Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 833.app-833-1

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Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. ed. Gottfried Hermann. Lipsiae. 1852.

Current edition Experimental

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

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 822-956 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 822-956 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 848 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 848 focus
τάδ᾽ αὐτόδηλα, προῦπτος ἀγγέλου λόγος·
διπλαῖ μέριμναι, δίδυμ᾽ ἀγανόρεα κακά,
αὐτοφόνα, δίμοιρα, τέλεα τάδε πάθη· τί φῶ;
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τί δ᾽ ἄλλο γ᾽ ἢ πόνοι δόμων ἐφέστιοι;
ἀλλὰ γόων, φίλαι, κατ' οὗρον
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 848 focus
Τάδ' αὐτόδηλα, προὖπτος ἀγγέλου λόγος·
διπλαῖν μερίμναιν μέριμναι διδυμάνορα
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Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 848 focus
Τάδ᾽ αὐτόδηλα, προῦπτος ἀγγέλου λόγος·
διπλαῖ μέριμναι, διδυμανορέα
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 848 focus
τάδ᾽ αὐτόδηλα, προῦπτος ἀγγέλου λόγος·
διπλαῖν μερίμναιν δίδυμα †νορέα κακά,
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.)) — 822-955 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 848 focus
This is selfevident, the tale of the messenger is before my eyes—Double are our sorrows, double are the horrors of them that have fallen by mutual slaughter; doubly shared are these consummated sufferings. What shall I say? What, but that of a certainty troubles on troubles are constant inmates of this house? But, my friends, ply the speeding stroke of your hands about your heads, before the gale of sighs, which ever wafts on its passage, the bark, on which no sighs are heard, with sable sails, the freighted with the dead, untrodden for Apollo, the sunless, across Acheron, and to the invisible all-receiving shore
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But [enough]! for here are coming to this bitter office both Antigone and Ismene. I am assured beyond all doubt that they will send forth a fitting wail from their lovely deep-cinctured bosoms. And right it is that we before the sound of their wailing reach us, both ejaculate the dismal-sounding chaunt of Erinnys, and sing a hateful paean to Pluto. Alas! ye that are the most hapless in your sisterhood of all women that fling the zone around their robes, I weep, I mourn, and there is no guile about so as not. to be truly wailing from my very soul.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 848 focus
vains mots !
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 848 focus
Is this a tale of fear-created woe?
955
In very deed before our eyes
A twofold scene of misery lies,
And from a double slaughter double horrors flow;
Whilſt grief on grief, and groan on groan
Rush in, and make this house their own.
960
Come then, ye virgins, form the mournful bands,
To wail the mighty slain;
And ever and anon, at each sad pause
The dying cadence draws,
Together smite your high-rais'd hands,
965
The sullen sound attemper'd to the strain,
That with many' a dismal note
Accompanies the sable boat,
Slow as its sails on Acheron's dull stream,
Wafting its joyless numbers o'er
970
To that unlovely, dreary shore,
Which Phœbus never views, nor the light's golden beam.
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.) — 848 focus
Ecco a te manifesto
ciò che disse l'araldo. E' ben visibile
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il doppio cruccio: il duplice
male omicida è questo:
questa la doglia amara
compiuta già. Che posso io dire piú ?
Sventura su sventura
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in questi tetti seggono
ospiti sopra l'ara.
Amiche, amiche, orsú,
dove spingono i venti
dei lamenti, ora battano
950
le mani su la fronte
il tonfo del remeggio
che giú per l'Acheronte
sospinge ognor la barca,
che, colma di querele,
955
con negre vele, scende per il tramite
che Apollo mai non varca,
che il sol mai non illumina,
verso la cieca terra,
che a tutti si disserra.
960
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 848 focus
Hec funt maniſeſta, certus eſt nuncij sermo.
Duplex solictudo, duplicia uirilia
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Mala ex mutua cæde, geminæ necis perfectæ funt perpeſsiones.
Quid dicam?
Quid uerò aliud eſt quam labores domus domeſtici.
Sed lamentationem ô chare iuxta uentum
Mouet circà caput miſſum manuum
795
Strepitum, qui ſemper per Acherontà traducit
Lugubrem, nigricroceam apparatam theorida,
Inuiam Apollini,ſolis expertem,
Inobſcuramq; uastam terram.
Sed ueniunt hæ ad negotium
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Acerbum, Antigone & Ismene,
Luctum fratrum, non ambiguè
Arbitror ipſas ex profundo amabili
Pectore miſſuras dolorem meritum.
Nos uerò iuſtitia iubet priorem Fame
805
Maledicum hymnum furie
Vociferari, Plutoni inimicum peana canere.
O'infœlicißimæ forores omnium, quæcunq
Lugubri ueste induuntur:
Fleo, lugeo, & dolus nullus adeft,
810
Nec ex mente recte poßum canere.
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.) — 848 focus
Look up, look forth! the doom is plain,
Nor spake the messenger in vain!
A twofold sorrow, twofold strife—
860
Each brave against a brother's life!
In double doom hath sorrow come—
How shall I speak it?—on the home!
Alas, my sisters! be your sighs the gale,
The smiting of your brows the plash of oars,
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Wafting the boat, to Acheron's dim shores
That passeth ever, with its darkened sail,
On its uncharted voyage and sunless way,
Far from thy beams, Apollo, god of day—
The melancholy bark
870
Bound for the common bourn, the harbour of the dark!
Look up, look yonder! from the home
Antigone, Ismene come,
On the last, saddest errand bound,
To chant a dirge of doleful sound,
875
With agony of equal pain
Above their brethren slain!
Their sister-bosoms surely swell,
Heart with rent heart according well
In grief for those who fought and fell!
880
Yet—ere they utter forth their woe—
We must awake the rueful strain
To vengeful powers, in realms below,
And mourn hell's triumph o'er the slain!
Alas! of all, the breast who bind,—
885
Yea, all the race of womankind—
O maidens, ye are most bereaved!
For you, for you the tear-drops start—
Deem that in truth, and undeceived,
Ye hear the sorrows of my heart!
890
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.) — 848 focus
Hier naht es sichtbar; offen liegt des Boten Wort:
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Zwiesache Trauer, doppelt Weh, muthvoll verübt
Im Wechselmord, zwiefaches Schicksal, blutig hier
Erfüllt! Wie nenn' ich's? Leides Leid, gehäuft auf dieses Hauses Herd!
Mädchen, wohlan! Laßt im Sturm der Klagen
Um euer Haupt des Gramgeleites Ruderschlag
825
Mitrauschen, der dem schwarzumflorten Trauerkahn
Stets folgt, dem jammerreichen, durch den Acheron
Zum Lande, das Apollon flieht, das sonnenlos
Alles in ewige Nacht hinabschlingt!
(Antigone und Ismene kommen, tief in Trauergewande gehüllt, aus dem Palaste.)

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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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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Exodos, Klagen an den Leichen der beiden Brüder, welche auf Bahren auf die Bühne getragen werden. Dem Leichenzug folgen (bei 846) die Schwestern, Anti- gone und Ismene. Die Klagen er- hebt der Chor in verschiedener (vierfacher) Form und Vortragsart, nach diesem die beiden Schwestern. Der letzten Partie folgt noch eine Dialogpartie mit einem Chorikon als Abschluß.
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Mit αὐτόδηλα (von selbst offenbar, es bedarf keines Boten) vgl. αὐτὸ δηλοῖ, αὐτὸ δείξει. Nach Etym. M. p. 173, 34 avtóngav(t) α• αὐτόδηλα kann man vermuten, daß es ursprünglich τάδ' αυτόνραντα (,, da haben wir die echte und volle Wirklichkeit des Gemeldeten") ge- heißen habe. Vgl. Fragm. 295 αὐτόκραντον λόγον ( τὸν ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ τὸ τέλος ἐπιφέροντα), welches Zitat in Anbetracht der folgenden Worte προΰπτος λόγος mit τάδ᾽ αὖ- τόκραντα zusammenfallen könnte. ,Was der Bote mitgeteilt hat, können wir vor Augen sehen." für

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Der Κορυφαίος als Halbchorführer und der Führer des anderen Halbchors (zu 837) geben ihren Empfindungen beim Anblick der Leichen Ausdruck und der Κορυφαῖος fordert zur Totenklage auf.