Aeschylus Persians 472

Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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Persians. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1922.

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Persians (English) (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.))

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.) — 472 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 472 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 472 focus
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 472 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 472 focus
ὦ στυγνὲ δαῖμον, ὡς ἄρ᾽ ἔψευσας φρενῶν
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Πέρσας· πικρὰν δὲ παῖς ἐμὸς τιμωρίαν
κλεινῶν Ἀθηνῶν ηὗρε, κοὐκ ἀπήρκεσαν
οὓς πρόσθε Μαραθὼν βαρβάρων ἀπώλεσεν·
ὧν ἀντίποινα παῖς ἐμὸς πράξειν δοκῶν
τοσόνδε πλῆθος πημάτων ἐπέσπασεν.
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σὺ δ᾽ εἰπὲ ναῶν αἱ πεφεύγασιν μόρον,
ποῦ τάσδ᾽ ἔλειπες· οἶσθα σημῆναι τορῶς;
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 472 focus
Translations (8)
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 472 focus
O hateful demon! How hast thou then deluded the Persians in their hopes. But bitter did my son find the vengeance of renowned Athens, and those of the barbarians, whom Marathon formerly destroyed, sufficed not, for whom my son, thinking to exact atonement, drew 1
upon himself so great a multitude of sufferings. But say thou-those of the ships which esaped destruction—where didst thou leave them? knowest thou so as to tell clearly?
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 472 focus
Tel est le désastre qui vient s'ajouter aux autres pour fournir matière à tes gémissements.
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 472 focus
Theſe are not half, not half our ills; on theſe
Came an aſſemblage of calamities,
That ſunk us with a double weight of woe.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 472 focus
Oh Dèmone odïoso, oh!, quale inganno
tramavi ai Persïani!
Oh!, quanto amara
al mio figliuolo parve la vendetta
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della celebre Atene! I tanti barbari
già spenti a Maratona, non bastarono!
Crede' trame vendetta il figliuol mio,
e su la fronte sua tanta di mali
moltitudine attrasse!
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Ora tu dimmi:
dove lasciasti i legni che sfuggirono
al fato? Sai tu ben significarmelo?
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 472 focus
O'moleste Deus, qui fefelliſti mente
Perfas, acerbam ultionem filius meus
Claris Athenis inuenit, neq; fufficerunt
Quos ante Maratho Barbaros interemit.
Quorum uindictam filius meus facere arbitrans,
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Tantam multitudinem malorum adduxit.
Tu dic naues que effugerunt mortem,
Vbi illas reliquiſti:nosti ſignificare manifeste.
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 472 focus
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.) — 472 focus
Out on thee, Fortune! thou hast foiled the hope
And power of Persia: to this bitter end
My son went forth to wreak his great revenge
On famous Athens! all too few they seemed,
Our men who died upon the Fennel-field!
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Vengeance for them my son had mind to take,
And drew on his own head these whelming woes.
But thou, say on! the ships that 'scaped from wreck—
Where didst thou leave them? make thy story clear.
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.) — 472 focus
Verhafter Dämon, wie betrogst du Persis' Volk!
Wie bitter wurde meinem Sohn die Rache doch
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An Pallas' hohem Volke! Nicht genügte, was
Von Persis' Heeren Marathon hinweggerafft!
Ihr Blut zu rächen hoffte jetzt mein Sohn und zog
So schweren Jammers Uebermaß auf sich herab!
Doch sprich, die Schiffe, die dem Untergang entfloh'n,
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Wo blieben diese? Weißt du mir genau Bescheid?

Commentary

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

472. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-391

τοσόνδε:
τοσῶν δὲ
sic M.
τοσῶνδε
Ven. B. paucique alii et ex corr. Vit.
τὸ σὸν δὲ
, ad
σὸν
supra scripto
ω
, Lips.
τοσόνδε
G. ceterique plerique et ante corr. Vit. ἐπέσπασεν:
ἐπέσπασεν
M. Cantabr. 1.
ἀπέσπασεν
Ven. B.
ἀπέσπασε
ante corr. Vit.
ἐπέσπασε
Vit. ex corr. et reliqui.

473. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-392

ναῶν:
νεῶν
Ven. A. Ald. Rob.
νηῶν
Ox. Par. G. L. Turn.
ναῶν
Vit. Lips. ut reliqui, sed uterque
η
supra scripto. αἱ:
οἳ
, supra scripto
αἳ
, Lips. πεφεύγασιν:
πεφεύγασι
M. G. Vit. Lips. Ald. Rob. Turn.
πεφεύγασιν
Victorius.

474. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-393

τάσδ᾽:
τάσδ'
M. ἔλειπες:
ἔλειπες
M. Rob.
ἔλιπες
G. Vit. Lips. Ven. A. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ox. Par. A. B. C. N. Ald. Turn.

475. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-394

ναῶν δὲ:
ναῶν γὲ
Rob. Ceteri
ναῶν δὲ
, nisi quod ad
α
supra scriptum
η
in Lips. Non erat
δὲ
sollicitandum, de quo recte praecipit scholiastes. λελειμμένων:
λελειμένων
Lips. γρ.
ἐλελεγμένων
adscriptum in Vit. γρ.
λελεγμένων
Par. B. Eo spectat in scholiis
τῶν νηῶν τῶν λεγομένων
.

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

472-479. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-71

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2
δαίμον 345. zu Ar. nub. 1264. δαίμων wo der Gott heit eine unerfreuliche Eigenschaft oder Handlung zugeschrieben wird. Soph. Ai. 1391: καί μ᾿ ἔψευσας ἐλπίδων πολύ. Herod. VII 8: μέλλω ἐλᾶν στρατὸν διὰ τῆς Εὐρώπης ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, ἵνα᾿ Αθη- ναίους τιμωρήσωμαι ὅσα δὴ πεποι- ήκασι Πέρσας τε καὶ πατέρα τὸν ἐμόν. οὓς ἀπώλεσεν, es waren 6400, Herod. VI 117 in. ἀντί- ποινα (Eum. 268) πράττειν, εἰσπρ., ἀπαιτεῖν, exigere, Cho. 311. Eum. 623f. δοκῶν 188. ναῶν μόρον welche nicht in den Untergang der Schiffe hineingezogen worden sind.