Ga Shulou Persai. the Persae of Aeschylus, Ed. by A.O. Prickard (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... Cp. also Agam. 1387: tarrjKa 8' Ir8' liraur', iif (fcipyaaiUvoit. 527. M. gives ads. For the use of iirl see last note. 528. wio-roto-i irrrd--See on 1. 2. 529. The messenger, who had crossed the Hellespont with Xerxes, having arrived, the king might, according to all dramatic propriety, he soon expected. 531. a-poo-Sirrai Kokok--i.e. 'lay hands on himself (middle voice). 532--597. The Chorus, during the absence of the queen, bewail the calamities which have befallen Persia: first in an anapaestic introduction, 11. 532--545, they describe the general mourning of the Persian women; and then they raise themselves the dirge: Asia is empty of her men whom Xerxes led out to destruction in ships over the sea--when had good King Darius ever done the like? Yes it was the ships, the ships 1 Hardly has the king made his way home through Thrace, the best-born of Persia are left perforce behind, tossed by the sea and gnawed by fishes At home every house is in mourning, the old reverence too is broken up, men will not pay tribute or sink to earth as of old. All that once was Persia is left behind at Salamis The Kop.filit is contained in three pairs of strophes: the metre of the first pair is mainly Trochaic, each strophe ending with two "Pherecratean" lines; that of the second pair is "logaoedic," i. e. consists of dactyls and trochees, except in the sixth line, which is formed of two iambic feet, and in the last which is formed of three trochees preceded by an iambus. The. third pair is "logaoedic," the dactyl prevailing. 532. We cannot decide what the missing syllable was. Perhaps dXV J ZeO paffied, given by Turnebus, is the best; op. 11. 628, 639, and Cho. 306. 535. Cp. 1. 16. 537--540. The grief of the...