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Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. Paul Mazon (Editor). Paris. 1920-1925.

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ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) (Greek) (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (5)

Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 1011-1084 focus

Κῆρυξ

δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντʼ ἀπαγγέλλειν με χρὴ

δήμου προβούλοις τῆσδε Καδμείας πόλεως·

Ἐτεοκλέα μὲν τόνδʼ ἐπʼ εὐνοίᾳ χθονὸς

θάπτειν ἔδοξε γῆς φίλαις κατασκαφαῖς·

στυγῶν γὰρ ἐχθροὺς θάνατον εἵλετʼ ἐν πόλει
1015

ἱερῶν πατρῴων δʼ ὅσιος ὢν μομφῆς ἄτερ

τέθνηκεν οὗπερ τοῖς νέοις θνῄσκειν καλόν.

οὕτω μὲν ἀμφὶ τοῦδʼ ἐπέσταλται λέγειν·

τούτου δʼ ἀδελφὸν τόνδε Πολυνείκους νεκρὸν

ἔξω βαλεῖν ἄθαπτον, ἁρπαγὴν κυσίν,
1020

ὡς ὄντʼ ἀναστατῆρα Καδμείων χθονός,

εἰ μὴ θεῶν τις ἐμποδὼν ἔστη δορὶ

τῷ τοῦδʼ·. ἄγος δὲ καὶ θανὼν κεκτήσεται

θεῶν πατρῴων, οὓς ἀτιμάσας ὅδε

στράτευμʼ ἐπακτὸν ἐμβαλὼν ᾕρει πόλιν.
1025

οὕτω πετηνῶν τόνδʼ ὑπʼ οἰωνῶν δοκεῖ

ταφέντʼ ἀτίμως τοὐπιτίμιον λαβεῖν,

καὶ μήθʼ ὁμαρτεῖν τυμβοχόα χειρώματα

μήτʼ ὀξυμόλποις προσσέβειν οἰμώγμασιν,

ἄτιμον εἶναι δʼ ἐκφορᾶς φίλων ὕπο.
1030

τοιαῦτʼ ἔδοξε τῷδε Καδμείων τέλει.

1032

Ἀντιγόνη

ἐγὼ δὲ Καδμείων γε προστάταις λέγω·

ἢν μή τις ἄλλος τόνδε συνθάπτειν θέλῃ,

ἐγώ σφε θάψω κἀνὰ κίνδυνον βαλῶ

θάψασʼ ἀδελφὸν τὸν ἐμόν, οὐδʼ αἰσχύνομαι
1035

ἔχουσʼ ἄπιστον τήνδʼ ἀναρχίαν πόλει.

δεινὸν τὸ κοινὸν σπλάγχνον, οὗ πεφύκαμεν,

μητρὸς ταλαίνης κἀπὸ δυστήνου πατρός.

τοιγὰρ θέλουσʼ ἄκοντι κοινώνει κακῶν

ψυχή, θανόντι ζῶσα συγγόνῳ φρενί.
1040

τούτου δὲ σάρκας οὐδὲ κοιλογάστορες

λύκοι σπάσονται· μὴ δοκησάτω τινί.

τάφον γὰρ αὐτῷ καὶ κατασκαφὰς ἐγώ,

γυνή περ οὖσα, τῷδε μηχανήσομαι,

κόλπῳ φέρουσα βυσσίνου πεπλώματος.
1045

καὐτὴ καλύψω, μηδέ τῳ δόξῃ πάλιν·

θάρσει, παρέσται μηχανὴ δραστήριος.

1048

Κῆρυξ

αὐδῶ πόλιν σε μὴ βιάζεσθαι τάδε.

Ἀντιγόνη

αὐδῶ σὲ μὴ περισσὰ κηρύσσειν ἐμοί.

Κῆρυξ

τραχύς γε μέντοι δῆμος ἐκφυγὼν κακά.
1050

Ἀντιγόνη

τράχυνʼ· ἄθαπτος δʼ οὗτος οὐ γενήσεται.

Κῆρυξ

ἀλλʼ ὃν πόλις στυγεῖ, σὺ τιμήσεις τάφῳ,;

Ἀντιγόνη

ἤδη τὰ τοῦδε διατετίμηται θεοῖς.

Κῆρυξ

οὔ, πρίν γε χώραν τήνδε κινδύνῳ βαλεῖν.

Ἀντιγόνη

παθὼν κακῶς κακοῖσιν ἀντημείβετο.
1055

Κῆρυξ

ἀλλʼ εἰς ἅπαντας ἀνθʼ ἑνὸς τόδʼ ἔργον ἦν.

Ἀντιγόνη

ἔρις περαίνει μῦθον ὑστάτη θεῶν.

ἐγὼ δὲ θάψω τόνδε· μὴ μακρηγόρει.

Κῆρυξ

ἀλλʼ αὐτόβουλος ἴσθʼ, ἀπεννέπω δʼ ἐγώ.

Χορός

φεῦ φεῦ.

ὦ μεγάλαυχοι καὶ φθερσιγενεῖς
1060

Κῆρες Ἐρινύες, αἵτʼ Οἰδιπόδα

γένος ὠλέσατε πρυμνόθεν οὕτως,

τί πάθω; τί δὲ δρῶ ; τί δὲ μήσωμαι;

πῶς τολμήσω μήτε σὲ κλαίειν

μήτε προπέμπειν ἐπὶ τύμβον ·
1065

ἀλλὰ φοβοῦμαι κἀποτρέπομαι

δεῖμα πολιτῶν.

σύ γε μὴν πολλῶν πενθητήρων

τεύξει· κεῖνος δʼ ὁ τάλας ἄγοος

μονόκλαυτον ἔχων θρῆνον ἀδελφῆς
1070

εἶσιν· τίς ἂν οὖν τὰ πίθοιτο ;

Ἡμιχόριον Α

δράτω τι πόλις καὶ μὴ δράτω

τοὺς κλαίοντας Πολυνείκη.

ἡμεῖς μὲν ἴμεν καὶ συνθάψομεν

αἵδε προπομποί. καὶ γὰρ γενεᾷ
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κοινὸν τόδʼ ἄχος, καὶ πόλις ἄλλως

ἄλλοτʼ ἐπαινεῖ τὰ δίκαια.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

ἡμεῖς δʼ ἅμα τῷδʼ, ὥσπερ τε πόλις

καὶ τὸ δίκαιον ξυνεπαινεῖ.

μετὰ γὰρ μάκαρας καὶ Διὸς ἰσχὺν
1080

ὅδε Καδμείων ἤρυξε πόλιν

μὴ ʼνατραπῆναι μηδʼ ἀλλοδαπῷ

κύματι φωτῶν

κατακλυσθῆναι τὰ μάλιστα.

Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1011 focus

ΚΗΡΥΞ.

δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντ᾽ ἀπαγγέλλειν με χρὴ
1005

δήμου προβούλοις τῆσδε Καδμείας πόλεως·

Ἐτεοκλέα μὲν τόνδ᾽ ἐπ᾿ εὐνοίᾳ χθονὸς

θάπτειν ἔδοξε γῆς φίλαις κατασκαφαῖς·

στέγων γὰρ ἐχθροὺς θάνατον εἵλετ' ἐν πόλει,

ἱερῶν πατρῴων δ᾽ ὅσιος ἂν μομφῆς ἄτερ
1010

τέθνηκεν οὗπερ τοῖς νέοις θνήσκειν καλόν.

οὕτω μὲν ἀμφὶ τοῦδ᾽ ἐπέσταλται λέγειν·

τούτου δ᾽ ἀδελφὸν τόνδε Πολυνείκους νεκρὸν

ἔξω βαλεῖν ἄθαπτον, ἁρπαγὴν κυσὶν,

ὡς ὄντ ἀναστατῆρα Καδμείων χθονὸς,
1015

εἰ μὴ θεῶν τις ἐμποδὼν ἔστη δορὶ

τῷ τοῦδ᾽. ἄγος δὲ καὶ θανὼν κεκτήσεται

θεῶν πατρῴων, οὓς ἀτιμάσας ὅδε

στράτευμ᾽ ἐπακτὸν ἐμβαλὼν ἥρει πόλιν.

οὕτω πετηνῶν τόνδ᾽ ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν δοκεῖ
1020

ταφέντ᾽ ἀτίμως τοὐπιτίμιον λαβεῖν,

καὶ μήθ᾽ ὁμαρτεῖν τυμβοχόα χειρώματα

μήτ᾽ ὀξυμόλποις προσσέβειν οἰμώγμασιν,

ἄτιμον εἶναι δ᾽ ἐκφορᾶς φίλων ὕπο.

τοιαῦτ᾽ ἔδοξε τῷδε Καδμείων τέλει.
1025

Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1011 focus

Κῆρυξ

δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντ᾽ ἀπαγγέλλειν με χρὴ

δήμου προβούλοις τῆσδε Καδμείας πόλεως·
990

Ἐτεοκλέα μὲν τόνδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ εὐνοίᾳ χθονὸς

θάπτειν ἔδοξε γῆς φίλαις κατασκαφαῖς·

στέγων γὰρ ἐχθροὺς θάνατον εἵλετ᾽ ἐν πόλει,

ἱερῶν πατρῴων δ᾽ ὅσιος ὢν μομφῆς ἄτερ

τέθνηκεν οὗπερ τοῖς νέοις θνήσκειν καλόν.
995

οὕτω μὲν ἀμφὶ τοῦδ᾽ ἐπέσταλται λέγειν.

τούτου δ᾽ ἀδελφὸν τόνδε, Πολυνείκους νεκρόν,

ἔξω βαλεῖν ἄθαπτον, ἁρπαγὴν κυσίν,

ὡς ὄντ᾽ ἀναστατῆρα Καδμείων χθονός,

εἰ μὴ θεῶν τις ἐμποδὼν ἔστη δορὶ
1000

τῷ τοῦδ'· ἄγος δὲ καὶ θανὼν κεκτήσεται

θεῶν πατρῴων, οὓς ἀτιμάσας ὅδε,

στράτευμ᾽ ἐπακτὸν ἐμβαλών, ᾕρει πόλιν.

οὕτω πετεινῶν τόνδ᾽ ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν δοκεῖ

ταφέντ᾽ ἀτίμως τοὐπιτίμιον λαβεῖν,
1005

καὶ μήθ' ὁμαρτεῖν τυμβοχόα χειρώματα,

μήτ' ὀξυμόλποις προςσέβειν οἰμώγμασιν,

ἄτιμον εἶναι δ᾽ ἐκφορᾶς φίλων ὕπο·

τοιαῦτ᾽ ἔδοξε τῷδε Καδμείων τέλει.

Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1011 focus

δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντ᾽ ἀπαγγέλλειν με χρὴ

δήμου προβούλοις τῆσδε Καδμείας πόλεως.

Ἐτεοκλέα μὲν τόνδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ εὐνοίᾳ χθονὸς

θάπτειν ἔδοξε γῆς φίλαις κατασκαφαῖς·

στέγων γὰρ ἐχθροὺς θάνατον εἵλετ᾽ ἐν πόλει,
1000

ἱερῶν πατρῴων ὅσιος ὢν μομφῆς ἄτερ

τέθνηκεν οὗπερ τοῖς νέοις θνῄσκειν καλόν.

¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹

πολυπονώτατοι πολυστονώτατοι πολυστονώτατε ¹² ἰὼ ἰὼ ¹³¹⁴ ¹⁵ ἀπαγγέλλειν¹⁶ ἀπαγγέλειν ἐπ᾽ εὐνοίᾳ ἐπ᾽ εὐνοίᾳ ἐπ᾽ εὐναίαι ¹⁷ στέγων στέγων στυγῶν ¹⁸ θνῄσκειν θνήσκειν

SEPTEM ADVERSUS THEBAS.

ΚΗΡΥΞ

οὕτω μὲν ἀμφὶ τοῦδ᾽ ἐπέσταλται λέγειν·

τούτου δ᾽ ἀδελφὸν τόνδε Πολυνείκους νεκρὸν

ἔξω βαλεῖν ἄθαπτον, ἁρπαγὴν κυσίν,
1005

ὡς ὄντ᾽ ἀναστατῆρα Καδμείων χθονός,

εἰ μὴ θεῶν τις ἐμποδὼν ἔστη δορὶ

τῷ τοῦδ᾽. ἄγος δὲ καὶ θανὼν κεκτήσεται

θεῶν πατρῴων, οὓς ἀτιμάσας ὅδε

στράτευμ᾽ ἐπακτὸν ἐμβαλὼν ἥρει πόλιν.
1010

οὕτω πετηνῶν τόνδ᾽ ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν δοκεῖ

ταφέντ᾽ ἀτίμως τοὐπιτίμιον λαβεῖν,

καὶ μήθ᾽ ὁμαρτεῖν τυμβοχόα χειρώματα

μήτ᾽ ὀξυμόλποις προσσέβειν οἰμώγμασιν,

ἄτιμον εἶναι δ᾽ ἐκφορᾶς φίλων ὕπο.
1015

τοιαῦτ᾽ ἔδοξεν τῷδε Καδμείων τέλει.

ΑΝ.

Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1011 focus

ΚΗΡΥΞ

δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντ᾽ ἀπαγγέλλειν με χρή
1005

δήμου προβούλοις τοῖσδε Καδμείας πόλεως.

Apparatus Criticus

μέλαιν Ἐρινύς μέλαινά τ᾽ νιν νιν νυν οἶσθα οἶδα διαπερῶν διεκπερῶν ὕστερος ὕστερον δορός δορί τάλαν γένος τάλανα παθόν ὦ τ. γ. ἰώ τ. γ. τάλανα καὶ παθόν τάλαινα καὶ πάθον τάλαν (ex alio) καὶ πάθον τάλανα πάθον τάλανα πάθεν τάλανα πάθη τάλανες καὶ πάθον ἰὼ πόνος ἰὼ κακά ἰὼ ἰὼ πόνος οὑφ᾽ ὑμῖν (ἡμῖn F) ἰὼ κ. ἰὼ ἰὼ κ. καὶ χθονί paragraphum ante καί add. Herm. καὶ τῆι χθ. δ᾽ ἐμοί γ᾽ καὶ τὸ πρόσω γ᾽ ἐμοί ἰὼ ἰὼ καὶ ἰώ καί interiectionem om καί om T' Tr. totum versum om ἰὼ ἰὼ semel δυστόνων δυστόνων δυσπότμων δυστάνων κακῶν πημάτων Ἐτεόκλεις ἀρχαγέτα om. ἰὼ ἰὼ ἰὼ π. πολυστονώτατοι πολυστονώτατοι πολυπονώτατοι ἰὼ ἰὼ ἰὼ ἰὼ δ. ἰώ δαιμονῶντες δαιμονῶντ᾽ ἄται ἄται ἐν ἄται ἰὼ ἰώ semel ποῦ ποῖ ἰὼ bis [ὅπου] del. Westphal ἰὼ ἰώ semel πατρὶ πάτριον δοκοῦντα μέλλοντ᾿ δόξαντ᾽ δόξαντ᾿ τοῖσδε τῆσδε correxi.

ΚΗΡΥΞ

Ἐτεοκλέα μὲν τόνδ᾽ ἐπ᾿ εὐνοίαι χθονός

θάπτειν ἔδοξε γῆς φίλαις κατασκαφαῖς·

στυγῶν γὰρ ἐχθροὺς θάνατον εἵλετ᾽ ἐν πόλει

ἱερῶν πατρώιων· ὅσιος ὢν μομφῆς ἄτερ
1010

τέθνηκεν οὗπερ τοῖς νέοις θνήισκειν καλόν.

οὕτω μὲν ἀμφὶ τοῦδ᾽ ἐπέσταλται λέγειν·

τούτου δ᾽ ἀδελφὸν τόνδε Πολυνείκους νεκρόν

ἔξω βαλεῖν ἄθαπτον ἁρπαγὴν κυσίν,

ὡς ὄντ᾽ ἀναστατήρα Καδμείων χθονός,
1015

εἰ μὴ θεῶν τις ἐμποδὼν ἔστη δορί

τῶι τοῦδ᾽. ἄγος δὲ καὶ θανὼν κεκτήσεται

θεῶν πατρώιων, οὓς ἀτιμάσας ὅδε

στράτευμ᾽ ἐπακτὸν ἐμβαλὼν ἥιρει πόλιν.

οὕτω πετηνῶν τόνδ᾽ ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν δοκεῖ
1020

ταφέντ᾽ ἀτίμως τοὐπιτίμιον λαβεῖν,

καὶ μήθ᾽ ὁμαρτεῖν τυμβοχόα χειρώματα

μήτ᾽ ὀξυμόλποις προσσέβειν οἰμώγμασιν,

εἶναι δ᾽ ἄτιμον ἐκφορᾶς φίλων ὕπο.

τοιαῦτ᾽ ἔδοξε τῶιδε Καδμείων τέλει.
1025

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.)) — 1011-1080 focus

Enter a Herald.

Herald

It is my duty to announce the will and decrees of the council on behalf of the people of this our Cadmean city.
It is decreed, first, that Eteocles here, on account of his goodwill towards the city, is to be buried in a kindly grave in its soil;

for hating the enemy he chose death in the city and driven by piety towards his ancestral shrines, he died without reproach where it is an honor for the young to die. This is how I was commanded to speak regarding him. But as for his brother, it is decreed that this corpse of Polyneices
1015

is to be cast out of the city unburied to be torn by dogs, since he would have been the destroyer of the land of the Cadmeans, if one of the gods had not used his brother’s spear to prevent him. Even in death he will retain the stain of his guilt against his fathers’ gods, whom he dishonored
1020

when he launched a foreign army against the city to take it. For this reason it is decreed that he will receive his reward by being buried without honor beneath the winged birds; and that no labor of the hands shall attend him by building up a burial mound nor shall anyone offer him reverence in shrill-sung laments.
1025

He is to be refused the honor of being carried in funeral procession by his loved ones. Such is the decree of the Cadmean authorities.
1030

1032

Antigone

I at least will say something to the rulers of the Cadmeans: even if no one else is willing to share in burying him, I will bury him alone and risk the peril

of burying my own brother. Nor am I ashamed to act in defiant opposition to the rulers of the city. A thing to be held in awe is the common womb from which we were born, of a wretched mother and unfortunate father. Therefore, my soul, willingly share his evils, even though they are unwilling,
1035

and live in kindred spirit with the dead. No hollow-bellied wolves will tear his flesh—let no one decree that! Even though I am a woman, I will myself find the means to give him burial and a grave,
1040

carrying the earth in the fold of my linen robe. With my own hands I will cover him over—let no one decree it otherwise. Take heart, I will have the means to do it.
1045

1048

Herald

I forbid you to act thus in violation of the city.

Antigone

I forbid you to make useless proclamations to me.

Herald

And yet a citizenry that has escaped evil can be harsh.
1050

Antigone

Let it be harsh! This man will not be unburied.

Herald

What! Will you honor with burial a man whom the city detests?

Antigone

For a long time now the gods have ceased to hold him in honor.

Herald

No, he was honored until he put this land in jeopardy.

Antigone

He suffered evil and gave evil in return.
1055

Herald

But this act was against all the citizens, not only one man.

Antigone

Discord is the last of the gods to close an argument. I will bury him. Put an end to your big talk.

Herald

Well then, follow your own rash plan, but I forbid it. Exit.

Chorus

Ah, misery!

O Erinyes, far-famed destroyers of families, goddesses of death who have thus laid ruin to the family of Oedipus, digging it up from the roots! What will happen to me? What should I do? What plan shall I devise? How can I have the heart neither to weep for you
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nor escort you to your tomb? But I am afraid and turn away in terror of the citizens. You, at least, Eteocles, will have many mourners, while he, wretched man, departs without lamentation
1065

and has a dirge sung only by one sister. Now who could comply with that?
1070

First Half-Chorus

Let the city take action or not take action against those who lament for Polynices. We, at all events, will go and

bury him with her, following the funeral procession. For this grief is shared by all our race, and the city approves as just different things at different times.
1075

Second Half-Chorus

We will go with this other corpse, as the city and justice, too, approves.

For after the blessed gods and powerful Zeus, he it was who saved the city of the Cadmeans from being capsized and flooded by a wave of foreign men—he beyond all others. Exeunt omnes.
1080

The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1011 focus

'Tis my duty to announce the good pleasure and the decree of the senators of the people of this city of Cadmus. It is resolved to bury this body of Eteocles for his attachment to his country, with the dear interment in earth! for in repelling our foes he met death in the city, and being pure in respect to the sacred rites of his country, blameless hath he fallen where 'tis glorious for the young to fall; thus, indeed, hath it been commissioned me to announce concerning this corpse: But [it has been decreed] to cast out unburied, a prey for dogs, this the corpse of his brother Polynices, inasmuch as he would have been the overturner of the land of Cadmus, if some one of the gods had not stood in opposition to his spear: and even now that he is dead, he will lie under the guilt of pollution with the gods of his country, whom he having dishonoured was for taking the city by bringing against it a foreign host. So it is resolved that he, having been buried dishonourably by winged fowls, should receive his recompense, and that neither piling up by hands of the mound over his tomb should follow, nor any one honour him with shrill-voiced wailings, but that he be ungraced with a funeral at the hands of his friends. Such is the decree of the magistracy of the Cadmaeans.

Antigone

LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1011 focus

The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1011 focus

My office leads me to proclaim the mandate

1140

Of the great rulers of the Theban state.

Eteocles, for that he lov'd his country,

They have decreed with honour to inter.

To shield her from her foes he sought, he fell,

Her sacred rites rever'd, unstain'd with blame,
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Where glory calls the valiant youth to bleed,

He bled. Thus far of him am I bid say.

Of Polynices, that his corse shall lie

Cast out unburied, to the dogs a prey;

Because his spear, had not the Gods oppos'd,
1150

Threaten'd destruction to the lands of Thebes.

In death the vengeance of his country's Gods

Pursues him, for he scorn'd them, and presum'd

To lead a foreign host, and storm the town.

Be this then his reward, to lie expos'd
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To rav'nous birds, unhonour'd, of the rites t

That grace the dead, libations at the tomb,

The solemn strain, that 'midst the exequies

Breathes from the friendly voice of woe, depriv'd.

These are the mandates of the Theban rulers.
1160

ANTIGONE.

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.) — 1011 focus

Ciò che decise ed ordina il senato

della città di Cadmo, annunciar devo.

1110

Onorato sepolcro Etèocle s'abbia,

che questa terra amò, che di sé schermo

facendole ai nemici, estinto cadde;

pio verso l'are avite, e senza biasimo,

morí dove morir bello è pei giovani.

1115

Tanto intorno a costui dire io vi debbo.

Ma il fratello di lui, ma il corpo spento

di Polinice, sia gettato fuori,

senza sepolcro, in preda ai cani: ch'egli

distrutta avrebbe la città di Cadmo,
1120

se alcun dei Numi non si fosse opposto

alla sua lancia. E dopo morto, ancora

accatterà dei patrî Numi l'ira:

ché li offendeva allor ch'ei, qui piombando,

con accozzate genti, la città
1125

espugnare voleva. Or si decreta

che senza onor, nel ventre degli alati

trovi sepolcro, ad espiare il fallo.

Né su la tomba sua libami cadano,

né degli acuti lai l'onori il sonito,
1130

né s'abbia il fregio delle amiche esequie.

Questo il senato dei Cadmei v'impone.

ANTIGONE

Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1011 focus

Quæ uisa funt & decreta, renunciare me oportet

Populi confiliarijs huius Cadmeæ urbis.

Eteoclem quidem hunc in beneuolentia terræ

Inhumare decretum eft,terre charis euerfionibus.

Odio babens enim hostes, mortem elegit pro urbe.
930

Sanctus exiftens ſine reprehenſione ſanorum paternorum

Occubuit, quemadmodum iuuenibus pulchrum eſt mori.

Sic pro hoc miſſus eſt dicere.

Huius fratrem Polynicis cadauer

Foras eijcere, inhumatum prædam canibus,
935

Tanqam deſtructorem Cadmee terre,

Nisi deorum aliquis impedimento fuerit hasta

Huius, fcelus etiam mortuus poſsidebit,

A dijs patrijs:quos inhonorans huc

Exercitum peregrinum ducens obſidebat urbem.
940

Sic uifum à uolucribus auibus hunc

Sepultum turpè premium accipere,

Neq; ſequi mortualia manibus facta,

Neq; honorare acutis lamentationibus.

Dedecori eſse ab exclamatione amicorum
945

Hec uiſa ſunt prefectis Cadmeorum.

Anti.

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.) — 1011 focus

I bear command to tell to one and all

What hath approved itself and now is law,
1030

Ruled by the counsellors of Cadmus' town.

For this Eteocles, it is resolved

To lay him on his earth-bed, in this soil,

Not without care and kindly sepulture.

For why? he hated those who hated us,
1035

And, with all duties blamelessly performed

Unto the sacred ritual of his sires,

He met such end as gains our city's grace,—

With auspices that do ennoble death.

Such words I have in charge to speak of him:
1040

But of his brother Polynices, this—

Be he cast out unburied, for the dogs

To rend and tear: for he presumed to waste

The land of the Cadmeans, had not Heaven—

Some god of those who aid our fatherland—
1045

Opposed his onset, by his brother's spear,

To whom, tho' dead, shall consecration come!

Against him stood this wretch, and brought a horde

Of foreign foemen, to beset our town.

He therefore shall receive his recompense,
1050

Buried ignobly in the maw of kites—

No women-wailers to escort his corpse

Nor pile his tomb nor shrill his dirge anew—

Unhouselled, unattended, cast away!

So, for these brothers, doth our State ordain.
1055

Antigone

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.) — 1011 focus

Ich muß verkünden, was beschließt und was beschloß
950

Des Kadmosvolkes hoher Nath in dieser Stadt.

Eteokles soll als seines Landes treuer Freund

Ein Grab empfangen in der Erde theurem Schooß:

Am Thor die Feinde wehrend, bot er sich dem Tod;

Der Ahnen Heiligthümer fromm beschirmend, flel
955

Er ohne Tadel, wie's dem Mann zu sterben ziemt.

Dies über ihn zu sagen, ist mir auferlegt.

Doch Polyneikes', seines Bruders, Leiche soll,

Ein Raub den Hunden, ohne Grab zur Stadt hinaus

Geworfen werden, weil er Kadmos' Land zerstört,
960

Wenn nicht des Mannes Lanze sich ein Himmlischer

Entgegenstellte. Selbst im Tode bleibt er noch

Ein Fluch der Heimat Göttern, die der Freche schnöd

Entehrend, einbrach auf die Stadt mit fremdem Volk.

So nehm' er denn von räuberischer Vögel Brut
965

Chrlos bestattet seinen Ehrenlohn dahin,

Und weder spende seinem Grab die fromme Hand,

Noch darf ein Klaglied schallend ihn verherrlichen,

Der Freunde keiner ehren ihn durch Grabgeleit!

So will's des Volkes hoher Nath in Kadmos' Stadt.
970

Antigone.

Commentary

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ἢν

εἰ μή τις

Ald. Turn. et ad

εἰ μή

supra adscripto

ὢν

Lips. τις

δε

omittit Par. E. θέλῃ

θέλοι

Μ.

θέλει

Lips.

1011

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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πετηνῶν ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν τα φέντα, eine sarkastische Wendung, vgl. Soph. Εl. 1488 κτανὼν πρόθες ταφεῦσιν ὧν τόνδ᾽ εἰκός ἐστι τυγ- χάνειν. Deshalb bezeichnete Gor- gias die Geier als ἔμψυχοι τάφοι (Longin. III 2). Vgl. auch Ennius ann. 142 vulturus crudeli condebat membra sepulcro, Lucret. V 991 vivo sepeliri viscera busto, dazu Hom. γ 258 τῷ κε οὐδὲ θανόντι χυτὴν ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἔχευαν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα τόν γε κύνες τε καὶ οἰωνοὶ κατέ- τὸ δαψαν κείμενον ἐν πεδίῳ. ἐπιτίμιον, die Grabesehre, welche für ihn keine Ehre sein wird ( ἀτί μως). Vgl. Soph. Εl. 915 ἀλλ᾽ ἔστ᾽ Ὀρέστου ταῦτα ταπιτίμια (Schol. τὰ ἐπὶ τῇ τιμῇ γινόμενα τοῦ πατρός). Sonst bedeutet ἐπιτίμια Lohn (Strafe)", Pers. 825, Soph. El. 1382, Eur. Hek. 1086, Herod. IV 80, weshalb Dindorf in der Stelle des Sophokles ταπιτύμβια geschrieben hat und hier τἀπιτύμβι ἐκλαβεῖν vermutet werden könnte.

Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 1011

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Κῆρυξ

αὐδῶ πόλιν σε μὴ βιάζεσθαι τάδε.

Ἀντιγόνη

αὐδῶ σὲ μὴ περισσὰ κηρύσσειν ἐμοί.

Κῆρυξ

τραχύς γε μέντοι δῆμος ἐκφυγὼν κακά.
1050

Ἀντιγόνη

τράχυνʼ· ἄθαπτος δʼ οὗτος οὐ γενήσεται.

Κῆρυξ

ἀλλʼ ὃν πόλις στυγεῖ, σὺ τιμήσεις τάφῳ,;

Ἀντιγόνη

ἤδη τὰ τοῦδε διατετίμηται θεοῖς.

Κῆρυξ

οὔ, πρίν γε χώραν τήνδε κινδύνῳ βαλεῖν.

Ἀντιγόνη

παθὼν κακῶς κακοῖσιν ἀντημείβετο.
1055

Κῆρυξ

ἀλλʼ εἰς ἅπαντας ἀνθʼ ἑνὸς τόδʼ ἔργον ἦν.

Ἀντιγόνη

ἔρις περαίνει μῦθον ὑστάτη θεῶν.

ἐγὼ δὲ θάψω τόνδε· μὴ μακρηγόρει.

Κῆρυξ

ἀλλʼ αὐτόβουλος ἴσθʼ, ἀπεννέπω δʼ ἐγώ.

SEPTEM ADVERSUS THEBAS.

ΑΝ.

ΚΗΡΥΞ

δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντ᾽ ἀπαγγέλλειν με χρή
1005

δήμου προβούλοις τοῖσδε Καδμείας πόλεως.

Apparatus Criticus

Herald

I forbid you to act thus in violation of the city.

Antigone

I forbid you to make useless proclamations to me.

Herald

And yet a citizenry that has escaped evil can be harsh.
1050

Antigone

Let it be harsh! This man will not be unburied.

Herald

What! Will you honor with burial a man whom the city detests?

Antigone

For a long time now the gods have ceased to hold him in honor.

Herald

No, he was honored until he put this land in jeopardy.

Antigone

He suffered evil and gave evil in return.
1055

Herald

But this act was against all the citizens, not only one man.

Antigone

Discord is the last of the gods to close an argument. I will bury him. Put an end to your big talk.

Herald

Well then, follow your own rash plan, but I forbid it. Exit.

Second Half-Chorus

We will go with this other corpse, as the city and justice, too, approves.

For after the blessed gods and powerful Zeus, he it was who saved the city of the Cadmeans from being capsized and flooded by a wave of foreign men—he beyond all others. Exeunt omnes.
1080

Antigone

ANTIGONE.

ANTIGONE

Anti.

Antigone

Antigone.

Commentary

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Κῆρυξ αὐδῶ πόλιν σε μὴ βιάζεσθαι τάδε.

Ἀντιγόνη αὐδῶ σὲ μὴ περισσὰ κηρύσσειν ἐμοί.

Κῆρυξ τραχύς γε μέντοι δῆμος ἐκφυγὼν κακά. 1050

Ἀντιγόνη τράχυνʼ· ἄθαπτος δʼ οὗτος οὐ γενήσεται.

Κῆρυξ ἀλλʼ ὃν πόλις στυγεῖ, σὺ τιμήσεις τάφῳ,;

Ἀντιγόνη ἤδη τὰ τοῦδε διατετίμηται θεοῖς.

Κῆρυξ οὔ, πρίν γε χώραν τήνδε κινδύνῳ βαλεῖν.

Ἀντιγόνη παθὼν κακῶς κακοῖσιν ἀντημείβετο. 1055

Κῆρυξ ἀλλʼ εἰς ἅπαντας ἀνθʼ ἑνὸς τόδʼ ἔργον ἦν.

Ἀντιγόνη ἔρις περαίνει μῦθον ὑστάτη θεῶν. ἐγὼ δὲ θάψω τόνδε· μὴ μακρηγόρει.

Κῆρυξ ἀλλʼ αὐτόβουλος ἴσθʼ, ἀπεννέπω δʼ ἐγώ.

SEPTEM ADVERSUS THEBAS.

ΑΝ.

ΚΗΡΥΞ δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντ᾽ ἀπαγγέλλειν με χρή 1005 δήμου προβούλοις τοῖσδε Καδμείας πόλεως.

Apparatus Criticus

Herald I forbid you to act thus in violation of the city.

Antigone I forbid you to make useless proclamations to me.

Herald And yet a citizenry that has escaped evil can be harsh. 1050

Antigone Let it be harsh! This man will not be unburied.

Herald What! Will you honor with burial a man whom the city detests?

Antigone For a long time now the gods have ceased to hold him in honor.

Herald No, he was honored until he put this land in jeopardy.

Antigone He suffered evil and gave evil in return. 1055

Herald But this act was against all the citizens, not only one man.

Antigone Discord is the last of the gods to close an argument. I will bury him. Put an end to your big talk.

Herald Well then, follow your own rash plan, but I forbid it. Exit.

First Half-Chorus Let the city take action or not take action against those who lament for Polynices. We, at all events, will go and bury him with her, following the funeral procession. For this grief is shared by all our race, and the city approves as just different things at different times. 1075

Second Half-Chorus We will go with this other corpse, as the city and justice, too, approves. For after the blessed gods and powerful Zeus, he it was who saved the city of the Cadmeans from being capsized and flooded by a wave of foreign men—he beyond all others. Exeunt omnes. 1080

Antigone

ANTIGONE.

ANTIGONE

Anti.

Antigone

Antigone.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

Κῆρυξ

αὐδῶ πόλιν σε μὴ βιάζεσθαι τάδε.

Ἀντιγόνη

αὐδῶ σὲ μὴ περισσὰ κηρύσσειν ἐμοί.

Κῆρυξ

τραχύς γε μέντοι δῆμος ἐκφυγὼν κακά.
1050

Ἀντιγόνη

τράχυνʼ· ἄθαπτος δʼ οὗτος οὐ γενήσεται.

Κῆρυξ

ἀλλʼ ὃν πόλις στυγεῖ, σὺ τιμήσεις τάφῳ,;

Ἀντιγόνη

ἤδη τὰ τοῦδε διατετίμηται θεοῖς.

Κῆρυξ

οὔ, πρίν γε χώραν τήνδε κινδύνῳ βαλεῖν.

Ἀντιγόνη

παθὼν κακῶς κακοῖσιν ἀντημείβετο.
1055

Κῆρυξ

ἀλλʼ εἰς ἅπαντας ἀνθʼ ἑνὸς τόδʼ ἔργον ἦν.

Ἀντιγόνη

ἔρις περαίνει μῦθον ὑστάτη θεῶν.

ἐγὼ δὲ θάψω τόνδε· μὴ μακρηγόρει.

Κῆρυξ

ἀλλʼ αὐτόβουλος ἴσθʼ, ἀπεννέπω δʼ ἐγώ.

ΚΗΡΥΞ

δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντ᾽ ἀπαγγέλλειν με χρή
1005

δήμου προβούλοις τοῖσδε Καδμείας πόλεως.

Herald

I forbid you to act thus in violation of the city.

Antigone

I forbid you to make useless proclamations to me.

Herald

And yet a citizenry that has escaped evil can be harsh.
1050

Antigone

Let it be harsh! This man will not be unburied.

Herald

What! Will you honor with burial a man whom the city detests?

Antigone

For a long time now the gods have ceased to hold him in honor.

Herald

No, he was honored until he put this land in jeopardy.

Antigone

He suffered evil and gave evil in return.
1055

Herald

But this act was against all the citizens, not only one man.

Antigone

Discord is the last of the gods to close an argument. I will bury him. Put an end to your big talk.

Herald

Well then, follow your own rash plan, but I forbid it. Exit.

Second Half-Chorus

We will go with this other corpse, as the city and justice, too, approves.

For after the blessed gods and powerful Zeus, he it was who saved the city of the Cadmeans from being capsized and flooded by a wave of foreign men—he beyond all others. Exeunt omnes.
1080