Aeschylus Persians 652

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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For ne'er in war's disastrous game
Doom'd he his warriors to the grave;
No; godlike counsellor the name
His Persians gave;
Godlike in sooth was he,
†Since still his subject host he governed worthily.

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

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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.) — 652 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 652 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 652 focus
οὔτε γὰρ ἄνδρας πότ᾽ ἀπώλλυ
655
πολεμοφθόροισιν ἄταις,
θεομήστωρ δ᾽ ἐκικλήσκετο Πέρσαις, θεομήστωρ δ᾽
ἔσκεν, ἐπεὶ στρατὸν εὖ τόν᾽ ὡδώκει.
ἠέ.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 652 focus
Οὔτι Οὔτε γὰρ ἄνδρας πότ' ἀπώλ-
Ant. 2.
λυ πολεμοφθόροισιν ἄταις,
θεομήστωρ δ' ἐκικλή-
σκετο Πέρσαις, θεομήστωρ δ'
ἔσκεν, ἐπεὶ στρατὸν εὖ ποδούχει ὑπεδώκει εὖ ἐποδώκει· ἠέ.
655
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 652 focus
οὔτε γὰρ ἄνδρας ποτ᾽ ἀπώλλυ
655
πολεμοφθόροισιν ἄταις,
θεομήστωρ δ᾽ ἐκικλή-
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 652 focus
οὐδὲ γὰρ ἄνδρας ποτ᾿ ἀπώλλυ
πολεμοφθόροισιν ἄταις,
θεομήστωρ δ᾽ ἐκικλή-
σκετο Πέρσαις, θεομήστωρ / δ᾽ ἔσκεν, ἐπεὶ στρατὸν εὐ ποδούχει.
655
ἠέ. =
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.)) — 652 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 652 focus
For as at no time he was the destroyer of men by the wasting calamities of war, so he was called by his Persians, counsellor divine; and counsellor divine he was, for he conducted the host well.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 652 focus
sans pareil, Darios. Hé ! hé !
Ce n'est pas lui qui perdait ses soldats dans des débâcles meurtrières ! Les Perses l'appelaient l'inspiré des dieux 1 , et
c'est en inspiré des dieux qu'il
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 652 focus
He in realm-unpeopling war
Waſted not his ſubjects' blood,
Godlike in his will to ſpare,
In his councils wiſe and good.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 652 focus
Ch'ei non condusse mai dei Persi il popolo
al guerresco sterminio, alla sconfitta:
745
esso fu detto, e fu Divin consiglio:
ché per la via diritta
sempre guidar seppe sue genti. Ahimè!
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 652 focus
Bellicis nocumentis.
610
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.) — 652 focus
He never wasted us with reckless war—
God, counsellor, and king, beneath a happy star!
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.) — 652 focus
Nicht in den Tod gab er die Männer,
In des Kriegs zermalmend Unheil,
Und ein Gottweiser genannt von dem Volk, war er in Wahrheit
635
Göttlich, er lenkte die Heere zum Glück einst. 1

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.