Aeschylus Persians 633

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Alone of mortals he may speak the end.

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.) — 633-680 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 633 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 633 focus
ἡ ῥ᾽ ἀΐει μου μακαρίτας ἰσοδαίμων βασιλεὺς
βάρβαρα σαφηνῆ
ἱέντος τὰ παναίολ᾽ αἰανῆ δύσθροα βάγματ᾽, ἢ
635
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 633 focus
ἦ ῥ᾽ ἀΐει μου μακαρίτας ἰσοδαίμων βασιλεὺς
βάρβαρα σαφηνῆ
ἱέντος τὰ παναίολα αἰ-
ανῆ δύσθροα βάγματα,
παντάλαν᾽ ἄχη
640
διαβοᾶσαι;
νέρθεν ἄρα κλύει μου;
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 633 focus
Ἦ ῥ' ἀΐει μου μακαρί-
Str. 1.
τας ἰσοδαίμων βασιλεὺς
βάρβαρα σαφηνῆ
635
ἱέντος τὰ παναίολ' αἰ-
ανῆ δύσθροα βάγματα ;
παντάλαν' ἄχη διαβοάσω·
νέρθεν ἆρα κλύει μου ;
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 633 focus
ἦ ῥ' ἀίει μου μακαρίτας
ἰσοδαίμων βασιλεὺς
βάρβαρα σαφηνῆ
ἱέντος τὰ παναίολ' ἀ-
φανῆ δύσθροα βάγματα;
640
παντάλαν᾽ ἄχη διαβοάσω;
νέρθεν ἄρα κλύει μου;
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 633 focus
ἢ ῥ᾽ ἀίει μου μακαρίτας ἰσοδαίμων βασιλεύς
βάρβαρα σαφηνή
ἱέντος τὰ παναίολ᾽ αἰανῆ δύσθροα βάγματα;
635
παντάλαν᾽ ἄχη
διαβοάσω.
νέρθεν ἆρα κλύει μου; –
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.)) — 633 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 633 focus
Does then the godlike monarch, of blessed memory, hear me as I utter the all-varied barbaric clear plaintive dismal cries? A loud outcry will I make over our utterly wretched sorrows. Does he then hear me from beneath the earth?
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 633 focus
M'entend-il, le roi défunt, égal aux dieux ? M'entend-il lancer en langue barbare, claire à son oreille 1 , ces
appels gémissants, lugubres, où se mêlent tous les accents de la plainte ? Je clamerai
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 633 focus
Hears the honour'd, godlike king?
775
Theſe barbaric notes of woe,
Taught in deſcant ſad to ring,
Hears he in the ſhades below?
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 633 focus
Ascolti, o beatissimo
725
Sire, o pari ai Celesti,
me, che con persi limpidi
accenti, alzo dei mesti
lagni i lugubri modi?
lo griderò la mia doglia miserrima:
730
tu di sotterra m'odi?
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 633 focus
Audi fanè me beate dijs æqualis rex,
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.) — 633 focus
Doth he hear me, the king we adored, who is god among gods of the dead?
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Doth he hear me send out in my sorrow the pitiful, manifold cry,
The sobbing lament and appeal? is the voice of my suffering sped
To the realm of the shades? doth he hear me and pity my sorrowful sigh?
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.) — 633 focus
Hörst du mich, Herr, seliger Geist, hörst du mich, gottähnlicher Fürst,
615
Wie ich in der Heimat
Lauten sende zu dir hinab
Den helljammernden Klageruf?
Bittern Schmerzes Schrei
Heb' ich ohn' Ende:
620
Du dort unten, vernimmst du's?

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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καὶ:
καὶ
omittit G. λήματι:
λήμματα
Vit. Lips. aliique et Rob.

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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Parodos ohne Prologos. Der Chor durchschreitet die Orchestra unter dem Takte der Anapäste des Koryphaios: erster Teil der Paro- dos, 1-64. Anapästische Dime- ter; vgl. Westphal¹ II. S. 413f. Das Auftreten des Chors wird V. 140- 149 motiviert.

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Spezifikation der aus- gezogenen Generale und Völker, in epischer Weise. Die Namen nicht alle genau persisch, sondern nach ungefährem Klange gebildet. ( τὰ μὲν τῶν ὀνομάτων ἱστόρησεν, τὰ δὲ τελείως ἔπλασεν Schol.). Vgl. zu 302. Ihre Häufung erweckte in den Hörern immer von neuem das frohe Gefühl des Sieges. Τ. 21-28. Αρταφρένης Άρτα 778. Ein Führer der Lyder und Myser Αρτ. bei Herod. VII 74. Μεγαβάτης: Namen dieser Art bei Herod. VII 82. 97. – Αστάσπης: ein Υστάσπης Herod. VII 64. σοῦνται vgl. Suppl. 836. Sept. 31. Das epische τ' ἠδέ findet sich bei Äschylos noch zweimal um des Versmaſses willen (996. Sept. 862). τὲ ἠδὲ Cho. 232, sonst ἠδέ. - ψυχῆς ἐν τλήμονι πείση (in ausdauerndem Halte der Seele) nach Hom. v 23 τῷ δ᾽ ἄρα τ᾽ ἐν πείσῃ κραδίη μένε τετληυῖα.

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Die Leibwache, die zehntausend (Herod. VII 55) Per- ser; vgl. Herod. VII 54: περσικὸν ξίφος, τὸ ἀκινάκην καλέουσι, ein kurzes gerades Schwert. Sub gravibus regis imperiis; Ag. 748. Choeph. 28.