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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.) — 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.
Ἐὴ ἐή,
ἀκροβόλων ἀκροβόλων δ' ἐπάλξεων λιθὰς ἔρχεται·
ὦ φίλ' Ἄπολλον.
Κόναβος ἐν πύλαις χαλκοδέτων σακέων
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ἀλλά, καὶ Διόθεν
πολεμόκραντον ἁγνὸν τέλος ἐν μάχᾳ, σύ τε μάχαισί τε,
μάκαιρ' ἄνασσ', Ὄγκα πρὸ πτόλεως πόλεως,
ἑπτάπυλον ἕδος ἐπιρρύου.
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.) — 149 focus
Ἔ ἔ ἔ ἔ,
ὄτοβον ἁρμάτων ἀμφὶ πόλιν κλύω,
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ὦ πότνι᾽ Ἥρα.
ἔλαχον ἀξόνων βριθομένων χνόαι.
Ἔ ἔ ἔ ἔ,
ἀκροβόλων δ᾽ ἐπάλξεων λιθὰς ἔρχεται,
ὦ φίλ᾽ Ἄπολλον·
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κόναβος ἐν πύλαις χαλκοδέτων σακέων.
καὶ Διόθεν
πολεμόκραντον ἁγνὸν τέλος ἐν μάχᾳ,
σύ τε μάχαιρ᾽ ἄνασσ᾽ Ὄγκα πρὸ πόλεως
ἑπτάπυλον ἕδος ἐπιρρύου.
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ἰὼ παναρκεῖς θεοί,
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·
ἀκροβόλων [δ᾽] ἐπάλξεις λιθὰς ἔρχεται.
ὦ φίλ᾽ Απολλον.
κόναβος ἐν πύλαις χαλκοδέτων σακέων.
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† καὶ Διόθεν ....
.... πολεμόκραντον ἁγνὸν τέλος ἐν μάχαι.
σύ τε μάκαιρ᾽ ἄνασσ᾽ Ὄγκα πρὸ πόλεως
ἑπτάπυλον ἕδος ἐπιρρύου. =
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 (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.) — 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!
A shower of stones too from their slingers is coming over our battlements. O beloved Apollo! there is the clash of brass-rimmed shields at the gates, and the just issue in battle must be decided by arms according to the disposal of Jove
. And thou Onca
, immortal queen, that dwellest in front of our city, rescue thy seven-gated seat.
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.) — 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 !
Une grêle de pierres vient de loin frapper nos créneaux.
O cher Apollon ! J'entends à nos portes le fracas des boucliers d'airain.
O toi dont Zeus a fait l'arbitre sacré qui décide au combat du sort d'une guerre 3 ; 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.) — 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
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Alas my country! must these eyes,
Must these sad eyes behold thy fall?
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Ah, what a storm of stones, that flies,
And wing'd with ruin smites the wall!
O Phœbus! at each crouded gate
Begins the dreadful work of fate;
Each arm the thund'ring falchion wields,
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And clashes on the sounding shields.
O thou, whose kind and matchless might,
Blest Onca, thro' the glowing fight
Obedient conquest joys t' attend,
All our sev'n gates, dread queen, defend!
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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.) — 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 ?
Ahi, ahi, ahi, ahi!
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.) — 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.
Ad alta propugnacula uenit lapis,
O chariſsime Apollo: ſtrepitus in portis eſt
Aeneorum ſcutorum, ex Ioue
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Bellicus finis castus in pugnis est.
O beata regina Minerua, ante urbem conſtituta,
Septem portarũ solum protege: heu præpotētes dij,
Heu perfecti perfecteq;
huius terræ turriŭ cuſtodes,
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Vrbem hastatam ne tradatis exercitui barbaro.
Audite uirgines, audite iuſtas omnino
Electas preces: heu chari dæmones,
Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 141 focus
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.
ISMENE
Wretched in thy woe.
ANTIGONE
Pour forth lamentations.
ISMENE
Mourners, weep amain.
ANTIGONE
Prostrate lies the slayer.
ISMENE
Near him lies the slain.
ANTIGONE
STROPHE.
Alas! with sighing raves my spirit.
ISMENE
Moans my heart within my breast.
ANTIGONE
Worthy thou of all lamentings.
ISMENE
Direst fate hath thee oppressed.
ANTIGONE
By thy friend wert reft of life.
ISMENE
Thou thy friend hast slain in strife.
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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The blast of the terrible stones on the ridge of our wall is not stayed,
At the gates is the brazen clash of the bucklers—Apollo to aid!
Thou too, O daughter of Zeus, who guidest the wavering fray
To the holy decision of fate, Athena! be with us to-day!
Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!
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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.) — 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.
Hoch an die Zinnen prallt ein Steinregen auf:
Ha! Theurer Apollon!
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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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

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ὦ φίλ᾽ Ἄπολλον:
ὦ φίλτατ' ἄπολλον
Rob.
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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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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.