Aeschylus Persians 520.app-520-1

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

Current edition Experimental

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.) — 532 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 532 focus
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 532 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 532 focus
ὦ Ζεῦ βασιλεῦ, νῦν Περσῶν
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τῶν μεγαλαύχων καὶ πολυάνδρων
στρατιὰν ὀλέσας
ἄστυ τὸ Σούσων ἠδ᾽ Ἀγβατάνων
πένθει δνοφερῷ κατέκρυψας.
πολλαὶ δ᾽ ἁπαλαῖς χερσὶ καλύπτρας
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κατερεικόμεναι διαμυδαλέοις
δάκρυσι κόλπους
τέγγουσ᾽, ἄλγους μετέχουσαι.
αἱ δ᾽ ἁβρύγοοι Περσίδες ἀνδρῶν
ποθέουσαι ἰδεῖν ἀρτιζυγίαν,
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λέκτρων εὐνὰς ἁβροχίτωνας,
χλιδανῆς ἥβης τέρψιν, ἀφεῖσαι,
πενθοῦσι γόοις ἀκορεστοτάτοις.
κἀγὼ δὲ μόρον τῶν οἰχομένων
αἴρω δοκίμως πολυπενθῆ.
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Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 532 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.) — 532 focus
O sovereign Jove! now hast thou destroyed the armament of the high-vaunting and numerous Persians; and thou hast veiled in gloomy grief the city of Susa and of Ecbatana: and many virgins, rending their veils with their delicate hands, sharing in the sorrow, drench their bosoms with dense floods of tears. Our Persian matrons too, in excess of mourning, longing for the sight of the recent wedlock of their husbands, and having abandoned their couches 4
covered with elegant tapestry, the delight of their delicate youth, they sorrow with most insatiate sighs. And I, for my part, heartily take [for my theme] the melancholy fate of the departed.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 532 focus
O Zeus roi, l'heure est donc venue, où, anéantissant l'armée des Perses, des Perses altiers et
innombrables, tu as enseveli Suse et Ecbatane dans un deuil ténébreux ! Et des milliers de femmes 1 , de leurs faibles bras, déchirent leur voiles et inondent leur sein de larmes ruisselantes,
dans la douleur qui les saisit ! Et les épouses perses, mollement 2 plaintives, dans le regret de l'homme, leur jeune compagnon, disant adieu au lit mollement drapé, volupté d'une jeunesse fastueuse,
exhalent leur deuil en sanglots plus insatiables encore — cependant que moi-même, je célèbre ici le
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 532 focus
Aweful ſovereign of the ſkies,
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When now o'er Perſia's numerous hoſt
Thou bad'ſt the ſtorm with ruin riſe,
All her proud vaunts of glory loſt,
Ecbatana's imperial head
By thee was wrapt in ſorrow's dark'ning ſhade;
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Thro' Suſa's palaces with loud lament,
By their ſoft hands their veils all rent,
The copious tear the virgins pour,
That trickles their bare boſoms o'er.
From her ſweet couch up ſtarts the widow'd bride,
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Her lord's lov'd image ruſhing on her ſoul,
Throws the rich ornaments of youth aſide,
And gives her griefs to flow without controul:
THE PERSIANS.
Her griefs not cauſeleſs; for the mighty ſlain
Our melting tears demand, and ſorrow-ſoften'd
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ſtrain.
ANTISTROPHE.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 532 focus
O re Giove, dei Persi superbi
le fittissime schiere hai distrutte,
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ed Ecbàtana e Susa hai coperto
con caligine densa di lutto.
Queste donne, i lor veli stracciando
con le morbide mani, partecipi
di tal doglia, cospargono il seno
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di lagrime amare.
Con le molli querele, le spose
persïane richiaman gli sposi
e le nozze recenti;
e lasciate
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le mollissime coltri dei talami,
voluttà di lor giovani vite,
s'addoloran con lagno perenne.
Ed anch'io dei perduti la sorte
con querela di lutto deploro.
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Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 532 focus
O' Iupiter rex, Perfarum
Audacium,
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multorum uirorum
Exercitum perdidifti,
Sufa Ecbatana
Caliginofo luctu occultasti.
Multæ uerò delicatis manibus uestes
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Lacerantes, humidis
Lachrymis tingunt finus doloris participes.
Luctuoſe uerò Perſides uirorum
Defiderantes uidere modò coniunctionem,
Lectorumq; cubilia molliter ornata,
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Voluptuose pubis relinquentes delectationem,
Lugent gemitibus infatiabilibus.
Et ego ob fatum abfentium
Fero manifeſtè luctuofum gemitum.
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.) — 532 focus
Zeus, lord and king! to death and nought
Our countless host by thee is brought.
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Deep in the gloom of death, to-day,
Lie Susa and Ecbatana:
How many a maid in sorrow stands
And rends her tire with tender hands!
How tears run down, in common pain
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And woeful mourning for the slain!
O delicate in dole and grief,
Ye Persian women! past relief
Is now your sorrow! to the war
Your loved ones went and come no more!
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Gone from you is your joy and pride—
Severed the bridegroom from the bride—
The wedded couch luxurious
Is widowed now, and all the house
Pines ever with insatiate sighs,
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And we stand here and bid arise,
For those who forth in ardour went
And come not back, the loud lament!
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.) — 532 focus
Allwaltender Zeus, nun hast du das Heer,
Das trokig, unzählbar zog in den Kampf,
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Uns Persern vertilgt,
Hast Susa's, hast Ekbatana's Burg
In nächtliche Trauer begraben!
O wie manche der Frau'n, mit zärtlicher Hand
Sich den Schleier vom Haupt abreißend, beneßt,
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Von dem Jammer gebeugt,
Mit strömender Zähre den Busen!
Manch persisches Weib, in sehnendem Gram
Süßklagend um Ihn, dem sie kaum sich vermählt,
Und des duftenden Lagers Wonnegenuß,
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Dem Entzücken der Jugend, schmerzlich entrückt,
Seufzt auf in unendlicher Trauer. 1
Auch mein Lied strömt in Klage sich aus
Um das Jammergeschick der Gefall'nen,

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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ἐπ᾽ ἐξειργασμένοis:
ἐπεξειργασμένοις
M. G.
ἐπεξειργασμένως
Ald.
ἐπεξειργασμένας
Rob.

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

515-520. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-77

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δυσπόνητε Schol. σας. Α: χαλεποὺς πόνους ἡμῖν ἐμποιή- ἐνήλου insultasti; vgl. die krit. Bemerkungen. – οἳ ᾿γὼ τ. 445. νυκτὸς ὄψις ἐνυπν. Kr. 47, 9. Α. 7. – ἐκρίνατε 226. Atossa hat die tröstliche Seite der Deutung des Chors ausschliesslich aufgefafst und behalten.