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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 (6)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1-107 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1 focus
Κάδμου πολῖται, χρὴ λέγειν τὰ καίρια
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ὅστις φυλάσσει πρᾶγος ἐν πρύμνῃ πόλεως
οἴακα νωμῶν, βλέφαρα μὴ κοιμῶν ὕπνῳ.
εἰ μὲν γὰρ εὖ πράξαιμεν, αἰτία θεοῦ·
εἰ δ᾽ αὖθ', ὃ μὴ γένοιτο, συμφορὰ τύχοι,
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Ἐτεοκλέης ἂν εἷς πολὺς κατὰ πτόλιν
ὑμνοῖθ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἀστῶν φροιμίοις πολυρρόθοις
οἰμώγμασίν θ᾽, ὧν Ζεὺς ἀλεξητήριος
ἐπώνυμος γένοιτο Καδμείων πόλει.
ὑμᾶς δὲ χρὴ νῦν, καὶ τὸν ἐλλείποντ᾽ ἔτι
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ἥβης ἀκμαίας καὶ τὸν ἔξηβον χρόνῳ,
βλαστημὸν ἀλδαίνοντα σώματος πολύν,
Ἐτεόκλεες, φέριστε Καδμείων ἄναξ,
ἥκω σαφῆ τἀκεῖθεν ἐκ στρατοῦ φέρων,
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αὐτὸς κατόπτης δ᾽ εἴμ᾽ ἐγὼ τῶν πραγμάτων.
ἄνδρες γὰρ ἑπτά, θούριοι λοχαγέται,
ταυροσφαγοῦντες ἐς μελάνδετον σάκος
καὶ θιγγάνοντες χερσὶ ταυρείου φόνου,
Ἄρη τ᾽ Ἐνυὼ καὶ φιλαίματον Φόβον
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ὡρκωμότησαν ἢ πόλει κατασκαφὰς
θέντες λαπάξειν ἄστυ Καδμείων βίᾳ,
ἢ γῆν θανόντες τήνδε φυράσειν φόνῳ·
Θρέομαι φοβερὰ μεγάλ᾽ ἄχη.
μεθεῖται στρατὸς στρατόπεδον λιπών.
ῥεῖ πολὺς ὅδε λεὼς πρόδρομος ἱππότας.
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Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1 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.)) — 1-105 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1 focus
Citizens of Cadmus! it is fitting that he should speak things seasonable, who has the care of affairs on the poop of a state, managing the helm, not lulling his eyelids in slumber. For if we succeed, the gods are the cause; but if, on the other hand, (which heaven forbid,) mischance should befall, Eteocles alone would be much bruited through the city by the townsmen in strains clamorous and in wailings, of which may Jove prove rightly called the Averter to the city of the Cadmaeans
. And now it behoves you—both him who still falls short of youth in its prime, and him who in point of age has passed his youth, nurturing the ample vigour of his frame and each that is in his prime
, as is best fitting— to succour the city, and the altars of your country's gods, so that their honours may never be obliterated; your children too, and your motherland, most beloved nurse; for she, taking fully on herself the whole trouble of your rearing, nurtured you when infants crawling on her kindly soil, for her trusty shield-bearing citizens, that ye might be [trusty]
for this service. And, for the present indeed, up to this day, the deity inclines in our favour; since to us now all this time beleaguered the war for the most part, by divine allotment, turns out well. But now, as saith the seer, the feeder
of birds, revolving in ear and thoughts, without the use of fire, the oracular birds with unerring art,—he, lord of such divining powers, declares that the main Achaean assault is this night proclaimed
, and [that the Achaeans] attempt the city.
But haste ye all, both to the battlements and the gates of the tower-works; On! in full panoply throng the breastworks, and take your stations on the platforms of the towers, and, making stand at the outlets of the gates, be of good heart, nor be over-dismayed at the rabble of the aliens; God will give a happy issue. Moreover, I have also despatched scouts and observers of the army, who will not, I feel assured, loiter on their way; and when I have had intelligence from these, I shall, in no point, be surprised by stratagem.
Most gallant Eteocles! sovereign of the Cadmaeans, I have come bearing a clear account of the matters yonder, from the army; and I myself am eye-witness of the facts. For seven chieftains, impetuous leaders of battalions, cutting a bull's throat
over an iron-rimmed shield
, and touching with their hands the gore of the bull, by oath have called to witness
Mars, Enyo, and Terror, that delights in bloodshed, that either having wrought the demolition of our city they will make havoc of the town of the Cadmaeans, or having fallen will steep this land of ours in gore. Memorials too of themselves, to their parents at home, were they with their hands hanging in festoons
at the car of Adrastus, dropping a tear, but no sound of complaint passed their lips
. For their iron-hearted spirit glowing with valour was panting, as of lions that glare battle. And the report of these my tidings is not retarded by sluggishness. But I left them in the very act of casting lots, that so each of them, obtaining his post by lot, might lead on his battalion to our gates.—Wherefore do thou with all speed marshal at the outlets of the gates the bravest men, the chosen of our city; for already the host of Argives hard at hand armed cap-à-pié is in motion, is speeding onward, and white foam is staining the plain with its drippings from the lungs of their chargers. Do thou then, like the clever helmsman of a vessel, fence
our city before the breath of Mars burst like a hurricane upon it, for the mainland billow of their host is roaring.—And for these measures do thou seize the very earliest opportunity; for the sequel I will keep my eye a faithful watch by day, and thou, knowing from the clearness of my detail the movements of those without, shalt be unscathed.
Exit Messenger.
I wail over our fearful, mighty woes! the army is let loose, having quitted its camp, a mighty mounted host is streaming hitherward in advance
the dust appearing high in the air convinces me, a voiceless, clear, true messenger; the noise of the clatter of their hoofs upon the plain
, reaching even to our couches, approaches my ears, is wafted on, and is rumbling like a resistless torrent lashing the mountain-side. Alas! alas! Oh gods and goddesses, avert the rising horror; the white-bucklered
well-appointed host is rushing on with a shout on the other side our walls, speeding its way to the city. Who then will rescue us, who then of gods and goddesses will aid us? Shall I then prostrate myself before the statues of the divinities? Oh ye blessed beings, seated on your glorious thrones, 'tis high time for us to cling to your statues—why do we deeply sighing delay? Hear ye, or hear ye not, the clash of bucklers? When, if not now, shall we set about the orison of the peplus
and chaplets? I perceive a din, a crash of no single spear. What wilt thou do? wilt thou, O Mars, ancient guardian of our soil, abandon thine own land? God of the golden helm, look upon, look upon the city which once thou didst hold well-beloved.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1 focus
Peuple de Cadmos, il doit dire ce que l'heure exige, le chef qui, tout à sa besogne, au gouvernail de la cité, tient la barre en main, sans laisser dormir ses paupières. Car, en cas de succès, aux dieux tout le mérite !
Si au contraire — ce qu'au Ciel ne plaise ! — un malheur arrive, « Étéocle ! » — un seul nom dans des milliers de bouches sera célébré par des hymnes grondants et des lamentations, dont Zeus Préservateur, pour mériter son nom, puisse-t-il préserver la cité cadméenne ! Et vous
aussi, vous devez tous à cette heure, ceux qui attendent encore la pleine force de la jeunesse comme ceux qu'elle a fuis avec l'âge, gonflant du moins vos muscles pour en doubler la vigueur, chacun enfin se donnant au rôle qui convient à ses forces, porter secours à la cité, aux autels
des dieux du pays afin que leur culte ne soit pas à jamais effacé — à vos fils, et à la Terre maternelle, la plus tendre des nourrices, qui, à l'heure où, enfants, vous vous traîniez sur son sol bienveillant, a pris toute la charge de votre nourriture et fait de vous les loyaux citoyens armés du
bouclier qu'elle attend en ce besoin. — Sans doute, jusqu'ici le Ciel penche pour nous : depuis de longs jours que Thèbes est assiégée, la guerre, grâce aux dieux, nous a le plus souvent donné l'avantage. Mais voici qu'aujourd'hui parle le devin, pâtre des oiseaux, qui, sans recourir aux
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parle dans votre intérêt autant que dans le mien, je crois : une ville prospère, seule, honore ses dieux.
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1 focus
YE citizens of Cadmus a
, it behoves
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The man that guides the helm of state b
, to speak
What the sad times require; nor suffer sleep
To weigh his eyelids down.
For if success
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Attends our toils, to the good Gods we bow c
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The authors of the blessing: Should misfortune,
Avert it Heav'n! befall, Eteocles
Shall hear his name alone wide thro' the city
Insulted by each tongue, that vents its spleen
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In mutinous reproach, or loud laments:
From which may Jove, the guardian of our state,
Defend the sons of Cadmus!
But this hour
Calls on you all, whether your flow'ry spring
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Yet wants the prime of manhood, or your age
Puts forth its firmest strength, t' exert your pow'rs,
Well it becomes you, to defend the city,
The altars of the Gods presiding here,
(Ah, never may their honours be effac'd!)
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Your children, and this land, your common parent,
And dearest nurse, who on her soft'ring soil
Upheld with bounteous care your infant steps,
And train'd you to this service, that your hands
In her defence might lift the faithful shield.
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E'en to this day indeed the Gods incline
To favour us; and tho' so long immur'd
Within our rampires, each bold work of war
Hath prosper'd in our hands.
But now the seer,
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That listens to the flight of birds d
, and thence
Forms in his præscient mind the sure presage,
Guiltless of fire, from their oracular wings
Draws his deep skill, and warns us that the pow'rs
Of Greece, combin'd against us, in the night
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Advancing, meditate the dark assault.
Haste all then to the walls, haste to the bulwarks
With all your arms, fill ev'ry tow'r, secure
Each pass, stand firm at ev'ry gate, be bold,
Nor fear th' assailing numbers: Heav'n is with us.
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Meanwhile on ev'ry quarter have I sent
T' observe their forces, and descry their march:
By these, not charg'd, I trust, in vain to watch,
Inform'd I guard against the wiles of war.
Illustrious king of Thebes, I bring thee tidings
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Of firm assurance from the foe; these eyes
Beheld each circumstance.
Seven valiant chiefs
Slew on the blackorb'd shield the victim bull e
,
And dipping in the gore their furious hands,
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In solemn oath attest the God of war,
Bellona, and the carnage-loving pow'r
Of terror f
sworn from their firm base to rend
These walls, and lay their ramparts in the dust;
Or, dying, with their warm blood steep this earth.
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Each in Adrastus' car some dear remembrance g
Piled to their distant parents, whilst their eyes
Drop'd tears, but on their face was no remorse.
Each soul of iron glowing with the rage
Of valour, as the lion when he glares
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Determined battle.
What I now relate
Sleeps not, nor lingers: round the urn I left them,
By lot deciding to what gate each chief
Shall lead his forces.
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These against select
The best, the bravest of the sons of Thebes,
And instant at the gates assign their stations.
For all in arms the Argive host comes on
Involv'd in dust, and from the snorting steeds
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The thick foam falls, and dews the whiten'd fields.
Be thine the provident pilot's gen'rous care,
Guard well the town, e'er yet the storm assails it;
E'en now the waves of war roar o'er the plain h
:
Seize then this fair occasion, instant seize it.
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My faithful eye this day shall hold the watch,
That well inform'd, no danger may surprize thee.
Woe, woe, intolerable woe!
Fierce from their camps the hosts advance,
Before their march with thund'ring tread
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Proud o'er the plain their firey courſers prance,
And hither bend their footsteps dread:
Yon' cloud of dust that choaks the air,
A true tho' tongueleſs messenger,
Marks plain the progress of the foe.
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And now the horrid clash of arms,
That, like the torrent, whose impetuous tide
Roars down the mountain's craggy side,
Shook the wide fields with fierce alarms,
With nearer terrors strikes our souls,
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And thro' our chaste recesses rolls:
Hear, all ye pow'rs of Heav'n, propitious hear,
And check the furies of this threat'ning war!
The crouded walls around
Loud clamours rend the sky;
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Whilſt rang'd in deep array th' embattled pow'rs
Their silver shields i
lift high,
And, level with the ground
To lay their rampir'd heads, assail our tow'rs.
What guardian God shall I implore?
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Bending at what sacred shrine
Call from their happy seats what pow'rs divine,
And suppliant ev'ry sculptur'd form adore?
The time demands it: why then, why delay?-
The sound of arms swells on my' affrighted ear.-
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Hold now the pall, the garland k
, as you pray.-
Hark! 'tis the rude clash of no single spear.
Stern God of war,
Dost thou prepare
Thy sacred city to betray?
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Look down, look down l
;
O save thine own;
Nor leave us to the foe a prey:
If e'er thy soul had pleasure in the brave,
God of the golden helm, hear us, and save!
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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.) — 1 focus
ETEOCLE
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ARALDO
CORO DI FANCIULLE TEBANE
ANTIGONE
ISMENE
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BANDITORE
POPOLO
O dei Cadmei signore ottimo, Eteocle,
dal campo io giungo, e a te reco sicure
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notizie di laggiú: ché vidi io stesso.
Sette guerrieri, impetuosi duci,
sgozzato un toro dentro un negro ferreo
scudo, e le man tuffando entro quel sangue,
per la Strage, per Marte, pel sanguineo
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Terror, la rocca dei Cadmei giurarono
che diroccata avrebbero, spogliata
la città con la forza; o che, trafitti,
questa terra di sangue intriderebbero.
E ciascuno appendea, versando lagrime,
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d'Adrasto al cocchio, per i suoi parenti,
per la magione sua, pegni d'affetto.
Né lagno uscia dai labbri.
Pensier' ferrei
spiravan l'alme, di valore ardevano,
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come leoni che negli occhi han guerra.
Né tempo andrà che avrai di ciò contezza:
io li lasciai che gittavan le sorti,
a quale porta la sua schiera ognuno
dovesse addurre.
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E tu, subito eleggi
i migliori di Tebe, e delle porte
ponili ai varchi: ché le schiere Argive,
chiuse ne l'armi, avanzan già, di polvere
si sollevano nembi; e di sue gocciole
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candida spuma la pianura spruzza
dal pulmon dei cavalli.
Or, come saggio
nocchiero, tu provvedi ad ogni falla,
pria che di Marte la procella infurî :
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ché mugghia il flutto del terrestre esercito.
Quanto puoi prima, a ciò ripara.
Ed io
con dïurna pupilla a te del resto
sarò fida vedetta. E tu, sapendo
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ciò ch'oprano i nemici, illeso andrai.
Il messaggero esce.
Piango alti lagni d'orrore di doglia.
Già già dal campo si sfrena l'esercito :
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rotola avanti l'esercito fitto
dei cavalieri: l'eterea polvere
si leva a dirmelo, muto palese
veridico araldo.
Orrido grido, fra rombe di zoccoli,
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dalla pianura mi sgomina e preme,
come torrente che scrosci dal monte.
Contro la rocca si lancia, già leva,
chiuso nell'armi, l'esercito avverso,
gli scudi bianchi, con orride grida.
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Chi mai dei Numi, chi mai delle Dive
soccorso darà ?
A quali altari di Dèmoni innanzi
debbo io cadere ? Beati Signori,
è questo il punto che stretta io mi tenga
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ai vostri simulacri.
Nei troppi lagni che indugiasi? Udite
o non udite fragore di scudi?
Quando offrirò, se non ora,
pepli corone e preghiere ?
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Odi lo strepito? Tale frastuono
sola una lancia non leva.
Che fai?
Marte Signore, l'antica tua terra
cosí tradirai?
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Deh! queste mura, a te un giomo sí care,
Nume elmo d'oro, proteggi proteggi!
Tutte le fanciulle si aggruppano intorno all'ara.
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1 focus
Cadmi ciues, quæ opportuna sunt,
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opus est dicere.
Quicunq; negotioru curam habet,
in puppi ciuitatis
Habens clauum, palpebras ne det
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somno.
Si bene nobiscum agitur, cauſa dijs tribuenda eſt:
Si uerò uiciſsim (quod ne contingat) calamitas acci-derit,
Etheocles unus multus per ciuitatem
Conuicijs afficiatur proæmijs tumultuoſis,
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Et fletibus: quibus Iupiter defensor,
Nominatus sit Thebanorum urbi.
Vos uerò oportet nunc, et eum qui adhuc
Impubes est, et eu qui tépore exceſsit ex pubertate,
Florens ac creſcens, multum corporis
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Vigorem habere quemq;, ut decet,
Vrbemq; iuuare deorum patriorum
Abaris, nunquam honores delere:
Filiosq; & matrem chariſsimam, terram altricem.
Quæ enim uenietes iuuenes in propitium campum,
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Omnia admittens labore diſciplinæ,
Aluit incolas ſcutatos
Fideles ut sitis in hoc opere.
Et nunc in hoc die bene uertat Deus:
Nam hoc tempore turrium cuſtolibus,
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Fœliciter plerumq; bellum ex dijs ſuccedit.
Nunc uerò ut uates ait auium pastor,
In auribus conſiderans mentibus sine igne,
Fatidicas aues uera arte:
Ipſe talium uaticinationum dominus
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Dicit, maximam incurſionem Grecanicam
Noctu deliberare, & inſidiari urbi.
Sed ad propugnacula, portas turrium
Festinate omnes, cum armis:
Implete thoraces, in tabulatis
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Turrium state, in exitibus portarum
Manentes, confidite: neq;
hostium
Timete admodum multitudinem, bene uertat Deus.
Speculatores ego, & exploratores exercitus
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Miſi, quibus persuasi ne frustra iter aggrederentur,
Vt illos audiens non capiar dolo.
Eteocles, optime Thebanorum rex,
Venio inde ab exercitu manifeſta ferens:
Ipſe sum negotiorum explorator.
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Viri enim ſeptem bellicoſi præfecti
Bouiuore in nigro ſeuto,
Tangentesq; manibus taurinum cruorem,
Martem, Bellonamq;, & ſanguini amicam cædem
Iurarunt, aut ciuitati disruptiones
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Ponentes perdere Thebanorum urbem ui,
Aut opperentes terram hanc macerare ſanguine:
Monumentaq; mittebant domum parentibus ſuis.
Præterea currũ Adrasti manib.coronabant, lachry
Fundẽte nulla misericordia uerò erat in ore.
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Ferreus enim animus uirilitate accenſus,
Spirabat tanquam leonum martem intuentium.
Rumor horum pigritia non cunctabitur,
Sortientes eos reliqui, forteq; affecutus
Vnusquifq; ipforum ad portas agmen duceret.
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Itaq; optimos quoſq; electos uivos urbis
Portarum in exitibus conſtitue celeriter.
Prope enim Argiuorum armatus exercitus
Accedit, ſestinat: campos uerò alba ſpuma
Inquinat guttis equitum ſpirantium.
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Tu uerò tanquam nauts bonus gubernator,
Muni urbem, priusquam irruat rabies
Martis. boat enim tumultus terrestris exercitus.
Hanc uerò occaſionem tanquam celerrimus accipe.
Ipſe poftea fidelem ſpeculatorem
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Oculum habebo: conſentanea rationi
Sciens, extra portam eris incolumis.
Lugeo terribilia & magna mala.
Dimittitur exercitus caſtra relinquens,
Decurrit huc multus populus precurrens equites,
Aetherius puluis me persuadet uiſus,
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Mutus maniſeſtus, promptus nuncius,
Excitator conculcatusq; campo
Appropinquat, clamor uolat, fremit
Instar aquæ murmurantis inexpugnabilis.
Heuheu, heu dij
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Et deæ, præsens malum arcete.
Clamat pro mænibus
Scutum habens album, furgit populus
Structus in urbem irruens.
Quis defendet? quis auxiliabitur
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Deorum aut dearum?
Vtrum ego accidam statuis
Deorum heu defensores dij,
Tempus est habendi ſtatuas:
quid cunctamur
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Luctuoſi? auditis, aut non auditis clypeorum
Strepitum ? peplos
& coronas
Circa preces habebimus?
Strepitum audiui, & strepitumq; non unius haſte.
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Quid facies? deferes ô Mars terrisenex
Tuam terram?
duream qui habes galeam demon,
Reſpice reſpice urbem,
Quam tandem charam poſuisti . dij
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Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1 focus
ETEOCLES
BURGHERS of Cadmos, timely words beseem
Him at the stern who guards the city's weal,
Guiding the helm with lids unsoothed by sleep;
For, if we prosper, God alone is praised,
But if, which Heaven forefend, mischance befall,
One man, Eteocles, through all the town,
In noiseful rhymes and wailings manifold
Would by the folk be chanted; which may Zeus,
True to his sacred name, Averter, turn
From our Cadmeian city; you meanwhile
It now behoves—both him who faileth yet
Of youth's fair prime, and him whose bloom is past,
His body's vigour nursing to the full,
And each with service that befits him best—
The State to aid and shrines of native gods,
That ne'er their honours be erased; to aid
Your children too, and this your mother earth,
Beloved nurse, who, while your childish limbs
Crept on her friendly plain, all nurture-toil
Full kindly entertained, and fostered you
Her denizens to be, in strait like this
Shield-bearing champions, trusty in her cause.
And so far, to the present day, in sooth
God in our favour hath inclined the scale;
For unto us, so long beleaguered here,
War prospers in the main, through heaven's high will;—
But now, so speaks the seer, augur divine,
Without fire omens, but in ear and mind
Marking, with faultless skill, presageful birds,—
He, lord of these divining arts, declares
That the prime onset of the Achaian host,
Night-plotted, threatens even now the town;
Haste, to the turrets then and bastion-gates
Rush in full panoply;—the breastworks throng,
Take station on the platforms of the towers,
And, biding at the outlets of the ports,
Be of good courage, nor this alien swarm
Dread over-much; God will rule all for good.
Myself have scouts sent forth and army spies,
Who, as I trust, no bootless journey make;
And having heard their tidings, in no wise
Shall I by guileful stratagem be caught.
MESSENGER
Noble Eteocles, Cadmeians' lord,
I come clear tidings bringing of the host;—
Myself eye-witness am of what befel;
For seven impetuous warriors, captains bold,
Slaving the sacred bull o'er black-rimmed shield,
And touching with their hands the victim's gore,
Ares, Enyo, and blood-thirsting Fear
Invoked, and sware before them,—Cadmos' town
To pillage, and its fort to raze, or else,
Dying themselves, to steep this earth in blood.
But for their parents whom at home they left,
With their own hands around Adrastos' car
Memorials they were hanging, shedding tears,
But from their lips no word of ruth was heard;
For iron-hearted purpose, all aglow
With manly courage, breathed as lions breathe,
Whose eyeballs glare with battle. Such my news,
Which by no sluggishness have been delayed.
I left them casting lots that each might lead,
As Fate assigned, his squadron to the gates;
Hence at their outlets marshal with all speed
Our bravest men, our city's chosen sons;
For near already, raising dust, comes on,
Full-armed, the Argive host, while glistening foam
Mottles the plain with flakes from panting steeds.
But thou, like prudent helmsman of the ship,
Make stanch the city, before Ares' blasts
Swoop down upon it; loud the land-wave roars;
Thou, for this charge, the swiftest moment seize:
Myself, sure watch, a wary eye will keep,
And thou, through certain tidings, knowing all
Outside that happens, without scath shalt be.
ETEOCLES
O Zeus, and Earth, and Gods our town who guard,
And thou strong curse, Erinys of my sire,
My city, where the speech of Hellas flows,
With utter ruin, captured by the foe,
Uproot ye not, nor our domestic hearths,
But grant that our free land and Cadmos' town
In vassal bondage never may be held.
Be ye our strength;—our common weal, I urge,
For thriving cities honour best the gods.
CHORUS
I wail forth mighty, fear-inspiring woes!
An army hurries, from its camp set free!
A mounted host onward in ample tide
Towards our city flows.
Dust that on air doth ride,
Dumb herald, clear and true, persuadeth me.
Clatter of horse-hoofs on my natal plain
Brings to mine ear war's dismal sound;
Air-borne it floats around;
Like mountain-lashing flood's resistless flow
It roars amain.
Alas! ah me!
Ye gods and goddesses, oh turn aside
The impending woe.
LEADER OF THE 1ST HALF CHORUS
With battle-shout, straight to our city-wall
The host white-shielded speeds in fair array.
FIRST MAIDEN
Who will deliver?
SECOND MAIDEN
Succour us who may,
Or god or goddess?
THIRD MAIDEN
Prostrate shall I fall
Their shrines before?
FOURTH MAIDEN
Ye Blest ones here who reign
Now is the time to clasp your statues, now.
FIFTH MAIDEN
Burdened with sorrow, why, oh why delay?
SIXTH MAIDEN
The clash of shields meets it, or not your ear?
SEVENTH MAIDEN
† When, if not now, shall we our prayers begin
With sacred peplus and wool-tufted bough?
EIGHTH MAIDEN
I mark the rattling din!
It is the clatter of no single spear.
NINTH MAIDEN
O Ares, tutelary god of old,
Thy proper soil betraying what wilt gain?
TENTH MAIDEN
O golden-helmed god, the State behold
Which once to count beloved thou didst deign.
LEADER OF 1ST HALF CHORUS
†Ye tutelary gods, the land who hold,
Come ye, come all, look on this virgin train
Who, dreading bonds, as suppliants on you call.
LEADER OF 2ND HALF CHORUS
For lo! with slanting plumes
A surge of warriors round our city wall,
On blasts of Ares riding, hoarsely booms.
CHORUS
STROPHE I.
†Do thou, O Zeus, all-perfect Sire, do thou
Avert, thou canst, our capture by the foe;
For Cadmos' fort Argives encircle now;
Weapons of war my heart appal, for lo,
To chargers' mouths made fast, their metal gear
Rings slaughter, and with pride elate,
Seven chiefs, conspicuous o'er the host,
With panoply of spear,
Each having gained by lot his post,
Stand, prompt for battle, at the seventh gate.
CHORUS
MESODE.
Thou too, Zeus-born, war-loving power, do thou,
Pallas, our city from destruction save;
Equestrian Lord, thou ruler of the wave,
Poseidon, with fish-piercing trident now
Grant respite from our fears, grant respite thou.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE I.
Ares, alas! Our town, the name which bears
Of Cadmos, guard;-show forth thy care divine;
Kypris, do thou, fore-mother of our line,
These ills avert, for from thy blood we came;
Thee we approach with god-invoking prayers.
Thou too, Lykeian * Lord, thy name
Attesting, as our groans ascend,
Smite thou the hostile host;— ‡
And thou from Leto who dost boast
Thy heavenly birth, thy bow, dread virgin, bend.
CHORUS
STROPHE II.
The din of chariot wheels, alas, ah me,
Around our walls I hear;
O Hera, mighty queen!
From axles overburden'd creak the naves.
O Artemis most dear!
Madden'd by hurtling spears vext ether raves.
What ails the city? What its doom will be?
God guides the issue to what goal unseen?
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE II.
A stone-shower hits the towers, alas, ah me,
Striking their very crown.
Apollo, our dear Lord!
With clang of brass-bound shields our gates resound.
†Zeus only can accord
With righteous issue that the strife be crowned.
O Onca, * here enthroned, blest Deity,
Do thou protect our seven-gated town.
CHORUS
STROPHE III.
O ye all-puissant powers,
Dread guardians of our towers,
Of either sex, oh hear us, nor betray
A city toiling 'neath the spear,
To hosts of alien speech. These virgins hear,
Most justly hear, with outstretched hands who pray.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE III.
Divinities most dear,
As Saviours mustering near
Our city walls-show forth the love ye bear.
Care for our fanes, with aspect kind,
And caring for them save. O hear our prayer,
Our sacrificial rites call ye to mind.
ETEOCLES
(to the Chorus).
You I accost, creatures unbearable.
Is this the course fittest the State to save,
The leaguered host to hearten-falling thus
Before the statues of our city's gods,
To shout and wail-a nuisance to the wise?
Neither in ill nor dear prosperity
Mine may it be with womankind to dwell.
In rule, her insolence keeps all aloof,
In fear, worse ill she brings to home and State;
So have ye now, rushing in hurried flight,
Roused in our townsmen soulless cowardice.
Ye serve, as best ye may, the foe without,
While we within bring ruin on ourselves.
Such aid he reapeth who with women dwells.
So if there be who heeds not my command,
Or man or woman, or aught else between,
The fatal pebble shall decide their doom,
Nor death by stoning at the people's hand
Shall they escape. What passeth out of doors
Is man's concern; let woman counsel not.
Bide thou within, and no more mischief cause.
Dost hear or not? Or speak I to the deaf?
CHORUS
STROPHE I.
Dear son of Edipus, I trembled sore,
Hearing of rattling cars the roar, the roar,
When wheel-impelling axles shrieked amain,
When sounded on mine ear
The noise of fire-wrought gear-
Within the chargers' mouths their guiding rein.
ETEOCLES
What then? doth sailor means of safety find,
The stern forsaking for the prow, what time
His vessel labours 'mid the ocean wave?
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE I.
Relying on the gods, as was but meet,
When at our gates pattered the deadly sleet,
With hurrying pace I sought their statues old;
By fear possest, I there
Poured to the Blest my prayer,
That they our city's prowess would uphold.
ETEOCLES
Pray that our towers be stanch 'gainst foemen's spear.
CHORUS
Grant not the gods this boon?
ETEOCLES
Ay, but 'tis said,
That from a captured town the gods depart.
CHORUS
STROPHE II.
Ne'er may this conclave of the gods take flight
While I behold the day;
And never may these streets appal my sight
Foe-trampled, and to hostile fire a prey.
ETEOCLES
Call on the gods, but be not ill-advised;
Obedience mother is of good success,
Sure pledge of safety;-so the saying runs. *
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE II.
True, but the gods have strength more mighty still,
And oft, in direst strait,
It lifteth from the lowest depths of ill
Him who, with cloud-veiled eyes, was desperate.
ETEOCLES
Men's part it is to offer sacrifice
And victims to the gods, when foes assail;
Thine to be silent and to bide within.
CHORUS
STROPHE III.
'Tis through the gods we dwell
In city unsubdued;
Through them our towers repel
The hostile multitude.
What anger can this move?
ETEOCLES
I grudge thee not due homage to the gods;
But lest thy fear unheart the citizens,
Tranquil abide, nor yield o'ermuch to fear.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE III.
Hearing unwonted din,
In tumult and in fear,
Trembling my heart within,
I drew this fortress near;
This seat of gods above.
ETEOCLES
If now of dying or of wounded men
Ye hear, bear them not off with loud laments,
For 'tis on human slaughter Ares feeds. *
CHORUS
Hark! not far off snorting of steeds I hear.
ETEOCLES
Hear, if thou must; but hear not over-loud.
CHORUS
Groans from its base our fort, girt round by foes.
ETEOCLES
Mine is the task to counsel in this strait.
CHORUS
Woe's me! More loud the rattling at the gates.
ETEOCLES
Hush, nor alarm the city with these cries.
CHORUS
Associate gods, our towers abandon not.
ETEOCLES
Plague on thee! canst thou not in silence bear?
CHORUS
Co-burgher gods! save me from slavery.
ETEOCLES
Thyself enslavest, thee and all the town.
CHORUS
All-puissant Zeus, turn 'gainst the foe thy bolt.
ETEOCLES
Zeus! what a gift to man was womankind!
CHORUS
Wretched as men are in a captured town.
ETEOCLES
The statues touching, dost renew thy cries?
CHORUS
Through want of heart fear seizes on my tongue.
ETEOCLES
I pray thee grant me but one trifling boon.
CHORUS
Speak quickly then, so shall I quickly know.
ETEOCLES
Be still, unhappy one, scare not thy friends.
CHORUS
Still am I;—with the rest I'll bear my doom.
ETEOCLES
This word I to thy former words prefer.
Moreover keeping from these shrines aloof,
Proffer the better prayer, e'en that the gods
Our allies prove; then having heard my prayers,
Do thou the auspicious, sacred Pæan raise,
Hellas' accustomed shout of sacrifice,
Cheering to friends, dispelling dread of foes.—
Unto our country's tutelary gods,
The plain who haunt, the market-place who guard,
To Dirka's fountains, and Ismenos' waters,
Make I this promise, that-if all go well,
And this our town be saved-with blood of sheep
Dyeing the sacred hearths, and slaying bulls
In the gods' honour, trophies I will plant,
And will aloft on spears, the shrines before,
Hang in the sacred fanes the spoils of war.
Pray to the gods such prayers, not with fond moans,
Neither with sobs of anguish vain and wild,
For not the more wilt thou escape thy doom.
Meanwhile, six men of war, myself the seventh,
I, at the seven outlets of the ports,
In gallant style will marshal 'gainst the foe,
Ere hurrying scouts and swiftly-rushing news
Arrive, and by the stress set all ablaze.
CHORUS
STROPHE I.
I heed, but terror leaves my heart no rest,
And in my bosom anxious care,
Sad neighbour, doth enkindle there
Dread of the wall-surrounding multitude;
Like trembling dove am I, that for her brood
Doth serpents fear, fell inmates of her nest;
For some against our towers,
A warlike throng, in numbers strong,
Advance;—ah what will me betide?
Others, 'gainst citizens on every side
Sore pelted, hurl the rugged stone;
Put forth, O kindred gods, your utmost powers, *
Save host and State as Sire who Cadmos own.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE I.
And say what soil of earth will ye obtain
Better than this, if ye betray
To foreign foes this fertile land
And Dirka's water, richest draught of all
That the earth-circling God sends forth amain,
And progeny of Tethys. * Hence we call,
Gods, on your guardian band;—
Into the powers outside our towers
Sending the coward's deadly fear,
Which fatuous casts the shield away,
Earn for these burghers glory. Hear,
Oh hear my shrill-voiced wailings and retain,
As Saviours of our State, your stedfast reign.
CHORUS
STROPHE II.
For sad it were to Hades drear,
Enslaved, as booty of the spear,
To hurl a city of the olden time,
In crumbling ashes laid by Argive foe,
Through heaven's high will, in shameful overthrow
That women old and virgins in their prime
Like horses by their hair be dragged, ah me,
Their robes around them rent, to slavery.
Waileth the city emptied of its store,
While captives, to destruction led
Lamenting, swell the mingled roar.
This heavy doom forebodingly I dread.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE II.
For maids whose bloom is at the full,
Ere rites the scarce ripe fruit that cull,
How grievous 'tis far from their homes to wend
On hateful journey! What then? I declare
Who sleep in death than these far better fare.
Full many woes a captured town attend;
As captive one his enemy doth seize,
Another slays, or round him scatters fire,
While the whole city is with smoke defil'd,
And people-taming Ares, wild
With frenesy, all sanctities
Foully polluting, doth their rage inspire.
CHORUS
STROPHE III.
Loud clamours through the town prevail,
Destruction's net draws near,
And man by man is slaughtered with the spear;
The gory new-born wail
Of infants at the breast is heard;
There Rapine, sister to wild Tumult, reigns.
Spoiler to spoiler gives the word;
The empty doth the empty hail,
Seeking a partner in his gains,
Each greedy for nor less nor equal share.
In scenes like these how may we hope to fare?
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE III.
And fruitage too of every sort
Is wasted ruthlessly,
Earth-strewn, sad sight to housewife's cheerless eye;
And earth's fair gifts, the sport
Of worthless surge, are swept away
In common ruin; maidens in their prime
Are with new sorrow filled; for they
Of haughty foemen own the sway,
Forceful their wretched couch who climb;
Their hope that death, their tear-fraught woes to end,
O'er them may soon her sheltering night extend.
LEADER OF 1ST HALF CHORUS
The army-scout, to me it seemeth, friends, Brings us some recent tiding from the host, Plying in haste his charioteering feet.
LEADER OF 2ND HALF CHORUS
And lo! our king, offspring of Edipus, Comes in fair time the herald's news to hear. Unmeasured too his footsteps are through haste.
MESSENGER
I, the foe's movements knowing, can report
How at the gates each hath his post by lot.
Tydeus already at the Proitid gates
Raves; but to cross Ismenos' ford the seer
Forbids, for inauspicious are the rites.
But Tydeus, frenzied, hankering for fight,
Blusters with yell like serpent's noonday hiss,
And at the skilful seer, Oïcles' son,
Aimeth the taunt that he, through cowardice,
Fawneth on death and battle. Shouting thus,
A triple shadowy plume, his helmet's mane,
He shakes, and underneath his hollow shield,
Bells, wrought of brass, clang terror; and he bears,
Enchased upon its front, this proud device-
The nightly firmament ablaze with stars,
And in mid-buckler shines the full-orb'd moon
Conspicuous, queen of stars and eye of night.
Thus raving, he, in haughty garniture,
Shouts near the river banks, in love with war,
As charger, panting fiercely 'gainst the curb,
Hearing the trumpet's blare, with fury chafes.
Whom, as antagonist, to him wilt set?
Who, when the bolts are loosed, may warrant give,
As champion to defend the Proitid gates?
ETEOCLES
I tremble at no panoply of man,
Neither have mere devices power to wound;
Plumage and bell bite not without the spear.
This Night too, glittering with stars of heaven,
Which is, thou sayest, set upon his shield,
If spelled aright, may truthful omen prove.
For if in death night fall upon his eyes,
Then to its bearer would this proud device,
Justly and fitly, answer to its name,
And for himself this doom he shall forebode.
To him, this trusty son of Astacos
I will oppose, as warden of the gates;
He, nobly born, revereth honour's throne,
And boastful words abhors; to shameful deeds
Laggart, no craven soul he loves to be.
Scion of heroes sprung from dragon's teeth,
Whom Ares spared, true offspring of the soil
Is Melanippos; Ares will decide
The issue by the die;-but certes one
Thus to our earth close kin is justly set
From his own mother foeman's spear to ward.
CHORUS
STROPHE I.
Grant to my champion victory,
Ye deities, since forth he wends
To battle justly and our State defends.
But ah, by fear possest, I dread to see
Their gory fates who perish for their friends.
MESSENGER
Him may the gods thus with fair fortune crown!
The Electran gates hath Capaneus by lot,
A giant he, o'ertopping him first nam'd.
His vaunt outsoareth mortal pride; these towers
He threats with horrors, which may Fate avert.
For, God assenting or in God's despite,
He vows our town to ravage; not heaven's wrath,
Down leaping on the plain, shall hold him back.
Lightnings and arrows of the thunderbolt
To noonday solar beams he likeneth.
A naked man his blazon, bearing fire;
Flares in his hands a torch, for service prompt;
In golden characters, he cries aloud,
THE CITY I WILL BURN. Against this man
Send thou-but who such foeman will confront?
This boaster who will meet and tremble not?
ETEOCLES
Here also gain accrueth upon gain.
When in o'erweening thoughts vain men indulge
Their true bewrayer is their proper tongue.
Now threatens Capaneus, for fight equipped,
Scorning the gods; and, practising his tongue,
With senseless joy, though mortal, he to heaven,
High surging words upsends, defying Zeus;
Full faith have I that Zeus, with justice' aid,
Him with his fire-charged thunderbolt will smite,
No whit resembling noonday's solar beams.
Him to confront, despite his raving tongue,
Is hero marshall'd, ay, a soul of fire,
Stout Polyphontes; trusty bulwark he,
By grace of tutelary Artemis,
With other gods' approval. Now, tell on,
Who against other gates the lot hath drawn?
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE I.
Perish who vaunteth mightily
Against our city! His career
May thunder check, ere, with o'erweening spear,
My home invading, me as captive prey
He driveth from my girlish haunts away!
MESSENGER
Him next who drew his station at the ports
I'll name. For to Eteocles, third chief,
From upturn'd brazen casque leapt the third lot,
His band against Neïstan gates to lead.
His steeds, loud snorting in their frontlet-gear,
Eager to reach the gates, circling he drives;
Whistle their nozzles in barbaric guise,
With breath sonorous from their nostrils filled.
With no mean blazon is his shield adorned;
A man in armour, to his foeman's tower,
Eager to storm it, climbs a ladder's steps;
And he too shouts in written characters,
That him not Ares from the walls shall hurl.
Against this man a trusty champion send,
The yoke of bondage from this town to ward.
ETEOCLES
Him will I straight with happy omens send;
Yea, sent is Megareus, whose vaunts are deeds,
Scion of Creon, from the heroes sprung
Full-armed who rose from earth-sown dragon's teeth,
He from the gates will not retire dismayed
By noisy snorting of infuriate steeds;
But either, dying, will repay our land
His nurture-fee, or, seizing warriors twain,
Ay, and the city on his foeman's shield,
Will with the spoils his father's house adorn.
Now of another brag, nor grudge thy words.
CHORUS
STROPHE II.
For him success I pray,
O champion of my home; for them instead
Ill-fortune; and as they,
With frenzied spirit, utter 'gainst our town
High-sounding words, may Zeus, Avenger dread,
By wrathful ire possest, on them look down!
MESSENGER
One more, a fourth, the neighbour-gate who holds,
Onca-Athena's, shouting stands hard by;
The mighty form of huge Hippomedon;
I shook with terror, I deny it not,
As the vast orb he whirled, his buckler's disk;
Certes no vulgar artist was the man
Who this device hath wrought upon his shield;
Typhon forth darting from fire-breathing lips
Flame's quivering sister, smoke of dusky hue;
And all around the hollow-bellied shield
Circled a coil of intertwining snakes.
Himself hath raised his war-cry, and inspired
By Ares, raves like Thyiad for the fight,
Death in his glance. Against such man's attack
Needs must we be prepared, for at our gates
Rout is already boastfully proclaimed.
ETEOCLES
First Onca-Pallas, near our city gates
Holding her seat, hating man's insolence,
Shall him ward off, like fell snake from her brood.
Him to oppose hath Enops' valiant son,
Hyperbios, been chosen—man to man,
Willing at Fortune's call his fate to prove.
Neither in form, in courage, nor in arms
Blameworthy; them hath Hermes fairly matched
Since foe will foe confront, while on their shields
They into conflict bring two hostile gods.
For Typhon, breathing fire, the one doth bear,
While Father Zeus upon Hyperbios' shield
Sits, firmly throned, wielding his fiery bolt;
But Zeus defeated no one yet hath seen.
Such on each side the friendship of the gods;
We with the victors, with the vanquish'd they.
Thus will it with the mortal champions fare,
If Zeus than Typhon stronger be in fight;
And to our champion, as the legend reads
Set on his shield, may Zeus deliverer be.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE II.
Firm is my trust that he
The hateful form who beareth on his shield
Of earth-born deity,
Adverse to Zeus, to men a shape of dread
And to the long-lived gods, prone in the field,
Before our gate shall fling his own proud head.
MESSENGER
Such be the issue! At the northern gates
The fifth is marshalled, near the tomb which holds
Zeus-born Amphion. By his spear he swears,
Which more than God he honours, or his eyes,
To ravage verily, despite of Zeus,
The fort of Cadmos. So the stripling speaks,
Scion fair-faced of mother mountain-reared;
Over his cheek spreadeth the tender down,
Hair thickly sprouting of youth's budding prime.
But he with savage temper, which belies
His maiden name, and with an eye of dread,
Taketh his post;—yet stands he at our gates
Not without vaunt, for on his shield brass-wrought,
His body's rounded bulwark, he doth wield
The raw-devouring Sphinx, our city's shame,
Her form stud-fastened, brilliantly embossed.
Beneath her holds she a Cadmeian man,
A target so for missiles thickly showered.
Hither he comes no peddling fight to wage,
Nor the long route he traversed to disgrace;
Parthenopaios, an Arcadian born,
But denizen of Argos; such a man
Doth Argos' kindly nurture now repay
By threats against our towers, which heaven avert!
ETEOCLES
From the high gods may they the doom obtain
Planned in these godless vaunts; so they themselves
In shameful rout should perish utterly.
'Gainst this Arcadian, him thou tellest of,
The warrior Actor stands; no boaster he,
But with a hand which sees the thing to do;
Brother of him whom I before described.
No fluent, deedless, tongue will he admit
Within our gates to aggravate our ills,
Nor him allow to pass on, hostile shield
Who bears the image of that hateful pest.
'neath our walls, sore-batter'd, she will rail
At him who fain would carry her within.
If heaven so wills, herein I truth shall speak.
CHORUS
STROPHE III.
His word my breast doth rend,
Standeth my hair on end,
Hearing the haughty boast
Of haughty men profane;
Ye Gods, above who reign,
Here, in our land, smite ye their alien host!
MESSENGER
Sixth, let me name a man most sage of heart,
Amphiaraos, prophet, first in arms;
He, marshall'd at the Homoloian gates,
Tydeus with keen reproaches oft assails,
As homicide, disturber of the State,
To Argos prime instructor in these harms,
Erinys' herald, Slaughter's minister,
Adviser to Adrastos of these ills;
And on thy brother Polyneikes' might,
He calls, dissecting his ill-omened name; *
Then in conclusion, twice with emphasis
His name repeating, utters forth these words:
"Pleasing to gods in sooth is such a deed,
Lovely for future years to hear and tell,
The city of thy sires and native gods
To spoil, made captive by an alien host.
Can justice the maternal fountain quench? *
Thy Fatherland, if captur'd through thy zeal,
How can it e'er again be thine ally?
Myself I shall this land enrich, a seer
'Neath hostile earth sepulchred. Fight we now!
For no dishonourable doom I look."
Thus spake the seer, wielding his rounded shield,
All brass, but no device was on its orb;
For just to be, he longs, not just to seem,
Ripe wisdom reaping from his deep-plough'd mind,
Whence honest counsels grow; silence he keeps
Or speaketh words in season. 'Gainst this man
Champions, I charge thee, send skilful and brave,
For terrible is he who fears the gods.
ETEOCLES
Woe for the omen which the righteous makes
Companion of the impious; nought is worse
In any cause than evil fellowship;
Its fruit may not be garner'd; Atè's field
Yields death for harvest; yea, the godly man,
With headstrong sailors bent on villainy,
Mounting the bark, sinks with the heaven-loathed crew;
Or, just himself, but leagued with citizens
Ruthless to strangers, heedless of the gods,
Caught in the self-same snare, he prostrate lies,
Smitten with them by God's impartial scourge.
So too this seer himself, Oïcles' son,
A righteous man, pious, discreet, and brave,—
This mighty soothsayer, with bold-tongued men
Unholy, in despite of reason, joined,
Their march who trail to reach the far-off city, *
He, if Zeus will, with them shall down be dragged.
But he, methinks, our gates will not assail;
Not by faint heart withheld or dastard will,
But knowing 'tis his doom in fight to perish,
If fruit there be in Loxias' oracles;
silence he keeps Or speaketh words in season.
Yet against him stout Lasthenes we'll post,
A stranger-hating warden of the gates;
He, old in mind, yet blooms in youthful prime,
With eye swift-glancing, ‡ and not slow of hand
To snatch from 'neath his shield the naked spear.
But victory is still the gift of God.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE III.
Our just entreaties crown,
Ye gods, and bless our town!
On the invading powers
Turn ye war's spear-wrought woe!
Repelled beneath our towers,
May Zeus, with his dread thunder, lay them low!
MESSENGER
Now at the seventh gate the seventh chief,
Thy proper mother's son, I will announce,
What fortune for this city, for himself,
With curses he invoketh:-on the walls
Ascending, heralded as king, to stand,
With pæans for their capture; then with thee
To fight, and either slaying near thee die,
Or thee, who wrong'd him, chasing forth alive,
Requite in kind his proper banishment.
Such words he shouts and calls upon the gods,
Who o'er his race preside and Fatherland,
With gracious eye to look upon his prayers.
A well-wrought buckler, newly forged, he bears,
With two-fold blazon riveted thereon,
For there a woman leads, with sober mien,
A mailed warrior, enchased in gold;—
Justice her style, and thus the legend speaks:
"This man I will restore, and he shall hold
The city and his fathers' palace-homes."
Such the devices of the hostile chiefs.
'Tis for thyself to choose whom thou wilt send;
But never shalt thou blame my herald-words.
To guide the rudder of the State be thine!
ETEOCLES
O heaven-demented race of Edipus,
My race, tear-fraught, detested of the gods.
Alas, our father's curses now bear fruit.
But it beseems not to lament or weep,
Lest lamentations sadder still be born.
For him, too truly Polyneikes named,-
What his device will work we soon shall know;
Whether his braggart words, with madness fraught,
Gold-blazoned on his shield, shall lead him back.
Had Justice, virgin child of Zeus, in sooth
Guided his deeds and thoughts, this might have been;
But neither when he fled the darksome womb,
Or in his childhood, or in youth's fair prime,
Or when the hair thick gathered on his chin,
Hath Justice communed with, or claimed him hers;
Nor in this outrage on his Fatherland,
Deem I she now beside him deigns to stand.
For Justice would in sooth belie her name
Did she with this all-daring man consort.
In these regards confiding will I go,
Myself will meet him. Who with better right?
Brother to brother, chieftain against chief,
Foeman to foe, I'll stand. Quick, bring my spear,
My greaves, and armour, bulwark against stones.
CHORUS
Dearest of mortals, son of Edipus,
Be not in wrath like him of fatal name;
It is enough;
Let Argive warriors with Cadmeians fight •
their blood may be atoned;
But death of brothers, slain by mutual hands,-
Old age to such pollution never comes.
ETEOCLES
If any one bear evil, let it be
Without disgrace, sole profit to the dead;
On base and evil deeds no glory waits.
CHORUS
STROPHE IV.
What art so eager for, my son?
Let not Infatuation's spell,
Spear-frenzied, soul-possessing, bear thee on:
No, the first germ of evil passion quell.
ETEOCLES
Since God himself the matter presses on,
Let all of Laios' race, 'neath Phobos' ban,
Drift with the breeze, Cocytos' wave its goal.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE IV.
Thee passion biting to the quick
O'ermasters, and impels thee sore
A bitter-fruited deed to consummate
Of blood to be atoned for never more.
ETEOCLES
E'en so, for my dear father's hostile curse,
Now ripe, broods o'er me with dry tearless eyes,
Telling that later doom hath prior gain. *
CHORUS
STROPHE V.
But do not thou press on;
Thy life if Fortune crowneth, none
As coward thee will brand.
Thy house will tempest-swart Erinys leave,
When from thy hand
Due meed of sacrifice the gods receive.
ETEOCLES
The gods, methinks, have long neglected us,
Our doom the only offering they esteem.
Why longer fawn then upon deadly fate?
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE V.
Now is the very hour
When near she stands. Her hostile power
At length may own the sway
Of tardy change-wind, and in kindlier mood
Attend thy way.
But now she seethes with fury unsubdued.
ETEOCLES
Seethed over hath the curse of Edipus.
Too true the Phantoms of my nightly dreams,
Ghastly dividers of our father's wealth.
CHORUS
To women yield, although thou love them not.
ETEOCLES
Say what may yet be done, and speak in brief.
CHORUS
Tread not this pathway to the seventh gate.
ETEOCLES
My whetted soul with words thou shalt not blunt.
CHORUS
Conquest, e'en without glory, God respects.
ETEOCLES
The armed warrior brooks not such a word.
CHORUS
Wouldst thou in sooth cull thine own brother's blood?
ETEOCLES
Grant but the gods, from harm he shall not 'scape.
CHORUS
STROPHE I.
I shudder lest the house-destroying Might,
Unlike to gods, true prophetess of ill,
A sire's invok'd Erinys, now fulfil
The wrathful curses, fraught with bitter hate,
Of Edipus infatuate.
Child-slaying Eris urges on the fight.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE I.
The lots between them doth a stranger deal,
Chalybian colonist from Scythia's bound,
Divider stern of wealth, raw-hearted steel,
Who to the twain allotteth so much ground
To dwell on as they hold when slain,
Stript of all portion in their wide domain.
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.) — 1 focus
Clansmen of Cadmus, at the signal given
1
By time and season must the ruler speak
Who sets the course and steers the ship of State
With hand upon the tiller, and with eye
Watchful against the treachery of sleep.
5
For if all go aright, thank Heaven, men say,
But if adversely—which may God forefend!—
One name on many lips, from street to street,
Would bear the bruit and rumour of the time,
Down with Eteocles!—a clamorous curse,
10
A dirge of ruin. May averting Zeus
Make good his title here, in Cadmus' hold!
You it beseems now—boys unripened yet
To lusty manhood, men gone past the prime
And increase of the full begetting seed,
15
And those whom youth and manhood well combined
Array for action—all to rise in aid
Of city, shrines, and altars of all powers
Who guard our land; that ne'er, to end of time,
Be blotted out the sacred service due
20
To our sweet mother-land and to her brood.
For she it was who to their guest-right called
Your waxing youth, was patient of the toil,
And cherished you on the land's gracious lap,
Alike to plant the hearth and bear the shield
25
In loyal service, for an hour like this.
Mark now! until to-day, luck rules our scale;
For we, though long beleaguered, in the main
Have with our sallies struck the foemen hard.
But now the seer, the feeder of the birds,
30
(Whose art unerring and prophetic skill
Of ear and mind divines their utterance
Without the lore of fire interpreted)
Foretelleth, by the mastery of his art,
That now an onset of Achaea's host
35
Is by a council of the night designed
To fall in double strength upon our walls.
Up and away, then, to the battlements,
The gates, the bulwarks! don your panoplies,
Array you at the breast-work, take your stand
40
On floorings of the towers, and with good heart
Stand firm for sudden sallies at the gates,
Nor hold too heinous a respect for hordes
Sent on you from afar: some god will guard!
I too, for shrewd espial of their camp,
45
Have sent forth scouts, and confidence is mine
They will not fail nor tremble at their task,
And, with their news, I fear no foeman's guile.
[ Enter A Spy.
Eteocles, high king of Cadmus' folk,
I stand here with news certified and sure
50
From Argos' camp, things by myself descried.
Seven warriors yonder, doughty chiefs of might,
Into the crimsoned concave of a shield
Have shed a bull's blood, and, with hands immersed
Into the gore of sacrifice, have sworn
55
By Ares, lord of fight, and by thy name,
Blood-lapping Terror, Let our oath be heard—
Either to raze the walls, make void the hold
Of Cadmus—strive his children as they may—
Or, dying here, to make the foemen's land
60
With blood impasted. Then, as memory's gift
Unto their parents at the far-off home,
Chaplets they hung upon Adrastus' car,
With eyes tear-dropping, but no word of moan.
For their steeled spirit glowed with high resolve,
65
As lions pant, with battle in their eyes.
For them, no weak alarm delays the clear
Issues of death or life! I parted thence
Even as they cast the lots, how each should lead,
Against which gate, his serried company.
70
Rank then thy bravest, with what speed thou may'st,
Hard by the gates, to dash on them, for now,
Full-armed, the onward ranks of Argos come!
The dust whirls up, and from their panting steeds
White foamy flakes like snow bedew the plain.
75
Thou therefore, chieftain! like a steersman skilled,
Enshield the city's bulwarks, ere the blast
Of war comes darting on them! hark, the roar
Of the great landstorm with its waves of men!
Take Fortune by the forelock! for the rest,
80
By yonder dawn-light will I scan the field
Clear and aright, and surety of my word
Shall keep thee scatheless of the coming storm.
I wail in the stress of my terror, and shrill is my cry of despair.
The foemen roll forth from their camp as a billow, and onward they bear!
Their horsemen are swift in the forefront, the dust rises up to the sky,
95
A signal, though speechless, of doom, a herald more clear than a cry!
Hoof-trampled, the land of my love bears onward the din to mine ears.
As a torrent descending a mountain, it thunders and echoes and nears!
The doom is unloosened and cometh! O kings and O queens of high Heaven,
Prevail that it fall not upon us! the sign for their onset is given—
100
They stream to the walls from without, white-shielded and keen for the fray.
They storm to the citadel gates—what god or what goddess can stay
The rush of their feet? to what shrine shall I bow me in terror and pray?
O gods high-thronèd in bliss, we must crouch at the shrines in your home!
Not here must we tarry and wail: shield clashes on shield as they come—
105
And now, even now is the hour for the robes and the chaplets of prayer!
Mine eyes feel the flash of the sword, the clang is instinct with the spear!
Is thy hand set against us, O Ares, in ruin and wrath to o'erwhelm
Thine own immemorial land, O god of the golden helm?
Look down upon us, we beseech thee, on the land that thou lovest of old,
110
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.) — 1 focus
Ihr Kadmosbürger, reden muß das Treffende, 1
1
Wer, wach für seines Volkes Wohl, das Ruder lenkt
Am Bord des Staates, nie das Aug' in Schlaf gewiegt.
Denn sind wir glücklich, wissen wir's den Göttern Dank;
Doch wenn ein Leid uns träfe, - mög' es nie gescheh'n! -
5
Dann würde durch die ganze Stadt Eteokles nur
Vielfach von alles Volkes weithinſchallendem
Wehklageruf gefeiert: Zeus der Schüßende,
Treu seinem Namen, wende dies von Kadmos' Stadt!
Auf, Bürger alle, wer zu voller Manneskraft
10
Noch nicht gereift ist oder wer bereits ergraut,
Pflegt eures Leibes, stählet ihn zu frischer That,
Voll regen Eifers alle, wie's die Pflicht gebeut,
Die Stadt zu schirmen und der Landesgötter Herd,
Daß ihrer Ehren Sterne niemals untergeh'n,
15
Auch Söhn' und Mutter Erde, die uns hold gepflegt!
Denn als ihr, klein noch, spieltet auf dem weichen Grund,
Hat sie der Kindespflege Last all' über sich
Genommen, hat zu schildbewehrten Bürgern euch
Erzogen, daß ihr rüstig wärt zu solchem Dienst.
20
Bis diesen Tag nun neigte sich ein Gott zu uns.
Denn sind wir auch belagert schon die lange Zeit,
Gewährten gute Götter uns doch meist den Sieg.
Doch, wie der Seher heute sprach, der Vögel Wart,
Der, ohne Flammenzeichen, nur mit Geist und Ohr
25
Der Vögel Schicksalsfluge lauscht voll weiser Kunst, -
Er, solcher Sprüche Meister, that uns heute kund,
Das Heer Achäa's habe sich zahlreich zu Nacht
Gesammelt, und bedrohe Kadmos' Stadt mit Sturm.
Drum auf die Mauerzinnen, an die Thorbastei'n
30
Eilt alle, stürmt in voller Rüstung all' hinaus,
Besekt die Brustwehr, stellet auf die Platten euch
Der Thurmeshöhen, an den Thorausgängen harrt
Getrostes Muthes, zaget nicht in banger Angst
Vor diesem Fremdlingsschwarme: wohl vollbringt's ein Gott!
35
Kundschafter sandt' ich, Späher in das Heer hinaus,
Und die verfehlen sicher nicht des Weges Ziel.
Wenn sie mir Kunde bringen, fängt mich keine List.
(Das bewaffnete Volk entfernt sich nach der Stadtseite. Nachher tritt ein Bote ein von der Seite der Fremde.)
Eteokles, edler Herrscher im Kadmeiervolk,
Wahrhafte Botschaft bring' ich aus dem Heere dir;
40
Ein Augenzeuge, sah ich selbst, was dort geschah,
Wie sieben Heeresfürsten, kampfgewaltige,
Stieropfer weihten über schwarzumwundnem Schild,
Und dann die Hände tauchend in der Stiere Blut,
Bei Ares und Enyo, bei'm mordtrunknen Gott
45
Des Schreckens schwuren, Kadmos' Felsenburg in Staub
Zu stürzen, auszutilgen durch Gewalt die Stadt,
Wo nicht, im Tod zu tränken dieses Land mit Blut.
Und Angedenken hingen ste, als Todesmal
Daheim den Aeltern, an Adrastos' Wagen auf,
50
Stillweinend; keine Klage scholl aus ihrem Mund.
Denn eisenherzig glüht' in Mannesmuth die Brust,
Wildschnaubend, gleich den Löwen, die Mord sprüh'n im Blick.
Und ihre Drohung zögert nicht, wird schnelle That.
Denn als ich fortging, loosten sie, auf welches Thor
55
Ein jeder stürme, durch des Zufalls Wurf bestimmt.
So stelle du den besten Männerkern der Stadt
An alle Thorausgänge hin und säume nicht;
Denn nahe schon, in voller Rüstung, stürmt heran,
Staubwirbelnd, Argos' Kriegesheer; der Rosse Schaum,
60
Weiß aus den Nüstern tropfend, neht das Feld umher.
Du schirme, gleich des Schiffes klugem Steuermann,
Die Stadt, bevor hernieder zuckt des Krieges Sturm;
Denn mächtig brüllt der Heere Landeswoge schon.
Erhasche jetzt den rechten Augenblick im Flug!
65
Mein Auge wird als treuer Tageswächter dir
Auch fürder dienen; und genau belehrt von dem,
Was draußen vorgeht, bleibst du frei von Ungemach.
(geht ab.).
Ich klag' um graunvolles Leid! 2
Heran stürmt das Heer, dort aus den Zelten brach's,
Vorauf zahllos hier wälzt sich ein Reiterstrom:
80
Der Staub, himmelan wölkend, bezeugt es uns,
Ein sprachloser, untrüglicher Bote, laut!

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

1. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1

Κάδμου πολῖται, χρὴ λέγειν τὰ καίρια,: Exemplum doovgoonμatos. Conspicitur enim in scena, vel potius in orchestra, populus Thebanus, personae mutae. Böttigerus in libello quem de personis Furiarum scripsit p. 124. seqq. nescio quae simulacra imaginatus est, quae vestibus amicta zw¶à nóçшлα et doоvgoonuara dicta fuerint: quo nihil fingi potuit quod magis absurdum esset. De ista voce praeter G. C. G. Schneideri libellum, cui titulus est das attische theaterwesen, p. 139. conferri possunt quae dixerunt Lambertus Bos Obs. crit. p. 67. cuius verba rettulit ad Luciani Icaromenippum c. 19. Reitzius t. II. p. 760. et C. Fr. Hermannus ad Lucianum de conscrib. hist. p. 23. Versum Aeschyli affert Aristides t. I. p. 342. sive t. 1. p. 528. ed. Dind.
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2. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-2

πόλεως:
nóε
Paг. C. In G. virgula post
πόλεως
distinctum. Ald. Rob. Vict. post
лour
distinguunt. Respicit hunc versum Plato in Euthydemo p. 291. D. quo auctore quum Stephanus post
róεws
potius interpungi malebat, peccavit eo quod ferri posse alteram interpunctionem putavit.
2

3. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-3

νωμῶν:
νόμων
Lips.
βλέφαρα μὴ κοιμῶν ὕπνῳ
affert Eustathius p. 981, 50.
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4. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-4

θεοῦ:
9ɛov
M. G. Vit. Lips. Colb. 1. 2. Ask. A. Par. E. H. K. L. Arund. Ox. Vind. 2. 3. 4. Ven. B. quod merito recepit Blomfieldius. Edd. vett.
θεῶν
.
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5. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-5

αὖθ':
av
G. Par. E. Vind. 1. 2. 3. 4.
5

5. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-6

συμφορὰ:
ξυμφορὰ
G.
5

6. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-7

Ἐτεοκλέης:
¿τεozλñ≤
M. a pr. manu (a sec. deletus circumflexus et
é
supra adscriptum) G. Vit. Lips. Ask. A. Par. N. Ven. A. Vind. 1. 2. 3. 4. Ald. Rob.
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6. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-8

ἂν εἷς:
v is
Ask. A. Cantabr. 1.
av eiç or
G. Ven. A. Ald. Rob.
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6. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-9

πολὺς:
πολὺς
supra versum M.
πόν
Vit. Lips. Par. C. Ald. Rob.
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7. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-10

ὑμνοῖθ᾽:
vµvɛî9'
Ald. et aliquot codices Thomae M. p. 205. ed. Ritsch. Alii Thomae codices
vurɛio'
. Eustathius p. 634, 11.
Alozókos “viµ-νεῖται ὑπ᾽ ἀστῶν φροιμίοις πολυρρόθοις.”
Idem ad Dionysii v. 1181.
καὶ Αἰσχύλος δὲ ἐξ ἀντιφράσεως τὸ κακολογεῖν ὑμνεῖν ἔφη ἐν τῷ “ὑμνεῖται ὑπ' ἀστῶν φροιμίοις πολυρρόθοις.
7

7. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-11

φροιμίοις:
γρυμίοις
Vit.
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πολυρρόθοις:
πολυβρόμοις
Lips. sed adscriptum
γρ. πολυρρόθοις
. Valckenarium ad Phoen. v. 1346.
пalogós
coniicientem secutus est nimium fidelis assecla Brunckius.
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οἰμώγμασίν θ᾽: Affert hunc versum scholion ad Aristoph. Plut. v. 58. a Brunckio editum.
οἰμώγμασι θ'
G. Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2.
ομόγμασι θ'
Vit.
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ἀλεξητήριος:
λeğitios
G. Vit. Colb. 2. Par. E. N. Vind. 2. 3. 4. Ald. Rob. Turn. atque ita etiam M. sed ut ante rasuram
¿¿¿§ŋtýgios
scriptum fuisse videatur. Verba Eteoclis duplicem interpretationem admittunt, prouti
yévoto
aut ex praegresso optativo coniunctoque cum eo
av
pendere, aut, quod praestat, per se optandi potestate positum esse putatur. Aperte autem collocatio verborum praedicatum esse
ἐπώνυμος
postulat, hac sententia, Iuppiter averruncus vere averruncus fiat.
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νῦν:
vir
omitut G.
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ἔξηβον:
ὁ παρ' Αισχύλῳ ἔξηβος
memoratur Eustathio p. 727, 13. 1428, 21. Auratus et Grotius
χρόνον
.
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12. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-17

βλαστημὸν:
βλάστημον
Μ. aliique, ut videtur, codices et Turn.
βλάστι-μον
G. Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 2. Mosc. 1. 2. Par. C. Ε. N. Vind. 2. 3. 4. Ald.
βλάστιμον τ'
Vind. 1. Rob.
βλάστημα γ'
Ven. B.
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πολύν: Quod in fine versus G. Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 2. Colb. 1. Mosc. 1. 2. Vind. 1.2.3.4. Ald. habent
πολλήν
, pro quo in Aug.
πολλών
, in Par. Ε.
πολλὸν
scriptum est, refertur ad
ὥραν
. Αd
βλάστημα
autem
πολύ
, quod est in Ven. B. Cantabr. 1. Par. C. Masculinum
πολὺν
habent M. Rob. Turn. Stephanus alique scribendum putabant
βλάστημά τ' ἀλδαίνοντα σώματος πολύ
. Triclinius in scholiis Vindobonensibus, qui
βλάστιμον
scriptum videret, metri caussa scribebat
βλάστην μέν
, addens
οὕτω χρὴ γράφειν καὶ τόνδε τὸν στίχον καὶ τὸν ἑξῆς, ὡς διωρθώθησαν παρ' ἐμοῦ, ἵν' οἰκείως έχωσι πρός τε τὸ μέτρον καὶ τὴν σύνταξιν. οἱ γὰρ ἄλλως γράφοντες οὐ καλῶς γράφουσιν, ἀγνοοῦντες τὰ περὶ τῶν μέτρων.
Sed quomodo scripserit cetera, non est mihi indicatum. Praeterea quem Blomfieldius Bigoti codicem vocat, cuius scripturas Musgravius secum communicatas habuerit, ex cuius libro eas exscripserit Porsonus,
αλδαίνειν τε
. Ea vero Aurati correctio est, et, nisi secutus Auratum est, Grotii. Nimis secure et lexicographi et editores Aeschyli
βλάστημον
substantivum esse crediderunt, quo usus sit Aeschylus etiam in Suppl. v. 303.
τίν᾽ οὖν ἔτ᾽ ἄλλον τῆςδε βλάστημον λέγεις;
Quo in versu Rob. habet
βλάστιμον
, agnoscendum autem certe adiectivum est. Hoc autem de quo disputamus loco non mirandum quod homines Graece docti scribendum putarunt
βλάστημά τ᾽ ἀλδαίνοντα σώματος πολύ
. Atque Eustathius, cui bis
ὁ ἔξηβος
ex hoc loco commemoratus est, in fine praecedentis versus interpunxerat, sicut factum est in editionibus veteribus. Scilicet
og
iis erat, ut Hesychius interpretatur,
ὁ ἔξω τῆς ἥβης, τριάκοντα πέντε ἐτῶν
, adolescentes, viros, senes nominari putantibus. Poterat quidem articulus omitti, qui ad
ἀλδαίνοντα
pertinebat, sed tamen nec satis recte senes per
te
quasi in cumulum additi essent, nec viri ut nominarentur opus erat, immo fortior est sententia omissis, quos per se consentaneum erat arma capere debere. Recte scholiastae
καὶ τὸν ἔξηβον χρόνῳ, τὸν ἔξω ἡλικίας, τὸν γέροντα
οι
ἤτοι τὸν γηραιὸν καὶ παρηβηκότα καὶ παρακμάσαντα ὑπὸ τοῦ χρόνου
. Nulla post
χρόνῳ
interpunctio est in codicibus M. et Vit. ut
ἐξήβον χρόνῳ
. vel pro adiectivo ad sequens substantivum pertinente, vel substantivi potestate positum sequenti alicui adiectivo iungi posse videatur. Sed hoc quidem modo Aeschylum orationem conformasse non est veri simile, sive
βλάστημον
adiectivi significatione eum posuisse putamus, sive, quod quis fortasse coniiciat, scripsisse
καὶ τὸν ἔξηβον χρόνῳ βλαστήμον, ἀλδαίνοντα σώματος πολύ
, quo adiectivo usus est Nicander Alexiph. v. 561.
ἠὲ χαμαιπίτυος βλαστήμονος ἄμμιγα κώνοις φύλλα καθεψηθέντα
. Verum ne substantivi quidem iusta forma est
βλάστημος
sive, ut G. Dindorfio visum est,
βλαστημάς
. Debebat enim in
σμός
terminari, ut
ὀρχη-σμός, πατησμός
, aliaque quae Lobeckius Paralip. p. 397. congessit. Quare scribendum duxi
βλαστησμόν
, coniungendumque cum eo
ἔξηβον
.
12

13. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-19

ὥραν τ᾽ ἔχονθ᾽ ἕκαστον, ὥς τις ἐμπρεπής,:
ὥραν ἔχονθ᾽ ἕκαστον
M. cum litura post
ἔχον
, addito autem
τ'
a recentiore manu post
ώραν
. Adscriptum est hoc scholion,
ώραν (sic) φροντίδα, ἵν' ᾖ ὁ νοῦς οὗτος, ἕκαστον ὑμῶν ἔχοντα φροντίδα τῆς πόλεως, ἢ ἕκαστον πρὸς τὴν ἡλικίαν βοηθεῖν τῇ πόλει, ὡς πρέπον ἐστίν
. Copulam omittunt G. Vit. (in Vit. scriptum
ἔχοντ'
) Lips. Cantabr. 1. Colb. 1. Ox. Par. A. B. Ν.
ὥραν ἕκαστον ἔχοντα
habent Mosc. 1. 2. Rob.
ὥραν τ' (9' Turn.) ἔχονθ᾽ ἕκαστον
Ven. A. Turn.
ώραν θ᾽ ἕκαστον ἔχοντα
Ald. Quod ex Bigoti libro, quicum Grotius consentit, affertur
ώραν ἔχειν
, coniecturam esse puto: certe Auratus
ώραν τ' ἔχειν
. Recte Brunckius ex Par. A. B. recepit
ώραν ἔχονθ᾽ ἕκαστον
. Ita etiam Par. N. Deinde
ὥστε
, sed cum litura post
τι
, et
o
inter
&
et
τι
a recentiore manu in htura addito, Μ.
ώς τις
Mosc. 2. Par. E. Ceteri libri ni fallor omnes
ὥς τι
vel ut Vit.
ὡς τὶ
, nisi quod in Par. Β.
ὡς τι
in
ώςτε
mutatum esse Fachsius dicit. Tum
ξυμπρεπές
G. Mirum est quod etiam Porsonus
&çre
adscivit, in quod coniectura inciderant Grotius et Stanleius. Id Graece dicendum erat
ὡς τὸ συμπρεπές
. Sic Euripides in Ione v. 1249.
ὥςπερ τὸ δίκαιον
. Scribendum putavi
ὡς τις ἐμπρεπής
.
13

14. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-20

ἀρήγειν:
πόλιν τ' ἀγείρειν
Par. G.
14

15. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-21

μὴ 'ξαλειφθῆναι ποτε: Inter
μας
et
αλειφθῆναι ποτε
litura est in M.
μὴ ἐξαλειφθῆναι ποτέ
Vit.
μὴ ξαλειφῆναι ποτέ
G. Mosc. 2.
μὴ ἐξαλειφῆναι ποτὲ
Lips.
15

16. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-22

τέκνοις τε:
τέκνοις τε
Μ. Rob. Τurn.
τέκνοισί τε
G. Vit. Lips. Par. C. N. Ald.
16

16. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-23

τροφῷ:
τέκνοισί γε
Mosc. 2. Idem
τροφών
.
16

17. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-24

ἣ:
ἃ γὰρ
Par. A.
ἡ γαρ
G.
ἡ γὰρ
Μ. Vit. Lips. Par. Β. ceterique, ut videtur, codices et editiones veteres, pronomine accentu recte notato.
17

17. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-25

νέους:
νέους θ'
Lips.
17

18. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-26

πανδοκοῦσα:
προσδοκοῦσα
G. Vind. 1. 3.
δοκοῦσα
Colb. 2. Ceteri
παν-δοκοῦσα
, de quo verbo dixi Opusc. V. p. 200. Comprobatur verbum substantivo, quo Plato de leg. XI. p. 918. D. usus est,
πανδοκεία
, sive
πανδόκεια
. V. Lobeckii Pathol. proleg. p. 42.
18

18. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-27

παιδείας: Libri
παιδείας
. Εx Victorii editione
παιδίας
in posteriores manavit.
18

18. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-28

ὄτλον: In
ὄτλον
Μ.
τ
litteram in litura habet.
18

19. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-29

οἰκητῆρας:
οἰκηστῆρας
G. et sie aut
οἰκιστήρας
, nam ambiguum est, e correctione Lips.
oizyτñas
Mosc. 2. Aug. et ante correctionem Lips. Ceteri
οἰκιστῆρας
, quod interpretantur glossae
οικήτορας
et
εποίκους
. Non exputo cur
oizioτnous
scripsisse Aeschylum dicam, vocabulo nec proprio nec quod sciam alibi apud tragicos invento. Blomfieldius quum Aeschylum, si altero uti voluisset,
οικήτορας
potius quam
οἰκητῆρας
dicturum fuisse putavit, non meminerat
oiztoa
scriptum in Sophoclis Oed. Col. v. 627. Nihil proficimus Schwenckii defensione, inusitatos significatus a tragicis captari memorantıs. Quare veram scripturam
oizy-Tous
esse arbitror, mutatam errore antiqui librarii in usitatius vocabulum.
19

19. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-30

ἀσπιδηφόρους:
ἀσπιδοφόρους
Rob.
19

20. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-31

γένοισθε:
yérnode
G. Mosc. 2. Par. E. Vind. 1. 2. 3. 4. Ald. Turn. Singulari attractione dictum est
πιστοὺς ὅπως γένοισθε
. V. ad Eur. Iph. Taur. v. 925.
20

21. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-32

μὲν:
ur
omittunt Ven. A. Ox. Ald.
21

21. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-33

τόδ᾽: Ex Par. E.
To oòv d'
affertur.
21

21. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-34

ῥέπει:
ρέποι
Vit.
21

22. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-35

τὸν:
omittit
Mosc. 1. pro quo alterum nominant Butlerus et Wellauerus.
22

22. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-36

πυργηρουμένοις:
τάνδε
Αld.
avoyvqovµévois
G. Cantabr. 1. Par. L.
22

23. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-37

καλῶς:
xalos
Cantabr. 2.
23

23. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-38

πόλεμος:
πολέμως
Par. L. sive
πόλεως
, ut Faehsius dicit.
23

23. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-39

κυρεῖ:
κυροῦ
Par. K.
23

24. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-40

φησίν:
qroi
Lips. Incipit ut usitata ratione dicturus
ὡς ὁ μάντις φησὶ νυκτηγορεῖσθαι μεγίστην προςβολήν
, sed statim mutat.
24

25. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-41

νωμῶν:
νωμῶ
Rob.
25

25. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-42

φρεσίν:
grool
M. G. Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 1.2. Rob.
25

25. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-43

πυρὸς δίχα:
Avoòç diya
si Aeschylus sic dixisset, ut Tiresiam non ex igne vaticinatum significaret, perinepte ignem commemorasset, ubi potius sine oculorum lumine illum volatus avium notasse dicendum erat. Non dissensit Aeschylus ab Sophocle in Antigona v. 1005. atque Euripide in Phoenissis v. 954. sed quod dixit
avoòs díza
est praeter signa ex igne capla, ut
diza oírov
dictum est a Dionysio Halic. ant. Rom. VII. 19. p. 1357, 7.
25

26. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-44

ἀψευδεῖ:
ἀψευδῆ
Mosc. 1. 2.
26

27. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-45

τοιῶνδε:
τοιῶν
Aug.
δεσπότης τοιῶνδε
Colb. 1. Par. N.
27

28. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-46

Ἀχαΐδα:
azarida
M. Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. B. Ven. B.
28

29. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-47

νυκτηγορεῖσθαι:
vvxτуogo9
Lips. Par. E.
29

29. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-48

κἀπιβουλεύειν:
κἀπιβουλεύσειν
Vit. aliique, ut videtur, codices et Ald. Rob. Turn.
zůлißovλevoε
Lips.
zάлißov-λeve
M. G. Arund. Cantabr. 1. Mosc. 2. Par. L. Ven. B. Vind. 1. 3. quod agnoscere videntur etiam scholiastae, qui
βουλεύεσθαι εἰ ἐπιβουλεύε-9a
interpretantur. Praetulit praesens Blomfieldius non, ut temere Wellauerus ait, sine caussa. Si quid mutandum esset, aptius futuro esset
κἀπιβουλεῦσαι
.
29

30. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-49

πύλας:
Tókus
, adscripto tamen
zúλaç
, Par. E.
30

30. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-50

πυργωμάτων:
πυργημάτων
Mose. 2. Ad ultimas syllabas vocabulorum
πύλας
et
πυργωμάτων
in M. a recentiore manu supra adscriptum est
av
et
a
, et legisse
лvkær πυργώματα
videtur scholiastes, qui
προμαχεώνας
interpretatur. Defendi vulgata potest v. 33.
30

31. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-51

ὁρμᾶσθε πάντες, σοῦσθε σὺν παντευχίᾳ,: Hunc versum omittit Lips.
31

32. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-52

πληροῦτε:
πληροῦται
Lips.
πληροῦνται
Par. E.
32

32. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-53

θωρακεῖα:
Jwgazia
Lips.
32

32. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-54

σέλμασιν:
σέλμασιν
Μ. pro vulgato
σέλμασι
.
32

33. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-55

πυλῶν:
nolλær
G. sed primae syllabae supra adscriptum.
33

33. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-56

ἐξόδοις:
ἐξό-dovs
, supra scripto
ois
, Ven. B.
ἐπ᾿ ἐξόδοις
Lips.
33

33. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-57

στάθητε:
ταγεῦσαι
Rob.
33

34. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-58

εὖ θαρσεῖτε:
εὐθαρσεῖτε
Μ. G. Vit. Lips.
εὖ θαρσεῖτε
Ald. Rob. Turn. V. Valckenarium ad Phoen. v. 1331. p. 447.
34

35. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-59

ἄγαν:
άγαν γ'
Ven. Β.
35

36. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-60

κατοπτῆρας:
κατοπτῆρα
Μ. a pr. manu: recentior
s
addidit.
κακοπτῆρας
, sed ad alterum
z
supra scripto
τ
, G.
xаµлτñoɑs
Par. E.
36

38. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-61

ληφθῶ:
29
Ald.
29
quidem, sed
&
supra scripto, Lips.
38

39. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-62

Ἐτεόκλεες:
'Eréozλes
G. Vit. Par. E. Ven. A. Vind. 2. 4. Ald. Rob.
Etεο-κλῆς
Vind. 1.
39

39. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-63

φέριστε:
ἄριστε
Vind. 3. Interpunctio editionis Victorianae,
Ετεόκλεες, φέριστε Καδμείων ἄναξ
, recte a Blomfieldio aliisque sic mutata est, ut
'ETEózhɛeç qéQITE
coniungerentur. In Lips. virgula est post
καδμείων
. Eupolis
Πόλεσιν
apud scholiastam Aristophanis ad Pacem v. 1046.
Ἱερόκλεες βέλτιστε, χρησμῳδῶν ἄναξ
. Animadvertit imitationem G. Dindorfius. *
39

40. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-64

σαφῆ τἀκεῖθεν:
σαφῆ τε τὰ κεῖθεν
Οχ.
σαφῶς τἀκεῖθεν
Ask. A.
40

41. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-65

δ᾽ εἴμ᾽:
M. Lips. Ven. A. B. Ald. Rob.
41

42. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-66

ἑπτὰ: Haec usque ad
dozouóτour
affert Longinus cap. 15. Versus 42-56. Stobaeus VII. 11. Versus 42. 43. scholiastes Aristophanis ad Lysistr. v. 188.
42

43. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-67

ἐς μελάνδετον σάκος: Vtitur his verbis Aristides t. II. p. 317. ed. Iebb. sive p. 417. ed. Dind. Apud Stobaeum et Longinum ac scholiastam Aristophanis
Els
scriptum est. Codex Longini Vaticanus 194.
εἰς μέλαν σε τοῦ κύ-κος
, cod. Vat. 1471.
εἰς μέλαν σε τὸ σακος
, ad
σα
supra scripto
τα
. Vnde coniici posse
zúros
animadvertit Blomfieldius. Sed quo gravior res ipsa, eo aptius proprium vocabulum, quod praeter ceteros habet etiam scholiastes Baroccianus Euripidis ad Or. 809.
ès uɛhúrdetov oúzos
afferens.
43

43. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-68

σάκος:
oázzoç
Cantabr. 1. et fortasse Par. E.
43

44. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-69

χερσὶ:
Egoir
Ald. Rob.
yaoi
Stobaei codex A.
44

44. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-70

ταυρείου:
ταυρίου
Ald. Turn.
44

45. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-71

Ἄρη:
on
M. Arund. Stobaeus, Longini optimus Paris. et Vat. 1.
ågon i
G.`
"onv t'
Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Colb. 1. 2. Ox. Par. C. Ven. A. B. Vind. 1. 2. 3. 4. Ald. Rob. edd. Longini.
oony '
Vit. Par. N.
Any
omissa copula Turn. et posteriores.
Aon
tragicis vindicandum putabat Valckenarius ad Phoen. v.1013. p. 367. Contra Porsonus ad Phoen. v. 134. hoc Aeschyli versu
Any
flagitari ratus, ubique
'Aoŋy
praeferebat, ut in eadem fabula v. 950. 1020. Contrarium probat optimorum librorum scriptura (v. ad v. 53.), copula autem ad
'Evvo
eodem modo omissa est, quo
ούτε
-
οὐ
-
οὔτε
iungi solent.
45

45. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-72

Φόβον:
góvov
Arund. Cantabr. 1. Ven. B. Vind. 2. Rob. et supro scripto Colb. 2.
45

46. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-73

ὡρκωμότησαν:
ὡρκομότησαν
G.
ὡρκωμώτησαν
Αld.
46

46. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-74

πόλει:
πόλεις
Par. G.
46

46. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-75

κατασκαφὰς:
κατασκαφὰς
Μ.
κατασφαγάς
, adscripto
κατασκαφάς
Par. B.
46

47. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-76

λαπάξειν: Eustathius p. 68, 27. de verbo
αλαπάζειν
disserens,
γίνεται δὲ ἐκ τοῦ λαπάζω πλεονασμῷ τοῦ α. παρὰ γοῦν τῷ Αἰσχύλῳ εὕρηται τὸ ῥῆμα χωρὶς τοῦ α
.
47

47. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-77

Καδμείων: Ex Par. C. affertur
κάμει
, fortasse pro
καδμεῖον
.
47

48. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-78

τήνδε:
την
omittit Par. E.
πρόσθε
pro
τήνδε
Stobaeus.
48

48. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-79

φυράσειν:
φυράσσειν
G. Cantabr. 2. Ox. Par. G. N.
48

49. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-80

μνημεῖα δ᾽ αὑτῶν:
σημεῖα δ᾽ αὐτῶν
Stobaeus.
μνημεῖα, τὰ οἴκαδε πεμπό-μενα ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν πολέμῳ τετελευτηκότων τοῖς οἰκείοις
Hesychius.
49

49. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-81

ἐς δόμους:
εἰς δόμους
Μ. et Stobaeus.
ἐν δόμοις
Colb. 1.
49

50. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-82

πρὸς ἅρμ᾽:
πρὸς ἅρματ'
Colb. 1. Par. Β. Κ. Ν. Sic etiam Vit. e correclione : antea
πρὸς ἁρμ'
erat scriptum.
πρὸς δ᾽ ἅρμ᾽
G. Par. C. Ask. A. Ven. A. (Bekkero teste) Rob.
50

50. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-83

χερσὶν:
χεροῖν
G. Par. B. Ald. Rob.
50

51. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-84

διὰ στόμα:
διὰ στόματος
Colb. 1. Par. N.
ἀνὰ στόμα
Stobaeus.
51

52. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-85

ἀνδρείᾳ:
ἀνδρία
Cantabr. 2. et Stobaeus.
52

53. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-86

λεόντων: In
λεόντων
M.
6
a recentiore manu in rasura habet.
53

53. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-87

Ἄρη:
ἄρη
M. et Stobaci codex A. Idem ex regio Aeschyli codice Spanhemius affert.
ἄρρην
Par. N. Ceteri
ἄρην
. V. ad v. 45.
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πίστις: Stobaeus
καὶ τῷδε πίστις
, sed Schowii libri
καὶ τῶνδε πίστις
.
Ει πίστις
etiam Colb. 2. Reliqui libri
πίστις
. Sic etiam scholiastae videntur legisse. Recte vero
πίστις
a Schutzio Bothioque receptum est. Facto comprobatum iri dicere debebat, non auditurum rem esse Eteoclem audivit enim modo ex ipso nuntio.
54

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χρονίζεται:
οὐ μόνω χαρίζεται
Stobaei codex A.
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κληρουμένους:
κληρονόμους
Lips.
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ἔλειπον:
δ᾽ ἔλειπον
Μ. Vit. Turn.
δ' ἔλιπον
G. Lips. Cantabr. 2. Ox. Par. A. B. C. E. N. Vind. 1. 3. 4. Ald. Rob. et edd. vett. Stobaei. Brunckius, quod in Par. B. suprascriptum esset
γάρ
, edidit
κληρουμένους γὰρ ἔλιπον
.
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πύλας:
πύλαις
Par. G.
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ἄγοι:
άγῃ
G. Cantabr. 2. Colb. 2. Mosc. 1. Par. E. L. Vind. 1. 2. 4. et
or
supra scripto Colb. I.
ἄγει
Aug. Vind. 3.
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ἐξόδοισι:
ἐπεξόδοισι
Μ. G.
ἐπ᾿ ἐξόδοις
Lips.
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τάγευσαι:
ταγεῦσαι
Rob.
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κονίει:
κονιεῖ
Μ. G. Vit. Lips. Ald.
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ἀργηστὴς:
πεδία γὰρ ἀργιστής
Vit. et
ἀργιστής
etiam G.
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πνευμόνων:
πνευμάτων
G. Aug. Mosc. 2. Vind. 1. 3. Ceteri
πνευμόνων
, praeter M. qui
πλευμόνων
habet, ut Brunckius edidit. V. Pors. ad Eur. Or. v. 271.
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ναὸς:
ναός
restituit Porsonus et hic et, ubi idem versus legitur, in Euripidis Medea v. 523. Et habent
ναός
M. Colb. 2. Ven. Β.
νεως
Vit. Ceteri
νηός
.
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Ἄρεως:
ἄρεως
M. Ceteri
ἄρεος
, quam formam non usurpari nisi metri caussa monuit Elmsleius ad Bacch. v. 302. et ad Oed. Col. v. 947. Gregorius Cor. de dial. Aeol. 31.
Αρεος διὰ τοῦ ὁ μικροῦ κλίνουσιν, ὡς παρ' Ὁμήρῳ καὶ Σοφοκλεί
. Sane Sophocles ita, ubi metrum poscebat.
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χερσαῖον:
χερσαίου
, sic, supra scripto
or
, Vit.
χερσαίου
Par. G. Ald. Turn. et adscriptum, ut videtur, in Par. B. Recte
χερσαίον
Μ. celerique codd. et Rob.
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τῶνδε:
Tarde
M. Rob. et supra scripto
τόνδε
Mosc. 1.
Tòv de
Mosc. 2.
Tórde
G. Vit. Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. Par. C. Ven. A. B. Vind. 2. 4. Ald. Turn. et
tv
supra scripto Par. N.
o
supra scripto Colb. 1.
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ὅςτις:
ὡς τις
G. Lips. Ven. B. Vind. 2. Rob. et adscriptum in Par. B. N.
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λαβέ:
λάβαι
, supra scripto
ɛ
, Lips. Ceteri
háße
.
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σαφηνείᾳ:
oagnvɛía
M.
oaqnreía
Vit. Cantabr. 2. Ox. Ask. A. Par. B. Rob.
oagrvía
G. Lips. Ald. Turn.
ougýrɛí áλóyov
Cantabr. 1. In Vit. inter
καὶ
et
σαφηνείᾳ
supra adscriptum
σύ
.
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εἰδὼς τὰ:
εἰδὼς σὺ τὰ
Ox. Ven. A. Ald. Rob.
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ἔσει: Libri
ἔσῃ
.
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πολισσοῦχοι:
πολισοῦχοι
G. Lips. Vind. 1. 2. 3. 4.
πολιοῦχοι
, supra scripto
πολισσούχοι
, Vit.
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Ἐρινὺς:
ἐρινὺς
M. Vulgo
Εριννύς
.
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μοι πόλιν γε:
μή μου
Rob.
Thy nóv
Par. E. et
yɛ
omisso Vind. 2. 4. Elmsleio ad Eur. Med. v. 175.
μntoi лódiv`ye
scribendum videbatur.
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πρεμνόθεν:
лéμvoε
Blomfieldius et ante eum Valckenarius. Libri
πρυμνόθεν
, praeter Cantabr. 2. qui coniunctis duabus scripturis
noɛvμvóðɛv
habet.
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δῃάλωτον:
δάλωτον
Brunckius. Libri
δη άλωτον
.
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δόμους:
Suovs
Mosc. 2. Ald.
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γῆν τε:
τε γῆν δὲ
Colb. 1.
τε γῆν τε
Lips. Ox. Ald.
τε γῆν
, altero
Tε
omisso, Ven. A.
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ζυγοῖσι δουλειοῖσι:
Svyołoι Sovkɛíoɩɩ
M. G. Vit. Cantabr. 2. Par. A. B. C. N. Colb. 1.
ζυγοῖσι δουλέοισι
Lips.
ζυγοῖσι δουλίοισι
Ald. Turn.
ζευγλῇσι dovλeino
Ox. Par. H. I. Ask. A. Vind. 2. 4. Rob.
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σχεθεῖν: Librorum scripturam
σχέθειν
in
σχεθεῖν
mutavit Blomfieldius. V. Lobeckium Paral. p. 46. qui tamen fallitur, quum Etym. M. p. 456, 18. affert, quasi
ozé9w
inusitatum esse testetur: ibi
q9i9w
usitatum esse negatur. Iterat illud Lobeckius ad Buttmanni gramm. II. p. 63.
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γένεσθε:
γένεσθε
Rob.
γένοισθε
Vind. 2. 4. Omittit hunc versum Mosc. 2. et, si recte notavi, G.
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δαίμονας:
δαίμονα
Lips.
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78. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-119

θρεῦμαι: De hoc chori carmine multa a multis diligentiane nescio an levitate infeliciore disputata esse dicam. Nominavit eos non meliorem viam ingressus Franciscus Passovius in ea dissertatione quae tertia in eius Opusculis est, p. 95. Quod ille refert ut a me dictum, virgines choricas haec oлоoúdny prodeuntes canere, non commemini me dixisse: ipsius Passovii hanc opinionem fuisse video. Singulas virgines separatim canere et metra ostendunt huic rei propria, et vero etiam multo magis sententiae neque vinculis inter se connexae et fere eosdem sensus, easdem preces ita repetentes, ut aperte non possint totius chori perpetuatam orationem continere. Praeterea strophae ita inter se modo similitudine metrorum, modo discrepantia initiorum et finium sunt distinctae, ut facile discerni singularumque ambitus determinari possit. Neque vero cogitandum est de antistrophica ratione ita, ut totum carmen ad eam exigatur. Priorem enim partem carminis 2201óστgogor esse oportebat, ut in magno repentinoque tumultu. Sed ea tamen nimia parumque decora virginibus perturbatio esset, si σлоgády singulae deinceps alia aliunde accurrerent. Immo totus simul chorus adveniebat, concitatior quidem, sed non sine ordine. Id eo cognoscitur, quod tres deinceps strophae, quae sunt octava, nona, decima, inter se similes sunt, item ut undecimae et duodecimae initia sibi respondent. Praeterea memorabile est, quod, ubi paullum remisit animorum consternatio, carmenque antistrophicum fieri coepit, prima duo antistropharum paria ex ternis partibus constant. Quo confirmatur, quod primae quoque totius carminis sex strophae cam comparationem habent, ut numerum ternarium ostendant. Ex his satis certo videtur colligi posse, zarà ¿ryà dispositum fuisse chorum. Itaque virginum dicta, quae sunt numero quinque et viginti, ita distribui, ut convenirent isti xava Lvyà stationi: quamquam sitne ea distributio illa ipsa, quam poeta fecit, pro certo affirmare non possum: non dissimilem tamen fuisse et ordo stropharum et inter sese comparatio ostendit. Putandum est autem tertium ordinem in medio stetisse, eique a lateribus adstitisse reliquos quattuor ordines, eam autem virginem, quae numero septima est, coryphaei partes habuisse.
9oέouai
M. Vit. Ald. Rob. Turn. et scholiastes Euripidis ad Phoen. v. 239. qui Triclinius est. Sed idem eadem dicens Triclinius in scholiis Vindobonensibus ad Aeschyli carmen cum G. Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 2. Mosc. 1. 2. Par. C. L. Vind. 1. 3.
9gɛvua
. Idem adscriptum, ut videtur, in Par. B. Hoc trochaei semanti pondere exordiendum erat carmen, non anapaesto.
9oovucu
Aug. quod suopte iudicio posuit Blomfieldius, vulgaria inferre in Aeschyli poemata solitus.
oɛvua
Par. E.
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μεγάλ᾽ ἄχη:
uɛyákat yn
G. Vit. Cantabr. 1. Mosc. 2. Par. F. N. Colb. 1. 2. (in Colb. 2.
'
ab alia manu) Ven. B. Vind. 1. 2. 3. 4. Rob. Idem adscriptum, ut videtur, in Par. B.
uɛyák azn
recte M. Lips. Ald. Turn.
μɛ-yúλa
, addito a recentiore manu
zn
, Cantabr. 1.
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μεθεῖται: Quod in scholiis codicis Vit. legitur,
ἀφίεται, ἤδη ὁρμὴν ποι-eĩtai daì tùy nókır
, non putandum est indicium esse alius scripturae,
µɛdíɛtai
. Videtur interpres
aqɛitau
scripsisse non secus quam editus scholiastes, apud quem eodem errore legitur
ὁ ἱππικὸς στρατὸς συγκε-zwoŋtai xai ágíɛva
. G. Dindorfius specimine emendatae editionis, quod Zimmermanni diurnis antiquariis a. 1836. insertum est, aut imperitos criticos videtur ludificare voluisse, aut sese ipse ludos fecit. Tzetzes in Exegesi lliadis p. 72. seq. memoriae errore scripsit
otoutòs yào vò nhñ-θός ἐστι τῆς ἐκστρατείας, στρατόπεδον δὲ ὁ τόπος καὶ αἱ σκηναὶ τοῦ στρατοῦ. τοῦτο δὲ καὶ Αἰσχύλος σαφέστερον παριστᾷ λέγων “ῥεῖ δὲ στρατὸς στρατόπεδον λιπών.”
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πολὺς ὅδε:
πολὺς ὅδε
Μ. Arund. Mose. 1. Par. L. Rob.
πολὺς ὧδε
G. Cantabr. 1. 2. Mosc. 2. Par. A. В.
πολὺς δ'åde
Ox. Ven. A. Ald. Turn. et ante correctionem Vit.
noλvs d'öde
Vit. ex correctione.
πολὺς δ᾽ ὅγε
Lips. Idem et
πολὺς δ᾽ ὧδε
adscriptum in Par. B.
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λεὼς:
λαός
Lips. Cantabr. 1. et Blomfieldio teste Ask. A. Videtur hoc etiam in Vit. fuisse antequam in
λεως
mutaretur.
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ἱππότας:
ἱππότης
, supra scripto
ας
, Vit.
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αἰθερία:
αἰθέρια
Vit.
αιθερία
Ald.
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φανεῖσ᾽:
φανεῖσα
G. Ald. Turn.
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σαφὴς:
σαφής δ'
Vit. Par. G. N. Colb. 1. Ven. B. Vind. 3.
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ἔτυμος:
έτυμος
Lips.
ἕτοιμος
Mosc. 2.
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ἑλεδεμὰς πεδία ἐπ᾽ ὁπλόκτυπος βοὰ ποτᾶται:
ἐλεδέμας
sic a pr. manu M. ex quo recentior manus inserto
v
et addito in ultima syllaba accentu
ἐλεδεμνάς
fecit.
ἐλεδέμνας
G.
ἐλεδεμνὰς
Vit. Ald.
ἐλϊδεμνὰς
Rob.
ἑλεδεμνάς
Lips. Turn.
ἑλαδάμνας
Par.G. Vrsinus ad Virg. Aen. XI. 879. habet
ἐλαδάμνας
. Deinde
πεδιοπλοκτύ-πος (sic a pr. manu: recentior πεδιοπλόκτυπος fecit) τι (eraso accentu) χρίμπτεται
M. Ad hanc scripturam refertur scholion codicis Vit.
χρίμπτεται δὲ καὶ πλησιάζει ἡμῖν τί, ἤτοι μικρόν τι, ἢ κατά τι ἡμῖν προςπελάζει ἡ βοή. — τινὲς δὲ ὠτὶ χρίμπτεται γράφουσιν, ήγουν τῇ ἀκοῇ ἡμῶν προςπελάζει βοή.
πεδιοπλόκτυπος δὲ χρίμπτεται
Vit. et Colb. 1. In Vit.
@τὶ
ad
δὲ
supra scriptum est.
πεδιοπλόκτυπός τε ὠτὶ χρίμπτεται
G. Par. H. I. K. Ask. A. Taur. Ven. B. Sic etiam, nisi quod
ὦτι
enotatum est, Par. C. in quo
ὦσι
adscriptum. Ex Par. B. Fachsius affert
“τε ωτί. suprascr. ωσί. γρ. τί pro τε.”
ὠσὶ
eliam in Par. A. Brunckius invenisse videtur.
πεδιοπλόκτυπος ὠτὶ χρίμπτεται
Mosc. 1. Sie etiam Mosc. 2. nisi quod
χρίμπταται
habet.
πεδιοπλόκτυπος ὥστε χρίμπτεται
Colb. 2.
π. τε χρίμπτεται
Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. Οx. Ven. A. Ald. Turn.
π. τὲ χρίπτεται
Par. E.
πεδιοπλόκτυπός τ' ἐγχρίμπτεται
Rob. Deinde
βοᾶ
M. a pr. manu, post quam vocem litura apparet: recentior manus
Bod
fecit.
Boù
G. Mosc. 1. 2. Ox. Par. A. B. H. I. K. Ask. A. Colb. 1. Taur. Turn.
Boã
vel
Boğ
Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. Ven. A. B. Ald. Rob. In Vit. circumflexus a pr. manu in gravem mutatus est. Itaque vulgo edebatur
ἐλεδεμνὰς πεδιοπλόκτυπός τ᾽ ἐγχρίμπτεται βοά, ποτᾶται, βρέμει δ'
. Sed
ἐλεδεμνάς
vel
ἑλεδεμνάς
nihili vocabulum esse facile quivis concedet: quin si potuisset tale verbum componi, ineptissima esset eius interpretatio,
ἐλαύνων ἐμὲ ἐκ τῶν δεμνίων καὶ οὐκ ἐῶν καθεύδειν
, vel quod in M. adscripto
ζήτει
legitur
ἑλεδεμνὰς ἡ ἑλοῦσα ἀπὸ τῶν δεμνίων
. Itaque ego in Elem. doctr. metr. p. 269.
ἑλέδεμας
scripsi, ut in Agamemnone v. 666. de Helena est
Ελέναυς, ἕλανδρος, ἑλέπτολις
. Confirmatur haec emendatio quum eo quod in M. a prima manu
ἐλεδέμας
scriptum erat, tum scholio, quod in eodem codice recentior manus, quae saeculi XIV. est, adiecit,
ελεδεμὰς (sic scriptum) ἡ τὸ δέμας ἡμῶν (sic scriptum, non ἡμᾶς) τῷ φόβῳ λαμβάνουσα ἢ ταράττουσα
. Simile scholion in Vit. legitur,
ἐλεδεμνάς, ἀντὶ τοῦ τὸ δέμας καὶ τὸ σῶμα ἡμῶν τῷ φόβῳ λαμβάνουσα καὶ συσφίγγουσα καὶ κατέχουσα καὶ καταρράττουσα καὶ περιθλίβουσα
. Quod monet Lobeckius in Paralipomenis p. 226. contrarium esse
ελέδεμας
praecepto Herodiani p. 224. allato,
ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς ἃς οὐ γίνεται σύνθετον, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς ος
, facilius ego credam Herodianum aut non meminisse Aeschylei verbi aut iam corruptam scripturam habuisse, quam Aeschylum non composuisse hoc modo vocabulum quod alio modo componi non poterat. Et Eustathium tamen p. 870, 2.
έτερούας
memorare observat Lobeckius p. 225. quod memoratur etiam in Theognosti can. in Crameri Anecd. Ox. II. p. 7, 22. Αd
πεδιοπλόκτυπος
in M. hoc scholion a manu saeculi XI. adscriptum est,
καὶ τὰ τῆς γῆς δέ μου πεδία κατακτυπούμενα τοῖς ποσὶ τῶν ἵππων καὶ τοῖς ὅπλοις (sic scriptum) ποιεῖ μου προςπελάζειν τὸν ἦχον τοῖς ὠσίν
. Hinc colligi potest
πεδί-ὁπλόκτυπα
scriptum fuisse. Videtur autem excidisse
διά
, ut aut hoc modo Aeschylus scripserit,
ἑλέδεμας δὴ διὰ πεδί᾽ ὁπλόκτυπ᾽ ὦ-τὶ χρίμπτει βοά·
similiterque scribendum esse coniecit Ritschelius in Passovii Opusc. p. 101. aut
ἑλέδεμας πεδία δὲ ὁπλόκτυπ᾽ ὦ-τὶ χρίμπτειν βοὰ ποτᾶται
, ut iungatur
ελέδεμας στὶ χρίμπτειν
, i. e.
ἀκούειν
. Hoc, ut probabilius, posui.

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ἀμαχέτου:
αμαιμακέτου
margo Aldinae apud Burtonum.
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ὀροτύπου:
ὀροτύπου
M. Par. L. et margo Aldinae.
ορροκτύπου
G. Taur. Ceteri
ὀροκτύπου
. Mira apud Hesychium interpretatio,
ὀροτύπου δίκην· ὅτι οἱ Γίγαντες ἀποσπῶντες ἀπὸ τῶν ὀρῶν κορυφὰς καὶ πέτρας ἔβαλλον
.
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ἰὼ ἰὼ θεοὶ θεαί τ': Recte
ω ἰὼ θεοὶ θεαί '
Colb. 1. Par. N. Ter
i
et deinde
θεοὶ θεαί τ'
Μ. Vit. Lips. Rob. Quater
?
et deinde
θεοὶ θεαί τ'
Ald. Turn. Quater
?
ante
θεοί
, semel ante
θεαί τ'
Arund. Cantabr. 2. Colb. 2. Par. K. Ter
i
ante
θεοί
, semel ante
θεαί τ'
G. Par. G. Taur. Ter
i
ante
θεοί
, bis ante
θεαί τ'
Cantabr. L. Bis
?
ante
θεοί
, semel ante
θεαί τ'
Ven. Β.
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ὀρόμενον:
ὀρρόμενον
G. Lips. Cantabr. 1. Ask. A. Par. E. Taur. Vindobonenses et adscripto
δρώμενον
Par. B.
ὁρώμενον
Par. G.
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ἀλεύσατε:
ἀλεύσετε
, ad penultimam syllabam
a
a recentiore manu adscripto, M.
87

88. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-135

βοᾷ:
βοd
Arund. et gravi accentu in circumflexum mutato Lips.
88

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εὐτρεπὴς:
εὐπρεπὴς
Ox. Ven. A. Ald. Turn.
εὐτερπής
Cantabr. 1.
εὐτρεπής
Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 2. Mosc. 2. Par. F. L. Taur. Rob. et simul cum
εὐπρεπής
Par. A. B.
εὐτρεπής
ex
εὐπρεπής
rasura factum in M. Ask. A. correctione in G. Mirum est Hemsterhusium ad Lucianum t. I. p. 316. dubitari potuisse utra scriptura praeferenda esset, magis mirum Valckenario ad Phoen. v. 801. p. 299. genuinum visum esse
εὐπρεπής
propter Euripideum illud
ἀσπιδοφέρμονα θίασον εὔοπλον
. Tollenda est autem interpunctio post
εὐτρεπής
.
89

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πόλιν: Timidae virgines iam muros superare exercitum putant,
πτόλιν
Μ.
90

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ἄρα:
ἆρα
Cantabr. 1. et a pr. manu M.
91

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ῥύσεται:
λεύσεται
Par. G.
91

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ἄρ᾽:
ἆρ'
Cantabr. 1. et a pr. manu M. Omittunt
o
G. Arund. Colb. 2. Ox. Ven. A. B. Ald.
91

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θεῶν ἢ θεᾶν: Omissus est hic versus in Colb. 1. Par. N.
θεῶν ἢ θεῶν
Μ. Ald. Turn.
θεῶν ἢ θεῶν
G.
θεῶν ἢ θεαινῶν
Vit. Colb. 2. Par. E. Vind. 2. 4.
θεῶν ἢ θεαινᾶν
Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. G. Ven. B. cui in Lips.
ὢν
supra adscriptum.
θεῶν ἢ θεῶν ὦν
Par. H.
θεῶν ἢ θεαῖν
Aug.
τῶν θεῶν ἢ θεαινᾶν
Rob.
θεαινῶν
adscriptum in Mosc. 1. Ex Par. B.
Θεανῶν. γρ. θεαινῶν. γρ. θεαινᾶν
Faehsius affert.
92

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πότερα δῆτ᾽ ἐγὼ ποτιπέσω βρέτη δαιμόνων;: Coniiciat quis fortasse scripsisse Aeschylum
πότερα δῆτ᾽ ἐγὼ πρότερα ποτιπέσω βρέτη δαιμόνων;
Verum nec vestigium talis scripturae in ullo libro est, nec, si ita scripsisset Aeschylus,
βρέτη
quam
βρέτεα
maluisset dicere, et scholiastae monent intelligendum esse
ἢ ἄλλο τι πράξομεν
. Confirmat hoc quod mox sequitur
ἀκμάζει βρετέων ἔχε-9
. Vt primi choreutarum ordinis secunda et tertia stropha totae ex dochmiis sunt, primam autem, quam media virgo canebat, trochaeus semantus praecedit, sic in altero ordine ca ratio servata est, ut secunda stropha integros dochmios contineat, prima et tertia catalexin habeant.
93

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ἀκμάζει βρετέων ἔχεσθαι. τί μέλλομεν ἀγάστονοι;:
ἀκμάζει βρετέων ἔχεσθαι. τί
M. Lips. et sic inde a Victoria editum.
ἀκμάζει βρετέων δ᾽ ἔχεσθαι τί (vel δ᾽ ἔχεσθαι, τί
Vit. Cantabr. 2. Mosc. 1. (et omisso
τί
Mosc. 2.) Colb. 1. Par. C. N. Rob. Turn.
ἀκμάζει. βρετέων δ᾽ ἔχεσθε. τί
G. et omissa post
ἀκμάζει
interpunctuatione Ald.
βρετέων δ᾽ ἔχεσθε
Par. K. Ask. A. Vind. 1. 3.
βρωτέων δ᾽ ἔχεσθαι
Par. E.

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ἀκούετ':
ἀκούτ'
Lips. Par. C.
96

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ἀσπίδων: In Lips. ad
ἀσπίδων
adscripta est glossa
ἁρμάτων
, ut id suspiceris variam lectionem esse.
96

98. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-146

νῦν: Libri
viv
. Scribendum erat correpta syllaba
νύν
. Vsitata 10-cutio. Aristophanes Vesp. v. 402.
πότε δ᾽, εἰ μὴ νῦν, ἐπαρήξετέ μοι ;
Demosthenes Olynth. III. 16. p. 32, 26.
ἢ πότε ἃ δεῖ πράξετε, εἰ μὴ νῦν ;
98

98. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-147

λιτάν᾽: Libri
λιτάν
, nisi quod
λιτὴν
est in Ald. Rob. in G.
ἣν
supra scriptum. In M. huic vocabulo et
dupi
praepositioni gravis accentus a recentiore demum manu additus est: prima scripsit
ἀμφίλιταν
. Dixit
εἶχε λιτὰς
Nonnus VII. 25. Recte vero Seidlerus ex Suppl. v. 778.
λί-ταν ἕξομεν
, nisi quod
λιτάν'
, hoc accentu, scribendum videtur. Magis depravata scriptura in caussa fuisse videtur, ut apud Hesychium legamus
ἀμφιλίτην, τὴν λιτανευτικήν
.
98

98. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-148

ἕξομεν: In
έξομεν
inter
ξ
et
o
recentior manus
addidisse
videtur in M.
98

99. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-149

δέδορκα:
δέδορπα
Rob.
99

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πάταγος οὐχ ἑνὸς:
πάταγος οὐχ ἑνὸς
M. Arund. Cantabr. 1. Mosc. 2. (sed in hoc
πάταχος
scriptum) Par. C. H. K. L. N. Colb. 1. et e correctione Vit. in quo
πάταγον
fuerat.
πάταγος οὐχ ἑνὸς. γρ. πά-ταγος δ᾽ οὐδενός
ex Par. B. Faelsius affert.
πάταγος
enotatum ex Par. E.
πάταγος δ᾽ οὐχ ἑνὸς
G. Lips. Cantabr. 2. Mose. 1. Par. A. Ven. B.
πάταγον δ᾽ οὐχ ἑνὸς
Ox. Ald. Turn.
πάταγον δὲ οὐχ ἑνὸς
Colb. 2.
πάταγον τ᾽ οὐχ ἑνὸς
Rob.
99

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παλαίχθων:
παλαῖχθον
ex Par. A. B. Brunckius affert.
παλαίχθον
Par. N. Rob.
101

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γᾶν τεάν:
Ἀττικὸν δὲ τῇ κλητικῇ ὦ Αρης. οἱ δὲ γράφουσιν ὦ Αρη
scholion codicis M.
γᾶν τεάν
ex Vit. recepi. Eodem ducit
τὴν τεὰν
quod habent M. (sic enim, omisso
yuv
, M.) Ox. et Faehsio teste Par. L. Ex Par. C.
τὰν τε
, ad
τε
supra scripto
ar
, affertur.
γῆν τεὰν
Par. N.
τὴν γῆν τεὰν
Colb. 1.
τὴν τεὰν γᾶν
Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. A. B.
τὰν τεὰν γῆν
Par. F. Ven. Β.
τάν τε ἂν γῆν
Par. K.
τὰν σὰν γᾶν
G. Vind. 1. 3. Ald. Rob. Turn.
τὴν σὴν γῆν
Mosc. 1. Vind. 2. 4.
101

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χρυσοπήληξ:
χρυσοπήληξ
Μ.
χρυσοπήλυς
G. Ald. Rob. Turn.
χρυσεο-πήληξ
Vit. Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. 2. Colb. 2. Par. F. N.
102

102. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-154

δαῖμον:
δαίμων
G. et ante lituram M.
102

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ἔπιδ᾽, ἔπιδε πόλιν:
ἔπιδ᾽ ἔπιδε πόλιν
M. Vit. Lips. Ald. Turn.
ἔπιδ᾽ ἔπιδε πτόλιν
Rob.
ἐπιδ᾽ ἐπὶ πόλιν
Μosc. 1. 2.
επιδ᾽ ἐπιδ᾽ ἐπὶ πόλιν
G. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ven. Β.
τὴν πόλιν
ex Par. C. affertur.
102

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ἅν ποτ᾽:
ἅμποτ'
Par. N.
103

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εὐφιλήταν:
εὐφιλητῶν
a pr. manu M.
εὐφιλέταν
Par. N.
εὐφιλήτην
Mosc. 2.
ποτὲ φιλήτων
Cantabr. 1,
ποτὲ φιλιτίαν
Arund.
103

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θεοὶ: Monosyllabum est
θεοί
. Nam haec et sequens stropha a dimetro trochaico catalectico exordium habet.
104

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πολισσοῦχοι:
πολισσοῦχοι
G. aliique, ut videtur, et Ald. Rob. Turn.
πολισοῦχοι
Lips. Arund. Mose. 2.
πο-λινσοῦχοι
Par. Ε.
πολιοῦχοι
, supra scripto
σσοῦ
, Vit.
πολιοῦχοι. γρ. πολισοῦχοι
ex Par. B. Fachsius affert.
πολιτῦχοι
Par. C.
πολιάρχοι
Μ. Par. L. Comparavit haec verba,
πολισσούχοι χθονός
, Triclinius ad Sophoclis Ant. v. 154. cum Sophocleis
Θήβας ἐλελίχθων
.
104

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ἴτ᾽, ἴτε:
79' ίτε
Vit. Lips. Ox. Par. G. Vind. 2. 3. 4. Commemorant hanc scripturam scholia. Idem a pr. manu erat in M. sed ad
✈
supra scriptum
7
, fortasse ab eadem manu: est autem ante hanc vocem litura.
ἴθιτε
Αld.
ἴδετε
Turn.
ἴτ᾽ ἴτε
recte G. et reliqui, ut videtur, plerique ac Rob.
105

105. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-161

ἴδετε: Consentiunt deinde libri in
ἴδετε
. Quare etiamsi dimeter dochmiacus effici posset, si
εἰςίδετε
(hoc enim praestaret: inepte Dindorfius
d'
inserit) scriberetur, tamen id non esse faciendum ex eo apparet, quod in sequentibus alia quoque metra sunt ab antispasto incipientia.
105

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ἱκέσιον:
ἱκέσσιον
G. Taur.
106

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λόχον:
ὄχλον
Colb. 1. Par. N.
106

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δουλοσύνας:
δουλοσύ-νας
Μ. G. Vit. Cantabr. 1. 2. Mosc. 1. Par. A. C.
ης
supra scriptum in G.
δουλοσύνης
Lips. Ald. Rob. Turn.
106

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πτόλιν:
κύμα γὰρ
omittit Lips.
πόλιν
Vit. Lips. Ox. Par. N. Ald.
107

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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1
2
Prolog, in welchem mit tiefer Empfindung und stimmungs- voll die Situation und der Drang des Augenblicks gekennzeichnet wird, nachdem die vorausliegenden Begebenheiten durch die voran- gehenden beiden Dramen der Tri- logie gegeben sind. Dabei tritt uns der Charakter des Eteokles in seiner entschlossenen Tatkraft und patrioti- schen Begeisterung entgegen und wird durch V. 28f., 57f. der weitere Verlauf des Dramas vorbereitet. Eteokles kommt aus dem Palaste und spricht zu den vor dem Hause versammelten Kriegern, Jünglingen, Männern und Greisen, welche nach 35 abziehen.

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3
4
λέγειν τὰ καίρια (was der Augen- blick erfordert) ist für den Griechen der Inbegriff staatsmännischer Klug- heit, vgl. 606, Cho. 580 (u. Fragm. 208) σιγῶν δ' ὅπου δεῖ καὶ λέγων τὰ καίρια, Soph. Ο. Κ. 808 χωρίς τό τ᾽ εἰπεῖν πολλὰ καὶ τὰ καίρια.

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5
6
Schol. τὸν τῆς πόλεως κυβερ νήτην. Schon bei Alkäos Fragm. 18 u. 19 wird in schöner Allegorie die Sturmesnot von Schiffern auf poli- tische Unruhen und Bedrängnisse übertragen. Ähnlich Theogn. 671 ff. (675 κυβερνήτην μὲν ἔπαυσαν ἐσθλόν, ὅ τις φυλακὴν εἶχεν ἐπισταμένως). Äschylos liebt diese Metapher, V. 62 ff., 109f., 639, 743 ff., 780 f., 1069 f. Vgl. Pind. Pyth. I 86 νώμα δικαίῳ πηδαλίῳ στρατόν. φυλάσσει πρᾶ- γος, waltet. Die Alliteration des scheint ebenso beabsichtigt zu sein wie die des φ 648.

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7
8
κοιμῶν schließt sich an νωμῶν an (der Steuermann darf nicht ein- schlafen), wenn damit auch die Auf- gabe des Herrschers unablässig zu wachen hervorgehoben wird. Ohne Not verlangt Heimsöth κοιμῶνθ'.

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10
Schol. τῆς εὐπραγίας ἡ αἰτία ἐπὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ἀναφέρεται, τῆς δὲ δυσπραγίας ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας. Vgl. Tac. Agr. 27 iniquissima haec bel- lorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni impu- tantur. - Man könnte ἣν . . πρά- ξωμεν dem Sinne des Eteokles ent- sprechender finden, aber der Ge- danke soll ganz allgemein gehalten sein.

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11
12
Das epische autɛ findet sich bei Äschylos häufig, bei Sophokles einmal, bei Euripides nirgends.

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14
Ετεοκλέης: πιθανῶς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ προλογίζοντος ἐδήλωσεν Schol. zu Soph. Ο. Τ. 8 ὁ πᾶσι κλεινὸς Οἰδί- πους καλούμενος. - εἷς: dem einen wird alle Schuld aufgebürdet. Der Gegensatz zu πολύς verschärft die Bitterkeit der Rede. πολὺς ὑμνοῖ- το wie πολλὴ κέκλημαι Eur. Hipp. 1, ῥεῖ πολύς unten 80.

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15
16
Schol. τὸ ὑμνεῖσθαι μέσον. Wie das von der Musik hergenommene φροιμίοις zeigt, ist ὑμνεῖσθαι ge- wählt um des bitteren Gegensatzes willen: „Die Lieder, die auf ihn angestimmt werden, sind Schmäh- lieder." παλιρρόθοις Valckenaer für πολυρρόθοις, vgl. Schol. λοιδόροις κ. παλινστομεῖν 244, παλιγγλωσσος (s. v. a. δύσφημος, κακόφημος).

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18
ὧν ist relat. Gen. zu ἀλεξη- τήριος, wenn dieses auch die Be- deutung eines Beinamens hat. ἐπώνυμος γ., möge seinem Beinamen Ehre machen. Oft wird einem Gotte sein Beiname zu Gemüte geführt, vgl. 125, 131, Ag. 517, 964. Eum. 90. Die Angabe des Schol. αλεξητήριος Ζεὺς ἐν Θήβαις τιμᾶται ist wohl nur dieser Stelle entnommen.

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19
20
τὸν ἀκμαίας: τὸν νέον (Schol.). τὸν . . χρόνῳ: τὸν ἔξω ἡλικίας, τὸν γέροντα Schol. richtig, da ἥβη ἀκμαία hier das waffen- fähige Alter bezeichnet. Wenn §- ηβος in Gegensatz zu ἔφηβος trat, so konnte es das Mannesalter in Gegensatz zum Ephebenalter be- deuten (Hesych. ἔξηβος· ἔξω τῆς ἥβης· τριάκοντα πέντε ἐτῶν). Von den Männern braucht nicht die Rede zu sein. Doch da sich der folgende Vers auf die Körperkraft des Mannes bezieht, so ist wohl (nach der Vermutung von Mor. Schmidt) der Ausfall eines Verses anzunehmen und dieser Lücke die Glosse des Hesych. ἐνόρχην λαόν, deren Erklärung τὸν ἐπὶ ἥβης dem Vorhergehenden aufs beste ent- spricht, zuzuweisen (M. Schmidt er- gänzt πάντως δ' ἐνόρχην λαὸν ἐξαν- δρουμένων).

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22
βλαστημος hier „,Wachstum", Hik. 320,,Sprößling". Der Med. gibt βλάστημος, aber vgl. Lobeck Paralip. S. 397f. ἀλδαίνοντα, Schol. αὐξάνοντα. πολύν wie μέγαν τινὰ αὐξάνειν.

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24
ὤραν, curam, Schol. φροντίδα. ὥς τι συμπρεπές, wie immer etwas ihm ansteht; συμπρεπής auch Hik. 467. Heimsöth ἥτις ἐμπρεπής nach Pers. 835 κόσμον ὅστις εὐπρε- πής, M. Schmidt ὧν τις ἐμπερής (= ἔμπειρος). Jeder soll die Auf- gabe übernehmen, die ihm bei der Verteidigung der Stadt nach seinem Alter zukommt. Der Dichter hat Hom. Θ 517 κήρυκες δ' ἀνὰ ἄστυ διίφιλοι ἀγγελλόντων παῖδας πρω- Θήβας πολιοκροτάφους τε γέροντας λέξασθαι περὶ ἄστυ Θεοδμήτων ἐπὶ πύργων im Sinne.

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26
μὴ ἐξαλειφθῆναι nach ἀρή- γειν wie nach einem Verbum des Hinderns.

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27
28
γῆ die heimatliche Erde (17), dann das Vaterland (18). Vgl. Eur. Med. 1332 γῆς προδότιν ἥ σ' ἐθρέ ψατο, Phön. 626 τὴν δὲ θρέψασάν με γαῖαν καὶ θεοὺς μαρτύρομαι. Ein Heiligtum der γῆ κουροτρόφος war in Athen am Südabhang der Akro- polis (Paus. I 22, 3).

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30
7: der Artikel steht in Ver- bindung mit y άo öfters bei den Tragikern demonstrativ. — ἕρποντας ( ὑμᾶς): Schol. κυρίως ἐπὶ παίδων τὸ ἕρποντας.

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32
πανδοκοῦσα: Schol. ἐπιδεχο- μένη, alle Last der Erziehung zu- sammen auf sich nehmend; nav- δόκος 846, vgl. ξενοδόκος, ξενοδοκεῖν. Zum Gedanken vgl. Plat. Kriton c. 12.

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34
Jüngere Handschriften haben οἰκητῆρας, welche Form passender scheint.

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35
36
Das proleptische Prädikat (vgl. τοὺς διεῖς ἱππέας ἐδίδαξεν wird nachträglich durch ὅπως γέ- νοισθε erläutert. Es könnte πιστοὺς ὅπως γένοισθε Erklärung etwa zu φερεγγύους ὅπλοισι sein.

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ἐν ὠσί: Schol. ἐξ ἀκοῆς γὰρ τὰς πτήσεις διέκρινεν. So sagt Tiresias Soph. Ant. 1001 ἀγνῶτα ἀκούω φθόγγον ὀρνίθων, κακῷ κλάζοντας οἴστρῳ καὶ βεβαρβαρω μένως. νωμᾶν ( κρίνειν, σκοπεῖν) wird auch Soph. O. T. 300 und Eur. Phoen. 1256 von der Beobachtung des Sehers gebraucht. φάους für πυρός Ritschl. Den Gegensatz zu ἐν ὠσί,, ohne Augenlicht verlangt der Sinn.

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νυκτηγορεῖσθαι: Schol. ἐν νυκτὶ ἀγορεύεσθαι καὶ βουλεύεσθαι. Dindorf vermutet νυκτηγορῆσθαι (,, in der Nacht sei der Plan eines gewaltigen Überfalls beraten wor- den"). — κἀπιβουλεύειν jüngere Handschriften für κἀπιβουλεύσειν, welcher Fehler sehr häufig ist, κάπι- βούλευσιν Dindorf.

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σοῦσθε: σοῦ Aristoph. Wesp. 209 (Hesych. σοῦ· ἴθι, τρέχε, ὅρμα), σούσθω Soph. Αi. 1414.

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θωρακεῖα, Schol. τὰς ἐπάλξεις τῶν τειχῶν, Brustwehren (loricas).- σέλμασιν von den hölzernen Gerüsten der Türme oder von hölzernen Gängen, welche innen an der Mauer angebracht waren. Schol. τοῖς ἐπι- βήμασι. κατεχρήσατο δέ. Gegen eine Katachrese spricht das Schol. zu Apoll. Rh. I 528 καθόλου τὸ πλατὺ ξύλον σέλμα λέγεται. Vgl. Hesych. σέλματα· τὰ ζυγὰ τῆς νεώς, αἱ καθέδραι τῶν ἐρετῶν. καὶ συναρ- μογαὶ τῶν σανίδων. Der Vers gibt die verschiedene Stellung auf den Mauern an, ist also keine Wieder- holung von 30.

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ἐπηλύδων, ἐπιόντων wie Pers. 246 πολεμίους επήλυδας.

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καὶ ἐγώ, auch ich kenne und erfülle meine Aufgabe.

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μὴ ματᾶν ὁδῷ, nicht auf dem Wege säumen, sondern sich eines raschen Gangs befleißen. Vgl. Hom. ψ 510 οὐδὲ μάτησεν ίφθιμος Σθέ νελος, ἀλλ᾽ ἔσσυμένως λάβ᾽ ἄεθλον, Hesych. ματα διατρίβει, χρονίζει. Damit wird der Zuschauer auf das alsbald erfolgende Auftreten des Kundschafters vorbereitet.

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Eine harmlose Parodie dieses Verses bietet ein Fragment der Πόλεις des Eupolis (212 Κο.) Ἱερόκλεες, βέλτιστε χρησμῳδῶν ἄναξ.

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τὰ ἐκεῖθεν ἐκ στρατοῦ nach der Vorstellung, daß der Bote von dort herkommt. Vgl. 68, Ag. 543 κῆρυξ ᾿Αχαιῶν, χαῖρε, τῶν ἀπὸ στρατοῦ.

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δέ an dritter Stelle, ohne daß die beiden vorhergehenden Worte einen einzigen Begriff ausmachen, öfters bei Aschylos, vgl. 686, 1015 und zu Ag. 744.

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Der Vers wird parodiert Aristoph. Lys. 187 τίν᾽ ὅρκον ὁρκώ- σεις ποθ' ἡμᾶς; ΛΥΣ. ὅντινα; εἰς ἀσπίδ', ὥσπερ φησὶν Αἰσχύλος ποτέ, μηλοσφαγούσας. Diese Parodie be- weist nicht, daß Aschylos μηλο- σφαγούντες geschrieben hat. - ἐς σάκος d. i. sie fingen das Blut mit dem Schilde auf. μελάνδετον: Schol. τὸ μελανισθὲν τῷ αἵματι ἢ τὸ ἐκ μελαινῶν βυρσῶν περιβεβλη- μένων . . τὸ μελάνδετον δὲ καλῶς ἂν ἐπὶ ξίφους ῥηθείη, ἐπὶ δὲ σάκους παρέλκει τὸ δετον ὡς ἐπὶ τοῦ κελαι- νεφές το νέφος. Bei Homer und Hesiod ist μελάνδετος Attribut von φάσγανον und eine Stelle wie Eur. Οr. 821 μελάνδετον φόνῳ ξίφος läßt erkennen, daß μελάνδετος von den Wörtern, in denen sich d εtos mit einem Stoffnamen verbindet wie χαλκόδετος, λινόδετος, σιδηρόδετος, zu unterscheiden und daß die An- sicht von Verrall richtig ist, welcher μελάνδετος mit Formen wie ἀμά- χετος, ἀλάμπετος, ἀπεύχετος ver- gleicht.

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θιγγάνοντες . . φόνου ( αἵμα τος): vgl. Xen. Anab. Ι 2, 9 ταῦτα δ' ὤμοσαν σφάξαντες ταῦρον καὶ κάπρον καὶ κριόν εἰς ἀσπίδα, οἱ μὲν Ἕλληνες βάπτοντες ξίφος, οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι λόγχην. Der Brauch ist der κοινωνία χερνίβων (Ag. 1021) nachgeahmt: Athen. IX S. 409 ἔστι δὲ χέρνιψ ὕδωρ, εἰς ὃ ἀπέβαπτον δαλὸν ἐκ τοῦ βωμοῦ λαμβάνοντες, ἐφ' οὗ τὴν θυσίαν ἐπετέλουν· καὶ τούτῳ περιρραίνοντες τοὺς παρόν- τας ἥγνιζον,

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Die Helden wollen siegen oder sterben, vgl. Hom. M 328 ἴομεν, ἠέ τω εὖχος ὀρέξομεν ἠέ τις ἡμῖν. Der Ausdruck γῆν τήνδε φυράσειν φόνῳ kennzeichnet den trotzigen Mut der Helden. Die Stelle wird gerühmt von dem Verfasser der Schrift περὶ ὕψους (c. 15) und gab wohl Anlaß, daß in Argos der Altar des Ζεὺς Χέτιος als die Stelle ge- zeigt wurde, wo die Genossen des Polynikes geschworen zu sterben, wenn sie Theben nicht eroberten (Paus. II 19, 8). Auch Sophokles O. K. 380 f. hat die Stelle nach- geahmt.

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Schol. ἔθος ἦν τοὺς ἐν πο- λέμῳ τοῖς οἰκείοις πέμπειν σημεία ( μνημεία Kueck) περόνας ἢ ταινίας ἢ βοστρύχους ἤ τι τοιοῦτον. τὸ δὲ ἔστεφον ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπλήρουν (1. ἔ- πλεκον). πρὸς ἅρμα δὲ Αδράστου, ἐπεὶ Αμφιάραος αὐτοῖς ἐμαντεύσατο μόνον Αδραστον σωθήσεσθαι. τοῦτο δὲ ὡς ἀπὸ τῆς ἱστορίας ἔλαβεν, ὅτι ἐσώθη Αδραστος· ἐπεὶ πόθεν ᾔδεσαν ὅτι διαφεύξεται: (d. h. der Dichter hat die Motivierung außer acht ge- lassen, weil die Zuschauer es aus der Thebais wußten, vgl. Paus. VIII 25, 8). Vielleicht auch, weil Adrastos Oberfeldherr war (562). Zu ἔστεφον (sie hefteten wie einen Kranz an) vgl. στέψω 264.

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ἔλειπον: dieses Imperf. steht öfters zum Ausdruck der Fortdauer einer damit verbundenen Handlung. Vgl. Hom. Τ 288 ζῳὸν μέν σε ἔλειπον ἐγὼ κλισίηθεν ἰοῦσα (,, du lebtest, als ich dich verließ "), 339 μνησάμενοι τὰ ἕκαστος ἐνὶ μεγά ροισιν ἔλειπεν (,, was im Hause zu- rückblieb, als er fortging"). So hier ,, sie waren mit dem Losen be- schäftigt, als ich von ihnen weg- ging". o's final.

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πρὸς ταῦτα, darauf hin. πόλεως gehört zu ἐκκρίτους wie Eur. Phön. 214 πόλεος ἐκπροκριθεῖσ᾽ ἐμᾶς.

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τάγευσαι, Schol. τάξον, eigent- lich,,laß sie in deinem Interesse (als deine Stellvertreter) Führer sein", wie das Medium öfters eine Handlung bezeichnet, welche auf Veranlassung des Subjekts für dieses vorgenommen wird. τάχος steht öfters bei Aschylos wie ως τάχος (bei Sophokles nie ως, ὅ τις ὅσον τάχος).

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χωρεῖ κονίει: das zweite Ver- bum verstärkt das erste, vgl. αὔειν λακάζειν 169, χωρῶμεν ἐγκονῶμεν, ἔπαιον ἐρράχιζον, παίουσι κρεοκο ποῦσι, κινεῖ ταράσσει. ἀργηστής: Schol. λευκός.

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φράξασθαι kann auch das Verdichten der Schiffswand be- zeichnen, vgl. Hom. ε 256 φράξε δέ μιν ( σχεδίην) είπεσσι διαμπερές οἰσυΐνῃσιν κύματος εἷλας ἔμεν. καταιγίσαι, Schol. καταπνεῦσαι σφο- δρῶς: „, bevor die Windsbraut des Ares mit aller Macht losbricht und der Sturm das Schiff umtobt". Die brüllende Woge ist nicht eine ge- wöhnliche, sondern eine Woge, die auf dem trockenen Lande vom Sturm des Ares gegen das Schiff getrieben wird. Schol. παρακεκιν δυνευμένως εἶπεν κῦμα χερσαῖον. Äschylos liebt es dem bildlichen Ausdruck ein Epitheton beizufügen, welches in witziger Weise gewisser- maßen die Illusion des Bildes zer- stört, so 82 ἄναυδος ἄγγελος rom Staube, der das Heranrücken des feindlichen Heeres meldet, 109 κῦμα δοχμολοφᾶν ἀνδρῶν, 925 ὁ πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθείς vom Stahle (Schwerte). Anderes zu ὄναρ ἡμερό φαντον Ag. 82.

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ἡμεροσκόπον: Schol. φύλακα ἁπλῶς, vielmehr in Gegensatz zum vorigen Dienste, bei welchem er die Feinde bei der Nacht beobachtete. Ebenso verspricht Hom. K 324 Dolon dem Hektor: σοὶ δ᾽ ἐγὼ οὐχ ἥλιος σκοπὸς ἔσσομαι οὐδ᾽ ἀπὸ δόξης.

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τὰ τῶν θύραθεν, weil der Bote von der Gegend außerhalb der Stadt zurückkommt. Vgl. 40. Doch τὰ τῶν θύραθεν auch 176. Der Bote ab.

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Αρὰ Ἐρινύς wie Κῆρες Ερι- νύες 1047. Der Fluch des dipus ist der Rachegeist, welcher die gegenwärtige Bedrängnis verursacht hat. Damit wird auf das voraus- gehende Stück der Trilogie hin- gewiesen. Vgl. 770 ff. ἡ nach dem Vokativ wie ὦ ἄνδρες οἱ παρ- όντες.

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χέουσαν wie Hik. 640 εὐκταῖα γένει χεούσας, Hom. τ 521 ἀηδών . . ἥ τε θαμὰ τρωπῶσα χέει πολυηχέα φωνήν. δόμους ἐφεστίους wie Ag. 842, Häuser mit einer ἑστία, Familien- häuser.

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Eine sinnreiche Gnome, deren Gedanken auch Aristoteles Rhet. Η 17 ausspricht: υπερηφανώτεροι μὲν οὖν καὶ ἀλογιστότεροι διὰ τὴν εὐτυχίαν εἰσίν, ἓν δὲ ἀκολουθεῖ βέλτιστον ἦθος τῇ εὐτυχία, ὅτι φιλόθεοί εἰσι καὶ ἔχουσιν πρὸς τὸ θεῖόν πως πιστεύοντες διὰ τὰ γιγνό- μενα ἀπὸ τῆς τύχης. Eteokles hinab in die Stadt, um der Mah- nung des Boten gemäß 57f. die Führer für die sieben Tore auszu- wählen.

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Parodos, welche die Schrecken einer belagerten und dem Sturm entgegensehenden Stadt mit solcher Kraft und sinnlicher Lebendigkeit des Ausdrucks vor die Augen führt, daß wir das kriegerische Treiben vor den Mauern ebenso vor uns sehen, wie im Agamemnon die Kassandraszene uns zu Zuschauern der Vorgänge im Hause macht. Zu der Kraft des Ausdrucks kam bei der Auf- führung noch die Veranschaulichung durch die σχήματα ὀρχήσεως, wie bei Athen. I S. 22 A berichtet wird, ὅτι Τελέστης ὁ Αἰσχύλου ὀρχηστής οὕτως ἦν τεχνίτης ὥστε ἐν τῷ ὀρχεῖσθαι τοὺς Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας φανερὰ ποιῆσαι τὰ πράγματα δι ὀρχήσεως. Von diesem Telestes heist es dort weiter: πολλὰ ἐξεύρηκε σχήματα, ἄκρως ταῖς χερσὶ τὰ λεγόμενα δεικνύς. Auf diese χειρο- νομία weist z. Β. ὅδε 80 hin. Das Ganze zerfällt in 4 Teile: im ersten (78-106) kommen die zwölf Choreuten einzeln zum Vortrag, wie sie der Reihe nach entweder einzeln oder, was wahrscheinlicher ist, in drei Gruppen zu je 4 Personen auf- treten ( σποράδην wie Eum. 244 1.). Der Chor besteht ja aus Jungfrauen, Bürgerstöchtern, welche in ihrer Angst zu den Altären der Götter flüchten, also vorher noch nicht versammelt sind. Im zweiten Teile (107—134) singen, wie die drei gleichen Verse 112, 116, 119 = 126, 130, 133 erkennen lassen, die drei στοίχοι nacheinander die Strophe und ebenso die Antistrophe. Den dritten Teil (135–151) tragen die beiden Halbchöre vor, nur in die Weherufe brechen alle zusammen aus. Den letzten Teil (152-165), ein Gebet, spricht der Gesamtchor. Die Wahl von Jungfrauen er- klärt der Schol. gut: εὐπτόητον ἡ τῶν παρθένων ἡλικία, μάλιστα δὲ πρὸς πολιορκίαν.

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πρόδρομος erklärt der Schol. hier ( πολὺς ἔμπροσθεν λαὸς ἱππότης) und 195 ( προτρέχουσα τῶν ἄλλων) im Sinne von vorauseilend", in welchem es in der unechten Partie Eur. Iph. Α. 424 ἐγὼ δὲ πρόδρομος σῆς παρασκευῆς χάριν ἥκω ge- braucht ist. Aber jedenfalls be- deutet es an der zweiten Stelle rasch vorwärts laufend" wie Soph. Ant. 108 φυγάδα πρόδρομον.

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Ein Bote ohne Sprache (Oxymoron), aber deutlich und wahr (Schol. ἄφωνος μὲν οὖσα, σαφῶς δὲ ἀγγέλλουσα). Vgl. Hik. 186 ὁρῶ κόνιν, ἄναυδον ἄγγελον στρατοῦ, Theogn. 559 ἄγγελος ἄ- φθογγος von Feuerzeichen und zu 64.

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ἰδὲ δὲ γᾶς ἐμᾶς πεδί ὁπλόκτυπ᾽ ὠτὶ χρίμπτει βοάν (horch! die von Pferdehufen dröhnende Ebene meines Landes läßt den Ton davon an mein Ohr dringen) nach dem Schol. καὶ ( ιδέ als Konjunktion aufgefat) τὰ τῆς γῆς δέ μου πεδία κατακτυπούμενα τοῖς ποσὶ τῶν ἵππων ποιεῖ μου προσπελάζειν τὸν ἦχον τοῖς ὠσίν für den überlieferten Text ἕλεδέμας πεδιοπλοκτύπος τί χρίμπτεται βοᾶ ( πεδί᾽ ὁπλόκτυπ Seidler, at jüngere Handschriften, χρίμπτει βοάν Ritschl). Mit χρίμπτει τι βοάν vgl. Prom. 739 γυν αλι στόνοις χρίμπτουσα ῥαχίαισιν. ποτᾶται ( βοά) wie Hik. 665 ἐκ στομάτων ποτάσθω φιλότιμος εὐχά. Der leichtbeschwingte Ton braust wie ein unbezwinglicher an die Felsen schlagender Wasserfall. Un- genau Schol. τοῦ καὶ ὄρη ῥηγνύντος. Zum Gleichnis vgl. Hom. 452 ff.

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ὄρμενον (das heranziehende Unheil): die epische synkopierte Form, hier von Enger für ὀρόμενον gesetzt, ist an drei Stellen, unten 110, Ag. 1408, Hik. 428, um der antistrophischen Responsion willen für ὀρόμενος (oder δρώμενος) her- gestellt worden.

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Die Worte βοᾷ ὑπὲρ τειχέων, welche nicht gut in den Zusammen- hang passen (Schol. μετὰ βοῆς, also mit Geschrei, das über die Mauern dringt" ?), rühren wahrscheinlich von einer erklärenden Beischrift zu ποτᾶται 84 ( βοὰ ὑπὲρ τειχέων) her, da sich ὑπὲρ τειχέων schwer attri- butiv mit ẞog verbindet.

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λεύκασπις ist auch bei Sopho- kles (Ant. 106) und Euripides (Phoen. 1099) das Epitheton des Argivischen Heeres, das wohl aus der epischen Poesie stammte. Mit λεύκασπις wird zugleich das Fußvolk in Gegensatz zur Reiterei (80) bezeichnet.

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ευτρεπής (vorbereitet, kampf bereit) auch Eur. Hik. 392 vom Heere. Mit εὐτρεπῆ ἐπὶ πτόλιν διώκων πόδα für εὐτρεπὴς ἐπὶ πτόλιν διώ- κων stellt Weil zwei Dochmien her. Darin ist εὐτρεπῆ von der Person übertragen. Mit διώκων (rasch be- wegend) πόδα vgl. 358, Eum. 406 διώκουσ᾽ ἦλθον ἄτρυτον πόδα.

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Schol. πότερον πρόσφυγες τῶν πατρῴων ξοάνων γενώμεθα ἢ ἄλλο τι πράξωμεν; Daraus hat Volkmann das in den Handschriften fehlende und zur Herstellung eines zweiten Dochmius nötige πάτρια entnommen, Πότερα ( πότερον) ohne folgendes ἤ auch Pers. 242, Ag. 286. Hier wird die zweite Frage durch die folgende Erwiderung beiseite geschoben.

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εὔεδροι (306) „,mit herrlichen Stätten (Altären), wie ἕδραι, ἕδη von Altären mit Standbildern und Tempeln gesagt wird. Der Hiatus nach dem Vokativ wie nach einer Interjektion.

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ἀκμάζει, es ist höchste Zeit, vgl. Cho. 722 νῦν γὰρ ἀκμάζει. Ζυ ἔχεσθαι vgl. Hesych. ἔχεται· ἀντι- λαμβάνεται.

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ἀγάστονοι: Schol. τί ἑστῶτες (vielmehr ἑστῶσαι) στενάζομεν καὶ οὐχ ἱκετεύομεν. ว

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Nicht ἆρα φανταζόμεθα ἢ ἀληθῶς ἀκούομεν; sondern s. V. a. ,ihr müßt es hören". 997. πέπλων λιτανά für πέπλους λιτανούς wie φωτῶν ἀθλίων ἱκτήρια Soph. Ο. Κ. 923. πότ', εἰ μὴ νῦν: vgl. Aristoph. Wesp. 402 πότε δ', εἰ μὴ νῦν, ἐπαρήξετε μοι; Gefälliger wird das Versmaß bei der Um- stellung von Lowinski: εἰ μὴ νῦν, πότ'. ἀμφέξομεν, Fut. zu ἀμπέχω wie Eur. Kykl. 344 λέβητα ος ζέσας σὴν σάρκα διαφόρητον ἀμφέ- ξει καλῶς: „wann, wenn nicht jetzt, werden wir die Bilder der Götter mit Gewändern und Kränzen, die wir als Bittopfer darbringen, um- hüllen?" Schol. ¿védvov yàc_nai πέπλους τὰ ἀγάλματα unter Hin- weis auf Hom. Z 271. So wurde der Athena ein Prachtgewand von Athenischen Frauen und Jungfrauen gewebt und bei den Panathenäen geweiht.

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δέδορκα: Schol. μετήγαγε τὰς αἰσθήσεις πρὸς τὸ ἐναργέστερον. Überhaupt werden die Begriffe des Glänzens und Leuchtens auf Stimme und Ton übertragen. Vgl. Soph. Ο. Τ. 186 παιὰν δὲ λάμπει, Phil. 202 προυφάνη κτύπος. — οὐχ ἑνός wie non unus für permulti. Vgl. zu 681.

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Eine bakchische Dipodie und Tripodie auch Eum. 791f. παλαίχθων: Schol. ἐκ πολλοῦ κληρω- σάμενος τήνδε τὴν γῆν. τιμᾶται γὰρ παρὰ Θηβαίοις ο Αρης και Ἄρειον τεῖχος καὶ ᾿Αρητιὰς κρήνη παρὰ αὐτοῖς. Der Drache, welchen Kadmos tötete, war ein Sohn des Ares Eur. Phoen. 658 (der Blitz ist ein Sohn der Gewitterwolke). yav, welches im Med. fehlt, ist nach jüngeren Handschriften ergänzt.

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Zwei Dochmien lassen sich mit ἰὼ χρυσοπήληξ, ἔπιδ' ἰδὲ πόλιν herstellen ( Ζω Seidler; δαῖμον hat Paley getilgt). — χρυσεοπήληξ (mit goldenem Helme) heißt Ares Hom. Hymn. VIII 1. Mit ἔπιδ᾽ ἐδέ vgl. κατίδετ᾽ ἴδετε, ὑπάκουσον ἄκουσον, ἀπωλέσατ' ὠλέσατε u. a. bei Euri- pides, welcher vor allen solche Ver- dopplungen liebt. Schol. ἠθικὸν τὸ δὶς ἀναφωνῆσαι. δειλίαν γὰρ ἐμ- φαίνουσι διὰ τούτου. Vielmehr ist diese Wiederholung der Ausdruck eindringlicher Bitte oder Aufforde- rung wie πίθεσθέ μοι πίθεσθε Prom. 290, δίαινε δίαινε Pers. 1039, ἔγειρ᾽ ἔγειρε Εum. 140 u. a.

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τεάν hat Lachmann ergänzt. εὐφιλήταν, eine poetische Form wie περικλύστα Pers. 599, περιρ- ρύτας Eum. 77, δυσοίστα ebd. 792. Vgl. zu 125.

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zweiter Teil, dessen drei Abschnitte durch den Schluß- rhythmus ge- kennzeichnet werden. In der Strophe werden die Götter in ihrer Gesamt- heit und Zeus, in der Antistrophe die besonderen Schutzgottheiten des Landes, Athena, Poseidon, Ares, Aphrodite, Apollon und Artemis angerufen.

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πολίοχοι um des Versmaßes willen für πολιοῦχοι ( πολισσούχοι). Mit ἴθ' αθρόοι für ἴθ' (sic!) ἴτε πάντες hat Steusloff genauere Re- sponsion hergestellt.