Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 141

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

Table of Contents

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View: By Card
← Previous Next →
SEMI-CHORUS II
Smitten, as ye relate,
Were they, in home and life, with ruin dire,
Both by dumb Fury, and contentious Fate,
Sprung from the curse of Edipus, their sire.

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

Sponsored by University of Leipzig.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition Experimental

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.) — 108-180 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 109-180 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 149 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 149 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 149 focus
Ἐὴ ἐή ἓ ἓ ἓ ἕ,
Str. 2.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 149 focus
Ἔ ἔ ἔ ἔ,
ὄτοβον ἁρμάτων ἀμφὶ πόλιν κλύω,
135
ὦ πότνι᾽ Ἥρα.
ἔλαχον ἀξόνων βριθομένων χνόαι.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 149 focus
ἔ ἔ ἔ ἔ,
ὄτοβον ἁρμάτων ἀμφὶ πόλιν κλύω,
ὦ πότνι᾿ Ἥρα·
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.)) — 109-180 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 149 focus
Ah! ah! ah! I hear the rumbling of cars around the city, O revered Juno, the naves of the heavy-laden axles creak, the air is maddened with the whizzing of javelins—what is our city undergoing? What will become of it? To what point is the deity conducting the issue
? ah! ah!
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 149 focus
protège-nous ! C'est ton sang qui coule en nos veines, et nous venons à toi avec des appels, des san-
glots qui implorent ta divinité. Et toi, dieu qui détruis les loups 1 , détruis l'armée de nos ennemis, fais-leur payer nos
sanglots ! Et toi, vierge née de Léto 2 , arme-toi !
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 149 focus
Hark! fraught with war
The groaning car,
Imperial Juno! shakes the ground;
Fierce as they pass,
The wheels of brass,
160
Dear Virginhuntress! roar around:
The gleaming lustre of the brandish'd spear
Glares terribly across the troubled air o
.
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.) — 149 focus
Ahi, ahi, ahi, ahi!
D'intorno ai muri fragore di cocchi
odo, Era venerabile!
Degli assi onusti odi stridere i mozzi,
dilettissima Artemide!
170
Infuria l'etra squassato dai cuspidi!
Qual doglia incombe su la mia città ?
A quale esito il Dio la condurrà ?
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 149 focus
Latonâ nata puella, arcum bene tende
140
Diana chara: heu heu, ſtrepitum curruum
Circa urbem audio, & ueneranda Iuno:
Reſonuerut fistula onuftorum axium.
O chara Diana, heu heu,
Haſta concuffus æther furit:
145
Quid urbs nostra patitur, quid fiet?
Quò tandem finem ducet deus, heu, heu, heu.
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.) — 149 focus
Woe and alack for the sound, for the rattle of cars to the wall,
And the creak of the griding axles! O Hera, to thee is our call!
Artemis, maiden beloved! the air is distraught with the spears,
And whither doth destiny drive us, and where is the goal of our fears?
130
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.) — 149 focus
Der Kriegsräder Hall rauscht um die Stadt heran:
Heilige Hera!
Ha, wie die Nabe kracht unter der Achse Last!
Sausend von Speergeklirr rasen die Lüfte drein.

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

890-891. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-949

δόμων μάλ᾽ ἀχὰν ἐπ' αὐτοῖς προπέμπει Hemichorii notam omittunt Vit. Lips. Ox. Ald. Rob. Turn.
δόμων μαλαχάεσσα τοὺς προπέμπει
Μ. a prima manu: secunda fecit
μάλ' ἀχάεσσα
et in margine adscripsit
λείπει τὸ προπομπώ
: recentior manus
μάλ' ἠχῶ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς
adiecit.
μάλ' ἀχὼ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς
Vit. aliique, ut videtur, codices et Ald. Turn. γρ.
ἀχήεις
adscriptum in Par. B.
μάλ' ἀχὴ εἰς αὐτοὺς
Par. C.
μάλ' ἀχὼ ἐς αὐτοὺς
Colb. 2. Ask. A. Ven. Β.
μάλ' ἠχὴ ἐπ' αὐτοὺς
Lips.
μάλ' ἀχὴν ἐς αὐτοὺς
Arund. Rob. et agnoscunt
ἠχὴν
scholiastae.
μάλ' αὐτοὺς ἀχὼ
G. (sic G.) Vind. 1.
μάλ᾽ ἀχὼ αὐτοὺς
Vind. 3.
δὲ αὐτοὺς
ex Par. E. enotatum est.
πέμπει
Colb. 2. Elmsleius ad Eur. Med. v. 147. scribendum putavit
δόμων μάλ᾽ ἀγὼν ἐς οὖς προπέμπει δαϊκτὴρ γόος
. Equidem scribendum potius censeo
δόμων μάλ' ἀχὰν ἐπ' αὐτοῖς προπέμπει δαϊκτὴρ γόος
, aedium propter eos lamenta meus prosequitur regum luctus.

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

872-940. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-580

1
2
ein ἰάλεμος nach der Angabe in 900, wonach dieser Ge- sang mit Zerreißen der Wangen (und mit Schlägen an Kopf und Brust nach 840f.) begleitet ist. Vgl. Cho. 422f., Soph. Αi. 627 f. mit Eur. Or. 1395. Diese Totenklage (854 f.) wird von Halbchören gesungen, welche in gleicher Weise abwechseln wie in Eum. 143-168, im ersten Strophenpaar zweimal, in den bei- den folgenden nur einmal. Auch die Unterbrechung des ersten Satzes durch den anderen Halbchor findet sich in den Eum. ebenso. 872 Η. δι' εὐωνύμων ὁμοσπλάγχνων τε (vgl. Pers. 569 Θρήκης ἂμ πε- διήρεις δυσχίμους τε κελεύθους) πλευρωμάτων τετυμμένοι, „,ins Herz, ins Bruderherz getroffen", Das schmerzliche Wort τετυμμένοι be- stätigt ( δῆτα: zu 864) der andere Halbchor. In der Lücke ist das verb. fin. verloren gegangen (etwa ἐπέσετε μέλεοι).

890. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-585

3
4
Schol. ὀξύθυμοι ὄντες ἐμοι- ρήσαντο καὶ διενείμαντο τὰ κτήματα ὥστ᾽ ἴσον λαχεῖν. 8921. διαλλακτῆρι δ' οὖν (gesetzt für δ' οὐκ) κτέ., jedenfalls können die Freunde beider (als ἀμφὶς ἀρω- γοί vor Gericht) sich nicht über Ares beklagen, als ob er als Schieds- richter parteiisch gewesen sei und den einen der Streitenden begünstigt habe. Vgl. 927. Für φίλοις kann man nach dem vorhergehenden Da- tiv διαλλακτῆρι den Gen. φίλων er- warten.