Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. ed. Gottfried Hermann. Lipsiae. 1852.
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Critical apparatus to Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) (Latin) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Seven Against Thebes.)
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Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 720-791 focus
Χορος
πέφρικα τὰν ὠλεσίοικον
720
θεόν, οὐ θεοῖς ὁμοίαν,
παναλαθῆ, κακόμαντιν
πατρὸς εὐκταίαν Ἐρινὺν
τελέσαι τὰς περιθύμους
κατάρας Οἰδιπόδα βλαψίφρονος:
1
725
παιδολέτωρ δ᾽ ἔρις ἅδ᾽
2
ὀτρύνει.
727
Χορος
ξένος δὲ κλήρους
3
ἐπινωμᾷ,
Χάλυβος Σκυθῶν ἄποικος,
κτεάνων χρηματοδαίτας
πικρός, ὠμόφρων σίδαρος,
730
χθόνα ναίειν διαπήλας,
ὁπόσαν καὶ φθιμένοισιν κατέχειν,
τῶν μεγάλων πεδίων ἀμοίρους.
734
Χορος
ἐπειδὰν αὐτοκτόνως
4
αὐτοδάικτοι θάνωσι,
735
καὶ γαΐα
5
κόνις πίῃ
μελαμπαγὲς αἷμα φοίνιον,
τίς ἂν καθαρμοὺς
6
πόροι,
τίς ἄν σφε λούσειεν; ὦ
πόνοι δόμων νέοι παλαι-
740
οῖσι συμμιγεῖς κακοῖς.
742
Χορος
παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
παρβασίαν
7
ὠκύποινον:
αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον μένει:
Ἀπόλλωνος εὖτε Λάιος
745
βίᾳ,
8
τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς
χρηστηρίοις θνᾴσκοντα γέν-
νας ἄτερ σῴζειν πόλιν,
750
Χορος
ἐγείνατο
11
μὲν μόρον αὑτῷ,
πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν,
ὅστε ματρὸς ἁγνὰν
σπείρας ἄρουραν, ἵν᾽ ἐτράφη,
ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν,
755
ἔτλα: παράνοια
12
συνᾶγε
νυμφίους φρενώλεις.
13
758
Χορος
κακῶν δ᾽ ὥσπερ θάλασσα κῦμ᾽ ἄγει:
τὸ μὲν πίτνον, ἄλλο δ᾽ ἀείρει
τρίχαλον, ὃ καὶ περὶ πρύμ-
760
ναν πόλεως καχλάζει.
†μεταξὺ δ᾽ ἀλκὰ δι᾽ ὀλίγου
τείνει πύργος ἐν εὔρει†.
14
δέδοικα δὲ σὺν βασιλεῦσι
15
μὴ πόλις δαμασθῇ.
765
766
Χορος
βαρεῖαι καταλλαγαί: τὰ δ᾽ ὀλοὰ
πελόμεν᾽
18
οὐ παρέρχεται.
πρόπρυμνα δ᾽ ἐκβολὰν
19
φέρει
ἀνδρῶν ἀλφηστᾶν
770
ὄλβος ἄγαν παχυνθείς.
772
Χορος
τίν᾽ ἀνδρῶν γὰρ τοσόνδ᾽ ἐθαύμασαν
ὅσον τότ᾽ Οἰδίπουν τίον,
775
τὰν ἁρπαξάνδραν
24
κῆρ᾽ ἀφελόντα χώρας;
778
Χορος
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀρτίφρων
ἐγένετο μέλεος ἀθλίων
γάμων, ἐπ᾽ ἄλγει δυσφορῶν
780
μαινομένᾳ κραδίᾳ
25
δίδυμα κάκ᾽ ἐτέλεσεν:
πατροφόνῳ χερὶ τῶν
κρεισσοτέκνων [δ᾽ ἀπ᾽
26
] ὀμμάτων ἐπλάγχθη:
785
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 720-791 focus
Χορός
πέφρικα τὰν ὠλεσίοικον
720
θεόν, οὐ θεοῖς ὁμοίαν,
παναλαθῆ κακόμαντιν
πατρὸς εὐκταίαν Ἐρινὺν
τελέσαι τὰς περιθύμους
κατάρας Οἰδιπόδα βλαψίφρονος·
725
παιδολέτωρ δʼ ἔρις ἅδʼ ὀτρύνει.
Χορός
ξένος δὲ κλήρους ἐπινωμᾷ,
Χάλυβος Σκυθᾶν ἄποικος,
κτεάνων χρηματοδαίτας
πικρός, ὠμόφρων σίδαρος,
730
χθόνα ναίειν διαπήλας,
ὁπόσαν καὶ φθιμένοισιν κατέχειν,
τῶν μεγάλων πεδίων ἀμοίρους.
Χορός
ἐπεὶ δʼ ἂν αὐτοκτόνως
αὐτοδάικτοι θάνωσι,
735
καὶ γαΐα κόνις πίῃ
μελαμπαγὲς αἷμα φοίνιον,
τίς ἂν καθαρμοὺς πόροι,
τίς ἄν σφε λούσειεν; ὦ
πόνοι δόμων νέοι παλαι-
740
οῖσι συμμιγεῖς κακοῖς.
Χορός
παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
παρβασίαν ὠκύποινον·
αἰῶνα δʼ ἐς τρίτον μένει·
Ἀπόλλωνος εὖτε Λάιος
745
βίᾳ, τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς
χρηστηρίοις θνᾴσκοντα γέν-
νας ἄτερ σῴζειν πόλιν,
Χορός
κρατηθεὶς δʼ ἐκ φίλων ἀβουλιᾶν
750
ἐγείνατο μὲν μόρον αὑτῷ,
πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν,
ὅστε ματρὸς ἁγνὰν
σπείρας ἄρουραν, ἵνʼ ἐτράφη,
ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν
755
ἔτλα· παράνοια συνᾶγε
νυμφίους φρενώλεις.
Χορός
κακῶν δʼ ὥσπερ θάλασσα κῦμʼ ἄγει·
τὸ μὲν πίτνον, ἄλλο δʼ ἀείρει
τρίχαλον, ὃ καὶ περὶ πρύμ-
760
ναν πόλεως καχλάζει.
μεταξὺ δʼ ἀλκὰ διʼ ὀλίγου
τείνει, πύργος ἐν εὔρει.
δέδοικα δὲ σὺν βασιλεῦσι
μὴ πόλις δαμασθῇ.
765
Χορός
τελειᾶν γὰρ παλαιφάτων ἀρᾶν
βαρεῖαι καταλλαγαί· τὰ δʼ ὀλοὰ
πελόμενʼ οὐ παρέρχεται.
πρόπρυμνα δʼ ἐκβολὰν φέρει
ἀνδρῶν ἀλφηστᾶν
770
ὄλβος ἄγαν παχυνθείς.
Χορός
τίνʼ ἀνδρῶν γὰρ τοσόνδʼ ἐθαύμασαν
θεοὶ καὶ ξυνέστιοι πόλεος ὁ
πολύβατός τʼ ἀγὼν βροτῶν,
ὅσον τότʼ Οἰδίπουν τίον,
775
τὰν ἁρπαξάνδραν
κῆρʼ ἀφελόντα χώρας;
Χορός
ἐπεὶ δʼ ἀρτίφρων
ἐγένετο μέλεος ἀθλίων
γάμων, ἐπʼ ἄλγει δυσφορῶν
780
μαινομένᾳ κραδίᾳ
δίδυμα κάκʼ ἐτέλεσεν·
πατροφόνῳ χερὶ τῶν
κρεισσοτέκνων ὀμμάτων ἐπλάγχθη·
Χορός
τέκνοις δʼ ἀγρίας
785
ἐφῆκεν ἐπικότους τροφᾶς,
αἰαῖ, πικρογλώσσους ἀράς,
καί σφε σιδαρονόμῳ
διὰ χερί ποτε λαχεῖν
κτήματα· νῦν δὲ τρέω
790
μὴ τελέσῃ καμψίπους Ἐρινύς.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 750 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 750 focus
κρατηθεὶς δ᾽ ἐκ φίλων ἀβουλίαις
ἐγείνατο μὲν μόρον αὑτῷ,
πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν,
ὅςτε μὴ πρὸς ἁγνὰν
σπείρας ἄρουραν, ἵν᾽ ἐτράφη,
735
ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν
ἔτλα· παράνοια συνᾶγε
νυμφίους φρενώλεις.
ἀντ. γ'.
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 750 focus
κρατηθεὶς δ' ἐκ φίλων
ἀβουλιᾶν
ἀβουλίαν
ἀβουλίαι seu ἀβουλίαις
Str. 3.
ἐγείνατο
γείνατο μὲν μόρον αὑτῷ
πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν,
ὅστε ματρὸς ἁγνὰν
σπείρας ἄρουραν, ἵν' ἐτράφη,
755
ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν
ἔτλα· παράνοια συνάγε
νυμφίους
φρενώλεις
φρενώλης.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 750 focus
κρατηθεὶς ἐκ φίλων ἀβουλιᾶν
735
ἐγείνατο μὲν μόρον αὑτῷ,
πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν,
ὅστε ματρὸς ἁγνὸν
σπείρας ἄρουραν, ἵν᾿ ἐτράφη,
ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν
740
ἔτλα· παράνοια συνάγε
νυμφίους φρενώλεις.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 750 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.)) — 720-790 focus
Chorus
I shudder in terror at the goddess who lays ruin to homes, a goddess unlike other divinities, who is an unerring omen of evil to come. I shudder that the Erinys invoked by the father’s prayer will fulfil the over-wrathful
720
curses that Oedipus spoke in madness. This strife that will destroy his sons drives the Erinys to fulfillment.
725
Chorus
A stranger distributes their inheritance, a Chalybian immigrant from
Scythia
, a bitter divider of wealth,
savage-hearted iron that apportions land for them to dwell in, as much as they can occupy in death when they have lost their share in these wide plains.
730
Chorus
But when both have died, each killing
the other in mutual slaughter, and the earth’s dust has swallowed the black streams of their blood, who could offer sacrifice that might make purification? Who could cleanse them of their pollution?
735
O, the new troubles of this house mixed with its evils of before!
740
Chorus
Indeed I speak of the ancient transgression, now swift in its retribution. It remains even into the third generation,
ever since Laius—in defiance of Apollo who, at his Pythian oracle at the earth’s center, said three times that the king would save his city if he died without offspring—
745
Chorus
Ever since he, overcome by the thoughtlessness of his longing, fathered his own death, the parricide Oedipus, who sowed his mother’s sacred field, where he was nurtured,
750
and endured a bloody crop. Madness united the frenzied bridal pair.
755
Chorus
Now it is as if a sea of evils pushes its swell onward. As one wave sinks, the sea raises up another,
triple-crested, which crashes around the city’s stern. In between a narrow defense stretches—no wider than a wall. I fear that the city will be overthrown along with its kings.
760
Chorus
For the compensation is heavy when curses uttered long ago are fulfilled, and once the deadly curse has come into existence, it does not pass away. When the fortune of seafaring merchants has grown too great,
it must be thrown overboard.
770
Chorus
For whom have the gods and divinities that share their altar and the thronging assembly of men ever admired
so much as they honored Oedipus then, when he removed that deadly, man-seizing plague from our land?
775
Chorus
But when, his sanity regained, he grew miserable in his wretched
marriage, then carried away by his grief and with maddened heart he accomplished a double evil. With the hand that killed his father he struck out his eyes, which were dearer to him than his children.
780
Chorus
Next he launched brutal, wrathful words against the sons he had bred—ah! curses from a bitter tongue—that wielding iron in their hands they would one day divide his property.
785
So now I tremble in fear that the swift-running Erinys will bring this to fulfillment.
790
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 750 focus
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 750 focus
sillon sacré où il s'était formé et y planter une souche sanglante : un délire unissait les époux en folie 1 !
Et maintenant une mer de maux vers nous pousse ses lames. Si l'une s'écroule,
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 750 focus
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.) — 750 focus
3 Antistrofe III
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 750 focus
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.) — 750 focus
But vainly with his wife's desire he strove,
760
And gave himself to love,
Begetting Oedipus, by whom he died,
The fateful parricide!
The sacred seed-plot, his own mother's womb,
He sowed, his house's doom,
765
A root of blood! by frenzy lured, they came
Unto their wedded shame.
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.) — 750 focus
Bethört dann durch die Lust im Unverstand,
Erzeugt' er sich selbst das Verderben,
Den Sohn, der den Vater erschlägt,
725
Der auf ungeweihtes
Saatland, aus dem er selbst entsproß,
Kühn die blutigen Wurzeln
Gepflanzt. Die verblendeten Gatten
Einte wilder Wahnsinn.
730
Dritte Gegenstrophe.
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
729.
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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
707-776.
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728-729.
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729-730.
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