Aeschylus Persians 591

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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No more the tongue is guarded now
By mortals; from this hour,
Free are the throng to speak, I trow,
Since loosed the yoke of power;
And Aias' sea-encircled isle,
In blood-stained fields holds whaterewhile
Was Persia's flower.

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.) — 598-632 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 591 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 591 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 591 focus
οὐδ᾽ ἔτι γλῶσσα βροτοῖσιν
ἐν φυλακαῖς· λέλυνται γὰρ
595
λαὸς ἐλεύθερα βάζειν,
ὡς ἐλύθη ζυγὸν ἀλκᾶς·
αἱμαχθεῖσα δ᾽ ἄρουραν
Αἴαντος περικλύστα
νᾶσος ἔχει τὰ Περσῶν.
600
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 591 focus
Οὐδ' ἔτι γλῶσσα βροτοῖσιν
Ant. 3.
ἐν φυλακαῖς· λέλυται γὰρ
λαὸς ἐλεύθερα βάζειν,
ὡς ἐλύθη ζυγὸν ἀλκᾶς·
αἱμαχθεῖσα δ' ἄρουραν ἄρουρα
595
Αἴαντος περικλύστα
νᾶσος ἔχει τὰ Περσῶν.
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 591 focus
οὐδ᾽ ἔτι γλῶσσα βροτοῖσιν
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 591 focus
οὐδ᾽ ἔτι γλῶσσα βροτοῖσιν
ἐν φυλακαῖς· λέλυται γάρ
λαὸς ἐλεύθερα βάζειν,
ὡς ἐλύθη ζυγὸν ἀλκᾶς.
αἱμαχθεῖσα δ᾽ ἄρουραν
595
Αἴαντος περικλύστα
νᾶσος ἔχει τὰ Περσῶν.
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.)) — 591 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 591 focus
And no longer is the tongue of mortals held in check: for the people have been set at liberty to speak their mind freely, since the yoke of strength hath been loosened. And the sea-washed isle of Ajax, with its soil stained with gore, holds the [bodies] of the Persians.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 591 focus
plus !
Les langues mêmes ne sentiront plus de bâillon. Un peuple est délié et parle librement, sitôt qu'est détaché le joug de la
force. Dans son terreau sanglant, l'île d'Ajax que bat le flot retient au tombeau la puissance
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 591 focus
Now no reſtraint the wanton tongue ſhall own,
Free from the golden curb of pow'r;
For on the rocks, waſh'd by the beating flood,
720
His awe-commanding nobles lie in blood.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 591 focus
Né piú sarà degli uomini
schiava la lingua: di parlare libero,
675
il popolo si sfrena;
il giogo, ecco, già frangesi:
nella sanguigna arena
dell'isola d'Aiace
il potere dei Persi infranto giace.
680
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 591 focus
Neq; lingua mortalibus
In custodia folutus eſt populus ad loquendŭ liberè:
Quoniam folutum est iugum roboris.
560
Sanguine perfusum eſt ſolu: Aiacis circumcluſa
Infula, habet Perfarum corpora.
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.) — 591 focus
Men speak the thing they will, and from this hour
The folk whom Xerxes ruled obey his word no more.
610
The yoke of force is broken from the neck—
The isle of Ajax and th' encircling wave
Reek with a bloody crop of death and wreck
Of Persia's fallen power, that none can lift nor save!
[ Re-enter Atossa, in mourning robes.
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.) — 591 focus
Nimmer hinfort wird der Menschen
Zunge bewacht; denn gelöst nun
Reden die Völker sich frei aus,
575
Da die Gewalt sich gelöst hat.
Auf bluttriefender Erde,
Ajas' umflutetem Eiland,
Modert das Glück der Perser.
(Atossa kommt zu Fuße, ohne den königlichen Schmuck, gefolgt von wenigen Dienerinnen, welche Grabesspenden tragen.)

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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οὔτ᾽ ἐς:
οὔτε ἐς
Ven. A.
οὐδ᾽ ἐς
Brunckius. V. Opusc. III. p. 155.
591

591. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-447

γᾶν:
γαῖαν
Vit.
591

591. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-448

προπίτνοντες:
προπίτνοντες
Μ. Par. H. L.
προσπιτνῶντες
Vit.
προσπίπτοντες
G. Lips. aliique.
προσπίτνοντα
Rob.
προσπίτνοντες
Ald. Turn.
591

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

591-597. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-88

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Wie in der Strophe, zuerst die Folgen (besonders im Innern des Reiches selbst) und dann die Ursache. Liv. VI 16 extr.: amotus dictaturae terror et linguam et animos liberaverat hominum. βάζειν, konsekutiver Infinitiv. ois nach dem kollektiven λαός, Kr. 58, 4. Α. 1. – αἱμαχθεῖσα ἄρουραν, Kr. 52, 4. A. 2. Αἴαντος νᾶσος 307.368.- περικλύστα, vgl. 879. Die Macht der Perser ist in Salamis begraben.