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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.) — 852-908 focus
Πέρσαι Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 852-908 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 800 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 800 focus
παῦροί γε πολλῶν, εἴ τι πιστεῦσαι θεῶν
χρὴ θεσφάτοισιν, ἐς τὰ νῦν πεπραγμένα
βλέψαντα· συμβαίνει γὰρ οὐ τὰ μέν, τὰ δ᾽ οὔ.
κεἴπερ τάδ᾽ ἐστί, πλῆθος ἔκκριτον στρατοῦ
805
λείπει κεναῖσιν ἐλπίσιν πεπεισμένος.
μίμνουσι δ᾽ ἔνθα πεδίον Ἀσωπὸς ῥοαῖς
ἄρδει, φίλον πίασμα Βοιωτῶν χθονί·
οὗ σφιν κακῶν ὕψιστ᾽ ἐπαμμένει παθεῖν,
ὕβρεως ἄποινα κἀθέων φρονημάτων·
810
οἳ γῆν μολόντες Ἑλλάδ᾽ οὐ θεῶν βρέτη
ᾐδοῦντο συλᾶν, οὐδὲ πιμπράναι νεώς·
βωμοὶ δ᾽ ἄϊστοι, δαιμόνων θ᾽ ἱδρύματα
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 800 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 800 focus
παῦροί γε πολλῶν, εἴ τι πιστεῦσαι θεῶν
χρὴ θεσφάτοισιν, ἐς τὰ νῦν πεπραγμένα
βλέψαντα· συμβαίνει γὰρ οὐ τὰ μέν, τὰ δ᾽ οὔ.
κεἴπερ τάδ᾽ ἐστί, πλῆθος ἔκκριτον στρατοῦ
805
λείπει κεναῖσιν ἐλπίσιν πεπεισμένος.
μίμνουσι δ᾽ ἔνθα πεδίον Ἀσωπός ῥοαῖς
ἄρδει, φίλον πίασμα Βοιωτῶν χθονί·
οὗ σφιν κακῶν ὕψιστ᾽ ἐπαμμένει παθεῖν,
ὕβρεως ἄποινα καθέων φρονημάτων·
810
οἳ γῆν μολόντες Ἑλλάδ᾽ οὐ θεῶν βρέτη
ᾐδοῦντο συλᾶν οὐδὲ πιμπράναι νεώς·
βωμοὶ δ᾽ ἄιστοι, δαιμόνων θ᾽ ἱδρύματα
πρόρριζα φύρδην ἐξανέστραπται βάθρων.
τοιγὰρ κακῶς δράσαντες οὐκ ἐλάσσονα
815
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 800 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.)) — 852-905 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 800 focus
Few, be sure, of many, if it be proper for one that looks upon what hath now taken place at all to put faith in the declarations of the gods: for it is not that one part is accomplished, and another not. 3
And if this be the fact, the multitude selected out of the army fails, having been lured on
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 800 focus
Non, quelques hommes sur des milliers — s'il en faut croire les oracles des dieux, en regardant ce qui est déjà accompli : on ne voit point, en effet, les uns se réaliser sans les autres ; et, si les faits sont tels, en laissant là-bas une troupe d'élite, Xerxès obéit à de vains espoirs.
Elle demeure aux lieux où l'Asôpos arrose la plaine de ses eaux courantes, nourricier aimé de la terre béotienne, et c'est là que les attendent les suprêmes souffrances, pour prix de leur démesure et de leur orgueil sacrilège : eux qui, venus sur la terre grecque, n'hésitaient point à
dépouiller les statues des dieux, à incendier les temples ; eux par qui des autels ont été détruits, des images divines, pêle-mêle, la tête en bas, renversées de leurs socles. Aussi, criminels, ils subissent des peines égales à leurs crimes et d'autres les attendent : l'édifice de leurs malheurs n'en
est pas même à son soubassement et va grandir encore ; tant doit être abondante la libation de sang que fera couler sur le sol de Platée la lance dorienne ! et des monceaux de morts, en un muet langage, jusqu'à la troisième génération, diront aux regards des hommes que nul mortel ne doit
nourrir de pensées au-dessus de sa condition mortelle. La démesure en mûrissant produit l'épi de l'erreur, et la moisson qu'on en lève n'est faite que de larmes. Gardez ce châtiment sans cesse dans les yeux ; souvenez-vous
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 800 focus
Of all their numbers few a
, if ought avails
975
The faith of heav'n-ſent oracles to him
That weighs the paſt, in their accompliſhment
Not partial:
hence he left, in faithleſs hope
Confiding, his ſelected train of heroes.
980
Theſe have their ſtation where Aſopus flows
Wat'ring the plain, whoſe grateful currents roll
Diffuſing plenty thro' Boeotia's fields.
There miſery waits to cruſh them with the load
Of heavieſt ills, in vengeance for their proud
985
And impious daring;
for where'er they held
Thro' Greece their march, they fear'd not to profane
The ſtatues of the Gods b
;
their hallow'd ſhrines
990
Emblaz'd, o'erturn'd their altars, and in ruins,
Rent from their firm foundations, to the ground
Levell'd their temples:
Such their frentic deeds,
Nor leſs their ſuff'rings:
995
greater ſtill await them;
For vengeance hath not waſted all her ſtores,
The heap yet ſwells:
for in Platæa's plains
Beneath the Doric ſpear the clotted maſs
1000
Of carnage ſhall ariſe, that the high mounds,
Piled o'er the dead, to late poſterity
Shall give this ſilent record to men's eyes,
That proud aſpiring thoughts but ill beſſeem
Weak mortals:
1005
for oppreſſion, when it ſprings,
Puts forth the blade of vengeance, and its fruit
Yields a ripe harveſt of repentant woe.
Behold this vengeance, and remember Greece,
Remember Athens c
:
1010
henceforth let not pride,
Her preſent ſtate diſdaining, ſtrive to graſp
Another's, and her treaſur'd happineſs
Shed on the ground:
ſuch inſolent attempts
1015
Awake the vengeance of offended Jove.
But you, whoſe age demands more temperate
thoughts,
With words of well-plac'd counſel teach his youth
To curb that pride, which from the Gods calls
1020
down
Deſtruction on his head.
And thou, whoſe age
The miſeries of thy Xerxes ſink with ſorrow,
Go to thy houſe, thence chuſe the richeſt robe,
1025
And meet thy ſon;
for thro' the rage of grief
His gorgeous veſtments from his royal limbs
Are ſouly rent.
With gentleſt courteſy
1030
Sooth his affliction;
for his duteous ear,
I know, will liſten to thy voice alone.
Now to the realms of darkneſs I deſcend.
My ancient friends, farewell, and 'midſt theſe ills
1035
Each day in pleaſures bath your drooping ſpirits,
For treaſur'd riches nought avail the dead.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 800 focus
Pochi fra molti, se, badando ai fatti
compiuti già, prestar fede conviene
910
ai responsi dei Numi, che s'avverano
tutti, non già qual piú qual meno.
Eppure, Serse, pasciuto di speranze vane,
una parte lasciata ha dell'esercito
scelta.
915
Rimasti sono ove coi rivi
l'Asopo bagna la pianura, e abbevera
col dolce umor la terra dei Beoti.
Patire i mali estremi ancor qui debbono,
e riscattar la tracotanza e gli empî
920
divisamenti: essi che, giunti in Ellade,
riverenza non ebbero, che gl'idoli
non furasser dei Numi, e non ardessero
i loro templi.
Son l'are scomparse,
925
i monumenti ai Dèmoni, divelti
dalle radici, dalle basi, giacciono
spesso confusi.
Tanto mal commisero;
e non minore è quello ch'ora soffrono,
930
ed altro ancor ne soffriranno;
e tutto
non han calzato il sandalo dei guai:
in parte han fuori il pie': tanta poltiglia
sanguinolenta, di Platea la terra
935
cospargerà sotto la lancia dorica.
E visibili a ognun, sino alla terza
progenie, i muti acervi dei cadaveri
insegneranno che sconviene troppa
prosunzione ai mortali.
940
E tracotanza,
poichè fiorí, fruttifica una spiga
di sciagura, e una messe indi raccoglie
d'amaro pianto.
Or voi, veduti i frutti
945
di queste opere vostre, ricordatevi
dell'Ellade e d'Atene;
e alcuno piú,
la sorte sua tenendo a vil, non voglia
bramare il bene altrui, perdere il proprio.
950
A castigar l'eccesso di superbia,
Giove, sereno giudice, presiede.
Con i buoni consigli or lui, ch'à d'uopo
di far senno, ammonite, ond'ei desista
dalle troppo superbe offese ai Numi.
955
E tu, cara di Serse antica madre,
nella casa rientra, e, veste assunta
quale conviene, ad incontrare muovi
il tuo figliuolo: ché d'intorno a tutto
il corpo suo, van lacerati i brani,
960
pel tormento dei guai, delle sue vesti
versicolori.
Or tu benignamente
con le parole mitiga il suo duolo:
ch'egli te solo udir sopporterà.
965
Or della terra scendo io fra le tenebre.
Voi salvete, o vegliardi;
e pur tra i crucci,
sin che il dí per voi brilla, in cor gioite.
Ché le ricchezze ai morti nulla giovano.
970
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 800 focus
Pauci ex multis, si credere deorum
Oportet oraculis, in ea quæ nunc peracta sunt
Refpicientibus:contingunt enim neq; hæc, neq; illa.
Et si hæc funt, multitudo ſelecta exercitus
750
Molestia afficitur, ſpe noua conſifa.
Manentibus fluctibus ibi Afopus campuт
Irrigat, grata pinguedo terræ Bœotiorum.
A'quo mala ingentia oportet illos pati,
Dona contumelie, & impiorum confiliorum.
755
Si in terra Gracanică migrauerint, nec deoru ſta-
Verebuntur uiolare, neq urere delubra,
Are destructe erunt,
& deorum ſana.
Radicitus euerterunt confuse fundamenta.
760
Certè malè facientes, non mimima
Patiuntur.hæc enim futura funt, neq; malorum
Baſis ſubeſt, sed adhuc crescunt.
Tantum est facrificium cruentum,
In Plateis Dorica hasta.
765
Cumuli mortuorum ufq; ad tertiam generationem,
Tacitè oftendent oculis mortalium,
Quodnon oporteat mortalem arroganter ſapere.
Contumelia florescens fert ſpicam
Nocumenti, unde metitur gemebunda meßis.
770
Hec igitur uidentes, & horum premia,
Memores fitis Athenarum & Gracie, neq;
quis
Contemnens fortunam præfentem,
Alias amans, effundat magnam fœlicitatem.
775
Iupiter ſancuindex eft fuperborum admodum
Confiliorum,corrector grauis est.
Ad hæc uos qui fapitis illum
Adhortamini bonis confilijs
Affectum nocumento à dijs definere, à ſuperba audacia.
780
Tu uerò fenex mater chara Xerxis
Veniens ad ædes, ornatum,quiſquis decens eſt,
Accipiens, obuiam ito filio:omnino enim
Pre dolore malorum uestimenta circa corpus
Madefaciuntuarias ueſtes.
785
Sed ipſum prudenter tu placa fermonibus.
Nam noui, quòd te ſolam audiens excitabitur.
Ego uerò abeo ſub terram infra caliginem.
Vos uerò ſenes ualete, in malis tamen
Indulgentes uoluptati quotidie.
790
Quoniam nihil mortuis profunt diuitie.
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.) — 800 focus
Nay—scarce a tithe of all those myriads,
If man may trust the oracles of Heaven
When he beholds the things already wrought,
Not false with true, but true with no word false
If what I trow be truth, my son has left
820
A chosen rear-guard of our host, in whom
He trusts, now, with a random confidence!
They tarry where Asopus laves the ground
With rills that softly bless Boeotia's plain—
There is it fated for them to endure
825
The very crown of misery and doom,
Requital for their god-forgetting pride!
For why? they raided Hellas, had the heart
To wrong the images of holy gods,
And give the shrines and temples to the flame!
830
Defaced and dashed from sight the altars fell,
And each god's image, from its pedestal
Thrust and flung down, in dim confusion lies!
Therefore, for outrage vile, a doom as dark
They suffer, and yet more shall undergo—
835
They touch no bottom in the swamp of doom,
But round them rises, bubbling up, the ooze!
So deep shall lie the gory clotted mass
Of corpses by the Dorian spear transfixed
Upon Plataea's field! yea, piles of slain
840
To the third generation shall attest
By silent eloquence to those that see—
Let not a mortal vaunt him overmuch.
For pride grows rankly, and to ripeness brings
The curse of fate, and reaps, for harvest, tears!
845
Therefore when ye behold, for deeds like these,
Such stern requital paid, remember then
Athens and Hellas. Let no mortal wight,
Holding too lightly of his present weal
And passionate for more, cast down and spill
850
The mighty cup of his prosperity!
Doubt not that over-proud and haughty souls
Zeus lours in wrath, exacting the accompt.
Therefore, with wary warning, school my son,
Though he be lessoned by the gods already,
855
To curb the vaunting that affronts high Heaven!
And thou, O venerable Mother-queen,
Beloved of Xerxes, to the palace pass
And take therefrom such raiment as befits
Thy son, and go to meet him: for his garb
860
In this extremity of grief hangs rent
Around his body, woefully unstitched,
Mere tattered fragments of once royal robes!
Go thou to him, speak soft and soothing words—
Thee, and none other, will he bear to hear,
865
As well I know. But I must pass away
From earth above, unto the nether gloom;
Therefore, old men, take my farewell, and clasp,
Even amid the ruin of this time,
Unto your souls the pleasure of the day,
870
For dead men have no profit of their gold!
[ The Ghost of Darius sinks.
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.) — 800 focus
Ein kleiner Theil von Vielen, wenn man glauben darf
Dem Götterausspruch, den die That bisher bewährt;
775
Denn nicht das Eine wird erfüllt, das Andre nicht.
Und ist es so, ließ Xerxes, eiteln Hoffnungen
Vertrauend, dort ein auserles'nes Heer zurück.
Es lagert auf der Ebne, die Asopos' Flut
Beneht, des Segens holder Born dem Theberland;
780
Wo (grause Schmach!) der Leiden höchstes ihrer harrt,
Des Uebermuths, des gottvergess nen Sinnes Lohn,
Die Hellas stürmend vor der Götterbilder Raub,
Dem Brand der Heiligthümer nicht errötheten.
Die Opferherde schwanden, Göttersize sind
785
Tief aus den Gründen umgewühlt in wilden Schutt.
Für solche That denn müssen sie mit gleichem Maß
Jetzt und in Zukunft büßen; noch versiegte nicht
Der Quell des Unheils, immer noch taucht neues auf.
Denn solch ein Sühnungsopfer, blutigströmend, wird
790
Von Dorerlanzen auf Platäa's Feld gebracht;
Und Todtenhügel werden bis in's dritte Glied
Lautlos der Enkel Augen einst verkündigen,
Daß Uebermuth dem Erdensohne nicht geziemt.
Denn aus der Hoffahrt Blüte sprießt als Aehrenfrucht
795
Die Sünde, die mit thränenschwerer Ernte lohnt.
Erblickt ihr so des Uebermuthes Strafgericht,
So denkt an Hellas und Athen, und trachtet nicht
Nach fremden Schäßen und verstreut das eigne Glück,
Verschmähend, was euch heute zugetheilt ein Gott.
800
Wohl straft Kronion allzukühnaufstrebenden
Hochmuth und übt ein unerbittlich streng Gericht.
So leitet ihr denn meinen Sohn, der weisen Sinns
Bedarf, mit weisem Rathe, daß er fürder nicht
Die Götter kränke durch vermess'nen Uebermuth.
805
Du, Xerxes' greise Mutter, geh' in's Haus zurück,
Wähl' einen Schmuck aus, Liebe, der dem Herrscher ziemt,
Und eil' entgegen deinem Sohn; denn Stücke nur
Des goldnen Kleides flattern um die Lenden ihm,
Das er zerriß in seines Unglücks herbem Schmerz.
810
Du mußt mit sanften Worten ihn begütigen;
Denn dich allein, ich weiß es, hört er willig an.
Ich scheide nun in dunkle Grabesnacht hinab.
Doch ihr, o Greise, lebet wohl; im Leide selbst
Gönnt eurer Seele frohen Muth an jedem Tag!
815
Beut doch der Reichthum keine Frucht dem Todten mehr.

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: 1885 correspondence corroborated by source Greek on this page. 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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ὕψιστ᾽ ἐπαμμένει: In cod. Vit. folium interiit, quod continebat versus 809 - 871.
ὕψιστεπαμμένει
, post
ύψιστ
supra scripto
.a.
Μ.
ὕψισεπαμ-μένει
Lips.
809

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παθεῖν:
πατεῖν
Rob.
809

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φρονημάτων:
δωρημάτων
G. Cantabr. 2. Par. K. et, ut Butlerus ait, Ven. B. γρ.
καὶ δωρημάτων ἤγουν δεξιωμάτων
Par. B. Quae lectio Wakefieldio in silv. crit. vol. I. p. 100. ansam dedit coniiciendi Aeschylum scripsisse
ὁρμημάτων
. Vnde
δωρημάτων
venerit haud satis scio: illud video, quum permutentur interdum
p
et
β
,
δωρημάτων
oriri ex
λωβημάτων
potuisse.
810

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μολόντες:
μολῶντες
Lips.
811

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ᾐδοῦντο:
ἡδοῦντο
Lips. Ald. Rob.
812

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οὐδὲ πιμπράναι:
οὐδεπιπράναι
, ad
πι
a sec. manu
με
supra addito, M.
οὐδ᾽ ἐπιμπράναι
Ald.
οὐδ᾽ ἐμπιμπράναι
Colb. 1. Rob.
οὐδὲ πιμπρᾶν
G. Lips. Ven. B. Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. L.
812

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νεώς:
τοὺς νεώς
G. Lips. Cantabr. 2.
τοὺς θεοὺς
Cantabr. 1.
νεως τινὰς
Mosc.
812

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δαιμόνων θ᾽ ἱδρύματα:
δαιμόνων θιδρύματα
G.
δαιμόνων ἱδρύματα
omissa copula M. Lips. Ven. A. Ox. Colb. 1. Ald. Simillimus est versus Agam. 505.
βωμοὶ δ᾽ ἄΐστοι καὶ θεῶν ἱδρύματα
.
813

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τοιγὰρ:
τοὶ γὰρ
Μ.
815

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δράσαντες:
δράσοντες
Ven. A.
πράσσοντες
Αld.
815

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
Herod. VIII 109 von Xerxes: ὃς τὰ ἱρὰ καὶ τὰ ἴδια ἐν ὁμοίῳ ἐποιέετο, ἐμπιπράς τε καὶ καταβάλλων τῶν θεῶν τὰ ἀγάλματα (vgl. oben S. 30f.). Andrerseits läfst Herodot VII 8, 2 durch Xerxes den Athenern vorwerfen, daſs sie ἐς Σάρδις ἐλθόντες ἐνέπρησαν τά τε ἄλσεα καὶ τὰ ἱρά. Vgl. VI 101: τὰ ἱρὰ συλήσαντες ἐνέπρησαν, ἀπο- τινύμενοι τῶν ἐν Σάρδισι κατακαυ- θέντων ἱρῶν. – 811 Ag. 527. — Für das viele Schlimme, das sie an- gerichtet, leiden sie u. s. w. δρά- σαντες πάσχουσι vgl. Ag. 1564 (u. 1527). Choeph. 313. μέλλουσι scil. πείσεσθαι. κρηπίς, Grund- lage, Sockel, beim Bauen das Erste (bei Pindar κρηπίδ᾽ ἀοιδᾶν, ἐπέων βάλλεσθαι), beim Niederreiſsen (oder Ausschöpfen) das Letzt- erreichte. – πιδύω = πιδάω quelle, sprudle; ungebr. Stamm πιδα (Quelle), vgl. πιδήεις.