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    Aeschylus, Persians (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)
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    Choros
    Tade men Persôn tôn oichomenôn
    Hellad' es aian pista kaleitai,
    kai tôn aphneôn kai poluchrusôn
    hedranôn phulakes, kata presbeian
    5
    hous autos anax Xerxês basileus
    Dareiogenês
    heileto chôras ephoreuein.
    amphi de nostôi tôi basileiôi+
    kai poluchrusou stratias êdê
    10
    kakomantis agan orsolopeitai
    thumos esôthen.
    pasa gar ischus Asiatogenês
    ôichôke, neon d' andra baüzei,
    koute tis angelos oute tis hippeus
    15
    astu to Persôn aphikneitai:
    hoite to Sousôn êd' Agbatanôn
    kai to palaion Kission herkos
    prolipontes eban, toi men eph' hippôn+.
    toi d' epi naôn, pezoi te badên
    20
    polemou stiphos parechontes:
    hoios Amistrês êd' Artaphrenês
    kai Megabatês êd' Astaspês,
    tagoi Persôn,
    basilês basileôs hupochoi megalou,
    25
    sountai, stratias pollês ephoroi,
    toxodamantes t' êd' hippobatai,
    phoberoi men idein, deinoi+ de machên+
    psuchês eutlêmoni doxêi:
    Artembarês th' hippiocharmês
    30
    kai Masistrês, ho te toxodamas
    esthlos Imaios, Pharandakês th',
    hippôn t' elatêr+ Sosthanês.
    allous+ d' ho megas kai poluthremmôn
    Neilos epempsen+: Sousiskanês+,
    35
    Pêgastagôn+ Aiguptogenês+,
    ho te tês hieras+ Memphidos+ archôn+
    megas Arsamês, tas t' ôgugious
    Thêbas    + ephepôn Ariomardos,
    kai heleiobatai naôn eretai
    40
    deinoi plêthos t' anarithmoi.

    There are a total of 23 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    1329 [SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE GENITIVE]: nostos ho basileios

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [117-253: Parodos]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    410 [b) Akkusativ bei intransitiven und passiven Verben und Adjektiven).]
    402 [Vertauschung der attributiven Formen.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    538 [a) Disjunktives ê, oder, ê . . ê, entweder . . oder.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    * [879-973]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [251-471]
    * [121-250]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [676-729]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [633-662]

    Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    5, 25, 1 [BOOK V]
    9, 49, 2 [BOOK IX]
    7, 69, 2 [BOOK VII]

    Cross references from Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns:
    * [HYMN TO HERMES]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    10, 252 [Book 10 (K)]

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    crepida [Crepĭda]
    * [Maenianum, or Projecting Story. (Overbeck, Pompeii.)]
    ostium [Ostium]

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    Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1.Persians. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
    OCLC: 13109528
    ISBN: 0674991605

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