Aeschylus Persians 102

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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CHORUS
Woe, king, for our brave army! Woe
For honours vast of Persia's reign,
Her warriors of renown,
Whom Fate hath now mown down!
Earth mourns her martial bloom,
Growth of her soil, by Xerxes slain,
Who crowds with Persians Hades' gloom.
†Full many chiefs, our country's flower,
Lords of the conquering bow,
Now tread the paths of doom,
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For multitudinous the power
Of men by death laid low.
Woe for our trusty forces! woe!
For Asia's land, upon her knee,
In direful fall, O king! sinks direfully.

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.) — 65-158 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 65-158 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 100 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 100 focus
ἔμαθον δ᾽ εὐρυπόροιο θαλάσσης
πολιαινομένης πνεύματι λάβρῳ
ἐςορᾶν πόντιον ἄλσος,
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πίσυνοι λεπτοδόμοις πει-
σμασι λαοπόροις τε μηχαναῖς.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 100 focus
ἔμαθον δ' εὐρυπόροιο θαλάσσας
Ant. 4.
πολιαινομένας πνεύματι λάβρῳ
ἐσορᾶν πόντιον ἄλσος, πίσυνοι λεπ-
τοδόμοις πείσμασι λα-
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οπόροις τε μηχαναῖς.
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 100 focus
ἔμαθον δ᾽ εὐρυπόροι-
110
ο θαλάσσης πολιαι-
νομένης πνεύματι λάβρῳ
ἐσορᾶν πόντιον ἄλσος,
πίσυνοι λεπτοδόμοις πεί-
σμασι λα-
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οπόροις τε μηχαναῖς.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 100 focus
ἔμαθον δ᾽ εὐρυπόροι-
ο θαλάσσας πολιαι-
νομένας πνεύματι λάβρωι
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ἐσορᾶν πόντιον ἄλσος,
πίσυνοι λεπτοδόμοις πεί-
σμασι λαοπόροις τε μηχαναῖς.
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.)) — 65-155 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 100 focus
They learned, too, to look upon the ocean fields of the wide-winding sea when it whitens with the violent blast, putting confidence in their slightly-constructed tackling, and the machines in which hosts are wafted [across the deep].
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 100 focus
Até égare l'homme en ses panneaux, et nul mortel ne peut ensuite s'en évader d'un saut et fuir.
En élargissant.
Le destin que les dieux ont de tout temps fait aux Perses
leur impose de poursuivre les guerres où croulent les remparts, les mêlées où
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 100 focus
Taught to behold with fearleſs eyes
The whitening billows foam beneath the gale,
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They bid the naval foreſts riſe,
Mount the ſlight bark, unfurl the flying ſail,
And o'er the angry ocean bear
To diſtant realms the ſtorm of war.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 100 focus
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 100 focus
Didicerunt uerò Latiuadi maris
Cani uento magno
Videre pontinum lucum, confift
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Subtilibus perfuafionibus, machinationibus po
pulo prebitis.
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.) — 100 focus
They have learned to behold the forbidden, the sacred enclosure of sea,
Where the waters are wide and in stress of the wind the billows roll hoary to lee!
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And their trust is in cable and cordage, too weak in the power of the blast,
And frail are the links of the bridge whereby unto Hellas they passed.
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.) — 100 focus
Und das Volk lernte die weiten Gefilde,
Von des wilden Orkans Schauern erschäumend,
Und der See wogenden Hain schau'n,
Dem Geflecht schwankender Taue
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Und der völkergeleitenden Brücke trau'n.
Vierte Strophe.

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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αἰνῶς αἰνῶς:
αἰνῶς αἰνῶν
G.
αἰανῶς
Cantabr. 1.
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γόνυ:
γοῦνυ
Turnebus, ex coniectura, ut videtur.
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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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Über die äuſsere Erscheinung des Xerxes vgl. oben S. 36 f. Anapästisches System beim Auftreten einer neuen Person. ἀτεκμαρτ. ganz unerwartet. ἐνέβη, vgl. 516. - τί πάθω (vgl. quid faciam?), was soll aus mir werden? Ar. Plut. 603, Lukian. Prometh. 7. – λέλυται 592. τήνδ᾽ ἡλικίαν ἀστῶν : gegenüber den ehr- würdigen Greisen, seinen Räten und zugleich Vätern, die er ihrer Söhne beraubt hat, drückt den Xerxes die moralische Verantwortlichkeit für das Geschehene. ἐσιδόντ᾽ Acc., ad sensum, weil das Vorhergehende s. v. a. es befällt mich Beben. Vgl. Cho. 410: πέπαλται μοι φίλον κέαρ τόνδε κλύουσαν οἶκτον. οἰχομένων in anderem Sinne als 1, vgl. 1002. κατὰ, 101. 670. θανάτου μοῖρα κατακαλύψαι nach dem homerischen τέλος θανάτοιο ( Ε 553), μοίρα δυσώνυμος ἀμφεκά- λυψεν ( Μ 116). Ähnlicher Gedanke Bedrängter Prom. 582 f. 747 ff. Suppl. 157 ff. 787 ff., vgl. oben 262 ff.