Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 1032

Paul Mazon (Editor)

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

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Current edition Experimental

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

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (4)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1032 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1032 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1032 focus
ἐγὼ δὲ Καδμείων γε προστάταις λέγω·
ἢν μή τις ἄλλος τόνδε συνθάπτειν θέλῃ,
ἐγώ σφε θάψω κἀνὰ κίνδυνον βαλῶ
θάψασ᾽ ἀδελφὸν τὸν ἐμόν, οὐδ᾽ αἰσχύνομαι
1020
ἔχουσ᾽ ἄπιστον τήνδ᾽ ἀναρχίαν πόλει
δεινὸν τὸ κοινὸν σπλάγχνον, οὗ πεφύκαμεν,
μητρὸς ταλαίνης κἀπὸ δυστήνου πατρός.
τοιγὰρ θέλουσ᾽ ἄκοντι κοινώνει κακῶν,
ψυχή, θανόντι ζῶσα συγγόνῳ φρενί.
1025
τούτου δὲ σάρκας οὐδὲ κοιλογάστορες
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1032 focus
Translations (7)
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1032 focus
But I say to the rulers of the Cadmaeans, if not another single person is willing to take part with me in burying him, I will bury him, and will expose myself
to peril by burying my brother. And I feel no shame at being guilty of this disobedient insubordination against the city. Powerful is the tie of the common womb from which we sprung, from a wretched mother, and a hapless sire. Wherefore, my soul, do thou, willing with the willing share in his woes, with the dead, thou living, with sisterly feeling—and nought shall lean-bellied wolves tear his flesh—let no one suppose it. All woman though I be, I will contrive a tomb and deep-dug grave for him, bearing earth in the bosom-fold of my fine-linen robe, and I myself will cover him; let none imagine the contrary: an effective scheme shall aid my boldness.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1032 focus
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1032 focus
And to these Theban rulers I declare,
If none besides dare bury him, myself
Will do that office, heedless of the danger,
And think no shame to disobey the state,
Paying the last sad duties to a brother.
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Nature has tender ties, and strongly joins
The offspring of the same unhappy mother,
And the same wretched father. In this task
Shrink not, my soul, to share the ills he suffer'd,
Involuntary ills; and whilft life warms
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This breast, be bold to show a sister's love
To a dead brother. Shall the famish'd wolves
Fatten on him? Away with such a thought.
I, tho' a woman, will prepare his tomb,
Dig up the earth, and bear it in this bosom,
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In these fine folds to cover him. Go to.
I will not be oppos'd. Fruitful invention
Shall devise means to execute the task.
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.) — 1032 focus
Ai patroni di Tebe io questo dico.
Se niun altro costui vuol seppellire,
io lo seppellirò, questo pericolo
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affronterò sola io. Non m'è disdoro,
dando sepolcro al fratel mio, mostrarmi
ribelle alla città.
Troppa è la forza
del comun sangue onde nascemmo: misera
1140
madre, da te, da te, padre infelice.
Di buon grado i suoi mali ora partecipa,
anche s'ei non lo voglia, anima mia!
Le carni di costui non pasceranno
i famelici lupi: oh!, niun lo speri!
1145
lo gli darò sepolcro : io scaverò
la fossa, ancor che donna: io nelle pieghe
d'un mantello di bisso, porterò
il morto corpo, e gli darò sepolcro.
Né pensi alcuno opporsi. Al mio volere
1150
sarà compagna l'opera mia scaltra.
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1032 focus
Ego præfectis Cadmeorum dico,
Si noluerit aliquis alius hunc inhumare,
Ego ipſum sepeliam, ſi in diſcrimen ueniam:
Non pudore afficta sepeliens fratrem meum.
950
Habens infidelem magistratus carentiam urbi.
Habent enim magnas uires comunia uiſcera, quibus
nati sumus,
Matris miſeræ, patris infœlicis.
Certe enim uolens nolenti particeps erit malorum.
955
Anima mortuo uiuens menti conſanguineæ.
Huius carnes neq;
Lupi ingluuioſi uorabunt, ne uiſum ſit alicui.
Sepulchrum enim huic, defeſsionem ego,
Quamuis mulier sim, hic condum.
960
In sinu ferens byſſinum peplum.
Ipſaq; obtegam, neq; si uifum fuerit cotrariũ alicui,
Confidentiæ adest ars efficax.
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.) — 1032 focus
And I—to those who make such claims of rule
In Cadmus' town—I, though no other help,
( Pointing to the body of Polynices)
I, I will bury this my brother's corse
And risk your wrath and what may come of it!
1060
It shames me not to face the State, and set
Will against power, rebellion resolute:
Deep in my heart is set my sisterhood,
My common birthright with my brothers, born
All of one womb, her children who, for woe,
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Brought forth sad offspring to a sire ill-starred.
Therefore, my soul! take thou thy willing share,
In aid of him who now can will no more,
Against this outrage: be a sister true,
While yet thou livest, to a brother dead!
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Him never shall the wolves with ravening maw
Rend and devour: I do forbid the thought!
I for him, I—albeit a woman weak—
In place of burial-pit, will give him rest
By this protecting handful of light dust
1075
Which, in the lap of this poor linen robe,
I bear to hallow and bestrew his corpse
With the due covering. Let none gainsay!
Courage and craft shall arm me, this to do.
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.) — 1032 focus
Und ich erkläre dieses Volks Gewaltigen :
Wenn Keiner mir den Todten mitbestatten will,
Ich selbst bestatt' ihn, und bestehe die Gefahr,
Bestatte meinen Bruder, und erröthe nicht,
Unfolgsam Troß zu bieten dem Machtwort der Stadt.
975
Stark sind des Blutes Bande, dem wir beid' entstammt,
Der ärmsten Mutter Sprossen und des ärmsten Manns.
Drum dulde willig, was er ungern trug, o Herz,
Dem Todten lebend opfre dich mit Schwestersinn!'
Nein, diesen Leichnam sollen nicht raubgierige
980
Wehrwölfe mir zerfleischen: hoffe Keiner das!
Ich will mit eignen Händen ihm, obwohl ein Weib,
Das Grab bereiten und die Grabesehren weih'n;
Im Schooß des Byssoskleides trag' ich ihn hinaus,
Bestatte selbst ihn: wehren soll es Keiner mir!
985
Dem Muth gesellt sich siegend auch die frische That.

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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πρίν γε
πρίν τε
Lips. βαλεῖν
λαβεῖν
Par. L.
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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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,,Dem Mute werden die Mittel und Wege zur Ausführung nicht fehlen. Vgl. μηχανὴ λυτή- ριος Eum. 649, τύχη πρακτήριος Hik. 532.