Aeschylus Persians 112

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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CHORUS
Him, thine all-trusty eye,
The hosts of Persia who told o'er
960
By ten times fifty score,
Alphistos, Batanochos' heir,
Sesames' son, who owed his birth
To Megabates, him didst leave,
Parthos and great Œbares there
Didst leave to die?
Unhappy men! ah me!
Persians of highest worth!
For them dire ills on ills I hear from thee,
And sighs of anguish heave.

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.) — 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.) — 111 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 111 focus
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 111 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 111 focus
φιλόφρων γὰρ σαίνου-
σα τὸ πρῶτον παράγει
βροτὸν εἰς ἄρκυας ἄτας,
100
τόθεν οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπὲρ θνα-
τὸν ἀλύξαντα φυγείν.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 111 focus
φιλόφρων γὰρ (παρα)σαίνου-
σα τὸ πρῶτον παράγει
βροτὸν εἰς ἄρκυας ἄτα,
τόθεν οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπέκ θνα-
100
τὸν ἀλύξαντα φυγεῖν. –
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.) — 111 focus
For fawning on him at first with kindly disposition it lures a man on within the densest toils, whence it is not possible for mortal to struggle out and make his escape.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 111 focus
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 111 focus
Gentle at firſt with flatt'ring ſmiles
She ſpreads her ſoft enchanting wiles,
So to her toils allures her deſtin'd prey,
Whence man ne'er breaks unhurt away.
110
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 111 focus
Con benevola parvenza Ate gli efimeri
ne le reti attira e adesca.
Né veruno evvi fra gli uomini
105
che a fuggir quindi riesca.
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 111 focus
Vacuam effe uiris urbem magnam ſubſidis.
Et Cißinum oppidum obstrepens erit.
Heu caterua plena mulierum uociferantium,
In byßinos peplos cadet ruptura.
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.) — 111 focus
For Até deludes and allures, till round him the meshes are laid,
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.) — 111 focus
Denn so huldreich sie zuerst auch ihm geliebkost, 1
Sie verlockt in die Schlingen des Fanggarns,
90
Und es mag Keiner daraus, den es umstrickt, wieder entflieh'n.
Dritte Strophe.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to The Persians (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of The Persians.) focus

960. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-938

ἵυγγά μοι δῆτ᾽ ἀγαθῶν ἑτάρων ὑπομιμνῄσκεις:
Ειγγά μοι
, sed
fi
litteris a sec. manu scriptis, in margine autem
γρ. ζυγά μοι
Μ.
ἴγα
Ald.
μοι
omittunt Ven. A. Οx.
με
pro eo habent Ven. B. Rob.
ἑταίρων
Vit. Ven. A. Colb. 1.
ἑτέρων
Ald. Libri omnes
υπομιμνήσκεις
, nisi quod
υπομιμνήσκεις
habet Μ.
υπομιμνηάκεις
vitiose Ald.
υπομνήσκεις
Cantabr. 1. Non scripsisse Aeschylum
υπομιμνήσκεις
strophicus versus docet. Videtur ab interprete pro alio verbo adscriptum fuisse. Posui quod aptum est,
υπορίνεις
. Possunt alia excogitari, velut
υπεγείρεις
.
960

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

949-961. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-143

1
2
γάρ, klaget nur, denn. Ἰάνων (Silbenmessung anders als 1025) Αρης ναύφρ. (navibus munitus) ἑτεραλκής (den Feinden Kraft und Sieg verleihend) ἀπηύρα (hat sie geraubt), nämlich βάρη (Schiffe und Mannschaft). – νυχίαν (Todesnacht) grausig, wenn es nicht ursprünglich μυχίαν (wie 877) ge- heiſsen hat. πλάκα, Meeres- fläche. κερσάμενος depascens, vastans. Hom. N 770 ποῦ τοι Δηίφοβός τε βίη θ' Ἑλένοιο ἄνα- κτος, Ασιάδης τ᾿ Αδάμας ἠδ᾽ ῎Ασιος Υρτάκου υἱός; ποῦ δὲ τοι Όθρυο- νεύς; νῦν ὤλετο πᾶσα κατ᾿ ἄκρης Ἴλιος αἰπεινή. – δέ, 334. – Φαρανδ. 31. – Σουσισκάνης 34. – Dritte An- häufung persischer Namen.