Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 219

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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Nimmer, so lange mir leuchtet des Lebens Licht,
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Weiche der Götter Chor von hier, nimmermehr
Mög' ich die Burg erstürmt, nimmer mein Volk versengt
Schau'n von der feindlichen Flamme Glut!

Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 203-244 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 203-244 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 219 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 219 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 219 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 219 focus
μήποτ' ἐμὸν κατ᾽ αἰῶνα λίποι θεῶν
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ἅδε πανάγυρις, μηδ᾽ ἐπίδοιμι τάνδ᾽
ἀστυδρομουμέναν πόλιν καὶ στράτευμ᾽
ἁπτόμενον πυρὶ δαΐῳ.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 219 focus
Translations (8)
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.)) — 203-242 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 219 focus
At no time during my life may this conclave of gods abandon us: never may I behold our city overrun, and an army firing it with hostile flame.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 219 focus
Que jamais je n'aie le spectacle de ma ville parcourue en tout sens par des soldats approchant d'elle une flamme destructrice !
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 219 focus
Ah, never, whilst I breath the vital air,
May their blest train forsake us; nor these eyes
Behold destruction raging thro' our streets,
And in fierce flames our stately structures blaze!
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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.) — 219 focus
Mai questo eccelso di Numi concilio,
sin ch'io respiri, non fugga! Calpesta
Tebe non sia dai nemici: il suo popolo
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non sia soppresso dal fuoco omicida!
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 219 focus
Ne tandem meo tempore deficiat deoru hec
Congregatio, neq; uideam
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Percurſam urbem,
Et exercitum crematum igni hoſtili.
Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 219 focus
CHORUS
Woe! Woe!
Dire mischiefs, vaunting loud,
House-ruiners, ye Furies dread,
Who from its roots have quenched in doom
The race of Edipus;-alas!
What must I do? What sorrows bear?
What plan devise? How may I dare
Neither for thee the tear to shed
Nor to escort thee to the tomb?
But from the terrors of the crowd
Trembling, I shrink. Thou wilt obtain
[Addressing the corpse of ETEOCLES.]
Many to weep thy death,—but he
Forlorn, unwept, will pass,
Mourn'd by a sister's lonely-wailing strain.
Who may to this agree?
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.) — 219 focus
Ah, let me die, or ever I behold
The gods go forth, in conflagration dire!
The foemen's rush and raid, and all our hold
Wrapt in the burning fire!

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

200-201. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-295

οὐκ οὖν τάδ᾽ ἔσται πρὸς θεῶν; ἀλλ᾽ οὖν θεοὺς αὐτοὺς ἁλούσης πόλεος ἐκλείπειν λόγος.: Libri
ovxovv
, nisi quod in M. accentus a recentiore manu additus est. Certe hoc divisim scribendum, ut sit interrogatio. Notae chori in principio versus, in medio versu Eteoclis, in M. a recentiore manu adiectae sunt. Turbata putanda esset
orizoµvdía
, si totus versus choro esset tributus: nunc non totum pronuntiante coryphaeo non est quod reprehendatur. Non aptum est, si quis per
vлogooàν
haec verba Eleocli tribueret. Deinde libri
ἀλλ᾽ οὖν θεοὺς τοὺς τῆς ἁλούσης πόλεος ἐκλείπειν θεούς
, nisi quod permira diversitate Rob.
αλλ' όκκα θεοὺς
habet,
πόλεως
M. G. Vit. Lips. Ven. A. Ald. Rob.
τῆς
omittit Cantabr. 2.
ἐκλιπεῖν
habet Par. E. et antequam corrigeretur M.
ἐκλείπει
G.
ἔκλειπον
Lips. Muretus Var. lect. V. 19.
ἀλλ' οὐ
scribendum esse coniecit, ut interrogatio esset. Quod olim conieceram,
τὰ τῆς ἁλούσης πόλεος
, confirmari potest scholio codicis Vit. in quo est
ἀλλ' ὁ λόγος ἐξᾴδεται τὰ τῆς πόλεως θεοὺς φεύγειν, πορθείσης αὐτῆς
. Sed scholia edita et Monacensia
τοὺς τῆς πόλεως θεοὺς φεύγειν, πορθηθείσης αὐτῆς
habent. Nihil efficitur Wunderlichii disputatione in Obs. erit. p. 159. Nam in Agam. v. 323. recte dictum est
εἰ δ᾽ εὖ σέβουσι τοὺς πολισσούχους θεοὺς τοὺς τῆς ἁλούσης γῆς θεῶν θ᾽ ἱδρύματα
, quod ibi de certa urbe sermo est. Hic vero
της
non aptum, ut de qualibet urbe. Neque
ἐκλείπειν
nude positum recte defenditur isto
ἐκλέλοιπεν
in Persis v. 127. quod id coniunctum est eum
ἐξαμείψας πρῶνα
. Repetendus potius accusativus est ex
ἁλούσης πόλεος
, ut ego dixi ad Soph. Antig. v. 1325. et Fritzschius in Quaest. Luc. p. 174. Sed isti articuli nimis suspecti sunt, praesertim quum alter, qui omnino prave positus est, in uno codice desit. Credo Aeschylum scripsisse, quod Schützius coniecit,
ἀλλ᾽ οὖν θεοὺς αὐτοὺς ἁλούσης πόλεος ἐκλείπειν λόγος
. Ad sententiam conf. v. 286. seqq. Euripides Troad. v. 25.
λείπω τὸ κλεινὸν Ἴλιον βωμούς τ' ἐμούς. ἐρημία γὰρ πόλιν όταν λάβῃ κακή, νοσεῖ τὰ τῶν θεῶν, οὐδὲ τιμᾶσθαι θέλει.
Dixerunt de hac re interpretes ad Virg. Aen. II. 351. Rutgersius Var. lect. VI. 17. comparabat haec Senecae in Phoen. v. 633. favisse fac votis deos omnes luis: cessere et aversi fugam petiere.

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ἐμὸν κατ᾽ αἰῶνα:
ἐμὴν
Οχ. Ven. A. Etsi
alura
feminino genere Eustathius p. 501, 26.
τραγικώτερον
esse dicit, exemplo usus Euripidis, tamen non mutem vulgatam, quum praesertim illud
euir
ex glossa
ἐμὴν ζωήν
, quam libri nonnulli habent, ortum esse videatur. Valckenarius ad Callimachi fragm. p. 271. seq. cum scholiastis haec sic intelligit
κατ' ἐμὸν χρόνον, ἤγουν ἡμῶν ζώντων
. Aeschylum hoc voluisse puto,
μήποτε καταλίποι ἐμὸν αἰῶνα
, quod magis poeticum est.
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202. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-297

λίποι:
λείποι
Μ. Par. L. Taur.
λίπει
Lips.
202

203. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-298

πανήγυρις:
πανάγυρις
Par. L.
203

203-204. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-299

μηδ᾽ ἐπίδοιμι τάνδ' ἀστυδρομουμέναν πόλιν: Verba
μηδ' ἐπίδοιμι πόλιν
suo loco in Vit. omissa sunt, sed monente his verbis librario,
ζήτει κάτω στίχων
, infra adscripta sunt supra v. 213. 1η
ἀστυδρομουμέναν
prius
o
et in quarta syllaba
v
in litura a manu recentiore scripta habet Μ.
ἀστυδρομουμένην
G. Vit. Cantabr. 1. Par. C. Ven. A. Rob. Turn.
ἀστυδραμουμένην
Lips.
ἀστυδρουμένην
Ald.
Αστυδραμουμέναν πόλιν
neque ut recentiores interpretantur, populatam, vel oppugnatam, neque ut alter scholiastes, ob discursationem civium, sed eam dici puto urbem, per quam huc illuc hostes et cives cursitant, persequentes, fugientes, rapientes, servare aliquid cupientes.

204. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-300

στράτευμ': In
στράτευμ'
priores duas litteras a secunda manu in litura habet M.
204

205. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-301

ἁπτόμενον:
γράφεται τυφόμενον, οἷον καιόμενον πολεμίῳ πυρί
manus secunda in margine M. Id metrum non admittit, nisi pro
στράτευμ'
aliud vocabulum ponatur.
205

206. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-302

μή:
μή τι
Cantabr. 1.
206

206. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-303

βουλεύου:
συμβουλεύου
Lips. Ald.
206

206. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-304

κακῶς:
δειλῶς
pro
κακῶς
G. Mosc. 2. Vind. 1. Taur.
206

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

166-274. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-122

1
2
erstes Epeisodion. Eteokles, welcher die im Volke durch die Angstrufe der Jungfrauen (des Chors) entstandene Entmuti- gung wahrgenommen hat (174f.), kommt zurück, weist die Jung- frauen zurecht und lehrt sie die rechte Weise des Gebetes. Die Szene dient der Charakteristik des Eteokles.

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4
δὴ πότε: die epische Stel- lung, in Prosa τότε δή.

202. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-144

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6
ἀλκήν, ihre helfende, schützende Hand. Vgl. Hom. Δ 249 ὄφρα ἴδητ' αἴ κ' ἔμμιν ὑπέροχῃ χεῖρα Κρονίων, Ω 374 ἀλλ᾽ ἔτι τις καὶ ἐμεῖο θεῶν ὑπερέσχεθε χεῖρα, ξ 184.

203. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-145

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8
στέγειν (Schol. ἀπείργειν, decken vor) δόρυ wie ὄχλον πύργος ἀποστέγει 220 στέγων ἐχθρούς 1000, στέγων ἅλα Hik. 141 (Schol. εἴργων).

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10
ναοὺς δὲ für das hdschr. ἀλλ᾽ οὖν, da ἀλλ᾽ οὖν unpassend ist und ἐκλείπειν ein Objekt verlangt.

205. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-147

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12
Die Götter verlassen das eroberte Land und suchen sich einen besseren Wohnsitz, vgl. 291, wozu der Schol. bemerkt: εἴρηται καὶ ἐν Ξοανηφόροις Σοφοκλέους ὡς οἱ θεοὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰλίου φέρουσιν ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων τὰ ἑαυτῶν ξόανα, εἰδότες ὅτι αλίσκεται, Eur. Tro 25 λείπω (Poseidon spricht) τὸ κλεινὸν Ἴλιον βωμούς τ' ἐμούς, Verg. Αen. II 351 excessere omnes adytis arisque relictis di, Tac. hist. V 13 apertae repente delubri (in Jeru- salem) fores et audita maior hu- mana vox, excedere deos; simul ingens motus excedentium, dagegen Herod. VIII 41 προθυμότερον ἐξέλι- πον τὴν πόλιν ὡς καὶ τῆς θεοῦ ἀπολελοιπυίης τὴν ἀκρόπολιν. Vgl. Lobeck Aglaoph. S. 275f., Diels Sibyllin. Bl. S. 78.

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14
Unrichtig der Schol. μηδέ- ποτε, φησίν, ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐμοῦ βίου καταλείποιεν τὴν πόλιν οἱ θεοί. Es ist vielmehr eine Tmesis anzu- nehmen: ἐμὸν αἰῶνα ( ἐμὸν βίον) καταλίποι.