Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 148

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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SEMI-CHORUS I
STROPHE IV.
Brothers indeed together reft of life,
Severed in conflict rude;—
Falling in frenzied strife,
So did they end their feud.

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

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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.) — 181-202 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 181-202 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.)) — 181-200 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,
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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!
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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
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Diana chara: heu heu, ſtrepitum curruum
Circa urbem audio, & ueneranda Iuno:
Reſonuerut fistula onuftorum axium.
O chara Diana, heu heu,
Haſta concuffus æther furit:
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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?
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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

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λαΐδος ὀλλυμένας: Ad
α
in
λαΐδος
a recentiore manu
η
supra adscriptum in M. et Cantabr. 2. In margine M. ab alia recentiore manu
λείας
adscriptum est.
λῄδος
Ox. Ven. A. Ald. Turn.
ὀλυμμένας
Par. G.
ὀλλυμένης
Mosc. 1.
κτεινομένης
Mosc. 2.
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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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erstes Stasimon: Die Jungfrauen bringen es nicht über sich, der Mahnung des Eteo- kles zu gehorchen. In ihrer Angst führen sie sich den allgemeinen Sturmangriff auf die Stadt vor Augen und rufen die Götter um Hilfe an. Welches schönere Land könnt ihr für unser Land ein- tauschen? Bringt deshalb Verderben über die Feinde, verleiht Sieg den Bürgern. Beklagenswert wäre es, wenn eine so uralte Stadt von Hellenen geknechtet würde und die Greuel der Plünderung erdulden müßte". Diese Greuel werden mit den lebhaftesten Farben geschildert nach Hom. I 592 κατέλεξεν ἅπαντα κήδε' ὅσ' ἀνθρώποισι πέλει τῶν ἄστυ ἁλώῃ· ἄνδρας μὲν κτείνουσι, πόλιν δέ τε πῦρ ἀμαθύνει, τέκνα δέ τ' ἄλλοι ἄγουσι βαθυζώνους τε γυναῖκας, Χ 61 κακὰ πόλλ' ἐπιδόντα, υἷάς τ' ὀλλυμένους ἑλκηθείσας τε θύγατρας καὶ θαλάμους κεραϊζο- μένους καὶ νήπια τέκνα βαλλόμενα προτὶ γαίῃ. - Den Gesang trägt wohl der Gesamtchor vor.

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τάς wird näher bestimmt durch νέας τε καὶ παλαιάς. — ἓ ἔ: Schol. διέκοψεν τὸν λόγον τῷ θρήνῳ. νέας ist einsilbig zu lesen wie häufig νεάνις, νεανίας, νεανικός zwei- bez. dreisilbig (Eum. 957, Eur. Phoen. 147, Aristoph. Wesp. 1067,