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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.) — 65-158 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 93 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 93 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 93 focus
φιλόφρων γὰρ ποτισαίνου-
σα τὸ πρῶτον, παράγει
βροτὸν εἰς ἄρκυας ἄτα,
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τόθεν οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπὲκ να-
τὸν ἀλύξαντα φυγεῖν.
θεόθεν γὰρ κάτα Μοῖρ᾽ ἐκράτησεν
τὸ παλαιόν, ἐπέσκηψε δὲ Πέρσαις
πολέμους πυργοδαΐκτους
105
διέπειν ἱππιοχάρμας
τε κλόνους, πόλεών τ᾿ ἀναστάσεις.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 93 focus
φιλόφρων γὰρ παρασαίνει σαίνουσα τὸ πρῶτον παράγει
Ant. 3.
βροτὸν εἰς ἄρκυας Ἄτα ἀρκύστατα,
τόθεν οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπὲρ θνα-
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τὸν ἀλύξαντα φυγεῖν.
θεόθεν γὰρ κατὰ Μοῖρ' ἐκράτησεν
Str. 4.
τὸ παλαιόν, ἐπέσκηψε δὲ Πέρσαις
πολέμους πυργοδαΐκτους διέπειν ἱπ-
πιοχάρμας τε κλόνους
100
πόλεών τ' δ' ἀναστάσεις·
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 93 focus
θεόθεν γὰρ κατὰ μοῖρ᾽
ἐκράτησεν τὸ παλαι-
όν, ἐπέσκηψε δὲ Πέρσαις
105
πολέμους πυργοδαΐκτους
διέπειν ἱππιοχάρμας
τε κλόνους
πόλεών τ᾿ ἀναστάσεις.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 93 focus
Translations (8)
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 93 focus
For destiny, fixed by heaven, prevailed in the olden time, and enjoined on the Persians to carry on wars that beat down towers, and the tumults of cavalry warfare, and demolitions of cities.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 93 focus
Oui, mais au piège qu'a tendu le dessein perfide d'un
dieu quel mortel pourrait échapper ? Qui sait alors, d'un pied agile, prendre son élan pour un bond heureux 1 ?
Caressante et douce,
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 93 focus
For thus from ancient times the Fates ordain,
That Perſia's ſons ſhou'd greatly dare,
Unequal'd in the works of war;
Shake with their thund'ring ſteeds th' enſanguin'd
plain,
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Dreadful the hoſtile walls ſurround,
And lay their rampir'd tow'rs in ruins on the
ground.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 93 focus
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 93 focus
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 93 focus
But ah! what mortal baffle may *
A god's deep-plotted snare,—
Who may o'erleap with foot so light?
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.) — 93 focus
And no man his doom can escape! it was writ in the rule of high Heaven,
That in tramp of the steeds and in crash of the charge the war-cry of Persia be given:
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.) — 93 focus
Das Geschick waltete schon in der Urzeit,
Von den Göttern verhängt, zwang es die Perser,
An der burgstürmenden Feldschlacht,
An dem roßtummelnden Kriegstanz
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Sich zu weiden, an stolzer Festen Fall.
Dritte Gegenstrophe.

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.

94. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-76

δολόμητιν δ᾽ ἀπάταν:
δολόμητιν δ᾽ ἀπάτην
G. et
ἀπάτην
etiam Vit.
ἀπάταν
, ultimo
α
superscripto
η
, Lips.

95. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-77

θνατὸς:
θνητὸς
Vit.
θνατὸς
, superscripto
η
, Lips.

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

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.