Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 217

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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ANTIGONE
Last of the gods is Strife to close dispute.
Yet him I will inter, spare then thy words.

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.) — 203-244 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 203-244 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 219 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 219 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 219 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 219 focus
μήποτ' ἐμὸν κατ᾽ αἰῶνα λίποι θεῶν
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ἅδε πανάγυρις, μηδ᾽ ἐπίδοιμι τάνδ᾽
ἀστυδρομουμέναν πόλιν καὶ στράτευμ᾽
ἁπτόμενον πυρὶ δαΐῳ.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 219 focus
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.)) — 203-242 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 219 focus
At no time during my life may this conclave of gods abandon us: never may I behold our city overrun, and an army firing it with hostile flame.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 219 focus
Que jamais je n'aie le spectacle de ma ville parcourue en tout sens par des soldats approchant d'elle une flamme destructrice !
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 219 focus
Ah, never, whilst I breath the vital air,
May their blest train forsake us; nor these eyes
Behold destruction raging thro' our streets,
And in fierce flames our stately structures blaze!
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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.) — 219 focus
Mai questo eccelso di Numi concilio,
sin ch'io respiri, non fugga! Calpesta
Tebe non sia dai nemici: il suo popolo
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non sia soppresso dal fuoco omicida!
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 219 focus
Ne tandem meo tempore deficiat deoru hec
Congregatio, neq; uideam
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Percurſam urbem,
Et exercitum crematum igni hoſtili.
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.) — 219 focus
Ah, let me die, or ever I behold
The gods go forth, in conflagration dire!
The foemen's rush and raid, and all our hold
Wrapt in the burning fire!
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.) — 219 focus
Nimmer, so lange mir leuchtet des Lebens Licht,
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Weiche der Götter Chor von hier, nimmermehr
Mög' ich die Burg erstürmt, nimmer mein Volk versengt
Schau'n von der feindlichen Flamme Glut!

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

217. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-320

ὄχλον:
όχλων
Par. E. Id alter scholiastes commemorat.
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217. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-321

ἀποστέγει:
ἀπο-στέργει
Mosc. 2. et ante rasuram G.
αποστέγη
Ald. Ne quis optativum hic et in praecedente versu requirat, tenendum est refutare chorum quae dixerat Eteocles ita ut et diis et munimentis salutem urbis deberi affirmet.
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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

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

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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.

217. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-155

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τόδ' für τάδ' Blomfield dem gegen Theben. Sinne entsprechend. σφάγια Schlachtopfer, χρηστήρια Opfer für die Opferschau, Schol. τὰ εἰς χρῆσιν καὶ θυσίαν θύματα. Vgl. Hik. 459 δεῖ κάρτα θύειν καὶ πεσεῖν χρη- στήρια.