Aeschylus Persians 686.app-686-1

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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.) — 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.) — 681 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 681 focus
ὦ πιστὰ πιστῶν ἡλικές θ' ἥβης ἐμῆς,
Πέρσαι γεραιοί, τίνα πόλις πονεῖ πόνον;
στένει, κέκοπται, καὶ χαράσσεται πέδον·
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 681 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 681 focus
ὦ πιστὰ πιστῶν ἥλικές θ᾽ ἥβης ἐμῆς,
Πέρσαι γεραιοί, τίνα πόλις πονεῖ πόνον;
στένει, κέκοπται, καὶ χαράσσεται πέδον.
685
λεύσσων δ᾽ ἄκοιτιν τὴν ἐμὴν τάφου πέλας
ταρβῶ, χοὰς δὲ πρευμενὴς ἐδεξάμην.
ὑμεῖς δὲ θρηνεῖτ᾽ ἐγγὺς ἑστῶτες τάφου
καὶ ψυχαγωγοῖς ὀρθιάζοντες γόοις
οἰκτρῶς καλεῖσθέ μ᾽, ἐστὶ δ᾽ οὐκ εὐέξοδον,
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ἄλλως τε πάντως χοὶ κατὰ χθονὸς θεοὶ
λαβεῖν ἀμείνους εἰσὶν ἢ μεθιέναι.
ὅμως δ᾽ ἐκείνοις ἐνδυναστεύσας ἐγὼ
ἥκω· τάχυνε δ᾽, ὡς ἄμεμπτος ὦ χρόνου.
τί ἐστι Πέρσαις νεοχμὸν ἐμβριθὲς κακόν;
695
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 681 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.)) — 681-690 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 681 focus
O ye most trusty of the trusty! ye compeers of my youth, aged Persians, with what trouble is our city troubled? the ground groans, is smitten and torn 8
. And beholding my consort here near my sepulchre, I am in fear, I have received soothing libations. And ye arc wailing, standing near my sepulchre, and shouting shrill in cries that evoke the shades, ye piteously summon me. And exit is no easy matter, both in all other respects, and also inasmuch as the gods beneath the ground are better at receiving than at letting go. Notwithstanding, I having rule among them, am come; and be thou quick, that I may not be censured for the time [of my absence]. What new heavy calamity bath befallen the Persians?
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 681 focus
père bienfaisant, Darios ! Ah ! ah !

Hélas ! hélas ! ô mort que pleurent des milliers d'amis 1 .
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 681 focus
Ye faithful Perſians t
, honour'd now in age,
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Once the companions of my youth, what ills
THE PERSIANS.
Afflict the ſtate?
The firm earth groans, it opes,
Diſcloſing its vaſt deeps;
and near my tomb
820
I ſee my wife: this ſhakes my troubled ſoul
With fearful apprehenſions;
yet her off'rings
Pleas'd I receiv'd.
And you around my tomb
825
Chanting the lofty ſtrain, whoſe ſolemn air
Draws forth the dead, with grief-attemper'd notes
Mournfully call me:
not with eaſe the way
Leads to this upper air;
830
and the ſtern Gods,
Prompt to admit, yield not a paſſage back
But with reluctance:
much with them my pow'r
Availing, with no tardy ſtep I come.
835
Say then, with what new ill doth Perſia groan?
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 681 focus
O voi fidi tra i fidi, o voi, compagni
della mia gioventú, persi vegliardi,
da qual travaglio afflitta è la città?
775
Pianti odo, e palme al sen percosse, e al suolo
batter di piedi;
e presso alla mia tomba
veggo, e temo, la sposa, i cui libami
graditi accolsi.
780
E voi, presso il mio tumulo
piangete, e me chiamate ad alte grida
evocatrici di defunti. Facile
non è l'uscita:
assai piú pronti a prendere,
785
che a rilasciare i Numi inferni sono.
Pure, prevalsi, ed eccomi.
Ma spacciati
ora, che a me l'indugio non sia biasimo.
Qual nuovo male s'aggravò sui Persi?
790
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 681 focus
Perſe ſenes, quo labore urbs laborat:
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.) — 681 focus
Ye aged Persians, truest of the true,
Coevals of the youth that once was mine,
What troubleth now our city? harken, how
It moans and beats the breast and rends the plain!
And I, beholding how my consort stood
695
Beside my tomb, was moved with awe, and took
The gift of her libation graciously.
But ye are weeping by my sepulchre,
And, shrilling forth a sad, evoking cry,
Summon me mournfully, Arise, arise.
700
No light thing is it, to come back from death,
For, in good sooth, the gods of nether gloom
Are quick to seize but late and loth to free!
Yet among them I dwell as one in power—
And lo, I come! now speak, and speed your words,
705
Lest I be blamed for tarrying overlong!
What new disaster broods o'er Persia's realm?
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.) — 681 focus
Der Treuen Treuste, Freunde meiner Jugend einst,
655
Ihr greisen Perser, welches Leid bedrängt die Stadt?
Wild hallt von Schlägen, auseinander reißt der Grund.
Mit Schrecken seh' ich mein Gemahl am Grabe hier;
Doch ihre Spenden nahm ich wohlgefällig auf.
Ihr aber drängt euch weinend her um meine Gruft,
660
Und ruft mich jammernd unter geisterbannenden
Wehklagelauten; doch der Weg zum Sonnenlicht
Ist immer schwierig, und der Todesgötter Fürst
Empfängt begierig seinen Raub, und läßt ihn nicht.
Doch auch im Hades Herrscher noch, erschein' ich schnell,
665
Damit der Säumniß wegen mich kein Tadel trifft.
Welch neues Unheil lastet auf der Perser Volk?

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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πρευμενὴς:
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M. G. Lips. Cantabr. 2. Rob. Idem pro varia lectione in Par. A. B.
пgevµereis
Vit. aliique et Ald. Turn.
686

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

686-693. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-101

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ὀρθιάζ. (389), Ag. 29. 1120. Cho. 271. Zu den all- gemeinen Schwierigkeiten kommt noch die besondere, in der Natur der Beherrscher liegende, hinzu. ἄλλως τε πάντως Prom. 636. Eum. 726. Plat. Apol. p. 35 D: ἄλλως τε μέντοι νὴ Δία πάντως καὶ ἀσεβείας φεύγοντα. Die selbständige Wen- dung nach ἄλλως τε καί ist selten. Auctoritate mea perfeci ut veni- rem, vgl. Xen. Hell. VIII 1,42: ἐνδυναστεύει ὁ Ἐπαμεινώνδας ώστε μὴ φυγαδεῦσαι τοὺς κρατίστους. — τάχυνε, vgl. 697 ff. Propert. V 7, 91 luce iubent leges Lethaea ad stagna reverti.