Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 900

Robert Potter (Translator)

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Charg'd with death thou cruel curse,
Each hath felt thy fatal force.

Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1779.

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Current edition Experimental

The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) (English) (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 957-965 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 957-965 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 900 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 900 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 900 focus
Διήκει δὲ καὶ πόλιν στόνος,
Ant. 1.
στένουσι πύργοι, στένει
900
πέδον φίλανδρον· μένει
κτέανα δ' ἐπιγόνοις,
δι' ὧν αἰνομόροις,
δι' ὧν νεῖκος ἔβα
καὶ θανάτου τέλος.
905
Ἐμοιράσαντο δ' ὀξυκάρδιοι
κτήμαθ' ὥστ' ἴσον λαχεῖν·
διαλλακτῆρι δ' τ' οὐκ
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 900 focus
Διήκει δὲ καὶ πόλιν στόνος,
Στένουσι πύργοι,
Στένει πέδον φίλανδρον· μενεῖ
885
κτέανά τ᾽ ἐπιγόνοις,
δι᾽ ὧν αἰνομόροις,
δι᾽ ὧν νεῖκος ἔβα
καὶ θανάτου τέλος.
Ἐμοιράσαντο δ᾽ ὀξυκάρδιοι
890
κτήμαθ᾽, ὥστ᾽ ἴσον λαχεῖν.
διαλλακτῆρι δ᾽ οὖν
ἀμεμφεία φίλοις,
οὐδ᾽ ἐπίχαρις Ἄρης.
str. 2.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 900 focus
Translations (7)
Seven Against Thebes Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 957-965 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 900 focus
And moreover sighing pervades the city, the towers sigh, the land that loved her heroes sighs: and for posterity remains the substance by reason of which, by reason of which
, contention came upon them whom evil destiny, and the issue of death.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 900 focus
et par l'esprit de discorde issu de l'imprécation paternelle.
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.) — 900 focus
Per Tebe un urlo corre:
i piani amici gemono
tutti, geme ogni torre.
Ai discendenti loro i beni andranno
1000
onde la gara ai miseri,
onde il mortale danno
sorgeva. Ugual retaggio
con animo crudel si compartirono.
Ma chi cosí li conciliava, il biasimo
1005
degli amici riscuote: non di grazia
riscuote Ares omaggio.
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 900 focus
Percurrit urhem luctus, lugentq; turres,
830
Luget etiam regio chara.
Manebunt poſseſsiones nepotibus,
Pro quibus infœlicibus fratribus, pro quibus contentio uenit,
Et mortis finis.
Diuiserunt uero animosi
835
Poſseſsiones, tanquam fortiti æqualiter.
Separator non uacabit culpa, neq;
Amicis gratus erit Mars,
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.) — 900 focus
Hark, how the city and its towers make moan—
How the land mourns that held them for its own!
Fierce greed and fell division did they blend,
915
Till death made end!
They strove to part the heritage in twain,
Giving to each a gain—
Yet that which struck the balance in the strife,
The arbitrating sword,
920
By those who loved the twain is held abhorred—
Loathed is the god of death, who sundered each from life!
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.) — 900 focus
Die Wehklage hallt die Stadt hindurch.

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

1003. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1046

ἐπακτὸν
ἐπ᾽ ἀκτὸν
Lips. ᾕρει πόλιν
ἡροπόλιν
Αld.
1003

1004. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1047

πετεινῶν
πετηνῶν
Μ. τόνδ᾽ in
τῶνδ'
mutatum G.
1004

1005. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1048

τοὐπιτίμιον
τοἐπιτίμια
Colb. 1.
1005

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

1004. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-639

1
2
Vgl. Soph. Αnt. 198 τὸν δ᾽ αὖ ξύναιμον τοῦδε, Πολυνείκη λέγω, ὃς γῆν πατρώαν καὶ θεοὺς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς, φυγάς κατελθών, ἠθέλησε μὲν πυρὶ πρῆσαι κατ᾿ ἄκρας τοῦτον πόλει τῇδ᾽ ἐκκεκήρυκται τάφῳ μήτε κτερίζειν μήτε κωκῦσαί τινα, ἐᾶν δ᾽ ἄθαπτον καὶ πρὸς οἰωνῶν δέμας καὶ πρὸς κυνῶν ἐδε- στὸν αἰκισθέν τ' ἰδεῖν, Eur. Phoen. 1628 τόνδε δ᾿ ὃς πέρσων πόλιν πατρίδα σὺν ἄλλοις ἦλθε, Πολυνεί κους νέκυν ἐκβάλετ᾽ ἄθαπτον τῆσδ᾽ ὅρων ἔξω χθονός.

1005. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-640

3
4
βαλεῖν, nämlich ἔδοξε (1000, vgl. 1011) oder auch ἐπέσταλται (1003). ἁρπαγὴν κυσίν nach dem Homerischen ἑλώρια τεύχε κύνεσσιν οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι (44). Vgl. Soph. Αi. 830 ῥιφθῶ κυσίν πρόβλητος οἰωνοῖς θ᾽ ἕλωρ, Eur. Εl. 896 θηρ- σὶν ἁρπαγὴν πρόθες.