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

Current edition Experimental

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.) — 548-597 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 548-597 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 548 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 548 focus
νῦν γὰρ δὴ πρόπασα μὲν στένει
γαῖ' Ἀσὶς ἐκκεκενωμένα·
Ξέρξης μὲν ἤγαγεν, ποποῖ,
545
Ξέρξης δ᾽ ἀπώλεσεν, τοτοῖ,
Ξέρξης δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπέσπε δυσφρόνως
βαρίδεσσι ποντίαις.
τίπτε Δαρεῖος μὲν οὕ-
τω τότ᾽ ἀβλαβὴς ἐπῆν
550
τόξαρχος πολιήταις,
Σουσίδος φίλος ἄκτωρ;
πεζούς τ' ἠδὲ καὶ θαλασσίους
ὁμόπτεροι κυανώπιδες
νᾶες μὲν ἄγαγον, ποποῖ,
555
νᾶες δ᾽ ἀπώλεσαν, τοτοῖ,
νᾶες πανωλέθροισιν ἐμβολαῖς,
διά γ' Ἰαόνων χέρας·
τυτθὰ δ᾽ ἐκφυγεῖν ἄνακτ᾽
αὐτὸν ὡς ἀκούομεν
560
θρήκης ἂμ πεδιήρεις
δυσχίμους τε κελεύθους.
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 548 focus
Νῦν δὴ νῦν γὰρ δὴ πρόπασα μὲν στένει
Str. 1.
γαῖ' Ἀσὶς ἀσιὰς ἐκκενουμένα·
Ξέρξης μὲν γὰρ ἄγαγεν, ποποῖ,
Ξέρξης δ' ἀπώλεσεν, τοτοῖ,
550
Ξέρξης δὲ πάντ' ἐπέσπε δυσφρόνως
βάριδές τε πόντιαι βαρίδεσι ποντίαις.
Τίπτε Δαρεῖος μὲν οὕ-
τω τότ' ἀβλαβὴς ἐπῆν
τόξαρχος πολιήταις,
555
Σουσίδος σουσίδαις φίλος ἄκτωρ ;
Πεζούς τε καὶ τε γὰρ καὶ θαλασσίους
Ant. 1.
ὁμόπτεροι αἱ δ' ὁμόπτεροι κυανώπιδες
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 548 focus
νῦν δὴ πρόπασα μὲν στένει
γαῖ᾽ Ἀσιὰς ἐκκενουμένα·
Ξέρξης μὲν ἤγαγεν, ποποῖ,
Ξέρξης δ᾽ ἀπώλεσεν, τοτοῖ,
Ξέρξης δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπέσπε δυσφρόνως
555
βαρίδες τε ποντίαι.
πεζούς τε καὶ θαλασσίους
αἵ δ᾽ ὁμόπτεροι κυανώπιδες
νᾶες μὲν ἄγαγον, ποποῖ,
νᾶες δ᾽ ἀπώλεσαν, τοτοῖ,
νᾶες πανωλέθροισιν ἐμβολαῖς,
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διὰ δ᾽ Ἰαόνων χέρας;
τυτθὰ δ᾽ ἐκφυγεῖν ἄνακτ᾽
αὐτὸν ὡς ἀκούομεν
θρήκης ἀμ πεδιήρεις
δυσχίμους τε κελεύθους.
570
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 548 focus
νῦν γὰρ δὴ πρόπασα μὲν στένει γαῖ
᾿Ασιὰς ἐκκενουμένα·
Ξέρξης μὲν [γὰρ] ἄγαγεν,
550
ποποῖ,
Ξέρξης δ᾽ ἀπώλεσεν,
τοτοῖ,
Ξέρξης δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπέσπε δυσφρόνως
βαρίδες τε ποντίαι.
τίπτε Δαρεῖος μὲν οὖ-
τω τότ᾽ ἀβλαβὴς ἐπῆν
555
τόξαρχος πολιήταις,
Σουσίδος φίλος ἄκτωρ;
πεζούς τε γὰρ καὶ θαλασσίους λι-
νόπτεροι κυανώπιδες
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.)) — 548-595 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 548 focus
Now, in truth, the whole of the land of Asia made desolate moans. For Xerxes led forth, O gods! and Xerxes lost, well-a-day! Xerxes managed all things haplessly in his ocean-barks. Oh! why was not Darius at that time in command, so safe a master of the bow to the citizens, beloved sovereign of Susa?
The ships, all winged alike and with dark-stained beaks, carried forth both our land forces and our marines, O gods! and ships destroyed them, ah! well-a-day! the ships with the deadly onslaughts of their beaks, and through the hands of the Ionians, as we hear, the king barely made his escape to the champagne and chilly tracts of Thrace.
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 548 focus
trépas de ceux qui ont péri, source assurée pour nous d'innombrables douleurs.
aimé de Susiane 1 ? Fantassins et marins, tel un grand vol d'oiseaux vêtus de
sombre azur, les nefs les ont emmenés, hélas ! les nefs les ont
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 548 focus
Now her wailings wide deſpair
Pours theſe exhauſted regions o'er;
Xerxes, ill-fated, led the war;
Xerxes, ill-fated, leads no more;
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Xerxes ſent forth th' unwife command,
The crouded ſhips unpeopled all the land;
That land, o'er which Darius held his reign,
Courting the arts of peace, in vain,
O'er all his grateful realms ador'd,
685
The ſtately Suſa's gentle lord.
Black o'er the waves his burden'd veſſels ſweep,
For Greece elate the warlike ſquadrons fly;
Now cruſh'd, and whelm'd beneath th' indignant
deep
690
The ſhatter'd wrecks and lifeleſs heroes lie:
Whilſt, from the arms of Greece eſcap'd, with toil
Th' unſhelter'd monarch roams o'er Thracia's
dreary ſoil,
EPODE. THE PERSIANS.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 548 focus
Omai, vuoto di popolo,
geme d'Asia il suol tutto.
Serse condusse, ahimè!,
Serse distrusse, ahimè!,
Serse, e sul mar le navi, governarono
635
verso l'estremo lutto,
perché tuttora Dario
non vedea questa luce,
ai cittadini innocuo
condottiero, ai Susiani amico duce.
640
Guidâr le navi aligere
dalle azzurrine prore
fanti e nocchieri, ahimè!,
nel rovinoso, ahimè!,
cozzo dei rostri, tutti li distrussero!
645
Appena il mio signore
poteva, a ciò che narrano,
scampare al ionio braccio,
sui piani della Tracia
fuggendo, e sopra vie converse in ghiaccio.
650
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 548 focus
Nunc enim omnis quidem luget
525
Regio Afie uacua.
Xerxes quidem duxit quo nam?
Xerxes uerò perdidit ibi nam,
Xerxes omnia ſecutus est impudenter,
Baridis nauibus, Darius ſis quid tandem
530
Tunc fuit innocuus dux ciuibus
Suidis gubernator,charus pedestres
marinas
Proprijs alis euntibus nigræ eos
Naues duxerunt quo name
535
Naues uerò ipfas perdideruntibi'nam
Neues perniciofis incursionibus,
Per Ionum manus paulo post effugere
Regem ipfum,ipfos audiuimus per Thraciæ fubli-
Et tempestuosas uias.
540
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.) — 548 focus
Land of the East, thou mournest for the host,
Bereft of all thy sons, alas the day!
580
For them whom Xerxes led hath Xerxes lost—
Xerxes who wrecked the fleet, and flung our hopes away!
How came it that Darius once controlled,
And without scathe, the army of the bow,
Loved by the folk of Susa, wise and bold?
585
Now is the land-force lost, the shipmen sunk below!
Ah for the ships that bore them, woe is me!
Bore them to death and doom! the crashing prows
Of fierce Ionian oarsmen swept the sea,
And death was in their wake, and shipwreck murderous!
590
Late, late and hardly—if true tales they tell—
Did Xerxes flee along the wintry way
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.) — 548 focus
Denn jetzt klagt die ganze Asia,
530
Das weite menschenöde Land :
„Weh, Xerxes führte sie dahin,
Weh, Xerxes gab sie dem Tode hin!
Ja, Xerxes schuf all dieses Leid, der Thor,
Mit der Schiffe stolzem Zug!
535
Ach, warum beherrschte so
Sonder Harm Dareios einst
Sein Volk, Herrscher des Bogens,
Susa's theurer Gebieter?"
Landheer zog und Seevolk aus zum Kampf;
540
Die leinbeschwingten, dunkelen 1
Meerschiffe trugen's, ach, dahin,
Meerschiffe trugen's zum Tode hin,
Meerschiffe, mit des Todes Zahn bewehrt!
Kaum entrann der König selbst
545
(Wie die Sage mir erzählt)
Aus der Joner Händen, floh
Durch Blachfelder von Thrake
Auf Sturmpfaden des Winters.

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

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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Umfang der Nieder- lage. Xerxes selbst rettete kaum das Leben. λινόπτεροι, velivolae, wie λινόπτερα . . ναυτίλων ὀχήματα Prom. 467. κυανῶπις (Suppl. 743) s. v. a. κυανόπρωρος, κυανέμ- βολος (Eur. Εl. 436), vgl. Suppl. 716. – νᾶες dreimal die persischen. Ἰαόνων, der Hellenen, 178. ἐκφυγεῖν, wie 189: sei entkommen, wie wir hören. δυσχίμους (Sept. 509. Cho. 184. Fragm. 333 N.), un- wirtlich, wild.