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Persians. W. S. Teuffel. ed. N. Wecklein. . .

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Commentary (W. S. Teuffel; revised by N. Wecklein, 1886; German; OCR draft) (German) (Persians, explanatory commentary pp. 43–97. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Πέρσαι First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 159-255 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 159-255 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 159 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 159 focus
ταῦτα δὴ λιποῦσ᾽ ἱκάνω χρυσεοστόλμους δόμους,
καὶ τὸ Δαρείου τε κἀμὸν κοινὸν εὐναστήριον.
καί με καρδίαν ἀμύσσει φροντίς· ἐς δ᾽ ὑμᾶς ἐρῶ
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μῦθον, οὐδαμῶς ἐμαυτῆς οὖσ᾽ ἀδείμαντος, φίλοι,
μὴ μέγας πλοῦτος κονίσας οἶδας ἀντρέψῃ ποδι
ὄλβον, ὃν Δαρεῖος ἦρεν οὐκ ἄνευ θεῶν τινός.
ταῦτά μοι διπλῆ μέριμνα φραστός ἐστιν ἐν φρεσίν,
μήτε χρημάτων ἀνάνδρων πλῆθος ἐν τιμῇ σέβειν,
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μήτ' ἀχρημάτοισι λάμπειν φῶς ὅσον σθένος πάρα.
ἔστι γὰρ πλοῦτός γ' ἀμεμφής, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ὀφθαλμοῖς φόβος.
ὄμμα γὰρ δόμων νομίζω δεσπότου παρουσίαν.
πρὸς τάδ᾽ ὡς οὕτως ἐχόντων τῶνδε, σύμβουλοι λόγου
τοῦδέ μοι γένεσθε, Πέρσαι, γηραλέα πιστώματα.
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πάντα γὰρ τὰ κέδν᾽ ἐν ὑμῖν ἐστί μοι βουλεύματα.
πολλοῖς μὲν ἀεὶ νυκτέροις ὀνείρασιν
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ξύνειμι, ἀφ' οὗπερ παῖς ἐμὸς στείλας στρατὸν
Ἰαόνων γῆν οἴχεται πέρσαι θέλων·
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. 93
ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι πω τοιόνδ᾽ ἐναργὲς εἰδόμην
ὡς τῆς πάροιθεν εὐφρόνης, λέξω δέ σοι·
ἐδοξάτην μοι δύο γυναῖκ᾽ εἰείμονε,
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ἣ μὲν πέπλοισι Περσικοῖς ἐσκημένη,
ἣ δ᾽ αὖτε Δωρικοῖσιν, εἰς ὄψιν μολεῖν,
μεγέθει τε τῶν νῦν ἐκπρεπεστάτα πολὺ
κάλλει τ᾽ ἀμώμῳ, καὶ κασιγνήτα γένους
ταὐτοῦ· πάτραν δ᾽ ἔναιον ἢ μὲν Ἑλλάδα
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κλήρῳ λαχοῦσα γαῖαν, ἣ δὲ βάρβαρον.
τούτω στάσιν τιν ὡς ἐγὼ δόκουν ὁρᾶν
τεύχειν ἐν ἀλλήλαισι. παῖς δ᾽ ἐμὸς μαθὼν
κατεῖχε καπράϋνεν, ἅρμασιν δ' υπο
ζεύγνυσιν αὐτὴ καὶ λέπαδν ἐπ᾽ αὐχένων
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τίθησι· χἢ μὲν τῇδ᾽ ἐπυργοῦτο στολῇ,
ἐν ἡνίαισι δ᾽ εἶχεν εὔαρκτον στόμα,
ἡ δ᾽ ἐσφάδαζε, καὶ χεροῖν ἔντη δίφρου
διασπαράσσει, καὶ ξυναρπάζει βία
ἄνευ χαλινῶν, καὶ ζυγὸν θραύει μέσον.
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πίπτει δ᾽ ἐμὸς παῖς, καὶ πατὴρ παρίσταται
Δαρεῖος οἰκτείρων σφέ· τὸν δ᾽ ὅπως ὁρᾷ
Ξέρξης, πέπλους ῥήγνυσιν ἀμφὶ σώματι.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 159 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 159 focus
ταῦτα δὴ λιποῦσ᾽ ἱκάνω χρυσεοστόλμους δόμους
καὶ τὸ Δαρείου τε καμὸν κοινὸν εὐνατήριον.
καί με καρδίαν ἀμύσσει φροντίς· ἐς δ᾽ ὑμᾶς ἐρῶ
μῦθον οὐδαμῶς ἐμαυτῆς οὖσ᾽ ἀδείμαντος, φίλοι·
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μὴ μέγας πλοῦτος κονίσας οὖδας ἀντρέψῃ ποδὶ
ὄλβον, ὃν Δαρεῖος ἦρεν οὐκ ἄνευ θεῶν τινος.
ταῦτά μοι διπλῆ μέριμν᾽ ἄφραστός ἐστιν ἐν φρεσί,
μήτε χρημάτων ἀνάνδρων πλῆθος ἐν τιμῇ σέβειν
πολλοῖς μὲν ἀεὶ νυκτέροις ὀνείρασιν
ξύνειμ᾽, ἀφ᾽ οὔπερ παῖς ἐμὸς στείλας στρατὸν
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Ἰαόνων γῆν οἴχεται πέρσαι θέλων·
ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι πω τοιόνδ᾽ ἐναργὲς εἰδόμην
ὡς τῆς πάροιθεν εὐφρόνης, λέξω δέ σοι.
ἐδοξάτην μοι δύο γυναῖκ᾽ εὐείμονε,
ἣ μὲν πέπλοισι Περσικοῖς ἠσκημένη,
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ἣ δ᾽ αὖτε Δωρικοῖσιν, εἰς ὄψιν μολεῖν,
μεγέθει τε τῶν νῦν ἐκπρεπεστάτα πολὺ
κάλλει τ᾽ ἀμώμω, καὶ κασιγνήτα γένους
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 159 focus
Translations (9)
Persians Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 159-255 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 159 focus
For this reason, in truth, am I come, having left my gold-garnished mansion, the common bridal-dwelling both of Darius and of myself. And anxiety is tearing me at heart: and I will make a disclosure to you, my friends, being of myself by no means free from apprehension, lest mighty wealth, having made great speed, should, with his foot, overturn the wealth which Darius reared, not without the aid of some god. These things are to my soul a two-fold unutterable care, not to honor with reverence a multitude of riches unprotected by men, and that the light shines not on those who are destitute of wealth, however great the strength which they may possess. For our wealth at all events is beyond the reach of censure, but touching our eye 1
is my terrors. For I deem the presence of the master the eye of an household. Whereupon, since these things stand thus, lend me your counsel in this matter, ye aged trusty servants of the Persians. For all my good measures depend on you.
I have been continually haunted by many dreams in the night, ever since my son, having fitted forth his armament, went to the land of the Ionians, purposing to lay it waste. But I never yet saw any so plain, as on the night just passed, -and I will tell it thee. There seemed to appear before two women 2
in fair attire-the one robed in Persian vestments, but the other in Doric, both in statue by far the most comely of those who live now-a-days, and in beauty beyond rebuke, and sisters of the same family. And as to country-they inhabited, the one, having had it assigned to her by lot, the land of Hellas,-the other the barbarian 3
; these two, as 1 fancied I saw, had a feud the one with the other: and my son, when he heard it, was checking and soothing them, and he yokes them beneath his car, and places a collar on their necks. And the one towered loftily in these trappings, and had a tractable mouth in the reins: but the other kept plunging, and tears in pieces with her hands the harness of the car, and whirls it violently along without the bit, and snaps the yoke in the middle: and my son falls, and his sire Darius stands beside him, commiserating him; and when Xerxes sees him, he rends his robes about his person.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 159 focus
C'est bien pourquoi j'ai quitté le palais
tendu d'or et la chambre où longtemps j'ai dormi avec Darios : moi aussi, je sens le souci déchirer mon cœur, et c'est à vous que je veux tout dire, amis, à cette heure où je ne suis plus sans crainte pour moi-même. J'ai peur que, devenue trop grande, notre richesse ne renverse du pied et ne transforme en poudre sur le sol l'édifice de bonheur qu'un dieu sans doute aida Darios à élever. Aussi une
angoisse indicible arrête ma pensée sur un double péril : des trésors, sans homme pour les défendre, n'obtiennent de la foule hommage ni respect, tout comme un homme sans trésors ne peut briller de l'éclat que mériterait sa force. Or, si notre richesse est intacte, en revanche, je crains pour nos yeux ; car, l'œil d'une maison, c'est, pour moi, la présence du maître. De cela, d'abord, persuadez-vous
bien, puis conseillez-moi sur les faits que voici, Perses, vieux et fidèles soutiens : c'est de vous que j'attends tous conseils utiles.
à des conseillers pleins de bon vouloir.
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 159 focus
And therefore am I come, leaving my houſe
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That ſhines with gorgeous ornaments and gold,
Where in paſt days Darius held with me
His royal reſidence.
With anxious care
My heart is tortur'd: I will tell you, friends,
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My thoughts, not otherwiſe devoid of fear,
Leſt mighty wealth with haughty foot o'erturn
And trample in the duſt that happineſs,
Which, not unbleſs'd by Heav'n, Darius rais'd.
For this with double force unquiet thoughts
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Paſt utterance fill my ſoul; that neither wealth
With all its golden ſtores, where men are wanting,
Claims reverence;
nor the light, that beams from
pow'r,
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Shines on the man, whom wealth diſdains to grace.
The golden ſtores of wealth indeed are ours;
But for the light, ſuch in the houſe I deem
The preſence of its lord, there I have fears.
Adviſe me then you, whoſe experienc'd age
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Supports the ſlate of Persia: prudence guides
Your councils, always kind and faithful to me.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 159 focus
Perciò venni, pel timore ch'or si mostri a noi contrario,
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e lasciai la reggia e il talamo dove io già vissi con Dario.
Un pensiero il cuor mi lacera. Un terrore in cor s'aduna
ch'io v'espongo, amici.
Io temo che l'eccesso di fortuna
non abbatta e fra la polvere la potenza non calpesti
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che innalzò Dario, non senza il volere dei Celesti.
Questo duplice pensiero di continuo mi travaglia.
Mai la gloria per l'uom povero al valor suo non s'agguaglia;
ma niun pregio ha l'opulenza, quando sia d'uomini scema.
Ora intatta è la ricchezza; ma per l'occhio il cuor mi trema:
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occhio io dico della casa la presenza del Signore.
Poi che a ciò dunque gli eventi giunti son, nel mio timore
siate a me, fidi vegliardi Persïani, or consiglieri:
e i consigli vostri in tutto sian per me giusti e sinceri.
Sempre, da quando il figliuol mio l'esercito
spinse, e partí, bramoso di distruggere
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la lonia terra, fra notturni sogni
vivo commista.
E niun fu mai sí chiaro
come la scorsa notte.
Or te lo narro.
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Pareano innanzi a me giunger due femmine
in vesti adorne: un manto persïano
cingeva questa, e quella un manto dorico:
e di statura molto soverchiavano
le donne d'ora, e belle senza pесса,
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e d'un sangue, sorelle.
Ed abitavano
contrade avute in sorte: ellène questa,
barbare quella.
Or, fra le due sorgeva,
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pareami, una contesa.
E il figliuol mio
se ne avvede, e le frena, e le ammonisce,
ed ai carri le aggioga, e impone redini
alle cervici.
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E in questa foggia, l'una
si pompeggiava, ed adattava docile
alle briglie la bocca: invece l'altra
relutta fiera, e con le man' gli arnesi
strappa del cocchio, e rompe a mezzo il giogo,
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e senza freno lo trascina a forza.
Il figliuol mio giú piomba;
e appare Dario
suo padre, e lo compiange.
E appena Serse
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lo vede, strappa dalle membra i panni.
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 159 focus
Propter hæc uenio, poftquam reliqui
Auro ornatas domos, Darij
Meum commune cubiculum.
Meum compungit cura cor,
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Vobis uerò uerba faciam
Non intrepida mei ipfius
Amici, ne magnæ diuitiæ illinientes pauimentums
Euertant pede fælicitatem, quam habuit Darius
Non sine aliquo deorum.
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Propter hæc duplex est mihi in mente cura ineffabilis,
Neq; pecuniarum uiris carentium multitudinem honore profequi:
Neq; uiris pecunia carentibus fplendere lumen, qua
tauis adfit fortitudo licet.
Sunt autem diuitiæ irreprehenfibiles, circa oculos
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metus.
Oculŭ enim domus arbitror, domini præfentia eße.
Ad bec cum ſe ita habeant, conſultores huus rei
Eftote mihi Perfe, tanquam fideles ſenes:
Omnia enim bona in uobis funt mihi cofilia.
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Girca multa quidem nocturna insomnia ſemper
Verfor, ab eo tempore, quo filius meus mittes exerci
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In Ionia proficifcitur, depopulari ea uolens:
Sed nunquam tam manifestum ſomnium uidi,
Quàm hac tranſacta nocte, tibi uerò dicam.
Viſæ mihi funt duæ mulieres eleganter ornate:
Vna quidem Perſicis peplis ueſtita,
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Altera rurfus Doricis, im uiſtonem uenire,
Magnitudine dearū que nuc funt lõgé decětißima,
Pulchritudine irreprehenfibili, germana generis
Eiufdem, patriam habitaui hec Grecanicam
Sorte aßecuta terram, altera barbaram.
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He ſeditionem, ut uidebar uidere,
Parabant inter fe:filius uerò meus hoc percipiens
Continuit: mitigauit:fub curru uerò
Coniugat ipfas, & collaria ceruicibus
Imponit.
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At una quide ornabatur bac stola Perfica,
Habenis uerò habuit ſubditum os.
Altera uerò impetum fecit, manibusq; currui impost
Dißipauit,& fregitui.
Sine frenis erat, lacerauitq; iugum per medium.
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Cadit meus filius, pater adeft
Darius, miſerens illius.hunc cum uidet
Xerxes, lacerat ueftes, que circum corpus habebat.
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 157 focus
XERXES
Mingled with many a blow!
CHORUS
Yea, black, and fraught with sighs.
XERXES
CHORUS
Pain, grievous pain!
XERXES
And from thy chin pluck out the silver hair.
CHORUS
Woe-fraught, we pluck amain!
XERXES
Rend with shrill cries the air.
CHORUS
Cries shall not fail.
XERXES
CHORUS
Pain, grievous pain!
XERXES
Our host lamenting rend thy tresses too. *
CHORUS
Woe-fraught, we rend amain!
XERXES
Let tears thine eyes bedew.
CHORUS
Tears downward roll.
XERXES
CHORUS
Alas! Alas! Woe! Woe!
XERXES
Now with loud wailing to the palace wend.
CHORUS
Alas! with wailing Persia's land resounds.
XERXES
Through Susa let your moans ascend.
CHORUS
I moan, yea, moan amain.
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XERXES
Slowly advancing pour your sighs.
CHORUS
Alas! with wailing Persia’s land resounds.
XERXES
For those who perished in our triremes, woe!
CHORUS
Thee I'll escort with piteous notes of pain.
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.) — 159 focus
Therefore come I forth to you, from chambers decked and golden,
Where long ago Darius laid his head, with me beside,
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And my heart is torn with anguish, and with terror am I holden,
And I plead unto your friendship and I bid you to my side.
Darius, in the old time, by aid of some Immortal,
Raised up the stately fabric, our wealth of long-ago:
But I tremble lest it totter down, and ruin porch and portal,
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And the whirling dust of downfall rise above its overthrow!
Therefore a dread unspeakable within me never slumbers,
Saying, Honour not the gauds of wealth if men have ceased to grow,
Nor deem that men, apart from wealth, can find their strength in numbers—
We shudder for our light and king, though we have gold enow!
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No light there is, in any house, save presence of the master—
So runs the saw, ye aged men! and truth it says indeed—
On you I call, the wise and true, to ward us from disaster,
For all my hope is fixed on you, to prop us in our need!
Long while by various visions of the night
Am I beset, since to Ionian lands
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With marshalled host my son went forth to war.
Yet never saw I presage so distinct
As in the night now passed.—Attend my tale!—
A dream I had: two women nobly clad
Came to my sight, one robed in Persian dress,
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The other vested in the Dorian garb,
And both right stately and more tall by far
Than women of to-day, and beautiful
Beyond disparagement, and sisters sprung
Both of one race, but, by their natal lot,
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One born in Hellas, one in Eastern land.
These, as it seemed unto my watching eyes,
Roused each the other to a mutual feud:
The which my son perceiving set himself
To check and soothe their struggle, and anon
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Yoked them and set the collars on their necks;
And one, the Ionian, proud in this array,
Paced in high quietude, and lent her mouth,
Obedient, to the guidance of the rein.
But restively the other strove, and broke
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The fittings of the car, and plunged away
With mouth un-bitted: o'er the broken yoke
My son was hurled, and lo! Darius stood
In lamentation o'er his fallen child.
Him Xerxes saw, and rent his robe in grief.
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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.) — 159 focus
Eben darum eilt' ich hieher aus des Hauses goldnem Thor,
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Aus dem Schlafgemache, das ich mit Dareios einst getheilt.
Meine Brust durchbohrt die Sorge; laut vor euch verkündet hier
Sei das Wort, o Freunde, furchtlos bin ich keineswegs um mich,
Daß (o Leid!) der große Reichthum raschen Fußes mir das Glück
Stürzt in Staub, das einst Dareios aufgebaut mit Götterhuld.
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Darum steht der Doppelspruch mir als bewährt im Herzen fest: 1
Weder ehrt Jemand des Reichthums Fülle, die kein Mann vertritt,
Noch umstrahlt den Mittellosen seines Ruhms verdienter Glanz.
Tadellos glänzt unser Reichthum; um das Auge fürcht' ich nur:
Denn des Hauses Auge, mein' ich, ist die Gegenwart des Herrn.
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Steht mir denn, nachdem des Himmels hoher Schluß es so gefügt,
Steht mit eurem Rath, o Perser, treue Greisesschaar, mir bei!
Denn für Alles, was mir anliegt, ruht in euch der beste Nath.
Zahllose Traumgesichte suchen jede Nacht
Mein Lager, seit mit aufgebotner Heereskraft
Mein Sohn Verheerung drohend zog in Hellas' Au'n.
Doch keines trat so deutlich noch vor's Auge mir,
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Wie das der jüngstentschwundnen Nacht. Vernimm es denn!
Zwei Frau'ngestalten schienen mir vor's Angesicht
Zu treten, beide reichgeschmückt, in persischen
Gewanden diese, jene trug ein Dorerkleid.
Hoch ragten sie vor Frauen dieser Zeit hervor
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An Wuchs und tadellosem Reiz. Desselben Stamms 2
Geschwistern, fiel der einen durch des Looses Wurf
Hellas, der andern Persis' Land als Erbe zu.
Die Beiden, eifernd, also schien's im Traume mir,
Entzweien sich und hadern. Und mein Sohn vernimmt's,
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Hemmt sie, besänftigt ihren Groll, und schirrte sie
Vor seinen Wagen, legte dann des Joches Last
Auf ihren Hals. Die eine, stolz auf diesen Schmuck,
Bot gern den leichtbeherrschten Mund dem Zaume dar;
Die andre hob sich ungestüm, zertrümmerte
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Das Noßgeschirr mit den Händen, warf die Zügel ab,
Und rafft es fort gewaltsam, und zerbricht das Joch.
Da stürzte Xerxes, und Dareios trat hinan,
Sein Vater, ihn bejammernd. Kaum erblickte den
Mein Sohn, zerriß er sein Gewand am Leib umher.
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Notes on the current edition

Persians

1. Single-witness OCR: uncollated. Source layout and readings require scan review; automatic flags are not exhaustive.
2. Reference placement provisional: provisional local reference window from running Greek. Verify the printed source numbering and note scope against the scan.

Commentary

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

176. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-138

οὗπερ:
περ
omittit G. στείλας:
στείχας
Lips.

178. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-139

ἐναργὲς:
ἐν ἀργές
ex corr. Vit. Antea
ἐν ἀργ ῆς
, cum litura post
γ
, fuisse videtur.

180. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-140

μοι: omittit M. γυναῖκ᾽ εὐείμονε:
γυναῖκες εὐείμονες
Vit.
γυναῖκ᾽ εὐείμονες
Ald. Turn.
γυναῖκ᾽ εὐήμονε
Lips.

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

176-180. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-27

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Erzählung im Tri- meter. μὲν ... ἀλλά (179), Her- vorhebung des zweiten Gliedes, wie z. B. Hom. Г 214: ἀγόρευε παῦρα μὲν, ἀλλὰ μάλα λιγέως u. oft. στείλ. στρ. parans, movens exerci- tum, Ag. 799. Ἰάονες sanskr. Iavanas, יון. Schol. Ar. Ach. 104: πάντας τοὺς Ἕλληνας Ἰάονας οἱ βάρβαροι ἐκάλουν. Insbesondere aber galt ja der Zug des Xerxes den zum ionischen Stamme gehö- rigen Athenern. τοιόνδ᾽ ἐναργὲς (vgl. 518. Prom. 663) einen solchen deutlichen. εἰδόμην vgl. 48. 62. εὐφρόνης ganz wie νυκτός (200).