Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 168

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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ANTIGONE
Twofold horrors to relate.

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.) — 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.) — 166 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 166 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 166 focus
Ἰὼ παναρκεῖς παναλκεῖς θεοί,
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Str. 3.
ἰὼ τέλειοι τέλειαί τε γᾶς
τάσδε πυργοφύλακες,
πόλιν δορίπονον μὴ προδῶθ'
ἑτεροφώνῳ στρατῷ·
κλύετε παρθένων κλύετε πανδίκως -δίκους
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χειροτόνους λιτάς.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 166 focus
ἰὼ παναρκεῖς θεοί,
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 166 focus
ἰὼ παναρκεῖς θεοί,
ἰὼ τέλειοι τέλειαί τε γᾶς
τᾶσδε πυργοφύλακες,
πόλιν δορίπονον μὴ προδῶθ᾽
ἑτεροφώνωι στρατῶι.
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κλύετε παρθένων κλύετε πανδίκως
χειροτόνους λιτάς. –
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.) — 166 focus
O gods, all-potent to save, O ye gods and goddesses, perfect guardians of the towers of this land, abandon not our war-wasted city to an army of aliens. Listen to these virgins, listen to our all-just prayers, as is most right, to the orisons of virgins which are offered with out-stretched hands.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 166 focus
O toi dont Zeus a fait l'arbitre sacré qui décide au combat du sort d'une guerre 1 ; et toi, divine reine,
Onka, qu'on adore devant nos murs, sauvez votre ville aux sept portes !
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 166 focus
And all ye mighty, guardian pow'rs,
That here preside, protect our tow'rs:
Nor the warwasted town betray,
To fierce and dissonant foes a prey!
Ye Gods, deliverers of this land,
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To whom we stretch the suppliant hand,
Hear us, O hear our virgin pray'r,
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.) — 166 focus
Ahimè, potentissimi Superi,
O Divi, o Giove, custodi ben vigili
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di queste mura, deh, preda non giaccia
la città nostra cui guerra flagella
di questa turba ch'estrania favella.
Udite, è giusto, la prece che levano
queste fanciulle, alte al cielo le braccia.
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Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 166 focus
huius terræ turriŭ cuſtodes,
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Vrbem hastatam ne tradatis exercitui barbaro.
Audite uirgines, audite iuſtas omnino
Electas preces: heu chari dæmones,
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.) — 166 focus
O gods and O sisters of gods, our bulwark and guard! we beseech
That ye give not our war-worn hold to a rabble of alien speech!
List to the call of the maidens, the hands held up for the right,
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.) — 166 focus
Gottheiten, allwaltende!
Auf, Götter, auf, Götterfrau'n, dieses Lands,
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Dieser Burg starker Hort!
Gebt nicht die speerumstürmte Stadt
Hin an fremdredend Volk!
Höret die Jungfrau'n, hört, wie sie gerecht empor
Fleh'n mit erhobner Hand!
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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

168. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-253

εὐεστοῖ: Inter
εὐεστοί
et
φίλῃ
litura in M.
εὐεστῆ
G. Lips. Taur. γρ.
εὐετῇ
ex Par. B. Faehsius affert.
εὐετοῖ
Par. N. Colb. 1.
168

168. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-254

φίλῃ:
φίλα
Taur. et
ή
supra adscripto G.
168

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

166-274. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-122

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2
erstes Epeisodion. Eteokles, welcher die im Volke durch die Angstrufe der Jungfrauen (des Chors) entstandene Entmuti- gung wahrgenommen hat (174f.), kommt zurück, weist die Jung- frauen zurecht und lehrt sie die rechte Weise des Gebetes. Die Szene dient der Charakteristik des Eteokles.