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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.) — 703-851 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 703-851 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 739 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 739 focus
φεῦ, ταχεῖα γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν πρᾶξις, ἐς δὲ παῖδ᾽ ἐμὸν
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Ζεὺς ἐπέσκηψεν τελευτὴν θεσφάτων· ἐγὼ δέ που
διὰ μακροῦ χρόνου τάδ' ηὔχουν ἐκτελευτήσειν θεούς·
ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν σπεύδῃ τις αὐτός, χὠ θεὸς συνάπτεται.
νῦν κακῶν ἔοικε πηγὴ πᾶσιν εὑρῆσθαι φίλοις.
παῖς δ᾽ ἐμὸς τάδ᾽ οὐ κατειδὼς ἤνυσεν νέῳ θράσει·
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ὅςτις Ἑλλήσποντον ἱερὸν δοῦλον ὡς δεσμώμασιν
ἤλπισε σχήσειν ῥέοντα, Βόσπορον, ῥόον θεοῦ·
καὶ πόρον μετερρύθμιζε, καὶ πέδαις σφυρηλάτοις
περιβαλὼν πολλὴν κέλευθον ἤνυσεν πολλῷ στρατῷ,
θνητὸς ὤν, θεῶν δὲ πάντων ᾤετ᾽, οὐκ εὐβουλίᾳ,
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καὶ Ποσειδῶνος κρατήσειν. πῶς τάδ᾽ οὐ νόσος φρενῶν
εἶχε παῖδ᾽ ἐμόν; δέδοικα, μὴ πολὺς πλούτου πόνος
οὑμὸς ἀνθρώποις γένηται τοῦ φθάσαντος ἁρπαγή.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 739 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 739 focus
φεῦ, ταχεῖα γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν πρᾶξις, ἐς δὲ παῖδ᾽ ἐμὸν
Ζεὺς ἀπέσκηψεν τελευτὴν θεσφάτων· ἐγὼ δέ που
διὰ μακροῦ χρόνου τάδ' ηὔχουν ἐκτελευτήσειν θεούς.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν σπεύδῃ τις αὐτός, χὠ θεὸς συνάπτεται.
νῦν κακῶν ἔοικε πηγὴ πᾶσιν εὑρῆσθαι φίλοις.
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παῖς δ᾽ ἐμὸς τάδ᾽ οὐ κατειδὼς ἤνυσεν νέῳ θράσει·
ὅστις Ἑλλήσποντον ἱρὸν δοῦλον ὣς δεσμώμασιν
ἤλπισεν σχήσειν ῥέοντα, Βόσπορον ῥόον θεοῦ,
καὶ πόρον μετερρύθμιζε, καὶ πέδαις σφυρηλάτοις
περιβαλὼν πολλὴν κέλευθον ἤνυσεν πολλῷ στρατῷ,
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θνητὸς ὢν θεῶν δὲ πάντων ᾤετ᾽, οὐκ εὐβουλίᾳ,
καὶ Ποσειδῶνος κρατήσειν. πῶς τάδ᾽ οὐ νόσος φρενῶν
εἶχε παῖδ᾽ ἐμόν; δέδοικα μὴ πολὺς πλούτου πόνος
οὑμὸς ἀνθρώποις γένηται τοῦ φθάσαντος ἁρπαγή.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 739 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.)) — 703-850 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 739 focus
Alas! swift indeed came the accomplishment of the oracles; and upon my son Jove hath inflicted the consummation of the divine declarations. I have expected that the gods would bring these things to their complete fulfillment after a long issue 1
. But when a man is himself speeding onward, god also lends a hand. Now a fountain of ills seems to have been discovered for my friends. And my son, not understanding this, hath brought it about by his youthful presumption; who hoped to check in its course the sacred Hellespont, the Bosphorus, stream of the god, like a slave, with bonds, and was for reducing the stream to order; and binding it with hammer-wrought fetters, accomplished a great road for his great army, and he unwisely thought, mortal as he was, that he should get the mastery of all the gods, and of Neptune. Did not therefore a distemper of soul possess my son? I fear lest my great store of wealth shall become a prey to the first comer.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 739 focus
elle est vite venue, la réalisation des oracles, et c'est sur mon propre fils que Zeus a laissé
tomber l'achèvement des prophéties. Je me flattais qu'il faudrait aux dieux de longs jours pour les accomplir jusqu'au bout ; mais, quand un mortel s'emploie à sa perte, les dieux viennent l'y aider : aujourd'hui, c'est une source de malheurs qu'ont été se chercher les miens ; et c'est mon fils qui, sans comprendre, a fait cela dans sa jeune imprudence ! lui qui a conçu l'espoir d'arrêter dans son cours,
par des chaînes d'esclave, l'Hellespont sacré, le Bosphore où coule un dieu ! qui prétendait transformer un détroit et, en lui passant des entraves forgées au marteau, ouvrir une immense route à son immense armée ! Mortel, il a cru, en sa déraison, pouvoir triompher de tous les dieux
de Poséidon ! Peut-on nier qu'un vrai mal de l'esprit ne tînt là mon enfant ? J'ai peur que l'énorme richesse conquise par mon labeur ne soit plus pour les hommes qu'un butin offert aux plus prompts.
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 739 focus
With what a winged courſe the oracles
Haſte their completion?
With the light'ning's ſpeed
Jove on my ſon hath hurl'd his threaten'd venge-
ance:
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Yet I implor'd the Gods that it might fall
In time's late proceſs:
but when raſhneſs drives
Impetuous on, the ſcourge of Heav'n uprais'd
Laſhes the Fury forward;
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hence theſe ills
Pour headlong on my friends.
Not weighing this
My ſon, with all the firey pride of youth,
Hath quicken'd their arrival, whilſt he hoped
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To bind the ſacred Helleſpont, to hold
The raging Boſphorus, like a ſlave, in chains x
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And dared th' advent'rous paſſage, bridging firm
With links of ſolid iron his wond'rous way,
THE PERSIANS.
To lead his numerous hoſt; and, ſwell'd with thoughts
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Preſumptuous, deem'd, vain mortal, that his pow'r
Shou'd riſe above the Gods, and Neptune's might.
And was not this the frenzy of the ſoul?
But much I fear leſt all my treaſur'd wealth
Fall to ſome daring hand an eaſy prey.
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Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 739 focus
Come presto degli oracoli giunse, ahimè!, l'esito!
Il Dio il successo dei responsi suscitò sul figliuol mio!
lo speravo che i Celesti ne tardassero l'evento;
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ma se tu premi, lo stesso Nume affretta il compimento.
Ecco, un fonte di malanni sugli amici ora s'è aperto:
il figliuol mio lo dischiuse, baldanzoso ed inesperto,
che pensò dell'Ellesponto come un servo il sacro fiume
porre in vincoli, e del Bosforo le fluenti sacre al Nume;
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e stringendo ferrei ceppi sopra il tramite marino,
lo mutò, sí che all'esercito grande aprisse ampio cammino.
Ei mortale, soverchiare s'avvisò - stolto consiglio!
tutti i Numi, e fin Posídone.
Di' se stolto fu mio figlio!
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Deh!, la pena ond'io raccolsi tanti beni, non profitti
ad estranie genti, al primo che le mani su vi gitti!
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 739 focus
Heu celer uenit oraculi perfectio, in meŭ filiŭ.
Iupiter finem oraculis impofuit:ego uerò
Per longum tépus nõ optabā peracturos hoc deos.
Sed quado festinat aliquis Deus, ipſe coaptatur illi.
Nunc uidetur fons malorum omnib. amicis fluere.
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Filius meus hæc no refpicies, pfecit iuuenili audacia
Quiſacrum Hellefpontum tanqua feruum uinculis
Sperauit cohibere, fluentem bofphorus fluentü Dei.
Et uadum adaptauit, pedicisq; malleo cuſis
Circundans, magnam uiam fecit magno exercituis
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Mortalis exiſtes putabat nõ bono cõſilio dijs oibus
Et Neptuno imperare: hæc, nõ morbus mentis
Detinuerunt filium meu, uereor ne magne diuitie
Meæ hominibus fim preda preoccupantibus.
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.) — 739 focus
Woe for the oracle fulfilled, the presage of the war
Launched on my son, by will of Zeus! I deemed our doom afar
In lap of time; but, if a king push forward to his fate,
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The god himself allures to death that man infatuate!
So now the very fount of woe streams out on those I loved,
And mine own son, unwisely bold, the truth hereof hath proved!
He sought to shackle and control the Hellespontine wave,
That rushes from the Bosphorus, with fetters of a slave!—
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To curb and bridge, with welded links, the streaming water-way,
And guide across the passage broad his manifold array!
Ah, folly void of counsel! he deemed that mortal wight
Could thwart the will of Heaven itself and curb Poseidon's might!
Was it not madness? much I fear lest all my wealth and store
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Pass from my treasure-house, to be the snatcher's prize once more!
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.) — 739 focus
Wehe! Schnell hat sich des Schicksals Wort erfüllt, und meinem Sohn
Ward von Zeus verhängt das Ende dieses Spruchs; ich hoffte wohl,
Erst in später Zeit erfüllen werde dies der Götter Rath.
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Aber wenn du's selbst beschleunigst, beut dir auch ein Gott die Hand.
Jebo scheint den Meinen allen aufgethan des Jammers Born.
Doch mein Sohn, das nicht erkennend, trokt' in kecem Jugendmuth,
Der des heil'gen Hellespontos stolze Flut in Fesselzwang
Sklavengleich zu ketten wähnte, Bosporos, des Gottes Strom,
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Der den Pfad umschuf des Meeres, und mit erzgehämmerter
Bande Joch dem großen Heerzug kühn erschloß die große Bahn,
Der, ein Mensch, die Götter alle, ja Poseidon selbst, im Wahn
Blöden Muths zu meistern hoffte! Hatte nicht Wahnsinn den Geist
Meines Sohns umstrickt? Ich fürchte, mein so schwer errungner Schay
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Wird des kühnen Räubers Beute, den zuerst danach verlangt.

Commentary

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

738. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-644

καὶ πρὸς ἤπειρον σεσῶσθαι τήνδε, τοῦτ᾽ ἐτήτυμον;: V. 738. 739. omittit Mosc.
σέσωσθαι τοῦτ᾽ ἐπιτήτυμον
Lips. Suspiceris haec esse vestigia huius lectionis,
καὶ πρὸς ἤπειρον σεσῶσθαι, τοῦτό γ᾽ ἔστ' ἐτήτυμον ;
Sed ceteri omnes in vulgata consentiunt.
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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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Stichomythie von 24 Versen.

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Vgl. Eur. Hek. 1130 : μόνον δὲ σὺν τέκνοισί μ᾽ εἰσάγειν. Herod. VI 15: μετ᾿ ὀλίγων συμμά- χων μεμουνωμένοι. Thuk. VI 10: μονωθεὶς μετ᾿ ὀλίγων ξυνδιαβάν- των. Was ist schliesslich aus ihm geworden? Demosth. I 14: σκοπεῖ- σθε εἰς τί ποτ᾽ ἐλπὶς ταῦτα τελευ- τῆσαι. – ἄσμ. μολεῖν (vgl. Hom. ↑ 350: φύγεν ἄσμενος ἐκ θανάτοιο. Kr. 57, 5. A. 2), der Dichter vergiſst, daſs er den Boten dies nicht hat erzählen lassen. Auch berichtet (wohl genauer) Herod. VIII 117, dafs Xerxes und der Rest des Heeres τῇσι νηυσὶ διέβησαν ἐς ῎Αβυδον· τὰς γὰρ σχεδίας οὐκ εὐρον ἔτι ἐντεταμένας, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὸ χειμῶνος διαλελυμένας. - κρατεί, Suppl. 294, τοῦτο, obtinet hoc.