Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 933

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

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Yea, from one seed they sprang, and by one fate
Their heritage is desolate,
The heart's division sundered claim from claim,
And, from their feud, death came!
Now is their hate allayed,
950
Now is their life-stream shed,
Ensanguining the earth with crimson dye—
Lo, from one blood they sprang, and in one blood they lie!
A grievous arbiter was given the twain—
The stranger from the northern main,
955
The sharp, dividing sword,
Fresh from the forge and fire
The War-god treacherous gave ill award
And brought their father's curse to a fulfilment dire!

Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) (English) (Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 957-965 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 957-965 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 933 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 933 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 933 focus
Ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι
Str. 3.
διατομαῖς ἀφίλοις οὐ φίλαις
ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,
935
νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.
Πέπαυται δ' ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 933 focus
Ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι,
διατομαῖς οὐ φίλαις,
ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,
νείχεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.
920
Πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ
ζώα φονορύτῳ
μέμικται· κάρτα δ᾽ εἴσ᾽ ὅμαιμοι.
πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων ὁ πόντιος
ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς ταθείς
925
θηκτὸς σίδαρος· πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων
κακὸς δατητὰς Ἄρης, ἀρὰν πατρῴ-
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 933 focus
Translations (7)
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.)) — 957-965 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 933 focus
Fraternal in very truth! and utterly undone were they by a severing in no wise amicable, by phrenzied strife at the consummation of their feud.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 933 focus
ont fini tous deux sous les coups réciproques de leurs bras de frères !
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 933 focus
Grief, that rends the tortur'd breast,
Deep with real woes possest,
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Tears fast streaming from her eyes
From the haunts of pleasure flies,
Anguish, misery all her own,
Sadly pours the hollow groan;
Whilft the ruin'd palace round
1030
Echo answers to the sound;
And, each frightful pause between,
From her airy shell unseen,
Listens to the funeral strain,
Wailing the unhappy slain;
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Wailing all the dreadful woes
That from madding discord rose;
Many' a friend among the dead,
Whilst the hostile legions bleed.
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.) — 933 focus
Eran fratelli! E pel dissidio infesto
1030
e per la furia dissennata, giunsero,
nell'urto ultimo, a termine funesto.
Or tregua ebbe la lite.
Commiste nella polvere,
di sangue intrisa, vedi ambe le vite.
1035
Or consanguinee son!
Disciolse i nodo
de le liti fra lor l'ospite Càlibo
temprato al fuoco, in questo amaro modo:
le sciolse il ferro. Con amare mani
1040
Marte partiva i beni: i voti d'Edipo
non volle, il tristo, che cadesser vani.
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 933 focus
Vnd fati uidelicet & omnino infælices,
Separatione inimica, furenti contentione,
In fine iurgij,
860
Quicuit odium, in terra
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.) — 933 focus
Ja Bruderhand, liebelos zerfleischend, gab
Ihnen graunvollen Tod
Im wildlodernden Zwift:
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Also zerrann die Zwietracht!

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

946. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-998

πρὸς φίλου ἔφθισο Personae notam omittunt G. Vit.
πρὸς φίλου τ᾽ ἔφθιτο
Lips. Par. C. Turn.
πρὸς φίλου τ᾽ ἐφθίσω
Vind. 2. 4.
τεφθίσου
ex Par. E. affertur. Ceteri
πρὸς φίλου γ' ἔφθισο
. Delendam esse particulam etiam Blomfieldius vidit.
946

947. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-999

φίλον
Antigonae
nota praefixa et sic porro personae permutatae in G. Vit.
φίλος
Par. L.
947

948. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1000

λέγειν
πάρεστιν
post
λέγειν
addunt Vit. Mosc. 1. Par. N. Colb. 1.
948

950. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1001

ἄχεα δοιὰ τάδ᾽ ἔγγυθεν
ἀχέων τοίων τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν
M. Vit. Lips. Par. B. Ald. Turn.
ἀχέων τοίων τάδ' ἐγγύθι
Par. N. Colb. 1. γρ.
ἐγγύθι
Par. B.
γόων τοίων τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν
Arund. Cantabr. 1. Par. F. K. Ask. A. Colb. 2. Rob. Supra scriptum
ἀχέων
in Par. F. Colb. 2.
γόων ποίων τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν
G. Mosc. 2. In margine M. recentior manus adscripsit
ἀχέω ἤγουν θρηνῶ
, atque secundus scholiastes, qui
γόων
legit, postquam
τοίων
per
διπλῶν
ex antecedentibus sumptum explicavit, haec addit,
εὕρηται δὲ καὶ ἐν παλαίῳ βιβλίῳ ἀχέω τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν, ἤγουν ἐκ τοῦ πλησίον θρηνῶ, ὅπερ ἐστὶ κρεῖττον. μαρτυρεῖ δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐπαγόμενον τὸ πέλας δ' αἱ δ᾽ ἀδελφαὶ ἀδελφῶν
. Ineptum est
τοίων
vel
ποίων
. Scripsi
ἄχεα δοιὰ τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν
. Cohaerent haec et sequentia cum praegressis.
950

951. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1002

πέλας ἀδελφὰ δ᾽ ἀδελφεῶν Personae notam omittunt Lips. Arund. Ald. Rob. Turn. Antigonae versum tribuunt G. Vit.
πέλας δ' αΐδ᾽ ἀδελφοὶ ἀδελφῶν
M. G. (
ἀδελφῶν
G.) Vit. Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. Par. A. B. F.
πέλαδ' αἱ δ᾽ ἀδελφαὶ ἀδελφεῶν
Rob.
πέλας αἱ δ᾽ ἀδελφαὶ ἀδελφῶν
Ald. Turn. Scripsi
πέλας ἀδελφὰ δ᾽ ἀδελφεῶν
, paria fratrum mala. Sophocles Antig. v. 192.
καὶ νῦν ἀδελφὰ τῶνδε κηρύξας ἔχω ἀστοῖσι
.
951

952-953. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1003

ὀλοὰ λέγειν. ὀλοὰ δ᾽ ὁρᾶν. Hi duo versus in libris post v. 976. collocati sunt, ad quem locum quare eos hic posuerim explicabitur.

954. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1004

βαρυδότειρα Hunc versum Ismenae tribuit Vit. hunc et duos sequentes Ismenae G. Lips. Rob. Antigonae Ald. Turn.
βαρυσδότειρα
Par. C.
954

955. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1005

NA Antigonae hic versus est in Vit. Οἰδίπου σκιὰ simulacrum Oedipi est quod Eteocli in somniis apparuit: vide v. 691. Umbra, mortui simulacrum, σκιά est apud Euripidem Herc. fur. v. 494. et apud Sophoclem Ai. v. 1257. et simpliciter simulacrum in eadem Sophoclis fabula v. 301. Quod haec rariora sunt, ad alienissima confugerunt scholiastae.
955

956. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1006

μέλαιν' Hunc versum cum Vit. Ismenae tribuendum censui. Nam quum omnino parum credibile sit hoc ephymnium ab sola Antigona pronunciari, tum vero flagitant etiam sequentia, ut utrobique hunc versum Ismena pronuntiet. Vtroque enim loco, quae statim sequuntur, Antigonae verba sunt: a qua non et finiri prior stropha et incipi sequens poterat. Porsonus.
μέλαινά τ'
libri. Ἐρινύς
ἐρινὺς
Μ.
Ἐριννύς
vulgo. τις omittunt Ox. Ald.
956

957-972. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1007

NA Librarius qui codicem Vit. scripsit, oculis ad alterum ephymnium aberrans, versus 957-972. omiserat, quos versus, errore animadverso, in ima pagina adiecit, omissis tamen versibus 971. 972.

957-959. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1008

ἠέ. ἠέ. δυςθέατα πήματα. ἔδειξε δ᾽ ἐκ φυγᾶς ἐμοί. Versus 957-959. Antigonae tribuunt G. Vit. Lips. Ismenae Turn. In Ald. ante
ἠέ
Ismenae, ante
δυςθέατα
Antigonae nota apposita est. Rob.
ἠέ
praecedentibus Ismenae verbis addit, Antigonae nomen ante
δυςθέατα
collocat. In M. primo tantum horum versuum lineola appicta est, ut haec omnia Ismenae tributa sint.
ἠέ
semel Ox. Ald. Rob. Tribuendum erat unum Antigonae, alterum Ismenae.
δυσθέατα πήματα | ἐδείξατ᾽ ἐκ φυγᾶς ἐμοί
Μ. (sic M.) Vit.
δυσθέατα πήματα | ἐδείξετε (supra scripto ad penultimam syllabam α) φυγάς (ad ς supra scripto σ) ἐμοί
G.
δυσθέατα πήματ' ἐδείξατ᾽ ἐκ φυγᾶς (ἐκ φυγάς Lips.) ἐμοί
Lips. Turn.
δυσθέατα πήματ᾽ ἐδείξατ' ἐκ φυγᾶς | ἐμοὶ
etc. Ald.
δυσθέατα πήματ' ἐδείξατ' ἐκ φυγᾶς
, omisso
ἐμοί
, Rob.
ἐκφυγὰς
Par. C.
ἐκ φυγών
Ven. B. Antistrophicorum ratio monstrat alterum versum tribuendum esse Ismenae atque ita emendandum,
A. δυςθέατα πήματα. Ι. ἔδειξε δ᾽ ἐκ φυγᾶς ἐμοί.

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

941-995. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-605

1
2
θρῆνος der Antigone und Ismene. Antigone steht an der Leiche des Polynikes, Ismene an der des Eteokles. Der Gesang besteht aus vier Teilen; im ersten und dritten entspricht immer die Partie der Ismene der Partie der Antigone, im zweiten Teile besteht außer dieser Responsion noch die Responsion eines größeren Strophen- paares, das mit einem Ephymnion der beiden Schwestern schließt; im letzten Teile entsprechen sich zwei Verse, die wieder von Antigone und Ismene gemeinsam gesungen werden, und zwei Verse, von denen der eine der Antigone, der andere der Ismene gehört. Eine ähnliche Gestalt der Responsion findet sich nur noch Eur. Androm. 1197 ff.

949. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-608

3
4
κατακτάς auch Eur. Alk. 3 und 696, Iph. T. 715, Hom. X 323.

952. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-609

5
6
μαίνεται, vgl. Θυιάς 821.

953. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-610

7
8
ἐν (für ἐντὸς Burney) ad- verbiell vor δέ wie Soph. Ο. Τ. 182, Trach. 207, hier wohl im Sinne von ἐντός.

954. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-611

9
10
πάνδυρτε für πανδάκρυτε Ritschl um des Versmaßes willen; Pers. 943 und 946 ist πάνδυρτον für πανόδυρτον hergestellt worden. Die Tragiker bedienen sich der Form δύρομαι um des Versmaßes willen. Hermann schreibt δακρυτέ, welches vielleicht um der genaueren Responsion willen vorzuziehen ist.