Aeschylus Persians 623

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Persians. Aeschylus. Paul Mazon (Editor). Paris. 1920-1925.

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Funding provided by Schmidt Sciences.

Current edition Experimental

ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) (Greek) (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (6)
Πέρσαι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 633-680 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 633-680 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 623 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 623 focus
βασίλεια γύναι, πρέσβος Πέρσαις,
σύ τε πέμπε χοὰς θαλάμους ὕπο γῆς,
ἡμεῖς δ᾽ ὕμνοις αἰτησόμεθα
φθιμένων πομποὺς
εὔφρονας εἶναι κατὰ γαίας.
630
ἀλλά, χθόνιοι δαίμονες ἁγνοί,
Γῆ τε καὶ Ἑρμῆ, βασιλεῦ τ᾽ ἐνέρων,
πέμψατ᾽ ἔνερθεν ψυχὴν ἐς φῶς·
εἰ γάρ τι κακῶν ἄκος οἶδε πλέον,
μόνος ἂν θνητῶν πέρας εἴποι.
635
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 623 focus
βασίλεια γύναι, πρέσβος Πέρσαις,
σύ τε πέμπε χοὰς θαλάμους ὑπὸ γῆς,
ἡμεῖς θ᾽ ὕμνοις αἰτησόμεθα
φθιμένων πομποὺς
εὔφρονας εἶναι κατὰ γαίας.
630
ἀλλὰ χθόνιοι δαίμονες ἁγνοί,
Γῆ τε καὶ Ἑρμῆ, βασιλεῦ τ᾽ ἐνέρων,
πέμψατ᾽ ἔνερθεν ψυχὴν ἐς φῶς·
εἰ γάρ τι κακῶν ἄκος οἶδε πλέον,
μόνος ἂν θνητῶν πέρας εἴποι.
635
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 623 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.)) — 633-680 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 623 focus
Royal dame, venerable majesty of the Persians, do thou convey libations to the chambers beneath the earth, and we, in our lays, will implore the conductors of the dead beneath the earth to be propitious. Come, O ye holy divinities below the earth, both Earth and Mercury, and thou. monarch of the dead, send from beneath the spirit into the light of day; for if he knows any remedy 2
of our ills, he alone could tell the termination more than mortals 3
.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 623 focus
dirigerai vers les dieux infernaux ces hommages que boira la terre.
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 623 focus
Yes, royal lady, Perſia's honour'd grace,
760
To earth's dark chambers pour thy off'rings:
We
With choral hymns will ſupplicate the pow'rs
That guide the dead, to be propitious to us.
And you, that o'er the realms of night extend
765
Your ſacred ſway, thee mighty earth, and thee
Hermes;
thee chief, tremendous king, whoſe throne
Awes with ſupreme dominion, I adjure:
THE PERSIANS.
Send, from your gloomy regions, ſend his ſhade
770
Once more to viſit this ætherial light;
That he alone, if ought of dread event
He ſees yet threat'ning Perſia, may diſcloſe
To us poor mortals Fate's extreme decree.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 623 focus
O regina, cui venera il popolo
persiano, i libami tu versa
della terra sui talami.
Ai Dèmoni
715
che guidan gli estinti
chiederem noi frattanto con gl'inni
che sotterra benigni ci siano.
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 623 focus
Terraq; Mercuri inferorum rex
Mittite ex inferis locis animam in lucem.
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.) — 623 focus
Queen, by the Persian land adored,
By thee be this libation poured,
Passing to those who hold command
Of dead men in the spirit-land!
And we will sue, in solemn chant,
650
That gods who do escort the dead
In nether realms, our prayer may grant—
Back to us be Darius led!
O Earth, and Hermes, and the king
Of Hades, our Darius bring!
655
For if, beyond the prayers we prayed,
He knoweth aught of help or aid,
He, he alone, in realms below,
Can speak the limit of our woe!
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.) — 623 focus
O Königin, Erste von Persis' Frau'n,
605
Auf, sende den Gruß in der Erde Gemach :
Wir flehen indeß im Gesange sie an,
Uns gnädig zu sein,
Die Geleiter der Todten im Hades!
Ihr heiligen Götter des Abgrunds, Ge
610
Und Hermes und du, der die Schatten beherrscht,
O sendet empor an die Sonne den Geist!
Denn weiß er im Leid noch weiteren Rath,
Er verkündet allein uns das Ende.
(Atossa spendet am Grabmal, während die folgenden Strophen ge. sungen werden.)

Commentary

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

623. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-479

ὕμνους:
uros
Lips. Par. L.
623

623. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-480

ἐπευφημεῖτε:
ταῖδε
Lips.
ἐπευφημεῖσθε
Ald.
623

623. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-481

τόν τε δαίμονα:
τόνδε δαί- pova
Lips. Mosc. Ox. Par. L. Ald. Rob.
torde duí
, omissis syllabis
pova
, Vit.
τὸν δὲ δαίμονα
Ven. A. Colb. 1.
τόν τ᾽ εὐδαίμονα
in litura a sec. manu Cantabr. 2.
tór te datuora
M. G. Turn. Recte. Idem hoc est ac
τόν τε δαίμονα ὄντα Δαρεῖον
.
623

624. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-482

ἀνακαλεῖσθε:
ἀνακαλεῖσθαι
M. Vit.
624

624. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-483

γαπότους:
γαπόνους
Mosc.
γατόπους
Par. C.
γ' ἀτόπους
Vit.
624

625. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-484

τιμὰς:
Tuas
omittit Vit. Idem habet
Tεoors
, relicto spatio.
625

625. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-485

νερτέροις:
νερτέρων
Par. L. Ven. Β.
νερτέροις
(supra scripto
ων
)
θεοῖς τόνδε δαίμονα
Lips.
625

626. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-486

βασίλεια:
Basíkɛia yra
affertur a Thoma M. p. 58, 8. tamquam si
βασίλεια
femininum esset a
βασίλειος
.
626

626. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-487

πρέσβος:
noloẞos
M. unde receptum a Victorio.
noέoßvs
Lips. Ven. A. aliique et Ald. Turn.
πρέσβις
Vit. Mosc.
πρέσβυσα
G.
πρέσβα
Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. L. aliique et Rob.
626

627. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-488

πέμπε χοὰς:
nu
in fine versus, et
oùs
in initio versus sequentis, pro
πέμπε χοὰς
Vit.
627

628. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-489

ἡμεῖς δ᾽:
queis d'
Vit. Lips. edd. vett.
quɛïç 9'
M. G. Ask. A. et ut videtur Veneti.
628

628. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-490

ὕμνοις:
ύπνοις
Lips.
628

628. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-491

αἰτησόμεθα:
αίτη
, omissis syllabis
σόμεθα
, Vit.
628

630. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-492

κατὰ γαίας:
καταγαίας
Μ.
κατὰ γαίης
Vit.
κατὰ γαῖαν
G. Lips. Cantabr. 1.2. Ox. Par. A. B. C. Colb.1. Ald. Rob. Turn. Dici potuit et
zarà yaîar
et
zarà yalas
: sed numerosiorem reddere versum videtur genitivus.
630

631. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-493

ἀλλά, χθόνιοι: Non recte Blomfieldius
ά22' & 79óvior
, ex scholiis, ut ait. At scholiastae est, consulto non positum a poeta, quia modo praecessit
q9quérov nouzovs
. Nam
&
est compellantis eum qui non ante memoratus erat.
631

632. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-494

βασιλεῦ τ᾽ ἐνέρων:
Buoikeõ te vegtéowv
G. Lips. Mosc. aliique nonnulli et Rob.
βασι νερτέρων
Vit.
632

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

623-632. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-92

1
2
Die Übergangsana- pästen (vgl. 532 ff.) zerfallen in zwei Systeme, deren erstes an Atossa, das zweite an die chthonischen Gottheiten gerichtet ist. – πρέσβος Ag. 855. 1393. ὑπὸ θαλάμους γῆς, zu Prom. 67. Dreizahl der an- gerufenen Götter, zu Ar. nub. 1234. βασιλεῦ, s. 650. ψυχήν, τὴν Δαρείου (Schol.). – ἐς φῶς, zu Ar, nub. 632. Wenn es ein weiteres Mittel der Abhilfe giebt, und er es kennt, wird er es ge- wiſs mitteilen (vermöge seines Wohlwollens für Persiens Land und Volk). - μόνος θνητῶν wie solus omnium ante se principum (zu 184): er allein dürfte können, was kein Sterblicher vermag. Vgl. Anhang. Das zweite Stasimon (633-680) besteht aus 7 Strophen und enthält eine Beschwörung des Schattens von Dareios.