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Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth. New York. 1922.

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

Editions (5)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1011 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1011 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1011 focus
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,
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ἱερῶν πατρῴων ὅσιος ὢν μομφῆς ἄτερ
τέθνηκεν οὗπερ τοῖς νέοις θνῄσκειν καλόν.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1011 focus
Translations (9)
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 focus
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.
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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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,
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né s'abbia il fregio delle amiche esequie.
Questo il senato dei Cadmei v'impone.
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.
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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,
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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.
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Sic uifum à uolucribus auibus hunc
Sepultum turpè premium accipere,
Neq; ſequi mortualia manibus facta,
Neq; honorare acutis lamentationibus.
Dedecori eſse ab exclamatione amicorum
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Hec uiſa ſunt prefectis Cadmeorum.
Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1011 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.) — 1011 focus
I bear command to tell to one and all
What hath approved itself and now is law,
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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,
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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:
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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—
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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,
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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
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
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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.
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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

1011. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1054

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

1012. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1055

κἀνὰ κίνδυνον βαλῶ Turn.
κ' ἀνακίνδυνον βάλω
Μ.
κἀνακίνδυνον βάλω
e correctione G.
κἂν ἀκίνδυνον βάλω
Vit. et ante correctionem G.
κἂν ἀκίνδυνον βαλῶ
Vind. 2. 4.
κανακίνδυνον βαλῶ
Vind. 1. 3.
κἂν ἀκίνδυνον βάλλω
Mosc. 2. et
βάλλω
etiam Cantabr. 1.
κἀνὰ ἀκίνδυνον βάλω
Ald.
κἂν εἰς κίνδυνον βάλω
Lips. Rob.
καν ἀκίνδυνον λάβω
Mosc. 1. Scholiastae
εἰς κίνδυνον ἐμβαλῶ ἐμαυτήν
intelligunt. Vnde Blomfieldius
καμὲ κινδύνῳ βαλώ
, quod voluisse putat Porsonum, qui obelum apposuit. Sed
κίνδυνον ἀναβάλλειν
dictum est ut
κίνδυνον ἀναρρίπτειν
vel
ῥίπτειν
.
1012

1013. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1056

τὸν ἐμόν, οὐδ᾽ αἰσχύνομαι
τὸν ἐμὸν δ᾽ οὐκ αἰσχύνομεν
Rob.
1013

1014. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1057

τήνδ᾽
δ'
omittit Par. E. πόλει
πόλιν
, sed cum glossa
ἐν τῇ
, G.
1014

1015. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1058

δεινὸν τὸ
δεινὸν γὰρ τὸ
Par. K. L. Ven. B. Rob.
1015

1017. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1059

ἄκοντι
ἑκοντὶ
ex
ἄκοντι
a sec. manu factum in G. κοινώνει
κοινωνεῖ
Ask. A. ut scribendum esse male putavit Heathius.
κοινωνεῖν
fuerat in G. sed
ν
eraso
κοινώνει
factum est. κακῶν
κακῶι
, sed ut antea
κακοῦ
fuisse videatur, M.
κακῶ
Ald.
κακῷ
Turn.
κακῶν
recte G. Vit. Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. Par. F. H. K. N. Ask. A. Colb. 2. Ven. B. Rob. In margine Lips. adscriptum
κοινοῦ κακόν
.
1017

1018. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1060

ψυχή e correctione et supra
ὦ
, quum ante fuisset
ψυχὴν
, Vit. συγγόνῳ
συγκόνω
, ad
ω
supra adscripto
ον
, Lips.
1018

1019. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1061

τούτου Vit. et plerique, ut videtur, reliqui codices atque Ald. Rob. Turn. Sic e correctione G.
τούτῳ
Par. E. L. Vind. 2. 4. et ante correctionem G. Sic etiam Lips. sed
ου
supra adscripto. δὲ omittit G. οὐδὲ non
οὔτε
, etiam G. κοιλογάστορες
κοιλογάστερες
Vit.
1019

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σπάσονται Vit. Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. 2. Mosc. 1. 2. Οx. Par. A. B. E. F. H. In Vit. supra scriptum
γρ. καὶ πάσονται ἤτοι γεύσονται
. In Lips.
γρ. πάσονται ἤγουν φάγωσιν
. In G. fuerat
σπάσονται
, sed eraso priore
σ
factum
πάσονται
, adscriptumque
γεύσονται
. Etiam M. habuisse videtur
σπάσονται
: nam litura est ante
πάσονται
, cui
γεύσονται
supra adscriptum est.
πάσονται
Ald. Rob. Turn. μὴ
μὴ δὲ
pro
μὴ
Vit.
1220

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τάφον γὰρ αὐτὴ verissime Piersonus Verisim. p. 41.
τάφον γὰρ αὐτοῦ
G.
τάφον γὰρ αὐτῶν
Par. C. Ceteri
τάφον γὰρ αὐτῷ
. In Lips.
ου
ad ultimam in
αὐτῷ
syllabam supra adscriptum est.
1021

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οὖσα omittit Rob. ἐγὼ omittit Lips.
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κόλπῳ In G. supra
κόλπῳ
scriptum est minio
τοῖς
. Adscriptum enim hoc scholion,
ἐν τοῖς κόλποις βαστάζουσα τοῦ κοκκίνου καὶ βασιλικοῦ ἱματίου
.
1023

1024. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1066

καὐτὴ
καὐτῇ
Rob.
1024

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θάρσει· παρέσται Interpunctionem post
θάρσει
, quam etiam M. habet, sustulit Porsonus,
θάρσει
cum Burgessio pro dativo habens. Recte vero glossa in G.
ἔχε θάρρος
.
πάρεστι
, sed supra adscripto
γρ. παρέσται
,
ἤγουν γενήσεται
Lips. μηχανὴ
σωτήριος
Cantabr. 1.
1025

1026. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1068

τόδε Recepi
τάδε
ex M. Vit. Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. Β. Ε. Colb. 1. 2. regioque Spanhemii et Rob. Sic habuerat etiam G., in quo deinde in
τόδε
mutatum.
τόδε
Ald. Turn. γρ.
τόδε, τὸ τοῦτον θάψαι
Par. B.
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τράχυν· ἄθαπτος δ᾽ οὗτος οὐ γενήσεται.
τραχύνεσθ'
Ald.
τραχύς
Rob.
τράχυνε
recte explicat scholiastes
λέγε πολλάκις, τραχύς ἐστιν ὁ δῆμος, ἀλλ' ὅμως οὐκ ἀναστελεῖς με θάψαι τὸν ἀδελφόν
. Male in Vit. omissum
δ'
, ut in editionibus Pauwiana, Schutziana, Porsoniana.
1029

1030. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1070

σὺ omittit Vit. τιμήσεις τάφῳ
σὺ τιμήσειας
G. Vind. 1.
σὺ μὴ τιμήσῃς
Par. E. Vind. 4.
μὴ σὺ τιμήσεις
Vind. 2.
σὺ κοσμήσεις
, adscripto
γρ.τιμήσεις
, Cantabr. 1.
1030

1031. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1071

ἤδη τὰ τοῦδ᾽ οὐ δυςτετίμηται θεοῖς
οὐ τετίμηται
Vit.
οὐ διατετίμητος
Arund. Ceteri
οὐ διατετίμηται
. Scribendum flagitante sententia
ἤδη τὰ τοῦδ᾽ οὐ δυςτετίμηται θεοῖς
. Talia contra analogiam necessitate quadam formantur, ut
δυςθνήσκειν
apud Euripidem,
δυςαρεσκόμενοι
,
δυςαρεσκομένην
apud Hesychium. V. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 616. 620. Eadem ratio est nominum, ut
δυςτοκέες τοκέες
,
δύςμητερ
,
Δύςπαρι
,
Δυςελένη
.
1031

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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2
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.

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4
ἁμαρτεῖν, αὐτῷ. — τυμβο χόα χειρώματα, grabaufschüttende Hantierung" d. i. Aufschüttung eines Grabhügels durch Menschen- hände. Vgl. τυχβοχόη Hom. Φ 323. Naber τυμβοχία μειλίγματα.

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5
6
ὀξυμόλποις οἰμώγμασιν, mit schrillen Klagegesängen. Vgl. tòv ὀξὺν νόμον 936.

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8
ἄτιμον ἐκφορᾶς τοῦ ἐκ- φέρεσθαι ὑπὸ φίλων) wie τάφου ἀτιμάσας Soph. Αnt. 21. Vgl. ἀτί- μους τοῦ συμβουλεύειν Dem. 15, 33, γήρως ἄλυπα Soph. Ο. Ε. 1514, Anders χάρις οὐκ ἄτιμος πόνων Αg. 366. — Uber die Stellung von δέ zu 41.

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10
ἔδοξ᾽ ἐν für ἔδοξεν Laub. mann ( ἔδοξ᾽ ἐς τόνδε Halm, ἔδοξ᾽ ἐς τώδε Weil): solches hat an diesem die Obrigkeit der Kadmeer beschlossen". Vgl. 1003. — τέλει wie τοῖς ἐν τέλει. Vgl. Λακεδαιμονίων τὰ τέλη Thuk. IV 86.

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11
12
ἐγὼ δέ γε, denn γέ gehört κι ἐγώ.

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13
14
ἀναβάλλειν κίνδυνον (das geführliche Spiel wagen) wie άναρ- ρίπτειν ( ῥίπτειν) κίνδυνον Eur. Heraklid. 148, Rhes. 155, Thuk. IV 85 nach κύβον ἀναρρίπτειν ( δίπτειν). Die Art der Tmesis, bei welcher bedeutende Worte, nicht bloße Partikeln wie δέ, γάρ und enklitische Pronomina zwischen Präposition und Verbum treten, findet sich noch Ag. 1214f., Prom. Blomfield vermutet κἀμὲ 904f. κινδύνῳ βαλῶ nach 1039.

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16
Für θάψασ' ist wohl nach der Vermutung von Stadtmüller θρηνοῦσ᾽ zu schreiben. Während θάψασ' nach θάψω überfüssig ist, bezieht sich θρηνοῦσα auf das in 1014 gegebene Verbot.

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τήνδε ἀναρχίαν ἄπιστον (827) πόλει ἔχουσα ἀπιστοῦσα, ἀπειθοῦσα), in dieser Sache mich der Gemeinde unbotmäßig und un- gehorsam zeigend.

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δεινόν (von mächtiger Wir- kung) wie Prom. 39 τὸ συγγενές τοι δεινὸν ἥ θ' ὁμιλία, Soph. Εl. 770 δεινὸν τὸ τίκτειν ἐστίν, Eur. Phoen. 355 δεινὸν γυναιξὶν αἱ δι' ὠδίνων γοναί. σπλάγχνον: vgl. Soph. Αnt. 1066 τῶν σῶν αὐτὸς ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα νέκυν . . ἀντιδοὺς ἔσῃ und den Gebrauch von viscera (,,Fleisch und Blut").

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μητρὸς . . πατρός schließt sich, wie από zeigt, an πεφύκαμεν statt an σπλάγχνον an. Pauw ver- mutet καὶ τὸ für κἀπό.

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Θέλουσ' ἄκοντι: der Bru- der ist wider Willen ins Unglück geraten, sie nimmt freiwillig an dem Unglück des Bruders teil.

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ψυχή, eine häufge Anrede seit Homer v 18 τέτλαθι δή, κρα- δίη. Vgl. Archil. Fragm. 66 θυμὲ θύμ᾽ ἀμηχάνοισι κήδεσιν κυκώμενε, Theogn. 695 οὐ δύναμαί σοι, θυμέ, παρασχεῖν ἄρμενα πάντα· τέτλαθι, 877, 1029, Soph. Trach. 1260 ὦ ψυχὴ σκληρά, Eur. Med. 1242 ἀλλ᾽ εἰ ὁπλίζου, καρδία, 1056, Iph. Τ. 881 ὦ μελεὰ ψυχά, 837, Fragm. 924 μή μοι λεπτῶν θίγγανε μύθων, μή μοι, ψυχή. συγγόνῳ φρενί, in schwesterlicher Gesinnung.

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Für οὐδέ ist wohl nach der Vermutung von Blomfield οὔτι zu schreiben; sonst müßte man zwi- schen σάρκας und οὐδέ eine Lücke annehmen. κοιλογάστορες, weil sie leer sind, also heißhungrig.

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πάσονται, Schol. γεύσονται.

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αὐτὴ für αὐτῷ Pierson.

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τῷδε, τῷ ἀδελφῷ.

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φέρουσα: das Objekt er- gibt sich aus dem vorhergehenden τάφον καὶ κατασκαφάς, Schol. τῷ τοῦ βυσσίνου πέπλου κόλπῳ τὴν γῆν παρακομίζουσα, ὡς ἐπιβάλλειν μέλλουσα, διὰ τὸ ὀρύττειν μὴ δύνα- σθαι. Möglicherweise aber hat es ursprünglich κόνιν φέρουσα βυσ σίνου πεπλώματος κόλπῳ καλύψω (Asyndeton bei der Erläuterung) geheißen. Vgl. Soph. Αnt. 429 και χερσὶν εὐθὺς διψίαν φέρει κόνιν, 256 λεπτὴ δὲ ἐπῆν κόνις. βυσσίνου (von feinem Linnen) er- zielt eine Kontrastwirkung wie πέ- πλων τε προϋκάλυπτεν εὐπήνους υφάς (gegen Steinwürfe) Eur. Iph. T. 312.

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μηδέ . . πάλιν, und nie- mand beschließe dagegen, trete mir mit Beschlüssen in den Weg. Sie spricht damit dem Beschlusse der πρόβουλοι die Gültigkeit ab.