Aeschylus Persians 272

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Persians. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.

Sponsored by University of Leipzig.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition Experimental

The Persians (OCR draft) (English) (The Persians. Anna Swanwick, 1886.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Πέρσαι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 256-289 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 272 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 272 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 272 focus
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 272 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 272 focus
πλήθουσι νεκρῶν δυσπότμως ἐφθαρμένων
275
Σαλαμῖνος ἀκταὶ πᾶς τε πρόσχωρος τόπος.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 272 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.)) — 272 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 272 focus
The shores of Salamis, and all the adjoining region, are full of the corpses of those who miserably perished.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 272 focus
rien qu'ensemble des milliers d'armes de toute espèce ont passé du
pays d'Asie sur une terre ennemie, sur le sol de Grèce !
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 272 focus
Ah me! unhappy is his taſk
That bears unhappy tidings: but conſtraint
Compels me to relate this tale of woe.
315
Perſians, the whole barbaric hoſt is fall'n.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 272 focus
Piene le spiagge son di Salamina
di tristi spoglie, e ogni terra vicina.
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 272 focus
Plena ſunt cadauerum corruptorum infœliciter
Salaminis littora, omnisq; finitimus locus.
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.) — 272 focus
Piled with men dead, yea, miserably slain,
265
Is every beach, each reef of Salamis!
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.) — 272 focus
Bedeckt mit Leichen kläglich Hingemordeter
Sind Salamis' Felsufer und die Gau'n umher.
255

Commentary

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

219. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-168

χέασθαι:
χέεσθαι
Vit. Lips. Par. N. sed Vit. supra scripto
ασ
. πρευμενῶς:
πρευμενῶς
M. G. Lips. Ven. B. Par. A. B. Rob. et plerique, ut videtur, reliqui codices.
πρευμενῆ
Ven. A. Ox. Lambeth. Turn. et adscriptum in Par. A. B. Idem ex corr. Vit. in quo antea fuerat
πρευμενῶς
: supra
ης
adscriptum.
πρευμενὴν
Ald. Haud scio an
πρευμενής
et
πρευμενῆ
interpretibus debeatur, dubitantibus utrum
πρευμενῶς
ad Atossam, an ad Darium spectaret. Quare
πρευμενῶς
servandum duxi, quod iungendum est cum verbo
πέμπειν
.

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

215-225. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-31

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Antwort des Chor- führers (in feierlichen troch. Tetra- metern). Vgl. Soph. O. R. 89 f.: οὔτε θρασὺς οὔτ᾽ οὖν προδείσας εἰμὶ τῷ γε νῦν λόγῳ. samste ist unter allen Umständen die Götter anzurufen. μῆτερ, als Königin-Mutter (156), doch vgl. 664. προστροπαῖς, supplicatione. φλαῦρον, infaustum. Vgl. Soph. El. 646 εἰ μὲν πέφηνεν ἐσθλά (nämlich φάσματα ὀνείρων), δὸς τελεσφόρα, εἰ δ᾽ ἐχθρά, τοῖς ἐχθροῦσιν ἐμπαλιν μέθες. - Eustath. Hom. Od. κ 518: οἰκεῖον νεκροῖς ἡ χοή. – γῇ vgl. 628 f. 640. πρευμενῶς mit αὐτοῦ (nicht πέμπειν) zu verbinden (bitte freundlich) gestattet V. 224. Vgl. 609. – τάδε, um folgendes, nämlich das πέμπειν u. s. w. – θυμόμαντις (vgl. θυμόσοφος, Ar. nub. 877), ἐκ τοῦ θυμοῦ μαντευόμενος, Gegenteil νοη θεόμαντις. παρήνεσα, zu Ar. nub. 174 u. Kr. 53, 6. А. 3. - τελεῖν intrs. Kr. II § 52, 2. A. 1. Unsere Traumdeutung geht dahin, es werde für dich alles gut sich er- füllen. Der Chorführer schliefst mit einem glückverheiſsenden Worte.