Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 457

Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator)

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And verily I will mention him that hath next had his post allotted him against our gates:—for to Eteoclus, third in order, hath the third lot leapt from the inverted helm of glittering brass, for him to advance his battalion against the gates of Neïs; and he is wheeling his steeds fuming in their trappings, eager to dash forward against the gates. And their snaffles ring, in barbarian fashion, filled with the breath of their snorting nostrils. His buckler, too, hath been blazoned in no paltry style, but a man in armour is treading the steps of a ladder to his foemen's tower, seeking to storm it. And this man, in a combination of letters, is shouting, how that not even Mars should force him from the bulwarks.—Do thou send also to this man a worthy champion to ward off from this city the servile yoke.

Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1849.

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The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) (English) (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.)

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Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 417-630 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 417-630 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 457 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 457 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 457 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 457 focus
καὶ μὴν τὸν ἐντεῦθεν λαχόντα πρὸς πύλαις
λέξω. τρίτῳ γὰρ Ἐτεόκλῳ τρίτος πάλος
445
ἐξ ὑπτίου πήδησεν εὐχάλκου κράνους,
πύλαισι Νηΐσταισι προσβαλεῖν λόχον.
ἵππους δ᾽ ἐν ἀμπυκτῆρσιν ἐμβριμωμένας
δινεῖ, θελούσας πρὸς πύλαις πεπτωκέναι.
φιμοὶ δὲ συρίζουσι βάρβαρον τρόπον,
450
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 457 focus
Translations (7)
Seven Against Thebes Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 417-630 focus
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 457 focus
hors de ma chambre virginale !
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 457 focus
Third from the brazen helm leap'd forth the lot
Of fierce Eteoclus, who takes his poſt
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Againſt the gates of Neis: there he whirls
His fireyneighing ſteeds, that toſs their heads
Proud of their nodding plumes, eager to ruſh
Againſt the gates, and ſnorting champ their curbs
Boſs'd with barbaric pride. No mean device
510
Is ſculptur'd on his shield, A man in arms,
His ladder fix'd against the enemies' walls,
Mounts, reſolute to rend their rampires down;
And cries aloud, the letters plainly mark'd,
NOT MARS HIMSELF SHALL BEAT ME FROM THE TOW'RS.
515
Appoint of equal hardihood ſome chief
To guard the city from the ſervile yoke.
Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 457 focus
Dirò chi, dopo questo, ebbe dinanzi
alle porte il suo posto. Etèocle terzo
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balzò fuor dal riverso elmo di bronzo,
che alle porte Nistèe le schiere adduca.
Cavalle agita in giro, che s'impennano
sotto i frontali, di piombar bramose
contro i valli; e con barbara melode
510
le musoliere sibilano, piene
del soffio delle nari, e del fragore.
Né lo scudo d'insegna umil si fregia.
Sale un oplita i gradi della scala,
contro la torre dei nemici, e abbatterla
515
vuole, ed anch'egli grida, con intrichi
di lettere, che giú da quella torre
neppure Marte rovesciarlo può.
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 457 focus
Attamen inde qui fortitus est portasa
Dicam.tertio enim Eteocli tertia fors
Ex galea accidit æris refupini,
Vt admoueret cobortem portis Neitis.
Equos uerò phaleratos frementes
430
Circumducit uolente ad portas corruere.
Tubæ clangunt barbaro more,
Flagitiofis flatibus plene,
Ornatus est clypeus non mediocriter.
Vir armatus scalarum per gradus
435
It ad hostium turrim depopulari uolens
Boat uerò ille fic articulate,
vt fi neq; Mars ipfum eijciat è turribus.
Et huic uiro mitte idoneum,
Arcendi ab urbe hoc feruile iugum.
440
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 457 focus
I will say on. Eteoclus is third—
To him it fell, what time the third lot sprang
O'er the inverted helmet's brazen rim,
To dash his stormers on Neïstae gate.
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He wheels his mares, who at their frontlets chafe
And yearn to charge upon the gates amain.
They snort the breath of pride, and, filled therewith,
Their nozzles whistle with barbaric sound.
High too and haughty is his shield's device—
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An armed man who climbs, from rung to rung,
A scaling ladder, up a hostile wall,
Afire to sack and slay; and he too cries,
(By letters, full of sound, upon the shield)
Not Ares' self shall cast me from the wall.
435
Look to it, send, against this man, a man
Strong to debar the slave's yoke from our town.
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.) — 457 focus
Nun will ich weiter sagen, wer das nächste Thor
Vom Loos empfing. Eteoklos als dem dritten sprang
Aus umgeschwungnem Eisenhelm das dritte Loos,
Auf Neïs' Thor zu werfen seine Kriegerschaar.
In weiten Kreisen tummelt er sein Roßgespann,
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Das, wild am Zaume knirschend, auf die Pforte stürzt.
Die Maulgeflechte zischen laut in grausem Ton,
Vom Troß der Nüsternhauche rings mit Schaum bedeckt.
Kunstreich mit Wappenbildern ist sein Schild geschmückt:
Auf hoher Leiter Sprossen klimmt ein Mann in Wehr
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Hinan zum Feindesthurme, den er stürmen will;
In goldner Inschrift Zeichen ruft auch dieser stolz,
Vom Thurme stürz' ihn selber nicht der Schlachtengott.
Ihm sende gleichfalls Einen, der mit starkem Arm
Das Joch der Knechtschaft wehren mag von dieser Stadt.
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Commentary

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

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μνημεῖα δ᾽ αὑτῶν:
σημεῖα δ᾽ αὐτῶν
Stobaeus.
μνημεῖα, τὰ οἴκαδε πεμπό-μενα ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν πολέμῳ τετελευτηκότων τοῖς οἰκείοις
Hesychius.
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ἐς δόμους:
εἰς δόμους
Μ. et Stobaeus.
ἐν δόμοις
Colb. 1.
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πρὸς ἅρμ᾽:
πρὸς ἅρματ'
Colb. 1. Par. Β. Κ. Ν. Sic etiam Vit. e correclione : antea
πρὸς ἁρμ'
erat scriptum.
πρὸς δ᾽ ἅρμ᾽
G. Par. C. Ask. A. Ven. A. (Bekkero teste) Rob.
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χερσὶν:
χεροῖν
G. Par. B. Ald. Rob.
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διὰ στόμα:
διὰ στόματος
Colb. 1. Par. N.
ἀνὰ στόμα
Stobaeus.
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Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (Seven Against Thebes, explanatory commentary pp. 15–100. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.) focus

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Prolog, in welchem mit tiefer Empfindung und stimmungs- voll die Situation und der Drang des Augenblicks gekennzeichnet wird, nachdem die vorausliegenden Begebenheiten durch die voran- gehenden beiden Dramen der Tri- logie gegeben sind. Dabei tritt uns der Charakter des Eteokles in seiner entschlossenen Tatkraft und patrioti- schen Begeisterung entgegen und wird durch V. 28f., 57f. der weitere Verlauf des Dramas vorbereitet. Eteokles kommt aus dem Palaste und spricht zu den vor dem Hause versammelten Kriegern, Jünglingen, Männern und Greisen, welche nach 35 abziehen.

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Schol. ἔθος ἦν τοὺς ἐν πο- λέμῳ τοῖς οἰκείοις πέμπειν σημεία ( μνημεία Kueck) περόνας ἢ ταινίας ἢ βοστρύχους ἤ τι τοιοῦτον. τὸ δὲ ἔστεφον ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπλήρουν (1. ἔ- πλεκον). πρὸς ἅρμα δὲ Αδράστου, ἐπεὶ Αμφιάραος αὐτοῖς ἐμαντεύσατο μόνον Αδραστον σωθήσεσθαι. τοῦτο δὲ ὡς ἀπὸ τῆς ἱστορίας ἔλαβεν, ὅτι ἐσώθη Αδραστος· ἐπεὶ πόθεν ᾔδεσαν ὅτι διαφεύξεται: (d. h. der Dichter hat die Motivierung außer acht ge- lassen, weil die Zuschauer es aus der Thebais wußten, vgl. Paus. VIII 25, 8). Vielleicht auch, weil Adrastos Oberfeldherr war (562). Zu ἔστεφον (sie hefteten wie einen Kranz an) vgl. στέψω 264.

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Schol. οὐκ ἦν ἔλεος διὰ τῆς γλώττης αὐτῶν προϊὼν ἀποθηλύνων τὴν ὁρμήν, Tränen dagegen, welche ihnen bei dem Gedanken an die Lieben zu Hause flossen, vertrugen sich mit dem σιδηρόφρων θυμός. Vgl. Lessing Laokoon I. — διὰ στόμα auch 480, 566, Eur. Or. 103 ἀναβοᾷ διὰ στόμα, Aristoph. Lys. 855 ἀεὶ γὰρ ἡ γυνή δ' ἔχει διὰ στόμα.