Aeschylus Persians 472

ed. N. Wecklein

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ὦ στυγνὲ δαῖμον, ὡς ἄρ᾽ ἔψευσας φρενῶν
475
Πέρσας· πικρὰν δὲ παῖς ἐμὸς τιμωρίαν
κλεινῶν Ἀθηνῶν ηὗρε, κοὐκ ἀπήρκεσαν
οὓς πρόσθε Μαραθὼν βαρβάρων ἀπώλεσεν·
ὧν ἀντίποινα παῖς ἐμὸς πράξειν δοκῶν
τοσόνδε πλῆθος πημάτων ἐπέσπασεν.
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σὺ δ᾽ εἰπὲ ναῶν αἱ πεφεύγασιν μόρον,
ποῦ τάσδ᾽ ἔλειπες· οἶσθα σημῆναι τορῶς;

Persians. Aeschylus. ed. N. Wecklein. Berolini. 1885.

Current edition Experimental

Πέρσαι (OCR draft) (Greek) (Πέρσαι. N. Wecklein, 1885.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (6)
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.) — 472 focus
Πέρσαι (OCR draft) Experimental (Πέρσαι. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 472 focus
ΠΕΡΣΑΙ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΕΡΣΑΙ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 472 focus
Aeschyli Persae (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Persae. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 472 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.)) — 548-595 focus
The Persians. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 472 focus
O hateful demon! How hast thou then deluded the Persians in their hopes. But bitter did my son find the vengeance of renowned Athens, and those of the barbarians, whom Marathon formerly destroyed, sufficed not, for whom my son, thinking to exact atonement, drew 1
upon himself so great a multitude of sufferings. But say thou-those of the ships which esaped destruction—where didst thou leave them? knowest thou so as to tell clearly?
LES PERSES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES PERSES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 472 focus
Tel est le désastre qui vient s'ajouter aux autres pour fournir matière à tes gémissements.
The Persians (OCR draft) Experimental (The Persians. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 472 focus
Theſe are not half, not half our ills; on theſe
Came an aſſemblage of calamities,
That ſunk us with a double weight of woe.
Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Persiani: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 472 focus
Oh Dèmone odïoso, oh!, quale inganno
tramavi ai Persïani!
Oh!, quanto amara
al mio figliuolo parve la vendetta
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della celebre Atene! I tanti barbari
già spenti a Maratona, non bastarono!
Crede' trame vendetta il figliuol mio,
e su la fronte sua tanta di mali
moltitudine attrasse!
545
Ora tu dimmi:
dove lasciasti i legni che sfuggirono
al fato? Sai tu ben significarmelo?
Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Persae: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 472 focus
O'moleste Deus, qui fefelliſti mente
Perfas, acerbam ultionem filius meus
Claris Athenis inuenit, neq; fufficerunt
Quos ante Maratho Barbaros interemit.
Quorum uindictam filius meus facere arbitrans,
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Tantam multitudinem malorum adduxit.
Tu dic naues que effugerunt mortem,
Vbi illas reliquiſti:nosti ſignificare manifeste.
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.) — 472 focus
Out on thee, Fortune! thou hast foiled the hope
And power of Persia: to this bitter end
My son went forth to wreak his great revenge
On famous Athens! all too few they seemed,
Our men who died upon the Fennel-field!
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Vengeance for them my son had mind to take,
And drew on his own head these whelming woes.
But thou, say on! the ships that 'scaped from wreck—
Where didst thou leave them? make thy story clear.
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.) — 472 focus
Verhafter Dämon, wie betrogst du Persis' Volk!
Wie bitter wurde meinem Sohn die Rache doch
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An Pallas' hohem Volke! Nicht genügte, was
Von Persis' Heeren Marathon hinweggerafft!
Ihr Blut zu rächen hoffte jetzt mein Sohn und zog
So schweren Jammers Uebermaß auf sich herab!
Doch sprich, die Schiffe, die dem Untergang entfloh'n,
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Wo blieben diese? Weißt du mir genau Bescheid?

Commentary

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

475. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-394

ναῶν δὲ:
ναῶν γὲ
Rob. Ceteri
ναῶν δὲ
, nisi quod ad
α
supra scriptum
η
in Lips. Non erat
δὲ
sollicitandum, de quo recte praecipit scholiastes. λελειμμένων:
λελειμένων
Lips. γρ.
ἐλελεγμένων
adscriptum in Vit. γρ.
λελεγμένων
Par. B. Eo spectat in scholiis
τῶν νηῶν τῶν λεγομένων
.

476. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-395

αἴρονται:
αἱροῦνται
M. Ceteri
αἴρονται
. In Vit. ultimae syllabae
το
superscriptum. Correxit Elmsleius ad Eur. Heracl. v. 505.

477. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-396

Βοιωτῶν:
βιωτῶν
Lips.

478. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-397

οἳ μὲν: in Vit. a corr. pro
ἡμῖν
restitutum. γάνος:
γένος
Ven. B.
γᾶνος
G.
κρηναῖον γάνος
scholiasta auctore, cuius haec sunt verba,
τόπος Βοιωτίας ἡ Κρήνη
, de loco quodam Boeotiae interpretes acceperunt. Vnde maior littera initialis inde a Victoriana editione obtinuit. Scholiastae fidem, qui solus veterum commemorare videbatur istum Boeotiae locum, iam Heathius suspectam habuit, graviter hanc explicationem improbavit Valckenarius ad Herod. VIII. 115. Cum scholiastae adnotatione Ungerus in Thebanis Paradoxis I. p. 461. contulit scholion ad Arati v. 208. p. 70, 5. ed. Bekk.
ὑπὸ τὰς ὑπωρείας γὰρ τοῦ Ἑλικῶνος ἡ Θέσπεια κεῖται, ἐν δὲ ταῖς ὑπωρείαις ἡ Κρήνη ἐστί. καλεῖται δὲ οὕτως ἰδίως αὕτη ἡ πηγή, Κρήνη
. Verum, ut Schutzius quoque et primus Palmerius Exerc. p. 275. seqq. intellexit,
κρηναῖον γάνος
, quibus verbis etiam Lycophro v. 247. utitur, de quocumque fonte intelligendum esse ipsa poetae verba ostendunt. Dicit enim partim peribant, dum ad fontes prae siti laborabant. Comparari cum his potest locus Theophili Simocattae hist. II. 5. allatus a Suida in v.
λαφύξας
et tentatus a Toupio Emend. I. p. 337.
οἱ δὲ Πέρσαι φρέασι περιτυχόντες λαφύττουσιν ἀπληστότερον καὶ ἐς μέγα κακοῦ ἀποκλίνουσι, τῆς κοιλίας αὐτοῖς τῇ ἀθρόᾳ τοῦ ὕδατος ἐμβολῇ διενεγκεῖν οὐκ ἐχούσης τοῦ ἐπιφορτισθέντος ὕδατος τὴν ἀντίληψιν.

479. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-398

δίψῃ:
δίψῃ
M. Ceteri
δίψει
. οἳ δ᾽:
οἶδ'
G. Vit. Ald. Rob. ὑπ᾽ ἄσθματος:
ἀπ' ἄσθματος
Par. N.
ἐπ᾽ ἄσθματος
Par. L.
ὑπ᾽ ἄσματος
Mosc. et ante pr. manus corr. Vit.
ὑπάσθματος
Lips. Futilis est Abreschii interpretatio,
ὑπόκενοι ἄσθματος
, quam ille ex scholiis hausit. Recte Schutzius vidit intelligi anhelatione ex cursu contracto exhaustos.

480. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-399

διεκπερῶμεν: Schutzius scribendum esse coniecit, commate post
κενοί
posito,
οἵ τ᾽ ἐκπερῶμεν
, Bothius et Blomfieldius
διεκπερῶμέν τ'
. Nihil mutandum est. Volebat nuntius dicere
στρατὸς ὁ λοιπὸς ἔν τε Βοιωτῶν χθονὶ διώλλυτο, ἀμφὶ κρηναῖον γάνος δίψῃ πονοῦντες, καὶ ἐς Φωκέων χθόνα καὶ Δωρίδ' αἶαν Μηλιᾶ τε κόλπον ὑπ᾽ ἄσθματος κενοὶ διεκπερῶμεν
. In quibus quum duplex divisio sit, una locorum in quibus afflictus est exercitus, altera mortuorum et servatorum, ambas complicat, ita dicens, reliquus exercitus et in Boeotia periit, alii prae siti ad fontes haerentes, alii autem anhelitu exhausti et in Phocidem ac Doridem et ad sinum Maliacum pervenimus. Omninoque ubi
τε
et
δέ
sibi respondent, existimandum est scriptorem oblitum priorum aliter pergere.

481. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-400

Δωρίδ᾽:
δοριδ᾽
Vit.
δουρίδ'
Lips. Μηλιᾶ:
μηλία
Vit.
μηλέα
Par. N.

482. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-401

Σπερχειὸς:
Σπερχειὸς
G. ἄρδει:
ἄρδεσι
Ald.

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

472-479. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-71

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δαίμον 345. zu Ar. nub. 1264. δαίμων wo der Gott heit eine unerfreuliche Eigenschaft oder Handlung zugeschrieben wird. Soph. Ai. 1391: καί μ᾿ ἔψευσας ἐλπίδων πολύ. Herod. VII 8: μέλλω ἐλᾶν στρατὸν διὰ τῆς Εὐρώπης ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, ἵνα᾿ Αθη- ναίους τιμωρήσωμαι ὅσα δὴ πεποι- ήκασι Πέρσας τε καὶ πατέρα τὸν ἐμόν. οὓς ἀπώλεσεν, es waren 6400, Herod. VI 117 in. ἀντί- ποινα (Eum. 268) πράττειν, εἰσπρ., ἀπαιτεῖν, exigere, Cho. 311. Eum. 623f. δοκῶν 188. ναῶν μόρον welche nicht in den Untergang der Schiffe hineingezogen worden sind.

480-487. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg002-teuffel-wecklein1886-com-ger1-72

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4
ναῶν γε mit dem Sinne: „es sind ja auch von den Schiffen manche übrig geblieben und deren Führer" u. s. f. κατ' οὐρον Sept. 690. Sie benützen den günstigen Wind zur Flucht. - οὐκ εὔκ. φυγ. 422.470. Das unter Mardo- nios in Hellas zurückgelassene Heer bleibt, um den Eindruck nicht abzu- schwächen, hier (vgl. V. 796 ff.) un- erwähnt. κρην. γάνος, labender laben Quell, 615. Eur. Suppl. 1149: Ασω- ποῦ γάνος. „Vor Durst verschmach- tend" giebt den Grund an, warum sie zu gierig tranken und infolge dessen starben. Wir andern (die wir nicht dort unsern Tod fanden) zogen von Schweratmigkeit er- schöpft weiter. Nach ἔν τε Βοιωτ. χθονὶ ist nicht fortgefahren ἔν τε Φωκέων ( Θεσσαλῶν κτλ.) χθονί, sondern die Teilung nach Örtlich- keiten, um Eintönigkeit zu ver- meiden, gekreuzt durch die Er- zählung der Erlebnisse (Lebenblei- ben und Sterben, verschiedene Todesursachen). Vgl. Ag. 99 παίων τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης, ἢ νῦν τοτὲ μὲν τότε δ᾽ κτέ. Der Rück- weg war derselbe wie der Herweg: Thessalien, das malische Gebiet (Thermopylen), Doris, Phokis, Bö- otien, Attika. Herod. VII 198: πρώτη πόλις ἐστὶ ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ (dem malischen).. ᾿Αντικύρη· παρ᾿ ἣν ποταμὸς Σπερχήϊος, ῥέων ἐξ Ἐνιήνων, ἐς θάλασσαν ἐκδιδοῖ.