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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.) — 681-693 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 681-693 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 657 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 657 focus
βαλήν, ἀρχαῖος βαλήν, ἴθ᾽, ἴθ᾽, ἕκου,
660
ἔλθ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄκρον κόρυμβον ὄχθου,
κροκόβαπτον ποδὸς εὔμαριν ἀείρων,
βασιλείου τιήρας
φάλαρον πιφαύσκων.
βάσκε, πάτερ ἄκακε Δαρειάν,
665
οἶ,
ὅπως καινά τε κλύῃς νέα τ᾽ ἄχη·
δέσποτα δεσπότου, φάνηθι.
Στυγία γάρ τις ἐπ᾽ ἀχλὺς πεπόταται·
νεολαία γὰρ ἤδη
670
κατὰ γᾶς ὄλωλεν.
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε, Δαρειάν.
οἶ.
αἰαῖ, αἰαῖ,
ὦ πολύκλαυτε φίλοισι θανών,
675
τί τῇδε, δυνάστα, δυνάστα,
περὶ τὰ σὰ διδύμα
δι᾽ ἄνοιαν ἁμαρτία
πᾶσα γᾷ τᾷδ᾽
ἐξέφθινται τρίσκαλμοι
680
νᾶες, ἄναες νᾶες;
ὦ πιστὰ πιστῶν ἡλικές θ' ἥβης ἐμῆς,
Πέρσαι γεραιοί, τίνα πόλις πονεῖ πόνον;
στένει, κέκοπται, καὶ χαράσσεται πέδον·
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 657 focus
Βαλὴν βαλλὴν ἀρχαῖος, βαλήν, ἴθ' ἴθ' ἱκοῦ ἴθι ἱκοῦ
Str. 3.
τόνδ' ἐπ' ἄκρον κόρυμβον ὄχθου,
κροκόβαπτον ποδὸς εὔμαριν ἀείρων,
βασιλείου τιήρας
φάλαρον πιφαύσκων·
660
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε Δαριάν, οἴ.
Ὅπως καινά τε κλύῃς νέα τ' ἄχη·
Ant. 3.
δέσποτα δεσπότου φάνηθι.
Στυγία γάρ τις ἐπ' ἀχλὺς πεπόταται·
νεολαία γὰρ ἤδη
665
κατὰ πᾶσ' ὄλωλεν·
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε Δαριάν, οἴ.
Αἰαὶ αἰαῖ·
Epod.
ὦ πολύκλαυτε φίλοισι θανών,
† τί τάδε δυνατα δυνάτα
670
περὶ τῷ σῷ δίδυμα διαγόεν διάγοιεν ἁμάρτια δ' ἁμάρτια
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 657 focus
βαλλὴν ἀρχαῖος βαλλὴν
660
ἔθι, ἱκοῦ,
ἔλθ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄκρον κόρυμ-
βον ὄχθου, κροκόβαπτον
ποδὸς εὔμαριν ἀείρων,
βασιλείου τιάρας
665
φάλαρον πιφαύσκων.
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε Δαριάν, οἴ.
ὅπως καινά τε κλύῃς
νέα τ᾽ ἄχη
δέσποτα δεσπότου,
670
φάνηθι. Στυγία γάρ
τις ἐπ᾽ ἀχλὺς πεπόταται·
νεολαία γὰρ ἤδη
κατὰ πᾶσ᾽ ὄλωλεν.
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε Δαριάν, οἴ.
675
αἰαῖ αἰαῖ.
ὦ πολύκλαυτε φίλοισι θανών,
τί τάδε δυνατὰ δυνατὰ
ὦ πιστὰ πιστῶν ἥλικές θ᾽ ἥβης ἐμῆς,
Πέρσαι γεραιοί, τίνα πόλις πονεῖ πόνον;
στένει, κέκοπται, καὶ χαράσσεται πέδον.
685
λεύσσων δ᾽ ἄκοιτιν τὴν ἐμὴν τάφου πέλας
ταρβῶ, χοὰς δὲ πρευμενὴς ἐδεξάμην.
ὑμεῖς δὲ θρηνεῖτ᾽ ἐγγὺς ἑστῶτες τάφου
καὶ ψυχαγωγοῖς ὀρθιάζοντες γόοις
οἰκτρῶς καλεῖσθέ μ᾽, ἐστὶ δ᾽ οὐκ εὐέξοδον,
690
ἄλλως τε πάντως χοὶ κατὰ χθονὸς θεοὶ
λαβεῖν ἀμείνους εἰσὶν ἢ μεθιέναι.
ὅμως δ᾽ ἐκείνοις ἐνδυναστεύσας ἐγὼ
ἥκω· τάχυνε δ᾽, ὡς ἄμεμπτος ὦ χρόνου.
τί ἐστι Πέρσαις νεοχμὸν ἐμβριθὲς κακόν;
695
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 657 focus
βαλλὴν ἀρχαῖος βαλλὴν †ἴθι ἱκοῦ,
ἔλθ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ἄκρον κόρυμβον ὄχθου, κροκόβα-
πτον ποδὸς εὔμαριν ἀείρων, βασιλεί-
ου τιήρας φάλαρον πιφαύσκων.
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε Δαριάν.
660
οἰ. –
†ὅπως καινά τε κλύηις νέα τ᾽ ἄχη,
δέσποτα δεσπότου φάνηθι. Στυγία
γάρ τις ἐπ᾽ ἀχλὺς πεπόταται· νεολαί-
α γὰρ ἤδη κατὰ πᾶσ᾽ ὄλωλεν.
665
βάσκε πάτερ ἄκακε Δαριάν,
οἰ. =
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.)) — 681-690 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 657 focus
Lord 2
, ancient lord, come, draw nigh, appear on the topmost peak 3
of the mound, raising the saffrou dyed sandal of thy foot, displaying the crest of thy royal tiara. Come forth, O Darius, author of no ill: Hoa 4
!
Show thyself, sovereign lord 5
, that thou mayest hear the sorrows of our sovereign, strange in their nature, and new. For some Stygian gloom is hovering over us; for all 6
our youth have already sunk in ruin. Come forth, O Darius, author of no ill: Hoa!
alas! alas! O thou that didst die deeply deplored by thy friends! 7
O king, O king! why should these redoubled mishaps pass throughout all this thy land? All the three-banked galleys of this our land have utterly perished, so as to be no longer galleys.
O ye most trusty of the trusty! ye compeers of my youth, aged Persians, with what trouble is our city troubled? the ground groans, is smitten and torn 8
. And beholding my consort here near my sepulchre, I am in fear, I have received soothing libations. And ye arc wailing, standing near my sepulchre, and shouting shrill in cries that evoke the shades, ye piteously summon me. And exit is no easy matter, both in all other respects, and also inasmuch as the gods beneath the ground are better at receiving than at letting go. Notwithstanding, I having rule among them, am come; and be thou quick, that I may not be censured for the time [of my absence]. What new heavy calamity bath befallen the Persians?
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 657 focus
dirigeait la barque de son peuple. Hé ! hé !
Antique monarque, antique monarque, ah ! viens, parais
au-dessus du faîte qui couronne ta tombe ; élève jusque-là
la sandale teinte de safran qui enferme ton pied ; fais luire à nos yeux le bouton de la tiare royale 1 ; viens, père bienfaisant, Darios ! — Ah ! ah !

Viens apprendre de nouvelles, d'inouïes douleurs. Maître de mon maître 2 , apparais. Sur nous
flotte une brume de mort :
toute notre jeunesse a péri. Viens,
père bienfaisant, Darios ! Ah ! ah !

Hélas ! hélas ! ô mort que pleurent des milliers d'amis 3 .
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 657 focus
Riſe then, ſovereign lord, to light;
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On this mound's ſepulchral height
Lift thy ſock in ſaffron died,
And rear thy rich Tiara's regal pride!
Great and good, Darius, riſe:
Lord of Perſia's lord, appear:
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Thus invok'd with thrilling cries
Come, our tale of ſorrow hear!
Woe her Stygian pennons ſpreads,
Brooding darkneſs o'er our heads;
For ſtre tcb'd along the dreary ſhore
805
The flow'r of Aſia lies diſtain'd with gore.
THE PERSIANS.
Riſe, Darius, aweful pow'r;
Long for thee our tears ſhall flow.
Why thy ruin'd empire o'er
Swells this double flood of woe?
810
Sweeping o'er the azure tide
Rode thy navy's gallant pride;
Navy now no more, for all
Beneath the whelming wave-
Ye faithful Perſians t
, honour'd now in age,
815
Once the companions of my youth, what ills
THE PERSIANS.
Afflict the ſtate?
The firm earth groans, it opes,
Diſcloſing its vaſt deeps;
and near my tomb
820
I ſee my wife: this ſhakes my troubled ſoul
With fearful apprehenſions;
yet her off'rings
Pleas'd I receiv'd.
And you around my tomb
825
Chanting the lofty ſtrain, whoſe ſolemn air
Draws forth the dead, with grief-attemper'd notes
Mournfully call me:
not with eaſe the way
Leads to this upper air;
830
and the ſtern Gods,
Prompt to admit, yield not a paſſage back
But with reluctance:
much with them my pow'r
Availing, with no tardy ſtep I come.
835
Say then, with what new ill doth Perſia groan?
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 657 focus
O nostro antico principe,
principe nostro, appari,
750
giungi, soccorri a me.
Sovra l'orlo del tumulo
poggino i tuoi calzari
di croco: fulga chiara
la tua regal tïara
755
o innocuo padre, o Dario, accorri! Ahimè!
Odi i novelli spasimi,
odi il recente duolo:
móstrat, o Re dei Re!
D'una stigia caligine
760
su noi si addensa il volo:
tutti caddero spenti
i giovani fiorenti:
o innocuo padre, o Dario, accorri! Ahimè!
Ahimè, ahimè,
765
tu pel cui fine tanto
versâr gli amici pianto,
nostro Re, nostro Re,
perché mai questo duplice
error sovra il tuo regno ora s'abbatte!
770
Ahi, le nostre triremi! Ahimè, ridotta
a nulla è omai la flotta!
1
O voi fidi tra i fidi, o voi, compagni
della mia gioventú, persi vegliardi,
da qual travaglio afflitta è la città?
775
Pianti odo, e palme al sen percosse, e al suolo
batter di piedi;
e presso alla mia tomba
veggo, e temo, la sposa, i cui libami
graditi accolsi.
780
E voi, presso il mio tumulo
piangete, e me chiamate ad alte grida
evocatrici di defunti. Facile
non è l'uscita:
assai piú pronti a prendere,
785
che a rilasciare i Numi inferni sono.
Pure, prevalsi, ed eccomi.
Ma spacciati
ora, che a me l'indugio non sia biasimo.
Qual nuovo male s'aggravò sui Persi?
790
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 657 focus
Rex antique, rex accede, appropinqua,
Veni ad fummum cacumen tumuli crocotin Aum.
Tollens calceum pedis,
615
Vt noua audias, recentia mala.
Domine domini appare.
Odiofe enim tenebre uolant,
620
Quid hæc dynastæ dynastas
Perſe ſenes, quo labore urbs laborat:
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.) — 657 focus
Ancient of days and king, awake and come—
Rise o'er the mounded tomb!
675
Rise, plant thy foot, with saffron sandal shod
Father to us, and god!
Rise with thy diadem, O sire benign,
Upon thy brow!
List to the strange new sorrows of thy line,
680
Sire of a woeful son!
A mist of fate and hell is round us now,
And all the city's flower to death is done!
Alas, we wept thee once, and weep again!
O Lord of lords, by recklessness twofold
685
The land is wasted of its men,
And down to death are rolled
Wreckage of sail and oar,
Ships that are ships no more,
And bodies of the slain!
690
[ The Ghost of Darius rises.
Ye aged Persians, truest of the true,
Coevals of the youth that once was mine,
What troubleth now our city? harken, how
It moans and beats the breast and rends the plain!
And I, beholding how my consort stood
695
Beside my tomb, was moved with awe, and took
The gift of her libation graciously.
But ye are weeping by my sepulchre,
And, shrilling forth a sad, evoking cry,
Summon me mournfully, Arise, arise.
700
No light thing is it, to come back from death,
For, in good sooth, the gods of nether gloom
Are quick to seize but late and loth to free!
Yet among them I dwell as one in power—
And lo, I come! now speak, and speed your words,
705
Lest I be blamed for tarrying overlong!
What new disaster broods o'er Persia's realm?
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.) — 657 focus
O Bel, alter Gott, o Bel, komm, o komm!
Steige herauf zum Kranz des Grabes,
Mit der safranenen Goldsohle dich hebend,
In des Haupt's stolzem Schmuck strahlend, der Königsbinde!
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Vater Dareios, o komm, gütiger Fürst! 1
Vernimm neues Leid, des Volk's herbes Loos!
König des Königs, auf, erscheine!
Ein Gewölk, stygischer Nacht Grauen, umschwebt uns:
In den Staub sank, im Grab modert des Landes Blüte. 2
645
Vater Dareios, o komm, gütiger Fürst!
Weh, weh! Du schiedst,
Ewigbeweint von den Deinen, hinab!
Wer, wenn, o Herr, dein Herrscherstab noch
Waltete, klagte dann
650
Um solchen Weh's zwiefachen Schlag,
Der Persis' Land schlug?
Hin sind die gewaltigen Schiffe,
Treiben entmastet, entmastet!
(Aus der stygischen Pforte schwebt der Geist des Dareios herauf, und schreitet auf die Höhe seines Grabes; die Greise sinken auf die Kniee.)
Der Treuen Treuste, Freunde meiner Jugend einst,
655
Ihr greisen Perser, welches Leid bedrängt die Stadt?
Wild hallt von Schlägen, auseinander reißt der Grund.
Mit Schrecken seh' ich mein Gemahl am Grabe hier;
Doch ihre Spenden nahm ich wohlgefällig auf.
Ihr aber drängt euch weinend her um meine Gruft,
660
Und ruft mich jammernd unter geisterbannenden
Wehklagelauten; doch der Weg zum Sonnenlicht
Ist immer schwierig, und der Todesgötter Fürst
Empfängt begierig seinen Raub, und läßt ihn nicht.
Doch auch im Hades Herrscher noch, erschein' ich schnell,
665
Damit der Säumniß wegen mich kein Tadel trifft.
Welch neues Unheil lastet auf der Perser Volk?

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

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νᾶες, ἄναες νᾶες:
rães araç araes
M. G.Vit. Ven. A. Ald. Turn. Sic etiam Bekkero teste Par. B. I. nisi quod I.
vñes
pro
vãɛç
, uterque autem post haec verba additum habet
ποι τριήρεις
. Sed
vᾶες ἄναες νᾶες
Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ox. Par. A. Colb. 1. Rob. quae scriptura pro varia lectione adscripta est in G. et Par. B. In Lips. ad primum
vues
supra adscriptum est.
rães, vaes rães
recte recepit Brunckius. Finitur carmen dochmio. Male Porsonus in fine huius carminis lacunae signa addidit. Schützii aliorumque coniecturas praeterire licebit. Equidem, si quicquam, illud puto certissimum esse, totam hanc epodum una verborum complexione contineri. Nam si ultima,
πάσα γα ταδ᾽ ἐξέφθιθ' αἱ τρίσκαλμοι νάες, ἄναες νες
, π reliquis separantur, sententia illa nimis frigida est, quam quae apte carmen finiat. Itaque lenissima mutatione haec restitui,
ὦ πολύκλαυτε φίλοισι θανών, τί τάδε, δυνάστα, δυνάστα, περὶ τὰ σὰ διδύμα δι᾽ ἄνοιαν ἁμαρτία πάσα γῇ τῇδ ἐξέφθινται τρίσκαλμοι νᾶες, ἄναες νέες;
o qui multum deflendus amicis obisti, cur hoc, rex, rex, circa tuas opes duplici per insaniam irrito successu universae huic terrae perierunt triremes naves, nenaves naves? Et
διδύμα δι᾽ ἄνοιαν ἁμαρτίᾳ
atque
égivra
etiam Blomfieldius invenit, in reliquis falsus.
681

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πιστῶν:
ὦ πολλὰ
Rob.
682

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ἥβης:
ixeo
Lips.
682

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γεραιοί:
reparoi
, ad primam syllabam supra scripto, Lips.
nowol
Ven. A. Cantabr. 2. Ald.
yngɑhéor
adscriptum in Par. B.
683

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στένει:
στένειν
Vit.
684

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χαράσσεται:
ταράσσεται
Par. L.
χαράσσει
Ven. Β. Interpretationes in scholiis duae prostant, una, qua rupta tellus, ut Darius ab inferis exire posset, intelligitur, quae et ab usu verbi abhorret et ad sensum absurda est, altera, qua lamentis lacerari regio significatur. Schützii interpretationem, gemit, pulsatur, ac tantum non scinditur solum, ex eo ductam quod, qui manes evocarent, solum manibus pulsare solebant, nemo elegantem esse sibi persuadebit. Nihil hic aliud quam civium gemitus, pectora manibus pulsantium, intelligi videtur. Sed non satis tamen aple
πέδον
cum
χαράσσεται
coniungitur, verbo quod de solo dictum non metaphoricum, sed proprium est, nisi tota oratio ostendit, metaphorice accipiendum esse illud verbum. Itaque quod comparavi Opusc. VII. p. 360. seq.
στένουσι πύργοι, στένει πέδον φίλανδρον
(Sept. ad Th. 876.), tamen aliter dictum est. Quare vereor, ne aut alius versus hic exciderit, aut hic versus alio loco ab Aeschylo scriptus fuerit. V. ad v. 694.
684

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λεύσσων:
Levour
G. Ven. A. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ald. Rob.
685

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τάφου πέλας:
τάφου πέ-λas
M. G. Vit. Cantabr. 2. Par. A. B. Colb. 1.
πέλας τάφου
Lips. Ven. A. edd. ante Brunckium.
685

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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1
2
πιστά, 1. 623. πιστῶν, wohl nicht Gen. der An- gehörigkeit, sondern partitivus; Soph. Ο. R. 465: ἄρρητ᾽ ἀρρήτων. Ο. Κ. 1237: κακὰ κακῶν. Phil. 65: ἔσχατ᾽ ἐσχάτων κακά. Er setzt voraus, daſs ein Reichsunglück der Anlaſs zu seiner Berufung sei; vgl. 693. Allitteration wie 751. Sept. 1004. Ag. 233 f. 1167 u. sonst. στένει, κέκοπται scil. πόλις. Sitte bei einem Gebet an die θεοὶ χθόνιοι mit Schlag oder Fufsstofs (hier beim tripudium des Chors) gleichsam an den Eingang zu ihrer Wohnung, die Erde, zu pochen s. Hom. I 568 u. Nägelsbach, nach- homer. Theol. S. 214, vgl. S. 102. Zur ταρβῶ, Schlimmes ahnend.