Aeschylus Persians 91

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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DARIUS
March ye no more against the Hellenes' land,
Not though the Median host outnumber theirs;
The soil itself to them is an ally.

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.) — 93 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 93 focus
φιλόφρων γὰρ ποτισαίνου-
σα τὸ πρῶτον, παράγει
βροτὸν εἰς ἄρκυας ἄτα,
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τόθεν οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπὲκ να-
τὸν ἀλύξαντα φυγεῖν.
θεόθεν γὰρ κάτα Μοῖρ᾽ ἐκράτησεν
τὸ παλαιόν, ἐπέσκηψε δὲ Πέρσαις
πολέμους πυργοδαΐκτους
105
διέπειν ἱππιοχάρμας
τε κλόνους, πόλεών τ᾿ ἀναστάσεις.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 93 focus
φιλόφρων γὰρ παρασαίνει σαίνουσα τὸ πρῶτον παράγει
Ant. 3.
βροτὸν εἰς ἄρκυας Ἄτα ἀρκύστατα,
τόθεν οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπὲρ θνα-
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τὸν ἀλύξαντα φυγεῖν.
θεόθεν γὰρ κατὰ Μοῖρ' ἐκράτησεν
Str. 4.
τὸ παλαιόν, ἐπέσκηψε δὲ Πέρσαις
πολέμους πυργοδαΐκτους διέπειν ἱπ-
πιοχάρμας τε κλόνους
100
πόλεών τ' δ' ἀναστάσεις·
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 93 focus
θεόθεν γὰρ κατὰ μοῖρ᾽
ἐκράτησεν τὸ παλαι-
όν, ἐπέσκηψε δὲ Πέρσαις
105
πολέμους πυργοδαΐκτους
διέπειν ἱππιοχάρμας
τε κλόνους
πόλεών τ᾿ ἀναστάσεις.
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 93 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.)) — 65-155 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 93 focus
For destiny, fixed by heaven, prevailed in the olden time, and enjoined on the Persians to carry on wars that beat down towers, and the tumults of cavalry warfare, and demolitions of cities.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 93 focus
Oui, mais au piège qu'a tendu le dessein perfide d'un
dieu quel mortel pourrait échapper ? Qui sait alors, d'un pied agile, prendre son élan pour un bond heureux 1 ?
Caressante et douce,
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 93 focus
For thus from ancient times the Fates ordain,
That Perſia's ſons ſhou'd greatly dare,
Unequal'd in the works of war;
Shake with their thund'ring ſteeds th' enſanguin'd
plain,
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Dreadful the hoſtile walls ſurround,
And lay their rampir'd tow'rs in ruins on the
ground.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 93 focus
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 93 focus
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.) — 93 focus
And no man his doom can escape! it was writ in the rule of high Heaven,
That in tramp of the steeds and in crash of the charge the war-cry of Persia be given:
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.) — 93 focus
Das Geschick waltete schon in der Urzeit,
Von den Göttern verhängt, zwang es die Perser,
An der burgstürmenden Feldschlacht,
An dem roßtummelnden Kriegstanz
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Sich zu weiden, an stolzer Festen Fall.
Dritte Gegenstrophe.

Commentary

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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Unaufhaltsam ist das Heer der Perser und nach mensch- licher Berechnung kann ihm nie- mand widerstehen, wie man nie- manden zutrauen kann, daſs er durch starke Dämme die unbe- zwingliche Hochflut des Meeres zurückhalte. Der Dichter hat Gleich- nis und eigentlichen Ausdruck ohne Vermittlung verbunden.