Aeschylus Persians 909-931

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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.) — 909-1076 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 909 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 909 focus
ἰώ,
δύστηνος ἐγὼ στυγερᾶς μοίρας
τῆςδε κυρήσας ἀτεκμαρτοτάτης,
ὡς ὠμοφρόνως δαίμων ἐνέβη
Περσῶν γενεᾷ· τί πάθω τλήμων;
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λέλυται γὰρ ἐμῶν γυίων ῥώμη
τήνδ᾽ ἡλικίαν ἐςιδόντ᾽ ἀστῶν.
νηριτοτρόφος
εἴθ᾽ ὄφελε, Ζεῦ, κἀμὲ μετ᾿ ἀνδρῶν
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τῶν οἰχομένων
θανάτου κάτα μοῖρα καλύψαι.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 909 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 909 focus
ἰώ, δύστηνος ἐγὼ στυγερᾶς μοίρας
τῆσδε κυρήσας ἀτεκμαρτοτάτης,
ὡς ὠμοφρόνως δαίμων ἐνέβη
Περσῶν γενεᾷ· τί πάθω τλήμων;
λέλυται γὰρ ἐμῶν γυίων ῥώμη
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τήνδ᾽ ἡλικίαν ἐσιδόντ᾽ ἀστῶν.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 909 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.)) — 909-930 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 909 focus
Alas! wretched that I am, having met with this hateful doom beyond all conjecture;-how ruthlessly hath the demon assailed the race of the Persians! What shall I suffer miserable? for the vigour of my limbs fails as I look upon this [aged] company of citizens here before me. O Jove! that the doom of death could enshroud me also along with the men that are departed.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 909 focus
subissons aujourd'hui un revire-
ment clairement voulu des dieux et ployons sous les coups formidables que la guerre nous a portés sur les eaux 1 .
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 909 focus
Ah me, how ſudden have the ſtorms of Fate,
Beyond all thought, all apprehenſion, burſt
On my devoted head!
O Fortune, Fortune!
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With what relentleſs fury hath thy hand
Hurl'd deſolation on the Perſian race!
Wo unſupportable!
The tort'ring thought
Of our loſt youth comes ruſhing on my mind,
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And ſinks me to the ground.
O Jove, that I
Had died with thoſe brave men that died in ſight!
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 909 focus
Ahimè! Misero me, qual destino
odïoso, inatteso, m'oppresse!
Con quale impeto il Dèmone crudo
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s'abbatte' su la stirpe dei Persi!
Che farò, tristo me?
Dei ginocchi
mi si stempra il vigor, quando miro
tanti vecchi a me innanzi!
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Deh!, Giove,
deh!, se avesse anche me fra gli estinti
seppellito il destino di morte!
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 909 focus
O' infelix ego, adeptus hoc fatum odiofum,
Incomprehenfibile, quàm crudeliter fortuna
Ingreßa est Perſarü generatione?
quid patiar mifer,
Solutum est robur meorum membroru.hanc uerò
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Aetatem uidens ciuium, fiue debuit Iupiter
Me cum uiris proficifcentibus mortis
Sorte occultare.
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.) — 909 focus
Alas the day, that I should fall
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Into this grimmest fate of all,
This ruin doubly unforeseen!
On Persia's land what power of Fate
Descends, what louring gloom of hate?
How shall I bear my teen?
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My limbs are loosened where they stand,
When I behold this aged band—
Oh God! I would that I too, I,
Among the men who went to die,
Were whelmed in earth by Fate's command!
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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.) — 909 focus
Weh!

Commentary

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

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δὲ:
de
omittunt Par. K. L.
909

909. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-879

βασιλεῦ γαίας: Male Brunckius
Baaike
commate
yaías
distinxit, ex scholiastarum aliquot et Heath sententia
yuías yóru
coniungens.
γαίας
omittit Ven. Β.
γαῖας
Μ.
γαῖαν
Cantabr. 1. Colb. 2. Par. C. L.
7o. zai yaîar
Par. B.
yaíar
Cantabr. 2. et Lips. in quo tamen
a
in
o
mutatum esse videtur.
909

910. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-880

αἰνῶς αἰνῶς:
αἰνῶς αἰνῶν
G.
αἰανῶς
Cantabr. 1.
910

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γόνυ:
γοῦνυ
Turnebus, ex coniectura, ut videtur.
910

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οἰοῖ:
olo
Vit.
al al
M.
où
ter Cantabr. 1.
of où
ceteri.
911

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γέννα:
yérrai
, cum litura inter
a
et
1
, M.
yérrar
Rob.
912

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γῇ τε πατρῴᾳ:
γα τε πατρίᾳ
libri (
γᾶι τε πατρίαι
, cum litura utrobique inter
a
et
i
, M.). Scribendum esse
y тε naτoga
primus vidit Heathius.
912

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ἄρ᾽:
κακῶν ἀρ
Colb. 1.
913

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ἐγενόμην:
¿yeróuar
M. G. Vit. Cantabr. 1. Par. A. B. et ad
a
supra scripto
7
Lips.
¿yɛróuny
Colb. 1. Ald. Rob. Turn.
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πρόςφθογγόν:
προφθόγγου
sic M.
πρὸ φθόγγου
Colb. 1. Ven. A. Ald.
7900q9oyyov
G. Lips. Ven. B. Cantabr. 1.
zoos 49oyyou
Par. H. K. Rob.
προσφθόγγους
ex
προσφθόγγας
factum in Vit.
πρόφθογγον
Ask. A.
noosqoyyor
edd. inde a Turnebo.
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νόστου:
νόστον
Colb. 1.
νόστιν
Ask. A.
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τὴν: Ad
rur
et mox ad
Boùr
in Lips.
7
supra adscriptum.
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κακομέλετον ἰὰν:
κακομελετόνιαν
Vit.
lar
ante recentissimae manus emendationem M.
915

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Μαριανδυνοῦ:
paqiardárov
sic M.
µaqiardırov
Cantabr. 1. Par. L. Ven. A. Ald.
pagvardirov
Rob.
paguardyrov
G. Vit. Cantabr. 2. Colb. 1. Par. K. Ven. B. et ad penultimam syllabam supra scripto
Lips.
Eustathius ad Dionysii v. 787.
Ιστέον δὲ ὅτι ἐπεχωρίαζον τοῖς Μαριανδυνοῖς θρήνων αὐληταί, ὡς καὶ ἡ παροιμία δηλοῖ, Μαριανδυνοῦ μεμνημένη θρηνητῆρος
. Photius p. 247, 21.
Μαριανδυνὸν θρηνητήν· οὕτως Αἰσχύλος
.
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πέμψω πέμψω πολύδακρυν ἰαχάν:
πέμψω πέμψω πολύδακρυν λαχάν
omnes libri. Non recte Porsonus altero
πέμψω
eiecto paroemiacum exhibuit,
πέμψω πολύδακουν ἰακχάν
. V. ad v. 924.
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ἵετ' αἰανὴν πάνδυρτον: Libri omnes
"er' alarỳv zaì navóðvotor
, nisi quod
lɛr'
habent M. Vit. Lips. Ald. Rob.
αἰανή
M. et post
πανόδυρτον
Rob.
βοὴν
addit.
alar
Blomfieldius recepit. V. ad Soph. Ai. v. 672. Metri indicio
za
delevi et scripsi
núvdvorov
. Eodem modo Lachmannus. Et
πάνδυρτον
maluit etiam Blomfieldius.
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δύςθροον:
δύσθροαν
Vit. Ald.
λαόθρον
Colb. 1.
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αὐδάν:
βοάν πιο αὐδάν
Ask. A.
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μετάτροπος:
μεσúτgoпos
Vit. Mosc.
μerάτQεлτоs
Par. B. H. Colb. 1. Ask. A. Ald.
920

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ἐπ' ἐμοί:
ἐπεμοί
Μ. Duplex in scholiis explicatio prostat, una, qua Saíuor de secunda fortuna accipitur: immutata mihi est pristina felicitas: in qua explicatione odɛ non apte dictum est: altera, qua δαί-or intelligitur de adversa fortuna. Idque verum videtur, hoc sensu, nam haec calamitas ad me redit, ut scilicet ad auctorem.
920

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ἥσω τοι καὶ πάνδυρτος: Chori persona non adscripta est in Lips. Ald. Turn.
ΐσω τι
Ven. A.
ἥσω τὶ
Αld.
πανόδυρτον
omnes libri. Scribendum est non
πάνδυρτον
cum Blomfieldio, sed
πάνδυρτος
.
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δαϊπανέα σέβων ἁλίτυπά τε βάρη: Legebatur
λαοπαθῆ τε σεβίζων ἁλίτυπά τε βάρη
, nisi quod prius
te
in Ven. A. Ald. Rob. Turn. deest. Deesse puto etiam in Par. C. in quo non hoc, sed alterum
tɛ
deesse indicat Vauvillersius. Praeterea
σεβάζων
Colb. 1.
ἁλιτύπα τε
G.
ἁλιτικά τε
, posteriore accentu facto ex circumflexo, Vit. In Lips. ante
άλírvná te
chori nomen adscriptum est. Vitiosum esse hunc versum strophicus versus docet. Scripsi
δαϊπαθές σέβων ἁλίτυπά τε βάρη
.
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κλάγξω κλάγξω δ᾽ ἀρίδακρυν ἰαχάν: Libri
κλάγξω δ᾽ αὖ γόον ἀρίδακρυν
, nisi quod
κλαύσω
est in Colb. 1.
7o. so
adnotatum in margine Lips.
agudazovy
in Ven. A. Ald. Turn. Quum in stropha libri omnes
néo
iterent, neque veri simile sit vocabula
πολύδακρυν
et
ἀρίδακρυν
aliter posita esse, quam ut in eodem versus loco sibi invicem responderent, apparet corrupta haec esse. Scripsi, remoto interpretamento,
κλάγξω, κλάγξω δ᾽ ἀρίδακρυν λαχάν
,
924

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Ἰάνων γὰρ ἀπηύρα, Ἰάνων ναύφρακτος Ἄρης ἑτεραλκὴς νυχίαν πλάκα κερσάμενος δυσδαίμονά τ᾽ ἀκτάν.: Libri omnes versus 925-928 choro continuant. Xerxi eos dandos esse antistropha monstrat. Vidit hoc etiam Lachmannus.

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Ἰάνων:
lávov
utrobique G. Vit. Ven. B. Cantabr. 1. Colb. 2.
lávov
in priore versu, in altero
iúov
a pr. manu, addito supra a sec. manu
v
, M.
aóvav
utrobique Colb. 1. Ask. A. Par. C.
lávov
priore loco,
laóvor
posteriore Lips.
Torov
vulgo utrobique. "Taves nominis tenuia, sed certa vestigia sunt apud Hesychium in v.
Tarva
et apud Stephanum Byz. in v.
Túoor
. Corripuit autem Aeschylus alteram vocalem.

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ναύφρακτος:
κάφρακτος
Vit.
νεόφρακτος
Ald.
ναύκρατος
Lips. Ἰάων.
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νυχίαν: Libri omnes
víav
. Arnaldus
Bovziar
, Pauwius et Heathius, si quid mutandum esset,
μυχίαν
scribendum putaverunt.
Νυχίαν πλάκα
si scribitur, non videtur nisi duplex explicandi via relinqui, una, ut obscurum mare, altera, ut metaphorice exitiosum intelligi poeta voluerit. Neutrum satis ex more fecisset. Nam Orci quidem tenebrosam domum recte potuit
hadga vízia
dicere Euripides in Helena v. 177. mari autem neque apud Aeschylum neque in Euripidis Medea v. 211. hoc vocabulum satis convenit. Apud Euripidem Themis dicitur Medeam duxisse
Ἑλλάδ᾽ ἐς ἀντίπορον δι᾽ ἅλα νύχιον ἐφ᾽ ἁλμυρὰν πόντου κλῇδ᾽ ἀπέραντον
. Aplissimum ibi videtur
δὲ ἅλα μύχιον
, quemadmodum
μυχία Tε Пoолorris
est apud Aeschylum supra v. 868. et apud Dionysium ν. 688.
πὰρ δὲ μυχὸν Πόντοιο, μετὰ χθόνα Τυνδαριδάων, Κόλχοι ναιετάουσι
. Quod si in Persarum versu cum scholiasta funestum mare atque exitiosum intelligi placeat, erit hoc et sine exemplo dictum et nimis ambigue. Haec me moverunt, ut quamvis repugnantibus libris
μυχίαν πλάκα
scriberem. Recte autem apteque recessum maris, in quo pugnatum est, simul cum obiecto litore Salaminio commemorari apertum est. Accedit, quod paulo ante Aeschylus dixerat
μυχία Προποντίς
. Nam diligens poetae lectio docet, saepe eum verbum recenti adhuc memoriae obversans paullo post iterum ponere.
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ἀκτάν: Ad
ἀκτάν
supra scriptum
η
in Lips.
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οἰοιοῖ βόα, καὶ πάντ᾽ ἐκπεύθου:
of of où
libri, nisi quod
of of of
habet M.
ololoì
Vit.
of où
Lips. Ven. B. Scribendum
olotof
ex regula Apollonii Dyscoli in Bekkeri Anecd. p. 588, 26. V. Dindorfium ad Aristophanis Pac. v. 257. Hic versus in libris omnibus Xerxi tribuitur: chori eum esse ex antistropha apparet. Vidit hoc etiam Lachmannus. Error ex eo ortus est, quod male intellectum est
ἐκπεύθου
, pro quo
ἐκπεύθοι
habet M. Dictum hic est passive, interrogare omnia, sine omnia ex te quaeri.
929

930. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-907

ποῦ δὲ φίλων ἄλλος ὄχλος:
ποῦ δὴ φίλων ἄλλος ὄχλος
G.
ποῦ σοι φίλων ὄχλος
Rob. Scribi etiam
ποῦ δέ σοι φίλων ὄχλος
dicit H. Stephanus, recte animadvertens hanc lectionem secutum esse scholiastam metricum. Recte M. ceterique libri
ποῦ δὲ φίλων ἄλλος ὄχλος
.
930

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
Über die äuſsere Erscheinung des Xerxes vgl. oben S. 36 f. Anapästisches System beim Auftreten einer neuen Person. ἀτεκμαρτ. ganz unerwartet. ἐνέβη, vgl. 516. - τί πάθω (vgl. quid faciam?), was soll aus mir werden? Ar. Plut. 603, Lukian. Prometh. 7. – λέλυται 592. τήνδ᾽ ἡλικίαν ἀστῶν : gegenüber den ehr- würdigen Greisen, seinen Räten und zugleich Vätern, die er ihrer Söhne beraubt hat, drückt den Xerxes die moralische Verantwortlichkeit für das Geschehene. ἐσιδόντ᾽ Acc., ad sensum, weil das Vorhergehende s. v. a. es befällt mich Beben. Vgl. Cho. 410: πέπαλται μοι φίλον κέαρ τόνδε κλύουσαν οἶκτον. οἰχομένων in anderem Sinne als 1, vgl. 1002. κατὰ, 101. 670. θανάτου μοῖρα κατακαλύψαι nach dem homerischen τέλος θανάτοιο ( Ε 553), μοίρα δυσώνυμος ἀμφεκά- λυψεν ( Μ 116). Ähnlicher Gedanke Bedrängter Prom. 582 f. 747 ff. Suppl. 157 ff. 787 ff., vgl. oben 262 ff.

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3
4
Einleitung des Kom- mos (Threnos). – περσονόμου, vgl. 585. 853. κόσμου vgl. 925. Hesych.: ἐπικεῖραι, διακόψαι, δια- φθεῖραι; attondere, wovon Folge das Fallen. Hom. 1394: Πάτροκλος πρώτας ἐπέκερσε φάλαγγας.

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5
6
Der Threnos besteht aus 7 Strophenpaaren nebst προ- ῳδὸς und ἐπωδός. Über seine me- trische Anlage s. S. 101 ff. u. West- phal II S. 427 f. Sein melischer Charakter ist sogleich sehr bemerk- bar gemacht durch den stark aus- Προῳδός. Στρ. α΄. geprägten dorischen Dialekt (A- Laut, vgl. 679) und die freie Be- handlung der Anapäste. - ἐγγαίαν Suppl. 59. Pubem occisam a Xerxe, Orcum Persis implente. Die Form κτάμενος (mit passiver Be- deutung) homerisch. Αιδου σά- κτορι Περσᾶν Κr. 47, 9. Α. 6. Dolus ist dem Xerxes damit nicht vorge- worfen, und Tadel des Xerxes hat der Chor schon bisher oft genug ausgesproche chen. ἀδοβάται, ναι. das von Aristophanes (frg. 198) gebildete ᾅδοφοίτης. τοξοδά- μαντες, 26.30. Densissima multi- tudo virorum, ταρφύς als Femin. auch Sept. 535 ταρφὺς ἀντέλλουσα θρίξ. κεδν. 735. - ἐπὶ γόνυ Westphal II S. 424. Herod. VI 27: ἡ ναυμαχίη ἐς γόνυ τὴν πόλιν ἔβαλε.