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Persians. Aeschylus. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth. New York. 1922.

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Πέρσαι (Greek) (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.)

Editions (6)
Πέρσαι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 290-547 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 395 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 395 focus
σάλπιγξ δ᾽ ἀϋτῇ πάντ᾽ ἐκεῖν᾽ ἐπέφλεγεν.
390
εὐθὺς δὲ κώπης ῥοθιάδος ξυνεμβολῇ
ἔπαισαν ἅλμην βρύχιον ἐκ κελεύματος,
θοῶς δὲ πάντες ἦσαν ἐκφανεῖς ἰδεῖν.
τὸ δεξιὸν μὲν πρῶτον εὐτάκτως κέρας
ἡγεῖτο κόσμῳ, δεύτερον δ᾽ ὁ πᾶς στόλος
395
ἐπεξεχώρει, καὶ παρῆν ὁμοῦ κλύειν
πολλὴν βοήν· ὦ παῖδες Ἑλλήνων, ἴτε,
ἐλευθεροῦτε πατρίδ᾽, ἐλευθεροῦτε δὲ
παῖδας, γυναῖκας, θεῶν τε πατρῴων ἕδη,
θήκας τε προγόνων· νῦν ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀγών.
400
καὶ μὴν παρ' ἡμῶν Περσίδος γλώσσης ῥόθος
ὑπηντίαζε, κοὐκέτ᾽ ἦν μέλλειν ἀκμή.
εὐθὺς δὲ ναῦς ἐν νηῒ χαλκήρη στόλον
ἔπαισεν· ἦρξε δ' ἐμβολῆς Ἑλληνικὴ
ναῦς, κἀποθραύει πάντα Φοινίσσης νεὼς
405
κόρυμβ', ἐπ' ἄλλην δ᾽ ἄλλος ἴθυνεν δόρυ.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 395 focus
σάλπιγξ δ' ἀϋτῇ πάντ' ἐκεῖν' ἐπέφλεγεν ὑπέφλεγεν.
395
Εὐθὺς δὲ κώπης ῥοθιάδος ξυνεμβολῇ
ἔπαισαν ἅλμην βρύχιον ἐκ κελεύματος,
θοῶς δὲ πάντες ἦσαν ἐκφανεῖς ἰδεῖν·
τὸ δεξιὸν μὲν πρῶτον εὐτάκτως εὔτακτον κέρας
ἡγεῖτο κόσμῳ, δεύτερον δ' ὁ πᾶς στόλος
400
ἐπεξεχώρει, καὶ παρῆν ὁμοῦ κλύειν
πολλὴν βοήν· « Ὦ παῖδες Ἑλλήνων ἴτε,
ἐλευθεροῦτε πατρίδ', ἐλευθεροῦτε δὲ
παῖδας, γυναῖκας, θεῶν τε πατρῴων ἕδη
θήκας τε προγόνων· νῦν ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀγών.»
405
Καὶ μὴν παρ' ἡμῶν Περσίδος γλώσσης ῥόθος
ὑπηντίαζε, κοὐκέτ' ἦν μέλλειν ἀκμή·
εὐθὺς δὲ ναῦς ἐν νηῒ χαλκήρη στόλον
ἔπαισεν· ἦρξε δ' ἐμβολῆς Ἑλληνικὴ
ναῦς, κἀποθραύει πάντα Φοινίσσης νεὼς
410
κόρυμβ', ἐπ' ἄλλην δ' ἄλλος ηὔθυνεν ἴθυνεν δόρυ.
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 395 focus
σάλπιγξ δ᾽ αὐτῇ πάντ᾽ ἐκεῖν᾽ ἐπέφλεγεν.
εὐθὺς δὲ κώπης ῥοθιάδος ξυνεμβολῇ
ἔπαισαν ἅλμην βρύχιον ἐκ κελεύματος,
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θεῶς δὲ πάντες ἦσαν ἐκφανεῖς ἰδεῖν.
τὸ δεξιὸν μὲν πρῶτον εὐτάκτως κέρας
ἡγεῖτο κόσμῳ, δεύτερον δ᾽ ὁ πᾶς στόλος
ἐπεξεχώρει, καὶ παρῆν ὁμοῦ κλύειν
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 395 focus
σάλπιγξ δ᾽ ἀυτῆι πάντ᾽ ἐκεῖν᾽ ἐπέφλεγεν.
395
εὐθὺς δὲ κώπης ῥοθιάδος ξυνεμβολῆι
ἔπαισαν ἅλμην βρύχιον ἐκ κελεύματος,
θοῶς δὲ πάντες ἦσαν ἐκφανεῖς ἰδεῖν.
τὸ δεξιὸν μὲν πρῶτον εὐτάκτως κέρας
ἡγεῖτο κόσμωι, δεύτερον δ᾽ ὁ πᾶς στόλος
400
ἐπεξεχώρει, καὶ παρῆν ὁμοῦ κλύειν
πολλὴν βοήν „ὦ παῖδες Ἑλλήνων ἴτε
ἐλευθεροῦτε πατρίδ᾽, ἐλευθεροῦτε δέ
παῖδας γυναῖκας θεῶν τε πατρώιων ἕδη
θήκας τε προγόνων· νῦν ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀγών.“
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καὶ μὴν παρ᾽ ἡμῶν Περσίδος γλώσσης ῥόθος
ὑπηντίαζε, κοὐκέτ᾽ ἦν μέλλειν ἀκμή.
εὐθὺς δὲ ναῦς ἐν νηὶ χαλκήρη στόλον
ἔπαισεν· ἦρξε δ᾽ ἐμβολῆς Ἑλληνική
ναῦς κἀποθραύει πάντα Φοινίσσης νεώς
410
κόρυμβ᾽, ἐπ᾿ ἄλλην δ᾽ ἄλλος ηὔθυνεν δόρυ.
τὰ πρῶτα μέν νυν ῥεῦμα Περσικοῦ στρατοῦ
ἀντεῖχεν· ὡς δὲ πλῆθος ἐν στενῶι νεῶν
ἤθροιστ᾽, ἀρωγὴ δ᾽ οὔτις ἀλλήλοις παρῆν,
αὐτοὶ δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν ἐμβόλοις χαλκοστόμοις
415
παίοντ᾽, ἔθραυον πάντα κωπήρη στόλον.
Ἑλληνικαί τε νῆες οὐκ ἀφρασμόνως
κύκλωι πέριξ ἔθεινον, ὑπτιοῦτο δέ
σκάφη νεῶν, θάλασσα δ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἦν ἰδεῖν,
ναυαγίων πλήθουσα καὶ φόνου βροτῶν·
420
ἀκταὶ δὲ νεκρῶν χοιράδες τ᾽ ἐπλήθυον.
φυγῆι δ᾽ ἀκόσμωι πᾶσα ναῦς ἠρέσσετο,
ὅσαιπερ ἦσαν βαρβάρου στρατεύματος·
Translations (9)
Persians Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 395 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 395 focus
And the trumpet, with its clang, inflamed their whole line; and forthwith, with the collision of the dashing oar, at the word of command they smote the roaring brine. And quickly were they conspicuous to view. The right wing, well marshalled, led on foremost in good order, and secondly, their whole force was coming forth against us. and we could at the same time hear a mighty shout: SONS OF THE GREEKS! ON! FREE YOUR COUNTRY, AND FREE YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR WIVES, THE ABODES TOO OF THE GODS OF YOUR FATHERS, AND THE TOMBS OF YOUR ANCESTORS; NOW IS THE CONFLICT FOR THEM ALL! And sooth to say, a murmur of the Persian tongue met them from our line, and no longer was it the moment to delay, but forthwith ship dashed her brazen prow at ship. And a Grecian vessel commenced the engagement, and breaks off the whole of the figure-head of a Phoenician ship: and each commander severally directed his bark against another of the enemy's. At first, indeed, the torrent of the Persian armament bore up against them: but when the multitude of our ships were crowded in the strait, and no assistance could be given to one another, but they were struck by their own brazen beaks, and were smashing their entire equipment of oars, and the Grecian vessels, not without science, were smiting them in a circle on all sides, and the hulls of our vessels were upturned, and the sea was no longer to behold, filled as it was with wrecks and the slaughter of men. The shores, too, and the rugged rocks were filled with the dead; and every ship, as many as ever there were of the barbaric armament, was rowed in flight without order. But the Greeks kept striking, hacking us as it were tunnies, or any draught of fishes, with fragments of oars, and splinters of wrecks; and wailing filled the ocean brine with shrieks, until the eye of murky night removed it. But for the multitude of our woes,-no, not if I should recite them in order for ten days, could I complete the tale for thee. For be thou well assured of this, that there never fell in a single day a multitude of men of such number.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 395 focus
de la trompette embrasaient toute leur ligne. Aussitôt les rames bruyantes, tombant avec ensemble, frappent l'eau profonde en cadence, et tous bientôt apparaissent en pleine vue. L'aile droite, alignée, marchait la
première, en bon ordre 1 . Puis la flotte entière se dégage et s'avance, et l'on pouvait alors entendre, tout proche, un immense appel : « Allez, enfants des Grecs, délivrez la patrie, délivrez vos enfants et vos femmes, les sanctuaires
des dieux de vos pères et les tombeaux de vos aïeux : c'est la lutte suprême ! » Et voici que de notre côté un bourdonnement en langue perse leur répond : ce n'est plus le moment de tarder. Vaisseaux contre vaisseaux heurtent déjà leurs étraves de bronze. Un navire grec 2 a donné le
signal de l'abordage : il tranche l'aplustre d'un bâtiment phénicien. Les autres mettent chacun le cap sur un autre adver-
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 395 focus
With martial diſcipline
And prompt obedience, ſnatching a repaſt,
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Each mariner fix'd well his ready oar.
Soon as the golden ſun was ſet, and night
Advanc'd, each train'd to ply the daſhing oar
Aſſum'd his ſeat;
in arms each warrior ſtood,
455
Troop chearing troop thro' all the ſhips of war.
Each to th' appointed ſtation ſteers his courſe;
And thro' the night his naval force each chief
Fix'd to ſecure the paſſes.
Night advanc'd,
460
But not by ſecret flight did Greece attempt
T'eſcape.
The morn, all beauteous to behold,
Drawn by white ſteeds bounds o'er th' enlighten'd
earth;
465
At once from ev'ry Greek with glad acclaim
Burſt forth the ſong of war, whoſe lofty notes
The echo of the iſland rocks return'd,
Spreading diſmay thro' Perſia's hoſts thus fallen
From their high hopes;
470
no flight this ſolemn
ſtrain
Portended, but deliberate valour bent
On daring battle; whilſt the trumpet's ſound
Kindled the flames of war.
475
But when their oars,
The Pæan ended, with impetuous force
Daſh'd the reſounding ſurges, inſtant all
Ruſh'd on in view;
in orderly array
480
The ſquadron on the right firſt led, behind
Rode their whole fleet;
and now diſtinct we heard
From ev'ry part this voice of exhortation,
"Advance, ye ſons of Greece, from thraldom ſave
485
"Your country, ſave your wives, your children
ſave,
"The temples of your Gods, the ſacred tomb
"Where reſt your honour'd anceſtors;
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 395 focus
Col suo squillo accendea tutti la tromba:
440
col sonoro concorde urto dei remi
rompèano, a tempo, i gurgiti muggenti ;
ed ecco tutti ai nostri sguardi apparvero.
Venia primo, in bell'ordine schierato,
il como destro, ed era guida. E tutta
445
lo seguiva la flotta. E un alto grido
suonar s'udiva insieme: «O figli d'Ellade,
movete, orsú, liberate la patria,
le spose, i figli liberate, e l'are
dei Numi patrî, e l'arche dei nostri avoli!
450
»
Surse di contro, dalle file nostre,
un rumorio di persïani accenti:
né d'indugi era tempo: già la nave
alla nave battea col bronzeo rostro.
455
Fu d'un navile ellèno il primo cozzo,
e sfracellò d'un legno di Fenicia
tutti gli aplustri; e nave contro nave
chi qua chi là dirigono le prore.
La gran fiumana dell'armata persa
460
resse da pria.
Ma poi che la caterva
dei legni nello stretto era stipata,
né luogo avea reciproco soccorso,
anzi l'un l'altro con i bronzei rostri
465
si percoteano, gli ordini dei remi
franti furono tutti;
e i legni ellèni
accortamente l'investiano in giro.
Rovesce andaron le carene: sotto
470
i frantumi dei legni, e sotto i corpi
insanguinati, scompariva il mare,
spiaggia e scogli eran colmi di cadaveri;
e quante navi avean le schiere barbare,
facean forza di remi, a sconcia fuga.
475
Ma, come tonni, o come pesci in rete
già stretti, gli altri con troncon' di remi,
con le schegge e i frantumi, li colpivano,
li sbranavano: e gemiti di morte
e trionfal clamore empieano il pelago,
480
sin che li ascose de la notte il volto.
Ma dir non ti potrei tutta la piena
delle sciagure, pur se il mio racconto
durasse dieci anni continui.
Sappi
485
bene questo, però: che sí gran numero
d'uomini in un sol dí mai non fu spento.
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 395 focus
Statim uerò impetuoſi remi incurſu
Ferierunt falſuginem frementem ex nautarŭ iufju.
Statim omnes erant uisu confpicui:
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Dextram quidem primum bene ordinatum cornu
Ducebat ordine, ſecundo omnis claßis
Accedebat, aderat ut audiret
Magnum clamorem: O Grecorum pueriite,
Liberate patriam, liberate uerò
375
Liberos, uxores, fanaq; patriorum deorum,
Ac monumenta maiorŭ: nunc pro omnib.fit certamen.
Attamen à nobis clamor Perſide linguæ
Contrà ibat, no amplius erat cunctandi tempus.
Statim uerò nauis encum roftrum in naui
380
Ferijt, conflictumą; inccepit Greca
Nauis, fregit omnia Phœniffesnauis,
A'plaustro alius in alium direxit hastam.
Et primò quidem impetus Perfici exercitus
Reftitit:poftquam uerò multitudo nauiŭ in angusto
385
Coacta est, auxiliŭ nullü illis inuicē aderat,
Ipfi ab ipfis concurfuroftrorum
Feriebantur, & fregerunt omnem claſſem remis a
Grecanice naues non temerè
In circulo percutiebant, fubuertebantur
390
Carine nauium, mare nec amplius licebat uidere
Fruftis nauium cruore mortalium plenum.
Littora faxa implebantur cadauerum.
Fuga uerò incompiè omnis nauis remigabat.
Quecunq erant ex exercitu barbarorum,
395
Certè tanquam thynnos, aut rete piſcium
Fracturis remorum fiue uulneribus ruderunt
Feriebant, frangebant: fletus unà cum
Eiulatu continuit pelafgicum mare,
Quoad nigra noctis oculus diremerit
400
Malorum multitudinem.neq;
fi decem dies
Cum diligentia narrarem, abfoluerem omnia tibi.
Bene hoc ſcias, nulla altera die
Tantam multitudinem hominum occubuiffe.
405
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 395 focus
But with stout courage speeding to the fray.
The trumpet's blare fired all their ranks, and straight,
With simultaneous dip of sounding oar,
They at the signal smote the surging brine,
And instant all conspicuous were to sight.
400
First the right wing, well marshall'd, took the lead:
Then their whole naval force in fair array
Bore down against us. All at once was heard
A mighty shout: "Sons of Hellenès, on,
Your country free, your children free, your wives,
The temples of your fathers' deities,
Your tombs ancestral; for your all ye fight."
And from our side clamour of Persian speech
In answer rose; no time was then for pause,
But instant galley against galley dashed
410
Her armature of brass. A ship of Hellas
Led the encounter, and from Punic barque
Sheared her high crest. Thereon as fortune led,
Ship drave on ship; at first the Persian host,
A mighty flood, made head; but soon their ships
Thronged in the strait, of mutual aid bereft,
Each against other dashed with brazen beak,
Crushing the oar-banks of their proper fleet;
While the Hellenès ships, not without skill,
Circling around them smote: dead hulks of ships
420
Floated keel-upwards, and, with wrecks o'erstrewn
And slaughtered men, lost was the sea from sight,
Ay, shores and reefs were crowded with the dead.
In flight disordered every ship was rowed,
Poor remnant of the Persian armament.
Then as men strike at tunnies, or a haul
Of captured fishes, the Hellenès, armed
With splint of oar, or fragment from the wreck,
Batter'd, and clave with dislocating blows.
Shrieks and loud wailing filled the ocean brine,
Till all 'neath eye of swarthy night was lost.
430
But all our losses, though for ten whole days
I told them over, could I not recount.
Of this be sure, that never in one day
Perished of men so vast a multitude.
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.) — 395 focus
Their trumpets pealed, and fire was in that sound,
405
And with the dash of simultaneous oars
Replying to the war-chant, on they came,
Smiting the swirling brine, and in a trice
They flashed upon the vision of the foe!
The right wing first in orderly advance
410
Came on, a steady column; following then,
The rest of their array moved out and on,
And to our ears there came a burst of sound,
A clamour manifold.— On, sons of Greece!
On, for your country's freedom! strike to save
415
Wives, children, temples of ancestral gods,
Graves of your fathers! now is all at stake.
Then from our side swelled up the mingled din
Of Persian tongues, and time brooked no delay—
Ship into ship drave hard its brazen beak
420
With speed of thought, a shattering blow! and first
One Grecian bark plunged straight, and sheared away
Bowsprit and stem of a Phoenician ship.
And then each galley on some other's prow
Came crashing in. Awhile our stream of ships
425
Held onward, till within the narrowing creek
Our jostling vessels were together driven,
And none could aid another: each on each
Drave hard their brazen beaks, or brake away
The oar-banks of each other, stem to stern,
430
While the Greek galleys, with no lack of skill,
Hemmed them and battered in their sides, and soon
The hulls rolled over, and the sea was hid,
Crowded with wrecks and butchery of men.
No beach nor reef but was with corpses strewn,
435
And every keel of our barbarian host
Hurried to flee, in utter disarray.
Thereon the foe closed in upon the wrecks
And hacked and hewed, with oars and splintered planks,
As fishermen hack tunnies or a cast
440
Of netted dolphins, and the briny sea
Rang with the screams and shrieks of dying men,
Until the night's dark aspect hid the scene.
Had I a ten days' time to sum that count
Of carnage, 'twere too little! know this well—
445
One day ne'er saw such myriad forms of death!
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.) — 395 focus
Und Alles dort entflammte Kriegsdrommetenschall.
Sofort die Woge schlugen sie mit rauschender
Seeruder gleichgemess'nem Schwung dem Takte nach;
Da tauchten Alle plößlich auf vor unserm Blick.
380
Voran in wohlgeschloss'nen Reih'n erschien zuerst
Der rechte Flügel, hinter ihm in stolzem Zug
Die ganze Flotte; ringsumher erscholl zugleich
Vielfacher Rus: „Auf, Hellas' Söhne, stürmt zur Schlacht,
Befreit die Vatererde, Kinder, Gattinnen,
385
Befreit der Heimatgötter alten Siß, befreit
Der Ahnen Gräber! Jetzt um Alles gilt der Kampf!"
Nun auch von uns, von Perserzungen wogte laut
Geschrei entgegen; nimmer war zu ſäumen Zeit.
Schiff bohrt' in Schiff den erzbewehrten Schnabel ein;
390
Es war ein Schiff aus Hellas, das den Sturm begann,
Und einem Tyrer allen Schmuck vom Steuer brach.
Nun stürmte jeder Führer auf ein andres Schiff.
Anfänglich hielt des Perserheeres Woge Stand;
Doch als in engem Raume dicht der Kiele Schwarm
395
Sich drängte, Keiner Keinem mehr zu Hülfe war,
Sie selbst mit eigner Schnäbel erzbewehrtem Zahn
Sich schlugen, da zerbrachen alle Ruderreih'n,
Und Hellas' Schiffe stürmten wohlbedächtig an,
Ringsher um uns sich werfend; unsrer Schiffe Rumpf
400
Schlug um, die See war nirgend mehr sichtbar dem Blick,
Von Wrack und Scheitern wimmelnd und Erschlagenen,
Und Leichen deckten Klippen und Gestad' umher.
Verworren fliehend stürmten nun die Schiffe fort,
Soviel noch übrig waren aus dem Perserheer.
405
Doch jene schlugen, spießten sie, Thunfischen gleich
Und anderm Nezesfange, mit zerbrochenem
Gebälk' und Rudertrümmern; Angstgeschrei zugleich
Durchscholl mit bangem Wehgeheul weithin das Meer,
Bis uns das Auge schwarzer Nacht dem Feind entzog.
410
Des Leides Fülle, wenn ich auch zehn Tage noch
Dir forterzählte, nimmermehr erschöpft' ich sie;
Denn glaube, niemals wurde noch an Einem Tag
Solch ungeheure Menschenzahl des Todes Raub.

Commentary

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

396. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-326

ἐπεξεχώρει:
ἐξεχώρει
M. G. Vit. Lips. Ven. A. B. Cantabr. 1. 2. Mosc. Par. A. B. N. Ald. Rob. Turn.
ὑπεξεχώρει
editiones Vict. Cant. Stanl.

398. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-327

δὲ:
ἐλευθεροῦτε δὴ
Vit.
ἐλοῦτε δὴ
Mosc.

401. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-328

γλώσσης:
γλώττης
G.

402. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-329

κοὐκέτ᾽:
κουκέτ'
M. Lips.

403. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-330

νηῒ:
ἐν νυκτὶ
Rob.

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ἦρξε δ':
ἦρξεν δ'
M. Quod hic narratur, Lycomedis cuiusdam, Atheniensis, factum fuisse scholiastes cum Plutarcho in Themistocle c. 15. narrat. Sed Lycomedem hoc ad Artemisium fecisse Herodotus scribit VIII. 11. In Salaminia pugna Aminiam primum impetum in classem Persicam fecisse tradunt Herodotus VIII. 84. et Diodorus XI. 27. Aminias apud Aeschylum intelligendus est: sed quod hunc Aminiam, quem Pallenensem dicit Herodotus, fratrem Aeschyli fuisse perhibent Diodorus, Aelianus V. H. V. 19. scriptorque vitae Aeschyli, fabula videtur esse. Ceterum ne nominaret poeta Aminiam, tragoediae gravitas prohibebat, quoniam, qui in conspectu nostro et in hac communis vitae humilitate versantur, haud facile illo magnitudinis splendore, quem requirit poesis, ita exornari possunt ut omnis quotidianae tenuitatis recordatio evanescat. Idque bene perspectum habens poeta sapienter ne Themistoclis quidem nomen admittere ausus est.

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Φοινίσσης: Herodotus VIII. 85.
κατὰ μὲν δὴ Ἀθηναίους ἐτετάχατο Φοίνικες· οὗτοι γὰρ εἶχον τὸ πρὸς Ἐλευσῖνός τε καὶ ἑσπέρης κέρας
.

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ἴθυνεν:
ἴθυνεν
M. Ex Par. B. Faehsius
ἴθυνε. γρ. ἴθυνε
affert: Brunckius hunc codicem
εὐθύνων
et pro varia lectione
ἴθυνεν
habere significat.
ἴθυνε
G. Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Mosc. Ald. Turn.
ἴθυνεν
Rob. et reliquae inde a Vict. editiones.

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καὶ πρῶτα: recepi ex G. Lips. Cantabr. 2. Par. L. Rob.
τὰ πρῶτα
M. Ald. Turn. μέν νυν:
μὲν νῦν
Cantabr. 2. et supra scripto
ἀντὶ τοῦ δή
M.
μὲν νῦν
etiam Vit. habuerat, sed eraso a sec. manu
νῦν
factum est.
μὲν νυν
Ven. B.
μὲν οὖν
Lips. Ven. A. Par. N. Mosc. Ox. Ald. Rob.
μὲν δὴ
G. Turn. Ex his
μέν νυν
praeferendum erat, pro quo saepe
μὲν δή
εἰ
μὲν οὖν
ab librariis posita sunt. V. Valcken. ad Hipp. 20. ῥεῦμα:
εὖ ῥεῦμα
Ven. B. Cantabr. 2.

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στενῷ:
στενῶν
Par. G.
στενῷ
Ven. B. νεῶν:
νεῶν τῶν περσικῶν
G.

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ὑφ᾽ αὑτῶν:
ὑφ᾽ αὑτῶν
Lips. Rob.
ὑφ᾽ αὐτῶν
G.
ὑπ' αὐτῶν
, leni in altero vocabulo spiritu a correctore in asperum mutato, Vit.
ὑπ' αὐτῶν
Ven. A. Mosc. Ox. Ald. Turn.

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παίοντ᾽:
παίοντ'
indiget nulla mutatione. Est enim praesentis participium
ἀΐσσω
, significatque eum qui illiditur, ut in Prom. v. 887.
θολεροὶ δὲ λόγοι παίουσ᾽ εἰκῇ στυγνῆς πρὸς κύμασιν ἄτης.

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ἀφρασμόνως:
ἀφρασμόνως
dedi ex M. Ven. B. Par. N. Idem antequam corrector
σ
in
δ
mutavit erat in Vit. Ceteri
ἀφραδμόνως
.

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ὑπτιοῦτο δὲ:
ἑστιοῦτο δὲ
Ven. B.
ὑπτιοῦτο δὴ
Heathius. Fugerat eum
δέ
in apodosi post
ὡς
positum, ut v. 410.

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θάλασσα δ᾽:
θαλάσσῃ δ'
Lips. sed
ῃ
in
α
mutato.
θάλασσαν δ'
Ald.
θάλασσαν
, omissa particula, Turn. ex coniectura, ut videtur.

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πλήθουσα:
πλήθουσαν
Ald. Turn. φόνου:
φόνο
Lips.

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ἐπλήθυον:
ἐπλήθυον
M. Ven. B. Cantabr. 1. Rob. et a pr. manu Cantabr. 2. Par. A.
ἐπλήθυνον
G. Vit. (sic Vit. Lips. Ven. A. Mosc. Par. B. C. N. Ald. et a sec. manu Cantabr. 2. Par. A.
ἐκπλήθυνον
Turn.

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ἀκόσμως:
ἀκόσμῳ
e correctione, deleto
ς
, Vit. Ita scribendum putavit Casaubonus.
Ἀκόσμῳ ξὺν φυγῇ
legitur v. 465.

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βαρβάρου:
βαρβάρων
Rob.

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τοὶ δ᾽:
οἱ δ'
Blomfieldius. V. ad Soph. Ai. v. 1404. θύννους:
θήνους
Lips.
θύνους
Rob.

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θραύμασίν τ':
θραύμασίν τ'
M.
θραύμασί τ'
G. (sic G.) Vit. Lips. Mosc. Par. L. Rob. et
ρ
a sec. manu scripto Cantabr. 2.
θραύσμασί τ'
Cantabr. 1. Ald. Turn. Dixit de his formis Lobeckius ad Soph. Ai. p. 322. ἐρειπίων:
ἐριπίων
M.

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ἐρράχιζον:
ἐράχιζον
Vit. Lips. Mosc. οἰμωγὴ:
οἰμωγή
ex correctione, quum antea
οἰμωγὴ
fuisset, Vit.
οἰμωγῆς
M.
οἰμογή
Ald.
ἡμογὴ
Lips.

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κωκύμασιν:
κωκύμασιν
M.
κωκύμασι
G. Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ald. Rob. Turn. Solent coniungi
οἰμωγή
et
κώκυμα
,
οἰμώζειν
et
κωκύειν
. Sed hic laetum potius clamorem Graecorum commemorari exspectamus, ut in Homerico illo
ἔνθα δ᾽ ἅμ' οἰμωγή τε καὶ εὐχωλὴ πέλεν ἀνδρῶν ὀλλύντων τε καὶ ὀλλυμένων
. Quare putavi Aeschylum scripsisse
καυχἠμασιν
. πελαγίαν:
πελασγίαν
G. Vit. Lips. aliique nonnulli et Rob. γρ.
πελαγίαν
margo Lips.

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κελαινῆς: In
κελαινῆς
littera
ν
puncto notata in M. νυκτὸς ὄμμ᾽: explicat Seidlerus ad Eur. Iph. Taur. v. 110.

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ἤματα: In
ἤματα
primam litteram in litura habet M.

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στοιχηγοροίην:
στοιχοιγαροίην
, ad
α
supra scripto '
o
', M.
στοιχηγορείην
Cantabr. 2.
χοικηγοροίην
Par. G.
στιχηγοροίην
Lips. Mosc. Par. F. K. L.
ἐφεξῆς λέγοιμι. στοιχομυθοίην
adscriptum in M. Hesychius
στοιχομυθεῖν, τὸ ἐφεξῆς λέγειν καὶ ἀδολεσχεῖν
.

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μηδάμ᾽:
μὴδ' ἂν
M. et sic vel
μηδ' ἂν
G. Vit. Lips. Ven. A. B. Par. B. edd. ante Brunckium, qui
μηδάμ'
restituit ex Par. A. in quo glossa
μηδαμῶς
addita est. γρ.
μηδάμ᾽ ἡμέρᾳ
margo Par. B.

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τοσουτάριθμον:
τοσουτάριθμον
Lips. Rob. γρ.
τοσουτάριθμον
supra scriptum in Vit.
τοσοῦτ' ἀριθμὸν
M. Ven. A. Cantabr. 2. Ox. Ald. Turn. et a sec. manu Vit.
τοσοῦτ᾽ ἀριθμῶν
a pr. manu Vit.
τοσοῦτ᾽ ἄριθμον
G. scilicet, ut interpreti videtur, pro
ἀριθμόν
. Et
τοσουτάριθμον
et
τοσοῦτ᾽ ἀριθμὸν
commemorant scholiastae. Alludere ad hunc locum videtur Tzetzes in exegesi ad Il. p. 92, 8.
ἐκ δὲ τῆς συνεχείας τῆς ἵππου καὶ τοῦ περιττώματος τοῦ τοσουταρίθμου στρατοῦ
.

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αἰαῖ:
αἳ αἳ
M. G.
α
octies Cantabr. 1. Ceteri
αἰαῖ
ἔρρωγεν:
ἔρρωγεν
Rob. et a pr. manu Cantabr. 2. Idem supra scriptum in Vit.
ἔρρωγεν
a sec. manu Cantabr. 2.
ἔρρωγε
G. Lips. Ald. Turn.
ἔρρωγε
Vit.
ἔρρωγε
Mosc. et cum litura inter
o
et
γ
M.

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βαρβάρων:
βαρβάρω
Par. K. L. γένει:
γένῃ
, sed
η
supra scripto
ει
, Lips.

430. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-356

κακόν:
κακόν
M. G. Vit. Lips. Ven. A. B. Mosc. Par. B. N.
κακῶν
Ald. Rob. Turn. Euripides Med. v. 59.
ἐν ἀρχῇ πῆμα κοὐδέπω μεσοῖ
, ubi v. Elmsleium.

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ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῖς:
ἐπ' αὐτοῖς
M. G. Vit. Lips. Ven. A. B. Cantabr. 2. Ox. Par. B. K. L. N. Ald. Rob.
ἐπ' αὐτοὺς
Turn.
ἐπ' αὐτῆς
Mosc.

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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Jetzt gab die Trom- pete das Zeichen zum Angriff. πάντ᾽ ἐκεῖνα, alles auf jener Seite (der hellenischen), vgl. 260. Herod. VII 34: ἐζευγμένου τοῦ πόρου ἐπι- γενόμενος χειμών μέγας συνέκοψέ τε ἐκεῖνα πάντα καὶ διέλυσε. So auch πάντα ταῦτα, zu Ar. nub. 328. ἐπέφλεγεν, nicht ἐξέκαιεν καὶ ἀνήγειρεν (Schol.), sondern ,,erfüllte mit hellem Schalle". Vgl. Soph. Oed. Τ. 186 παιὰν δὲ λάμπει. ῥοθιάδος proleptisch, denn es bezeichnet die Folge von ξυνεμ- βολή. ξυνεμβολή das gleich- zeitige Einsetzen der Ruder nach dem Takte ( ἐκ κελ.). Thuk. II 92: ἀπὸ ἑνὸς κελεύσματος ἐμβοήσαντες. Eur. Iph. T. 1405: χέρας κώπη προσαρμόσαντες ἐκ κελεύματος.

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Herod. VIII 85: κατὰ μὲν δὴ ᾿Αθηναίους ἐτετάχατο Φοίνικες ( οὗτοι γὰρ εἶχον τὸ πρὸς Ἐλευσῖνός τε καὶ ἑσπέρης κέρας), κατὰ δὲ Λακεδαιμονίους Ἴωνες) οὗτοι δ᾽ εἶχον τὸ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ τε καὶ τὸν Πειραιέα. Anders der we- nig glaubwürdige Diod. XI 18. Mit Herod. stimmt unsere Stelle (399 ff.), sofern naturgemäſs der attische Dichter vor einem attischen Publi- kum denjenigen Flügel besonders hervorhob, auf welchem die Athener standen. Vgl. 410. παῖδες Ἑλλή- νων epische Umschreibung ( νίες Ἀχαιῶν). δὲ im zweiten Gliede der Anaphora, Kr. 59, 1. A. 4. II 59, 1. A. 2. Liv. V 30: pro aris focisque et deum templis ac solo in quo nati essent dimicandum fore. ἕδος, τὸ ἄγαλμα καὶ ὁ τόπος ἐν ὦ ἵδρυται (Timä. lex. Plat. s. v.). Enger z. B. Dionys. Hal. Ant. I 47: Αἰνείας παραλαβών .. τὰ ἕδη τῶν θεῶν διαπλεῖ τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον. – θήκας Ag. 454. Soph. Εl. 895: ὁρῶ περιστεφῆ ἀνθέων θήκην πατρός. Plat. legg. III p. 699 C: ἤμυνεν ἱεροῖς τε καὶ τάφοις καὶ πατρίδι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις οἰκείοις τε ἅμα καὶ φίλοις. Herod. IV 127: μαχεσόμεθα περὶ τῶν τάφων u. a. Ar. vesp. 533f.: σοὶ μέγας ἐστὶν ἁγὼν καὶ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἁπάντων. ῥόθος (vgl. 396). Dem Hellenen ist nur seine Sprache eine artikulierte, mensch- liche; Herod. II 57: αἱ γυναῖκες, διότι βάρβαροι ἦσαν, ἐδόκεόν σφι ὁμοίως ὄρνισι φθέγγεσθαι. - Curt. III 10: iam in conspectu.. utraque acies erat, cum priores Persae in- conditum et trucem sustulere cla- morem.

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Schol. Apoll. Rhod. I 1089: στόλος λέγεται τὸ ἐξέχον ἀπὸ τῆς πτύχης καὶ διῆκον ἄχρι τῆς πρώρας ξύλον. ήρξε, nach Herod. VIII 84 (Diod. XI 27) Amei- nias (der Bruder des er des Äschylos). Die Festhaltung des Standpunktes des Redenden, welcher auf der feind- lichen Seite keine einzelnen Per- sonen und Namen kennt, entspricht zugleich der hohen Weise des Aschylos und vermied die Erregung von Eifersucht. Selbst dafs es ein attisches Schiff war, sagt Äsch. nur indirekt, durch φοινίσσης, s. zu V. 399. Eine ferne Andeutung von Persönlichem nur in ἄλλος. Brachy- logische Vermischung zweier Kon- struktionen: ἄλλος ἐπ᾿ ἄλλον und ἄλλη ἐπ᾿ ἄλλην. δόρυ δ. ν. α. ναῦν (nicht s. v. a. στόλον).

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8
ῥεῦμα, 88. ἐν στενῷ, auf engem Raume (zwischen Kynosura und dem attischen Fest- lande), vgl. Herod. VIII 60. Thuk. I 74. κωπήρη στόλον, remorum apparatum. ἔμβολον (und ἔμβο- λος) δ. ν. α. στόλος 408. Und diese Verwirrung wurde von den Hellenen benützt. Die Folge davon ist parataktisch angereiht ( ὑπτιοῦτο δέ). φόνου, αἵματος. Vgl. Ag. 659f. u. Herod. VIII 12 (von der Schlacht bei Artemision): οἱ δὲ νε- κροὶ καὶ τὰ ναυπήγια ἐξεφορέοντο ἐς τὰς Ἀφέτας καὶ περί τε τὰς πρώ- ρας τῶν νεῶν εἰλέοντο καὶ ἐτάρασ- σον τοὺς τάρσους τῶν κωπέων. ὅσαιπερ Restriktion von πᾶσα ναῦς.

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10
Sie schlugen drauf los wie auf Thunfische, welche im Mittelmeere herdenweise daher- ziehen und mit Harpunen getötet wurden. Plin. n. h. IX 2, 5: tanta thynnorum multitudine ut magni Alexandri classis haud alio modo quam hostium acie obvia contra- rium agmen adversa fronte direxe- rit: aliter sparsis non erat evadere. non voce, non sonitu, non ictu, non fragore terrentur, nec nisi ruina turbantur. Vgl. W. E. Weber zu Hor. sat. II 4. S. 385f. Massenhaf- ÄSCHYLOS, Perser. tigkeit und Wehrlosigkeit der Er- schlagenen. τιν' (424) aut quem- libet alium. ἐρειπ. Ag. 660. ἐρράχιζον gehört nicht mehr zum Bilde. - εὐχωλὴ ὀλλύντων, κωκύμα- σιν ὀλλυμένων nach Hom. ἔνθα δ᾽ ἅμ᾽ οἰμωγή τε καὶ εὐχωλὴ πέλεν ἀνδρῶν ὀλλύντων τε καὶ ὀλλυμένων. Bis das Erscheinen der Nacht (vgl. Eur. Iph. Taur. 110: ὅταν δὲ νυκτὸς ὄμμα λυγαίας μόλῃ; anders Sept. 390) dem ein Ende machte. ἀφείλετο mit allge- meinem Objekt. Vgl. Xenoph. Hell. I 2, 16 ᾿Αλκιβιάδης δὲ ἐδίωκεν . ., μέχρι σκότος ἀφείλετο.

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12
δέκα, zu Ar. nub. 10. οὐδ᾽ ἂν, οὐκ ἄν, die we- sentliche Bedingtheit des ganzen Satzes wird gleich zu Anfang be- merklich gemacht. Hom. y 114ff.: ἄλλα τε πόλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖς πά- θομεν κακά· τίς κεν ἐκεῖνα μυθήσαιτο . . ; οὐδ᾽ εἰ πεντάετές γε καὶ ἑξάετες παραμίμνων ἐξερέοις. στοιχαγοροίην, vgl. zu 157. μηδαμά s. v. a. μηδαμῇ, Prom. 526.