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The Evocation of Darius (Aesch. Persae 607–93)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. C. Lawson
Affiliation:
Pembroke College, Cambridge

Extract

Itis a strange chance that our whole conception of that scene of the Persae in which Atossa and the Chorus evoke from the lower world the spirit of Darius should be dependent largely on the interpretation or the restoration of a single line.

ὦ πιστὦ πιστ⋯ν ἣλικ⋯ς θ' ἣβης ⋯μ⋯ς

Π⋯ρσαι γεραιο⋯, τ⋯να π⋯λις πονεῖ π⋯νονον;

στ⋯νει, κ⋯κοπται, κα⋯ χαρ⋯σσεται π⋯δον.

λε⋯σσων δ' ἂκοιτιν τ⋯ν ⋯μ⋯ν τ⋯φου π⋯λας

ταρβ⋯, χο⋯ς δ⋯ πρευμν⋯ς ⋯δεξ⋯μην.

ὑμεῖς δ⋯ θρηνεῖτ' ⋯γγὺς ⋯στ⋯τες τ⋯φου

κα⋯ ψυχαγωγοῖς ⋯ρθι⋯ζοντες γ⋯οις

οἰκτρ⋯ς καλεῖσθ⋯ μ' …

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1934

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References

page 84 note 1 This second scholium is not quoted by Dἂhnhardt, but Hermann knew of it.