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Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.

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Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) (English) (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 720-791 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 742 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 742 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 742 focus
παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
παρβασίαν ὠκύποινον·
αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον μένει,
725
Ἀπόλλωνος εὖτε Λάϊος
βίᾳ, τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς
χρηστηρίοις, θνάσκοντα γέν-
νας ἄτερ σώζειν πόλιν.
730
στρ. γ'.
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 742 focus
Παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
Ant. 2.
παρβασίαν παραβασίαν (vel παραιβ-) ὠκύποινον
αἰῶνα δ' ἐς τρίτον μένει
745
Ἀπόλλωνος εὖτε Λάϊος
βίᾳ, τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς
χρηστηρίοις θνάσκοντα γέν-
νας ἄτερ σῴζειν πόλιν·
750
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 742 focus
παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
παρβασίαν ὠκύποινον·
αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον μένει,
730
Ἀπόλλωνος εὖτε Λάιος
βίᾳ, τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς χρηστηρίοις
θνάσκοντα γέννας ἄτερ σῴζειν πόλιν,
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 742 focus
παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
παρβασίαν ὠκύποινον, αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον
μένειν, ᾿Απόλλωνος εὔτε Λάιος
βίαι τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
745
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς
χρηστηρίοις θνάισκοντα γέν-
νας ἄτερ σώιζειν πόλιν, =
Translations (8)
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.)) — 742 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 742 focus
for I speak of the ancient transgression with its speedy punishment; yet it abides unto the third generation: since Laius, in spite of Apollo, who had thrice declared, in the central oracles of Pytho, that, dying without issue, he would save the state
,
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 742 focus
pourtant dure encore à la troisième génération, la faute de Laïos,
rebelle à Apollon, qui, par trois fois, à Pytho, son sanctuaire prophétique, centre du monde, lui avait déclaré qu'il devait mourir sans enfant, s'il voulait le salut de Thèbes

Mais Laïos succombe à un doux égarement 1 ,
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 742 focus
The firſt ill deed from Laius ſprung:
Thrice from his ſhrine these words of fate
855
Aweful the Pythian Phœbus ſung,
"Die childless, wou'dſt thou ſave the ſtate."
Urg'd by his friends, as round the free wine flows,
To Love's forbidden rites he flies.
By the ſon's hand the father dies.
860
He in the chaſte ground, whence he aroſe,
Was bold t' implant the deadly root;
And madneſs rear'd each balefulſpreading ſhoot.
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.) — 742 focus
Parlo del fallo antico
di Laio, a cui seguia la pena súbita,
830
ma su la terza stirpe ancora indugia.
Il Nume Apollo a lui, dall'umbilico
della terra, ove surge il pitio oracolo,
tre volte ripetea che la città,
se muoia orbo di prole, ei salverà.
835
3 Strofe III
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 742 focus
In tertium euum manebit.
Apollini, quando Laius
Ter dicente in meditullio
710
Pythicis oraculis, quod fimoreretur
Sine liberis, feruaret urbem, uictus ex amicorum inme
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.) — 742 focus
Whilome in olden days the sin was wrought,
And swift requital brought—
Yea on the children of the child came still
New heritage of ill!
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For thrice Apollo spoke this word divine,
From Delphi's central shrine,
To Laius— Die thou childless! thus alone
Can the land's weal be won!
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.) — 742 focus
Der schweren Schuld alter Zeit
715
Denk' ich, da schnell büßte der Frevler;
Doch herrscht sie fort in's dritte Glied.
Es bot Lajos Phöbos' Worte Troy,
Das dreimal einst warnend ihm
Aus Pytho's Erdmitte dort
720
Entgegenscholl: nur kinderlos
Sterbend, rett' er Haus und Stadt.
Dritte Strophe.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Seven Against Thebes.) focus

750. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-821

πρόπρυμνα δ᾽ ἐκβολὰν:
προπρύμναν
Lips.
πρόπρυμναν
Ald. Rob.
πρόπρυμνον
Turn. et ad ultimam syllabam α supra adscripto Par. G.
πρόπρυμνα
recte ceteri.
δὲ
plene Vit.
τὲ
Par. N.
ἐκβόλων
a pr. manu,
ἐκβολῶν
a sec. habuisse videtur M.
ἐκβολὴν
recentior manus fecit. Adscriptum hoc scholion,
ὅταν δὲ παχυνθῶσιν οἱ ἄνδρες τῷ ὄλβῳ, τότε ὅλου τοῦ φόρτου ἐκβολὴν ποιοῦνται. τοῦτο δὲ πρὸς Ἐτεοκλέα. ἐκβολῶν δέ, τῶν ὑβριστῶν, οἷον δὲ ἐκβολῆς ὑβριζόντων
. Ceteri libri omnes
ἐκβολάν
.
750

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

707-776. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-484

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zweites Stasimon, welches die Verkettung von Schuld und Buße im Labdakidenhause und den inneren Zusammenhang der Trilogie darlegt: Der Fluch des Ödipus, dessen Erfüllung der Streit seiner Söhne beschleunigt, wird zu dem Wechselmorde der Brüder füh- ren und so wird ein unsühnbarer Greuel zur. alten Not des Labda- kidenhauses hinzukommen. Diese alte Not begann mit der Schuld des Laios, dem Ungehorsam gegen das Gebot des Delphischen Gottes. Die Schuld des Laios, welche er alsbald mit seinem Leben büßte, übt ihre verderbliche Wirkung fort auf die nächste und übernächste Generation, auf Ödipus, dessen hohes Glück mit der Selbstblendung und der Verfluchung der Söhne schmählich endigte, jetzt auf die Söhne des Ödipus, und mit den Fürsten leidet der Staat, wenn er nur nicht mit ihnen zugrunde geht". In ähnlicher Weise faßt der Chor- gesang Cho. 1063 ff. die Schicksale des Atridenhauses zusammen. Der Gesang wird vom Gesamtchor vorgetragen.