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Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator)

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Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1922.

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Seven Against Thebes (English) (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 369-416 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 333 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 333 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 333 focus
κλαυτὸν δ᾽ ἀρτιτρόποις
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ὠμοδρόπων νομίμων προπάροιθεν διαμεῖψαι
δωμάτων στυγερὰν ὁδόν.
τί τὸν φθίμενον γὰρ προλέγω
βέλτερα τῶνδε πράσσειν;
πολλὰ γάρ, εὖτε πτόλις δαμασθῇ,
320
ἒ ἔ,
δυςτυχῆ τε πράσσει·
ἄλλος δ᾽ ἄλλον ἄγει, φονεύ-
ει, τὰ δὲ πυρφορεῖ·
καπνῷ δὲ χραίνεται πόλισμ᾽ ἅπαν·
325
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 333 focus
Κλαυτὸν δ' ἀρτιτρόποις ὠμοδρόπων
Ant. 2.
νομίμων προπάροιθεν διαμεῖψαι
δωμάτων στυγερὰν ὁδόν·
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τί ; τὸν φθίμενον γὰρ προλέγω
βέλτερα τῶνδε πράσσειν.
Πολλὰ γάρ, εὖτε πτόλις δαμασθῇ,
ἐή, δυστυχῆ τε πράσσει·
ἄλλος δ' ἄλλον ἄγει, φονεύ-
340
ει, τὰ δὲ πυρφορεῖ· καπνῷ καπνῷ δὲ
χραίνεται πόλισμ' ἅπαν·
μαινόμενος δ' ἐπιπνεῖ λαοδάμας
μιαίνων εὐσέβειαν Ἄρης.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 333 focus
κλαυτὸν δ᾽ ἀρτιδρόποις ὠμοδρόπων,
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νομίμων προπάροιθεν, διαμείψαι
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 333 focus
κλαυτὸν δ᾽ †ἀρτιτρόποις ὠμοδρόπων
νομίμων προπάροιθεν διαμεῖψαι
δώματα στυγερὰν ὁδόν.
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τί; τὸν φθίμενον γὰρ προλέγω
βέλτερα τῶνδε πράσσειν·
πολλὰ γάρ, εὔτε πτόλις δαμασθῆι,
ἔ ἔ, δυστυχή τε πράσσει.
ἄλλος δ᾽ ἄλλον ἄγει, φονεύ-
340
Translations (8)
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 333 focus
And a mournful thing it is for [maidens] just marriageable
, before the celebration of rites for culling the fresh flower of their virginity, to have to traverse a hateful journey from their homes. What? I pronounce that the dead fares better than these; for full many are the calamities, alas! alas! which a city undergoes when it has been reduced. One drags another
, slaughters, and to parts he sets fire—the whole city is defiled with smoke, and raving Mars that tramples down the nations, violating piety, inspires them.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 333 focus
de chastes vierges, avant les rites
qui cueilleront leur tendre fleur, prissent la route nouvelle d'une demeure abhorrée. Ah ! les morts, je l'assure, ont un meilleur destin ! Quand une cité succombe, hélas ! innombrables
sont ses maux. Tel vainqueur fait des prisonniers, tel autre tue ; ailleurs, on incendie. La fumée souille la ville entière. Arès souffle en furieux 1 , domptant
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 333 focus
Before my sad presaging soul
What scenes of imag'd horror roll!
I see the tender virgin's woe,
E'er yet her ripen'd beauties glow;
The hateful way I see her tread,
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Forcibly torn from her sweet home:
Happier, far happier are the dead;
They rest within the silent tomb.
But, the walls humbled to the ground,
What dreadful mis'ries rage around!
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Furious one leads the vengeful bands;
One stains with blood his reeking hands;
Wide roll, outrageous to destroy,
The dusky smoke, and torrent fires;
Whilſt slaught'ring Mars with hideous joy
360
The heav'ncontemning rage inspires.
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.) — 333 focus
E trascinate le donne vedove,
ahimè, le vecchie presso alle giovani,
come cavalle, per la cesarie,
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fatte a brandelli le vesti. Ed ulula
la città vuota, mentre esse vanno
fra le commiste grida, a rovina.
lo tutta tremo già per il grave futuro danno.
2 Antistrofe II
Ahi, quale pianto, pria delle nozze, le intatte vergini
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vederle muovere, per la cesarie
tratte, a le case che ancora tenere
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 333 focus
Lacrymabile eſt puellis, crudeliter
Ante iura connubialia migrare
Ex domibus suis inuisa uia,
Quid prædico eum qui interijt,
Meliora his habere?
310
Multa ſunt, quando urbs expugnata fuerit,
Heuheu infœliciter agere:alius alium
Ducit, interficit, hæc ignem ferunt,
Fumo uerò inquinatur omnis urbs.
Furens uerò inſpirat hominum domitor
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Cruentans pietatem Mars
Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 333 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.) — 333 focus
For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower
Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!
Alas for the hate and the horror—how say it?—less hateful by far
Is the doom to be slain by the sword, hewn down in the carnage of war!
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For wide, ah! wide is the woe when the foeman has mounted the wall;
There is havoc and terror and flame, and the dark smoke broods over all,
And wild is the war-god's breath, as in frenzy of conquest he springs,
And pollutes with the blast of his lips the glory of holiest things!
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.) — 333 focus
O Leid, zöge die Braut, eben erblüht,
Vor der Feier der frischpflückenden Brautnacht
Weg vom Haus den verhaßten Weg!
Was sag' ich es noch? Glücklicher ist,
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Welchen der Tod entraffte!
Vieles ja muß, wenn der Feind die Stadt nahm,
Grauses muß sie dulden:
Ringsum schaltet Gewalt,
Und Mord wüthet, und Brand lodert auf.
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Geschwärzt vom Nauche qualmt die ganze Stadt;
Völkervertilgend in Wuth, schnaubt er herein,
Verunreint fromme Stätten, Ares.
Dritte Strophe.

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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διαδρομᾶν:
ἁρπαγαὶ δὲ
Ald.
διαδρομὰς
G. Mosc. 1. Taur. Vere poetica est et optime cum sequentibus congruens explicatio, ad quam animum attollere ausus est alter scholiastes, et rapinae fiunt, sorores' discursalionum.
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ξυμβολεῖ:
ξυμβολεῖ
Μ. Vit. Turn. In M. non
βάλλει
, sed
ἄλλος
a recentiore manu supra adscriptum est.
ξυμβλεῖ
Par. F.
ξυμβαλεῖ
Cantabr. 1. Ox. Ven. A. Vind. 4. Ald. Rob. et
λ
superscripto Mosc. 1.
ξυμβαλῇ
Lips.
συμβαλεῖ
Par. E.
ξυμβάλλει
G. (sic G.) Mosc. 2. Par. L. Ven. B. (sic) Vind. 1. 3.
ξυμβαλεῖ
correctum in
ξυμβάλλει
, οι γρ.
ξυμβαλεῖ
Par. B. Hesychius
συμβολεῖ, συντυγχάνει
.
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καλεῖ:
λαλεῖ
Cantabr. 1.
335

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ξύννομον:
ξύννομον
G. Cantabr. 1. Par. C. Ald. Rob. et altero ν super- scripto Cantabr. 2.
336

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ἴσον λελιμμένοι. τῶν ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ εἰκάσαι λόγος πάρα:
ἴσον
Vit. Ald. Rob.
λελιμμένοι
Arund. Cantabr. 1. 2. Mosc. 2. Par. A. B. Ask. A. et ad ι superscripto Mosc. 1.
λελημμένοι
M. G. Par. C. E. et ad ι superscripto Ven. B.
λελημένοι
Lips.
λελειμμένοι
, superscripto ι, Vit.
λειμμένος
Ox. Ald. Rob. Turn.
λελημμένος
, superscripto ι, Ven. A. Post
λελιμμένοι
vulgo plene inter- pungitur. In proximo versu libri
τίν ἐκ τῶνδ᾽
, nisi quod Μ.
τί· ἐκ τῶνδ᾽
habet, sed cum litura post
τί
et adscripto in margine a recentiore manu
τίν' ἐκ
. Secunda manus hoc adscripsit scholion, τί ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ εἰκάσαι. τί δεῖ ὑπονοῆσαι ἐκ τούτων, ἢ πένθη καὶ συμφοράς; Non scripsisse Aeschylum
τίν ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ εἰκάσαι λόγον πάρα
; et antistrophicus versus et haec ipsa verba docent. Nam in media malorum captae urbis descriptione frigidissime talis sententia insereretur, eodem modo ut in fine strophiae secundae. Coniungenda haec sunt cum praecedentibus atque ita scribendum
ξυμβολεῖ φέρων φέροντι, καὶ κενὸς κενὸν καλεῖ, ξύννομον θέλων ἔχειν, οὔτε μεῖον, οὔτ᾽ ἴσον λελιμμένοι τῶν ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ εἰκάσαι λόγος πάρα.
i. e. οὔτε μεῖον ὧν vel οὔτ᾽ ἴσον οἷς. Praeda onustus alii rapta ferenti obvius est; vacuus vacuum advocat, nec minus nec tantum, quantum illos, quos ferentes aliquid vident, rapuisse coniicere licet, sed plus cupientes.

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παντοδαπὸς ... χαμάδις ... ἀλγύνει:
παντοδαπής
Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 2. Par. K.
χαμάδης
G. Lips.
ἀλγυνεῖ
Vit.
ἀγύνει
Par. E.
ἀργύνει
Ald.
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κυρήσας, πικρόν γ' ὄμμα θαλαμηπόλων: Libri
κυρήσας πικρὸν δ᾽ ὄμμα θαλαμηπόλων
, nisi quod
κηρύσας
habet Lips.
ὄμα
G.
θαλαμηπόλλων
Colb. 1. Articulum
τῶν
ante
θαλαμηπόλων
auctore Arnaldo in Animadv. p. 194. male inseruit Brunckius eumque secuti Schutzius et Porsonus. Post
κυρήσας
vulgo interpungitur. Removendam esse interpunctionem manifestum est, idque intellexit etiam Wellauerus, qui
πικρὸν δ’
in
πικρῶν
mutandum censuit. Lenius visum est
παντοδαπὸς δὲ καρπὸς χαμάδις πεσὼν ἀλγύνει κυρήσας πικρόν γ' ὄμμα θαλαμηπόλων
.
340

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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erstes Stasimon: Die Jungfrauen bringen es nicht über sich, der Mahnung des Eteo- kles zu gehorchen. In ihrer Angst führen sie sich den allgemeinen Sturmangriff auf die Stadt vor Augen und rufen die Götter um Hilfe an. Welches schönere Land könnt ihr für unser Land ein- tauschen? Bringt deshalb Verderben über die Feinde, verleiht Sieg den Bürgern. Beklagenswert wäre es, wenn eine so uralte Stadt von Hellenen geknechtet würde und die Greuel der Plünderung erdulden müßte". Diese Greuel werden mit den lebhaftesten Farben geschildert nach Hom. I 592 κατέλεξεν ἅπαντα κήδε' ὅσ' ἀνθρώποισι πέλει τῶν ἄστυ ἁλώῃ· ἄνδρας μὲν κτείνουσι, πόλιν δέ τε πῦρ ἀμαθύνει, τέκνα δέ τ' ἄλλοι ἄγουσι βαθυζώνους τε γυναῖκας, Χ 61 κακὰ πόλλ' ἐπιδόντα, υἷάς τ' ὀλλυμένους ἑλκηθείσας τε θύγατρας καὶ θαλάμους κεραϊζο- μένους καὶ νήπια τέκνα βαλλόμενα προτὶ γαίῃ. - Den Gesang trägt wohl der Gesamtchor vor.

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Schol. παρά τό Ομηρικὸν κ ἀνὴρ δ᾽ ἄνδρ᾽ ἐδνοπάλιζεν“

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Das blutige Geblöke (Schol. ἐπὶ τῶν ἄσημα φθεγγομένων νέων τὴν βληχὴν ἔθηκεν) von Säug- lingen, die gerade an der Mutter- brust genährt werden" ist das Wimmern von Kindern, die von der Mutterbrust gerissen und ge- tötet werden. Jüngere Handschriften geben ἀρτιβρεφείς.

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Das Plündern ist dem Hin- und Herrennen gesellt", d. h. die einen tragen fort, die andern kom- men zurück um zu holen. Vgl. Quint. III 69 profanorum sacrorum- que direptio, efferentium praedas repetentiumque discursus. Mit ὁμαίμονες vgl. κάσιν 481, Soph. Frg. 839 ἡ δὲ μωρία μάλιστ᾽ ἀδελφὴ τῆς πονηρίας ἔφυ. In διαδρομᾶν ist δια wie in διαπρέπον Pers. 1010 als eine lange Silbe zu sprechen. Vgl. zu 275.

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Hesych. συμβολεῖ· συντυγ χάνει. φέρων ein mit Beute Be- ladener, κενός einer der keine Beute trägt.