F. A. Paley

Aeschylus F. A. Paley

This Translation of A eschylus, an entirely new one, is designed as an Appendix to my edition of that Poet in theB ibliotheca Glassica. In some respects, an authors meaning and the connexion of his ideas are more satisfactorily conveyed by a translation, giving the context entire, than by notes, rendering only occasional words and phrases. I am not without hope that this book will be found acceptable to those students who are willing to use, not to abuse it; for to turn the verses, and especially the choral verses, of a poet so figurative and obscure as Aeschylus into anything like readable prose, really is a very difficult task. In carrying out this design, I have knowingly laid myself open to the charge of departing pretty frequently from that exact verbal rendering which is generally known as a literal translation, and attending at least as much to the authors meaning as to his mere words.
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