Aeschylus Persians 681-693

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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.) — 681-693 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 681 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 681 focus
ὦ πιστὰ πιστῶν ἡλικές θ' ἥβης ἐμῆς,
Πέρσαι γεραιοί, τίνα πόλις πονεῖ πόνον;
στένει, κέκοπται, καὶ χαράσσεται πέδον·
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 681 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 681 focus
ὦ πιστὰ πιστῶν ἥλικές θ᾽ ἥβης ἐμῆς,
Πέρσαι γεραιοί, τίνα πόλις πονεῖ πόνον;
στένει, κέκοπται, καὶ χαράσσεται πέδον.
685
λεύσσων δ᾽ ἄκοιτιν τὴν ἐμὴν τάφου πέλας
ταρβῶ, χοὰς δὲ πρευμενὴς ἐδεξάμην.
ὑμεῖς δὲ θρηνεῖτ᾽ ἐγγὺς ἑστῶτες τάφου
καὶ ψυχαγωγοῖς ὀρθιάζοντες γόοις
οἰκτρῶς καλεῖσθέ μ᾽, ἐστὶ δ᾽ οὐκ εὐέξοδον,
690
ἄλλως τε πάντως χοὶ κατὰ χθονὸς θεοὶ
λαβεῖν ἀμείνους εἰσὶν ἢ μεθιέναι.
ὅμως δ᾽ ἐκείνοις ἐνδυναστεύσας ἐγὼ
ἥκω· τάχυνε δ᾽, ὡς ἄμεμπτος ὦ χρόνου.
τί ἐστι Πέρσαις νεοχμὸν ἐμβριθὲς κακόν;
695
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 681 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.)) — 681-690 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 681 focus
O ye most trusty of the trusty! ye compeers of my youth, aged Persians, with what trouble is our city troubled? the ground groans, is smitten and torn 8
. And beholding my consort here near my sepulchre, I am in fear, I have received soothing libations. And ye arc wailing, standing near my sepulchre, and shouting shrill in cries that evoke the shades, ye piteously summon me. And exit is no easy matter, both in all other respects, and also inasmuch as the gods beneath the ground are better at receiving than at letting go. Notwithstanding, I having rule among them, am come; and be thou quick, that I may not be censured for the time [of my absence]. What new heavy calamity bath befallen the Persians?
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 681 focus
père bienfaisant, Darios ! Ah ! ah !

Hélas ! hélas ! ô mort que pleurent des milliers d'amis 1 .
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 681 focus
Ye faithful Perſians t
, honour'd now in age,
815
Once the companions of my youth, what ills
THE PERSIANS.
Afflict the ſtate?
The firm earth groans, it opes,
Diſcloſing its vaſt deeps;
and near my tomb
820
I ſee my wife: this ſhakes my troubled ſoul
With fearful apprehenſions;
yet her off'rings
Pleas'd I receiv'd.
And you around my tomb
825
Chanting the lofty ſtrain, whoſe ſolemn air
Draws forth the dead, with grief-attemper'd notes
Mournfully call me:
not with eaſe the way
Leads to this upper air;
830
and the ſtern Gods,
Prompt to admit, yield not a paſſage back
But with reluctance:
much with them my pow'r
Availing, with no tardy ſtep I come.
835
Say then, with what new ill doth Perſia groan?
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 681 focus
O voi fidi tra i fidi, o voi, compagni
della mia gioventú, persi vegliardi,
da qual travaglio afflitta è la città?
775
Pianti odo, e palme al sen percosse, e al suolo
batter di piedi;
e presso alla mia tomba
veggo, e temo, la sposa, i cui libami
graditi accolsi.
780
E voi, presso il mio tumulo
piangete, e me chiamate ad alte grida
evocatrici di defunti. Facile
non è l'uscita:
assai piú pronti a prendere,
785
che a rilasciare i Numi inferni sono.
Pure, prevalsi, ed eccomi.
Ma spacciati
ora, che a me l'indugio non sia biasimo.
Qual nuovo male s'aggravò sui Persi?
790
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 681 focus
Perſe ſenes, quo labore urbs laborat:
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.) — 681 focus
Ye aged Persians, truest of the true,
Coevals of the youth that once was mine,
What troubleth now our city? harken, how
It moans and beats the breast and rends the plain!
And I, beholding how my consort stood
695
Beside my tomb, was moved with awe, and took
The gift of her libation graciously.
But ye are weeping by my sepulchre,
And, shrilling forth a sad, evoking cry,
Summon me mournfully, Arise, arise.
700
No light thing is it, to come back from death,
For, in good sooth, the gods of nether gloom
Are quick to seize but late and loth to free!
Yet among them I dwell as one in power—
And lo, I come! now speak, and speed your words,
705
Lest I be blamed for tarrying overlong!
What new disaster broods o'er Persia's realm?
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.) — 681 focus
Der Treuen Treuste, Freunde meiner Jugend einst,
655
Ihr greisen Perser, welches Leid bedrängt die Stadt?
Wild hallt von Schlägen, auseinander reißt der Grund.
Mit Schrecken seh' ich mein Gemahl am Grabe hier;
Doch ihre Spenden nahm ich wohlgefällig auf.
Ihr aber drängt euch weinend her um meine Gruft,
660
Und ruft mich jammernd unter geisterbannenden
Wehklagelauten; doch der Weg zum Sonnenlicht
Ist immer schwierig, und der Todesgötter Fürst
Empfängt begierig seinen Raub, und läßt ihn nicht.
Doch auch im Hades Herrscher noch, erschein' ich schnell,
665
Damit der Säumniß wegen mich kein Tadel trifft.
Welch neues Unheil lastet auf der Perser Volk?

Commentary

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

681. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-555

νᾶες, ἄναες νᾶες:
rães araç araes
M. G.Vit. Ven. A. Ald. Turn. Sic etiam Bekkero teste Par. B. I. nisi quod I.
vñes
pro
vãɛç
, uterque autem post haec verba additum habet
ποι τριήρεις
. Sed
vᾶες ἄναες νᾶες
Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ox. Par. A. Colb. 1. Rob. quae scriptura pro varia lectione adscripta est in G. et Par. B. In Lips. ad primum
vues
supra adscriptum est.
rães, vaes rães
recte recepit Brunckius. Finitur carmen dochmio. Male Porsonus in fine huius carminis lacunae signa addidit. Schützii aliorumque coniecturas praeterire licebit. Equidem, si quicquam, illud puto certissimum esse, totam hanc epodum una verborum complexione contineri. Nam si ultima,
πάσα γα ταδ᾽ ἐξέφθιθ' αἱ τρίσκαλμοι νάες, ἄναες νες
, π reliquis separantur, sententia illa nimis frigida est, quam quae apte carmen finiat. Itaque lenissima mutatione haec restitui,
ὦ πολύκλαυτε φίλοισι θανών, τί τάδε, δυνάστα, δυνάστα, περὶ τὰ σὰ διδύμα δι᾽ ἄνοιαν ἁμαρτία πάσα γῇ τῇδ ἐξέφθινται τρίσκαλμοι νᾶες, ἄναες νέες;
o qui multum deflendus amicis obisti, cur hoc, rex, rex, circa tuas opes duplici per insaniam irrito successu universae huic terrae perierunt triremes naves, nenaves naves? Et
διδύμα δι᾽ ἄνοιαν ἁμαρτίᾳ
atque
égivra
etiam Blomfieldius invenit, in reliquis falsus.
681

682. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-556

πιστῶν:
ὦ πολλὰ
Rob.
682

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ἥβης:
ixeo
Lips.
682

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γεραιοί:
reparoi
, ad primam syllabam supra scripto, Lips.
nowol
Ven. A. Cantabr. 2. Ald.
yngɑhéor
adscriptum in Par. B.
683

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στένει:
στένειν
Vit.
684

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χαράσσεται:
ταράσσεται
Par. L.
χαράσσει
Ven. Β. Interpretationes in scholiis duae prostant, una, qua rupta tellus, ut Darius ab inferis exire posset, intelligitur, quae et ab usu verbi abhorret et ad sensum absurda est, altera, qua lamentis lacerari regio significatur. Schützii interpretationem, gemit, pulsatur, ac tantum non scinditur solum, ex eo ductam quod, qui manes evocarent, solum manibus pulsare solebant, nemo elegantem esse sibi persuadebit. Nihil hic aliud quam civium gemitus, pectora manibus pulsantium, intelligi videtur. Sed non satis tamen aple
πέδον
cum
χαράσσεται
coniungitur, verbo quod de solo dictum non metaphoricum, sed proprium est, nisi tota oratio ostendit, metaphorice accipiendum esse illud verbum. Itaque quod comparavi Opusc. VII. p. 360. seq.
στένουσι πύργοι, στένει πέδον φίλανδρον
(Sept. ad Th. 876.), tamen aliter dictum est. Quare vereor, ne aut alius versus hic exciderit, aut hic versus alio loco ab Aeschylo scriptus fuerit. V. ad v. 694.
684

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λεύσσων:
Levour
G. Ven. A. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ald. Rob.
685

685. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-562

τάφου πέλας:
τάφου πέ-λas
M. G. Vit. Cantabr. 2. Par. A. B. Colb. 1.
πέλας τάφου
Lips. Ven. A. edd. ante Brunckium.
685

686. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-563

πρευμενὴς:
лgevμεris
M. G. Lips. Cantabr. 2. Rob. Idem pro varia lectione in Par. A. B.
пgevµereis
Vit. aliique et Ald. Turn.
686

688. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-564

ὀρθιάζοντες:
ὀρθιάζοντες
Rob.
ὀρθρίζοντες
Ven. Β.
ροθιάζοντες
Μ. (sed M. omisso spiritu) G. Vit. Lips. (sed in Lips. primae tres litterae in litura) Ven. A. Cantabr. 1. 2. Mosc. Par. C. Ald. Turn.
688

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καλεῖσθέ:
καλεῖσθαι
Μ.
καλεῖτε
Turn. Sed
καλεῖσθε
G. Vit. Lips. Ven. A. B. Cantabr. 1. 2. Colb. 1. 2. Mosc. Ox. Ald. Rob. et scholiastes Hesiodi, qui ad Theog. v. 772. hunc versum et duos sequentes affert.
689

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χοὶ:
9' of
Par. L.
690

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κατὰ χθονὸς:
καταχθόνιοι
Ven. A. Ald.
690

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ἐνδυναστεύσας:
ἐνδυναστεύσας
, politus loco primario.
ὡς δυναστεύσας
. γρ.
ἐνδυναστεύσας
Faehsius ex Par. B.
692

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τάχυνε δ':
9ov
ad
zo
pro varia lectione adscriptum in Par. B.
Túzuve d'
Kuhnius ad Poll. VII. 24. et hinc Blomfieldius. Habet hoc a pr. manu M. sed
&
litterae a sec. manu
a
supra adscriptum.
távv
, omisso
d'
, Cantabr. 1.
rázuva &
ceteri. Ex Par. B. Faehsius haec affert,
“τάχυνε ἤγουν ταχέως λέγε, ὡς μὴ μεμφθῶ ἕνεκα τοῦ χρόνου. ac si imperativum legisset, sed in contextu est 'Tazýva."
Elisi augmenti signum Brunckius posuerat.
693

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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1
2
πιστά, 1. 623. πιστῶν, wohl nicht Gen. der An- gehörigkeit, sondern partitivus; Soph. Ο. R. 465: ἄρρητ᾽ ἀρρήτων. Ο. Κ. 1237: κακὰ κακῶν. Phil. 65: ἔσχατ᾽ ἐσχάτων κακά. Er setzt voraus, daſs ein Reichsunglück der Anlaſs zu seiner Berufung sei; vgl. 693. Allitteration wie 751. Sept. 1004. Ag. 233 f. 1167 u. sonst. στένει, κέκοπται scil. πόλις. Sitte bei einem Gebet an die θεοὶ χθόνιοι mit Schlag oder Fufsstofs (hier beim tripudium des Chors) gleichsam an den Eingang zu ihrer Wohnung, die Erde, zu pochen s. Hom. I 568 u. Nägelsbach, nach- homer. Theol. S. 214, vgl. S. 102. Zur ταρβῶ, Schlimmes ahnend.

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3
4
ὀρθιάζ. (389), Ag. 29. 1120. Cho. 271. Zu den all- gemeinen Schwierigkeiten kommt noch die besondere, in der Natur der Beherrscher liegende, hinzu. ἄλλως τε πάντως Prom. 636. Eum. 726. Plat. Apol. p. 35 D: ἄλλως τε μέντοι νὴ Δία πάντως καὶ ἀσεβείας φεύγοντα. Die selbständige Wen- dung nach ἄλλως τε καί ist selten. Auctoritate mea perfeci ut veni- rem, vgl. Xen. Hell. VIII 1,42: ἐνδυναστεύει ὁ Ἐπαμεινώνδας ώστε μὴ φυγαδεῦσαι τοὺς κρατίστους. — τάχυνε, vgl. 697 ff. Propert. V 7, 91 luce iubent leges Lethaea ad stagna reverti.