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Seven Against Thebes. N. Wecklein. . .

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Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (German) (Seven Against Thebes, explanatory commentary pp. 15–100. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.)

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.) — 128 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 128 focus
σύ τ᾽, ὦ Διογενὲς φιλόμαχον κράτος,
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ῥυσίπολις γενοῦ, Παλλάς, ὅ θ᾽ ἵππιος
ποντομέδων ἄναξ
ἰχθυβόλῳ μαχανᾷ, Ποσειδῶν,
ἐπίλυσιν φόβων, ἐπίλυσιν δίδου.
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 128 focus
Σύ τ', ὦ Διογενὲς φιλόμαχον κράτος,
Ant. 1.
ῥυσίπολις ῥυσίπτολις γενοῦ,
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Παλλάς, ὅ θ' ἵππιος ποντομέδων ἄναξ
ἰχθυβόλῳ, Ποσειδάων, μηχανᾷ ἰχθυβόλῳ μηχανᾷ Ποσειδῶν,
ἐπίλυσιν φόβων φόνων φόβου, ἐπίλυσιν δίδου.
Σύ τ', Ἄρης, φεῦ φεῦ, Κάδμου ἐπώνυμον
πόλιν φύλαξον κήδεσαί τ' ἐναργῶς.
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Καὶ Κύπρις, ἅτε γένους προμάτωρ,
ἄλευσον· σέθεν γὰρ σέθεν ἐξ αἵματος
γεγόναμεν, λιταῖς <δέ> om. σε θεοκλύτοις
ἀϋτοῦσαι ἀπύουσαι πελαζόμεσθα.
Καὶ σύ, Λύκει' λύκι' seu λύκιος ἄναξ, Λύκειος γενοῦ
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στρατῷ δαΐῳ στόνων ἀντίτας ἀϋτᾶς·
σύ τ', ὦ Λατωΐς, εὖ πυκάζου Λατογένεια κούρα τόξον εὖ πυκάζου (ἐντυκάζου Μ2) Ἄρτεμι φίλα.
Ἐὴ ἐή ἓ ἓ ἓ ἕ,
Str. 2.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 128 focus
Σύ τ᾽, ὦ Διογενὲς φιλόμαχον κράτος,
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ῥυσίπολις γενοῦ,
Παλλάς, ὅ θ᾽ ἵππιος ποντομέδων ἄναξ
ἰχθυβόλῳ μαχανᾷ, Ποσειδῶν,
ἐπίλυσιν φόνων, ἐπίλυσιν δίδου.
Ἔ ἔ ἔ ἔ,
ὄτοβον ἁρμάτων ἀμφὶ πόλιν κλύω,
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ὦ πότνι᾽ Ἥρα.
ἔλαχον ἀξόνων βριθομένων χνόαι.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 128 focus
σύ τ᾽, ὦ Διογενές φιλόμαχον κράτος,
ῥυσίπολις γενοῦ
Παλλάς, ὅ θ᾽ ἵππιος
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ποντομέδων ἄναξ
ἰχθυβόλωι μηχανᾶι Ποσειδάν
ἐπίλυσιν φόβων ἐπίλυσιν δίδου.
σύ τ᾿ Ἄρης φεῦ φεῦ
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ἐπώνυμον Κάδμου πόλιν
φύλαξον κήδεσαί τ᾽ ἐναργῶς.
καὶ Κύπρις, ἅτ᾽ εἰ γένους προμάτωρ,
ἄλευσον· σέθεν
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ἐξ αἵματος γεγόναμεν· λιταῖς σε
θεοκλύτοις ἀπύουσαι πελαζόμεσθα.
καὶ σύ, Λύκει᾽ ἄναξ, Λύκειος γενοῦ
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στρατῶι δαΐωι
--- στόνων ἀυτᾶς·
σύ τ᾽ ὦ Λατογένεια κούρα τόξον εὐτυκάζου.
[῎Αρτεμι φίλα]. –
ἔ ἔ ἔ ἔ,
ὄτοβον ἁρμάτων ἀμφὶ πόλιν κλύω,
ὦ πότνι᾿ Ἥρα·
Translations (9)
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.) — 128 focus
Do thou too, O Jove-born power that delightest in battle, Pallas, become a saviour to our city; and thou, equestrian monarch, sovereign of the main, with thy fish-smiting trident, O Neptune, grant a deliverance, a deliverance from our terrors. Do thou too, O Mars, alas! alas! guard the city which is named after Cadmus, and manifestly shew thy care;—and thou, Venus, the original mother of our race, avert [these ills]—for from thy blood are we sprung; calling on thee with heaven-ward orisons do we approach thee.—And thou Lycaean king—be thou fierce as a wolf
to the hostile army, [moved] by the voice of our sighs
. Thou too, virgin-daughter of Latona, deftly adorn thyself with thy bow, O beloved Diana.
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.) — 128 focus

ennemi. Les Argiens enserrent la ville de Cadmos ! L'effroi 1 , l'effroi des armes homicides ! Entre les mâchoires des chevaux les mors sonnent un glas de massacre !
Sept chefs désignés par leur vaillance, l'ardente javeline armant leur bras, s'avancent contre nos sept portes, dans l'ordre voulu par le sort !
Et toi, fille de Zeus, puissante guerrière, sois le salut de la
cité, Pallas ! Et toi, dieu cavalier, dont le trident redouté du poisson règne sur les mers 2 , Poséidon, délivre-nous, délivre-nous de ces terreurs ! Et toi, Arès, hélas ! hélas ! veille sur une
ville qui porte le nom de Cadmos : sois son allié par les armes comme tu l'es par le sang ! Et toi, Cypris, antique
aïeule de notre race 3 ,
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 4 , détruis l'armée de nos ennemis, fais-leur payer nos
sanglots ! Et toi, vierge née de Léto 5 , arme-toi !
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 128 focus
Daughter of Jove, whose soul
Glows at th' embattled plain:
And thou, by whom the pawing steed arose n
,
Great monarch of the main
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Curb'd by thy strong controul;
From our fears free us, free us from our foes!
On thee, stern Mars, again I call:
Haste thee, God, and with thee bring
The Queen of Love, from whose high race we spring;
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If Cadmus e'er was dear, defend his wall!
Thou terror of the savage Phœbus, hear,
In all thy terrors rush upon the foe!
Chaste Virginhuntress, Goddess ever dear,
Wing the keen arrow from thy ready bow!
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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.) — 128 focus
Figlia di Giove, tu volgi, deh, Pàllade,
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Tebe a salvare, tua possa belligera.
Equestre sire del mare, Posídone,
col tuo tridente di squali sterminio,
da questo orrore tu affrancaci affrancaci!
Tu Marte - oh noi miseri, oh miseri! -
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da cui questa rocca si nomina,
tu veglia su noi, tu soccorrici.
Tu, che a noi sei genitrice remota,
stornali, o Diva di Cipro: ché origine
da te traggiamo; e con prece devota
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presso il tuo Nume or vedici.
E lupo adesso, re Licio, a lor móstrati,
dei miei lamenti sii vindice.
Affretta,
figlia di Lato, su lor la saetta.
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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.) — 128 focus
Tu uerò generofum robur pugnæ amans,
Liberatrix urbis sis ô Pallas:
Equestrisq; pontipotens rex
Tridente machina Neptune
Solutionem metus, folutionem da.
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Et tu Mars, heu heu Cadmi denominatam
Vrbem custodi, & cura exacte.
Et Venus, generis tritauia,
Adiuua: tuo ex ſanguine
Nati sumus, precibus te
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Religiofis uociferantes adimus.
Et tu Lyciæ rex, terribilis esto
Exercitui hostili, qui uocem habet gemebundam.
Tu uerò
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.
Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 124 focus
MESSENGER
Dead are our chiefs by fratricidal hands.
CHORUS
Then are they slain by hands too brotherly.
MESSENGER
Prone in the dust they lie, too true the tale.
CHORUS
Thus dealt the god impartially with both.
MESSENGER
Yea, he himself destroys th' ill-fated race.
CHORUS
Cause have we here for gladness and for tears.
The city prospers but its governors,
Twin captains have, with Scythia's welded steel,
Between them portioned all their heritage,
Holding what each received in sepulture,
Borne onward by their father's direful curse.
CHORUS
O mighty Zeus, and tutelary powers
To whom to rescue these Cadmeian towers
Has fallen, whether now
Shall I rejoice, and in triumphant strain,
Our town's unharming saviour, Fortune, hail,
Or those war-chiefs bewail,
Wretched, ill-fated, childless twain,
Who rightly, as their names avow— *
Names full of glory and of strife,
Are through intent unhallowed reft of life.
CHORUS
STROPHE.
Dark curse, with full completion crowned,
Of Edipus, inherent in the race!
Hovers an evil chill my heart around.
Like Bacchanal, when on mine ear
The tidings fell that the blood-dripping slain
Through evil Fate had died-their tomb to grace,
A dirge I wove, sad strain.—
Ill-omened is this concert of the spear.
CHORUS
ANTISTROPHE.
Their father's baleful curse hath wrought,
Untired, its battle to the bitter end;
Now Laios' wilful counsels have their meed.
Around the city hovers care;
Not blunted are the oracles ;-this deed
CHORUS
Which ye have wrought, oh lamentable pair,
All credence doth transcend.
Dire woes are come, not by mere rumour taught.
CHORUS
Epode.
Lo, obvious now to sight the herald's tale!
Twofold anxieties, disasters twain
Of pride * and mutual slaughter, fraught
With twofold doom.
To their dread issue are these evils brought.
What can I sing? What but the grievous bale
Fixed at the heart of this ill-fated home?
But now, in escort of the dead,
Oh friends! adown grief's sobbing gale,
With measured beat of hands on head,
Ply ye the oar-stroke, ply amain,
Which over Charon's river evermore
Wafteth the galley, black of sail, ‡
Unchartered, to the sunless reign,
Untrodden by the god of light,
Invisible to mortal sight,
The all-receiving shore.
CHORUS
But for a task of bitter pain,
Their brothers' requiem to intone,
Antigone draws with Ismene near;
From lovely, deep-zoned breasts, I deem
Will they, in no ambiguous strain,
With fitting wail their woes deplore,
And ere their utterance reach our ear,
Us, too, it doth beseem
The Fury's harsh-toned hymn to sing,
And hostile pæan chant to Hades' King.
Oh most unhappy in your brothers, ye
Of all who round their garments cast the zone;
I weep, I moan,-
Here is no guile,-these wailings that I pour
Come from my very heart, unfeignedly.
SEMI-CHORUS I
STROPHE I.
Woe! Woe!
Ye frantic ones, your friends who disobeyed,
By sorrow unsubdued, unhappy twain,
Spear-armed your father's house who captive made.
SEMI-CHORUS II
Wretched in sooth, wretched their doom, laid low
To their own dwelling's bane.
SEMI-CHORUS I
ANTISTROPHE I.
Woe! Woe!
O ye your household walls in dust who laid,
Who bitter kingship tasted; war's keen blade
To you, at length, hath reconcilement brought.
SEMI-CHORUS II
Ay, the dread fury of their sire hath wrought
This all too-stubborn woe.
SEMI-CHORUS I
STROPHE II.
Both smitten through the breast,
The left, ye brethren, offspring of one womb!
Woe! Woe! ye fiend possest!
Woe for the curse of mutual-slaughtering doom!
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.
SEMI-CHORUS I
ANTISTROPHE II.
Moans through the city reign,
The turrets moan, moans the man-loving plain;
But with their kin doth bide
Their wealth, dire cause to that ill-fated twain
Of strife, whose issue death to either side.
SEMI-CHORUS II
With hearts keen whetted they
Their wealth apportioned, equal shares they gain;-
Friends blame the umpire, * nor may their affray
Be now applauded in triumphal strain.
SEMI-CHORUS I
STROPHE III.
Steel-smitten, hapless pair!
Steel-smitten, lie they there.
What fortune, one perchance may ask,
Awaiteth them ?-A share
In their ancestral tomb.
SEMI-CHORUS II
Grief, with heart-piercing groan,
Escorts them from their home-sad task;—
Sorrow unfeignèd and unfeignèd moan,
Distressful, joyless, din!
Wasteth my heart as from its depths within
True tears I shed, weeping those princes' doom.
SEMI-CHORUS I
ANTISTROPHE III.
This o'er them one may say,
O'er that unhappy twain;—
That to their friends much bale they wrought
And to the alien host,
Slaughtered in deadly fray.
SEMI-CHORUS II
Of womankind on earth,
Of all, the mother's name who boast,
Most wretched she who gave them birth;—
Wedding her son these forth she brought,
By kindred hands and mutual murder slain.
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.
SEMI-CHORUS II
Stayed is their hate, and on the gory plain
Commingled is their life;
Too truly of one blood these foemen now.
Stern umpire of their strife,
The fire-born stranger from beyond the main,
The whetted steel. Hostile was Ares too,
Bitter apportioner of wealth, I trow,
Making the curse paternal all too true.
SEMI-CHORUS I
ANTISTROPHE IV.
Of heaven-sent woe allotted shares have they;—
Unhappy, doom'd from birth!
Lies 'neath their lifeless clay
Wealth fathomless of earth.
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.
ANTIGONE
Smiting, thou wast smitten.
ISMENE
Slaying, thou wast slain.
ANTIGONE
Thou with spear didst slaughter.
ISMENE
Thee the spear laid low.
ANTIGONE
In thy toil most wretched.
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.) — 128 focus
Be near and befriend us, O Pallas, the Zeus-born maiden of might!
O lord of the steed and the sea, be thy trident uplifted to smite
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In eager desire of the fray, Poseidon! and Ares come down,
In fatherly presence revealed, to rescue Hamionia's town!
Thine too, Aphrodite, we are! thou art mother and queen of our race,
To thee we cry out in our need, from thee let thy children have grace!
Ye too, to scare back the foe, be your cry as a wolf's howl wild,
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Thou, O the wolf-lord, and thou, of she-wolf Leto the child!
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.) — 128 focus
Tochter Kronions du, Pallas, der Schlachten froh,
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Rette die Stadt aus Noth, und du, hoch zu Roß
Waltender Meeresfürst,
Der den Trident, Fische jagend, wirft, Poseidon,
Löse mein armes Herz, lös' es von schwerer Angft!
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.

Notes on the current edition

Seven Against Thebes

1. Single-witness OCR: uncollated. Source layout and readings require scan review; automatic flags are not exhaustive.
2. Reference placement provisional: provisional local reference window from running Greek. Verify the printed source numbering and note scope against the scan.

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

136. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-211

ὄτοβον:
Toẞor
recte Brunckius. Et sic M. Ceteri
tτoßov
, ante quod vocabulum Vit.
τὸ ἀκροξόνιον
addit.
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ὦ πότνι᾽ Ἥρα: Libri
ὦ πότνια ἥρα
.
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138. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-213

ἔλακον:
ἔλαβον
Par. E.
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138. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-214

χνόαι:
zróur
adscriptum, ut videtur, in Par. B.
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ἢ ἔ: Bis scribendum erat, dochmio monstrante. Ter habet Mosc. 2. ceteri quater.
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δοριτίνακτος δ' αἰθὴρ: Libri
dogvtíraztos d' aidyo
, praeter Med. in quo
dogiri-vaxtos
(non omissa particula) scriptum est (recte, ut videtur, quamquam dubitat de hac re Lobeckius ad Ai. v. 211.) et Colb. 2. in quo
d'
omissum est. Deleverunt etiam Porsonus et Blomfieldius. Fallitur tamen Wellauerus prorsus otiosam putans particulam. Immo necessaria est, quia
ἐπιμαίνεται
refertur ad praegressum alius virginis dictum,
ἔλακον ἀξό-vwv Boldoμérov zróa
. Adstrepit vero, inquit, isti curruum stridori tremefactus hastis aether. Quare post
alǹo
posui particulam.
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ἐπιμαίνεται:
ἐπιμένεται
Mosc. 1.
ἐπισημαίνεται
adscriptum in Par. B.
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141. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-218

τί πόλις ἄμμι:
τί πτόλις
Par. L.
καὶ πόλις
G.
uuu
M. Vit. Colb. 2. et Faehsio teste Par. L.
v
ceteri.
141

141. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-219

πάσχει:
πάσχειν
Par. E.
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141. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-220

γενήσεται:
τι γεν-νήσεται
Αld.
καὶ γεννήσεται
Mosc. 2.
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142. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-221

ποῖ δὲ τέλος ἔτ᾽:
ποῖ δ᾽ ἔτι τέλος
M. Ald. Turn.
ποῖ δέτι τέλος
, ad
ποῖ
supra adscripto
7
, Lips.
πῆ δ᾽ ἔτι τέλος
Vit. Mosc. 1. Vind. 2. 3. 4.
ποῖ δέ τοι τέλος
Ask. A. Cantabr. 2.
ποῖ τι τέλος
Rob.
ποῖ τέλος
G. Taur. Recte Seidlerus
ποῖ δὲ τέλος ἔτ'
, ut melius congruens antistrophico. Est enim ex Cretico et dochmio compositus versus.
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ἀκροβόλων: Triclinius, ut videtur, ambigit a Thebanisne an ab Argivis venire dicantur lapides. Magis mirum est, quod Blomfieldio in glossario placuit,
ἀκροβόλων λιθάδα
esse lapidum imbrem a velitibus iactum. Bothius non animadversis antistrophicis huic versui praeposuit illum,
κόναβος ἐν πύλαις χαλκοδέτων σακέων
, non male quidem, sed nulla tamen necessitate. Sunt haec de Thebanis potius quam de Argivis intelligenda. Egregie poeta omne periculum gradatim descripsit, primo e statione signa moventem exercitum hostium, deinde campum armis implentem ac magis magisque urbi appropinquantem, iam denique hac in stropha initium proelii, Thebanos lapidum iaculatione de moenibus se defendentes, in portis autem comminus consertam pugnam.
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ὦ φίλ᾽ Ἄπολλον:
ὦ φίλτατ' ἄπολλον
Rob.
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ἐκ Διόθεν: Libri
καὶ διόθεν
, praeter Robortelli editionem, in qua recte
ἐκ διόθεν
scriptum est. Excidisse verbum quod aut
πέλοι
vel
μόλοι
significaret, aut quale est
ἐπαιτῶ
, et fortasse hoc ipsum, et metrum prodit et sententia.
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πολεμόκραντον ἁγνὸν τέλος ἐν μάχᾳ σύ τε, μάκαιρ᾽ ἄνασσ᾽ Ὄγκα, ὑπὲρ πόλεως:
πολεμόκρατον
Cantabr. 1. Par. E. N. Colb. 1.
πο-λεμόκραντον ἁγνὸν τέλος
purum et vacuum scelere exitum belli dicit, in mente habens odia fratrum. Libri
ἐν μάχαισί τε μάκαιρ' ἄνασσ' ὄγκα πρὸ πόλεως
, nisi quod
μάχεσι
habet Par. C. deinde
μάκερ
G.
μάχαις'
Ald.
ἄνασ'
Lips. tum
ὄγγα
Mose. 1.
πρὸ πόλεως
autem omittunt Arund. Par. K. et Cantabr. 2. in quo recentior manus addidit. Aperte
ἐν μάχαισί τε
nihil aliud est quam
ἐν μάχα· σύ τε
. Deinde metrum ostendebat scribendum esse
ὑπὲρ πόλεως
, cuius interpretatio est
προ πόλεως
. Nam etsi
Onea
dicta est Minerva a vico portae ab isto vico dictae vicino, de quo Millerus in Orchomeno p. 121. disseruit, tamen hic significatur pro urbe i. e. pro civibus. Confirmat emendationem glossa in Vit. supra adscripta
ἡ ἐπάνω τῆς πόλεως ἱστορουμένη
. Et scholiastes,
γίνωσκε γὰρ ὅτι ἐζωγράφουν ταύτην πρὸ τῶν πυλῶν τῆς πόλεως. ἣν καὶ ὁ Λυκόφρων πυλαίτιδα λέγει διὰ τὸ ἄνωθεν ἱστο-ρεῖσθαι ταύτην τῶν τῆς πόλεως πυλῶν
. Sic codices et Rob. sed Stephanus
ἱστορεῖσθαι
in
ἵστασθαι
mutavit. Lycophronis versus est 356.

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ἐπιρρύου:
ἐπιρύου
Οχ. Ald.
επιρρύου
ut ceteri M. sed
v
supra additum est. Correpta est autem huius verbi penultima syllaba, ut v. 285. 803.
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παναλκεῖς:
παναρκεῖς
, a recentiore manu
a
supra adscripto M. γρ.
παναρκεῖς
Par. Β.
παναλεῖς
Par. E.
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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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Parodos, welche die Schrecken einer belagerten und dem Sturm entgegensehenden Stadt mit solcher Kraft und sinnlicher Lebendigkeit des Ausdrucks vor die Augen führt, daß wir das kriegerische Treiben vor den Mauern ebenso vor uns sehen, wie im Agamemnon die Kassandraszene uns zu Zuschauern der Vorgänge im Hause macht. Zu der Kraft des Ausdrucks kam bei der Auf- führung noch die Veranschaulichung durch die σχήματα ὀρχήσεως, wie bei Athen. I S. 22 A berichtet wird, ὅτι Τελέστης ὁ Αἰσχύλου ὀρχηστής οὕτως ἦν τεχνίτης ὥστε ἐν τῷ ὀρχεῖσθαι τοὺς Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας φανερὰ ποιῆσαι τὰ πράγματα δι ὀρχήσεως. Von diesem Telestes heist es dort weiter: πολλὰ ἐξεύρηκε σχήματα, ἄκρως ταῖς χερσὶ τὰ λεγόμενα δεικνύς. Auf diese χειρο- νομία weist z. Β. ὅδε 80 hin. Das Ganze zerfällt in 4 Teile: im ersten (78-106) kommen die zwölf Choreuten einzeln zum Vortrag, wie sie der Reihe nach entweder einzeln oder, was wahrscheinlicher ist, in drei Gruppen zu je 4 Personen auf- treten ( σποράδην wie Eum. 244 1.). Der Chor besteht ja aus Jungfrauen, Bürgerstöchtern, welche in ihrer Angst zu den Altären der Götter flüchten, also vorher noch nicht versammelt sind. Im zweiten Teile (107—134) singen, wie die drei gleichen Verse 112, 116, 119 = 126, 130, 133 erkennen lassen, die drei στοίχοι nacheinander die Strophe und ebenso die Antistrophe. Den dritten Teil (135–151) tragen die beiden Halbchöre vor, nur in die Weherufe brechen alle zusammen aus. Den letzten Teil (152-165), ein Gebet, spricht der Gesamtchor. Die Wahl von Jungfrauen er- klärt der Schol. gut: εὐπτόητον ἡ τῶν παρθένων ἡλικία, μάλιστα δὲ πρὸς πολιορκίαν.

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dritter Teil: Die Angst der Jungfrauen steigert sich, da sie das Rasseln der Streitwagen, das Schwingen der Lanzen, den Steinhagel gegen die Zinnen der Mauern vernehmen, und ihr Flehen zu den Göttern wird immer ein- dringlicher.

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Schol. χνόαι τὰ ἀκραξόνια, περὶ ἃ αἱ χοινικίδες οἱ παραξονῖται (die Naben) λεγόμενοι und Schol. zu Soph. Εl. 745 ἔθραυσε δ᾽ ἄξονος μέσας χνόας: τὸ λεπτὸν μέρος τοῦ ἄξονος τὸ τριβόμενον ὑπὸ τῆς χοινικίδος. Weil die Schwere des Wagens auf der Achse ruht ( βριθο- μένων, βαρυνομένων), knarrt die Achsenspitze (zvón) (Hom. E 838 ( χνόη) μέγα δ' ἔβραχε φήγινος ἄξων βριθοσύνῃ), indem sie sich an der Radbüchse ( σύριγξ) reibt. Vgl. 188 σύριγγες ἔκλαγξαν ἑλίτροχοι.

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δ', welches der Med. nach δοριτίνακτος hat, fehlt in einer jüngeren Handschrift. Die vom Speerschwingen erschütterte Luft saust zu dem Knarren der Wagen".

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ἄμμι für ἡμῖν wie ὄμμε für ὑμᾶς Eum. 623, Soph. Αnt. 846. — πάσχει γενήσεται: was ist unserer Stadt zu erleiden bestimmt? was wird noch geschehen?"

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πο wie Cho. 256 καὶ ποῖ τελευτᾷ καὶ καρανοῦται λόγος u. δ. bei τελευτᾶν: y,zu welchem Ende noch führt es die Gottheit hin- aus?"

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Die Steine werden nach der Höhe der Mauer, wo die Ver- teidiger stehen, geschleudert. Vgl. Tac. hist. II 22, Caes. b. Gall. II 6. Schol. ἀκροβολίζεσθαί ἐστι τὸ ἐν πολέμῳ συμβολῆς προκατάρχεσθαι. - ἀκροβόλων τα ακρόβολος, nicht zu ἀκροβόλος (Hesych. ακροβόλοι· ἀκον- τισταί, τοξόται). Ansprechend aber schreibt A. Ludwig ἀκροβόλος. — Der Gen. ist abhängig von λιθὰς ἔρχεται wie von λιθοβολείται und den Ver- ben des Zielens. λιθάς (Steinhagel) gebildet wie νιφάς, φυλλάς, αἱμάς. Blaydes vermutet νιφάς nach 197 u. Eur. Androm. 1129 πυκνῇ δὲ νιφάδι πάντοθεν σποδούμενος. Ther · umgekehrt, wie 198 zeigt.

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( Απολλον), παῖ Διὸς ὅθεν (für καὶ Διόθεν van den Bergh).. ἐν μάχα s. v. a. ὅθεν ( ἐξ οὗ) τέλος ἐν μάχα κραίνεται, von dem des Krieges hehres Ziel im Kampfe be- schieden wird.

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Ὄγκα ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ παρὰ Θη βαίοις. ἐπεύχεται δὲ τὴν ἐπιχώριον ᾿Αθηνῶν, ὡς ὁ Θετταλὸς Ζεῦ ἄνα (Hom. П 233) nai d Λύκιος η κλύθι, ἄναξ, ὅς που Δωδωναίε 66 Λυκίης" (ebd. 514) καὶ ὁ Ἴλιος Ζεῦ Ἴδηθεν μεδέων" ( Ω 308). Ογκαία Αθηνᾶ τιμᾶται παρὰ Θη βαίοις, Ὄγκα δὲ παρὰ τοῖς Φοίνιξιν. καὶ Ὀγκαῖαι πύλαι (474). μέμνηται καὶ ᾿Αντίμαχος καὶ Ῥιανός. Φοίνιξ δὲ ἄνωθεν ὁ Κάδμος. Daza Paus. ΙΧ 12, 2 Ὄγκα κατὰ γλῶσσαν τὴν Φοινίκων καλεῖται. Ursprünglich der Aphrodite identisch ward sie von den Hellenen wegen ihrer krie- gerischen Natur als Athena be- zeichnet. Vgl. Hermes II S. 280. Ein Dochmius läßt sich mit Ὄγκα πρὸ πτόλεως oder Ὄγκα πρὸς πύλαις herstellen; aber es fehlt die genaue Responsion und das Fol- gende scheint auf Ὄγκα ἑδρὶς πυλών (Hesych. ἑδρίς· ἑδραῖος) oder vielmehr Ὄγκα ἕδρα πυλῶν hinzu- weisen ( ἕδρα ist dann von ἐπί in ἐπιρρύου abhängig: „,zu deinem Sitz an einem Tore hinzu"). Jeden- falls scheint der Sinn zu sein:,,du hast an einem Tor eine geweihte Stätte (488); beschütze mit diesem Tore auch die übrigen". — ἐπιρρύου mit kurzem v wie 290, 809. in