Aeschylus Persians 700

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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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.) — 703-851 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 700 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 700 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 700 focus
δίεμαι μὲν χαρίσασθαι,
δίεμαι δ᾽ ἀντία φάσθαι,
προλέγων δύςλεκτα φίλοισιν.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 700 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 700 focus
δίεμαι μὲν χαρίσασθαι,
δίεμαι δ᾽ ἀντία φάσθαι,
λέξας δύσλεκτα φίλοισιν.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 700 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.)) — 700 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 700 focus
I dread 1 to comply, and I dread to speak in thy presence, telling things hateful to tell to friends.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 700 focus
sur les Perses ?
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 700 focus
I dread to forge a flatt'ring tale, I dread
To grieve thee with an harſh offenſive truth.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 700 focus
Parlar non m'assecuro,
dire dinanzi a te quanto, se l'odano,
troppo agli amici è duro.
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Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 700 focus
Cho. Vereor quidem gratificari,
Pudet me contraria dicere,
Dicens ingrata amicis.
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.) — 700 focus
I tremble to reveal,
Yet tremble to conceal
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Things hard for friends to feel!
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.) — 700 focus
Mir verbeut Furcht den Gehorsam,
Mir verbeut Furcht, dir in's Antliß
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Solch Leid zu verkünden, dem Freunde.

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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αἴας:
γαίας
Vit.
αἴης
Par. A. B. et ut videtur Veneti.
αἴας
(non
αἴης
) M. G. Lips. edd. vett.

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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Zusammenfassung. Stimmung der Zurückgebliebenen hinsichtlich d. Ausgezogenen. Über- leitung vom epischen Teile zum lyrischen. στένεται, Sept. 872. Vgl. τρομέονται 64; εἰδόμην 179; φάσθαι 701; zu Aristoph. nub. 281. τείνοντα, μηκυνόμενον Schol. Zweiter Teil, V. 65-113. Vier Strophenpaare, vorgetragen von dem Gesamtchore, bestehend aus ionici a minori, teilweise anakla- stischen (v. 86-92. 96-101. 107= 113) oder durch Synkope in Ana- päste verwandelten. Das Maſs malt das unruhige Auf- und Abwogen der Empfindungen, das Schwanken zwischen Furcht und Hoffnung. Vgl. Westphal¹ III S. 291 ff. 314f. Nebst II 2. S. 526.