
Cadebant inuicem:fortunatus uerò.
Qui celeriter emifit fpiritum uite.
Qui uerò reliqui affecuti erant falutem,
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Thracia pertranfientes, uix longo labore
Veniunt fugientes non multi
In patriam terram, ut gemeret urbs
Perfarum, defiderans pubem terre.
Hec uera funt: multa uerò relinquo loquens
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Mala, que Perfis Deus immifit.
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.) — 480 focus
The captains of the ships that still survived
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Fled in disorder, scudding down the wind,
The while our land-force on Boeotian soil
Fell into ruin, some beside the springs
Dropping before they drank, and some outworn,
Pursued, and panting all their life away.
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The rest of us our way to Phocis won,
And thence to Doris and the Melian gulf,
Where with soft stream Spercheus laves the soil.
Thence to the northward did Phthiotis' plain,
And some Thessalian fortress, lend us aid,
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For famine-pinched we were, and many died
Of drought and hunger's twofold present scourge.
Thence to Magnesia came we, and the land
Where Macedonians dwell, and crossed the ford
Of Axius, and Bolbe's reedy fen,
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And mount Pangaeus, in Edonian land.
There, in the very night we came, the god
Brought winter ere its time, from bank to bank
Freezing the holy Strymon's tide. Each man
Who heretofore held lightly of the gods.
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Now crouched and proffered prayer to Earth and Heaven!
Then, after many orisons performed,
The army ventured on the frozen ford:
Yet only those who crossed before the sun
Shed its warm rays, won to the farther side.
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For soon the fervour of the glowing orb
Did with its keen rays pierce the ice-bound stream,
And men sank through and thrust each other down—
Best was his lot whose breath was stifled first!
But all who struggled through and gained the bank,
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Toilfully wending through the land of Thrace
Have made their way, a sorry, scanted few,
Unto this homeland. Let the city now
Lament and yearn for all the loved and lost.
My tale is truth, yet much untold remains
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Of ills that Heaven hath hurled upon our land.
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.) — 480 focus
Der Schiffe Führer, welche sich gerettet, floh'n,
Dem Winde folgend, ungestüm in wilder Flucht.
Des Heeres Rest ging unter im Böoterland;
Ein Theil erlag am silberhellen Labequell
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Vor Durst verschmachtend; wir, von athemlosem Lauf
Erschöpft, gelangten fliehend in der Phoker Land,
In Doris' Auen und zu Melis' Busen, wo
Spercheios' Flut die Gauen mildbefruchtend tränkt.
Sofort von hier aus nahmen uns Thessalia's
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Gefild', Achäa's Fluren auf, da Speisen uns
Bereits gebrachen; dort erlag der größ're Theil
Dem Durst, dem Hunger; denn vereint war Beides hier.
Magnesia's Gefilde dann erreichten wir
Und Makedonia's, auch die Furth des Axios,
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Auch Bolbe's sumpfig Röhricht, auch Pangäos' Berg
Im Land Edonis. Doch in dieser Nacht erregt
Ein Gott zur Unzeit Wintersturm, in Eis erstarrt
Ringsher des Strymon heilig Bett, und wer zuvor
Die Götter Nichts geachtet, rief mit Einem Mal
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In tiefer Andacht betend Erd' und Himmel an.
Nachdem das Heer die Götter brünstig angefleht,
So schritt's hinüber durch den eisumstarrten Strom.
Und Jeder war gerettet, der zum Strande kam,
Bevor des Gottes Strahlen sich verbreiteten.
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Denn Helios, in flammenheller Scheibe Glanz,
Schmolz bald des Eises Decke durch mit heißer Glut.
Jezt auf einander stürzten sie; traun, glücklich war,
Wem schnell in kurzem Kampfe riß des Lebens Hauch.
Die, welche noch nachblieben und sich retteten,
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Durchwandern Thrake mühevoll mit vieler Noth,
Und nah'n, dem Tod entflohen, keine große Zahl,
Dem Herd des Heimatlandes, daß die Perserstadt
Sehnsüchtig um des Landes schönste Blüte klagt.
Das ist die Wahrheit; doch verschwieg ich vieles noch
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Des Leides, das den Persern auferlegt ein Gott.

Commentary

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

472. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-391

τοσόνδε:
τοσῶν δὲ
sic M.
τοσῶνδε
Ven. B. paucique alii et ex corr. Vit.
τὸ σὸν δὲ
, ad
σὸν
supra scripto
ω
, Lips.
τοσόνδε
G. ceterique plerique et ante corr. Vit. ἐπέσπασεν:
ἐπέσπασεν
M. Cantabr. 1.
ἀπέσπασεν
Ven. B.
ἀπέσπασε
ante corr. Vit.
ἐπέσπασε
Vit. ex corr. et reliqui.

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

472-479. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-71

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δαίμον 345. zu Ar. nub. 1264. δαίμων wo der Gott heit eine unerfreuliche Eigenschaft oder Handlung zugeschrieben wird. Soph. Ai. 1391: καί μ᾿ ἔψευσας ἐλπίδων πολύ. Herod. VII 8: μέλλω ἐλᾶν στρατὸν διὰ τῆς Εὐρώπης ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, ἵνα᾿ Αθη- ναίους τιμωρήσωμαι ὅσα δὴ πεποι- ήκασι Πέρσας τε καὶ πατέρα τὸν ἐμόν. οὓς ἀπώλεσεν, es waren 6400, Herod. VI 117 in. ἀντί- ποινα (Eum. 268) πράττειν, εἰσπρ., ἀπαιτεῖν, exigere, Cho. 311. Eum. 623f. δοκῶν 188. ναῶν μόρον welche nicht in den Untergang der Schiffe hineingezogen worden sind.