Aeschylus Persians 99

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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ATOSSA
O Fate unblest! How many grievous ills
Upon me fall, yet most this sorrow stings,
That of my son's dishonour I must hear,
His royal limbs in tatter'd garb arrayed.
But I will go, and taking from my home
Costly attire, meet, if I may, my son.
For ne'er will we our dearest fail in woe.

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,
110
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-
105
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-
115
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
110
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,
120
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
85
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!
100
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
100
Und der völkergeleitenden Brücke trau'n.
Vierte Strophe.

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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Aber dem Truge der Götter kann niemand entrinnen; durch Vorspiegelung von Glück und Macht lockt er den Menschen ins Netz des Verderbens, aus dem dieser ohne Schaden zu nehmen nicht entkommt. Die Schuld, die ὕβρις, welche den Neid der Götter weckt, giebt der Dichter 742ff., 782, 808 an.