Aeschylus Persians 87

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

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Can any make head and resist him, when he comes with the roll of a wave?
No barrier nor phalanx of might, no chief, be he ever so brave!
For stern is the onset of Persia, and gallant her children in fight.

Persians. Aeschylus. Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) (English) (Aeschylus, Persians — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Πέρσαι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 65-158 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 65-158 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 87 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 87 focus
δόκιμος δ᾽ οὔτις υποστὰς
μεγάλῳ δεύματι φωτῶν
ἐχυροῖς ἕρκεσιν εἴργειν
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ἄμαχον κῦμα θαλάσσης.
ἀπρόςοιστος γὰρ ὁ Περσῶν
στρατὸς ἀλκίφρων τε λαός.
δολόμητιν δ᾽ ἀπάταν θεοῦ
τίς ἀνὴρ θνατὸς ἀλύξει;
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τίς ὁ κραιπνῷ ποδι πήδημ
ἅλις εὐπετῶς ἀνάσσων;
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 87 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 87 focus
δόκιμος δ᾽ οὔτις ὑποστὰς
μεγάλῳ ῥεύματι φωτῶν
ἐχυροῖς ἕρκεσιν εἴργειν
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ἄμαχον κῦμα θαλάσσης·
ἀπρόσοιστος γὰρ ὁ Περσῶν
στρατὸς ἀλκίφρων τε λαός.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 87 focus
δόκιμος δ᾽ οὔτις ὑποστὰς
μεγάλωι ῥεύματι φωτῶν
ἐχυροῖς ἕρκεσιν εἴργειν
ἄμαχον κύμα θαλάσσης·
ἀπρόσοιστος γὰρ ὁ Περσῶν
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στρατὸς ἀλκίφρων τε λαός. –
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.)) — 65-155 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 87 focus
And no one is of such approved prowess as that, having made stand against a mighty torrent of men, he can repulse, by mighty bulwarks, the irresistible billow of the sea. For terrible to approach is the army of Persians, and valiant of soul the host.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 87 focus
et mille vaisseaux, et, pressant son attelage
assyrien 1 , il conduit à l'attaque des héros qu'illustra la lance l'Arès à l'arc triomphant.
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 87 focus
Bids the wing'd arrows' iron ſtorm advance,
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Againſt the ſlow and cumbrous lance.
What ſhall withſtand the torrent of his ſway,
When dreadful o'er the yielding ſhores
Th' impetuous tide of battle roars,
And ſweeps the weak-oppoſing mounds away?
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So Perſia with reſiſtleſs might
Rolls her unnumber'd hoſts of heroes to the fight.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 87 focus
Niun v'ha tanto valoroso
che, opponendosi di tanti uomini al flutto,
frenar possa con saldi argini
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l'invincibile maroso.
Niun potrebbe troppo è valido l'esercito
persïano, e il popol tutto.
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 87 focus
Vt arceat inexpugnabilem fluctum maris.
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Inacceffus enim est Perſarum
Exercitus, fortis populus.
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 87 focus
DARIUS
Alas! full speedily hath come the oracles' fulfilment,
Upon my son hath Zeus hurled down the end of the predictions;
I hoped it would be long indeed, ere Heaven these ills accomplished;
But when in haste man presses on, the god still keeps beside him.
A fount of ills for all my friends seems now to be discovered;
All this my son through ignorance hath wrought and youthful daring,
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Who Hellè's sacred tide, forsooth, as it had been his vassal,
And Bosporos, the stream of god, did hope to curb with fetters;
The current fashioned he anew, and hammer-beaten shackles
Casting around, for mighty host achieved a mighty causeway.
Though mortal, all the gods he thought, infatuate, to master,
Ay, e'en Poseidon; was not this sheer frenesy of spirit
That held my son? In fear I am lest all the ample treasure
My toil amassed, become to men the spoil of the first comer.
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.) — 87 focus
Es vermag Keiner zu steh'n wider den stolzflutenden Heerstrom,
Und ein Bollwerk vor die unzwingbare Meerwoge zu thürmen.
Denn unnahbar in der Schlacht steht,
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Ungebeugt das Volk der Perser.
Nachgesang.

Commentary

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

93. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-75

λαός:
λαός
M. G. Vit. Lips. aliique et Ald.
λεὼς
Rob. Turn.

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

87-92. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-15

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Unaufhaltsam ist das Heer der Perser und nach mensch- licher Berechnung kann ihm nie- mand widerstehen, wie man nie- manden zutrauen kann, daſs er durch starke Dämme die unbe- zwingliche Hochflut des Meeres zurückhalte. Der Dichter hat Gleich- nis und eigentlichen Ausdruck ohne Vermittlung verbunden.

93-101. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-16

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Aber dem Truge der Götter kann niemand entrinnen; durch Vorspiegelung von Glück und Macht lockt er den Menschen ins Netz des Verderbens, aus dem dieser ohne Schaden zu nehmen nicht entkommt. Die Schuld, die ὕβρις, welche den Neid der Götter weckt, giebt der Dichter 742ff., 782, 808 an.