Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 151

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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SEMI-CHORUS II
O ye who your own house have caused to bloom
With many bitter woes!
O'er you at last these curses their shrill lay
Have chanted, fraught with doom;
For now your race is turned to flight,
In utter rout. Ay, on the very gate
Where fell your deadly blows,
Stands Atè's trophy;-and the fiend elate
After her twofold conquest ceased from fight.

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.) — 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,
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
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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:
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?
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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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ἄχεα δοιὰ τάδ᾽ ἔγγυθεν
ἀχέων τοίων τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν
M. Vit. Lips. Par. B. Ald. Turn.
ἀχέων τοίων τάδ' ἐγγύθι
Par. N. Colb. 1. γρ.
ἐγγύθι
Par. B.
γόων τοίων τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν
Arund. Cantabr. 1. Par. F. K. Ask. A. Colb. 2. Rob. Supra scriptum
ἀχέων
in Par. F. Colb. 2.
γόων ποίων τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν
G. Mosc. 2. In margine M. recentior manus adscripsit
ἀχέω ἤγουν θρηνῶ
, atque secundus scholiastes, qui
γόων
legit, postquam
τοίων
per
διπλῶν
ex antecedentibus sumptum explicavit, haec addit,
εὕρηται δὲ καὶ ἐν παλαίῳ βιβλίῳ ἀχέω τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν, ἤγουν ἐκ τοῦ πλησίον θρηνῶ, ὅπερ ἐστὶ κρεῖττον. μαρτυρεῖ δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐπαγόμενον τὸ πέλας δ' αἱ δ᾽ ἀδελφαὶ ἀδελφῶν
. Ineptum est
τοίων
vel
ποίων
. Scripsi
ἄχεα δοιὰ τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν
. Cohaerent haec et sequentia cum praegressis.
950

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

941-995. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-605

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θρῆνος der Antigone und Ismene. Antigone steht an der Leiche des Polynikes, Ismene an der des Eteokles. Der Gesang besteht aus vier Teilen; im ersten und dritten entspricht immer die Partie der Ismene der Partie der Antigone, im zweiten Teile besteht außer dieser Responsion noch die Responsion eines größeren Strophen- paares, das mit einem Ephymnion der beiden Schwestern schließt; im letzten Teile entsprechen sich zwei Verse, die wieder von Antigone und Ismene gemeinsam gesungen werden, und zwei Verse, von denen der eine der Antigone, der andere der Ismene gehört. Eine ähnliche Gestalt der Responsion findet sich nur noch Eur. Androm. 1197 ff.